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Screening the City(1st Edition)
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Matthew Gandy, Martin Gaughan, Paul Gormley, Peter Jelavich, Jessie Labov, Tyrus Miller, Darrell Varga, Carsten Strathausen, Professor Jude Davies, Jude Davies, John Orr, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor John Orr, Dr Allan Siegel Md Phd, Professor David Sorfa, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Professor Mark Shiel, Shiel Fitzmaurice
Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-476-2, ISBN: 1-85984-476-6

"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."






Screening the City
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Contributor-Jude Davies, Contributor-Matthew Gandy, Contributor-Martin Gaughan, Contributor-Paul Gormley, Contributor-Peter Jelavich, Contributor-Jessie Labov, Contributor-Tyrus Miller, Contributor-John Orr, Paula J. Massood, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Carsten Strathausen, Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-690-2, ISBN: 1-85984-690-4

"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."






Waterworks(1st Edition)
A Photographic Journey through New YorkÆs Hidden Water System
by Stanley Greenberg, Matthew Gandy
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2003 by Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56898-388-2, ISBN: 1-56898-388-3

"New York’s water system is staggering – it provides 1.3 billion gallons of water a day to over 9 million people from 200 square miles of watershed. its aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks have been continually under construction since the 1830s, and its current – and largest – tunnel project will not be completed until 2020. But more significantly, New York’s water system is also sublime – from its acres of bucolic lan ..."






Concrete and Clay(2nd Edition)
Reworking Nature in New York City (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Matthew Gandy, Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2003 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-57216-3, ISBN: 0-262-57216-8

"In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highway ..."






Urban and Industrial Environments Ser.
Concrete and Clay : Reworking Nature in New York City
by Matthew Gandy
Published 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-27344-2, ISBN: 0-262-27344-6






Concrete and Clay
Reworking Nature in New York City
by Matthew Gandy
Published 2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-585-43723-1, ISBN: 0-585-43723-8






Concrete and Clay(1st Edition)
Reworking Nature in New York City (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Matthew Gandy, Robert Gottlieb
Hardcover, 358 Pages, Published 2002 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-07224-3, ISBN: 0-262-07224-6

"In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highway ..."






The Return of the White Plague(1st Edition)
Global Poverty and the New Tuberculosis
by Matthew Gandy, Alimuddin Zumla
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-669-8, ISBN: 1-85984-669-6

"As fear and paranoia about chemical weapons and bio-terrorism are ratcheted up by Western governments, a global health catastrophe threatens to undermine all efforts to eradicate poverty and human suffering. The resurgence of old diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, along with the spread of new diseases such as HIV, are already having devastating consequences for ever increasing numbers of people worldwide. Tuberculosis, a disease ..."

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Matthew Gandy

Jude Davies

Carsten Strathausen

Darrell Varga

David Sorfa

Allan Siegel

John Orr

Tyrus Miller

Martin Gaughan

Mark Shiel


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