8,124円 First published in 2017, Rome: The Shaping of Three Capitals explores the impact of political history on the built environment of the Eternal City. The book divides Rome’s history into three main periods: the rulership of the early kings from the 8th to the 6th centuries BC; the period of Etrusca...

4,245円 An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness o...

20,883円 This book explores, discusses and considers spatial research and its relevant pedagogic perspectives on the crossings, interactions and transformations of contemporary territorialities. The book addresses the issue of conceiving "translocal" spaces of inclusion within the framework of contemporar...

2,389円 Explores the history and present-day reality of grain elevators on the Great Lakes. Winner of the 2017 Gertrude H. Dyke Award presented by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Winner of the 2017 Ernest R. Zimmerman First Publication Award presented by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Societ...

9,948円 This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a kind of “universal uniqueness,...

150円 Chicago This issue is dedicated to one of the largest and most interesting cities in the USA – Chicago. If you hear the name "Chicago" and think only of mafia and Prohibition, then you know nothing about this city. Chicago is the birthplace of jazz and variety of blues, it is the city of many vic...

200円 Poznań This issue is dedicated to the city of Poznań – an old European city in western Poland. More than 70 illustrations will tell you about the past and present of the city. You will get to know the following facts in this issue: Why do goats lock horns in Poznań Town Hall? What is a super for...

150円 Singapore In this issue we will talk about one of the smallest, but at the same time, one of the richest countries in the world – Singapore. Singapore is not just a state, but a city-state. It is one of the cleanest, safest and greenest cities in the world. However, when walking around Singapore,...

150円 Patagonia In this issue we will distance ourselves from noisy cities and visit the mysterious land – Patagonia. This is the land, the image of which was formed about 3 million years ago and has not practically changed until now. Patagonia is a severe, but incredibly beautiful land. Thousand-year-...

0円 From Space our planet looks like a small blue ball. But for us it is huge and incomprehensible. We live on a beautiful planet, the Universe rewarded it with towering mountains, vast plains and deserts, deep oceans and seas, thick forests and jungles. For many hundreds of thousands of years the hu...

6,623円 In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians did this is still a fundamental question 2,500 ye...

1,800円 Die 1866–1869 nach Plänen des in Mülhausen tätigen Architekten Friedrich Ludwig von Rütte für den Textilfabrikanten Eduard Bühler-Egg erstellte Villa gehörte in ihrer Zeit zu den prunkvollsten und modernsten Wohnbauten im Kanton Zürich. Anhand reich vorhandener bauzeitlicher Quellen und amüsanter...