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Author : Miles L. Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book They Built Chicago written by Miles L. Berger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamra B. Orr
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1637414641
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book We Built This City: Boston written by Tamra B. Orr and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Learn the history of the land where Boston is now located, the history of the Boston marathon, the Algonquin tribe, the fight for independence, catastrophes that happened within the city, the more recent "Big Dig," the timeless architecture and the arts. ·Includes historical and current pictures of Boston, chronology of events in Boston spanning 1614 to today, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and the city.
Author : Philip Wolny
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1637414684
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book We Built This City: Philadelphia written by Philip Wolny and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·Reading Level 3-6 ·Learn the history of Philadelphia and its association with the Lenape Native American tribe, New Sweden, and William Penn, how it got its nickname "The City of Brotherly Love", how Philadelphia was the last stop on the Underground Railroad and African Americans played a big role in population growth, and interesting sights for visitors like Independence Hall, the Rocky Statue and Geno's cheesesteaks. ·Includes historical and current pictures of Philadelphia, a chronology of events (spanning 1638 to today), chapter notes, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and city.
Author : Cat Patrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593462165
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)
Download or read book We Built This City written by Cat Patrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Cat Patrick returns with a charming tale full of first crushes and new friendships, as one girl learns a little more about who she is and who she wants to be all while on the road trip of lifetime. It’s the summer of 1985, when air guitar, jelly bracelets, and huge hair are all the rage, and twelve-year-old Stevie is finally old enough to go on her performing troupe’s annual cross-country tour. Twenty-six teen cast members will lip-synch and dance their way through more than twenty cities, and Stevie and her best friend, Wes, can’t wait—for more reasons than one!
Author : Tamra B. Orr
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163741465X
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book We Built This City: Chicago written by Tamra B. Orr and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Includes historical and current pictures of Chicago, chronology of events in Chicago (spanning 1673 to today), suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and city. ·Learn the history of the land where Chicago is now located, the World's Fair, the Winnebago Native American tribe, the influx of Germans that created the city, the Great Chicago Fire, the Chicago River and more than 550 parks, and interesting sights to see when visiting the windy city like Wrigley Field, the Willis Tower, and Shedd Aquarium.
Author : Amelia LaRoche
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1637414676
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book We Built This City: New York City written by Amelia LaRoche and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Learn the history of the land where New York is now located, New Amsterdam and its association with the Lenape Native American tribe, how it got the name "The City that Never Sleeps", the fur wars, the Harlem Renaissance, the great building boom of high rises and skyscrapers, the Twin Towers Memorial, and interesting sights to see when visiting the Big Apple like The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Central Park, and the Empire State Building. ·Includes historical and current pictures of New York City chronology of events (spanning 1600s to today), includes the Twin Tower memorial, chapter notes, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and city. ·Includes information on all five boroughs.
Author : David Sim
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830186
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Soft City written by David Sim and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites—separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources—to support a soft city approach? In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Sim shows that increasing density is not enough. The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort, a diversity of building types, and thoughtful design to ensure a sustainable urban environment and society. Soft City begins with the big ideas of happiness and quality of life, and then shows how they are tied to the way we live. The heart of the book is highly visual and shows the building blocks for neighborhoods: building types and their organization and orientation; how we can get along as we get around a city; and living with the weather. As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.
Author : Janice Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book They Built a City, the Story of Washington, D.C. written by Janice Holland and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilda C. Gafney
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1640655719
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church Year B written by Wilda C. Gafney and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next installment in the critically acclaimed lectionary series that focuses on women's stories. In this second volume of the three-volume Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, widely praised womanist bible scholar and priest Wil Gafney selects scripture readings that emphasize women's stories. Focusing especially on the Gospel of Mark, Year B of A Women's Lectionary features Gafney's fresh, inclusive, and thought-provoking translations of every reading, alongside commentary on each reading. Designed for liturgical use or scriptural study, this resource offers a new perspective on the Bible and the liturgical year. “Gafney's paradigm-shifting scholarship will influence biblical preaching and teaching for generations to come." —National Catholic Reporter
Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 031650985X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The City We Became written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels. And they're not the only ones. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The Broken Kingdoms The Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella) Dreamblood Duology The Killing Moon The Shadowed Sun The Dreamblood Duology (omnibus) The Broken Earth The Fifth Season The Obelisk Gate The Stone Sky How Long 'til Black Future Month? (short story collection) "A glorious fantasy." —Neil Gaiman
Author : M. Nolan Gray
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642832545
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Arbitrary Lines written by M. Nolan Gray and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up
Author : Adina Hoffman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709785
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Till We Have Built Jerusalem written by Adina Hoffman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical excavation of one of the world’s great, troubled cities A remarkable view of one of the world’s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman’s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a gripping and intimate journey into the very different lives of three architects who helped shape modern Jerusalem. The book unfolds as an excavation. It opens with the 1934 arrival in Jerusalem of the celebrated Berlin architect Erich Mendelsohn, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany who must reckon with a complex new Middle Eastern reality. Next we meet Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Palestine’s chief government architect from 1922 to 1937. Steeped in the traditions of Byzantine and Islamic building, this “most private of public servants” finds himself working under the often stifling and violent conditions of British rule. And in the riveting final section, Hoffman herself sets out through the battered streets of today’s Jerusalem searching for traces of a possibly Greek, possibly Arab architect named Spyro Houris. Once a fixture on the local scene, Houris is now utterly forgotten, though his grand Armenian-tile-clad buildings still stand, a ghostly testimony to the cultural fluidity that has historically characterized Jerusalem at its best. A beautifully written rumination on memory and forgetting, place and displacement, Till We Have Built Jerusalem uncovers the ramifying layers of one great city’s buried history as it asks what it means, everywhere, to be foreign and to belong.
Author : Philip Wolny
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1637414668
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)
Download or read book We Built This City: Los Angeles written by Philip Wolny and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Learn the history of the land where Los Angeles is now located, the Tongva people, the Mexican, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Japanese, European, Armenian, Iranian and Russian people who helped settle the city, its metamorphosis into an entertainment and cinematic hub, and interesting sights to see when visiting LA like Dodger Stadium, the Hollywood sign, and Chinatown. ·Includes historical and current pictures of Los Angeles, chronology of events in LA (spanning 1771 - 2028 the year LA is scheduled to host the Olympics), chapter notes, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and the city.
Author : Geoff Manaugh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374117268
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
Download or read book A Burglar's Guide to the City written by Geoff Manaugh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city seen from a unique point of view: those who want to break in and loot its treasures
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 : Edward Glaeser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143120549
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Triumph of the City written by Edward Glaeser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book Review A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.
Author : Chris Bruntlett
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831654
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Curbing Traffic written by Chris Bruntlett and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people. Their insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing. Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.
