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Icons and Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change [Hardcover]

John J. Costonis (Author)

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Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press; First Edition edition (January 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252015533
ISBN-13: 978-0252015533
Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ideas have consequences, as Dosteyevski warned. Read the first page

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legal aesthetics, administrable standards, aesthetics regimes, aesthetics initiatives, aesthetics controversies, aesthetics policy, aesthetics regulation, aesthetics measures, landmarks commission, aesthetics programs, aesthetics impulse

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East Side, First Amendment, New York City, Park Avenue, West Side, Supreme Court, Penn Central, Rice Mansion, Beaux Arts, Greenwich Village, Grand Central Terminal, San Francisco, First Boston, Municipal Art Society, Mount Ephraim, Rabbi Feigelstock, Louis Sullivan, Donald Appleyard, Lewis Mumford, Philip Johnson, Donald Trump, International Style, National Environmental Policy Act, New Orleans's Vieux Carr�, Norma Evenson

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Space Adrift: Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace by John J. Costonis in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings (Documents of Modern Art.) by Louis Sullivan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Feeling and Form by Susanne K. Langer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) by michael Lynch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues and Processes by J Barry Cullingworth on page 111, and page 124
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The Regeneration of Public Parks by Ken Fieldhouse on page 23, and Back Matter
Boston's "Changeful Times": Origins of Preservation and Planning in America (Creating the North American Landscape) by Michael Holleran in Back Matter
Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America by Eran Ben-Joseph on page 139

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