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Book Synopsis From Mountain to Metropolis by : Kathryn M. Borman
Download or read book From Mountain to Metropolis written by Kathryn M. Borman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on Appalachians as a case study of internal migration in developed countries. Since World War II, Appalachian miners have left the coal towns of their mountain region for the car towns of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Migrations have ebbed and flowed with economic expansion and recession. Some descendants who are several generations removed from the migration experience do not identify with their mountainous background, but many urban Appalachians have maintained their cultural ties to the region and its values. This collection of essays is the fourth in a series of studies of Appalachian society in relation to mainstream America. While earlier works have concentrated on the migration process, jobs, housing, and ethnic group formation in urban settings, this volume addresses the important issues of health, environment, and education in the urban Appalachian context. As such, it is the only resource available for educators and health and human service professionals involved with this social sector.
Book Synopsis Creating a subterranean river and Supplying a metropolis with mountain water by : John Bernard Walker
Download or read book Creating a subterranean river and Supplying a metropolis with mountain water written by John Bernard Walker and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mountains to Metropolis: The Elbow River Watershed by : Diane Coleman
Download or read book Mountains to Metropolis: The Elbow River Watershed written by Diane Coleman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every watershed has a story: this is the Elbow's. The Elbow River watershed is a small yet significant watershed extending from the Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains to downtown Calgary. This geographical watershed is itself at a metaphorical watershed, due to increasing pressure for urban, industrial and recreational development which will alter the healthy functioning of its interdependent parts. Mountains to Metropolis combines the author's own explorations in the watershed with comprehensive background information to place the reader in the watershed itself. Grizzly bears and mule deer, park wardens and cowboys, First Nations and first settlers, range cattle and coyotes, urbanites and beavers, city engineers and soldiers, Grey Nuns and missionaries - all are part of this watershed's story. And each has shaped and been shaped by the physical and spiritual power of the river at the watershed's core. While legislators, municipal managers, industry and residents all have a responsibility for making our watershed happy and healthy, in the end it comes down to the individual. The author lays out simple actions that we each can take in our daily lives....
Book Synopsis The Reluctant Metropolis by : William Fulton
Download or read book The Reluctant Metropolis written by William Fulton and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s A Los Angeles Times Bestseller"William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s In twelve engaging essays, William Fulton chronicles the history of urban planning in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, tracing the legacy of short-sighted political and financial gains that has resulted in a vast urban region on the brink of disaster. Looking at such diverse topics as shady real estate speculations, the construction of the Los Angeles subway, the battle over the future of South Central L.A. after the 1992 riots, and the emergence of Las Vegas as "the new Los Angeles," Fulton offers a fresh perspective on the city's epic sprawl. The only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing "cocoon citizenship," the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.
Download or read book Metropolis written by Philip Kasinitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on renowned social thinkers to help understand why Americans flock to urban centers The modern city is the nexus of culture, politics, and art. Despite the manifold problems cities face, more and more Americans are abandoning rural areas and relocating to urban centers. By the year 2000, 4 out of 5 Americans will live within one hour of a major city. What has prompted this emphasis on the city? Chronicling the rise of the modern city, Metropolis draws from the work of such renowned social thinkers as Georg Simmel, Lewis Mumford, Walter Benjamin, Richard Sennett, and Herbert Gans, to illustrate how and why we have come to be an urban society and what the future holds for the American city. Each of the five sections (on modernity and the urban ethos; New York City; community and social bonds in the city; social relations and public places; and the role of space, race, class, and politics in the American city) is prefaced by an introduction by the editor, highlighting the issues under discussion.
Book Synopsis Remaking Metropolis by : Edward A. Cook
Download or read book Remaking Metropolis written by Edward A. Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remaking Metropolis examines examples of both urban decay and destruction as well as urban rebirth. It shows why particular approaches were successful, or did not achieve their objectives. By bringing together innovative approaches to urban living from across the world, and by demonstrating how local initiatives can contribute to global solutions, the book establishes a framework in which to evaluate current and future developments for urban change, and to stimulate a reassessment of urban redevelopment and policies. "Think Globally, Act Locally" is an oft used phrase to encourage citizens to take steps close to home as part of addressing overarching environmental issues. Critics of this view point to the potential for parochial or even myopic approaches, while supporters argue that it creates both a more sustainable and a more culturally grounded environment. Remaking Metropolis brings together real world experiences that combine local action with a global world view, to demonstrate the continuum between the local and the remote. At the same time the compartmentalization of contemporary perspectives towards human life in the fields of science, design, ecology, medicine, and politics is leading to increased fragmentation of the mind, body, city, and globe. By bridging these artificial divides between disciplines, this collection of individual case studies demonstrates the holistic approach necessary for a genuinely sustainable urban condition.
Book Synopsis The Picture of Dublin; Or Stranger's Guide to the Irish Metropolis ... New Edition. With a Plan of the City and Thirteen Views by :
Download or read book The Picture of Dublin; Or Stranger's Guide to the Irish Metropolis ... New Edition. With a Plan of the City and Thirteen Views written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emergence of the South African Metropolis by : Vivian Bickford-Smith
Download or read book The Emergence of the South African Metropolis written by Vivian Bickford-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.
Book Synopsis The Picture of Dublin, Or Strangerʼs Guide to the Irish Metropolis [William Cyrry] by : William Curry
Download or read book The Picture of Dublin, Or Strangerʼs Guide to the Irish Metropolis [William Cyrry] written by William Curry and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Super vision Expert in Metropolis by : Guo JiangHu
Download or read book Super vision Expert in Metropolis written by Guo JiangHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaoyu university students accidentally opened the mysterious jade, obtained the supreme heritage, since then an unstoppable fight, beat rich young bullies, soaked the school beauty, all the way, who can block the berserk?
Book Synopsis City, State, and Nation by : William Lewis Nida
Download or read book City, State, and Nation written by William Lewis Nida and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Ancient and Modern Dublin; Or, Visitor's Guide to the Metropolis of Ireland ... Illustrated, Etc by : M. STARRAT
Download or read book History of Ancient and Modern Dublin; Or, Visitor's Guide to the Metropolis of Ireland ... Illustrated, Etc written by M. STARRAT and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Planning the Great Metropolis by : David A. Johnson
Download or read book Planning the Great Metropolis written by David A. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson’s critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this edition, the questions faced by the regional planners of today are little changed from those their predecessors faced in the 1920s. Derided by some, accused by others of being the root cause of New York City’s relative economic and physical decline, the 1929 Plan was in reality an important source of ideas for many projects built during the New Deal era of the 1930s. In his detailed examination of the Plan, Johnson traces its origins to Progressive era and Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. He describes the making of the Plan under the direction of Scotsman Thomas Adams, its reception in the New York Region, and its partial realization. The story he tells has important lessons for planners, decision-makers and citizens facing an increasingly urban future where the physical plan approach may again have a critical role to play.
Book Synopsis How Cities Won the West by : Carl Abbott
Download or read book How Cities Won the West written by Carl Abbott and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change. From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the binational metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary entry points for migration and components of a global economy reminds us that it is cities that "won the West." And today, as cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North America in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Hazardous Metropolis by : Jared Orsi
Download or read book Hazardous Metropolis written by Jared Orsi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have come together in Los Angeles to determine the flow of water. He advances a new paradigm—the urban ecosystem—for understanding the city's complex and unpredictable waterways and other issues that are sure to play a large role in future planning. As he traces the flow of water from sky to sea, Orsi brings together many disparate and intriguing pieces of the story, including local and national politics, the little-known San Gabriel Dam fiasco, the phenomenal growth of Los Angeles, and, finally, the influence of environmentalism. Orsi provocatively widens his vision toward other cities for which Los Angeles may offer a lesson—both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved.
Book Synopsis Coastal Metropolis by : Carl A. Zimring
Download or read book Coastal Metropolis written by Carl A. Zimring and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
Book Synopsis The City of Denver and State of Colorado by : Andrew Morrison
Download or read book The City of Denver and State of Colorado written by Andrew Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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