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Wheel Estate

Author : Allan D. Wallis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801856419
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Wheel Estate written by Allan D. Wallis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-06-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and informative history of the mobile home in the United States over six decades—extensively illustrated with period photographs and vivid portraits of the people who live in mobile homes and the industry pioneers who designed and built them. In Wheel Estate, Allan Wallis offers a lively and informative history of the mobile home in the United States over six decades. His colorful account, extensively illustrated with period photographs and vivid portraits of the people who live in mobile homes and the industry pioneers who designed and built them, will inform and amuse anyone curious about this American phenomenon. Beginning with the travel trailers of the late 1920s and 1930s—with models that were built like yachts or unfolded like Polaroid cameras—Wallis moves through the World War II era, when the industry mushroomed as trailers became homes for thousands of defense workers, to the post war era, when trailers became year-round housing. The industry responded with new models—now called mobile homes—that tried to strike a balance between house and vehicle, even as owners built their own often fanciful additions (including one mobile home complete with Egyptian pylons). Carrying the story up to the present, Wallis links the need for mobile homes to continuing housing crises. He traces regulations and reforms aimed at "linear living," arguing in the end that manufactured housing remains distinctively American and embodies fundamental national ideas of home and community.

Architecture in Motion

Author : Robert Kronenburg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704523
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Architecture in Motion written by Robert Kronenburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that architecture can be portable is one that grabs the imagination of both designers and the people who use it, perhaps because it so often forecasts a dynamic and creative solution to the complex problems of our contemporary mobile society, while at the same time dealing with issues of practicality, economy and sustainability. Architecture in Motion examines the development of portable, transportable, demountable and temporary architecture from prehistory to the present day. From familiar vernacular models such as the tent, mobile home and houseboat, to ambitious developments in military and construction engineering, all aspects of portable building are considered. Building on his earlier works Portable Architecture and Houses in Motion, Robert Kronenburg compares traditional forms of building, current commercial products and the work of innovative designers, and examines key contemporary portable buildings to reveal surprising, exciting and imaginative examples. He explores the philosophical and technological issues raised by these experimental and futuristic prototypes. By understanding the nature of transitory architecture, a new ecologically aware design strategy can be developed to prioritise buildings that 'tread lightly on the earth' and still convey the sense of identity and community necessary for an established responsible society. This book provides a unique insight into this pivotal field of design.

Singlewide

Author : Sonya Salamon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712322
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Singlewide written by Sonya Salamon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families’ dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the "mobile home industrial complex" may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks’ neighbors who live in conventional homes.

Campsite

Author : Charlie Hailey
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080713323X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Campsite written by Charlie Hailey and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camping is perhaps the quintessential American activity. We camp to escape, to retreat, to "find" ourselves. The camp serves as a home-away-from-home where we might rethink a deliberate life. We also camp to find a new collective space where family and society converge. Many of us attended summer camps, and the legacies of these childhood havens form part of American culture. In Campsite, Charlie Hailey provides a highly original and artfully composed interpretation of the cultural significance and inherently paradoxical nature of camps and camping in contemporary American society. Offering a new understanding of the complex relationship between place, time, and architecture in an increasingly mobile culture, Hailey explores campsites as places that necessitate a unique combination of contrasting qualities, such as locality and foreignness, mobility and fixity, temporality and permanence, and public domesticity. Camping methods reflect the rigid flexibility of the process: leaving home, arriving at a site, clearing an area, making and then finally breaking camp. The phases of this sequence are both separate and indistinct. To understand this paradox, Hailey emphasizes the role of process. He constructs a philosophical framework to elucidate the "placefulness" -- or sense of place -- of such temporary constructions and provides alternative understandings of how we think of the home and of public versus private dwelling spaces.Historically, camps have been used as places for scouting out future towns, for clearing provisional spaces, and for making semipermanent homes-away-from-home. To understand how "cultures of camping" develop and accommodate this dynamic mix of permanence and flexibility, Hailey looks at three basic qualities of the camp: as a site for place-making, as a populist precursor for modern built environments, and as a "method." Hailey's creative and philosophical approach to camps and camping allows him to construct links between such diverse projects as the "philosophers' camps" of the mid-nineteenth century, the idiosyncratic camping clubs that arose with the automobile culture in the early 1920s, and more recent uses of campsites as temporary housing for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.In Campsite, Hailey makes a singular and significant contribution to current studies of place and vernacular architecture while also reconfiguring methods of research in cultural studies, architectural theory, and geography.

Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats

Author : Christine M. Hunter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730258
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats written by Christine M. Hunter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Ranches, Rowhouses, and Railroad Flats is a delightfully illustrated and readable introduction to the evolution of America's housing forms and the ways that they shape - and limit - the neighborhoods around them.

Heading Out

Author : Terence Young
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712829
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Heading Out written by Terence Young and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of the above. Camping is one of the country's most popular pastimes—tens of millions of Americans go camping every year. Whether on foot, on horseback, or in RVs, campers have been enjoying themselves for well more than a century, during which time camping’s appeal has shifted and evolved. In Heading Out, Young takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States.Young shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes camping’s history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions. Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for 12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel to the "real" America through trailer camping. These and many additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.

The Pig and the Skyscraper

Author : Marco d’Eramo
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789608996
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Pig and the Skyscraper written by Marco d’Eramo and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Universal Exhibition ... The city center unfolds before you, an architectural miracle that is to twentieth-century urban planning what Venice must have been for the fifteenth century." Like a cross between Philip Marlowe and Walter Benjamin, Marco d'Eramo stalks the streets of Chicago, leaving no myth unturned. Maintaining a European's detached gaze, he slowly comes to recognize the familiar stink of modernity that blows across the Windy City, the origins of whose greatness (the slaughterhouses, the railroads, the lumber and cereal-crop trades) are by now ancient history, and where what rears its head today is already scheduled for tomorrow's chopping block. Chicago has been the stage for some of modernity's key episodes: the birth of the skyscraper, the rise of urban sociology, the world's first atomic reactor, the hard-nosed monetarism of the Chicago School. Here in this postmodern Babel, where the contradictions of American society are writ large, d'Eramo bears witness to the revolutionary, subversive power of capitalism at its purest.

Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tides That Lie

Author : Jenn J McLeod
Publisher : Wild Myrtle Press
ISBN 13 : 0648570886
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Tides That Lie written by Jenn J McLeod and published by Wild Myrtle Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no saving their father, but can they save each other? On her sixteenth birthday, Layla Scott uncovered an unimaginably cruel secret, and over the years tried too many times to stop the hurt. Now her sister is in the last place Layla wants to be, remembering someone Layla wants to forget, and dangerously close to the painful truth. Loss, grief and guilt have kept Chelsea clinging to her childhood home, alienating her husband and kids. She’s now alone in the house nobody wants to live in but her, and surrounded by memories of a beloved father the sea swept away three decades earlier. Chelsea hopes to confront her past trauma by returning to Sandbar Campground, but her fears only intensify when her estranged sister shows up. Can Layla, along with local surfing fanatic, Thaddeus Poulle, help Chelsea see she’s holding too tight to all the wrong things and . . . . . . the sea always gives up its secrets.

Essential Wines and Wineries of the Pacific Northwest

Author : Cole Danehower
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604692596
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Essential Wines and Wineries of the Pacific Northwest written by Cole Danehower and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly balanced pinot noirs; crisp rieslings; rich, heady syrahs: these are only a fraction of the expertly crafted wines being produced in the Pacific Northwest's diverse and distinctive wine countries. Second only to California in production, the Pacific Northwest is the largest wine region in North America, home to more than 1,000 wineries. What was once a young wine-growing area with a reputation for eccentricity is today recognized as a dynamic region producing world-class wines, with a focus on ecologically sound practices. This definitive volume profiles the wines, the people who make them, and the wine countries of Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Idaho. The journey begins with the region's climates and geology, which create a fascinating tapestry of wine-growing areas. Next, the book focuses on the unique qualities of each wine region, with profiles of more than 160 representative wineries to visit. Included are legacy wineries that helped to build the region’s reputation, prestige wineries with a national presence, under-the-radar artisan wineries that embody the pioneering spirit of the Northwest, and promising new wineries. Each profile lists the winery's signature, premium, value, and estate wines. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and helpful maps, this in-depth guide is a milestone in the North American literature on wine. It will enable wine lovers everywhere to plan their touring, select their wines, and explore and discover the riches of the Northwest's wine country.

Screen Interiors

Author : Pat Kirkham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350150606
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Screen Interiors written by Pat Kirkham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering everything from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, London's queer spaces to spaceships, horror architecture and action scenes, Screen Interiors presents an array of innovative perspectives on film design. Essays address questions related to interiors and objects in film and television from the early 1900s up until the present day. Authors explore how interior film design can facilitate action and amplify tensions, how rooms are employed as structural devices and how designed spaces can contribute to the construction of identities. Case studies look at disjunctions between interior and exterior design and the inter-relationship of production design and narrative. With a lens on class, sexuality and identity across a range of films including Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913), The Servant (1963), Caravaggio (1986), and Passengers (2016), and illustrated with film stills throughout, Screen Interiors showcases an array of methodological approaches for the study of film and design history.

Financial Disclosure Reports of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives of the 100th Congress from January 1, 1986, to December 31, 1986 Submitted to the Clerk of the House Pursuant to 2 U.S.C. [section] 703(a).

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Author : United States. Congress House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Financial Disclosure Reports of Members of the U.S. House of Representatives of the 100th Congress from January 1, 1986, to December 31, 1986 Submitted to the Clerk of the House Pursuant to 2 U.S.C. [section] 703(a). written by United States. Congress House and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Containment and Condemnation

Author : David Ray Papke
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953527
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Containment and Condemnation written by David Ray Papke and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The populations of American cities have always included poor people, but the predicament of the urban poor has worsened over time. Their social capital, that is, the connections and organizations that traditionally enabled them to form communities, has shredded. Economically comfortable Americans have come to increasingly care less about the plight of the urban poor and to think of them in terms of “us and them.” Considered lazy paupers in the early nineteenth century, the urban poor came to be seen as a violent criminal “underclass” by the end of the twentieth. Living primarily in the nation’s deindustrialized inner cities and making up nearly 15 percent of the population, today’s urban poor are oppressed people living in the midst of American affluence. This book examines how law works for, against, and with regard to the urban poor, with “law” being understood broadly to include not only laws but also legal proceedings and institutions. Law is too complicated and variable to be seen as simply a club used to beat down the urban poor, but it does work largely in negative ways for them. An essential text for both law students and those drawn to areas of social justice, Containment and Condemnation shows how law helps create, expand, and perpetuate contemporary urban poverty.

Roadside Religion

Author : Timothy Beal
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807010631
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Religion written by Timothy Beal and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments and Precious Moments Chapel. Roadside Religion tells of his attempts to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience, and to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity.

Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine

Author : Hugh Johnson
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 1784720607
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine written by Hugh Johnson and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2016 is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 39th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive up-to-the minute annual guide. Hugh Johnson provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. He reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both. This year's edition also contains a special colour supplement on Riesling.

Targeting Maths

Author : Nicole Bauer
Publisher : Blake Education
ISBN 13 : 9781865098692
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Targeting Maths written by Nicole Bauer and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Targeting maths, lower primary: measurement.