Metropolis Found

Author : New York Is Book Country
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974061405
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolis Found written by New York Is Book Country and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the 25th anniversary of NYICB (New York is Book Country), this commemorative book brings together a splendid array of talent with one thing in common: an undisputed passion for the greatest city in the world. Featured are original pieces by more than 30 of the most popular authors of today and the past 25 years.

Author : Thea von Harbou
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486795675
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolis written by Thea von Harbou and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Weimar-era novel of a futuristic society, written by the screenwriter for the iconic 1927 film, was hailed by noted science-fiction authority Forrest J. Ackerman as "a work of genius."

Author : St. Clair Drake
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022625335X
Total Pages : 941 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Metropolis written by St. Clair Drake and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America. Based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers, it is a sweeping historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side from the 1840s through the 1930s. Its findings offer a comprehensive analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the first half of the twentieth century. It offers a dizzying and dynamic world filled with captivating people and startling revelations. A new foreword from sociologist Mary Pattillo places the study in modern context, updating the story with the current state of black communities in Chicago and the larger United States and exploring what this means for the future. As the country continues to struggle with race and our treatment of black lives, Black Metropolis continues to be a powerful contribution to the conversation.

Author : Vittoria Di Palma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134120443
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Metropolis written by Vittoria Di Palma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private. Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic sphere, the book investigates those spaces and practices that engage both the urban and the domestic, the public and the private. The legal, political and administrative frameworks of urban life are seen as constituting private individuals’ sense of self, in a wide range of European and world cities from Amsterdam and Barcelona to London and Chicago. Providing authoritative new perspectives on individual citizenship as it relates to both public and private space, in-depth case studies of major European, American and other world cities and written by an international set of contributors, this volume is key reading for all students of architecture.

Author : Tessa Gengnagel
Publisher : arthistoricum.net
ISBN 13 : 3985011389
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text written by Tessa Gengnagel and published by arthistoricum.net. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly editions contextualize our cultural heritage. Traditionally, methodologies from the field of scholarly editing are applied to works of literature, e.g. in order to trace their genesis or present their varied history of transmission. What do we make of the variance in other types of cultural heritage? How can we describe, record, and reproduce it systematically? From medieval to modern times, from image to audiovisual media, the book traces discourses across different disciplines in order to develop a conceptual model for scholarly editions on a broader scale. By doing so, it also delves into the theory and philosophy of the (digital) humanities as such.

Author : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saxon and the Gael; Or, The Northern Metropolis: Including a View of the Lowland and Highland Character written by Christian Isobel Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Bancroft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent written by George Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641955X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demolition Means Progress written by Andrew R. Highsmith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."

Author : Hans Blumenfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolis written by Hans Blumenfeld and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416561293
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Makeshift Metropolis written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique. Makeshift Metropolis describes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the new city of Modi’in, Israel—sites that, in this age of resource scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge our notion of the city. Erudite and immensely engaging, Makeshift Metropolis is an affirmation of Rybczynski’s role as one of our most original thinkers on the way we live today.