Detroit S Michigan Central Station

Author : Kelli B. Kavanaugh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738518816

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Detroit's Michigan Central Station by Kelli B. Kavanaugh Pdf

In 1913, the Michigan Central Station opened its majestic entrances to the people of Detroit. Designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern, the firms also noted as the architects of the Grand Central Station in New York City, the depot was a marvel of grandeur and comfort for the traveler lucky enough to utilize its facilities. Soldiers went to war, families both separated and rejoined, and folks looking for an honest living in the Motor City all walked the Michigan Central's elegant corridors. Since the last train pulled away from the station in 1988, the structure has fallen prey to rapidly paced deterioration. Detroit's Michigan Central Station captures the glory of the Michigan Central and its environs. Using photographs from the Burton Historical Collection, as well as private collections, the book illustrates the use of the Michigan Central Station by a city whose story dramatically parallels that of this magnificent structure. The book also includes imagined futures of the station from some of the many people who have been inspired by the magic this grand building continues to exude.

Author : Kelli Barbara Kavanaugh
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1531612733

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Detroit's Michigan Central Station by Kelli Barbara Kavanaugh Pdf

In 1913, the Michigan Central Station opened its majestic entrances to the people of Detroit. Designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stern, the firms also noted as the architects of the Grand Central Station in New York City, the depot was a marvel of grandeur and comfort for the traveler lucky enough to utilize its facilities. Soldiers went to war, families both separated and rejoined, and folks looking for an honest living in the Motor City all walked the Michigan Central's elegant corridors. Since the last train pulled away from the station in 1988, the structure has fallen prey to rapidly paced deterioration. Detroit's Michigan Central Station captures the glory of the Michigan Central and its environs. Using photographs from the Burton Historical Collection, as well as private collections, the book illustrates the use of the Michigan Central Station by a city whose story dramatically parallels that of this magnificent structure. The book also includes imagined futures of the station from some of the many people who have been inspired by the magic this grand building continues to exude.

Author : Michele V. Ronnick,Marlise Beaudoen
Publisher : The Regents of the Univ of Michigan
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780933691094

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Detroit and Rome by Michele V. Ronnick,Marlise Beaudoen Pdf

A comparative study of urban form and the reuse of buildings in modern Detroit and Rome (Italy). This exhibition catalog includes 3 U scholarly essays and 25 catalog entries describing the Usage history of buildings in Detroit & Rome.

Author : Daniel Campo
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781531504700

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Postindustrial DIY by Daniel Campo Pdf

Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act. Postindustrial DIY tells their stories. The culmination of more than a dozen years of on-the-ground investigation, ethnography, and historical analysis, author and urbanist Daniel Campo immerses the reader in this postindustrial landscape, weaving the perspectives of dozens of DIY protagonists as well as architects, planners, and preservationists. Working without capital, expertise, and sometimes permission in a milieu dominated by powerful political and economic interests, these do-it-yourself actors are driven by passion and a sense of civic duty rather than by profit or political expediency. They have craftily remade these sites into collective preservation projects and democratic grounds for arts and culture, environmental engagement, regional celebrations, itinerant play, and in-the-moment constructions. Their projects are generating excitement about the prospect of Rust Belt life, even as they often remain invisible to the uninformed passerby and fall short of professional preservation or environmental reclamation standards. Demonstrating that there is no such thing as a site that is “too far gone” to save or reuse, Postindustrial DIY is rich with case studies that demonstrate how great architecture is not simply for the elites or the wealthy. The citizen preservationists and urbanists described in this book offer looser, more playful, and often more publicly satisfying alternatives to the development practices that have transformed iconic sites into expensive real estate or a clean slate for the next profitable endeavor. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, historic preservation, city planning, and landscape architecture, Postindustrial DIY suggests new ways to engage, adapt, and preserve architecturally compelling sites and bottom-up strategies for Rust Belt revival.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2854 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Corporations
ISBN : MINN:31951002254828F

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Moodys Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780814334836

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Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations by Anonim Pdf

A photographic survey of 31 railroad stations around the state of Michigan with architectural observations and short histories of each. When the railroad revolutionized passenger travel in the nineteenth century, architects were forced to create from scratch a building to accommodate the train's sudden centrality in social and civic life. The resulting depots, particularly those built in the glory days from 1890 to 1925, epitomize the era's optimism and serve as physical anchors to both the past and the surrounding urban fabric. In Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations writer and photographer Michael H. Hodges presents depots ranging from functioning Amtrak stops (Jackson) to converted office buildings (Battle Creek) and spectacular abandoned wrecks (Saginaw and Detroit) to highlight the beauty of these iconic structures and remind readers of the key role architecture and historic preservation play in establishing an area's sense of place. Along with his striking contemporary photographs of the stations, Hodges includes historic pictures and postcards, as well as images of "look-alike" depots elsewhere in the state. For each building Hodges provides a short history, a discussion of its architectural style, and an assessment of how the depot fits with the rest of its town or city. Hodges also comments on the condition of the depot and its use today. An introduction summarizes the functional and stylistic evolution of the train station in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and surveys the most important academic works on the subject, while an epilogue considers the role of the railroad depot in creating the American historic-preservation movement. The railroad station's decline parallels a decrease in the use of public space generally in American life over the last century. Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations will reacquaint readers with the building type that once served as the nation's principal crossroads, and the range of architectural styles it employed both to tame and exalt rail transportation. Readers interested in Michigan railroad history as well as historic preservation will not want to miss this handsome volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3822 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Securities
ISBN : MSU:31293004378679

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Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cian O'Callaghan,Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447356882

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The New Urban Ruins by Cian O'Callaghan,Cesare Di Feliciantonio Pdf

This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. Centering urban vacancy as a core feature of urbanization, the contributors coalesce new empirical insights on the impacts of recent contestations over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe. Using international case studies from the Global North and Global South, it sheds important new light on the complexity of forces and processes shaping urban vacancy and its re-use, exploring these areas as both lived spaces and sites of political antagonism. It explores what has and hasn't worked in re-purposing vacant sites and provides sustainable blueprints for future development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Group reading
ISBN : MSU:31293025669452

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The Bay View Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca J. Kinney
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452953397

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Beautiful Wasteland by Rebecca J. Kinney Pdf

According to popular media and scholarship, Detroit, the once-vibrant city that crumbled with the departure of the auto industry, is where dreams can be reborn. It is a place that, like America itself, is gritty and determined. It has faced the worst kind of adversity, and supposedly now it’s back. But what does this narrative of “new Detroit” leave out? Beautiful Wasteland reveals that the contemporary story of Detroit’s rebirth is an upcycled version of the American Dream, which has long imagined access to work, home, and upward mobility as race-neutral projects. They’re not. As Rebecca J. Kinney shows, the narratives of Detroit’s rise, decline, and potential to rise again are deeply steeped in material and ideological investments in whiteness. By remapping the narratives of contemporary Detroit through an extension of America’s frontier mythology, Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty-first century cultural locations—an Internet forum, ruin photography, advertising, documentary film, and print and online media. She illuminates how the stories we tell about Detroit as a frontier of possibility enable the erasure of white privilege and systemic racism. By situating Detroit as a “beautiful wasteland,” both desirable and distressed, this shows how the narrative of ruin and possibility form a mutually constituted relationship: the city is possible precisely because of its perceived ruin. Beautiful Wasteland tackles the key questions about the future of postindustrial America. As cities around the country reckon with their own postindustrial landscapes, Rebecca Kinney cautions that development that elides considerations of race and class will only continue to replicate uneven access to the city for the poor, working class, and people of color.

Author : Diane B. Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Industrial archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015003720003

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The Lower Peninsula of Michigan by Diane B. Abbott Pdf

Author : Charles K. Hyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : MINN:31951002824213S

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The Lower Peninsula of Michigan by Charles K. Hyde Pdf

Author : Lee Rodney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317552758

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Looking Beyond Borderlines by Lee Rodney Pdf

American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the 19th century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.

Author : Michigan Central Railroad Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Railroads
ISBN : OCLC:82744392

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Michigan Central Railroad by Michigan Central Railroad Company Pdf

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : UOM:35112101951616

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Awards ... First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board Pdf