Cacti and Succulents. A Practical Handbook. Translated and revised by E.E. Kemp.

Haage, Walther.

ISBN 10: 0289707633 / ISBN 13: 9780289707630

Published by Studio Vista. London., 1963

About this Item

The book is bound in white boards with bright green letters on the spine & a green cacti garden design on the front cover. There is wear on the cover corners. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. The dust jacket has small chips off the spine tips, cover edges, cover corners. & wear on the edges of the flaps. Not price clipped.

Seller Inventory # 2749 (Box 118)

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cacti and Succulents. A Practical Handbook. Translated and revised by E.E. Kemp.
• Publisher: Studio Vista. London.
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0289707633
• ISBN 13: 9780289707630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.734 kilograms

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Synopsis

During the 1960s, the physical landscape of Dublin changed more than at any time since the eighteenth century. In this period, the government began to invest in town planning, new opportunities arose for the country's architects, and the old buildings of the core began to be replaced by modern structures. The early manifestations of this process were well received, understood as the first visible signs of prosperity and broader social and economic modernization. However, thisattitude was short lived. By the end of the 1960s, popular support for urban change had evaporated; a disparate movement of preservationists, housing activists, students, and architects emerged to oppose urban change and campaign for the retention of the city's heritage. The new buildings and urban formshad not brought the promised national rejuvenation. Instead, the rapid destruction of the extant city had come to be seen as symbolic of the corruption and failed promise of modernization."Modern Dublin" examines this story. Using approaches from urban studies and cultural geography, the author reveals Dublin as a place of complex exchange between a variety of interest groups with different visions for the built environment, and thus for society and the independent nation. In so doing, Erika Hanna adds to growing literatures on civil society, heritage, and cultural politics since independence, and provides a fresh approach to social and culturalchange in 1960s Ireland.