Green Fields? Or City Streets?
Title | Green Fields? Or City Streets? PDF eBook |
Author | National Housing And Town Planning Council. Conference |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee
Title | Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee PDF eBook |
Author | Milwaukee (Wis.). Common Council |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
ISBN |
Building Suburbia
Title | Building Suburbia PDF eBook |
Author | Dolores Hayden |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
For almost two centuries Americans have been moving to the suburbs in search of affordable family housing, unspoiled nature, and small-town sociability--only to find that their leafy new neighborhoods are part of the growing metropolitan sprawl. It is to this contested cultural landscape, where most Americans now live, that Dolores Hayden draws our attention. From nineteenth-century utopian communities and elite picturesque enclaves to early twentieth-century streetcar subdivisions and owner-built tracts to the vast postwar sitcom suburbs and the subsidized malls and office parks that followed (on a scale that earlier builders could never have imagined), Hayden reveals the cultural and economic patterns that have brought us to the present. She explores the interplay of natural and built environments, the complex antagonisms between real-estate developers and suburban residents, the hidden role of federal government, and the religious and ideological overtones of the "American dream" embedded in the suburbs. Hayden asks hard questions about who has benefited from the suburban building process and about "smart" growth and "green" building. And she makes a strong case for the revitalization of existing neighborhoods in place of unchecked new growth on rural fringes. Few readers will see our ubiquitous suburbs in the same way again.
A Field of Folk [poems].
Title | A Field of Folk [poems]. PDF eBook |
Author | Isabella Fiske Conant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | |
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The Broadview Introduction to Literature
Title | The Broadview Introduction to Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Chalykoff |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Pages | 1578 |
Release | 2013-08-08 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1554810787 |
Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an author biography and by explanatory notes, and each genre is prefaced by a substantial introduction. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way.
Lean Down Your Ear Upon the Earth, and Listen
Title | Lean Down Your Ear Upon the Earth, and Listen PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Taylor Ensign |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Ecology in literature |
ISBN | 9781570034817 |
Ensign traces the engagement of Wolfe's characters with the nonhuman world to roots in a romantic tradition of American literature, as exemplified by Nathaniel Hawthorne."--BOOK JACKET.
Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields
Title | Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields PDF eBook |
Author | David Nichols |
Publisher | UoM Custom Book Centre |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1921775076 |
"The conference explores past and future approaches to managing and designing for growth, development and decline. This goes beyond debates over density, frontier development and renewal. It includes new fields of historical, policy and social research which inform discussion of heritage, growth, environmental, economic and other issues of urban life and urban form."--Page iii