Showroom City

Author : John Joe Schlichtman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452966533

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Showroom City by John Joe Schlichtman Pdf

A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world High Point, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capital of the World.” Once a manufacturing stronghold, most of its furniture factories have closed over the past forty years, with production shipped off to low-wage countries. Yet as manufacturing left, the city tightened its hold on a biannual global exposition that serves as the world’s furniture fashion runway. At the High Point Market, visitors from more than one hundred nations traverse twelve million square feet of meticulous design. Downtown buildings—once courthouses, movie theaters, post offices, and gas stations—are now chic showroom spaces, even as many sit empty between each exposition. In Showroom City, John Joe Schlichtman applies an ethnographic lens to the global exposition’s relationship with High Point after it defeated rival Chicago in the 1960s and established itself as the world’s dominant furniture center. In recent decades, following trends in global finance, private equity firms were increasingly behind downtown High Point’s real estate transactions, coordinated by buyers far removed from the region. Then, in one massive transaction in 2011, a firm funded by Bain Capital purchased every major showroom building, and the majority of downtown real estate was under one owner. Showroom City is a story of exclusionary growth and unchecked development, of a city flailing to fill the void left by its dwindling factories. But beyond that Schlichtman engages the general lessons behind both High Point’s deindustrialization and its stunning reinvention as a furniture fashion, merchandising, and design node. With great nuance, he delves deeply to reveal how power operates locally and how citizens may affirm, exploit, influence, and resist the takeover of their community.

Author : Germaine R. Halegoua
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479882199

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The Digital City by Germaine R. Halegoua Pdf

Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to search for their destinations and to seek recommendations for places to visit. They may share texts or images of themselves and these places en route or after their journey is complete. We don’t consciously reflect on these activities and probably don’t associate these practices with constructing a sense of place. Critics have argued that digital media alienates users from space and place, but this book argues that the exact opposite is true: that we habitually use digital technologies to re-embed ourselves within urban environments. The Digital City advocates for the need to rethink our everyday interactions with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Drawing on five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placeing,” Germaine R. Halegoua shows how different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to turn urban spaces into places with deep meanings and emotional attachments. Through timely narratives of everyday urban life, Halegoua argues that people use digital media to create a unique sense of place within rapidly changing urban environments and that a sense of place is integral to understanding contemporary relationships with digital media.

Author : David Bell,Mark Jayne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134212200

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Small Cities by David Bell,Mark Jayne Pdf

Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change within small cities around the world. Drawing together research from a strong international team of contributors, this four part book is the first systematic overview of small cities. A comprehensive and integrated primer with coverage of all key topics, it takes a multi-disciplinary approach to an important contemporary urban phenomenon. The book addresses: political and economic decision making urban economic development and competitive advantage cultural infrastructure and planning in the regeneration of small cities identities, lifestyles and ways in which different groups interact in small cities. Centering on urban change as opposed to pure ethnographic description, the book’s focus on informed empirical research raises many important issues. Its blend of conceptual chapters and theoretically directed case studies provides an excellent resource for a broad spectrum of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as providing a rich resource for academics and researchers.

Author : Gloria Bordogna,Giuseppe Psaila
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540332893

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Flexible Databases Supporting Imprecision and Uncertainty by Gloria Bordogna,Giuseppe Psaila Pdf

This volume offers the advice of selected expert contributors on the application of heterogeneous methods for managing uncertainty and imprecision in databases. It contains both survey chapters on classic topics such as "flexible querying in databases", and up to date information on "database models to represent imperfect data". Further, it includes specific contributions on uncertainty management in database integration, and in representing and querying semistructured and spatial data.

Author : Sharon Naylor
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1402220219

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1000 Best Wedding Bargains by Sharon Naylor Pdf

BOOK DESCRIPTION Have the wedding of your dreams on a budget that you can afford Wedding expert Sharon Naylor shows you: -- 17 ceremony locations that will save you a fortune -- Creative serving tricks to cut your food bill -- Save up to 85% on designer wedding gowns -- Plan ahead to save on last minute expenses -- 63 unique favors that won't break the bank -- Cut expenses without cutting corners on your photos -- Cost-saving secrets from floral industry insiders -- Elegant centerpieces for under $20 Have a celebrity-style wedding without paying celebrity-style prices

Author : Sylvia Leydecker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034615808

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Designing Interior Architecture by Sylvia Leydecker Pdf

Designing interior spaces is a task that is equally relevant as architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design for those working professionally in the built environment. In this comprehensive work, an international and interdisciplinary team of authors presents the essential aspects of the various fields of contemporary interior architecture and design. The project examples are illustrated with brilliant photographs and plans. They have been selected according to consistent criteria for all chapters of the book and represent the essential building types, including exhibition stand design, as well as a broad range of today’s design approaches. The authors place the collaboration between the various design disciplines at the center of focus. The appendix contains information for further research. All in all, Designing Interior Architecture is a fundamental reference work for all those professionally engaged with the design.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015080111571

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Aero Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oriol Nel-lo,Renata Mele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317312437

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Cities in the 21st Century by Oriol Nel-lo,Renata Mele Pdf

Cities in the 21st Century provides an overview of contemporary urban development. Written by more than thirty major academic specialists from different countries, it provides information on and analysis of the global network of cities, changes in urban form, environmental problems, the role of technologies and knowledge, socioeconomic developments, and finally, the challenge of urban governance. In the mid-20th century, architect and planner Josep Lluís Sert wondered if cities could survive; in the early 21st century, we see that cities have not only survived but have grown as never before. Cities today are engines of production and trade, forges of scientific and technological innovation, and crucibles of social change. Urbanization is a major driver of change in contemporary societies; it is a process that involves acute social inequalities and serious environmental problems, but also offers opportunities to move towards a future of greater prosperity, environmental sustainability, and social justice. With case studies on thirty cities in five continents and a selection of infographics illustrating these dynamic cities, this edited volume is an essential resource for planners and students of urbanization and urban change.

Author : United States. Architect of the Capitol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210013766728

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Semiannual Report of the Architect of the Capitol for the Period October 1, 1998 Through March 31, 1999 by United States. Architect of the Capitol Pdf

Author : Liz Tregenza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350245877

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Wholesale Couture by Liz Tregenza Pdf

The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies. This term has fallen out of usage; however, it was used to describe the pinnacle of the British ready-to-wear fashion industry between the 1930s and 1960s. Companies within this sector have typically been recognised as creators of high-quality copies of French haute couture, using ready-to-wear techniques. Liz Tregenza traces wholesale couture garments from concept to usage, considering design, manufacture, branding, promotion, retail and export. She looks beyond the garments produced and investigates the people behind these firms, consequently demonstrating the significant role that largely Jewish immigrants played in the development and success of this industry. The book also considers the wider social and economic factors that affected manufacturers and consumers; the effect of austerity, rationing and the Utility scheme, and the pressing need for wholesale couturiers to export their products internationally. It demonstrates that 1946 was a critical year for re-building and re-imagining the London fashion industry and that wholesale couturiers were at the centre of these developments. Furthermore, it reveals the impact of changing consumer purchasing power, including the burgeoning youth market, for fashion manufacturers. Offering a new perspective on British fashion history, Wholesale Couture demonstrates that these couturiers were vital in cementing London's status as a ready-to-wear fashion centre.

Author : Marc-Christian Riebe
Publisher : The Location Group
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783952427910

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Retail Market Study 2014 by Marc-Christian Riebe Pdf

The Retail Market Study 2014 of The Location Group is the one and only study of its kind with 150 of the most notable international cities of the fashion and retail world and 3'000 store openings on 1,500 pages. Over 1,000 retailers, 800 shopping streets and 500 shopping centers were analyzed. The study reached more than 100,000 readers worldwide so far.

Author : Marin R. Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691232461

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Alloys by Marin R. Sullivan Pdf

A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern design Alloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa. Leading architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero Saarinen turned to sculptors including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, Richard Lippold, and Isamu Noguchi to produce site-determined, large-scale sculptures tailored for their buildings’ highly visible and well-traversed threshold spaces. The parameters of these spaces—atriums, lobbies, plazas, and entryways—led to various designs like sculptural walls, ceilings, and screens that not only embraced new industrial materials and processes, but also demonstrated art’s ability to merge with lived architectural spaces. Marin Sullivan argues that these sculptural commissions represent an alternate history of midcentury American art. Rather than singular masterworks by lone geniuses, some of the era’s most notable spaces—Philip Johnson’s Four Seasons Restaurant in Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, Max Abramovitz’s Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, and Pietro Belluschi and Walter Gropius’s Pan Am Building—would be diminished without the collaborative efforts of architects and artists. At the same time, the artistic creations within these spaces could not exist anywhere else. Sullivan shows that the principle of synergy provides an ideal framework to assess this pronounced relationship between sculpture and architecture. She also explores the afterlives of these postwar commissions in the decades since their construction. A fresh consideration of sculpture’s relationship to architectural design and functionality following World War II, Alloys highlights the affinities between the two fields and the ways their connections remain with us today.

Author : M. Romanos,C. Auffrey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 140200818X

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Managing Intermediate Size Cities by M. Romanos,C. Auffrey Pdf

I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a few moments to explain why. Michael Romanos and Christopher Auffrey have produced a volume which will be of immense value to several different types of people. Planners and other specialists concerned with the development of the Southeast Asian region and the issues and opportunities associated with urban growth and sustainable development will find much to interest them in this book. But the book, I believe, has much wider appeal, and that is what I want to touch on briefly here. The University of Cincinnati, where Michael, Chris, and I work, is attempting to globalize itself - to develop its institutional capacity for international activities, to infuse its curriculum with international themes, and to promote and increase global competence among its graduates. Many American universities are doing this, of course. In the process, we are seeing some very interesting experiments in pedagogy, as faculty look for "learning moments" in new and sometimes exotic places. Michael, Chris, and their colleagues have, it seems to me, developed an outstanding model for learning across national and cultural boundaries. In the chapters which follow, you will read the results of their work. What will be less apparent, however, is the process by which that work was produced.

Author : Ehsan Zarei
Publisher : DMA4U
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Car Dealership Marketing by Ehsan Zarei Pdf

Are you looking for a complete guide to car dealership marketing? Your search ends here with this comprehensive book! This book offers 17 unique marketing strategies to help you succeed, providing an abundance of tips, tricks, ideas, and examples. Real-world ad copy examples are included for each marketing strategy, making it a powerful tool to re-imagine, think out of the box, see new possibilities, or even simply use the same ad copy samples to get started faster. You may have known a marketing strategy before, but when you have multiple ad copy examples about the same marketing strategy, it will open up your eyes to new ways that it can be done. This comprehensive guide offers a unique opportunity to generate fresh and innovative ideas, elevating your car dealership marketing to the next level, with insights that only a marketing expert could provide. Whether you're a professional or just getting started, this book is the perfect resource to take your car dealership marketing to the next level.

Author : Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0811729702

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Vacationing on the Jersey Shore by Charles A. Stansfield Pdf

Nature and history at the shore. Visitor's guide to the resorts. Color postcard views, vintage and modern photos, and detailed maps.