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Author : Ralph Borsodi
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Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Flight from the City written by Ralph Borsodi and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Borsodi
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ISBN 13 : 9781481873697
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Homesteading: Flight from the City written by Ralph Borsodi and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the Borsodi Family in the experiment living on a homestead in the 1920s. After the Great Depression, there were a number of families seeking a simpler way of life that was away from the hustle and bustle of city life. With today's uncertain economic times, this book is as relevant today as it was when it was written. Although a few of the techniques may be outdated, there is still an abundance of information contained within these pages." In the summer of 1920--the first summer after our flight from the city--Mrs. Borsodi began to can and preserve a supply of fruits and vegetables for winter use. I remember distinctly the pride with which she showed me, on my return from the city one evening, the first jars of tomatoes which she had canned. But with my incurable bent for economics, the question "Does it really pay?" instantly popped into my head. Mrs. Borsodi had rather unusual equipment for doing the work efficiently. She cooked on an electric range; she used a steam-pressure cooker; she had most of the latest gadgets for reducing the labor to a minimum. I looked around the kitchen, and then at the table covered with shining glass jars filled with tomatoes and tomato juice. "It's great," I said, "but does it really pay?" "Of course it does," was her reply. "Then it ought to be possible to prove that it does--even if we take into consideration every cost--the cost of raw materials, the value of the labor put into the work yourself, the fuel, the equipment." "
Author : Steven Conn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199973660
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Americans Against the City written by Steven Conn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. In this provocative and sweeping book, historian Steven Conn explores the "anti-urban impulse" across the 20th century and examines how those ideas have shaped the places Americans have lived and worked, and how they have shaped the anti-government politics of the New Right.
Author : Sarah Lowndes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777874
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City written by Sarah Lowndes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and iconoclastic conceptual artist Chris Burden, detailing their connections to the cities they had left behind (New York, London, Los Angeles). Sarah Lowndes also examines how the rise of digital technologies has made it more possible for artists to live and work outside the major art centers, especially given the rising cost of living in London, Berlin, and New York, focusing on three peripheral creative centers: the seaside town of Hastings, England, the midsized metro of Leipzig, Germany, and post-industrial Detroit, USA.
Author : Vikas Mehta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040026826
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Case for Cities written by Vikas Mehta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities. The COVID-19 pandemic and the civil unrest caused by the killing of George Floyd led to a cascade of negative media stories about cities, often politically motivated. It seemed possible that the economic and demographic gains cities had achieved over the last few decades could be lost. In fact, there has been measurable population loss in larger cities caused by changing work/life patterns and changing public perceptions about the costs and benefits of urban living. Faced with these challenges, advocates for cities must make a vigorous case for cities and show how they aren’t the cause of America’s social, environmental, economic, and public health problems but, in fact, are the places where the solutions to those problems will be found. The 38 chapters in The Case for Cities draw on the expertise of contributors from the academic, professional, and civic sectors to explore the creative tension between the two great values on which the vigor of cities depends––that they should be "Cities of Choice" (places where people who have choice want to live) and "Cities of Justice" (places that welcome and support people with limited choices). The book’s underlying perspective is that these two values are symbiotic and that promoting both is what leads to viable, sustainable urban resurgence. This book will be of keen interest to students and practitioners in urban planning, urban design, real estate, architecture, and landscape architecture and to urban advocates and civic leaders.
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Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Challenge written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book HUD Challenge written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book HUD Challenge written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Wynne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439659028
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Utopian Communities of Florida written by Nick Wynne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has long been viewed as a land of hope and endless possibilities. Visionaries seeking to establish new communities where they could escape the influences of society at large have turned to Florida to construct their utopias--from the vast plantations of British philanthropists and entrepreneurs in the eighteenth century to the more exotic Koreshan Unity and its theory that humans live in the center of a Hollow Earth. Some came to the Sunshine State seeking religious freedom, such as the settlers in Moses Levy's Jewish colony, while others settled in Florida to establish alternative lifestyles, like the spiritualists of Cassadaga. Still others created their communities to practice new agricultural techniques or political philosophies. Historians Joe Knetsch and Nick Wynne examine a number of these distinctive utopian communities and how they have contributed to Florida's unique social fabric.
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flight from the city written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
