THE FALLS: CHAPTERS
THE FALLS
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the BBC and most significant tne CO (he
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aeration and a rite of structural
{ear unthinkney ard stupiiy dominant
invim eles nthe Seventies. The subject
Is landscape, serupulously med ane
barn natreceated and man-made The
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process fo. create the ison of
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between the thes fime—wth copaut
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the highlights ofthe work and teint
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Components of Tangscape tat excite,
please, srs, console ana delight us
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riod which hs raw ban retested wth
Sth new echrlopes in The Tulse Ler
Sutcass(2003)—a project of peat
Dicaresque eneyclopesia. The. Pals 6
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very ciilzation in geography and isto
hae hag ambitions to fy” re 8
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xlebratins, accompanied bythe notion of
fara s Ste personal mytolgy of Tulse
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fiesomeautosidsct who ‘hod @ mocking
‘ary about amet eveything
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logy of claema by more than 5000 yes,
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the obsession ofa the subsequet years
bf fmmoting. Here athe beginnings of @
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Peter Grenanoy