City Choreographer. Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America, Paperback - Alison Bick Hirsch

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Alison Bick HirschNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 217 x 217 x 24Cover type...

Reducere. A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwa...

When an expatriate bureaucrat toured a devastated city, he saw more than ashes and ruins. He envisioned a thriving metropolis where God's people co...

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

Reducere. During a career spanning six decades, Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) became one of the most prolific and outspoken landscape architects of his genera...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. And all those gangs know well that the Cross crew occupies a cinderblo...

How do you use the word "radical?" Committed to the progressive? The cooperative? The communal? The equalitarian? In so far as social, political, a...

Reducere. An incredible variety of climates and biomes span the territory of South America. As a result, the continent contains some of the greatest biodiver...

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America - Peter Levine

Reducere. Social Housing and Urban Renewal. A Cross-National Perspective This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relat...

- 7, 000 copies sold (worldwide) of the first, hardback edition - New, compact size and affordable paperback edition - Ceramics is still wildly pop...

Reducere. Witchcraft in Early North America investigates European, African, and Indian witchcraft beliefs and their expression in colonial America. Alison Ga...

This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic...

From exploring secret gardens, parks, farmers markets and city farms, to discovering the best spots for urban bee-keeping, foraging, open-air swimm...

Literary Nonfiction. Vivid explorations of cryogenics, lion baiting, iDollators, dodo birds, SpaceX, and more populate THE ART OF PERPETUATION, a p...

Contributor(s): Author: Livio MelinaTranslator: William E. MayThe encyclical Veritatis splendor (The Splendor of Truth) represents the first docume...

Reducere. Description" Cass's] core principle--a culture of respect for work of all kinds--can help close the gap dividing the two Americas...." - William A....

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad ov...

This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic...

Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .

How can industrial production be reintegrated into the urban fabric in a post-digital world Research from Harvard's Graduate School of Design addre...

Reducere. Busy cityBeep, beep, beep Jacob Lawrence's exuberant artwork guides readers through a bustling city, complete with builders rat-a-tatting and child...

Celebrating the dynamic Constructivist art made and exhibited in Britain over a seventy-year period, this book brings together constructed reliefs ...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

Reducere. On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gu...

Reducere. During the 1960s, our Kramer Manor neighborhood in Scotch Plains, New Jersey was being described as "blighted" by the Scotch Plains Township Commit...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Esther da Costa MeyerIllustration(s): 60 color + 115 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date...

Reducere. In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities...

We are what we eat, but do you know what you're eating? Urban agriculture is the global movement that encourages the practice of cultivating, proce...

Life is supposed to be easy and carefree when you are young, but if you live in Washington D.C., that's not always the case. Flashing back to the 1...

Reducere. Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape" and fueled a fierce debate over how ...

The story of crippling overdevelopment in Mexico's economic and social centerPublisher: Temple University Press, U.S.Author(s): Diane DavisNumber o...

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Reducere. DescriptionBogue Lusa Creek Many years before the great death, there walked a warrior, Hurinoma With towering form and haughty stride, the pride of...

Reducere. The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.``A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and ...

Publisher: SkyhorseAuthor(s): Christopher NyergesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20Cover type: PaperbackRedescope...

Publisher: ListLabAuthor(s): Carlo GasparriniIllustration(s): 300 colourNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 x 240 x 22Cover t...

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday TimesJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman.

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism and heritage protection have formed a productive alliance for the transformation of inner-city distri...

DescriptionYes, there certainly are many obstacles to urban church planting. The challenge of refraining from insisting on suburban models for urba...