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Author : Frederick Saunders
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Memories of the Great Metropolis written by Frederick Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otto Dov Kulka
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718197011
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death written by Otto Dov Kulka and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust Winner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014 As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. But he has remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off. Translated by Ralph Mandel. 'The greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible' - the panel of Judges, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
Author : Frederick Saunders
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Memories of the Great Metropolis written by Frederick Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick SAUNDERS
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Download or read book Memories of the Great Metropolis: Or London from the Tower to the Crystal Palace. written by Frederick SAUNDERS and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy P. Drachman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book From Cowtown to Desert Metropolis written by Roy P. Drachman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native-born Roy P. Drachman gives a personal account of how Tucson, southern Arizona, and the entire state have grown and developed in his lifetime. As a real estate developer, community activist, and philanthropist, the author is able to provide a behind-the-scenes look at some of the changes.
Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641955X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Demolition Means Progress written by Andrew R. Highsmith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."
Download or read book The Streets of the Metropolis written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Christine Boyer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522113
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The City of Collective Memory written by M. Christine Boyer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the visual and mental models by which urban environment has been recognized, depicted and planned. This analysis draws from geography, critical theory, architecture, literature and painting to identify these maps of the city - as a work of art, as panorama and as spectacle.
Author : Ben Wilson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543476
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Metropolis written by Ben Wilson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, cities created such a flourishing of human endeavor—new professions, new forms of art, worship and trade—that they kick-started civilization. Guiding us through the centuries, Wilson reveals the innovations nurtured by the inimitable energy of human beings together: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Époque Paris. In the modern age, the skyscrapers of New York City inspired utopian visions of community design, while the trees of twenty-first-century Seattle and Shanghai point to a sustainable future in the age of climate change. Page-turning, irresistible, and rich with engrossing detail, Metropolis is a brilliant demonstration that the story of human civilization is the story of cities.
Author : Sunderland B (Byron)
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781356622658
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Memories of the Metropolis written by Sunderland B (Byron) and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 26 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Joseph Gustaitis
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332493
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893 written by Joseph Gustaitis and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1893, the 27.5 million visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair feasted their eyes on the impressive architecture of the White City, lit at night by thousands of electric lights. In addition to marveling at the revolutionary exhibits, most visitors discovered something else: beyond the fair’s 633 acres lay a modern metropolis that rivaled the world’s greatest cities. The Columbian Exposition marked Chicago’s arrival on the world stage, but even without the splendor of the fair, 1893 would still have been Chicago’s greatest year. An almost endless list of achievements took place in Chicago in 1893. Chicago’s most important skyscraper was completed in 1893, and Frank Lloyd Wright opened his office in the same year. African American physician and Chicagoan Daniel Hale Williams performed one of the first known open-heart surgeries in 1893. Sears and Roebuck was incorporated, and William Wrigley invented Juicy Fruit gum that year. The Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Science and Industry all started in 1893. The Cubs’ new ballpark opened in this year, and an Austro-Hungarian immigrant began selling hot dogs outside the World’s Fair grounds. His wares became the famous “Chicago hot dog.” “Cities are not buildings; cities are people,” writes author Joseph Gustaitis. Throughout the book, he brings forgotten pioneers back to the forefront of Chicago’s history, connecting these important people of 1893 with their effects on the city and its institutions today. The facts in this history of a year range from funny to astounding, showcasing innovators, civic leaders, VIPs, and power brokers who made 1893 Chicago about so much more than the fair.
Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524748889
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Horizontal Vertigo written by Juan Villoro and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.
Author : Orhan Pamuk
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307386481
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Istanbul written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. "Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy—or hüzün—that all Istanbullus share. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters—both Turkish and foreign—who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
Author : Sunderland B (Byron)
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780526616862
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The Memories of the Metropolis written by Sunderland B (Byron) and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 24 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Junius Henri Browne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846055638
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Great Metropolis written by Junius Henri Browne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author : Edmondo De Amicis
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545570
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Memories of London written by Edmondo De Amicis and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational style, which made him one of the best-selling travel writers of his age.Originally conceived as a series of newspaper articles and later published in volume form, De Amicis's Memories of London brings back to life all the bygone charm of the capital of the British Empire. De Amicis's impressions are paired here with a piece written by one of his contemporaries, the French writer LouisLaurent Simonin, which leaves the city's opulence and grandeur behind and offers an uncompromising look at the poverty and squalor of its most deprived areas.
Author : James Grant
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484174411
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Great Metropolis, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by James Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Metropolis, Vol. 1 of 2 Random Recollections of the Lords and Com mons, has led to the production of the pre sent volumes. If they only meet with a recep tion half as favourable as his two previous works, he will have abundant reason to be satisfied. The preparation of The Great Metropolis has been attended with much labour, as almost every statement in it is the result of personal inquiry or personal observation. In his anxiety to pro cure correct information on the various subjects he has treated, the Author has, in several in stances, visited places, and mixed with classes of men, before unknown to him. It is possible that, notwithstanding all his care to be accurate A 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
