Cielo y tierra

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy...

La fotógrafa Julia Grover, presenta en su primer libro Cosquín; Paisajes deslumbrantes, 91 fotografías de una ciudad bendecida por una naturaleza pródiga, que se revela con desbordante belleza, para cautivar a todo aquel que se detiene un instante.

En Barcelona se forjó el genio universal de Miró, Dalí, Gaudí y Picasso. Un atractivo recorrido por su geografía urbana, con los comentarios de artistas y visitantes célebres nos da la medida exacta de su cosmopolitismo. Prólogo de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Incluye desplegables con fotos panorámicas.

In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort...