City Making In Paradise

Author : Ken Cameron,Mike Harcourt
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781926706818

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City Making in Paradise by Ken Cameron,Mike Harcourt Pdf

Time and again, Vancouver is recognized internationally as one of the best places to live. It achieved that reputation by breaking rules and forging its own brand of North American urbanism. City Making in Paradise details the nine most important decisions made in the Greater Vancouver region since the 1940s. Authors Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron, themselves key players in several of these developments, reveal the political machinations, the ideological struggles and the personal commitment that lay behind each one. By tracing today’s successes back to their roots, they illustrate their central theme; that cities are the result of the daily choices we make as leaders, activists and citizens.

Author : Eric Toensmeier,Jonathan Bates
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603584005

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Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier,Jonathan Bates Pdf

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

Author : Robert A.M. Stern,David Fishman,Jacob Tilove
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580933261

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Paradise Planned by Robert A.M. Stern,David Fishman,Jacob Tilove Pdf

Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.

Author : K. E. Gregg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1736856502

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Paradise City by K. E. Gregg Pdf

For years, Grace ran a golden treadmill, achieving society's dreams, but neglecting her own. One birthday, she questions her path. In response, she breaks free-everything changes. Join Grace on a Hero's Journey in search of meaning, fueled by artists, athletes, bikers, musicians, and surfers. Travel across Los Angeles and around the world as she meets friends, lovers, and strangers who impart unexpected wisdom. From beautiful beaches and iconic neighborhoods, to wild parties and memorable concerts, to intimate dinners and heartfelt conversations, Grace's experiences shift her perspective, opening doors she never imagined. K. E. Gregg's debut novel, Paradise City, is a literary work of philosophical fiction that resonates with the cool of Joan Didion, the depth of Aldous Huxley, and the light of Paulo Coelho. Gregg's pulsing prose has a meditative quality that engages the senses and invites reflection.

Author : Zack Taylor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773558434

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Shaping the Metropolis by Zack Taylor Pdf

Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive ecosystems, water supplies, and food security. Existing urban infrastructure is crumbling while governments struggle to pay for new and expanded services. Can our inherited urban governance institutions and policies effectively respond to these problems? In Shaping the Metropolis Zack Taylor compares the historical development of American and Canadian urban governance, both at the national level and through specific metropolitan case studies. Examining Minneapolis–St Paul and Portland, Oregon, in the United States, and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, Taylor shows how differences in the structure of governing institutions in American states and Canadian provinces cumulatively produced different forms of urban governance. Arguing that since the nineteenth century American state governments have responded less effectively to rapid urban growth than Canadian provinces, he shows that the concentration of authority in Canadian provincial governments enabled the rapid adoption of coherent urban policies after the Second World War, while dispersed authority in American state governments fostered indecision and catered to parochial interests. Most contemporary policy problems and their solutions are to be found in cities. Shaping the Metropolis shows that urban governance encompasses far more than local government, and that states and provinces have always played a central role in responding to urban policy challenges and will continue to do so in the future.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101459010

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A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771017902

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To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara Pdf

From the author of the classic A LITTLE LIFE, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness. TO PARADISE is a fin de siecle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot.

Author : Jenny Holiday
Publisher : Forever
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538716557

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Paradise Cove by Jenny Holiday Pdf

From the USA Today bestselling "master of witty banter" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a hilarious and heartwarming romance about a big city doctor who never expected to find the man of her dreams in the tiny town of Matchmaker Bay. Dr. Nora Walsh has just been dumped in spectacular fashion, making it the perfect time for a major life change. She figures taking over the medical practice in tiny Matchmaker Bay for a couple of years will help her get over her broken heart, and then she can head back to the big city. But when the first man she sees looks like a superhero god, she wonders if maybe there's something to small-town living after all. Jake Ramsey also has a broken heart -- one he never expects to heal. He doesn't need people anyway and is content hiding out in his secluded cottage on the beach. But after helping Nora with a medical emergency, he finds himself opening up to the witty, warmhearted doctor. Soon the local matchmakers are working overtime to pair them off, and Jake begins to wonder if his campaign to get Nora to stay is for the town or because he can't bear the thought of her leaving.

Author : Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520277779

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Paradise Transplanted by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Pdf

Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In Paradise Transplanted, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community. Drawing on historical archival research, ethnography, and over one hundred interviews with a wide range of people including suburban homeowners, paid Mexican immigrant gardeners, professionals at the most elite botanical garden in the West, and immigrant community gardeners in the poorest neighborhoods of inner-city Los Angeles, this book offers insights into the ways that diverse global migrations and garden landscapes shape our social world.

Author : Lu Martín,Pol Ballús
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909430404

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Pep's City by Lu Martín,Pol Ballús Pdf

Author : Ray C. Anderson,Sara G. Beavis,Michael L. Dougherty,Tirso Gonzales,Ricardo Braun,Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal,Mark Wilson
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781933782737

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Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 8/10 by Ray C. Anderson,Sara G. Beavis,Michael L. Dougherty,Tirso Gonzales,Ricardo Braun,Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal,Mark Wilson Pdf

The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability provides extensive coverage of sustainability practices in two regions linked culturally and historically by their relative isolation before the Columbian exchange, by their colonization after it, and by the challenges of pollution, resource overuse, and environmental degradation. Regional experts and international scholars focus on environmental history in areas such as the South Pacific islands, now particularly threatened by rising ocean levels due to climate change, and on countries whose governments and corporations can play a major role in promoting or discouraging sustainable choices: Brazil, an emergent power on the world stage; the United States, the world's third most populous nation; and New Zealand, seemingly on its way to becoming an enviable model of sustainable development.

Author : Dennis Merrill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807832882

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Negotiating Paradise by Dennis Merrill Pdf

Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in L

Author : June Wang,Tim Oakes,Yang Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317535829

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Making Cultural Cities in Asia by June Wang,Tim Oakes,Yang Yang Pdf

This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities. Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled, territorialized, and exported. This approach reveals a spectrum between globally circulating ideals on the one hand, and the place-based contexts and contingencies on the other. At one end of the spectrum, this book features chapters on policy mobility, in particular the political construction of the "web" of communication and the restructuring or rescaling of the state. At the other end, chapters examine the increasingly fragmented social forces, their changing roles in the process, and their negotiations, alignments, and resistances. This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers concerned with cultural and urban studies, creative industries and Asian studies.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520262492

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Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.

Author : Jan Nijman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487512477

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The Life of North American Suburbs by Jan Nijman Pdf

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from New York to Vancouver, Atlanta to Chicago, Montreal to Phoenix, The Life of North American Suburbs traces the insightful connection between the evolution of suburbs and the cultural dynamics of modern society. Suburbs are uniquely significant spaces: their creation and evolution reflect the shifting demographics, race relations, modes of production, cultural fabric, and class structures of society at large. The case studies investigate the place of suburbs within their wider metropolitan constellations: the crucial role they play in the cultural, economic, political, and spatial organization of the city. Together, the chapters paint a compelling portrait of North American cities and their dynamic suburban landscapes.