Cities On A Hill

Author : Frances FitzGerald
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0671552090

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CITIES ON A HILL by Frances FitzGerald Pdf

"We must consider that we shall be A City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people upon us," John Winthrop told his Pilgrim community crossing the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four centuries later, Americans are still building Cities Upon a Hill. In Cities on a Hill Pulitzer Prize-winner Frances FitzGerald explores this often eccentric, sometimes prophetic inclination in America. With characteristic wit and insight she examines four radically different communities -- a fundamentalist church, a guru-inspired commune, a Sunbelt retirement city, and a gay activist community -- all embodying this visionary drive to shake the past and build anew. Frances FitzGerald here gives eloquent voice and definition to a quintessentially American impulse. It is a resonant work of literary imagination and journalistic precision.

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674987999

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City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Pdf

From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.

Author : Connilyn Cossette
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493413614

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A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge Book #1) by Connilyn Cossette Pdf

Seven years ago, Moriyah was taken captive in Jericho and branded with the mark of the Canaanite gods. Now the Israelites are experiencing peace in their new land, but Moriyah has yet to find her own peace. Because of the shameful mark on her face, she hides behind her veil at all times and the disdain of the townspeople keeps her from socializing. And marriage prospects were out of the question . . . until now. Her father has found someone to marry her, and she hopes to use her love of cooking to impress the man and his motherless sons. But when things go horribly wrong, Moriyah is forced to flee. Seeking safety at one of the newly-established Levitical cities of refuge, she is wildly unprepared for the dangers she will face, and the enemies--and unexpected allies--she will encounter on her way.

Author : Thomas K. Ogorzalek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190668877

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The Cities on the Hill by Thomas K. Ogorzalek Pdf

Urbanicity and city delegations -- A proper national policy -- Ties that bind -- Anti-racism without anti-racists -- The cities on the hill -- Notes for a metropolitan political order

Author : Abram C. Van Engen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300252316

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City on a Hill by Abram C. Van Engen Pdf

A fresh, original history of America’s national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase “City on a Hill,” from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop’s speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon’s rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country—the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.

Author : Alan Rogers,Lisa Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : 1892724545

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Boston, City on a Hill by Alan Rogers,Lisa Rogers Pdf

Author : Richard M. Gamble
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441162328

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In Search of the City on a Hill by Richard M. Gamble Pdf

The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385669139

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Happy City by Charles Montgomery Pdf

Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks and condo towers an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl? The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, during an exhilarating journey through some of the world’s most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a “sexy” bus to ease status anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris’s urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have hacked the design of their own streets and neighborhoods. Rich with new insights from psychology, neuroscience and Montgomery’s own urban experiments, Happy City reveals how our cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the world--and all of us can help build it.

Author : Joseph R. Mitchell,David Stebenne
Publisher : Brief History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1596290676

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New City Upon a Hill by Joseph R. Mitchell,David Stebenne Pdf

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Author : Frances FitzGerald
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015009399166

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America Revised by Frances FitzGerald Pdf

"Almost all of the book appeared initially in the New Yorker." Bibliography: p. [227]-240.

Author : Gary Demar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0915815516

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To Pledge Allegiance by Gary Demar Pdf

Author : Abram C. Van Engen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300229752

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City on a Hill by Abram C. Van Engen Pdf

A fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram C. Van Engen shows how the phrase "city on a hill," from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop's speech, its changing status through time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and other often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon and its eventual transformation into an American tale. This sermon's rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how they continue to influence competing visions of the country--the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674246454

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City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Pdf

A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America’s leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment. The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal—one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare—and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas. Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210551

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As a City on a Hill by Daniel T. Rodgers Pdf

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words--from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.

Author : C. Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230623781

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Cities on the Plains by C. Miller Pdf

Theological concepts continue to maintain political concepts well after those theological concepts are no longer supported by belief. Cities on the Plains examines some of these concepts in the light of five different times and places. It is both a response to theological concerns in contemporary political theory and broadly accessible examination of familiar political issues touched by the divine - such as gay marriage, 911, or the French tradition of laicité. Concerns of difference and the divine are pursued through broadly familiar texts (the Bible, and Gore Vidal), significant texts of political theory (Plato and Augustine), and less common texts (Averroes). Gods, or the intellectual territory they used to occupy, are treated as important features of the political; contesting with these gods can help us visit, defend, and desire, (to paraphrase Deleuze and Guatarri) new cities and new peoples.