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Palaces for the People

Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1524761176
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Palaces for the People written by Eric Klinenberg and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon Stewart NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done? In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. Richly reported and ultimately uplifting, Palaces for the People offers a blueprint for bridging our seemingly unbridgeable divides. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION “Just brilliant!”—Roman Mars, 99% Invisible “The aim of this sweeping work is to popularize the notion of ‘social infrastructure'—the ‘physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact'. . . . Here, drawing on research in urban planning, behavioral economics, and environmental psychology, as well as on his own fieldwork from around the world, [Eric Klinenberg] posits that a community’s resilience correlates strongly with the robustness of its social infrastructure. The numerous case studies add up to a plea for more investment in the spaces and institutions (parks, libraries, childcare centers) that foster mutual support in civic life.”—The New Yorker “Palaces for the People—the title is taken from the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s description of the hundreds of libraries he funded—is essentially a calm, lucid exposition of a centuries-old idea, which is really a furious call to action.”—New Statesman “Clear-eyed . . . fascinating.”—Psychology Today

Palaces for the People

Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9781784707514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Palaces for the People written by Eric Klinenberg and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we bring people together? In Palaces for the People the sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg presents a simple but transformative idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society. Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but decades of research now shows that these places can have an extraordinary effect on our personal and collective wellbeing. Why? Because wherever people cross paths and linger, wherever we gather informally, strike up a conversation and get to know one another, relationships blossom and communities emerge - and where communities are strong, people are safer and healthier, crime drops and commerce thrives, and peace, tolerance and stability take root. Through uplifting human stories and an illuminating tour through the science of social connection, Palaces for the People shows that properly designing and maintaining this 'social infrastructure' might be our single best strategy for a more equal and united society.

The People's Palaces

Author : Lynn F. Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The People's Palaces written by Lynn F. Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Going Solo

Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122770
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Going Solo written by Eric Klinenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience. Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Drawing on more than three hundred in-depth interviews, Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom and offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change.

Treasure Palaces

Author : The Economist
Publisher : The Economist
ISBN 13 : 1610396812
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Treasure Palaces written by The Economist and published by The Economist. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special hold that some museums have over us all. In his ode to the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Mexico, the great novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes writes, “Museums, like lovers, can lose their charms. But the next time can always be the first time.” William Boyd visits the Leopold Museum in Vienna—a shrine to his favorite artist, Egon Schiele, whom Boyd first discovered on a postcard as a University student. In front of her favorite Rodins, Allison Pearson recalls a traumatic episode she suffered at the hands of a schoolteacher following a trip to the Musée in Paris. Neil Gaiman admires the fantastic world depicted in British outsider artist Richard Dadd's “The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,” a tiny painting that also decorated the foldout cover of a Queen album, housed in the Victorian room of Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite collection. Ann Patchett fondly revisits Harvard University's Museum of Natural History—which she discovered at 19, while in the throes of summer romance with a biology student named Jack. In Search of the Originals is a treasure trove of wonders, a tribute to the diversity and power of the museums, the safe-keepers of our world's most extraordinary artifacts, and an intimate look into the deeply personal reveries we fall into when before great art.

The Memory Palace

Author : Edward Hollis
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619025620
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Memory Palace written by Edward Hollis and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained. The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one day, the structures will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will persist. In this dazzling work of imaginative reconstruction, edward Hollis takes us to the sites of great abodes now lost to history and piecing together the fragments that remain, re–creates their vanished chambers. From Rome's palatine to the old palace of Westminster and the petit Trianon at Versailles, from the sets of MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal palace and the author's own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the alluring people who lived in them.

The Last Palace

Author : Norman Eisen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0451495799
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Last Palace written by Norman Eisen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism—and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy.

The People's Palace

Author : Nancy Seeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The People's Palace written by Nancy Seeger and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Winter Palace and the People

Author : Susan McCaffray
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092473
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Winter Palace and the People written by Susan McCaffray and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's autocratic government. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it became the architectural symbol of St. Petersburg itself. The story of the palace illuminates the changing relationship between monarchs and their capital city during the last century and a half of Russian monarchy. In The Winter Palace and the People, Susan McCaffray examines interactions among those who helped to stage the ceremonial drama of monarchy, those who consumed the spectacle, and the monarchs themselves. In the face of a changing social landscape in their rapidly growing nineteenth-century capital, Russian monarchs reoriented their display of imperial and national representation away from courtiers and toward the urban public. When attacked at mid-century, monarchs retreated from the palace. As they receded, the public claimed the square and the artistic treasures in the Imperial Hermitage before claiming the palace itself. By 1917, the Winter Palace had come to be the essential stage for representing not just monarchy, but the civic life of the empire-nation. What was cataclysmic for the monarchy presented to those who staffed the palace and Hermitage not a disaster, but a new mission, as a public space created jointly by monarch and city passed from the one to the other. This insightful study will appeal to scholars of Russia and general readers interested in Russian history.

Palace of Spies

Author : Sarah Zettel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544074114
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Palace of Spies written by Sarah Zettel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peggy Fitzroy is clever enough to fake her way into King George's court in London, but is she clever enough to survive in his Palace of Spies?

Fighting for Air

Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429923601
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Air written by Eric Klinenberg and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking investigative work by a critically acclaimed sociologist on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans For the residents of Minot, North Dakota, Clear Channel Communications is synonymous with disaster. Early in the morning of January 18, 2002, a train derailment sent a cloud of poisonous gas drifting toward the small town. Minot's fire and rescue departments attempted to reach Clear Channel, which owned and operated all six local commercial radio stations, to warn residents of the approaching threat. But in the age of canned programming and virtual DJs, there was no one in the conglomerate's studio to take the call. The people of Minot were taken unawares. The result: one death and more than a thousand injuries. Opening with the story of the Minot tragedy, Eric Klinenberg's Fighting for Air takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news stations, and copycat newspapers to show how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg argues that the demise of truly local media stems from the federal government's malign neglect, as the agencies charged with ensuring diversity and open competition have ceded control to the very conglomerates that consistently undermine these values and goals. Such "big media" may not be here to stay, however. Eric Klineberg's Fighting for Air delivers a call to action, revealing a rising generation of new media activists and citizen journalists—a coalition of liberals and conservatives—who are demanding and even creating the local coverage they need and deserve.

The River Palace

Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433673193
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book The River Palace written by Gilbert Morris and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Wainwright and Gage Kennon rescue a gypsy woman and travel the Mississippi on a showboat.

The City of Palaces

Author : Michael Nava
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299299139
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The City of Palaces written by Michael Nava and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of Miguel Sarmiento, a doctor, his aristocratic wife, and young son as they are caught up the Mexican Revolution and the political upheavals and chaos that follows the collapse of the old order.

People's Palaces

Author : Christoph Grafe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789461400413
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book People's Palaces written by Christoph Grafe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Christoph Grafe investigates an architectonic typology, the cultural edifice, which must often take on the role of national identity and culture in the realisation of a democratic society. This book takes two specific projects as its subject: London's South Bank and the Kulturhus in Stockholm. The buildings were chosen as a result of their architectural meaning, and by the fact that they appeared in two countries that fulfilled a leading role in the development of the post-war 'welfare state'; in Europe. Besides an in-depth analysis of the two cities within the context of their wider national and cultural development, the book includes a photo essay by German photographer Heidi Specker" --

Seventeenth-century Roman Palaces

Author : Patricia Waddy
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Seventeenth-century Roman Palaces written by Patricia Waddy and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Buildings have lives in time," observes Patricia Waddy in this pioneering study of the relation between plan and use in the palaces of the Borghese, Barberini, and Chigi families.

Dream Palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age

Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810955431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Dream Palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age written by David Wallace and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and Hollywood historian Wallace unveils 25 enchanting buildings and homes from Hollywood's glorious Golden Age. Each restored to its original grandeur, the buildings are showcased in 200 sumptuous photographs, all specially commissioned for this book, as well as rare historic shots.

Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008389977
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court written by Simon Thurley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.