Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, Paperback - Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

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...

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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...

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...

From the leading independent travel and style magazine Cereal comes Cereal City Guide: New York a portrait of the Empire City offering a finely cur...

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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...

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

This text proposes new perspectives on gender, race and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservat...

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

Reducere. City Park's 1, 300 acres cradle the largest collection of mature live oaks in the nation. Established in 1854, it is one of the country's largest u...

Reducere. Have you ever had to speak in a public meeting about your company's or agencies plans, projects or programs?Have you attended a public meeting wher...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Joanna (Department of Media and Communications) ZylinskaIllustration(s): 25 figures; 25 Illustrations, unspecifi...

Reducere. America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to...

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. Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, te...

Reducere. An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Jed PerlIllustration(s): 328 ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUTNumber of pages: 656Publication date: 2007Dimensions...

Reducere. DescriptionLife working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, ...

DescriptionFirst settled in 1795, Hyde Park was an area of great estates and small and large farms until 1892. That's when the seven-member Hyde Pa...

Reducere. The Bonanno Family is a well-researched book on the 100-plus-year history of one of New York's infamous La Cosa Nostra organizations. It begins wit...

DescriptionIn the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, caf s, dancehalls, and eve...

Known as Lemberg in German and Lw w in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for m...

Reducere. In this compelling book, award-winning adventure writer and former Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue team member Peter Bronski chronicles true sto...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 390Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 152 x 226 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at t...

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Reducere. Rideau Hall, the official Residence of Canada's Governors General, has been host to some of the greatest leaders and dignitaries in history. Member...

Reducere. Rideau Hall, the official Residence of Canada's Governors General, has been host to some of the greatest leaders and dignitaries in history. Member...

Publisher: Cameo PressAuthor(s): Emerson KleesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as p...

The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a...

Reducere. 'A shining accomplishment. A classic' New York Times'Ranks among the outstanding air memoirs of the war' Max HastingsOn an August morning in Englan...

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

Reducere. Do you want to read Pygmalion? If so then keep reading...Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It...

Reducere. Explores the competing understandings of how best to manage the Adirondack Mountains. Philip G. Terrie introduces the key players and events that h...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

For the past 10 years, Joseph Natale Schneiderman has visited 55 firehouses in the grand City of New York. He is a "Buff", or someone who visited f...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

Reducere. An essential primer from one of North America's largest urban farms. Urban farming has the power to change diets, economies, and lives. Yet startin...

DescriptionNew York City is known for many things: its urban, high-rise landscape, the bustling atmosphere, and busy business and tourist spots. Pr...

Anne McEntegart wanted to support the War Effort so she left London, and her life as the wife of an officer, to work on the land and deliver milk i...

Reducere. This is the story of Billy Gene Malone and the end of an era. Malone lived almost his entire life on the Navajo Reservation working as an Indian tr...

Reducere. Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading... "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by t...