Author: Eric Homberger
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805078428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This rich selection of maps, drawings and charts offers a new perspective on the growth of New York, and provides a vivid history of the city.
Brooklyn Spaces
Author: Oriana Leckert
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580934285
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
As an incubator of culture and creativity, Brooklyn is celebrated and imitated across the world. The settings for much of its dynamic underground scene are the numerous industrial spaces that were vacated as manufacturing dwindled across the huge borough. Adapted, hacked, and reused, these spaces host an eclectic range of activities by and for Brooklyn’s unique creative class, from DIY music venues to skillsharing centers. These are spaces to make art together, throw parties and concerts, host classes and performances, grow vegetables, build innovative products, and, most importantly, to support and inspire one another while welcoming more and more collaborators into the fold. In Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, Oriana Leckert introduces us to the creators driving Brooklyn’s cultural renaissance, and in their company takes us on a tour of these unique alternative spaces. Whether a graffiti art show in an abandoned power station, a circus school in a former ice house, or a shuffleboard club in a disused die-cutting factory, these spaces present a vibrant cross-section of life in the borough where trends in music, fashion, food, and lifestyle are set. A chronicle of a thriving and ever-renewing scene, this book will appeal to everyone who’s interested in the unique energy that makes Brooklyn Brooklyn.
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580934285
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
As an incubator of culture and creativity, Brooklyn is celebrated and imitated across the world. The settings for much of its dynamic underground scene are the numerous industrial spaces that were vacated as manufacturing dwindled across the huge borough. Adapted, hacked, and reused, these spaces host an eclectic range of activities by and for Brooklyn’s unique creative class, from DIY music venues to skillsharing centers. These are spaces to make art together, throw parties and concerts, host classes and performances, grow vegetables, build innovative products, and, most importantly, to support and inspire one another while welcoming more and more collaborators into the fold. In Brooklyn Spaces: 50 Hubs of Culture and Creativity, Oriana Leckert introduces us to the creators driving Brooklyn’s cultural renaissance, and in their company takes us on a tour of these unique alternative spaces. Whether a graffiti art show in an abandoned power station, a circus school in a former ice house, or a shuffleboard club in a disused die-cutting factory, these spaces present a vibrant cross-section of life in the borough where trends in music, fashion, food, and lifestyle are set. A chronicle of a thriving and ever-renewing scene, this book will appeal to everyone who’s interested in the unique energy that makes Brooklyn Brooklyn.
Brooklyn's Promised Land
Author: Judith Wellman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479874477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479874477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.
The Historical Atlas of New York City, Second Edition
Author: Eric Homberger
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805078428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This rich selection of maps, drawings and charts offers a new perspective on the growth of New York, and provides a vivid history of the city.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805078428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This rich selection of maps, drawings and charts offers a new perspective on the growth of New York, and provides a vivid history of the city.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Atlas
Author: William Dwight Whitney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Names of New York
Author: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524748927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods. Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York’s neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city’s streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1524748927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods. Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York’s neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city’s streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now.
This Is Not an Atlas
Author: kollektiv orangotango
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839445191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Lebanon; from slums in Nairobi to squats in Berlin; from supporting communities in the Philippines to reporting sexual harassment in Cairo. This Is Not an Atlas seeks to inspire, to document the underrepresented, and to be a useful companion when becoming a counter-cartographer yourself.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839445191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Lebanon; from slums in Nairobi to squats in Berlin; from supporting communities in the Philippines to reporting sexual harassment in Cairo. This Is Not an Atlas seeks to inspire, to document the underrepresented, and to be a useful companion when becoming a counter-cartographer yourself.
Steg-O-Normous (The Oodlethunks, Book 2)
Author: Adele Griffin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545732905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Get set for another West Woggle adventure, starring Oona, and introducing her just-hatched cutie -- Stacy Steg Oodlethunk! Now that Oona's dino-baby has hatched from its egg, things have gotten even wackier! Stacy the enormous stegosaurus, can't wait to explore her new world. And Oona can't wait to show her off. But not everyone's ready for this big bundle of joy whose having the time of her life romping and chomping through West Woggle. With Bonk, Bruce Brute, Erma, and even the mean witch, Old Brouhaha, on the case, this loveable babe finds her right place in the hearts of these Stone-Age folks who come to depend on this Stacy Steg to save them from some prehistoric perils.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545732905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Get set for another West Woggle adventure, starring Oona, and introducing her just-hatched cutie -- Stacy Steg Oodlethunk! Now that Oona's dino-baby has hatched from its egg, things have gotten even wackier! Stacy the enormous stegosaurus, can't wait to explore her new world. And Oona can't wait to show her off. But not everyone's ready for this big bundle of joy whose having the time of her life romping and chomping through West Woggle. With Bonk, Bruce Brute, Erma, and even the mean witch, Old Brouhaha, on the case, this loveable babe finds her right place in the hearts of these Stone-Age folks who come to depend on this Stacy Steg to save them from some prehistoric perils.
The Century Atlas of the World
Author: Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Map Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
American Maps and Mapmakers
Author: Walter William Ristow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description