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Author : Pamela W. Fox
Publisher : Love Lane Press
ISBN 13 : 9781931807012
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Farm Town to Suburb written by Pamela W. Fox and published by Love Lane Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamela W. Fox
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ISBN 13 : 9781937721725
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Farm Town to Suburb written by Pamela W. Fox and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farm Town to Suburb is a comprehensive history of the Town of Weston, with particular emphasis on the years 1830-2020. Extensively documented and richly illustrated, the book chronicles the economic, social and political evolution of the town from rural agricultural community to modern Boston suburb. The first nine chapters are organized by time period and the remaining twenty-one focus on geographical areas. With Farm Town to Suburb as a guide, readers of today can connect with the past and enrich the present by looking at the development of their own streets and neighborhoods. Settled by Puritan farmers and located along the important Boston Post Road, Weston enjoyed a brief commercial heyday before railroads replaced stagecoaches in the 1840s. While lacking water power for large mills, the town did have one major industry, the prestigious Hook & Hastings Company, makers of some of the nation's finest church and concert hall organs. After the Civil War, city dwellers who fancied the farm landscape found the town close enough to Boston for convenient commuting to country estates. At the turn of the century, Weston was proclaimed "The Lenox of the East." Farm Town to Suburb tells the story of estate owners, their mansions and gardens, and a way of life now gone by. Corn fields and dairy cows were a common sight until after World War II, when the last farms were sold for development. As Weston's population burgeoned, leaders struggled to keep up with growth and at the same time preserve rural character through rezoning and the purchase of conservation land. Farm Town to Suburb includes over 1000 photographs, maps and illustrations from both public and private collections, most of which have never before been published. It offers a fascinating perspective on the town and will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history not only of Weston but also of the greater Boston area.
Author : Sonya Salamon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734137
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Newcomers to Old Towns written by Sonya Salamon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America. Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities.
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
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Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375710825
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised) written by Virginia Savage McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.
Author : Paul J. P. Sandul
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806165731
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Suburbs written by Paul J. P. Sandul and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that nearly 90 percent of the Texan population currently lives in metropolitan regions, but many Texans still embrace and promote a vision of their state’s nineteenth-century rural identity? This is one of the questions the editors and contributors to Lone Star Suburbs confront. One answer, they contend, may be the long shadow cast by a Texas myth that has served the dominant culture while marginalizing those on the fringes. Another may be the criticism suburbia has endured for undermining the very romantic individuality that the Texas myth celebrates. From the 1950s to the present, cultural critics have derided suburbs as landscapes of sameness and conformity. Only recently have historians begun to document the multidimensional industrial and ethnic aspects of suburban life as well as the development of multifamily housing, services, and leisure facilities. In Lone Star Suburbs, urban historian Paul J. P. Sandul, Texas historian M. Scott Sosebee, and ten contributors move the discussion of suburbia well beyond the stereotype of endless blocks of white middle-class neighborhoods and fill a gap in our knowledge of the Lone Star State. This collection supports the claim that Texas is not only primarily suburban but also the most representative example of this urban form in the United States. Essays consider transportation infrastructure, urban planning, and professional sports as they relate to the suburban ideal; the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos in Texas metropolitan areas; and the environmental consequences of suburbanization in the state. Texas is no longer the bastion of rural life in the United States but now—for better or worse—represents the leading edge of suburban living. This important book offers a first step in coming to grips with that reality.
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Total Pages : 390 pages
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Author : Christine Rice
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938753399
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Swarm Theory written by Christine Rice and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a time of hippies, heroin, and All in the Family. It was a time, in the small town of New Canaan—a fictional town in mid-Michigan—when developers gobbled up farmland and spit out subdivisions. Against this backdrop, Swarm Theory’s interlocking narratives reveal the troubled lives of Astrid (a young woman trying to hold her family together), Caroline (Astrid’s best friend who has lost her mother to heroin), Will (a soldier struggling to make sense of life after being discharged from the Marines), and Father Maurice Silver (a priest caring for a young man dying of AIDS). Nothing in New Canaan is quite what it seems. Swarm Theory is a book that reveals life’s amazing contradictions—the wonderful and the profane, devotion and infidelity, understanding and revenge—through stories told from different perspectives. These stories investigate what happens when people come together—whether to do admirable or horrific things. Here, intimates and strangers alike can’t help but be intertwined; their unpredictable journeys providing a backdrop for characters complex, honorable, and not. Swarm Theory reveals our often misguided, dark, and life-sustaining dependency on each other.
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Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Suburbanite written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anselm L. Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351513540
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Images of the American City written by Anselm L. Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization as it evolved from an agricultural nation. Working from the framework of a social psychologist, Anselm L. Strauss offers a deeper look into the sociological, psychological, and historical perspectives of urban development. He describes how the cultural changes of a space ultimately develop urban imagery by looking towards the urbanization of America from peoples' views of the cities rather than how the cities are themselves. Urban imageries are contrasted with the context of an ideal city and visitors' perspectives of cities. Strauss takes a step back to ask questions about what Americans think and have thought of their cities. How do these cities compare to the image of an ideal city? What are the different perspectives between a city-dweller and a visitor? He contrasts the tension between those within the city and those outside of its urban limits. Strauss describes how space and time are major themes in the symbolic urbanization of a city. He offers a macroscopic view of the city as a whole and shows how urban imageries evolved from changes in lifestyles. He then provides historical breakdowns of different regions of the country and how they were urbanized. This book documents and illustrates the change in American symbolization from the growth of American cities to the union of urbanity and rurality.
Author : Truman State University Press
Publisher : Truman State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Chariton Review 34.2 written by Truman State University Press and published by Truman State University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chariton Review Fall 2011
Author : Rudolph H. Hartmann
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263240
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Kansas City Investigation written by Rudolph H. Hartmann and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas City political boss Thomas J. Pendergast's reign came to an end in 1939, after an investigation led by Special Agent Rudolph Hartmann of the U.S. Department of the Treasury resulted in Pendergast's conviction for income tax evasion. In 1942, Hartmann's report was submitted to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, in whose papers it has remained for the past fifty-six years. While researching the relations between Pendergast & Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert H. Ferrell came across Hartmann's landmark report-the only firsthand account of the investigation that brought down the greatest political machine of its time. Reading like a popular "whodunit," The Kansas City Investigation traces Pendergast's life in political power from his roots as a young bookkeeper to his demise as one of America's most infamous crime bosses. Pendergast's influence was at its height in 1936 when his power reached not merely to every precinct & ward in Kansas City but also to the statehouse in Jefferson City & Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. It was during this time that Pendergast took a massive bribe-$460000-from 137 national fire insurance companies operating within Missouri, opening him to attack by his enemies. Early in 1938, President Roosevelt received a tip from Missouri Governor Lloyd C. Stark regarding Pendergast's illegal bribe. Although the president had at one time been a supporter of Pendergast, he now considered Stark a more important political ally. Roosevelt in turn asked the Treasury Department to investigate Pendergast. The intelligence unit of the Treasury Department put Hartmann, its best operative, on the case. Within a year Hartmann & his agents had found enough evidence to set the ball rolling toward Boss Tom's demise. More than a simple account of the collapse of the Pendergast machine, The Kansas City Investigation takes the reader on a mysterious ride through the twists & turns of this intriguing investigation, all from an insider's perspective. More important, Hartmann's report provides historians & readers alike the opportunity to evaluate the machine era in American political history-an era that, according to the investigation, "proved the old axiom that 'Truth is stranger than fiction.'"
Author : National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Corruption in Land Use and Building Regulation written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur H. DeKruyter, Quentin J. Schultze
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664236685
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)
Download or read book The Suburban Church: Practical Advice for Authentic Ministry written by Arthur H. DeKruyter, Quentin J. Schultze and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 506 pages
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Author : Lee M. A. Simpson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738530888
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Fair Oaks written by Lee M. A. Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in Sacramento County, this suburb of the city of Sacramento, still has places where residents can gather at the local cafe or brave the red bluffs and rushing waters of the American River.
