Make Your Own Building Blocks And Build A City

Author : Jim Covell
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 : 9780764339660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Your Own Building Blocks and Build a City written by Jim Covell and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create your own interlocking building blocks. Through 109 color images and diagrams, illustrated step-by-step directions tell you how to make the blocks through the first cut to assembling an entire city. Chapters include tools and materials, methods for making the blocks, and instructions for working with them.

Author : David Sim
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830186
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soft City written by David Sim and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites—separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources—to support a soft city approach? In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Sim shows that increasing density is not enough. The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort, a diversity of building types, and thoughtful design to ensure a sustainable urban environment and society. Soft City begins with the big ideas of happiness and quality of life, and then shows how they are tied to the way we live. The heart of the book is highly visual and shows the building blocks for neighborhoods: building types and their organization and orientation; how we can get along as we get around a city; and living with the weather. As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.

Author : Chris Van Dusen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984814842
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If I Built a House written by Chris Van Dusen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated follow-up to the E. B. White Award-winning picture book If I Built a Car In If I Built a Car, imaginative Jack dreamed up a whimsical fantasy ride that could do just about anything. Now he's back and ready to build the house of his dreams, complete with a racetrack, flying room, and gigantic slide. Jack's limitless creativity and infectious enthusiasm will inspire budding young inventors to imagine their own fantastical designs. Chris Van Dusen's vibrant illustrations marry retro appeal with futuristic style as he, once again, gives readers a delightfully rhyming text that absolutely begs to be read aloud.

Author : Rebecca Felix
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680772929
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cool Construction & Building Blocks: Crafting Creative Toys & Amazing Games written by Rebecca Felix and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids can make their own fun with Cool Construction & Building Blocks! This title has everything needed to create one-of-a-kind toys. Readers will create LEGO Desktop, Mini Magnetic Blocks, Jumbo 2-D Bricks and more! Step-by-step photos, materials lists, and extra tips and tricks get kids started. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Sharon MacDonald
Publisher : Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780876592533
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Block Play written by Sharon MacDonald and published by Gryphon House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 50 great activities, "Block Play" is a must-have for every teacher. Clear descriptions of what children learn by playing with blocks accompany the activities. Each activity encourages developmental skills such as problem-solving, math, science, language, and social skills. Watch children experience the joy of learning through blocks Sharon MacDonaldis the best-selling author of "Squish, Sort, Paint, & Build" and "Everyday Discoveries." She has been involved in early childhood classrooms for 28 years, and now spends her time training teachers and writing books and articles. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Author : Norman Brosterman
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810990708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Kindergarten written by Norman Brosterman and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Kindergarten reconstructs the origins of the most successful system ever devised for teaching young children about art, design, mathematics, and natural history.

Author : Caroline Pratt
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192157
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Learn from Children written by Caroline Pratt and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of an innovative American educator and the remarkable school she built—“a lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish” (The New York Times). Over a century ago, American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that fosters creativity and independent thought by asking the provocative question: “Was it unreasonable to try to fit the school to the child, rather than . . . the child to the school?” A strong-willed small-town schoolteacher who ran a one-room schoolhouse by the time she was seventeen, Pratt came to viscerally reject the teaching methods of her day, which often featured a long-winded teacher at the front of the room and rows of miserable children sitting on benches nailed to the floor. In this “persuasive presentation of progressive education,” Pratt recounts how she founded what is now the dynamic City and Country School in New York City, invented the “unit blocks” that have become a staple in classrooms around the globe, and played an important role in reimagining preschool and primary-school education in ways that are essential for the tumultuously creative time we live in today (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744034213
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Build a Town and Other Great LEGO Ideas written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your own metropolis brick by brick with this bite-size collection of town-themed LEGO ideas. Small in size but big in inspiration, this neat 32-page volume contains a collection of projects from the 'Modern Metropolis' chapter of LEGO® Awesome Ideas. These ideas will do more than teach building skills; they will unlock your imagination and get you dreaming up dozens of ideas of your own. And of course, every one of them is great fun. Build a museum in classical style, stack up modular buildings to make a tall office block, or create an ultra-modern hospital. Then fill the buildings with furniture and the streets with cars. There's all this and lots more inside this book, so dip in - and don't forget, there are four other exciting books in this series, too. ©2020 The LEGO Group

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

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Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suburban Life, the Countryside Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: