Author: New York (N.Y.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Urban Renewal Designations
Author: New York (N.Y.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Federal Register
Author: Federal Register, ... Annual Index
Author: Shaw School Urban Renewal Area, 1st-3rd Action Years
Author: Maxwell Street
Author: Tim CresswellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022660439X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen to the blues, and encounter new foods and cultures. Now, redeveloped and renamed University Village, it could hardly be more different. In Maxwell Street, Cresswell advocates approaching the study of place as an “assemblage” of things, meanings, and practices. He models this innovative approach through a montage format that exposes the different types of texts—primary, secondary, and photographic sources—that have attempted to capture the essence of the area. Cresswell studies his historical sources just as he explores the different elements of Maxwell Street—exposing them layer by layer. Brilliantly interweaving words and images, Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place that will interest anyone in the fields of geography, urban studies, or cultural history.
Reflective Retirement
Author: Thomas MurphyPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304668991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Reflective recounting of youthful years and a working life spent in Buffalo NY, as well as the joys and contentment found during retirement years in Florida
Reflection On Life In Buffalo NY (1932-92)
Author: Thomas MurphyPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595408583
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Tom Murphy, and his family, lived in Buffalo NY. At various times he was employed as a landscaper, appliance salesman, insurance agent, real estate developer, and civil servant. He worked for, and with, some of Buffalo's most noted, and controversial business and political figures, including Joseph N Desmon, Harold Farber, Robert J Bradley, Philip B Schwab, Edward H Cottrell, as well as Frank Sedita, Stanley Makowski and Jimmy Griffin. Murphy loved each and every job, and yet he always found time to laugh and to play with friends and family.
City on a Hill
Author: Alex KriegerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674246454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America’s leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment. The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal—one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare—and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas. Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.
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