Urbis - the Skin of the Planet: Volume Three

Between 1972 and 2013, over forty years, the architect, urban planner and photographer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta traveled to several countries in Europe, Americas, Africa and Asia, elaborating a dense and sometimes surprising photographic essay on the changes produced by cities on the surface of planet Earth. URBIS ? The Skin of the Planet covers more than one hundred and fifty cities in twenty-three countries - Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, Bangladesh, Morocco, Israel, Austria, the United States, Liechtenstein, England, Seychelles, Monaco, Canada, San Marino, Bosnia, Japan and Argentina - and is published in three volumes. It also includes several engravings and maps from the 15th to the 19th centuries representing urban life and iconography. In this third volume there are the cities of Paris, Passaic, Penacova, Penedono, Pescocostanzio, Pinhal Novo, Pino Lago Maggiore, Pirinópolis, Polignano, Porto, Porto Ronco, Portofino, Positano, Praiano, Quebec, Rio de Janeiro, Roissy-en-Brie, Rome, Ronco du Ascona, Rotten, Saanen, Salerno, Salle, Salzburg, San Domino, San Leo, San Marino, Santiago do Cacém, São Paulo, Sarajevo, Setúbal, Siena, Sierre, Sines, Sion, Somma Lombardo, Spiez, St. Moritz, Stans, Tanger, Tetouan, Termoli, Tocco de Casauria, Tokyo, Toulouse, Trancoso, Trapani, Tsukuba, Vale Verzasca, Venice, Verbania, Vevey, Viège and Brigue, Zurich, Cadenazzo and Buenos Aires.