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A Walker in the City

Author : Alfred Kazin
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054754636X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book A Walker in the City written by Alfred Kazin and published by HMH. This book was released on 1969-03-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary icon’s “singular and beautiful” memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker). A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new. With vivid imagery and sensual detail—the smell of half-sour pickles, the dry rattle of newspapers, the women in their shapeless flowered housedresses—Alfred Kazin recounts his boyhood walks through this working-class community, and his eventual foray across the river to “the city,” the mysterious, compelling Manhattan, where treasures like the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum beckoned. Eventually, he would travel even farther, building a life around books and language and literature and exploring all that the world had to offer. “The whole texture, color, and sound of life in this tenement realm . . . is revealed as tapestried, as dazzling, as full of lush and varied richness as an Arabian bazaar.” —The New York Times

The New York Nobody Knows

Author : William B. Helmreich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169705
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The New York Nobody Knows written by William B. Helmreich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs--an astonishing 6,000 miles. His epic journey lasted four years and took him to every corner of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Helmreich spoke with hundreds of New Yorkers from every part of the globe and from every walk of life, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former mayors Rudolph Giuliani, David Dinkins, and Edward Koch. Their stories and his are the subject of this captivating and highly original book. We meet the Guyanese immigrant who grows beautiful flowers outside his modest Queens residence in order to always remember the homeland he left behind, the Brooklyn-raised grandchild of Italian immigrants who illuminates a window of his brownstone with the family's old neon grocery-store sign, and many, many others. Helmreich draws on firsthand insights to examine essential aspects of urban social life such as ethnicity, gentrification, and the use of space. He finds that to be a New Yorker is to struggle to understand the place and to make a life that is as highly local as it is dynamically cosmopolitan."--Publisher's description.

The Walker

Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788738942
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book The Walker written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history. “A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian). There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces episodes in the history of the walker since the mid-19th century. From Dickens’s insomniac night rambles to restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today’s neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and self-escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life. Through these writings, Beaumont asks: Can you get lost in a crowd? What are the consequences of using your smartphone in the street? What differentiates the nocturnal metropolis from the city of daylight? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? And can we save the city—or ourselves—by taking to the pavement?

Pictures of a Gone City

Author : Richard A. Walker
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629635235
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Pictures of a Gone City written by Richard A. Walker and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. It has been generating jobs, spawning new innovation, and spreading ideas that are changing lives everywhere. It boasts of being the Left Coast, the Greenest City, and the best place for workers in the USA. So what could be wrong? It may seem that the Bay Area has the best of it in Trump’s America, but there is a dark side of success: overheated bubbles and spectacular crashes; exploding inequality and millions of underpaid workers; a boiling housing crisis, mass displacement, and severe environmental damage; a delusional tech elite and complicity with the worst in American politics. This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases. It begins with the phenomenal concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley, the fabulous economic growth of the bay region and the unbelievable wealth piling up for the 1% and high incomes of Upper Classes—in contrast to the fate of the working class and people of color earning poverty wages and struggling to keep their heads above water. The middle chapters survey the urban scene, including the greatest housing bubble in the United States, a metropolis exploding in every direction, and a geography turned inside out. Lastly, it hits the environmental impact of the boom, the fantastical ideology of TechWorld, and the political implications of the tech-led transformation of the bay region.

The Country in the City

Author : Richard A. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989734
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book The Country in the City written by Richard A. Walker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area’s civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.

A Walker in Jerusalem

Author : Samuel C. Heilman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780827605565
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book A Walker in Jerusalem written by Samuel C. Heilman and published by Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two Jerusalems writes Heilman, one in which people actually live and the other that lives in them. It is the idea of Jerusalem, the imaginatively reconstructed city that exists in the memories and attachments of the many faiths that live and visit here, that Heilman explores as he walks about every corner of the city, discovering its layers of history and culture.

Over-the-counter Brokers and Dealers Registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of June 30, 1940

Author : United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over-the-counter Brokers and Dealers Registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as of June 30, 1940 written by United States. Securities and Exchange Commission and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nightclub City

Author : Burton W. Peretti
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203364
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Nightclub City written by Burton W. Peretti and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Roaring Twenties, New York City nightclubs and speakeasies became hot spots where traditions were flouted and modernity was forged. With powerful patrons in Tammany Hall and a growing customer base, nightclubs flourished in spite of the efforts of civic-minded reformers and federal Prohibition enforcement. This encounter between clubs and government-generated scandals, reform crusades, and regulations helped to redefine the image and reality of urban life in the United States. Ultimately, it took the Great Depression to cool Manhattan's Jazz Age nightclubs, forcing them to adapt and relocate, but not before they left their mark on the future of American leisure. Nightclub City explores the cultural significance of New York City's nightlife between the wars, from Texas Guinan's notorious 300 Club to Billy Rose's nostalgic Diamond Horseshoe. Whether in Harlem, Midtown, or Greenwich Village, raucous nightclub activity tested early twentieth-century social boundaries. Anglo-Saxon novelty seekers, Eastern European impresarios, and African American performers crossed ethnic lines while provocative comediennes and scantily clad chorus dancers challenged and reshaped notions of femininity. These havens of liberated sexuality, as well as prostitution and illicit liquor consumption, allowed their denizens to explore their fantasies and fears of change. The reactions of cultural critics, federal investigators, and reformers such as Fiorello La Guardia exemplify the tension between leisure and order. Peretti's research delves into the symbiotic relationships among urban politicians, social reformers, and the business of vice. Illustrated with archival photographs of the clubs and the characters who frequented them, Nightclub City is a dark and dazzling study of New York's bygone nightlife.

Over-the-counter Brokers and Dealers Registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as Of...

Author : United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Edinburgh

Author : Donald Campbell
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669731
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh written by Donald Campbell and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Cities of the Imagination series, this is an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide by a lifelong native to Scotland's vibrant capital and home to one of the world's greatest arts festivals.

The Mayor's Address at the Organization of the City Government and the Annual Reports Made to the City Council

Author : Cambridge (Mass.). Mayor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayor's Address at the Organization of the City Government and the Annual Reports Made to the City Council written by Cambridge (Mass.). Mayor and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thomas' Wholesale Grocery and Kindred Trades Register

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Thomas' Wholesale Grocery and Kindred Trades Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official buyers' and sellers' guide of the grocery and allied trades, United States and Canada.

Explorer's Guide The Seattle & Vancouver Book

Author : Ray Chatelin
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581570279
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide The Seattle & Vancouver Book written by Ray Chatelin and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the differences between Seattle and Vancouver as well as the similarities of the two cities, and it serves as an exuberant and insightful guide to discovering and enjoying their unique offerings. Included is contact information for lodging, dining, shopping, and recreational activities plus a calendar of events, photos, and maps.

EDA Directory of Approved Projects

Author : United States. Economic Development Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book EDA Directory of Approved Projects written by United States. Economic Development Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Missouri, 2000

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our Lord ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our Lord ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brown's Directory of American Gas Companies ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown's Directory of American Gas Companies ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: