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Book Synopsis Inventing Future Cities by : Michael Batty
Download or read book Inventing Future Cities written by Michael Batty and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes—principles—that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries. Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future “high-frequency,” real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation—an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.
Book Synopsis Is Planning Practical for Your Town? by : United States. National Resources Planning Board
Download or read book Is Planning Practical for Your Town? written by United States. National Resources Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strong Towns by : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Book Synopsis Find Your Way Home by : Jackie Ashenden
Download or read book Find Your Way Home written by Jackie Ashenden and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The heroes are as rugged and wild as the landscape."—MAISEY YATES, New York Times bestselling author, for Come Home to Deep River Small town romance heads to the wilds of New Zealand in the first installment of a brand-new contemporary series by Jackie Ashenden. He's hell-bent on telling her what to do. She's determined to make it on her own. They're both going to learn a thing or two about first impressions. Brightwater Valley, New Zealand, is beautiful, rugged, and home to those who love adventure. But it's also isolated and on the verge of becoming a ghost town. When the town puts out a call to its sister city of Deep River, Alaska, hoping to entice people to build homes and businesses in Brightwater, ex paratrooper Chase Kelly is all for it. He sees the benefits of building the economy, but only if those who come to Brightwater are ready for its challenges. Former oil executive Isabella Montgomery and her plan to open an art gallery don't seem up to the test. Now Chase is determined to help her learn the ways of his formidable hometown.
Book Synopsis Rebranding by : Jane Mitchell Eliasof
Download or read book Rebranding written by Jane Mitchell Eliasof and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name “Historical Society” or “Historic House” has a bad rap. Before potential visitors even know your museum, they may assume it’s not for them, even if you lead progressive, inclusive tours and host innovative programs. If you’re part of the leadership team of a historic house museum or historical society, you may have considered rebranding -- either renaming your organization or developing a new look – to be more appealing to a younger, more diverse audience or to reflect changes to your mission, interpretation, site, etc. Using examples from museums of all sizes across the country, this book helps you decide whether to move forward with a rebranding effort and give you a concrete outline to work from. The book will help you: Decide if you should rebrand (and that you’re not just putting lipstick on a pig) Nitty-gritty details about how to go about it How to react when someone says you’re making a huge mistake How much it will cost and where you can cut corners How to evaluate what you’ve done. Rebranding: A Guide forHistoric Houses, Museums, Sites and Organizations is a step-by-step guide that helps Executive Directors, Board members, and staff at history organizations decide if it’s time to rebrand and, if so, how to go about it. The book will guide readers through the process of deciding if a rebranding is in order, testing ideas, developing a plan and budget, implementing the launch, and even handling naysayers. It’s an essential guide for anyone rebranding a history organization.
Book Synopsis Going Beyond by : Marie-Theres Albert
Download or read book Going Beyond written by Marie-Theres Albert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at sustainable protection and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage, particularly in view of the current challenges of the 21st century. For more than 40 years the World Heritage Convention has regulated the protection of the cultural and natural heritage of humankind, particularly in that heritage shall be protected if it is threatened by modern development. The international community has also adopted sustainability and sustainable development, as objectives to facilitate the protection of cultural and natural heritage. Sustainable heritage protection and use must therefore be preserved in the face of the global challenges it faces and must be perceived in terms of societal, political and corresponding economic paradigms.
Book Synopsis Get Out of Town by : Terrence McCauley
Download or read book Get Out of Town written by Terrence McCauley and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dover Station, Montana, is no place for a lawman. A sheriff’s badge ain’t worth a nickel here—unless you’ve got the bullets to back it up . . . When he signed up to be sheriff of this dirty little boomtown, Aaron Mackey knew he was asking for trouble. Once, when Mackey was the U.S. marshal for the whole Montana Territory, he swore no job could get any harder. But that was before he took down a few of the bank-robbing Hancock—and incurred the wrath of the gang’s maniacal matriarch, Mad Nellie Hancock. And that was before every avenging outlaw and hired henchmen came crawling out of the woodwork to kill him—in the meanest, bloodiest showdown the town had ever seen . . . Aaron Mackey knows you can’t fight city hall. But you can flush out every kill-crazy outlaw, greedy grifter, and boomtown rat—then exterminate with extreme prejudice . . . “McCauley’s more than a fair hand at Westerns . . . with nonstop action.” —Roundup Magazine on Where the Bullets Fly “Comes out guns blazing from the very first page and doesn't let up until the action-packed finale . . . a real page-turner.” —True West “A captivating western . . . the setting is harsh and even the violence is gratifying.” —Booklist, STARRED review on Dark Territory
Download or read book Industrial Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Will Your Town be Like? written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis New Banker in Town & Happy Endings by : Susan Payne
Download or read book New Banker in Town & Happy Endings written by Susan Payne and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Banker in Town Paul Weaver felt Sweetwater, Kansas, was going to be one of those towns along the railroad that would grow quickly. Everything Paul looked for before building a large bank was present – and much more… The woman who had broken his heart, almost broken his spirit, was also there. A woman he thought lost to him. Was pain from her betrayal so raw it would cripple him more than his missing limb? Would old wounds resurface and loss overwhelm his ability to be the businessman he had become? Sweetwater could turn out to be his Waterloo. Does he accept his life as it is or fight for what it should have been if he had listened to his heart so many years ago? Happy Endings 1874 Sweetwater was growing in all sorts of ways. New bank, new school and new houses for the families settling there joining the original ranchers. This busy town was earning a reputation for peaceful living and prosperity for everyone. Will an unwanted intrusion from outsiders bring all that to an end? Would the townspeople and those in the perimeter of protection be endangered? Or will everything work out as it was meant to for the people living and loving in Sweetwater?
Download or read book Interior written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reading List on Housing in the United States ... by : United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency
Download or read book Reading List on Housing in the United States ... written by United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journey of Twelve and Snakewolfe by : Joseph Richard Sees
Download or read book The Journey of Twelve and Snakewolfe written by Joseph Richard Sees and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of Twelve’s story starts him out as a regular human living on planet earth in the year 2040. He owns his mother’s Volkswagen and drives from collage to home and so on. Later on, he finds out that five thousand years ago, in another world, he was a very powerful person named Twelveontia. Twelve gets teleported to this new world and has to journey through it, learning everything he can to survive and protect the people of this new world. Toward the mid-end of his journey, the bad guy travels to earth and brings monsters of all proportions to rule and destroy. Before Twelveontia can create the portal, he has to defeat the gods to gain the power he needs so he and his friends can go to earth and save it. On their way to the bad guy’s location, they come across some more gods and learn even more abilities so that way when they finally reach the bad guy’s location, they can beat him.
Book Synopsis Tobacco Town Futures by : Ann E. Kingsolver
Download or read book Tobacco Town Futures written by Ann E. Kingsolver and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated between the foothills of Appalachia to the east and bluegrass country to the west, Nicholas County has been home to small tobacco farms in rural Kentucky for the past 200 years. But now, in the midst of tremendous economic changes generated by the movement of both textile jobs and tobacco production to other countries, residents of Nicholas County face an uncertain future. Based on twenty-five years of research, Kingsolvers longitudinal ethnography of Nicholas County, her home community, synthesizes geographical, historical, economic, and political processes that have shaped lifeways and worldviews. She documents the perspectives of farmers, factory workers, politicians, those pursuing new niches in the labor market, and middle school students in search of alternative futures. Countering stereotypes, Kingsolver emphasizes the skills and agency of rural residents and demonstrates how people in widely dispersed and seemingly isolated communities in the world are connected through capitalist logic and practice, thereby illuminating globalizations far-reaching effects.
Book Synopsis From the End of the World to Your Town by : Andrew Goodman
Download or read book From the End of the World to Your Town written by Andrew Goodman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than being just another travel book, 'From the End of the World to Your Town' is a re-living of experiences which informs, entertains, amuses and enlightens us; while at the same time awakening our own opportunities and the precious moments of our own memories. It can be read in segments, returned to over a period of many years or rushed through in a week or even several days, yet one thing remains virtually certain: To read it is to step into a different time and place and to be affected in a very personal way. The writer explores his world by becoming a thread within the very mosaic he describes.
Book Synopsis Tales of a Small-Town King by : Antony Takis Tsegellis
Download or read book Tales of a Small-Town King written by Antony Takis Tsegellis and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an accomplished lawyer, judge, coach, and community servant comes a fast-moving tale of colorful characters in a small, blue-collar, coal mining town deep in the hills of Kentucky. Tales of a Small-Town King traces the struggles to find upward mobility in Appalachia, all while navigating the unique culture smothered by isolation, expansive poverty, drugs, crime, and political corruption. The product of a hard-working band of Greek immigrants, with mentoring from his Uncle Miklos, Takis Tsegellis rises as the town’s favorite son – hopscotching through varied career and community projects along the way – only to ultimately leave in disgrace, however, rejected by the town he spent 40 years trying to help. Now, as he returns to town to give the eulogy at his Uncle Miklos’s funeral, he must confront his unresolved love and hate for his hometown, and his ambition to topple it, all while discovering that his family and career were never the American dream he hoped them to be. He may finally reach the mountaintop he’s always sought, just not as the person he’s always been.
