The Cities On The Hill

Author : Frances FitzGerald
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0671552090

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CITIES ON A HILL by Frances FitzGerald Pdf

"We must consider that we shall be A City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people upon us," John Winthrop told his Pilgrim community crossing the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four centuries later, Americans are still building Cities Upon a Hill. In Cities on a Hill Pulitzer Prize-winner Frances FitzGerald explores this often eccentric, sometimes prophetic inclination in America. With characteristic wit and insight she examines four radically different communities -- a fundamentalist church, a guru-inspired commune, a Sunbelt retirement city, and a gay activist community -- all embodying this visionary drive to shake the past and build anew. Frances FitzGerald here gives eloquent voice and definition to a quintessentially American impulse. It is a resonant work of literary imagination and journalistic precision.

Author : Thomas K. Ogorzalek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190668877

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The Cities on the Hill by Thomas K. Ogorzalek Pdf

Urbanicity and city delegations -- A proper national policy -- Ties that bind -- Anti-racism without anti-racists -- The cities on the hill -- Notes for a metropolitan political order

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674987999

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City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Pdf

From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.

Author : Connilyn Cossette
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493413614

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A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge Book #1) by Connilyn Cossette Pdf

Seven years ago, Moriyah was taken captive in Jericho and branded with the mark of the Canaanite gods. Now the Israelites are experiencing peace in their new land, but Moriyah has yet to find her own peace. Because of the shameful mark on her face, she hides behind her veil at all times and the disdain of the townspeople keeps her from socializing. And marriage prospects were out of the question . . . until now. Her father has found someone to marry her, and she hopes to use her love of cooking to impress the man and his motherless sons. But when things go horribly wrong, Moriyah is forced to flee. Seeking safety at one of the newly-established Levitical cities of refuge, she is wildly unprepared for the dangers she will face, and the enemies--and unexpected allies--she will encounter on her way.

Author : Drew Karpyshyn
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786963836

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Temple Hill by Drew Karpyshyn Pdf

In the city of Elversult, a human-elf thief and a crippled ex-warrior find themselves pitted against the Purple Masks, the Cult of the Dragon, and other nefarious foes Among the dark streets of Elversult move thieves and cutthroats—and they don't like independent operators like Lhasha Moonsliver. While on the run from the Purple Masks, she crosses paths with former White Shield mercenary Corin One-hand, whose drunken ways and injuries have not completely diminished his skills as a swordsman. But when Lhasha hires him to be her bodyguard, hoping her gnomish mentor will restore Corin’s lost arm, she gets far more than she bargained for. Together, the unlikely duo must battle the thieves' guild, the Cult of the Dragon, and other, darker foes. And Corin will have to remember the proud warrior he once was.

Author : Richard M. Gamble
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441162328

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In Search of the City on a Hill by Richard M. Gamble Pdf

The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.

Author : James Traub
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015002322957

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City On A Hill by James Traub Pdf

Traub relates the daily struggles of men and women trying to gain an education against the odds at the City College of New York, telling the story of the college's difficult present against the backdrop of its 150-year history. Students battle the cultural and economic forces that perpetuate inner-city poverty while the college that produced eight Nobel Laureates now tries to prepare survivors of the public school system for college-level work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385669139

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Happy City by Charles Montgomery Pdf

Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks and condo towers an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl? The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, during an exhilarating journey through some of the world’s most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a “sexy” bus to ease status anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris’s urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have hacked the design of their own streets and neighborhoods. Rich with new insights from psychology, neuroscience and Montgomery’s own urban experiments, Happy City reveals how our cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the world--and all of us can help build it.

Author : Frances FitzGerald
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015009399166

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America Revised by Frances FitzGerald Pdf

"Almost all of the book appeared initially in the New Yorker." Bibliography: p. [227]-240.

Author : Lee Sullivan Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575053071

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Get Around in the City by Lee Sullivan Hill Pdf

An introduction to some of the different ways people get around in cities, from walking and biking to ferry boats and skates.

Author : Alan Rogers,Lisa Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : 1892724545

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Boston, City on a Hill by Alan Rogers,Lisa Rogers Pdf

Author : Gary Demar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0915815516

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To Pledge Allegiance by Gary Demar Pdf

Author : Lawrence W. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020870807

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Planning the City Upon a Hill by Lawrence W. Kennedy Pdf

An account of Boston's planning history. Nine chapters detail the key developments that shaped each period of Boston's growth, focusing on the post-World War II era. The text describes the process and significance of all the major projects - from the first wharves to the latest skyscrapers.

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210551

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As a City on a Hill by Daniel T. Rodgers Pdf

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words--from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.