The New City Home

The New City Home
Title The New City Home PDF eBook
Author Leslie Plummer Clagett
Publisher Taunton
Pages 224
Release 2002
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Resulting from the author's 20-year passion for urban residential architecture, this volume offers innovative ideas for creating comfortable, well-crafted city dwellings. 240 color photos. 35 illustrations.

A New Home

A New Home
Title A New Home PDF eBook
Author Tania de Regil
Publisher Candlewick
Pages 33
Release 2019-04-09
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1536201936

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As a girl in Mexico City and a boy in New York City ponder moving to each other’s locale, it becomes clear that the two cities — and the two children — are more alike than they might think. But I’m not sure I want to leave my home. I’m going to miss so much. Moving to a new city can be exciting. But what if your new home isn’t anything like your old home? Will you make friends? What will you eat? Where will you play? In a cleverly combined voice — accompanied by wonderfully detailed illustrations depicting parallel urban scenes — a young boy conveys his fears about moving from New York City to Mexico City while, at the same time, a young girl expresses trepidation about leaving Mexico City to move to New York City. Tania de Regil offers a heartwarming story that reminds us that home may be found wherever life leads. Fascinating details about each city are featured at the end.

From the Ground Up

From the Ground Up
Title From the Ground Up PDF eBook
Author Peggy Tully
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Pages 160
Release 2012-10-24
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9781616890926

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It is said that the history of modern architecture can be observed through the evolution of the single-family home. Over generations, each has hoped to improve on the last, rethinking and reinventing this seemingly simple building type. At certain historic moments in the discourse, new ideas about domesticity have given form to radically different configurations of home and community. Current emphasis on sustainability presents a unique opportunity to design affordable houses that respond to specific economic, social, and environmental challenges. In From the Ground Up editor Peggy Tully presents the results of an international competition to create new models for affordable high-performance green homes in urban residential neighborhoods. Developed for a vacant infill site in Syracuse's Near Westside, these ambitious projects offer an array of innovative designs that provide a new vision for once-vital urban residential neighborhoods and well-designed energy-efficient homes throughout the United States.

A History of Housing in New York City

A History of Housing in New York City
Title A History of Housing in New York City PDF eBook
Author Richard Plunz
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 470
Release 1990
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780231062978

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Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. Plunz traces New York's housing development from 1850 to the present, exploring the housing of all classes, discussing the development of types ranging from the single-family house to the high-rise apartment tower.

Modern American Housing

Modern American Housing
Title Modern American Housing PDF eBook
Author Peggy Tully
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Pages 0
Release 2013-06-25
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9781616891091

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Modern American Housing brings together the most enlightened thinkers from the worlds of architecture, social practice, and real estate development to present the latest developments in the design and construction of new housing stock in re-urbanizing cities throughout the United States. New housing is grouped into three sections—housing towers, reused historical structures, and urban infill—and documented with photographs, pre-construction renderings, floor plans, and maps indicating location in urban settings. An accompanying essay and a discussion with urban planners, architects, and policymakers round out this fresh look at the past and future of the American house.

The New City

The New City
Title The New City PDF eBook
Author Stephen Amidon
Publisher Anchor
Pages 464
Release 2010-02-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307480798

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A thought-prooking thriller and a literate page-turner, Stephen Amidon's The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it. It is 1973, the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton, Maryland, is a model community, an enclave of harmony and prosperity. Through years of cunning legal maneuvering and smooth real-estate deals, the white lawyer Austin Swope has made the dream of this new city a reality. His best friend is Earl Wooten, the black master builder who raised Newton from its foundations. Their teenaged sons, Teddy and Joel, each the repository of his father's deepest hopes for the future, are inseparable buddies. But cracks begin to appear in this pristiine and meticulously planned community, and an innocent misunderstanding is about to set the two men who control its quiet streets on a fateful collision course.

Home Style by City

Home Style by City
Title Home Style by City PDF eBook
Author Ida Magntorn
Publisher Chronicle Books
Pages 165
Release 2014-09-23
Genre House & Home
ISBN 1452145202

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Explore the world's most stylish and eclectic residences in this inspired armchair décor guide. Home Style by City captures the essense of five design-forward cities, featuring gorgeously decorated homes from each that reflect local style and inspire internationally. Part city tour—including must-visit flea markets, bits of colorful history, and curated lists of music, books, and films—and part design resource for achieving the various looks, this refreshing perspective on décor shows how cities themselves impact interiors. Illuminating text invites readers into page after page of lavishly photographed interiors, offering deceptively simple transitions and insider tips to bring the look into any space. Visually rich and totally inspiring, Home Style by City is a treasure for lovers of design, travel, and, of course, big city dreams.