{"product_id":"aire-georges-descombes-9783038600817","title":"Aire: The River and Its Double","description":"South of Geneva, Switzerland, the Aire River runs across a plain that for centuries has been agricultural land. Since the late nineteenth century, the waterway has been embanked for flood protection, which has caused a gradual loss of habitat for a large variety of plants and animals. In 2001, a decision was made to renaturalize the river. Yet rather than merely reconstructing the river's former natural bed, Superpositions, the association of firms commissioned with the project, applied \"topographic imagination,\" a method that combines the embanked channel with a newly designed pasture landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new book documents that renaturalization project through drawings, images of construction work, and images of the new waterway. Essays and commentary by international contributors Jean-Marc Besse, Lorette Coen, Gerorges Descombes, G. Mathias Kondolf, Elissa Rosenberg, Gilles A. Tiberghien, and Marc Treib demonstrate how the restored river has been transformed, becoming again a characteristic feature of this landscape on the fringe of the city. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Georges Descombes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3038600814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783038600817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Park Publishing (WI)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 7.20w x 1.30d","brand":"Georges Descombes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448032407807,"sku":"9783038600817","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_43c5e7e4-112e-46b1-9921-95119d1b4912.jpg?v=1777236437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aire-georges-descombes-9783038600817","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}