Author: Charleston (W. Va.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Imagine Charleston
Author: Charleston (W. Va.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Charleston
Author: Susan CrawfordPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639363580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
An unflinching look at a beautiful, endangered, tourist-pummeled, and history-filled American city. At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public complacency about racial issues compound; the city, like our country, has no plan to protect its most vulnerable. In these pages, Susan Crawford tells the story of a city that has played a central role in America's painful racial history for centuries and now, as the waters rise, stands at the intersection of climate and race. Unbeknownst to the seven million mostly white tourists who visit the charming streets of the lower peninsula each year, the Holy City is in a deeply precarious position. Weaving science, narrative history, and the family stories of Black Charlestonians, Charleston chronicles the tumultuous recent past in the life of the city—from protests to hurricanes—while revealing the escalating risk in its future. A bellwether for other towns and cities, Charleston is emblematic of vast portions of the American coast, with a future of inundation juxtaposed against little planning to ensure a thriving future for all residents. In Charleston, we meet Rev. Joseph Darby, a well-regarded Black minister with a powerful voice across the city and region who has an acute sense of the city's shortcomings when it comes to matters of race and water. We also hear from Michelle Mapp, one of the city's most promising Black leaders, and Quinetha Frasier, a charismatic young Black entrepreneur with Gullah-Geechee roots who fears her people’s displacement. And there is Jacob Lindsey, a young white city planner charged with running the city’s ten-year “comprehensive plan” efforts who ends up working for a private developer. These and others give voice to the extraordinary risks the city is facing. The city of Charleston, with its explosive gentrification over the last thirty years, crystallizes a human tendency to value development above all else. At the same time, Charleston stands for our need to change our ways—and the need to build higher, drier, more densely-connected places where all citizens can live safely. Illuminating and vividly rendered, Charleston is a clarion call and filled with characters who will stay in the reader’s mind long after the final page.
Imagine a Day
Author: Sarah L. ThomsonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442436786
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Imagine a day when your swing swings you higher than the highest treetops. Imagine a day when you can ride your bike up a path of falling leaves into the very tree they are falling from. Imagine a day when you release a handful of blue balloons into a cloudy, gray sky to create a postcard-perfect day. Imagine a day when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary...a day when anything is possible. Imagine a Day is the companion book to the critically acclaimed Imagine a Night, which School Library Journal declared "a fascinating foray into the imagination." Renowned Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves once again stretches the limits of visual exploration with his breathtaking paintings and encourages parents and children alike to look beyond the limits of the everyday world and imagine.
Imagine Charleston
Author: Charleston (W. Va.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Inside
Author: George F. HarringtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752553170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Charleston
Author: Quentin BellPublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 0711239312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney's atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell's family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday.
A Solitary Blue
Author: Cynthia VoigtPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689310080
Category : Children's audiobooks
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
City and State
Author: Herbert WelshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal home rule
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
S.A. Pictorical
Author: The Topical Excerpt Library
Author: Euclid Beauclerc RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description