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Author : Wade Graham
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445659743
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Dream Cities written by Wade Graham and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas that became the blueprints for the world we live in.
Author : Greg Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351192094
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Dream Cities written by Greg Kerr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Against a backdrop of dizzying urbanization, French utopian thinkers of the nineteenth century set out to explore the transformative possibilities of the modern metropolis. Linking literary analyses with diverse strands of cultural and intellectual history, this study considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. At points steeped in the hyperbolic rhetoric of utopian projects, these texts nonetheless wear away at the internal coherence of that rhetoric and the idealizing meanings it supports. What emerges from Greg Kerr's analysis is a hitherto unfamiliar dimension of these writings, revealing the alertness of some of the greatest exponents of nineteenth-century poetry to the dynamic possibilities of utopian writing, and suggesting new ways to understand the evolution of poetic discourse across the century. Greg Kerr is Lecturer in French at the University of Lancaster."
Author : Conrad Kickert
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039346
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Dream City written by Conrad Kickert and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit. Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and restaurant-goers. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking balls seen there only a few years ago. But venture a few blocks in any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris. In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. Kickert demonstrates the materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original morphological maps that trace downtown's rise, fall, and rebirth. Kickert writes that downtown Detroit has always been different from other neighborhoods; it grew faster than other parts of the city, and it declined differently, forced to reinvent itself again and again. Downtown has been in constant battle with its own offspring—the automobile and the suburbs the automobile enabled—and modernized itself though parking attrition and land consolidation. Dream City is populated by a varied cast of downtown power players, from a 1920s parking lot baron to the pizza tycoon family and mortgage billionaire who control downtown's fate today. Even the most renowned planners and designers have consistently yielded to those with power, land, and finances to shape downtown. Kickert thus finds rhyme and rhythm in downtown's contemporary cacophony. Kickert argues that Detroit's case is extreme but not unique; many other American cities have seen a similar decline—and many others may see a similar revitalization.
Author : Pedro A. Noguera
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807778559
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book City Schools and the American Dream 2 written by Pedro A. Noguera and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a decade ago, the first edition of City Schools and the American Dream debuted just as reformers were gearing up to make sweeping changes in urban education. Despite the rhetoric and many reform initiatives, urban schools continue to struggle under the weight of serious challenges. What went wrong and is there hope for future change? More than a new edition, this sequel to the original bestseller has been substantially revised to include insights from new research, recent demographic trends, and emerging political realities. In addition to surveying the various limitations that urban schools face, the book also highlights programs, communities, and schools that are making good on public education’s promise of equity. With renewed commitment and sense of urgency, this new edition provides a clear-eyed vision of what it will take to ensure the success of city schools and their students. “City schools continue to play one of the most important roles in our quest to restore democracy. This is a must-read . . . again!” —Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin–Madison “The authors provide concrete examples of innovative strategies and practices employed by urban schools that are succeeding against all odds.” —Betty A. Rosa, chancellor, New York State Board of Regents “This is the book every teacher, parent, policymaker, and engaged citizen should read.” —Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, UCLA
Author : Shrikant Deodhar
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Man-made Dream City in Barren Desert - Dubai written by Shrikant Deodhar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-04-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tourist guidebook. Generally, tourists visit Dubai with travel groups or Agents. When we get information about such tourist places by a running commentary, our visit to these tourist destinations becomes like "touch and go". All the tourist sites of Dubai are man-made marvels and some of the places are world-record holders. We need to try to enjoying the true beauty of these places and understand their background. The book covers a lot of information and interesting details about these tourist attractions. Dubai...a man-made wonder, a shining star of Global tourism, changes its face every year. It is a challenge to make a tourist guide of such a dynamic dream city that never stops reinventing itself. This guidebook is your friend during your entire Dubai trip. This invisible personal guide will explain every tourist place in detail with a personal touch. All necessary information will be at your fingertips.
Author : Charles Mulford Robinson
Publisher : Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN 13 : 156735288X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)
Download or read book A City Beautiful Dream written by Charles Mulford Robinson and published by Pikes Peak Library District. This book was released on 2012 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Garb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226282090
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book City of American Dreams written by Margaret Garb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nation's cities sharply divided along class and racial lines. Based on research of real estate markets, housing and health reform, and ordinary homeowners—African American and white, affluent and working class—City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of America's great urban centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-family house set on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.
Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813158893
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book City of Dreams written by Bernard F. Dick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepies. Theme parks. ET. Apollo 13. These are only a few of the many faces of Universal Pictures. In February 1906 Carl Laemmle, German immigrant and former clothing store manager, opened his first nickelodeon in Chicago. He quickly moved from exhibition to distribution and to film production. A master of publicity and promotions, within ten years "Uncle Carl" had moved his entire operation to southern California, founded a city, and established Universal Pictures as one of the major Hollywood studios. In time Universal found its niche in horror films featuring Karloff and Lugosi, comedies starring Abbott and Costello and W.C. Fields, and low-budget musicals. But Carl Laemmle Jr. proved less adept than his father at empire building. Eventually he was forced out by financial difficulties, opening the way for a string of studio heads who entered and exited one after another. Thus the age of corporate Hollywood arrived at Universal Pictures earlier than at other studios. The Universal-International merger in 1946, Decca's stock takeover in the early 1950s, and MCA's buyout in 1962 all presaged today's Hollywood, where the art of the deal often eclipses the art of making movies. Stars and executives have come and gone, shaping and reshaping the studio's image, but through it all Universal's revolving globe logo has remained on movie screens around the world. And, unlike several other studios of Hollywood's golden age, Universal still makes movies today.
Author : M. Christine Boyer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262521116
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Dreaming the Rational City written by M. Christine Boyer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city. Boyer shows why city planning, which had so much promise at the outset for making cities more liveable, largely failed. She reveals planning's real responsibilities and goals, including the kind of "rational order" that was actually forseen by the planning mentality, and concludes that the planners have continuously served the needs of the dominant capitalist economy.
Author : Mariana Valverde
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459415442
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs written by Mariana Valverde and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smart cities" use surveillance, big data processing and interactive technologies to reshape urban life. Transit riders can see the bus coming on a map on their phones. Cities can measure and analyze the garbage collected from every household. Businesses can track individuals' movements and precisely target advertisements. Google's failed Sidewalk Labs proposal in Toronto, which drew sharp criticism over surveillance and privacy concerns, is just one of the many smart city projects which have been proposed or are underway in Canada. Iqaluit, Edmonton, Guelph, Montreal, Toronto and other cities and towns are all grappling with how to use these technologies. Some cities have quickly partnered with digital giants like Uber, Bell and IBM. Others have kept their distance. Big tech companies are hard at work recruiting customers and shaping – sometimes making – public policy on data collection and privacy. Smart Cities for Canada: Promise and Perils is the first book on smart cities in Canada. In this collection, experts from across the country investigate what this new approach means for the problems cities face, and expose the larger issues about urban planning and democracy raised by smart city technology. This is a valuable, timely, independent‐minded book for Canadians.
Author : Jerald Podair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192790
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book City of Dreams written by Jerald Podair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark, he ignited a bitter half-decade dispute over the future of a rapidly changing city. For the first time, City of Dreams tells the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped create modern Los Angeles. In a vivid narrative, Jerald Podair tells how the city was convulsed over whether, where, and how to build the stadium. Eventually, it was built on publicly owned land from which the city had uprooted a Mexican American community, raising questions about the relationship between private profit and “public purpose.” Indeed, the battle over Dodger Stadium crystallized issues with profound implications for all American cities. Filled with colorful stories, City of Dreams will fascinate anyone who is interested in the history of the Dodgers, baseball, Los Angeles, and the modern American city.
Author : Beverly Swerling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743218450
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book City of Dreams written by Beverly Swerling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping epic of two families—one Dutch, one English—from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, to the triumph of the Revolution, when New York became a new nation’s city of dreams. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; but soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, Lucas and Sally make choices that will burden their descendants with a legacy of secrets and retribution, and create a heritage that sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and, ultimately, patriot against Tory. In what will be the greatest city in the New World, the fortunes of these two families are inextricably entwined by blood and fire in an unforgettable American saga of pride and ambition, love and hate, and the becoming of the dream that is New York City.
Author : Sebastian Loew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113473266X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Modern Architecture in Historic Cities written by Sebastian Loew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Architecture in Historic Cities illustrates why France has been so successful in combining conservation and modernity, and points to important lessons for other countries which can be drawn from the French experience. Beginning with an empirical review of particular events which have affected attitudes towards heritage in France, this book highlights the continuity in French thinking and the longstanding role of the French government as patron and leader. Planning, conservation and design control legislation are examined, highlighting the range of instruments available to government in order to influence results and enhance the role of the architectural profession.
Author : William Martin
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429960113
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book City of Dreams written by William Martin and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can I interest you in saving America?" That's the text message Peter Fallon receives from a Wall Street bigwig. It's not a challenge he can turn down, especially since the country is in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Hidden somewhere in New York City is a box of 1780 bonds with a face value of ten thousand dollars. The Supreme Court is about to decide if these bonds still have value. If the decision is yes, those ten thousand dollars, at five percent interest, will be worth a very pretty penny... Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington, must find the box—and fast. Suddenly, their race against time becomes a race through time as Peter and Evangeline track the stories of New Yorkers whose lives have been changed by the bonds... and all the while they'll unravel the thrilling and inspiring origins of the City of Dreams. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Shailesh J. Khatri
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625161646
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The City of Shattered Dreams written by Shailesh J. Khatri and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the wishes of his father, a simple village man migrates to Mumbai to earn a living. The City of Shattered Dreams traces his experiences, which ultimately culminate in his leaving, filled with disgust and despair. Having no idea what is in store for him in the big city, this honest and tenacious man's patience is tested to the hilt. He is devoted to his father and wants to keep his word and stay in a place he doesn't want to be, and so he fights the good fight. After all his attempts to overcome the failures he faces in Mumbai, the last straw comes when he is jilted in love. This honest and heartfelt novel tells only one of the bitter stories taking place in The City of Shattered Dreams.
Author : Tony Abbott
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545418488
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)
Download or read book In the City of Dreams (The Secrets of Droon #34) written by Tony Abbott and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon! Eric has been wounded during an epic battle with Ko and his beasts. Now, the young wizard lies in a coma, trapped in a dream-state halfway between fantasy and reality. Desperate to find a cure, Neal, Julie, and Princess Keeah rush to Samarindo, a beautiful but dangerous city famous for its dark magic. But they are immediately attacked by a group of bandits. Can the friends track down the cure before it's too late?
Author : Susanne Christensen
Publisher : Gyldendal Uddannelse
ISBN 13 : 8702068451
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Close-up. City of Dreams written by Susanne Christensen and published by Gyldendal Uddannelse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historier om filmbyen Hollywood, dens indbyggere - skuespillere, musikere, filmskabere og berømtheder, om byens tætte tilknytning til filmindustrrien, men også om byens mindre glamourøse side
