The Model Town

Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226764257
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief written by Carl Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman—these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of interconnected beliefs and actions that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of Americans. Examining a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, Smith argues that these three events—and the public awareness of them—not only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans understood, and continue to understand, Chicago and modern urban life. This classic of urban cultural history is updated with a foreword by the author that expands our understanding of urban disorder to encompass such recent examples as Hurricane Katrina, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and 9/11. “Cultural history at its finest. By utilizing questions and methodologies of urban studies, social history, and literary history, Smith creates a sophisticated account of changing visions of urban America.”—Robin F. Bachin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Model Town and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Millard F. Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821419724
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mariemont written by Millard F. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s visitor to Mariemont, Ohio, encounters what appears to be a community from another place and time, perhaps a country village in England’s Cotswold region. Tree-lined streets pass through neighborhoods lined with Tudor- and Georgian-style buildings. A stone church with a roof that dates from 1300 abuts an early settlement graveyard. This remarkable village is the masterpiece of the eminent town planner John Nolen (1869–1937) and the vision of philanthropist Mary M. Emery (1844–1927). Located near Cincinnati, Mariemont was designed as a self-sufficient town, its inspiration derived from the English Garden City and concepts developed in the early twentieth century. In 2007, Mariemont earned National Historic Landmark status from the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior. Today, it serves as a “National Exemplar” for twenty-first-century developers, including those of the New Urbanist movement. Mariemont: A Pictorial History of a Model Town presents both archival photographs that trace the creation, construction, and growth of the town and contemporary views by noted Cincinnati photographer Robert Flischel. Photographs from the rich collection of the Mariemont Preservation Foundation, including rare images made of the area in the 1870s–80s and by John Nolen and Nancy Ford Cones in the 1920s, mark this important experiment in architecture and urban design.

Author : Richard Scarry
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 037582927X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Scarry's Best Rainy Day Book Ever written by Richard Scarry and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes such activities as connecting-the-dots, making holiday decorations and cards, coloring, and making paper models.

Author : Michael Carley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445639599
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh New Town written by Michael Carley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifuly illustrated celebration of one of Europe’s finest neoclassical neighbourhoods: a triumph of town planning and the heart of a vibrant, thriving capital city.

Author : John C. Driscoll
Publisher : John C. Driscoll
ISBN 13 : 9780984078417
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilchrist, Oregon written by John C. Driscoll and published by John C. Driscoll. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gilchrist, located in Klamath County, is Oregon's most recently constructed company town and is also one of the most successful towns of its type ever established"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Holly High
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824886658
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Projectland written by Holly High and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first “liberated” parts of upland country. In a remote village of Kandon, High finds that although socialism has declined significantly as an economic model, it is ascendant and thriving in the culture of politics and the politics of culture. Kandon is remarkable by any account. The villagers are ethnic Kantu (Katu), an ethnicity associated by early ethnographers above all with human sacrifice. They had repelled French control, and as the war went on, the revolutionary forces of Sekong were headquartered in Kandon territories. In 1996, Kandon village moved and resettled in a plateau area. “New Kandon” has become Sekong Province’s first certified “Culture Village,” the nation’s very first “Open Defecation Free and Model Health Village,” and the president of Laos personally granted the village a Labor Flag and Medal. High provides a unique and timely assessment of the Lao Party-state’s resettlement politics, and she recounts with skillful nuance the stories that are often cast into shadows by the usual focus on New Kandon as a success. Her book follows the lives of a small group of villagers who returned to the old village in the mountains, effectively defying policy but, in their words, obeying the presence that animates the land there. Revealing her sensibility with tremendous composure, High tells the experiences of women who, bound by steep bride-prices to often violent marriages, have tasted little of the socialist project of equality, unity, and independence. These women spoke to the author of “necessities” as a limit to their own lives. In a context where the state has defined the legitimate forms of success and agency, “necessity” emerged as a means of framing one’s life as nonconforming but also nonagentive.

Author : Egbert Stolk
Publisher : Sun
ISBN 13 : 9789085068044
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Model Town written by Egbert Stolk and published by Sun. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computer game SimCity has had its day, but professional urban simulation programmes are becoming more and more advanced. The development of new towns can be charted with the aid of these programmes. The International New Town Institute (INTI) in Almere is conducting research on this. The results are presented in the book Model Town.

Author : Matthew Brown
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913462226
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paint Your Town Red written by Matthew Brown and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall. Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience of one of the main advocates of the new Democratic Economy, Matthew Brown, the driving-force behind the world-recognized Preston Model. Using analysis, interviews and case studies to explain what Matthew and Preston City Council have done over the last decade in order to earn Preston the title of Most Improved City, the book shows how the model can be adapted to fit different local circumstances, as well as demonstrating how Preston itself adapted economic and democratic experiments in ‘community wealth-building’ from elsewhere in the US and Europe. Preston’s success shows that the ideas of community wealth-building work in practice and have the capacity to achieve a meaningful transfer of wealth and power back to local communities. A lot of recent coverage and references have tended to oversimplify the Preston Model, which is not just about ‘buying local’ but a comprehensive project, which envisions local and regional discussions and collaboration adding up to a wholesale transformation of our currently failing economic systems.

Author : Brod Bagert
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417704958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giant Children written by Brod Bagert and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rambunctious and irresistible collection of poems that looks at our world through a child's wide eyes. Hilarious illustrations by Tedd Arnold