Author: Jerome Klapka JeromePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Street of the Blank Wall
Author: Jerome Klapka JeromePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Blank Wall
Author: Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingPublisher: Persephone Books
ISBN: 9781903155325
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A suburban matron, harassed by wartime domestic problems - her husband is overseas - finds herself implicated in the murder of her young daughter's extremely unattractive beau. This novel is about maternal love and about the heroine's relationship with those around her, especially her children and her maid.
The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome
Author: Jerome K. JeromePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465527389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 5322
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: San Francisco Free Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
City
Author: William H. WhytePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220834X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.
The Essential William H. Whyte
Author: William Hollingsworth WhytePublisher: LaFarge Literary Agency
ISBN: 0823220265
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man (1956), Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements (1959), The Last Landscape (1968), The Social Life of Urban Spaces (1980), and City: Rediscovering the Center (1988), as well as many of Whyte's articles from Fortune magazine.
City Comforts
Author: David M. SucherPublisher: City Comforts Inc.
ISBN: 0964268027
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The City of Akhenaten
Author: Thomas Eric PeetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: American Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Papers and Proceedings
Author: American Library Association. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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