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Lombard Courtyard
The Lombard Courtyard (more simply courtyard) is a particular Typology (urban planning and architecture), architectural housing typology of the Po Valley that is characterized by the presence of a courtyard around which the building complex develops. Lombard courtyards used for agricultural activities are known as farmsteads or ''Cascina a corte, corti coloniche''. Generalities Lombard courtyards are a type of dwelling, called courtyard houses, which are built around a Threshing floor, farmyard or courtyard and possess a single entrance from the street due to a main door. There are also more complex ones, with alleys or additional gates inside that connect multiple inner courtyards, together forming a small village. The gradual aggregation of multiple courtyards around an original courtyard led to the formation of the Old town, historic centers of Comune, municipalities. If the primitive courtyards were large, a chapel was built to serve the inhabitants, which later could be tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Rural Dwelling 1992 - Touring Club Italiano CART-TEM-061
A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space. A map may be annotated with text and graphics. Like any graphic, a map may be fixed to paper or other durable media, or may be displayed on a transitory medium such as a computer screen. Some maps change interactively. Although maps are commonly used to depict geography, geographic elements, they may represent any space, real or fictional. The subject being mapped may be two-dimensional such as Earth's surface, three-dimensional such as Earth's interior, or from an abstract space of any dimension. Maps of geographic territory have a very long tradition and have existed from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'of the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring to a flat representation of Earth's surface. History Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
