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Sweet and Salt : Water and the Dutch by Maartje van den Heuvel (2012, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNai Uitgevers / Publishers Stichting

ISBN-109056628488

ISBN-139789056628482

eBay Product ID (ePID)117225931

Product Key Features

Book TitleSweet and Salt : Water and the Dutch

Number of Pages296 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUrban & Land Use Planning, General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Development / Economic Development, Criticism, European, Natural Resources

Publication Year2012

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Art, Architecture, Photography, Business & Economics

AuthorMaartje Van Den Heuvel

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight53.7 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width9 in

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ReviewsSweet & Salt is an intensely heavily visual consideration of the history, culture, and engineering of water that engages our senses and our emotions-not just our intellect-with its ravishing (and beautifully printed) photography, cartography, and art. We're awed and enraptured by water-when we're not fighting it off. You will not find any hand-wringing in this volume. Sweet & Salt is a profoundly humanistic consideration of the culture of water, with, along the way, many ideas by designers about how to deal with water's myriad challenges. Architects, planners, and landscape designers will never think of a riverbank, levee, or seashore the same way again., Sweet & Salt is an intensely heavily visual consideration of the history, culture, and engineering of water that engages our senses and our emotions--not just our intellect--with its ravishing (and beautifully printed) photography, cartography, and art. We're awed and enraptured by water--when we're not fighting it off. You will not find any hand-wringing in this volume. Sweet & Salt is a profoundly humanistic consideration of the culture of water, with, along the way, many ideas by designers about how to deal with water's myriad challenges. Architects, planners, and landscape designers will never think of a riverbank, levee, or seashore the same way again., Sweet & Salt is an intensely heavily visual consideration of the history, culture, and engineering of water that engages our senses and our emotions not just our intellect with its ravishing (and beautifully printed) photography, cartography, and art. We re awed and enraptured by water when we re not fighting it off. You will not find any hand-wringing in this volume. Sweet & Salt is a profoundly humanistic consideration of the culture of water, with, along the way, many ideas by designers about how to deal with water s myriad challenges. Architects, planners, and landscape designers will never think of a riverbank, levee, or seashore the same way again.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal709.492

SynopsisWater management runs in the blood of the Dutch: draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch , author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands negotiates its evolving relationship with water--and what the rest of the world can learn from them as our sea levels rise, our rivers swell and storms and droughts multiply. From New Orleans and Hamburg to Vietnam and China, the world is facing landscapes in drastic metamorphosis. And from the dikes and dams of the past to the new solutions of Dutch design practice for the future, the Netherlands history with water offers a much-needed perspective on life in our new waterworld., Water management runs in the blood of the Dutch: draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. In Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch , author Tracy Metz and art historian Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands negotiates its evolving relationship with water--and what the rest of the world can learn from them as our sea levels rise, our rivers swell and storms and droughts multiply. From New Orleans and Hamburg to Vietnam and China, the world is facing landscapes in drastic metamorphosis. And from the dikes and dams of the past to the new solutions of Dutch design practice for the future, the Netherlands' history with water offers a much-needed perspective on life in our new waterworld.

LC Classification NumberTC77.M47 2012