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Witold Rybczynski
info-poland.../classroom/rybczynski.html |
210 words |
Poland in the Classroom: A short biographical sketch |
The Charles Taylor Prize - 2000
thecharlestaylorprize.ca/2000/... |
125 words |
Award Citation of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction in 2000 to Witold Rybczynski for his book A Clearing in the Distance |
Q & A: Witold Rybczynski
upenn.edu/pennnews/.../1999/... |
1,230 words |
Discussion with the author of the book A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century. |
Scape Artist
hartfordhistory.net/olmsted.html |
1,470 words |
New York Times review of A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, |
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
tech.mit.edu/.../One_Good_Turn.html |
675 words |
Review by Jane Maduram published in the MIT Tech |
One Good Turn [+]*
papaya-palace.com/.../archives/... |
360 words |
A brief review of Rybczynski's book One Good Turn:
A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw |
A House Is Not A Home
aurora.icaap.org/.../rybczynski.html |
2,875 words |
Interview by Barbara Spronk with the author of Home: A Short History of an Idea. |
The Changing Role of Cities in the Global Arena
eu.spb.ru/newglobalhistory/en/wrybczynski.html |
4,350 words |
Paper by Rybczynski tracing, under the title "Urban Revolution," the earliest development of cities, then the "Urban Renaissance" seen following the collapse of the Roman Empire by cities such as Venice, Genoa, Florence, Bruges and Antwerp. and finally the more recent development of Prime Cities such as Amsterdam, New York, and Montreal. |
The Wag Chats with Witold Rybczynski
http://www.thewag.net/interviews/rybczint.htm |
1,340 words |
Architect, historian and urbanism professor Witold Rybczynski names the best architect of the millennium and discusses the historical record, ideological impurity and New Urbanism.
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Suburban Despair
slate.com/id/2129636/... |
1,390 words |
Article by Witold Rybczynski subtitled Is urban sprawl really an American menace?. Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic |
How Good Is the Washington Monument?
slate.com/id/2131570/... |
13 slides |
A slide-show essay by Witold Rybczynksi about the memorials of Washington, D.C. Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic |
Landscape Artist
theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/... |
1,640 words |
A conversation with Witold Rybczynski, whose biography of Frederick Law Olmsted tells a story of nineteenth-century America through landscape architecture. Currently, the Atlantic Monthly is restricting access to this file to its subscribers. |
Witold Rybczynski
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