Suburban Modern

Author : Robert M. Stamp
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Calgary Region (Alta.)
ISBN : 1894898257

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Suburban Modern by Robert M. Stamp Pdf

While avant-garde modernism disrupted the art salons, architecture schools, and design studios of the world's more sophisticated urban centres in the 20th century, Calgary slept through the cultural upheavals as a provincial backwater. Calgary's initiation to modernism might be dated to February 13, 1947, when Imperial Oil blew in its famous well at Leduc. Or the 1948 football season, when Tom Brooks and Les Lear wrapped the Calgary Stampeders football team around an innovative and modernist-looking T-formation backfield to win the Grey Cup. Calgarians embraced the modern age after the Second World War, taking modernism into the streets and into the suburbs. They went beyond art, architecture, and design, and redefined modernism to include homes, furniture, appliances, and cars. In the process, Calgarians democratized, feminized, and suburbanized modernism. Suburban Modern examines controversies over "coloured" margarine and "mixed" drinking in post-war Calgary. It shows how new petro office buildings transformed the downtown skyline during the 1950s and 1960s, and how new bus lines, roads, and bridges changed the city's transportation network. As the city sprawled horizontally to engulf its ever-expanding suburbs, shoppers deserted downtown for suburban malls. The book follows young couples into their post-war dream homes with modern furnishings and barbecue-appointed patios. Suburban Modern argues that the suburbs rather than the downtown defined Calgary's approach to modernism.

Author : James A. Onusko
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771125000

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Boom Kids by James A. Onusko Pdf

The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their families, as it was in the postwar years. Boom Kids explores the triumphs and challenges of childhood and adolescence in Calgary’s postwar suburbs. The boomers’ impact on fifties and sixties Canadian life is unchallenged; social and cultural changes were made to meet their needs and desires. While time has passed, this era stands still in time—viewed as an idyllic period when great hopes and relative prosperity went hand in hand for all. Boom Kids is organized thematically, with chapters focusing on: suburban spaces; the Cold War and its impact on young people; ethnicity, “race,” and work; the importance of play and recreation; children’s bodies, health and sexuality; and "the night," resistances and delinquency. Reinforced throughout this manuscript is the fact that children and adolescents were not only affected by their suburban experiences, but that they influenced the adult world in which they lived. Oral histories from former community members and archival materials, including school-based publications, form the backbone for a study that demonstrates that suburban life was diverse and filled with rich experiences for youngsters.

Author : Isabel Prochner,Tim Antoniuk
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781772125979

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Situating Design in Alberta by Isabel Prochner,Tim Antoniuk Pdf

Situating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainability in the province and across the country. Contributors bring both scholarly and practice-based perspectives and come from diverse disciplines including architecture, interior design, industrial design, and visual communications. The collection is organized around four main topics—history, education, business, and sustainability—within which the authors explore a wide range of issues. This synergy of different design approaches lends a sense of forward momentum to the field, stimulates reflection about opportunities and challenges for both practitioners and policy makers, and provides a model for future studies in other regions. Contributors: Tim Antoniuk, Ken Bautista, Carlos Fiorentino, Maria Goncharova, Andrea Hirji, Mark Iantkow, Barry Johns, Lyubava Kroll, Courtenay McKay, Skye Oleson-Cormack, Isabel Prochner, Janice Rieger, Elizabeth Schowalter, Megan Strickfaden, Tyler Vreeling, Ron Wickman

Author : Mike Huggins,Mike O'Mahony
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317965459

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The Visual in Sport by Mike Huggins,Mike O'Mahony Pdf

This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields to explore the ways in which visual culture has shaped, and continues to impact upon, our understanding of sport as an integral element within popular culture. Visual representations of sport have previously been little examined and under-exploited by historians, with little focused and rigorous scrutiny of these vital historical documents. This study seeks to redress this balance by engaging with a wide variety of cultural products, ranging from sports stadia and monuments in the public arena, to paintings, prints, photographs, posters, stamps, design artefacts, films and political cartoons. By examining the contexts of both the production and reception of this historical evidence, and highlighting the multiple meanings and social significance of this body of work, the collection provides original, powerful and stimulating insights into the ways in which visual material assists our knowledge and understanding of sport. This collection will facilitate researchers, publishers and others with an interest in sport to move beyond traditional text-based scholarship and appreciate the powerful imagery of sport in new ways. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245387

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American Judaism by Jonathan D. Sarna Pdf

Jonathan D. Sarna’s award-winning American Judaism is now available in an updated and revised edition that summarizes recent scholarship and takes into account important historical, cultural, and political developments in American Judaism over the past fifteen years. Praise for the first edition: “Sarna . . . has written the first systematic, comprehensive, and coherent history of Judaism in America; one so well executed, it is likely to set the standard for the next fifty years.”—Jacob Neusner, Jerusalem Post “A masterful overview.”—Jeffrey S. Gurock, American Historical Review “This book is destined to be the new classic of American Jewish history.”—Norman H. Finkelstein, Jewish Book World Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award/Jewish Book of the Year

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280221

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Christopher C. Sellers
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820364209

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Race and the Greening of Atlanta by Christopher C. Sellers Pdf

Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta's ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city's variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: a well-known one for civil rights and a lesser known one on behalf of "the environment." Arising out of Atlanta's Black and white middle classes respectively, both movements owed much to New Deal capitalism's undermining of concentrated wealth and power, if not racial segregation, in the Jim Crow South. Placing these two movements on the same historical page, Christopher C. Sellers spotlights those environmental inequities, ideals, and provocations that catalyzed their divergent political projects. He then follows the intermittent, sometimes vital alliances they struck as civil rights activists tackled poverty, as a new environmental state arose, and as Black politicians began winning elections. Into the 1980s, as a wealth-concentrating style of capitalism returned to the city and Atlanta became a national "poster child" for sprawl, the seedbeds spread both for a national environmental justice movement and for an influential new style of antistatism. Sellers contends that this new conservativism, sweeping the South with an antienvironmentalism and budding white nationalism that echoed the region's Jim Crow past, once again challenged the democracy Atlantans had achieved.

Author : Greg Kramer
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780761544456

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The Movies by Greg Kramer Pdf

Take Your Studio, Movies, and Stars to the Top of the Charts! · Details on every employee, facility, set, ornament, and technology · Complete step-by-step walkthrough for winning the elusive Platinum Lifetime Honor · How to turn a three-star script into a five-star blockbuster · Tactics for managing your Stars, their relationships, and their careers · How to make your own movies with the Advanced Movie Maker and Post Production facility · Filmmaking 101 from Lionhead designers

Author : Dom Holdaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317320616

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Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape by Dom Holdaway Pdf

Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film.

Author : Roger Webster
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800735149

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Expanding Suburbia by Roger Webster Pdf

During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as well as a source of significant creativity across a range of cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity.

Author : C.A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781784661571

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Sustainable Development (2 Volume Set) by C.A. Brebbia Pdf

This collection of research papers, presented at meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT), concerns a variety of issues relating to the area of sustainable development. WIT has a long and very successful record of organising conferences on the topic of sustainability, which requires an interdisciplinary approach. Any sustainable solutions that are derived solely from the perspective of a single discipline may have unintended damaging consequences that create new problems. Thus effective sustainable solutions require the collaboration of scientists and engineers from various disciplines, as well as planners, architects, environmentalists, policy makers, social scientists, and economists. The contents of this book reflect that interdisciplinary approach, and include topics under the main areas of: Sustainable development and planning; Disaster management; Air pollution; Urban transport; Ecosystems and Water resources management.

Author : Linda E. Smeins
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0761989633

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Building an American Identity by Linda E. Smeins Pdf

This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.

Author : Jon Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000206258

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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design by Jon Lang Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated, the projects that were designed following their precepts, the functions they address and/or afford, and what we can learn from them. The morphology of a city—its built environment—evolves unselfconsciously as private and governmental investors self-consciously erect buildings and infrastructure in a pragmatic, piecemeal manner to meet their own ends. Philosophers, novelists, architects, and social scientists have produced myriad ideas about the nature of the built environment that they consider to be superior to those forms resulting from a laissez-faire attitude to urban development. Rationalist theorists dream of ideal futures based on assumptions about what is good; empiricists draw inspirations from what they perceive to be working well in existing situations. Both groups have presented their advocacies in manifestoes and often in the form of generic solutions or illustrative designs. This book traces the history of these ideas and will become a standard reference for scholars and students interested in the history of urban spaces, including architects, planners, urban historians, urban geographers, and urban morphologists.

Author : Linda W. Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Hawaii
ISBN : PURD:32754073195046

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Exile in Paradise by Linda W. Greene Pdf

Author : Kenneth R. Tremblay,Don A. Dillman
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0819134791

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Beyond the American Housing Dream by Kenneth R. Tremblay,Don A. Dillman Pdf

This in-depth study of 2,801 U.S. households is the first comprehensive examination of contemporary American housing preferences.