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  • In Venice with Ruskin by Sdegno, Emma
    Emma Sdegno

    In Venice with Ruskin

    The story of the famous English's critic long and fruitful love affair with the city of VeniceJohn Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The...
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  • The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture by Betsky, Aaron
    Aaron Betsky

    The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture

    Visionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture--or anarchitecture--through which we can imagine other and better worlds. Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture--or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Three by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Three

    This volume of Incomplete Works is about DWA's design for a prototype building called The College of Colour (CoC). The design development was influenced by events of Mies' posthumous career that took place in the 1980s. They were, first, a pair of public inquiries...
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  • Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit by Dovey, Kim
    Kim Dovey

    Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit

    Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis. Relating abstract...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Two by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Two

    This volume returns to Mies' New National Gallery in Berlin. The first volume included a short, introductory section on the NNG, but it merely skimmed the surface of what was in truth an intense preoccupation with that building. DWA were fascinated by the NNG...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects, Incomplete Works, Volume One by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects, Incomplete Works, Volume One

    This is the first in a series of books documenting the work of Doctor Watson Architects (DWA). Unlike professional architects, who earn their living by managing the design of buildings, DWA earns theirs by other means, connected to the design of buildings but not...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Five by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Five

    This volume of Incomplete Works gathers together a number of speculative design projects made by Doctor Watson Architects in the early years of the 21st century. Most, if not all, of the projects began as a response to a specific architectural competition brief, however,...
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  • Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades by Easterling, Keller
    Keller Easterling

    Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades

    How outlaw "spatial products"--resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and ports--act as cunning pawns in global politics.In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"--resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist...
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  • The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor by Obert, Julia C.
    Julia C. Obert

    The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor

    The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of these cities, outlining its history of building and urban planning...
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  • Nordic Classicism: Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930 by Stewart, John
    John Stewart

    Nordic Classicism: Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930

    Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international attention. It was the Nordic Pavilions, rather than Le Corbusier's modernism, which generated most...
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  • After Belonging: Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit by Blanco, Lluis Alexandre Casanovas
    Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco

    After Belonging: Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit

    After Belonging examines the objects, spaces, and territories of our transforming condition of belonging. The global circulation of people, information, and goods has destabilized what we understand by residence, questioning spatial permanence, property, and identity--a crisis of belonging. Circulation brings greater accessibility to ever-new...
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  • Buildings Are for People: Human Ecological Design by Caplan, Bill
    Bill Caplan

    Buildings Are for People: Human Ecological Design

    Buildings are for People: Human Ecological Design offers a new approach to the process of conceiving architectural design, one that considers the interactions of the built environment with people and the natural environment. The book exposes our visceral and experiential connections to buildings, and...
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  • The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis by Leach, Neil
    Neil Leach

    The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

    'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered? Hieroglyphics of Space...
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  • Participatory Design Thinking in Urban Design Education by Odhiambo Onyango, John
    John Odhiambo Onyango

    Participatory Design Thinking in Urban Design Education

    This book provides literature of the social movements that led to the rise of alternative design methods. It also critically examines the methodologies used and how they contribute to best practice in place-making; and it suggests universal application that may be incorporated in the...
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  • Public Humanities in Architecture: Reflections on Heritage, Culture, and History by Meuser, Philipp
    Philipp Meuser

    Public Humanities in Architecture: Reflections on Heritage, Culture, and History

    Anyone concerned with the history, tradition, and culture of our built environment will come across the term 'public humanities' sooner or later. At the interface between an academic discipline and the media-oriented culture industry, this subject has established itself not only in the US,...
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  • The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination by Pickersgill, Sean
    Sean Pickersgill

    The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination

    The Architect's Dream draws on a broad range of subject areas, from philosophy to film to mathematics and economics, to show that the path to meaningful architecture practice is always based in a deep commitment to the idea that architecture is first and foremost...
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  • Oase 115: Interferences Moving Across European Architecture Cultures by Agyin, Justin
    Justin Agyin

    OASE 115: Interferences Moving Across European Architecture Cultures

    Understanding contemporary European architecture as the product of infinite transcultural interferencesEuropean architecture is characterized by an ongoing exchange of cultures, ideas and influences. This issue of OASE discusses the poetics of architectural design that emerge from this complex web, as ideas developed in one...
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  • Oase 114: Optimism or Bust? by Devoldere, Stefan
    Stefan Devoldere

    Oase 114: Optimism or Bust?

    On the power of optimism in imagining a brighter future through architectureDespite climate catastrophes, increasing inequality and geopolitical instability, the field of architecture and urban design remains stubbornly optimistic about the future. This issue of OASE focuses on the optimism of a discipline which...
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  • Decoding Homes and Houses by Hanson, Julienne
    Julienne Hanson

    Decoding Homes and Houses

    Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and furnished and what kinds of household...
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  • Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader by Kelbaugh, Douglas
    Douglas Kelbaugh

    Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader

    Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour. Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia. Writing Urbanism...
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  • Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design by Nolan, Ginger
    Ginger Nolan

    Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design

    An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the "savage mind"--a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to...
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  • The Alphabet and the Algorithm by Carpo, Mario
    Mario Carpo

    The Alphabet and the Algorithm

    The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration.Digital technologies have changed architecture--the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a "paradigm shift" for architecture, which paradigm is shifting?...
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  • Building Berlin, Vol. 9: The Latest Architecture in and Out of the Capital by Berlin Architektenkammer
    Berlin Architektenkammer

    Building Berlin, Vol. 9: The Latest Architecture in and Out of the Capital

    As rapidly growing capital, Berlin is currently experiencing a further phase of intensive construction activity, accompanied by committed debates about the architectural future of the city. More than in any other European metropolis, subcultural creative spaces, ambitious large-scale construction projects and innovative residential buildings...
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  • Mobility Society: Society Seen Through the Lens of Mobilities by Vermeersch, Lowie
    Lowie Vermeersch

    Mobility Society: Society Seen Through the Lens of Mobilities

    The way things flow: exploring the movement of bodies, data and goodsMobility shapes society in countless ways. Looking at society from the perspective of mobility reveals that its key moments of development coincide with the removal of obstacles to human flow--in the physical movement...
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  • After the Deluge: Reimagining Leonardo's Legacy by Tanzer, Kim
    Kim Tanzer

    After the Deluge: Reimagining Leonardo's Legacy

    After the Deluge serves as a demonstration of the practical imagination applied to the ecology of water. Taking Leonardo da Vinci's "deluge" drawings of catastrophic floods as its starting point, and inspired by his lifelong study of all aspects of water, the dialogues in...
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  • Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous by Tabb, Phillip James
    Phillip James Tabb

    Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous

    What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design, and the numinous experiences that accompany them have been an integral dimension of our culture. Up-lifting spaces, dramatic use...
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  • Heidegger for Architects by Sharr, Adam
    Adam Sharr

    Heidegger for Architects

    Written specifically for architects, this is the first clear and concise explanation of Heidegger's architectural thinking in the context of his work.Author: Adam SharrISBN-10: 0415415179ISBN-13: 9780415415170Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2007Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.56h x 6.56w x 0.27d
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  • Lunch 14: Frontier by Johnson, Sam
    Sam Johnson

    Lunch 14: Frontier

    The latest edition of the University of Virginia's design journal, LUNCH 14 turns a critical eye to the myth of the frontier and wonders what relevance remains for the field of design beyond the nostalgia and embedded power dynamics. Within the journal, this task...
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  • Young Visionaries: The New Generation of Architects by Van Uffelen, Chris
    Chris Van Uffelen

    Young Visionaries: The New Generation of Architects

    What will architecture be like in the coming years and decades? Are new trends and tendencies emerging? Who are the future protagonists? What will be their goals and what values will they represent? This book presents architects ranging in age from their mid-twenties to...
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  • Contemporary Feminist Spatial Practices by Makele, Melissa
    Melissa Makele

    Contemporary Feminist Spatial Practices

    On architecture as a political medium and the intrinsic interconnectedness of all social justice issuesThis publication interrogates how forms of social injustice are entwined in the built environment, positing that the fight for gender equality in architecture must be linked to antiracism, anticolonialism, antitransphobia...
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  • Architecture, Film, and the Inbetween: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt by Vahdat, Vahid
    Vahid Vahdat

    Architecture, Film, and the In-Between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt

    How films imagine and represent in-between spaces and how cinematic production becomes a site to project spatial fantasies. Architecture, Film, and the Inbetween: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt looks at the cinematic representation of architectural in-betweenness, as well as the in-between spaces within the architectural structure of...
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  • Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond by Salama, Ashraf M.
    Ashraf M. Salama

    Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond

    Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future. In this book, design education is dealt with as a paradigm whose evolutionary processes, underpinning theories, contents, methods, tools, are questioned...
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  • The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the Ssa by Strum, Suzanne
    Suzanne Strum

    The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Lberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the Ssa

    This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity...
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  • Architecture and Abstraction by Aureli, Pier Vittorio
    Pier Vittorio Aureli

    Architecture and Abstraction

    A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms. In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture--the first of its kind--Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and...
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  • Architectures of Spatial Justice by Cuff, Dana
    Dana Cuff

    Architectures of Spatial Justice

    A field-defining work that demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities. As state violence, the pandemic, and environmental collapse have exposed systemic inequities, architects and urbanists have been pushed to confront how...
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  • Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity by Carpo, Mario
    Mario Carpo

    Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity

    Recasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world. Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit...
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  • Dash 10: Housing the Student by Van Gameren, Dick
    Dick Van Gameren

    Dash 10: Housing the Student

    An increased demand for quality student housing has accompanied the internationalization of higher education. Volume ten of DASH, a journal devoted to residential design, documents the development of student housing at different scales, including projects at Yale University and Leiden University College.Author: Dick Van...
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  • The Analysis of Gothic Architecture: Studies in Memory of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon by Bork, Robert
    Robert Bork

    The Analysis of Gothic Architecture: Studies in Memory of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon

    The essays in this volume reflect on and build on the remarkable legacies of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon, who pioneered the application of high-technology research methods to the study of Gothic architecture. Combining personal reminiscences and historiographical discussions with meticulous geometrical and structural...
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  • Serious Fun: Architecture & Games by Van Der Hoorn, Melanie
    Melanie Van Der Hoorn

    Serious Fun: Architecture & Games

    An imaginative inquiry into the spatial implications of 20th-century games, from doll houses to SimCityThis volume examines architecture and urban design games that have been conceived and created by architects, urban designers, artists and game developers since the end of the 20th century, from...
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  • We Want World Wonders: Building Architectural Myths by Maas, Winy
    Winy Maas

    We Want World Wonders: Building Architectural Myths

    Most celebrated works of architecture of the early 21st century are what one would describe as spectacular; incredible cantilevers, rotating towers, gigantic cupolas and exuberant shapes are features without which a contemporary building would hardly register in the skyline or the media. Never before...
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  • Architecture: Movements and Trends from the 19th Century to the Present by Molinari, Luca
    Luca Molinari

    Architecture: Movements and Trends from the 19th Century to the Present

    The leading movements, major figures, works, and ideas that shaped the architecture of the twentieth century and the first decade of the new millennium, one of the richest and most complex periods in human history. This volume offers a 360-degree review of the architectural...
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  • Coming from the South by Bru, Eduard
    Eduard Bru

    Coming from the South

    Most books about architecture and urban environments give the impression that the world is a flat place inhabited by very rich countries and very poor countries. More complex physical and geographical realities exits, however, as well as places with middling economies. In this book,...
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  • On Specific Ambiguity by the Idea of Tropical Space or the Reasoned Practice of the Forms of Transition by Restrepo, Camilo
    Camilo Restrepo

    On Specific Ambiguity by the Idea of Tropical Space or the Reasoned Practice of the Forms of Transition

    A leading Colombian architect's inventive conception of tropical architecture's unique qualitiesAppraising the "tropical architecture" of Latin America, On Specific Ambiguity, authored by Colombian architect Camilo Retrespo (born 1973), is a manifesto-cum-monograph on the notion of tropical space. Retrespo argues for a form of architecture...
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  • World of Variation: The I Press Series on the Human Environment by Stevens, Mary Otis
    Mary Otis Stevens

    World of Variation: The I Press Series on the Human Environment

    An imaginative reenvisioning of spatial and social relations from America's 1960s urbanist movementIn World of Variation (1970), American architects Mary Otis Stevens (born 1928) and Thomas McNulty (1919-84) outlined a radical reenvisioning of socio-spatial relationships, informed by their background in philosophy and commitment to...
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  • The Mereological City: A Reading of the Works of Ludwig Hilberseimer by Köhler, Daniel
    Daniel Kler

    The Mereological City: A Reading of the Works of Ludwig Hilberseimer

    In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition. The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and...
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  • Paraguay: Abu & Font House by Solano Benítez, 2005-2006; Surubí House by Javier Corvalán, 2003-2004: O'Nfd Vol. 5 by Hoidn, Barbara
    Barbara Hoidn

    Paraguay: Abu & Font House by Solano Benítez, 2005-2006; Surubí House by Javier Corvalán, 2003-2004: O'Nfd Vol. 5

    Though stylistically distinct, the architects Solano Ben tez (born 1963) and Javier Coraval n (born 1962) are brought together by the cultural context of their mutual homeland, Paraguay. In this publication they demonstrate that, given its natural resources and local economy, Paraguay is ready...
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  • Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects by Szanto, Andras
    Andras Szanto

    Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects

    The author of The Future of the Museum talks with architects from David Adjaye to Sou Fujimoto about the future of museum architectureFollowing on the widely read volume The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, New York-based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó...
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  • I, Like Many Things by Nielsen, Gustav
    Gustav Nielsen

    I, Like Many Things

    In a world of change we cling to constants that comfort us while catastrophes lure behind cut corners. We compartmentalize and channel our focus into cones of concentration when confronted with choices. Many might decide to do so with intention while others simply try...
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  • Hypogeans: Space that Matters by Alcolea, Rubén
    Rub駭 Alcolea

    Hypogeans: Space that Matters

    The anthropological relationship between humans and nature defines a fundamental basis for the creation of architecture. The necessity to build in the wilderness resulted in a beautiful symbiosis which characterized the origin of architecture at the beginning of civilization. Although nature may be understood...
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  • Oase 62: Autonomous Architecture and the Project of the City by Grafe, Christoph
    Christoph Grafe

    Oase 62: Autonomous Architecture and the Project of the City

    The OASE Architectural Journal is one of the leading professional journals on architectural theory. Issue No. 62 asks whether the idea of the "European city" is still tenable at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Taking contemporary de-urbanized, suburbanized Europe as its background, OASE...
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