Florence - Marco Polo Spiral Guide


Book Description

Marco Polo Spiral Guides are for travelers who have little time to prepare for a trip, don't want to miss anything, like to be inspired by great ideas for exciting days out and love all things ultra-practical and easy to use. Top 10 sights: From the top down to make it easy to prioritise! Don't miss: Each chapter highlights the absolute must-sees for each area.




Venice Marco Polo Spiral Guide


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Marco Polo Spiral Guides are for travellers who have little time to prepare for a trip, don't want to miss anything, like to be inspired by great ideas for exciting days out and love all things ultra-practical and easy to use. At just $24.95 each, these inexpensive travel guides also include a street atlas and a separate pull-out map for easy navigation.




Florence Marco Polo Travel Handbook


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Marco Polo Handbooks offer expert advice and are aimed at travelers looking for in-depth coverage of a destination - from detailed cultural information to Insider Tips - in an easy to use format. Whatever your mood or interests, Marco Polo Handbooks are the perfect travel companion.







Rome Marco Polo Spiral Guide


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Marco Polo Spiral Guides are for travellers who have little time to prepare for a trip, don't want to miss anything, like to be inspired by great ideas for exciting days out and love all things ultra-practical and easy to use. At just $24.95 each, these inexpensive travel guides also include a street atlas and a separate pull-out map for easy navigation.




Paris Marco Polo Spiral Guide


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Marco Polo Spiral Guides are for travellers who have little time to prepare for a trip, don't want to miss anything, like to be inspired by great ideas for exciting days out and love all things ultra-practical and easy to use. At just $24.95 each, these inexpensive travel guides also include a street atlas and a separate pull-out map for easy navigation.




Barcelona Marco Polo Spiral Guide


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Marco Polo Spiral Guides are for travellers who have little time to prepare for a trip, don't want to miss anything, like to be inspired by great ideas for exciting days out and love all things ultra-practical and easy to use. At just $24.95 each, these inexpensive travel guides also include a street atlas and a separate pull-out map for easy navigation.




Florence Marco Polo Pocket Guide


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Let Marco Polo Florence guide you around this beautiful city. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants and ideas for travel with kids with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Let Marco Polo show you all this wonderful city has to offer.




The Venice Variations


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From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.




Budapest - Marco Polo Travel Guide


Book Description

Marco Polo Spiral Guides are for travelers who have little time to prepare for a trip, don't want to miss anything, like to be inspired by great ideas for exciting days out and love all things ultra-practical and easy to use. Top 10 sights: From the top down to make it easy to prioritise! Don't miss: Each chapter highlights the absolute must-sees for each area.