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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historic New Orleans Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917860362
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920 written by Historic New Orleans Collection and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Cigliano
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920 written by Jan Cigliano and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The individuals who transformed American cities and towns in the post-Civil War decades built their homes, with few exceptions, on America's grand avenues, such as New York's Fifth Avenue and Los Angeles's Wilshire Boulevard. This book offers essays on twelve eminent urban residential avenues, each contributed by a different scholar and accompanied by twenty to thirty duotone photographs. Originally published as the catalog for the exhibit at the Octagon Museum of the American Architectural Foundation.
Author : Jan Cigliano
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920 written by Jan Cigliano and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The individuals who transformed American cities and towns in the post-Civil War decades built their homes, with few exceptions, on America's grand avenues, such as New York's Fifth Avenue and Los Angeles's Wilshire Boulevard. This book offers essays on twelve eminent urban residential avenues, each contributed by a different scholar and accompanied by twenty to thirty duotone photographs. Originally published as the catalog for the exhibit at the Octagon Museum of the American Architectural Foundation.
Author : Richard Schein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113607810X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Landscape and Race in the United States written by Richard Schein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape and Race in the United States is the definitive volume on racialized landscapes in the United States. Edited by Richard Schein, each essay is grounded in a particular location but all of the essays are informed by the theoretical vision that the cultural landscapes of America are infused with race and America's racial divide. While featuring the black/white divide, the book also investigates other social landscapes including Chinatowns, Latino landscapes in the Southwest and white suburban landscapes. The essays are accessible and readable providing historical and contemporary coverage.
Author : Eric Homberger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105155
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Astor's New York written by Eric Homberger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.
Author : Michael Greenberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031081838
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Environmental & Social Justice Challenges Near America’s Most Popular Museums, Parks, Zoos & Other Heritage Attractions written by Michael Greenberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines environmental and social justice challenges near America's most popular heritage attractions. These include over 100 places that host national parks (e.g., Glacier, Yellowstone), zoos (e.g., Bronx, Henry Doorly), urban parks (e.g., Central Park, Fairmount), grand concourses (e.g., 5th Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue), and multiple museums and galleries (e.g., National Gallery, Getty). The book includes measurements of demographics, air quality/distance from hazards, health outcomes, and urban assets in the areas immediately surrounding these heritage sites and compares them with adjacent areas and their host cities or states. It considers the history of justice-related-issues near the sites and evaluates what owners, managers and communities are doing to address gentrification, displacement, the legacy of redlining and other challenges, such as the animal rights movement, climate change/sustainability, and tight budgets. The book examines what some host cities are doing about affordable housing and what some heritage sites have done in establishing constructive relationships with surrounding communities. The book should have two primary audiences. One is the strong and growing social and environmental justice community that has increasingly been scrutinizing parks and other icons for evidence of injustice. This book will interest them, even though all the results do not necessarily support their positions. The second audience is businesses, not-for-profits, and government agencies who manage parks, zoos, museums, and other attractions and need to understand what is happening near their sites and what they can do to be better neighbours.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004521127
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Duke House and the Making of Modern New York written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to understanding the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture—in particular the James B. Duke House—within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture and interiors, and adaptive reuse for new functions.
Author : McCaffety, Kerri
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455608201
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Majesty of St. Charles Avenue written by McCaffety, Kerri and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of St. Charles Avenue as a pictorial biography of the grandest thoroughfare of America's most romantic city. Many of these interiors have never been published.
Author : Jessica H. Foy
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499074
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930 written by Jessica H. Foy and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1930, the domestic arts, as well as the daily life of the American family, began to reflect rapid advances in technology, aesthetics, and attitudes about American culture. Pictorial, literary, musical, and decorative arts from this era all reveal a shift from clutter to clarity and from profusion to restraint as modern conveniences, ranging from pre-stamped needlework patterns to central heat, were introduced into the domestic environment. However, the household arts were also affected by an enduring strain of conservatism reflected in the popularity of historically inspired furnishing styles. In this collection of essays, ten experts in turn-of-the-century popular and material culture examine how the struggle between modernity and tradition was reflected in various facets of the household aesthetic. Their findings touch on sub-themes of gender, generation, and class to provide a fascinating commentary on what middle-class Americans were prepared to discard in the name of modernity and what they stubbornly retained for the sake of ideology. Through an examination of material culture and prescriptive literature from this period, the essayists also demonstrate how changes in artistic expression affected the psychological, social, and cultural lives of everyday Americans. This book joins a growing list of titles dedicated to analyzing and interpreting the cultural dimensions of past domestic life. Its essays shed new light on house history by tracking the transformation of a significant element of home life - its expressions of art.
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 : Stanley Turkel CMHS
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665502525
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Great American Hotel Architects Volume 2 written by Stanley Turkel CMHS and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen architects featured in this book designed 304 hotels and apartment hotels. Many were designed on the European plan for families to live without full service kitchens. Meals were prepared and served in restaurant-type dining rooms catering exclusively to residents and their families. The apartment hotels employed full-time service staffs who prepared and served daily room service meals. The first apartment hotels were built between 1880 and 1895. They were followed by a second wave of construction after the passage of the 1899 building code and the 1901 Tenement House Law. The third wave of apartment hotel construction occurred during the 1920s and ended with the Great Depression of the thirties. The passage of the Multiple Dwelling Act of 1929 altered height and bulk restrictions and permitted high-rise apartment buildings for the first time.
Author : National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by National Endowment for the Arts and published by . This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1980- include also the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
Author : Robert G. Folsom
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597974889
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book The Money Trail written by Robert G. Folsom and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the man who followed the money to bust Al Capone and clean up America's first great crime wave
Author : Jodi Wright-Gidley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738558806
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Galveston written by Jodi Wright-Gidley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 8, 1900, a devastating hurricane destroyed most of the island city of Galveston, along with the lives of more than 6,000 men, women, and children. Today that hurricane remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Despite this tragedy, many Galvestonians were determined to rebuild their city. An ambitious plan was developed to construct a wall against the sea, link the island to the mainland with a reliable concrete bridge, and raise the level of the city. While the grade was raised beneath them, houses were perched on stilts and residents made their way through town on elevated boardwalks. Galveston became a "city on stilts." While Galvestonians worked to rebuild the infrastructure of their city, they also continued conducting business and participating in recreational activities. Zeva B. Edworthy's photographs document the rebuilding of the port city and life around Galveston in the early 1900s.
Author : Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307819973
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Asphalt Nation written by Jane Holtz Kay and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were designed to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen. Now even drivers themselves suffer, as cars choke the highways and pollution and congestion have replaced the fresh air of the open road. Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.
Author : Christopher Long
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300121024
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design written by Christopher Long and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive view of the life, work, and ideas of one of the creative giants of modern American design Arriving in the United States in 1914, Viennese-born Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958) brought with him an outsider's fresh perspective and an enthusiasm for forging a uniquely American design aesthetic. In the years between the two world wars he, more than any other designer, helped shape the distinctive look of American modernism. This authoritative book draws on an extensive collection of unpublished documents and family papers and photographs to provide the first full account of Frankl's life and ideas. The book also explores the history of modern American design and the extent of Frankl's influence on its trajectory. In the early 1920s, Frankl opened a New York City shop that became an epicenter of American modernism. Over the next decades, his work encompassed everything from individual pieces of furniture and decorative accessories to entire interiors, and his style continuously evolved, from early "Skyscraper" furniture to relaxed and casual designs favored by the Hollywood elite in the 1930s to manufactured pieces for the mass market in the 1950s. The book charts the impact of Frankl's ideas on merchants and consumers, on his fellow designers, and on the changing look of American homes and workplaces. With close to 170 illustrations, Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design is an essential reference on 20th-century design.
