Urbis - The Skin of the Planet

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 second volume there are the cities of Fes, Florence, Fontenay-Tresigny, Funchal, Gavirate, Geneva, Grindenwald, Guttannen, Haifa, Hallstatt, Hasbrouck Heights, Horta, Isetwald, Locarno and Ascona, Lagos, Laveno, Les Sables d'Olonne, Liechtenstein, Lisbon, London, Lucerne, Lugano, Luso, Mahe, Marles-en-Brie, Marv o, Massa Lubrense, Mergozzo, Merigen, Miami, Milan, Monte Carlo, Montijo, Montreal, Montreux, Basel, Musseralo, Nancy, Naples, Natal, Nazar , New Jersey, New York City, Pacentro and Palm Beach.