{"product_id":"9783038600817","title":"Aire: The River and Its Double","description":"\u003cbr\u003eSouth 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 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  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Park Publishing (WI)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034380484848,"sku":"9783038600817","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783038600817_p0.jpg?v=1763712915","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783038600817","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}