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Town House

Author : Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839167
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Town House written by Bernard L. Herman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society. As the physical objects that composed the largest portion of urban settings, town houses contained and signified different aspects of city life, argues Herman. Taking a material culture approach, Herman examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life. Working with buildings and documentary sources as diverse as court cases and recipes, Herman interprets town houses as lived experience. Chapters consider an array of domestic spaces, including the merchant family's house, the servant's quarter, and the widow's dower. Herman demonstrates that city houses served as sites of power as well as complex and often conflicted artifacts mapping the everyday negotiations of social identity and the display of sociability.

Sixpence House

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196828
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Sixpence House written by Paul Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los Angeles Times "Collins' gift is that you don't care where you end up. The journey is enough."-Readerville "The real, engaging heart of the tale is Collins' love of books and other people who love them...Collins muses on antiquarian books the way the rest of us remember lost loves."-San Francisco Chronicle "Funny, informative, somewhat chaotic and full of interesting references...there are numerous meanders into peripheral subjects, seen through the astute eyes of an Anglophile American."-Washington Post

The New American Town House

Author : Alexander Gorlin
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New American Town House written by Alexander Gorlin and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the designs of twenty-six recently built town homes by such architects as Tod Williams, Dan Solomon, Mark Mack, and Dirk Lohan.

Town Houses

Author : Günter Pfeifer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3034610343
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Town Houses written by Günter Pfeifer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neue Ressourcen im Wohnungsbau Die intelligente Weiterentwicklung von Bautypen ist eine wesentliche Aufgabenstellung im Wohnungsbau. Für den einzelnen Entwurf ebenso wie für die breite Verwendbarkeit, Wiederholbarkeit und Variation von erprobten Strukturen ist das vertiefte Verständnis der zugrunde liegenden Typen unverzichtbar. Für die Wohnungsbautypologie haben die Autoren neue, systematische Darstellungen über die innovativsten Typen entwickelt. In den einzelnen Bänden werden die Anwendungs- und Transformationsmöglichkeiten jeweils einer bestimmten Wohnbauform entfaltet. Der dritte Band behandelt die Typen des Stadthauses. Dabei wird es u.a. um die Themen Flachbau versus Geschosswohnungsbau, Dichte, Privatheit versus Öffentlichkeit und die Verbindung von Wohnen und Arbeiten gehen. Innerhalb eines jeden Typs werden Varianten nach verschiedenen Erschließungsformen, Geschossigkeit etc. unterschieden. Das Spektrum der Lösungen ist in einheitlich und maßstäblich neu gezeichneten Grundrissen und Schnitten aufgearbeitet. Zeigt die Typenvielfalt als Ressource im Wohnungsbau auf Die Ideen und Lösungsansätze sind eine Fundgrube für jeden Wohnbauarchitekten Enthält präzise, systematische Darstellungen anhand neu entwickelter Zeichnungen

Decoration & Furniture of Town Houses, a Series of Cantor Lectures Delivered Before the Society of Arts, 1880

Author : Robert William Edis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338542433X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Decoration & Furniture of Town Houses, a Series of Cantor Lectures Delivered Before the Society of Arts, 1880 written by Robert William Edis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

The Town House in Georgian London

Author : Rachel Stewart
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Town House in Georgian London written by Rachel Stewart and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes a fresh look at a familiar building type - the town house in 18th century London - and investigates the circumstances in which individuals made decisions about living in London, and particularly about their West End house.

The Georgian London Town House

Author : Kate Retford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337300
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Georgian London Town House written by Kate Retford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses

Author : Gary W. Eldred
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471481173
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses written by Gary W. Eldred and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Make Money series, renowned real estate investor andbestselling author Gary W. Eldred shows you how to profit from thesafest, most reliable wealth builder in the world-real estate. Withcoverage of all the fundamentals-from finding the right propertiesto financing and managing them-Eldred shows you the ropes so youdon't have to learn important lessons the hard way. Unlike generalguides to investing in real estate, each title in the Make Moneyseries gives you the specialized expertise necessary to fullyprofit from a select investment strategy. Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses shows homebuyers andinvestors how to travel the road to real estate wealth-often withlittle or nothing down. As an affordable investment vehicle,condominiums and townhouses offer numerous advantages over othertypes of rental property-they require relatively little day-to-daymanagement, they tend to attract more desirable tenants than otherrental properties, and they offer low risk and high returns. Fullof time-tested techniques and proven money-making strategies, MakeMoney with Condominiums and Townhouses will show you how to: * Relax while you put your money to work * Find properties with high rates of appreciation * Evaluate homeowner association finances * Choose profitable locations * Understand the changing demographics that may affect yourinvestment * Finance your properties with little or no money down * Achieve positive cash flow quickly * Build up equity * Understand by-laws, disclosure statements, and managementcontracts

The Row House in Washington, DC

Author : Alison K. Hoagland
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813949467
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Row House in Washington, DC written by Alison K. Hoagland and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house. Row houses have long been an important component of the housing stock of many major American cities, predominantly sheltering the middle classes comprising clerks, tradespeople, and artisans. In Washington, with its plethora of government workers, they are the dominant typology of the historical city. Hoagland identifies six principal row house types—two-room, L-shaped, three-room, English-basement, quadrant, and kitchen-forward—and documents their wide-ranging impact, as sources of income and statements of attainment as well as domiciles for nuclear families or boarders, homeowners or renters, long tenancy or short stays. Through restrictive covenants on some house sales, they also illustrate the pervasive racism that has haunted the city. This topical study demonstrates at once the distinctive character of the Washington row house and the many similarities it shares with row houses in other mid-Atlantic cities. In a broader sense, it also shows how urban dwellers responded to a challenging concatenation of spatial, regulatory, financial, and demographic limitations, providing a historical model for new, innovative designs. Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

The Georgian London Town House

Author : Kate Retford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337319
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Georgian London Town House written by Kate Retford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

Home Town

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307826473
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Home Town written by Tracy Kidder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.

Town and Terraced Housing

Author : Avi Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136638423
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Town and Terraced Housing written by Avi Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies allows a sustainable high density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating energy-efficient affordable living. Townhouses have been used for hundreds of years, and their evolution is covered from their inception right up to the present day. With the changing demographics of buyers in mind, Avi Friedman details how the design of these houses can be adapted to keep-up with contemporary needs. Friedman uses a systematic approach to cover the many facets of townhouses from interior design and construction methods, to urban planning issues like adjusting to the site’s natural conditions, street configurations and open spaces. This approach creates a book which will be a valuable resource for those involved in the planning, design and creation of terraced and town houses. Over 150 detailed diagrams and plans, and eighty photos, illustrate the essential elements of this style of housing. In the final chapter, lessons learnt throughout the book are draw together in ten broad ranging case study projects, showing how the various aspects can be put into practice.

Tolbooths and Town-houses

Author : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Tolbooths and Town-houses written by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes detailed articles on over 90 surviving examples and entries on 100 demolished or altered buildings, which were often described as the "city halls" of Scotland's small towns.

Hidden Patrons

Author : Amy Boyington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350358630
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Patrons written by Amy Boyington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon elaborate architectural schemes. Hidden Patrons dismantles this myth - revealing instead that women were at the heart of the architectural patronage of the day, exerting far more influence and agency than has previously been recognised. Architectural drawing and design, discourse, and patronage were interests shared by many women in the eighteenth century. Far from being the preserve of elite men, architecture was a passion shared by both sexes, intellectually and practically, as long as they possessed sufficient wealth and autonomy. In an accessible, readable account, Hidden Patrons uncovers the role of women as important patrons and designers of architecture and interiors in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Exploring country houses, Georgian townhouses, villas, estates, and gardens, it analyses female patronage from across the architectural spectrum, and examines the work of a range of pioneering women from grand duchesses to businesswomen to lowly courtesans. Re-examining well-known Georgian masterpieces alongside lesser-known architectural gems, Hidden Patrons unearths unseen archival material to provide a fascinating new view of the role of women in the architecture of the Georgian era.

The House in Southeast Asia

Author : Signe Howell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136824456
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The House in Southeast Asia written by Signe Howell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the concept of 'house' in the context of Levi-Strauss' idea of the house as a link between kinship-based societies and class societies, developing this further into an examination of a conjuncture of architecture, people and symbolism.

Old Home Town

Author : Rose Wilder Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Home Town written by Rose Wilder Lane and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Statutes of the State of New York, of a Public and General Character, Passed from 1829 to 1851, Both Inclusive

Author : New York (State)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Statutes of the State of New York, of a Public and General Character, Passed from 1829 to 1851, Both Inclusive written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: