Model City

Author : Cristiano Bianchi,Kristina Drapic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262043335

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Model City by Cristiano Bianchi,Kristina Drapic Pdf

A photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's “model” utopia. The story of Pyongyang is unique even in the annals of model cities and modernist utopias. Entirely rebuilt after the Korean War, North Korea's capital city was planned and fully implemented to embody a single ideological vision. This extraordinary, richly illustrated book takes readers on a photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's “model” utopia. Built as an ideological guide for its citizens, Pyongyang displays a unique architectural cohesion and narrative. From the city's large-scale monumental axes to its symbolic sports halls and experimental housing, Model City offers offers comprehensive visual access to Pyongyang's restricted buildings. The architecture of Pyongyang exists within a culture that favors construction and renewal over historical preservation, and in recent years many buildings have been redeveloped to remove interior features or render facades unrecognizable. Often kitschy, colorful, and dramatic, Pyongyang's architecture makes it difficult to distinguish between reality and theater. As befits a culture that has carefully crafted its own narrative, the backdrop of each photograph in Model City has been replaced with a color gradient, evoking the pastel skies of North Korea's propaganda posters. Model City features two hundred color illustrations of buildings rarely seen by non-North Koreans, diagrams and architectural drawings that reveal the planning behind the city's elaborate symbolism, and texts by experts on Korean architecture—including an excerpt from On Architecture by Kim Jong-Il, father of the current leader Kim Jong-un. The authors' research has been supported by Koryo Studio and Korea Cities Federation.

Author : Paul Bass,Douglas W. Rae
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786735853

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Murder in the Model City by Paul Bass,Douglas W. Rae Pdf

May 20, 1969: Four members of the revolutionary Black Panther Party trudge through woods along the edges of the Coginchaug River outside of New Haven, Connecticut. Gunshots shatter the silence. Three men emerge from the woods. Soon, two are in police custody. One flees across the country. Nine Panthers would be tried for crimes committed that night, including National Chairman Bobby Seale, extradited from California with the aide of Panther nemesis, California Governor Ronald Reagan. Activists of all denominations descended on the New England city--and the campus of Yale. The Nixon administration sent 4,000 National Guardsmen. U.S. military tanks lined the streets outside of New Haven. In this white-knuckle journey through a turbulent America, Doug Rae and Paul Bass let us eavesdrop on late-night meetings between Yale President, Kingman Brewster, and radical activists, including Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, as they try to avert disaster. Meanwhile, most heartrending of all is the never-before-told story of Warren Kimbro--star community worker turned Panther assassin--who faces an uphill battle to turn his life around.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Housing
ISBN : UOM:39076007003770

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Usefulness of the Model Cities Program to the Elderly: Seattle, Wash by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Housing
ISBN : UOM:39015072115853

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Usefulness of the Model Cities Program to the Elderly: Boston, Mass by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : Donna Stonecipher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1848613881

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Model City by Donna Stonecipher Pdf

Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns is wry, profound and abundant with an unspecified longing for the passing ghost of European idealism. In the various enquiries and explorations of Model City this is also the mapping of a lived condition and its relationships not readily found on every street corner, nor in the broken ideologies from the populist bargain basement proffered by our political cadres. What becomes apparent is that the model city/Model City exists by virtue of a poet's wit and inventiveness, in its accomplished and elegantly measured language. Stonecipher's mesmerizing, epigrammatic fables establish the off-centre polis where, oddly, we find ourselves at home.-Kelvin Corcoran

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Housing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006332493

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Usefulness of the Model Cities Program to the Elderly by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045171878

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The Central City Problem and Urban Renewal Policy, a Study Preoared ... for the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban.... by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Pdf

Author : H. George Frederickson,Gary Alan Johnson,Curtis H. Wood
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 076561264X

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The Adapted City by H. George Frederickson,Gary Alan Johnson,Curtis H. Wood Pdf

This work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands.

Author : Sidney Fine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D02661632R

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Violence in the Model City by Sidney Fine Pdf

On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. On the 40th anniversary of this nation-changing event, we are pleased to reissue Sidney Fine's seminal work--a detailed study of what happened, why, and with what consequences.

Author : National Municipal League. Committee on Municipal Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Charters
ISBN : UCBK:C095846476

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A Model City Charter by National Municipal League. Committee on Municipal Program Pdf

Author : Dutchess County Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
ISBN : WISC:89059479568

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Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society by Dutchess County Historical Society Pdf

Author : Brian James Leech
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780874175981

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The City That Ate Itself by Brian James Leech Pdf

Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.

Author : Ross J. Gittell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400863099

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Renewing Cities by Ross J. Gittell Pdf

The cities of Lowell and New Bedford in Massachusetts, Jamestown in New York, and McKeesport in Pennsylvania have all undergone years of adversity and decline, their economic bases having been badly damaged by structural changes in the national economy, particularly in the manufacturing sector. In situations like these, can local development efforts make a difference? Ross Gittell answers in the affirmative. This interdisciplinary work focuses on comparative case studies of the four cities. The book reveals how public, private, and community-based local economic development initiatives affect local economic performance: what works and what does not work. City leaders and institutions can help reorganize and "reshuffle" local resources, with results that include increased investment, greater effort by local individuals and institutions, more cooperation among different development interests, and improvement in city economic positioning relative to the regional economy and local development cycles. Gittell emphasizes the possibility of shifting from a "zero-sum game" (attracting jobs from elsewhere) toward the goal of converting underutilized local resources to higher-value uses through alternative forms of economic and political organization. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Readings for Social Work Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire Dunning
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226819914

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Nonprofit Neighborhoods by Claire Dunning Pdf

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits serving a range of municipal and cultural needs are now so ubiquitous in US cities, it can be difficult to envision a time when they were more limited in number, size, and influence. Turning back the clock, however, uncovers both an illuminating story of how the nonprofit sector became such a dominant force in American society, as well as a troubling one of why this growth occurred alongside persistent poverty and widening inequality. Claire Dunning’s book connects these two stories in histories of race, democracy, and capitalism, revealing how the federal government funded and deputized nonprofits to help individuals in need, and in so doing avoided addressing the structural inequities that necessitated such action in the first place. Nonprofit Neighborhoods begins after World War II, when suburbanization, segregation, and deindustrialization inaugurated an era of urban policymaking that applied private solutions to public problems. Dunning introduces readers to the activists, corporate executives, and politicians who advocated addressing poverty and racial exclusion through local organizations, while also raising provocative questions about the politics and possibilities of social change. The lessons of Nonprofit Neighborhoods exceed the bounds of Boston, where the story unfolds, providing a timely history of the shift from urban crisis to urban renaissance for anyone concerned about American inequality—past, present, or future.