The Citys End

Author : Max Page
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030011026X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City's End written by Max Page and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York’s development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings, and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era’s destruction genre has reflected the city’s economic, political, racial, or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans’ perceptions of New York and of cities in general.

Author : Kay Kenyon
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 159102840X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Without End written by Kay Kenyon and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series Kay Kenyon has created her most vivid and compelling society yet, the universe Entire. Reviewers have called this "a grand world," "an enormous stage," and "a bravura concept." On this stage unfolds a mighty struggle for dominance between two universes. Titus Quinn has forged an unstable peace with the Tarig lords. The ruinous capability of the nanotech surge weapon he possesses ensures détente. But it is a sham. In what the godwoman Zhiya calls "a fit of moral goodness," he’s thrown the weapon into the space-folding waters of the Nigh. This clears the way for an enemy he could have never foreseen: the people of the Rose. A small cadre led by Helice Maki is determined to take the Entire for itself and leave the earth in ruins. The transform of earth will begin deep in a western desert and will sweep over the lives of ordinary people, entangling Quinn’s sister-in-law Caitlin in a deepening and ultimate conspiracy. In the Entire, Quinn stalks Helice to the fabled Rim City, encircling the heart of the Entire. Here he at last finds his daughter, now called Sen Ni, in the Chalin style. Outside of earth-based time, she has grown to adulthood. He hardly knows her, and finds her the mistress of a remarkable dream-time insurgency against the Tarig lords—and more, a woman risen high in the Entire’s meritocracy. Quinn needs his daughter’s help against the woman who would destroy the earth. But Sen Ni has her own plans and allies, among them a boy-navitar unlike any other pilot of the River Nigh—a navitar willing and supremely able to break his vows and bend the world. Quinn casts his fate with the beautiful and resourceful Ji Anzi who—sent on a journey to other realms—holds the key to Quinn’s heart and his overarching mission. But as he approaches the innermost sanctuary of the Tarig, he is alone. Waiting for him are powerful adversaries, including a lady who both hates and loves him, the high prefect of the dragon court, and Quinn’s most implacable enemy, a warrior whose chaotic mind will soon be roused from an eternal slumber. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Douglas W. Rae
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134754
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City written by Douglas W. Rae and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early “urbanist” decades of the twentieth century. Rae’s subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities. City: Urbanism and Its End begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (1954–70), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending. But government spending has repeatedly failed to restore urban vitality. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work.

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Random House LLC
ISBN 13 : 0345448391
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City at the End of Time written by Greg Bear and published by Random House LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to recall anything about their own pasts, three young people living in modern-day Seattle share a disturbing vision of a far-future, decaying cityscape and are each drawn into a desperate mission to preserve their own universe and to pass important knowledge onto a new universe that is in the process of being born. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443852783
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the City of Gold? Industry and Economic Crisis in an Italian Jewellery Town written by Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Europe’s economic crisis affect the ways in which industry and entrepreneurship are experienced on a grassroots level? The book offers an answer to this question by exploring the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and the downturn of its principal industry. Through the experiences of its inhabitants, the study investigates the social role that jewellery production had in Valenza and provides an ethnographic account of the crisis the city endures. This analysis delves into the relationship between a community and its industry in order to understand the social and cultural challenges Italy and Europe will face in the future.

Author : Edmond Hamilton
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 153780345X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City at World's End written by Edmond Hamilton and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of the air, the blazing corona and dullness of the sun, the visibility of the stars in high daylight. Then comes the inhabitant's terrifying discovery that Middletown is a twentieth-century oasis of paved streets and houses in a desolate brown world without trees, without water, apparently without life, in the unimaginably far-distant future.

Author : Andrew Rothwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington, to the End of the Thirtieth Council--June 1833 written by Andrew Rothwell and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Washington (D.C.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporation Laws of the City of Washington, to the End of the Fiftieth Council, (to June 3d, 1853, Inclusive) written by Washington (D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katelyn E McCallum
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532058756
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of End written by Katelyn E McCallum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 4085. Aoire, a young woman with a veiled past, is living in secret in the underground cavern City of End. A great evil has been growing, waging war on the human race since the day of the nuclear holocaust. It has the Tree of Life under its control, a powerful artifact that will turn the tide of the war. Now on End’s most important day of the year, Aoire must reveal herself not only to all of End, but to the dark forces as well. She must find a way to save the Tree of Life and end the war on the human race.

Author : Edmond Hamilton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359476058
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City at World's End written by Edmond Hamilton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peaceful village of Middletown began it's days as it always did. The children went to school, the postman delivered the mail with typical timing and loyalty. Kenniston went to work his daily ritual without fail. In a millisecond life changed for the people of Middletown and the World. Cities burned one by one in the Nuclear Flames of World War Three. A small band of survivors vow to rebuild civilization once again