City Signs

Author : Zoran Milich
Publisher : Kids Can Press
ISBN 13 : 1554539803
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Signs written by Zoran Milich and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning photojournalist Zoran Milich captures a world of words in the simplicity of big, bold signs. As young children discover the thirty colorful photographs in City Signs, they will delight in seeing people and places that are a part of their everyday world. With that delight comes the growing recognition of the words that are all around them --- and the exhilarating discovery that they can READ!

Author : Tana Hoban
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 068807331X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Read Signs written by Tana Hoban and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1987-09-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty familiar signs fill the pages of this handsome book, and invite the viewer to COME IN! "Right on target."--Booklist.

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Signs Chicago written by Charles Bowden and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't let the title fool you. It's about more than street signs: it's about life in the big city; it's about history and the loss of history; it's about neighborhoods that were and never were, but still could be; it's about illusion and the real thing...." Studs Terkel.

Author : Stephen Carr
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262020879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Signs and Lights written by Stephen Carr and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1973-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this book is to develop some specific ways to replace the present chaos of misleading, competing, inadequate public and private signs and lights with cohesive and humane sources of information that do not overload the senses and overwhelm the destination seeker.

Author : Shelly Lyons
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1620650983
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs in My Neighborhood written by Shelly Lyons and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how neighborhood signs help people stay safe, drive safely, and find their way around. Suggested level: junior.

Author : Martin Treu
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140494X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs, Streets, and Storefronts written by Martin Treu and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treu tackles the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz. Honorable Mention, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012 PROSE Awards Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America’s commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers “common” architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America’s commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.

Author : Madhu Dubey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226167283
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs and Cities written by Madhu Dubey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.

Author : J. Eric Lynxwiler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997825114
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Life written by J. Eric Lynxwiler and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neon isn't native to Los Angeles, but it's difficult to picture the city without it. Every aspect of our lives has been spelled out in neon tubes across the United States, but Los Angeles is the king of that advertising glow. No other landscape could match its sheer quantity of signs in this city that grew up with the automobile. This latest exhibit from Photo Friends and the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection celebrates the city's long and bright history with this unique type of illumination. Here is Los Angeles, City of Neon.

Author : Sallie Westwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134761422
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Cities written by Sallie Westwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together some of the most recent and exciting work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies. The book is organised around the following major themes: the theoretical imagination; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the complex and complimentary narrative of the city ways.While these representations bring the past and the present together, the final section of the book elaborates the present and future in relation to the idea of the virtual city. Hence, the world of cyberspace not only recasts our imaginaries of space and communication, but has a profound effect on the sociological imagination itself.

Author : Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409490254
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourists, Signs and the City written by Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.