In The Winter Of Cities

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811202224

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In the Winter of Cities by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. Tennessee Williams's fame as a playwright has unjustly overshadowed his accomplishment in poetry. This paperback edition of In The Winter of Cities-his collected poems to 1962-permits a wider audience to know Williams the poet. The poems in this volume range from songs and short lyrics to personal statements of the greatest intensity and power. They are rich in imagery and illuminated by the psychological intuition which we know so well from Williams's plays.

Author : Tennessee Williams (Dramatiker, Lyriker)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:806549866

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In the Winter of Cities by Tennessee Williams (Dramatiker, Lyriker) Pdf

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:328594969

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In the Winter of Cities by Tennessee Williams Pdf

Author : Jorma Mänty,Norman Pressman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture and climate
ISBN : UOM:39015013190189

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Cities Designed for Winter by Jorma Mänty,Norman Pressman Pdf

Series of papers which describe approaches to cold climate habitability from various northern nations including examples from Canada, China, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States.

Author : Ouida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024283285

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In a Winter City by Ouida Pdf

Author : Tom Babin
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771600484

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Frostbike by Tom Babin Pdf

The bicycle is fast becoming a ubiquitous form of transportation in cities all over the world, making our urban spaces more efficient, more livable and healthier. But many of those bicycles disappear into basements and garages when the warm months end, parked there by owners fearful of the cold, snow and ice that winter brings. But does it have to be that way? Canadian writer and journalist Tom Babin started questioning this dogma after being stuck in winter commuter traffic one dreary and cold December morning and dreaming about the happiness that bicycle commuting had brought him all summer long. So he did something about it. He pulled on some thermal underwear, dragged his bike down from the rafters of his garage and set out on a mission to answer a simple but beguiling question: is it possible to happily ride a bike in winter? That question took him places he never expected. Over years of trial and error, research and more than his share of snow and ice, he discovered an unknown history of biking for snow and ice, and a new generation designed to make riding in winter safe and fun. He unearthed the world's most bike-friendly winter city and some new approaches to winter cycling from places all over the world. He also looked inward, to discover how the modern world shapes our attitudes toward winter. And perhaps most importantly, he discovered the unique kind of bliss that can only come by pedalling through softly falling snow on a quiet winter night.

Author : Sara Majka
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979249

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Cities I've Never Lived In by Sara Majka Pdf

In subtle, sensuous prose, the stories in Sara Majka's debut collection explore distance in all its forms: the emotional spaces that open up between family members, friends, and lovers; the gaps that emerge between who we were and who we are; the gulf between our private and public selves. At the center of the collection is a series of stories narrated by a young American woman in the wake of a divorce; wry and shy but never less than open to the world, she recalls the places and people she has been close to, the dreams she has pursued and those she has left unfulfilled. Interspersed with these intimate first-person stories are stand-alone pieces where the tight focus on the narrator's life gives way to closely observed accounts of the lives of others. A book about belonging, and how much of yourself to give up in the pursuit of that, Cities I've Never Lived In offers stories that reveal, with great sadness and great humor, the ways we are most of all citizens of the places where we cannot be. Cities I've Never Lived In is the second book in Graywolf's collaboration with the literary magazine A Public Space.

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544133204

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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Pdf

Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.

Author : Becky Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1801046328

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Cities of the World by Becky Davies Pdf

Are you ready to travel the world? Peep through the pages to visit eight iconic cities from around the globe. Little readers will love touring London, Moscow, Tokyo and MORE, with fun facts and lots to spot along the way.

Author : Jan Gehl
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597269841

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Cities for People by Jan Gehl Pdf

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Author : Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781885635440

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The Verging Cities by Natalie Scenters-Zapico Pdf

From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas. The border in Scenters-Zapico’s The Verging Cities exists in a visceral place where the real is (sur)real. In these poems mouths speak suspended from ceilings, numbered metal poles mark the border and lovers’ spines, and cities scream to each other at night through fences that “ooze only silt.” This bold new vision of border life between what has been named the safest city in the United States and the murder capital of the world is in deep conversation with other border poets—Benjamin Alire Saenz, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alberto Ríos, and Luis Alberto Urrea—while establishing itself as a new and haunting interpretation of the border as a verge, the beginning of one thing and the end of another in constant cycle.

Author : Ouida with Introduction by Carl Van Vechten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In a Winter City by Ouida with Introduction by Carl Van Vechten Pdf

Author : Tim Winter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415524629

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Shanghai Expo by Tim Winter Pdf

In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. The thirteen essays in Shanghai Expo, written by a team of interdisciplinary researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally significant event.

Author : Wayne K.D. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401796552

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Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems by Wayne K.D. Davies Pdf

This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to improve urban life. New Urbanism: creating new areas based on a more humane scale with neighbourhood cohesion Just Cities: creating more fairness in decision-making so all residents can participate and benefit. Green Cities: helping places become greener with environmental rehabilitation and protection Sustainable Cities: avoiding the waste of resources and harmful pollution in settlements Transition Towns: developing local initiatives for more sustainable actions Winter Cities: making cities in cold climates more comfortable and enjoyable Resilient Cities: strengthening cities to better enable them to withstand natural hazards Creative Cities: supporting cultural industries and attracting talented individuals Knowledge Cities: creating, renewing and spreading knowledge and innovation Safe Cities: ensuring that citizens are better protected against criminal actions Healthy Cities: making improvements in the health of people in cities Festive Cities: rediscovering the utility of festive events in settlements Slow Cities: enhancing locally unique activities, such as local cuisines and community interactions This volume offers a host of approaches designed to give a new direction and focus to planning policies, helping readers to fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of each potential idea. It seeks to solve the many current problems associated with urban developments, making it a valuable resource for university and college students in urban geography, urban planning, urban sociology and urban studies as well as to planners and the general public.

Author : Jay Winter,Jean-Louis Robert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 052166814X

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Capital Cities at War by Jay Winter,Jean-Louis Robert Pdf

This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating to the economy and the question of whether the state of the capitals contributed to victory or defeat. Expert contributors in fields stretching from history, demography, anthropology, economics, and sociology to the history of medicine, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, as well as representing the best of recent research in their own fields. Capital Cities at War, one of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, will transform studies of the conflict, and is likely to become a paradigm for research on other wars.