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The City & The City

Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345515668
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The City & The City written by China Miéville and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.

Going All City

Author : Stefano Bloch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022649358X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Going All City written by Stefano Bloch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard in America and making the city our own. Being ‘writers’ gave us something to live for and ‘going all city’ gave us something to strive for; and for some of my friends it was something to die for.” In the age of commissioned wall murals and trendy street art, it’s easy to forget graffiti’s complicated and often violent past in the United States. Though graffiti has become one of the most influential art forms of the twenty-first century, cities across the United States waged a war against it from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, complete with brutal police task forces. Who were the vilified taggers they targeted? Teenagers, usually, from low-income neighborhoods with little to their names except a few spray cans and a desperate need to be seen—to mark their presence on city walls and buildings even as their cities turned a blind eye to them. Going All City is the mesmerizing and painful story of these young graffiti writers, told by one of their own. Prolific LA writer Stefano Bloch came of age in the late 1990s amid constant violence, poverty, and vulnerability. He recounts vicious interactions with police; debating whether to take friends with gunshot wounds to the hospital; coping with his mother’s heroin addiction; instability and homelessness; and his dread that his stepfather would get out of jail and tip his unstable life into full-blown chaos. But he also recalls moments of peace and exhilaration: marking a fresh tag; the thrill of running with his crew at night; exploring the secret landscape of LA; the dream and success of going all city. Bloch holds nothing back in this fierce, poignant memoir. Going All City is an unflinching portrait of a deeply maligned subculture and an unforgettable account of what writing on city walls means to the most vulnerable people living within them.

Laws and General Ordinances of the City of Cincinnati, Containing the "Act to Provide for the Organization of Cities and Incorporated Villages" ...

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Author : Cincinnati (Ohio). Ordinances, etc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Laws and General Ordinances of the City of Cincinnati, Containing the "Act to Provide for the Organization of Cities and Incorporated Villages" ... written by Cincinnati (Ohio). Ordinances, etc and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

County and City Data Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book County and City Data Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing with the Devil in the City of God

Author : Juliana Barbassa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476756279
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with the Devil in the City of God written by Juliana Barbassa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa comes a deeply reported and beautifully written account of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro as it struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find her native city—once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and dying neighborhoods—undergoing a major change. Rio has always aspired to the pantheon of global capitals, and under the spotlight of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games it seems that its moment has come. But in order to prepare itself for the world stage, Rio must vanquish the entrenched problems that Barbassa recalls from her childhood. Turning this beautiful but deeply flawed place into a pristine showcase of the best that Brazil has to offer in just a few years is a tall order—and with the whole world watching, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Library Journal called Dancing with the Devil in the City of God “akin to Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit”—a book that “combines history and personal interviews in an informative and engaging work.” This kaleidoscopic portrait of Rio introduces the reader to the people who make up this city of extremes, revealing their aspirations and their grit, their violence, their hungers, and their splendor, and shedding light on the future of this city they are building together. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God is an insider perspective from a native daughter and “a fascinating look at the people who live in and aspire to change one of the world’s most impressive cities” (Booklist, starred review).

Monitor

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book Monitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of City-County Merger

Author : W. E. Lyons
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813163595
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of City-County Merger by : W. E. Lyons

Download or read book The Politics of City-County Merger written by W. E. Lyons and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although city-county consolidation has been urged for years as a solution for many urban problems, relatively few communities have come to the point of offering such an option to the voters and in most of the communities that have done so, the voters have rejected the idea. In 1972 the voters of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, approved consolidation by a better than two-to- one margin. W. E. Lyons examines this victory for consolidation, comparing the Lexington setting with other places where merger has been attempted. For the first time in the literature, the details of actually drafting a consolidated city-county charter are described. Lyons shows that if either the city or the county government is hostile, the resulting problems are sufficient to stymie the whole undertaking. Even under the most favorable of conditions it is difficult for a commission of thirty citizens to develop the skills and maintain the patience and spirit of compromise necessary to produce a workable charter, acceptable to all members. This examination of a successful consolidation fight includes the results of several surveys of Lexington voters before the referendum and an analysis of the election results. Lyons's description of the campaign strategies used and the reasons for their selection will be especially valuable to leaders considering consolidation in their own communities.

Year Book

Author : Charleston (S.C.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Year Book written by Charleston (S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical appendix included in some of the year books.

City

Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : S.F. Masterworks
ISBN 13 : 9780575105232
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book City written by Clifford D. Simak and published by S.F. Masterworks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?

Learning from the Japanese City

Author : Barrie Shelton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113673290X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Learning from the Japanese City written by Barrie Shelton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s written language is recognized as one of the most complicated, and the book is unique in revealing how the two are closely related. Set perceptively against a sweep of ideas drawn from history, geography, science, cultural and design theory, Learning from the Japanese City is a highly original exploration of contemporary urbanism that crosses disciplines, scales, time and space. This is a thoroughly revised and much extended version of a book that drew extensive praise in its first edition. Most parts have stood the test of time and remain. A few are replaced or removed; about a hundred figures appear for the first time. Most important is an entirely new (sixth) section. This brings together many of the urban characteristics, otherwise encountered in fragments through the book, in one walkable district of what is arguably Japan’s most convenient metropolis, Nagoya. The interplay between culture, built form and cities remains at the heart of this highly readable book, while a change in subtitle to Looking East in Urban Design reflects increased emphasis on real places and design implications.

Report

Author : Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report written by Kansas. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Image of the City

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Legislative Manual Containing a List of State Officers, Executive and Judicial, Members-elect of the House and Senate ... House and Senate Rules ... Constitution of the State ... and a Condensed Epitomy of Legislative Work and Procedure ...

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Author : Colorado. Dept. of State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Legislative Manual Containing a List of State Officers, Executive and Judicial, Members-elect of the House and Senate ... House and Senate Rules ... Constitution of the State ... and a Condensed Epitomy of Legislative Work and Procedure ... written by Colorado. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Domestic Commerce

Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book Domestic Commerce written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City in the City

Author : Amy Thomas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262048418
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The City in the City written by Amy Thomas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the dramatic transformation of London’s financial district after 1945, viewed at four spatial scales: city, street, facade, interior. In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London’s financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. Thomas examines abstract financial ideas, political ideology, and invisible markets as concrete realities; working on four spatial scales—city, street, facade, and interior—the book explores the grand plans, hidden alleys, neo-Georgian elevations, and sweaty dealing floors that have made the financial center work. Moving from politics to sociology, institutions to bodies, development plans to office desks, Thomas unravels the rich entanglements between the structure of the UK’s financial system and the structure of the environment in which it operates. Despite its physical and political centrality, this period of the City’s architectural history occupies an academic lacuna. Longstanding prejudices about developer-led architecture and the real estate industry have obscured the postwar City’s relevance. The book shows how, as currents of local government reform, nation-building, and globalization swept across Britain, the City became an ideological battleground for debates between politicians and financial institutions, real estate developers and architects, preservationists and so-called “proactive” planners throughout the latter half of the century. The City of London is a place steeped in rich cultural and architectural heritage of immense national significance, yet it is also a highly privileged citadel at the core of global financial networks. The City in the City is both a critique and a celebration of this unique and complex place.