Metropolis Now

Author : Ben Wilson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525436331

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Metropolis by Ben Wilson Pdf

In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement. . . . Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, cities created such a flourishing of human endeavor—new professions, new forms of art, worship and trade—that they kick-started civilization. Guiding us through the centuries, Wilson reveals the innovations nurtured by the inimitable energy of human beings together: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Époque Paris. In the modern age, the skyscrapers of New York City inspired utopian visions of community design, while the trees of twenty-first-century Seattle and Shanghai point to a sustainable future in the age of climate change. Page-turning, irresistible, and rich with engrossing detail, Metropolis is a brilliant demonstration that the story of human civilization is the story of cities.

Author : Thea von Harbou
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486795676

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Metropolis by Thea von Harbou Pdf

This Weimar-era novel of a futuristic society, written by the screenwriter for the iconic 1927 film, was hailed by noted science-fiction authority Forrest J. Ackerman as "a work of genius."

Author : Joanna Dean,Christabelle Sethna,Darcy Ingram
Publisher : Canadian History and Environment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Animals and civilization
ISBN : 1552388646

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Animal Metropolis by Joanna Dean,Christabelle Sethna,Darcy Ingram Pdf

"Animal Metropolis includes a diverse array of work on the historical study of human-animal relations in Canada. In doing so, it aims to create a starting point for an ongoing conversation about the place of animals in historical analysis and, in turn, about the way issues regarding animals fit into Canada's political, social, cultural, economic, environmental and ethical landscapes. One of the most striking aspects of this collection is its capacity to present a wide variety of topics, sources and methodologies within a tightly focused theme. The sources employed in these articles cover a broad spectrum, from state and legal documents to the popular press, from corporate records and NGO reports to personal diaries, and from materials on industrial agriculture to those of the tourism industry. Even more compelling than the sources are the methodological issues that the collection raises. One of our key objectives is to highlight the sheer diversity of approaches historians are employing in their efforts to analyze non-human subjects that do not produce documentary records of their own. By focusing explicitly on urban contexts the book aims deliberately to cleave from a more obvious focus on wild animals and the wilderness environment that are so iconic to Canada. Readers will be impressed by the range of creatures, both domestic and wild: from horses and dogs to beavers and wolves to whales, fish, polar bears and captive elephants. Covering small and larger regions, and in some instances the nation as a whole, the collection offers impressive breadth in scope. Varying widely in the lenses through which human-animal relations are viewed, it brings to the forefront the contemporary as well as the historical dimensions of the issues it raises."--

Author : Amina Cain
Publisher : Strange Light
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771021848

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Indelicacy by Amina Cain Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE An intimate, elegant, and deceptively sinister story of what a woman will do to take control of her life. A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles--cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical -- that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires. In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings that surround her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the security and time to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man sympathetic to her "hobby," but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor -- social and erotic -- but she is now, however passively, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing, class, desire, anxiety, pleasure, friendship, and the battle to find one's true calling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021846846

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The Metropolis, a Novel, by the Author of Little Hydrogen, Or the Devil on Two Sticks in London. Eighth Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wayne Thiebaud
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452170022

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Delicious Metropolis by Wayne Thiebaud Pdf

Delicious Metropolis brings together two of Wayne Thiebaud's most celebrated bodies of work: desserts and cityscapes. Between the two, fascinating juxtapositions develop. The layers of a Neapolitan cake echo the shadows cast across a street in the late afternoon. The pastel hues of iced sponge cakes match California's candy-colored houses. Curators, critics, and artists guide the reader through the book via insightful bite-size essays. This gorgeous hardcover offers fans and newcomers a refreshing and accessible way to enjoy the oeuvre of this iconic American painter. Complete with multicolored page edges evoking the layers of one of Thiebaud's mouthwatering cakes, it's a treat for art lovers, city-dwellers, and gourmets alike.

Author : Martino Stierli
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300221312

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Montage and the Metropolis by Martino Stierli Pdf

Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli charts the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural contexts, its application by the early 20th-century avant-gardes, and its eventual appropriation in the postmodern period. With chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe's spatial experiments, and Rem Koolhaas's use of literary montage in his seminal manifesto Delirious New York (1978), Stierli demonstrates the centrality of montage in modern explorations of space, and in conceiving and representing the contemporary city. Beautifully illustrated, this interdisciplinary book looks at architecture, photography, film, literature, and visual culture, featuring works by artists and architects including Mies, Koolhaas, Paul Citroen, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, El Lissitzky, and Le Corbusier.

Author : Norton Sydney Ginsburg,Bruce Koppel,T. G. McGee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824812972

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The Extended Metropolis by Norton Sydney Ginsburg,Bruce Koppel,T. G. McGee Pdf

Asian urbanization is entering a new phase that differs significantly from the patterns of city growth experienced in other developing countries and in the developed world. According to a recent hypothesis, zones of intensive economic interaction between rural and urban activities are emerging. The zones appear to be a new form of socioeconomic organization that is neither rural nor urban, but preserves essential ingredients of each.

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393072457

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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon Pdf

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe

Author : Ramesh Kumar Biswas
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015053539857

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Metropolis Now! by Ramesh Kumar Biswas Pdf

This critical, interdisciplinary look at life in metropolitan centers portrays seventeen cities on four different continents. Contributors analyze both their economic and social realities as well as their identity, recent history, and immediate future, and the radical transformation in their physical forms.

Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1416561293

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Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski Pdf

In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique. Makeshift Metropolis describes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the new city of Modi’in, Israel—sites that, in this age of resource scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge our notion of the city. Erudite and immensely engaging, Makeshift Metropolis is an affirmation of Rybczynski’s role as one of our most original thinkers on the way we live today.

Author : Hugh Ferriss
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486139449

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The Metropolis of Tomorrow by Hugh Ferriss Pdf

The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101140314

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Green Metropolis by David Owen Pdf

Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan—the most densely populated place in North America—rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn’t matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn’t reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world’s nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3052 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : English language
ISBN : MINN:31951D01592088G

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New International Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Medicine
ISBN : IOWA:31858021446558

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The Lancet by Anonim Pdf