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Imagining Transit

Author : Sikivu Hutchinson
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Transit written by Sikivu Hutchinson and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an analysis of the history of Los Angeles's streetcar and highway systems, Sikivu Hutchinson argues that the cultural geography of transportation has had a compelling influence upon the construction of race, gender, and urban subjectivity in the postmodern city. She highlights the influence of American anti-urbanism upon visions of the city during the Great Migration and World War II eras. Proceeding from the premise that the creation of city spaces are informed by collective cultural memory, Hutchinson explores how the decline of public transportation and the rise of the automobile have shaped African American communities and cultures in Los Angeles.

The Touch System

Author : Alejandra Costamagna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945492501
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Touch System written by Alejandra Costamagna and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alienation, belonging, and a woman's 1,000-mile journey across the Andes to visit her dying uncle in Argentina.

Human Transit

Author : Jarrett Walker
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610911741
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Human Transit written by Jarrett Walker and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-07-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. In Human Transit, Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services. Human Transit explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development. Whether you are in the field or simply a concerned citizen, here is an accessible guide to achieving successful public transit that will enrich any community.

Lecture

Author : Mary Cappello
Publisher : Undelivered Lectures
ISBN 13 : 9781945492426
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Lecture written by Mary Cappello and published by Undelivered Lectures. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An energetic and irreverent essay on the forgotten art of the lecture, part of Transit's new Undelivered Lectures series.

The Imagination in Transit

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagination in Transit written by Stephen Wade and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study concentrates on the development as a novelist of the American writer Philip Roth from realistic approaches, to the experimental writing of Deception and his latest work, Operation Shylock. The book sets out to relate Roth's work to American Jewish literary traditions and styles, traces some sources and influences on his work from Dostoievski to Kafka, and attempts an assessment of where his work stands in terms of quality and subject-matter in the current American literary scene.

Kintu

Author : Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786073781
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Kintu written by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. The year is 1750. Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda kingdom. Along the way he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Blending oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break free from the burden of their past to produce a majestic tale of clan and country – a modern classic.

Imagining Organizations

Author : Paolo Quattrone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136664998
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Organizations written by Paolo Quattrone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations rely extensively upon a myriad of images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts to name but a few. Visual images play an integral role in the process of organizing. This volume argues that images in organizations are ‘performative’, meaning that they can be seen as performances, rather than mere representations, that play a significant role in all kind of organizational activities. Imagining Organizations opens up new ways of imagining business through an interdisciplinary approach that captures the role of visualizations and their performances. Contributions to this volume challenge this orthodox view to explore how images in business, organizing and organizations are viewed in a static and rigid form. Imagining Business addresses the question of how we visualize organizations and their activities as an important aspect of managerial work, focusing on practices and performances, organizing and ordering, and media and technologies. Moreover, it aims to provide a focal point for the growing collection of studies that explore how various business artifacts draw on the power of the visual to enable various forms of organizing and organizations in diverse contexts.

I Am the Subway

Author : Hyo-eun Kim
Publisher : Scribble Us
ISBN 13 : 9781950354658
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book I Am the Subway written by Hyo-eun Kim and published by Scribble Us. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book. I rattle and clatter over the tracks. Same time, same route, every day. Carrying people from one place to another, I travel over the ground and rumble under, twice across the wide Han River. Around I go, around and around. Crowds of people wait to climb aboard. Accompanied by the constant, rumbling ba-dum ba-dum of its passage through the city, the subway has stories to tell. Between sunrise and sunset, it welcomes and farewells people, and holds them--along with their joys, hopes, fears, and memories--in its embrace.

Better Buses, Better Cities

Author : Steven Higashide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1642830143
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Better Buses, Better Cities written by Steven Higashide and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable--what would that change about your city? Buses can and should be the cornerstone of urban transportation. They offer affordable mobility and can connect citizens with every aspect of their lives. But in the US, they have long been an afterthought in budgeting and planning. Transit expert Steven Higashide uses real-world stories of reform to show us what a successful bus system looks like. Higashide explains how to marshal the public in support of better buses and argues that better bus systems will create better cities for all citizens. With a compelling narrative and actionable steps, Better Buses, Better Cities describes how decision-makers, philanthropists, activists, and public agency leaders can work together to make the bus a win in any city.

No Little Plans

Author : Jake Coolidge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book No Little Plans written by Jake Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities across the United States and Canada in the years following the Second World War witnessed reinvigorated efforts to construct rapid transit systems despite a decades-long decline in transit patronage, and central to these efforts was the visionary plan for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District. The proponents of these new systems used their initial plans and feasibility studies to articulate a new vision for rapid transit, one that imagined rapid transit not merely as a practical transportation solution, but as a technologically advanced tool for reshaping urban regions. This evolving vision emerges in an examination of the cartography, visual design, and textual arguments of the original BART plan of 1956 and nine additional rapid transit plans produced from 1925 to 1968. Placing the BART plan in the broader context of rapid transit planning illuminates both the innovations of its authors and the concepts those authors inherited from earlier designs. These plans exhibit increasingly sophisticated presentations and nuanced arguments for rapid transit intended to win approval from a public that increasingly preferred private automobiles for transportation. With rapid transit recast as a tool for positively shaping urban areas, this thesis reveals shifting visions for the future development of North American cities.

Migratory Birds

Author : Mariana Oliver
Publisher : Undelivered Lectures
ISBN 13 : 9781945492525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Migratory Birds written by Mariana Oliver and published by Undelivered Lectures. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli's Sidewalks.

Blue Self-portrait

Author : Noémi Lefebvre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945492129
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Blue Self-portrait written by Noémi Lefebvre and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a 90-minute flight, a woman looks back on an affair with a composer in a cerebral, feminist, Bernhardian debut.

Transit

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714576
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Transit written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller • A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize • Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award • One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Guardian, BOMB Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Commonweal, Southern Living, NOW Magazine, The Washington Independent Review of Books, Book Depository, The Globe and Mail, and The National Post (Canada) The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015 In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, and practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this second book of a precise, short, yet epic cycle, Cusk describes the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one’s life, and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

Imagining Monsters

Author : Dennis Todd
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226805559
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Monsters written by Dennis Todd and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity.

Tiny Transit

Author : Susan Engelking
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1642796832
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Tiny Transit written by Susan Engelking and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transportation expert shares how you can cut carbon emissions in your city, improve health and safety, and promote sustainability. Tiny Transit is a how-to guide for cities, mayors, and local governments searching for practical ways to cut carbon emissions. Susan Engelking, founder of Tiny Transit Strategies™ and executive director of the Institute for Community MicroMobility, describes an innovative, proven solution: protected networks for small, low speed, low cost, low emission vehicles. In Tiny Transit, city leaders, government employees, and activists learn: · Why LEAN Networks (Low Emission Alternative Networks) are the future · Lessons from early adopters · How to build LEAN Lanes with the crumbs of major transportation projects · Why the prime directive is “safety, safety, safety” · How to introduce this game changer to their cities—and the quickest way to build a groundswell of popular support Tiny Transit illustrates safe, low speed, low cost, low stress, low emission, climate-conscious mobility for this generation and those to come. For cities, this concept is a game changer. For the nation, this new transportation alternative is a step toward economic resilience, reduced carbon emissions, and energy independence.

Poetics of Work

Author : Noemi Lefebvre
Publisher : Les Fugitives
ISBN 13 : 9781838014131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Poetics of Work written by Noemi Lefebvre and published by Les Fugitives. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Blue Self-Portrait comes a blistering new novel, written and set during the state of emergency declared in France in the wake of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. In the beautiful and traditionally conservative city of Lyon, police and protestors against new labour laws clash in the streets. Lefebvre's anonymous narrator is a poet existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under the Third Reich. Drawn by the spectre of an overbearing father and spooked by the liveliness of the local far right, they are torn between the push to find a job and the pull to write. The result is this troubling account of how nationalism feeds off late capitalism; a semi-serious treatise in ten lessons, addressed to young poets, and survival guide for the wilfully idle.

Imagining London

Author : John Clement Ball
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802044969
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Imagining London written by John Clement Ball and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining London examines representations of the English metropolis in Canadian, West Indian, South Asian, and second-generation 'black British' novels written in the last half of the twentieth century.