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Author : Paul Goldberger
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X006193633
Author : Pallavi Shrivastava
Publisher : Copal Publishing Group
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789383419142
The City Observed by Pallavi Shrivastava reads like dispatches from a battlefront by a seasoned war correspondent. Each chapter is a stimulating vignette of some memorable place, or recently contrived artifact, through which Pallavi unravels counter intuitive conclusions. Pallavi has two eyes and many voices. Those two eyes see things often unnoticed, bringing into focus a collage of real life issues and human circumstances. She has an uncanny ability to conceive of the metropolis as an everyday person would, yet to catalyze unique understandings and conclusions from her choreographies! She navigates the metropolis building narratives out of keen insights, speaking for those without voices; giving eyes to people who have eyes, but no vision. Pallavi's most provocative ability is to reveal contradictions between the emerging urban form and the critical needs of the everyday Mumbaikar, who emerges forgotten in the unfolding scenario. Her written landscapes reveal disturbing images of the bad within the good, and of poverty within plenty. From bright images emerge a sense of charm, tinged by nostalgia for the city's past, yet a warning of pathos in times to come.
Author : Sudhir Venkatesh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143125792
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole city. Sudhir Venkatesh, acclaimed sociologist at Columbia University and author of Gang Leader for a Day, returns to the streets to connect the dots of New York’s divergent economic worlds and crack the code of the city’s underground economy. Based on Venkatesh’s interviews with prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, Floating City exposes the underground as the city’s true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity—revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A memoir of sociological investigation, Floating City draws from Venkatesh’s decade of research within the affluent communities of Upper East Side socialites and Midtown businessmen, the drug gangs of Harlem and the sex workers of Brooklyn, the artists of Tribeca and the escort services of Hell’s Kitchen. Venkatesh arrived in the city after his groundbreaking research in Chicago, where crime remained stubbornly local: gangs stuck to their housing projects and criminals stayed on their corners. But in Floating City, Venkatesh discovers that New York’s underground economy unites instead of divides inhabitants: a vast network of “off the books” transactions linking the high and low worlds of the city. Venkatesh shows how dealing in drugs and sex and undocumented labor bridges the conventional divides between rich and poor, unmasking a city knit together by the invisible threads of the underground economy. Venkatesh closely follows a dozen New Yorkers locked in the underground economy. His greatest guide is Shine, an African American drug boss based in Harlem who hopes to break into the elusive, upscale cocaine market. Without connections among wealthy whites, Shine undertakes an audacious campaign of self-reinvention, leaving behind the certainties of race and class with all the drive of the greatest entrepreneurs. As Shine explains to Venkatesh, “This is New York! We’re like hummingbirds, man. We go flower to flower. . . . Here, you need to float.” Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy chronicles Venkatesh’s decade of discovery and loss in the shifting terrain of New York, where research subjects might disappear suddenly and new allies emerge by chance, where close friends might reveal themselves to be criminals of the lowest order. Propelled by Venkatesh’s numerous interviews and firsthand research, Floating City at its heart is a story of one man struggling to understand a complex global city constantly in the throes of becoming.
Author : Paul Goldberger
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812967951
Explores the struggle to rebuild the site at Ground Zero, offering a social, political, cultural, and architectural history of the World Trade Center and the artistic, financial, and emotional challenges of creating a design for the site.
Author : Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374721602
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.
Author : Charles Willard Moore,Peter Becker,Regula Campbell
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015007162632
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015007005658
Author : Aaron Rosen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317068167
"When you're in New York" the sculptor Louise Nevelson once said, "you're in perpetual resurrection." She might have said the same thing about St. Peter's Lutheran Church, set in the heart of midtown Manhattan. In the 1970s the church made a radical move, scrapping its neo-gothic building for a sleek modern structure in the shadow of a skyscraper. The transformation was not just architectural. Inside, Nevelson created a shimmering chapel, while over the years artists and designers such as Willem de Kooning, Kiki Smith, and Massimo and Lella Vignelli produced works for the sanctuary. This fusion of modern art, architecture, and design was complemented by an innovative jazz ministry, including funerals for Billy Strayhorn and John Coltrane, and performances by Duke Ellington and other jazz legends. For the first time, this volume examines the astounding cultural output of this single church. Just as importantly, the story of St. Peter's serves as a springboard for wider reflections on the challenges and possibilities which arise when religion and art intersect in the modern city. Working from a wide range of disciplines, including art history, theology, musicology, and cultural studies, a distinguished group of scholars demonstrate that this church at the center of New York City deserves an equally central place in contemporary scholarship.
Author : Katherine A. Bussard,Alison Fisher,Greg Foster-Rice,Ken D. Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Arts and society
ISBN : 0300207859
"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980. The Art Institute of Chicago, October 26, 2014-January 11, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, February 21-June 7, 2015"--Colophon.
Author : Edward Swift Dunster,James Bradbridge Hunter,Frank Pierce Foster,Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous,Gregory Stragnell,Henry J. Klaunberg,Félix Martí-Ibáñez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32436001234457
Author : Martha Joanna Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010277791
Author : Frank Bergen Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1332137229
Excerpt from Historical Guide to the City of New York: From Original Observations and Contributions Made by Members and Friends of the City History Club of New York Thanks are due for special aid in securing information and for the use of material to: Frank Warren Crane, William T. Davis, Henry Russell Drowne, Charles Hemstreet, Thomas A. Janvier, Ira K. Morris, Josiah C. Pumpelly, Frederick Van Wyck and many other students of local history. Cartographers: August R. Ohman, Reginald Pelham Bolton. Draughtsmen: Morris W. Ehrlich, Charles Kandel. For permission to copy maps, thanks are due to: Edward Hagaman Hall, James H. Innes, A. Meserole, Harper Bros., W. W. Munsell, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Chas. Scribner's Sons and Henry Dunreath Tyler. Official Photographer: Frank F. Evans. Photographs have been contributed by Randall Comfort, C. Irving Jones and George W. Nash. Other illustrations have been used by courtesy of the Century History Company, G. P. Putnam's Sons, and the Long Island Historical Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Air
ISBN : LOC:00184238019
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11368832
Author : James Hadden Smith,Hume H. Cale,William E. Roscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
ISBN : UOM:39015035426512
