A Century Down Town

Author : Michael Hauser,Marianne Weldon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738561908

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Twentieth Century Retailing in Downtown Detroit by Michael Hauser,Marianne Weldon Pdf

As Detroit developed northward from the riverfront, Woodward Avenue became a mecca for retail, restaurants, and services. The 1870s and 1880s saw many independent merchants open their doors. By 1890, a new type of one-stop shopping had developed: the department store. Detroit's venerable Newcomb Endicott and Company was closely followed by other trailblazers: J. L. Hudson Company, Crowley Milner and Company, and the Ernst Kern Company. At its peak in the 1950s, the Woodward Avenue area boasted over four million square feet of retail, making it one of America's preferred retail destinations. Other Detroit emporiums such as the homegrown S. S. Kresge Company set trends in consumer culture. Generations made the trek downtown for back-to-school events, Easter shows, holiday windows, and family luncheons. Then, with the advent of suburban shopping centers, downtown stores began competing with their own branch locations. By the 1970s and 1980s, the dominoes began to fall as both chain and independent stores abandoned the once prosperous Woodward Avenue.

Author : Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300098273

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Downtown by Robert M. Fogelson Pdf

Annotation Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. Urban historian Robert Fogelson gives a riveting account of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about it--changed between 1880 and 1950. Recreating battles over subways and skyscrapers, the introduction of elevated highways and parking bans, and other controversies, this book provides a new and often starling perspective on downtown's rise and fall.

Author : Matt Kapp
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1576879445

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A Century Downtown by Matt Kapp Pdf

Showcasing an unprecedented array of photographs, paintings, renderings, drawings, and other images culled from dozens of archives and individual collections worldwide, A Century Downtown ensures that no one will ever forget the vast and varied history of this famous part of New York City. Catchphrases like "urban renewal" have a nice ring to them, but none measure up to the tectonic, often brutal metamorphoses that have remade Lower Manhattan over the last century. Downtown's defining cataclysmic event is undeniably 9/11. Yet we often forget that the original World Trade Center grew out of the wholesale demolition of an entire neighborhood, home to more than 300 electronics businesses employing some 30,000 workers. We forget that the first "worst terrorist attack in American history"-the Wall Street bombing of 1920-claimed 38 lives and triggered a tsunami of anti-immigrant sentiment that swept Warren G. Harding into the White House. We forget that Washington Street was once home to the biggest Arab-American community in the country, known as Little Syria, eventually displaced by the transportation appetite of a burgeoning suburbia. A Century Downtown raises these and other pivotal events-some mere footnotes to the city's official history-into sharp relief. It's a remarkable visual journey guided by a fascinating historical narrative that sheds new light on the evolution of Lower Manhattan over the past hundred years.

Author : United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015001364382

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Downtown People Mover, Detroit, Michigan by United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration Pdf

Author : Larry Millett
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0873517202

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AIA Guide to Downtown Minneapolis by Larry Millett Pdf

Let architecture critic Larry Millett be your guide to downtown Minneapolis, whose architectural history displays the uniqueness of this far-from-identical "twin" city. AIA Guide to Downtown Minneapolis includes walking tours for Nicollet Mall, the Warehouse District, the central riverfront, and the Elliot Park and Loring Park neighborhoods. Each tour is copiously illustrated with current and historic photographs and paired with detailed maps. This deeply informative guidebook is perfect for tourists discovering the Twin Cities and residents exploring what is right next door. Larry Millett has written extensively about Twin Cities architecture, notably in AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Then and Now, and Lost Twin Cities.

Author : United States. National Capital Planning Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Buildings
ISBN : PURD:32754081230959

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Downtown Urban Renewal Area Landmarks, Washington D.C. by United States. National Capital Planning Commission Pdf

Author : Pamela Burton
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 174258098X

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From Moree to Mabo by Pamela Burton Pdf

This is the remarkable story of Mary Gaudron AC QC, the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. With wit, astonishing intellect and the tool of the law, Gaudron exposed inequality and discrimination in the workforce and campaigned vigorously for women to be accorded equal pay and equal opportunities.

Author : United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Central business districts
ISBN : NWU:35556021039268

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People Movement for Downtown Improvement by United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration Pdf

Author : Conrad Kickert,Hans Karssenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000603347

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Street-Level Architecture by Conrad Kickert,Hans Karssenberg Pdf

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designers and planners, interactive frontages have dwindled over the past century in Europe and North America. This book demonstrates why even our best intentions for interactive frontages are currently unable to turn a swelling tide of economic and technological evolution, land consolidation, introversion, stratification, and contagious decline. It uses these lessons to offer concrete locational, programming, design, and management strategies to maximize street-level interaction and trust between street-level architecture, its inhabitants, and the city. This book demonstrates that designers, developers, planners, and managers ultimately have to create the right preconditions for inhabitants and passersby to bring frontages to life. These preconditions connect architecture to its urban, social, economical, and technological context. Only the right frontage in the right context, with the right design, the right inhabitation, and the right attitude to the city will become part of the ecosystem of trust and interaction that supports public life. This book empowers the many participants in this ecosystem to build, inhabit, and enjoy truly urbane architecture.

Author : Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135603052

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The Physical City by Neil L. Shumsky Pdf

First Published in 1996. Part of a series that brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The physical development of cities and their infrastructure is considered in Volume 2, which focuses on city planning and its origins in the Rural Cemetery Movement, the City Beautiful Movement, and the role of business in advocating more rational and efficient urban places. Volume 2 also contains articles about essential aspects of the urban infra structure and the provision of basic services essential for urban survival—water, sewer, and transportation systems.

Author : Larry Millett
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0873515404

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AIA Guide to the Twin Cities by Larry Millett Pdf

Get ready to discover the great architectural mecca that is Minneapolis and St. Paul. The first comprehensive, illustrated handbook of its kind, AIA Guide to the Twin Cities is the ultimate source to the architectural riches of the metropolitan area. Organized by neighborhood and featuring a wealth of sites--from the highest point on the Minneapolis skyline to the modest St. Paul bungalow vibrant with historical and architectural significance--this invaluable reference has it all: -Illuminating entries for more than 3,000 buildings -Behind-the-scenes details of the structures and their architects -Lively information about local history and regional styles -Highlights of important buildings nearly lost in time -Sixty easy-to-read maps that pinpoint the location of every structure -Dozens of planned walking and driving tours -Over 1,000 photos that illustrate significant buildings and features Retired Pioneer Press architecture critic Larry Millett has spent more than two decades researching and exploring the architectural heritage of the Twin Cities. Millett's AIA Guide to the Twin Cities is your ticket to the best tour in town. Sponsored in part by the American Institute of Architects Minnesota. Larry Millett has written extensively about Twin Cities architecture. His books include Lost Twin Cities, Twin Cities Then and Now, and Strange Days, Dangerous Nights (all MHS Press), as well as a series of mystery novels featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Author : Bruce Kercher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000248470

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An Unruly Child by Bruce Kercher Pdf

'This is a provocative re-examination of our legal history appearing at a time when Australians are reconsidering both their past and their future.' - The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal The imperial view of Australian law was that it was a weak derivative of English law. In An Unruly Child, Bruce Kercher rewrites history. He reveals that since 1788 there has been a contest between the received legal wisdom of Mother England and her sometimes unruly offspring. The resulting law often suited local interests, but was not always more just. Kercher also shows that law has played a major role in Australian social history. From the convict settlements and the Eureka stockade in the early years to the Harvester Judgement, the White Australia Policy and most recently the Mabo case, central themes of Australian history have been framed by the legal system. An Unruly Child is a groundbreaking work which will influence our understanding of Australia's history and its legal system.

Author : Stephen J. McGovern
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813130603

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The Politics of Downtown Development by Stephen J. McGovern Pdf

Through an insightful comparison of effective protest in San Francisco and ineffective protest in Washington, D.C., Stephen McGovern examines how citizens - even those lacking financial resources - have sought to control their own urban environments. His analysis reveals that grassroots activists seeking broad changes in land-use policy are more likely to prevail if they can transform the local political culture through their own deliberate efforts.

Author : Paul E. Groth,Paul Erling Groth,Paul Groth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520068769

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Living Downtown by Paul E. Groth,Paul Erling Groth,Paul Groth Pdf

From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.

Author : Larry Millett
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0873517210

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AIA Guide to Downtown St. Paul by Larry Millett Pdf

Thoroughly researched, meticulously written,and featuring more than 250 architectural structures of wide-ranging styles, these guidebooks will enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the built history of Minneapolis and St. Paul.