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Cityscape features city-building rules, new options for city-based characters, city-based encounters, and rules for urban terrain. The game material is completely compatible with the D&D core rulebooks and includes timesaving tools and tips for any urban campaign. The material in this supplement is appropriate for both D&D players and Dungeon Masters and includes content that appeals to both
Author: Ari Marmell
Author: C.A. Suleiman
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
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When visiting an exhibit, one only views the artwork for a short time; but the impression
left by that artwork can still be long-lasting. In the same way, temporary architecture can make an ongoing impact on its surroundings. Whether a public art installation or a fleeting structure, short-term projects create a dynamic that can trigger or accelerate future developments for that space. Cityscape is a colossal wooden sculpture in Brussels Quartier Louise. With it, the Belgian artist and designer Arne Quinze has shown how creative visions at the intersection of architecture, art, design and urban planning can make a social and structural impact. A sculpture that appears to float in the air, Cityscape was built in just twenty days out of more than 60 kilometres of wooden beams and 240,000 nails. While at first glance the construction seems chaotic and indecipherable, a closer look reveals its astonishingly clear and defined forms. Cityscape has been enthusiastically received by local residents as well as avant-garde architects and design aficionados from around the world. The book Cityscape presents the ambitious artwork in all of its facets. In addition to compelling photographs of both the construction process and the finished structure, Cityscape includes illuminating texts by the design journalist Max Borka. His essays vividly describe how the project was developed from the artist s original vision to its implementation and reception. The sculpture Cityscape gives new life to a once stagnant urban landscape. In the long term, the unconventional artistic energy of such projects will open up further possibilities for additional forms of city planning. Author: Arne Quinze
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
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Featuring Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Marcus Miller, etc.
Composer/Arranger Claus Ogerman has contributed arrangements to classic recordings by a diverse list of artists, from Barbra Streisand to Stan Getz to Frank Sinatra to Bill Evans to George Benson. His modern classical approach often added an eerie Eastern-European vibe to these projects, and his orchestral works have been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and others. Although tenor sax giant Michael Brecker had contributed to literally hundreds of important recordings by other artists and had recorded several albums as a member of the Brecker Brothers and Steps Ahead, he didn't make his first recording as a leader until 1986, at age 37. However, in 1982 he teamed up with Ogerman to make Cityscape, a landmark recording that stands as an absolute highlight of his career. A virtual Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra with jazz rhythm section, Cityscape features some of the most astounding and sensitive playing of Brecker's storied career. Sadly, Michael succumbed to Leukemia in January of 2008, and the music world lost one of the most influential musicians of his generation. It is a great pleasure for Mosaic Contemporary to make this masterpiece available once again. Publisher: Mosaic
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From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the backstreets of districts that have inspired the setting for science fiction novels are wooden temples, fox shrines, moldering steles, and statues of Bodhisattvas that evoke a different age. The point where time past, present, and future coexist, Tokyo's thirst for the contemporary is moderated by nostalgia for the past.
As an urban laboratory where the cultures of the East and West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms, Tokyo embraces sudden transitions, constant flux, and transformation. The courtesans of its pleasure quarters inspired Edo-period woodblock artists, novelists, and poets. In a later age, its experimental artists, feminist writers, and "Modern Girls" of 1920s Ginza both shocked and electrified the capital. Stephen Mansfield explores the unique crossbred cultures of taste that make the giant conurbation one of the most exciting and creative cities in the world. CITY OF LITERATURE, THEATER, AND ART: The print masters Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro; the Kabuki theater; authors Nagai Kafu, Tanizaki Junichiro, Mishima Yukio, Murukami Haruki; foreign writers Angela Carter, William Gibson, and Donald Richie. CITY OF ARCHITECTURE: From the fortifications of Edo Castle, great temples and shrines, via the western hybrids of the Meiji era to the post-modernist skyscrapers, giant neon screens, and digitalized surfaces of today's city. CITY OF CALAMITIES: The great fires of the Edo period; floods, famines, and typhoons; the 1923 Earthquake, coups, and rising militarism in the 1930s; the fire bombings of the Second World War; the 1995 subway gas attack by members of a death cult and the fatalism of residents living on one of the earth's largest fault lines. Author: Stephen Mansfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of urban space and cityscapes in modern and contemporary culture. Linked by a shared concern for issues of spatiality, the essay topics are organized around three interrelated themes - image, text, and form - and range from the examination of cyberpunk skylines, postcolonial urbanism, and the cinema of urban disaster, to the analysis of iconic city landmarks such as the Twin Towers, the London Eye, and the Jewish Museum Berlin. Author: Christoph Lindner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Children and adults alike will thrill at the chance to build on their imaginations with the Cityscape game. The goal is to score points by constructing your city skyline with the included wood blocks and to stop opponents from building their cities. Using strategy to create your vision, this family game for 2-4 players presents variety and new challenges almost every time it's played. Imported.
Publisher: Toys
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Designed by Chantal Trudel, the Cityscape frame is fresh and full of fun. Perfect for home and office! Two sided acrylic frames fit in slotted wood base. Multitude of different configurations. Five piece set. Set holds a 2.5 X 3", a 4 X 4" and two 4 x 6" photos. Black base. By Umbra. Umbra is the worldwide leader in casual, contemporary and affordable design for the home. They have a strong commitment to making a positive and sustainable contribution to the realm of fiscal, social and environmental responsibility.
Publisher: Umbra
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Price: $12.50 USD
Author: Howard Banford
Author: Myron Berkman
Author: Carole Chin
Author: Christine Cziko
Author: Bob Fecho
Publisher: National Writing Project
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Publisher: Atari
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Artists interested in graphic novels and comic book illustration will find all the guidance and inspiration they need to draw and paint landscapes that evoke myths and legends, lost empires, futuristic planets, dramatic dreamscapes, underwater worlds, and subterranean cities. Easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step illustrations demonstrate techniques for rendering a wide range of fantasy features, whether working in ink, watercolor, or computer pixels. Details covered in this heavily illustrated volume include -- choice of materials, with advice on getting the most from software programs . . . basics of perspective, architectural geometry, color, mood, and seasonal variations . . . landscape features, including skies, clouds, mountains, caves, deserts, snow, and water reflections . . . imagined landscapes from ancient cultures, future worlds, alien planets, undersea worlds, and surreal dreamscapes . . . cityscapes, from medieval towns to the metropolis of the future . . . famous fantasy worlds, from Atlantis to Middle Earth. This good-looking and instructive volume features a gallery of fantasy and science fiction images among its more than 200 color illustrations.
Author: Rob Alexander
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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