Author : N. Timms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1205254489
Rootless in the City
N. Timms
Rootless In The City
Rootless In The City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Rootless In The City book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The City Reader
Richard T. LeGates,Frederic Stout
Author : Richard T. LeGates,Frederic Stout
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415271738
The City Reader by Richard T. LeGates,Frederic Stout Pdf
This third edition juxtaposes the very best publications on the city. It reflects the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. It is a comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies: old and new.
Jubilee Manor
Bethany Hagen
Author : Bethany Hagen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594179
Jubilee Manor by Bethany Hagen Pdf
The thrilling conclusion to Landry Park is full of love, betrayal, and murder--perfect for fans of Divergent, The Selection, and Pride and Prejudice In Landry Park, Madeline turned her back on her elite family, friends, and estate to help the Rootless. Now, in Jubilee Manor, she struggles to bring the Gentry and the Rootless together. But when Gentry heirs—Madeline’s old friends—are murdered, even she begins to think a Rootless is behind it, putting her at odds with the boy she loves and the very people she is trying to lead. If she can’t figure out who is killing her friends and bring them to justice, a violent war will erupt and even more will die—and Madeline’s name, her estate, and all the bonds she’s forged won’t make any difference. This conclusion to Landry Park, which VOYA dubbed "Gone with the Wind meets The Hunger Games,” is a richly satisfying, addictive read.
Language of the Land
Leslie Ray
Author : Leslie Ray
Publisher : IWGIA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 8791563372
Language of the Land by Leslie Ray Pdf
This is the first book in English to examine the contemporary Mapuche: their culture, their struggle for autonomy within the modern-day nation state, their religion, language, and distinct identity. Leslie Ray looks back over the history of relations between the Mapuche and the Argentine and Chilean states, and examines issues of ethnicity, biodiversity, and bio-piracy in Mapuche lands today, their struggle for rights over natural resources, and the impact of tourism and neoliberalism. The Mapuche of what is today southern Chile and Argentina were the first and only indigenous peoples on the continent to have their sovereignty legally recognized by the Spanish empire, and their reputation for ferocity and bravery was legendary among the Spanish invaders. Their sense of communal identity and personal courage has forged among the Mapuche a strong instinct for self-preservation over the centuries. Today their struggle continues: neither Chile nor Argentina specifically recognize the rights of indigenous peoples. In recent years disputes over land rights, particularly in Chile, have provoked fierce protests from the Mapuche. In both countries, policies of assimilation have had a disastrous effect on the Mapuche language and cultural integrity. Even so, in recent years the Mapuche have managed a remarkable cultural and political resurgence, in part through a tenacious defense of their ancestral lands and natural resources against marauding multinationals, which has catapulted them to regional and international attention. Leslie Ray has been a freelance translator since the mid 1980s. He has translated a number of books from Italian and Spanish in the fields of architecture, design, and art history. A regular visitor to Argentina since the late eighties, he has worked actively with Mapuche organizations there since the late 1990s. In addition to his work on the Mapuche, he has also published articles on Argentine social, indigenous, and language-related issues for publications as diverse as History Today and The Linguist.
Cosmopolitan Culture
Bonnie Menes Kahn
Author : Bonnie Menes Kahn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743244039
Cosmopolitan Culture by Bonnie Menes Kahn Pdf
From Simon & Schuster, Cosmopolitan Culture is Bonnie Menes Kahn's exploration of the gilt-edged dream of a tolerant city. "The author attempts to identify common features of great cities, past and present. Consequently, the reader is shuttled breathlessly from Babylon to Constantinople to Vienna to New York with brief side junkets. Kahn concludes that common characteristics of the great city meaning and purpose, tolerance, etc.created an environment where outsiders felt welcome to join the cosmopolitan culture and in the process strengthen it." —Library Journal
Rooted in the Land
William Vitek,Wes Jackson
Author : William Vitek,Wes Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300069618
Rooted in the Land by William Vitek,Wes Jackson Pdf
This book is dedicated to the notion that human lives are enriched by participation in a social community that is integrated into the natural landscape of a particular place. The writers explore the loss of community, the philosophical foundations of communities, Amish communities, and the current renewal of community life.
The Listonian
D.L. Nighly
Author : D.L. Nighly
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642983050
The Listonian by D.L. Nighly Pdf
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Civic Affairs
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Local government
ISBN : UCAL:B2863195
Civic Affairs by Anonim Pdf
Americans Against the City
Steven Conn
Author : Steven Conn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199973682
Americans Against the City by Steven Conn Pdf
It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, and rejected the role of government in American life in favor of a return to the pioneer virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this provocative and sweeping book, Conn explores the anti-urban impulse across the 20th century, examining how the ideas born of it have shaped both the places in which Americans live and work, and the anti-government politics so strong today. Beginning in the booming industrial cities of the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th century, where debate surrounding these questions first arose, Conn examines the progression of anti-urban movements. : He describes the decentralist movement of the 1930s, the attempt to revive the American small town in the mid-century, the anti-urban basis of urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s, and the Nixon administration's program of building new towns as a response to the urban crisis, illustrating how, by the middle of the 20th century, anti-urbanism was at the center of the politics of the New Right. Concluding with an exploration of the New Urbanist experiments at the turn of the 21st century, Conn demonstrates the full breadth of the anti-urban impulse, from its inception to the present day. Engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and forcefully argued, Americans Against the City is important reading for anyone who cares not just about the history of our cities, but about their future as well.
The Armies of Classical Greece
Everett L. Wheeler
Author : Everett L. Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351894593
The Armies of Classical Greece by Everett L. Wheeler Pdf
The origin of the Western military tradition in Greece 750-362 BC is fraught with controversies, such as the date and nature of the phalanx, the role of agricultural destruction and the existence of rules and ritualistic practices. This volume collects papers significant for specific points in debates or theoretical value in shaping and critiquing controversial viewpoints. An introduction offers a critical analysis of recent trends in ancient military history and provides a bibliographical essay contextualizing the papers within the framework of debates with a guide to further reading.
The "Underclass" Debate
Michael B. Katz
Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691188546
The "Underclass" Debate by Michael B. Katz Pdf
Do ominous reports of an emerging "underclass" reveal an unprecedented crisis in American society? Or are social commentators simply rediscovering the tragedy of recurring urban poverty, as they seem to do every few decades? Although social scientists and members of the public make frequent assumptions about these questions, they have little information about the crucial differences between past and present. By providing a badly needed historical context, these essays reframe today's "underclass" debate. Realizing that labels of "social pathology" echo fruitless distinctions between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the contributors focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the inner cities and, inevitably, the nation as a whole. How do individuals among the urban poor manage to survive? How have they created a dissident "infrapolitics?" How have social relations within the urban ghettos changed? What has been the effect of industrial restructuring on poverty? Besides exploring these questions, the contributors discuss the influence of African traditions on the family patterns of African Americans, the origins of institutions that serve the urban poor, the reasons for the crisis in urban education, the achievements and limits of the War on Poverty, and the role of income transfers, earnings, and the contributions of family members in overcoming poverty. The message of the essays is clear: Americans will flourish or fail together.
Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe
Mary Manjikian
Author : Mary Manjikian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136243356
Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe by Mary Manjikian Pdf
Housing is no longer about having a place to live – but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices of surveillance and security. Breaking new ground in the field of urban politics and international relations, Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe examines and critiques legislative initiatives and examines governmental attempts to reframe urban property squatting as a crime and a threat to domestic security. Using examples from France, Netherlands, Denmark, and Great Britain, Mary Manjikian argues that developments within the European Union – including terrorist attacks in London and Madrid, the rise of right wing extremist parties, and the lifting of barriers to immigration and travel within the EU – have had effects on housing policy, which has become the subject of state security policy in Europe’s urban areas. In Denmark, squatting has often had an ideological, anti-state character. In Paris, housing policy can be viewed as a type of identity politics with squatters as transnational actors who pose a transnational security threat. In Great Britain, the role of the press has created a drive to criminalize squatting. Events in the Netherlands present two competing notions of what housing is – a human right, or an economic good produced by the free market.
Streetwalking the Metropolis : Women, the City and Modernity
Deborah L. Parsons
Author : Deborah L. Parsons
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191584107
Streetwalking the Metropolis : Women, the City and Modernity by Deborah L. Parsons Pdf
Can there be a flaneuse, and what form might she take? This is the central question of Streetwalking the Metropolis, an important contribution to ongoing debates on the city and modernity in which Deborah Parsons re-draws the gendered map of urban modernism. Assessing the cultural and literary history of the concept of the flaneur, the urban observer/writer traditionally gendered as masculine, the author advances critical space for the discussion of a female 'flaneuse', focused around a range of women writers from the 1880's to World War Two. Cutting across period boundaries, this wide-ranging study offers stimulating accounts of works by writers including Amy Levy, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann, Jean Rhys, Janet Flanner, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing, highlighting women's changing relationship with the social and psychic spaces of the city, and drawing attention to the ways in which the perceptions and experiences of the street are translated into the dynamics of literary texts.
City Images
Mary Ann Caws
Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134295982
City Images by Mary Ann Caws Pdf
First Published in 1991. Knowing any real city, and still more so, knowing what it is to know a city, may be as much about passive as about active experience. What we read in the field-that field of the city in all its bizarre mixture of culture and nature-is bound to determine, to some non-fictional extent, what we know of it, what we imagine it could be, what we fear it may be, or become. These essays are meant to be, albeit in their critical mode, the recountings of knowing something through something else: they are the projected imagination, through reading, of the reading by the self and/or others (a wide range of each) of a city, or cities as such, of what city-knowing or city-thinking is. The city as stage, market, and labyrinth, variously trafficked and aestheticized, dreamt and politicized, as passionately written by authors from Cicero to Kazin, from Wordsworth, Dickens, Whitman, and Woolf, to Williams, Ashbery, and Bonnefoy, is the place the essays play themselves out, through architecture and metaphor.
Rootless
Chris Howard
Author : Chris Howard
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545470032
Rootless by Chris Howard Pdf
A dazzling eco-thriller set in a terrifying world with some chilling similarities to our own . . .17-year-old Banyan is a tree builder. Using salvaged scrap metal, he creates forests for rich patrons who seek a reprieve from the desolate landscape. Although Banyan's never seen a real tree--they were destroyed more than a century ago--his missing father used to tell him stories about the Old World. Everything changes when Banyan meets a mysterious woman with a strange tattoo, a map to the last living trees on earth, and he sets off across a wasteland from which few return. Those who make it past the pirates and poachers can't escape the locusts . . . the locusts that now feed on human flesh.But Banyan isn't the only one looking for the trees, and he's running out of time. Unsure of whom to trust, he's forced to make an alliance with Alpha, a beautiful, dangerous pirate with an agenda of her own. As they race towards a promised land that might only be a myth, Banyan makes shocking discoveries about his family, his past, and how far people will go to bring back the trees.
