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Author : Michael Southworth,Susan Southworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024580420
The best of its kind in this continent - TIME Magazine. 'Anecdotes expand on purely architectural considerations to lend a lively air to the sights' - ALA Booklist
Author : Susan Southworth,Michael Southworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0871061880
A architectural tour guide to Boston.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Military planning
ISBN : UIUC:30112105177221
Author : Michael Southworth,Susan Southworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:78845670
Author : Mary Melvin Petronella
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1555536050
This lavishly illustrated guidebook to the many distinctive attractions of Boston's Victorian heritage provides the walker and the armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's remarkable treasure trove of nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries. Victorian Boston Today, edited by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America, includes a beautifully drawn map for each tour, and contains such features as expanded descriptive captions for the profuse vintage illustrations, telephone numbers and web addresses for sites open to the public, directions between tour sites, information about public transportation, and a wealth of other practical enhancements and tips. From the South End's signature residential squares to the Black Heritage Trail to Jamaica Plain's pastoral landscape, these walking tours vividly recapture the spirit of Victorian Boston. The guidebook will fascinate Boston residents, tourists, and historians, and it will provide inspiration for the active preservation of the city's magnificent buildings and neighborhoods.
Author : American Institute of Architects
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470251669
No other contracts are more widely used in the construction industry than the American Institute of Architects’ standard forms. The American Institute of Architects Official Guide to the 2007 AIA Contract Documents offers unparalleled insight into the AIA’s extensive portfolio of contract documents, helping the reader understand the forms and how to implement them. This guide is divided into two parts:Part One, The AIA Standard Documents, examines the role of AIA Contract Documents, their history, and how the documents are written and updated. It also reviews the educational and supporting resources that are part of the AIA's contract documents program; Part Two, The AIA Documents Companion, describes agreements in detail, including the purpose and rationale for provisions. Separate chapters cover the owner-contractor, contractor-subcontractor, owner-architect, and architect-consultant agreements. The guide concludes with a chapter describing pivotal legal cases that have helped shape and interpret AIA contracts. Samples of the most commonly used contracts are in print in the appendix, and an accompanying CD-ROM has samples of all AIA Contract Documents (in PDF format for Mac and PC computers) that released in 2007, as well as the Integrated Project Delivery Family of documents that released in 2008. This book is invaluable for construction project owners, attorneys, contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, and others involved in the procurement, management, and delivery of building projects. It is also recommended for students and young professionals seeking a degree, certification, or licensure.
Author : William A. Newman,Wilfred E. Holton
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1555536514
A fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project that filled Boston's Back Bay
Author : Michael A. Ross
Publisher : Michael A. Ross, BostonWalks
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0970082517
BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook 2nd edition is a targeted, easy-sell, smart-cover, handy, guidebook for Jewish and non-Jewish tourists and residents to discover the downtown history of Boston Jewry by means of six walk tours with maps and photos. The 1st edition's short-run (600 copies) sold out. This 2nd edition, doubles thenumber of self-guided Jewish Boston walk tours to six (6) and improves the guidebook's attractiveness with a new glossy cover, larger bibliography, and full updated index. Sales to tourists and residents will continue to be brisk. Media PR is continuing. BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook 2nd Edition 6 Walking Tours of Jewish Boston!Visit Jewish historic sites of Boston's West End, North End, Downtown, South End, Brookline, and Cambridge.
Author : Benjamin L. Hartley
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781584659419
The story of Boston revivalism and social reform
Author : Jane Holtz Kay
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1558495274
At once a fascinating narrative and a visual delight, Lost Boston brings the city's past to life. This updated edition includes a new section illustrating the latest gains and losses in the struggle to preserve Boston 's architectural heritage. With an engaging text and more than 350 seldom-seen photographs and prints, Lost Boston offers a chance to see the city as it once was, revealing architectural gems lost long ago. An eminently readable history of the city's physical development, the book also makes an eloquent appeal for its preservation. Jane Holtz Kay traces the evolution of Boston from the barren, swampy peninsula of colonial times to the booming metropolis of today. In the process, she creates a family album for the city, infusing the text with the flavor and energy that makes Boston distinct. Amid the grand landmarks she finds the telling details of city life: the neon signs, bygone amusement parks, storefronts, and windows plastered with images of campaigning politicians-sights common in their time but even more meaningful in their absence today. Kay also brings to life the people who created Boston-architects like Charles Bulfinch and H. H. Richardson, landscape architect and master park-maker Frederick Law Olmsted, and such colorful political figures as Mayors John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley. The new epilogue brings Boston's story to the end of the twentieth century, showing elements of the city's architecture that were lost in recent years as well as those that were saved and others threatened as the city continues to evolve.
Author : Mona Domosh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300074913
Why do cities look the way they do? In this intriguing new book, Mona Domosh seeks to answer this question by comparing the strikingly different landscapes of two great American cities, Boston and New York. Although these two cities appeared to be quite similar through the eighteenth century, distinctive characteristics emerged as social and economic differences developed. Domosh explores the physical differences between Boston and New York, comparing building patterns and architectural styles to show how a society's vision creates its own distinctive urban form. Cities, Domosh contends, are visible representations of individual and group beliefs, values, tensions, and fears. Using an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses economics, politics, architecture, historical and cultural geography, and urban studies, Domosh shows how the middle and upper classes of Boston and New York, the "building elite," inscribed their visions of social order and social life on four landscape features during the latter half of the nineteenth century: New York's retail district and its commercial skyscrapers, and Boston's Back Bay and its Common and park system. New York's self-expression translated into unlimited commercial and residential expansion, conspicuous consumption, and architecture designed to display wealth and prestige openly. Boston, in contrast, focused more on culture. The urban gentry limited skyscraper construction, prevented commercial development of Boston Common, and maintained homes and parks near the business district. Many fascinating lithographs illustrate the two cities' contrasting visions.
Author : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822027820083
Author : Howard Gillette,Zane Miller
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013188142
One of the major growth fields of the past quarter century, American urban history has generated a rich and diverse literature spanning a number of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In this time of transition, historians and practitioners alike can benefit greatly from assessing the contributions of the field. This valuable reference work takes a critical approach to existing literature. Dealing with various related avenues of the field which have not always been closely linked together, these essays provide a basis for new synthesis and reinterpretation, as well as for judgment about the lasting effects of the American urban experience.
Author : Jeffrey S. Russell
Publisher : ASCE Publications
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0784475385
This report contains 27 papers that serve as a testament to the state-of-the-art of civil engineering at the outset of the 21st century, as well as to commemorate the ASCE's Sesquicentennial. Written by the leading practitioners, educators, and researchers of civil engineering, each of these peer-reviewed papers explores a particular aspect of civil engineering knowledge and practice. Each paper explores the development of a particular civil engineering specialty, including milestones and future barriers, constraints, and opportunities. The papers celebrate the history, heritage, and accomplishments of the profession in all facets of practice, including construction facilities, special structures, engineering mechanics, surveying and mapping, irrigation and water quality, forensics, computing, materials, geotechnical engineering, hydraulic engineering, and transportation engineering. While each paper is unique, collectively they provide a snapshot of the profession while offering thoughtful predictions of likely developments in the years to come. Together the papers illuminate the mounting complexity facing civil engineering stemming from rapid growth in scientific knowledge, technological development, and human populations, especially in the last 50 years. An overarching theme is the need for systems-level approaches and consideration from undergraduate education through advanced engineering materials, processes, technologies, and design methods and tools. These papers speak to the need for civil engineers of all specialties to recognize and embrace the growing interconnectedness of the global infrastructure, economy, society, and the need to work for more sustainable, life-cycle-oriented solutions. While embracing the past and the present, the papers collected here clearly have an eye on the future needs of ASCE and the civil engineering profession.
Author : Jeffery W. Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822034463562
A guidebook to the architectural styles of American churches and temples, Houses of Worship is highly illustrated with color photographs and explanatory line drawings. A survey of American religious architecture, this book is a history of the development of American religious history, a guidebook to assist in the identification of the style of individual buildings based on historical examples of typical buildings, and a travel guide to regional monuments of interesting architecture.