Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
City on a Grid
Author: Gerard KoeppelPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306822857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story. Praise for City on a Grid "The best account to date of the process by which an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Times Book Review "Intriguing...breezy and highly readable."--Wall Street Journal "City on a Grid tells the too little-known tale of how and why Manhattan came to be the waffle-board city we know."--The New Yorker "[An] expert investigation into what made the city special."--Publishers Weekly "A fun, fascinating, and accessible read for those curious enough to delve into the origins of an amazing city."--New York Journal of Books "Koeppel is the very best sort of writer for this sort of history."--Roanoke Times
Against the Commons
Author: Álvaro Sevilla-BuitragoPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452968020
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge. Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries. Against the Commons underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.
Morningside Heights
Author: Andrew S. DolkartPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231078511
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the Year 1876
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385124727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Transactions
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horticulture
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Includes list of members.
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners
Author: Boston (Mass.). Department of ParksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Annual Report for ...
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description