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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)
Download or read book The Image of the American City in Popular Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrienne Siegel
Publisher : Port Washington, NY : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Image of the American City in Popular Literature, 1820-1870 written by Adrienne Siegel and published by Port Washington, NY : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrienne Siegel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Image of the American City in Popular Literature, 1840-1870 written by Adrienne Siegel and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Burton Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835761529
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Image of the City in Modern Literature written by Burton Pike and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
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 : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108841961
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The City in American Literature and Culture written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
Author : Anselm Leonard Strauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258258832
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Images of the American City written by Anselm Leonard Strauss and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Klimasmith
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654971
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (549 download)
Download or read book At Home in the City written by Elizabeth Klimasmith and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.
Author : Richard Lehan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920511
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The City in Literature written by Richard Lehan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler. The European city is read against the decline of feudalism and the rise of empire and totalitarianism; the American city against the phenomenon of the wilderness, the frontier, and the rise of the megalopolis and the decentered, discontinuous city that followed. Throughout this book, Lehan pursues a dialectic of order and disorder, of cities seeking to impose their presence on the surrounding chaos. Rooted in Enlightenment yearnings for reason, his journey goes from east to west, from Europe to America. In the United States, the movement is also westward and terminates in Los Angeles, a kind of land's end of the imagination, in Lehan's words. He charts a narrative continuum full of constructs that "represent" a cycle of hope and despair, of historical optimism and pessimism. Lehan presents sharply etched portrayals of the correlation between rationalism and capitalism; of the rise of the city, the decline of the landed estate, and the formation of the gothic; and of the emergence of the city and the appearance of other genres such as detective narrative and fantasy literature. He also mines disciplines such as urban studies, architecture, economics, and philosophy, uncovering material that makes his study a lively read not only for those interested in literature, but for anyone intrigued by the meanings and mysteries of urban life.
Author : Burton Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The image of the city in modern literature written by Burton Pike and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dana Brand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521362078
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Dana Brand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature.
Author : Anselm L Strauss
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013424816
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Images of the American City. -- written by Anselm L Strauss and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Sheri Stodghill Fowler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738596787
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Royse City written by Sheri Stodghill Fowler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1886, Confederate veteran Burgess Griffin Royse platted his namesake townsite on the blackland prairie of North Texas. A savvy businessman, Royse knew that the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad line between Dallas and Greenville was being planned, and he was instrumental in making sure its route passed through the newly platted city. Train service was a major economic boom to the area, and the small community grew quickly. By 1890, Royse City had a population of 1,000 and boasted two cotton gins, a gristmill, and 20 businesses. Through the mid-1900s, Royse City thrived on farming, with cotton growing, cotton ginning, and cottonseed oil manufacturing serving as the major industries. Although most Royse City citizens now commute to jobs throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, this small bedroom community celebrates and preserves its history through the Texas Main Street program, a thriving city-owned historical museum, and many festivals and celebrations that highlight its rich heritage.
Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622098622
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book All Roads Lead to the American City written by Peter Swirski and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads. Examining the history, cinema, literature, cultural myths and social geography of the United States, the book puts some of the greatest as well as the "baddest" American cities under the microscope. Taking the role of the roads that crisscross and connect the cities as their shared point of reference, these essays explore ways to understand the people who live, commute, work, create, govern, commit crime and conduct business in them.Cities, for the most part, are America. Their values and problems define not only what the United States is, but what other nations perceive the United States to be. Roads and transportation, on the other hand, and their impact on the American culture and lifestyle, form not only the integral part of the historical rise-and-shine of the modern city, but a physical release from and a cultural antidote to its pressure-cooker stresses. Tracing the boundless variety and complexity of these twin themes, All Roads Lead to the American City is built around an interlinked series of essays on the urban culture in America. Juxtaposing the city and the road, it looks alternatively at cities as historical, geographical, social and cultural centres of life in the land, and at roads as physical as well as metaphorical arteries that lead in and out of the city.
Author : Anselm Leonard Strauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258266349
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Images of the American City written by Anselm Leonard Strauss and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward W. Ahrens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738530000
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Maywood written by Edward W. Ahrens and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, a popular young woman who worked for the real estate corporation developing a 2,300-acre ranch into home tracts near Los Angeles agreed to lend her name to both property and posterity. At a spot located only a few miles southwest of the new city's downtown, Miss May Wood's moment arrived when about 300 people turned out to see Maywood's dedication. Thousands more helped the community grow as Los Angeles sprawled throughout the 20th century, and Maywood has been a thriving little square-mile-plus ever since. It has flourished while facing such challenges as a bitter effort to dissolve the city in 1924, a "sweep-out" of gamblers in the early 1930s, and various infrastructure improvements over the years.
