The City Beautiful

Author : Aden Polydoros
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780369702821

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The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros Pdf

"An achingly rendered exploration of queer desire, grief, and the inexorable scars of the past." —Katy Rose Pool, author of There Will Come A Darkness Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he’ll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter’s best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, his dream begins to slip away. While the rest of the city is busy celebrating the World’s Fair, Alter is now living a nightmare: possessed by Yakov’s dybbuk, he is plunged into a world of corruption and deceit, and thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past. A boy who means more to Alter than anyone knows. Now, with only days to spare until the dybbuk takes over Alter’s body completely, the two boys must race to track down the killer—before the killer claims them next. "Chillingly sinister, warmly familiar, and breathtakingly transportive, The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams."—Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQreads and editor of That Way Madness Lies A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2021

Author : David Bruce Brownlee,Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015017740740

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Building the City Beautiful by David Bruce Brownlee,Philadelphia Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Ernest Charles Temple Thurston
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9791041816279

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The City of Beautiful Nonsense by Ernest Charles Temple Thurston Pdf

" Of course, the eighteenth of March--but it is out of the question to say upon which day of the week it fell. It was half-past seven in the evening. At half-past seven it is dark, the lamps are lighted, the houses huddle together in groups. They have secrets to tell as soon as it is dark. Ah! If you knew the secrets that houses are telling when the shadows draw them so close together! But you never will know. They close their eyes and they whisper. Around the fields of Lincoln's Inn it was as still as the grave. The footsteps of a lawyer's clerk hurrying late away from chambers vibrated through the intense quiet. You heard each step to the very last. So long as you could see him, you heard them plainly; then he vanished behind the curtain of shadows, the sounds became muffled, and at last the silence crept back into the Fields crept all round you, half eager, half reluctant, like sleepy children drawn from their beds to hear the end of a fairy story. There was a fairy story to be told, too. It began that night of the eighteenth of March the Eve of St. Joseph's day.

Author : William H. Wilson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801849780

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The City Beautiful Movement by William H. Wilson Pdf

Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.

Author : Ian Morley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429627859

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American Colonisation and the City Beautiful by Ian Morley Pdf

Winner of the 2020 IPHS Koos Bosma Prize American Colonisation and the City Beautiful explores the history of city planning and the evolution of the built environment in the Philippines between 1916 and 1935. In so doing, it highlights the activities of the Bureau of Public Works’ Division of Architecture as part of Philippine national development and decolonisation. Morley provides new archival materials which deliver significant insight into the dynamics associated with both governance and city planning during the American colonial era in the Philippines, with links between prominent American university educators and Filipino architecture students. The book discusses the two cities of Tayabas and Iloilo which highlight the significant role in the urban design of places beyond the typical historiographical focus of Manila and Baguio. These examples will aid in further understanding the appearance and meaning of Philippine cities during an important era in the nation’s history. Including numerous black and white images, this book is essential for academics, researchers and students of city and urban planning, the history and development of Southeast Asia and those interested in colonial relations.

Author : Tribhuvan Prakash Issar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8190071920

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The City Beautiful by Tribhuvan Prakash Issar Pdf

The English Renderings And The Footnotes Have Been Done Not Only For The Non-Initiate-But Eager Reader, But Also For The Reader Who Knows His Ghalib But May Wish, Like The Author, To `Burnish His Rusted Recollection`.

Author : Leander Watts
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 061859499X

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Beautiful City of the Dead by Leander Watts Pdf

The author of "Stonecutter" presents the story of a teen girl who joins a rock band, only to find she is in fact the last piece of a tetrad that gives each member of the group a supernatural power.

Author : Robert Freestone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015076169385

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Designing Australia's Cities by Robert Freestone Pdf

Looking at how the American City Beautiful movement influenced the design and development of Australian cities, this study surveys the ruling ideas, influences, outcomes, and enduring legacies of the early artistic turn in Australian urban design.

Author : Aden Polydoros
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780369721730

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Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros Pdf

"A heart-pounding adventure. Magic and monsters lurk in every corner as a headstrong trio search for their place in Aden Polydoros's haunting world." ––Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights From the author of The City Beautiful comes a haunting fantasy following Toma, adopted daughter of the benevolent undead, making her way across a civil war-torn continent to save her younger sister as she discovers she might possess magical powers herself. The Kosa empire roils in tension, on the verge of being torn apart by a proletarian revolution between magic-endowed elites and the superstitious lower class, but seventeen-year-old Toma lives blissfully disconnected from the conflict in the empire with her adoptive family of benevolent undead. When she meets Vanya, a charming commoner branded as a witch by his own neighbors, and the dethroned Tsar Mikhail himself, the unlikely trio bonds over trying to restore Mikhail’s magic and protect the empire from the revolutionary leader, Koschei, whose forces have stolen the castle. Vanya has his magic, and Mikhail has his title, but if Toma can’t dig deep and find her power in time, all of their lives will be at Koschei’s mercy. Praise for The City Beautiful "An achingly rendered exploration of queer desire, grief, and the inexorable scars of the past." —Katy Rose Pool, author of There Will Come A Darkness "Chillingly sinister, warmly familiar, and breathtakingly transportive, The City Beautiful is the haunting, queer Jewish historical thriller of my darkest dreams." —Dahlia Adler, creator of LGBTQreads and editor of That Way Madness Lies

Author : Sally Rooney
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281806

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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Pdf

#1 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, KIRKUS REVIEWS AND FINANCIAL TIMES “Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” —The New York Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 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.

Author : Ryan La Sala
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780702316623

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The Honeys by Ryan La Sala Pdf

When Mars Matthias loses his sister Caroline under horrific circumstances, it propels him to learn all he can about the once-inseparable sibling who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's gender-fluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions - and expectations - of his politically-connected family, including attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his sister devoted so much of her time. But with his grief still fresh, he insists on attending in her place. The setting may be pristine and sun-drenched, but there's an undercurrent of tension buzzing ominously. Mars seeks out his sister's old friends: a group of girls dubbed the Honeys, named for the beehives they maintain behind their cabin. They are beautiful and terrifying - and Mars is certain they're connected to Caroline's death. But the longer he stays at Aspen, the more the sweet mountain breezes give way to hints of decay. Mars's memories begin to falter, bleached beneath the relentless summer sun. Something is hunting him in broad daylight, toying with his mind. If Mars can't find it soon, it will eat him alive... Heathers meets Midsommer

Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226764733

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The Plan of Chicago by Carl Smith Pdf

Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. Carl Smith’s fascinating history reveals the Plan’s central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself. Smith’s concise and accessible narrative begins with a survey of Chicago’s stunning rise from a tiny frontier settlement to the nation’s second-largest city. He then offers an illuminating exploration of the Plan’s creation and reveals how it embodies the renowned architect’s belief that cities can and must be remade for the better. The Plan defined the City Beautiful movement and was the first comprehensive attempt to reimagine a major American city. Smith points out the ways the Plan continues to influence debates, even a century after its publication, about how to create a vibrant and habitable urban environment. Richly illustrated and incisively written, his insightful book will be indispensable to our understanding of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, and the emergence of the modern city.

Author : Tasha Spillett
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781553797845

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Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett Pdf

Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape—they’re so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez’s grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can’t stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can’t bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez’s community find her before it’s too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don’t?

Author : Martien Mulder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692772111

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The City Beautiful by Martien Mulder Pdf

A limited edition book of photographs by Martien Mulder of Le Corbusier's Chandigarh, with text by Michael Jefferson.