The North Atlantic Cities

Author : Charles Duff
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Atlantic Coast (Europe)
ISBN : 1908457538

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The North Atlantic Cities by Charles Duff Pdf

The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. It is the story of four hundred years of architecture and urban development in four countries: the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States, particularly cities like New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, to name a few. The author starts with a kind of building few others have considered--the row house--which could very well be the key to understanding why many of the world's great cities look and function as they do. From the 1600s to today as the author theorizes, this innocuous-seeming housing type is perhaps the antidote to suburban sprawl, urban decay, and the worst catastrophes of global climate change.

Author : Faith Moors Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : UCAL:B4812226

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Money Disbursements of Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the North Atlantic Region, 1934-36 by Faith Moors Williams Pdf

Author : Franklin W. Knight,Peggy K. Liss
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870496573

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Atlantic Port Cities by Franklin W. Knight,Peggy K. Liss Pdf

Author : John Broughton Daish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066891084

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The Atlantic Port Differentials by John Broughton Daish Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Agricultural colleges
ISBN : UOM:39015039483352

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Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : James Fallows,Deborah Fallows
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781101871850

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Our Towns by James Fallows,Deborah Fallows Pdf

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.

Author : James B. Elsner,A. Birol Kara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195352283

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Hurricanes of the North Atlantic by James B. Elsner,A. Birol Kara Pdf

Called the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. And with the increasing development of coastal areas, the impact of these storms will likely increase. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of North Atlantic hurricanes and what they mean to society. It is intended as an intermediary between hurricane climate research and the users of hurricane information. Topics include the climatology of tropical cyclones in general and those of the North Atlantic in particular; the major North Atlantic hurricanes, focusing on U.S. landfalling storms; the prediction models used in forecasting; and societal vulnerability to hurricanes, including ideas for modeling the relationship between climatological data and analysis in the social and economic sciences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:630331568

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Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Public health
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030032504567

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Public Health Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Roach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231555265

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Cities of the Dead by Joseph Roach Pdf

In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the “feathered people” and warlike “Mohocks.” Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, “Mardi Gras Indians” or “Black Masking Indians” take to the streets of New Orleans at carnival time and for weeks thereafter, parading in handmade “suits” resplendent with beadwork and feathers. What do these seemingly disparate strands of culture share over three centuries and several thousand miles of ocean? Interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance along the Atlantic rim from the eighteenth century to the present, Cities of the Dead explores a rich continuum of cultural exchange that imaginatively reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans, through social events ranging from burials to sacrifices, auctions to parades, encompassing traditions as diverse as Haitian Voudon and British funerals. Considering processes of substitution, or surrogation, as enacted in performance, Roach demonstrates the ways in which people and cultures fill the voids left by death and departure. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic work features a new preface reflecting on the relevance of its arguments to the politics of performance and performance in contemporary politics.

Author : John Whiteclay Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU54484510

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The North Atlantic Engineers by John Whiteclay Chambers Pdf

Author : Roger Keil,Pierre Hamel,Julie-Anne Boudreau,Stefan Kipfer
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771122627

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Governing Cities Through Regions by Roger Keil,Pierre Hamel,Julie-Anne Boudreau,Stefan Kipfer Pdf

The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it.” Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale. With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions’ path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized.

Author : Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781469626833

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Building the British Atlantic World by Daniel Maudlin,Bernard L. Herman Pdf

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

Author : Richard Register
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1556430094

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Ecocity Berkeley by Richard Register Pdf

Ecocity Berkeley offers innovative city planning solutions that would work anywhere, but the book offers a vision of what the future can be like with a fair amount of planning beforehand. This book is very inspirational, and could be used to advocate similar planning improvements in any large city. This book is meant for anyone interested in environmental activism, and anyone looking for serious innovations in their city.

Author : Mariana Dantas,Emma Hart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108809368

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Early Modern Atlantic Cities by Mariana Dantas,Emma Hart Pdf

The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and towns became essential to the transformations that occurred in this early modern era. This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. A source of analogous experiences of division as well as unity, they helped shape the Atlantic world as a coherent geography of analysis.