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Author | : Peter Swirski |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9622098622 |
All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads. Examining the history, cinema, literature, cultural myths and social geography of the United States, the book puts some of the greatest as well as the "baddest" American cities under the microscope. Taking the role of the roads that crisscross and connect the cities as their shared point of reference, these essays explore ways to understand the people who live, commute, work, create, govern, commit crime and conduct business in them.Cities, for the most part, are America. Their values and problems define not only what the United States is, but what other nations perceive the United States to be. Roads and transportation, on the other hand, and their impact on the American culture and lifestyle, form not only the integral part of the historical rise-and-shine of the modern city, but a physical release from and a cultural antidote to its pressure-cooker stresses. Tracing the boundless variety and complexity of these twin themes, All Roads Lead to the American City is built around an interlinked series of essays on the urban culture in America. Juxtaposing the city and the road, it looks alternatively at cities as historical, geographical, social and cultural centres of life in the land, and at roads as physical as well as metaphorical arteries that lead in and out of the city.
Author | : Peter Swirski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Chapters include: 'All Roads Lead from the American City', 'In the City and on the Road in Asian American Film', 'Just Apassin' Through' and 'Urbs Americana'.
Author | : Bonnie Chau |
Publisher | : Santa Fe Writers Project |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939650895 |
“ Chau' s voice is strong, the stories tense. Readers should snatch this collection up.” — Mat Johnson, author of Loving DayUnflinching portrayals of desire and alienation fill Bonnie Chau's award-winning story collection. Chau's short fiction explores the lives of young women navigating love, failure, heritage, and memory, and presents a fresh perspective of second-generation Chinese-Americans. Moving back and forth between California and New York, and ranging as far away as Paris, Chau's exquisitely written stories are bold, highly imaginative, and haunting, featuring characters who defiantly exert their individuality.
Author | : Charles Harry Briscoe |
Publisher | : U.S. Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
By Charles H. Briscoe, et al. Tells the story of Iraqi Freedom, the second Army Special Operations (ASO) campaign in America's Global War on Terrorism. Shows how the ASO supported a US-led conventional air and ground offensive to collapse the regime of Saddam Hussein and capture Baghdad. Includes bibliographical references.
Author | : Philip Kobylarz |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1925536270 |
""These short excursions into the many Frances Philip Kobylarz knows and loves are complete in themselves and add up to one traveler's intelligent, visceral, immediate appreciation of French culture. A tonic getaway for the weary and jaded, this is both a cheap vacation, and a rich one. I loved it. 'All Roads Lead from Massilia' is engrossing and palpable."" Stephen D. Gutierrez, author of 'The Mexican Man in His Backyard, Stories & Essays'
Author | : Peter Swirski |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2007-02-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134104413 |
"Of Literature and Knowledge looks ... like an important advance in this new and very important subject... literature is about to become even more interesting." – Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University. Framed by the theory of evolution, this colourful and engaging volume presents a new understanding of the mechanisms by which we transfer information from narrative make-believe to real life. Ranging across game theory and philosophy of science, as well as poetics and aesthetics, Peter Swirski explains how literary fictions perform as a systematic tool of enquiry, driven by thought experiments. Crucially, he argues for a continuum between the cognitive tools employed by scientists, philosophers and scholars or writers of fiction. The result is a provocative study of our talent and propensity for creating imaginary worlds, different from the world we know yet invaluable to our understanding of it. Of Literature and Knowledge is a noteworthy challenge to contemporary critical theory, arguing that by bridging the gap between literature and science we might not only reinvigorate literary studies but, above all, further our understanding of literature.
Author | : M. Nolan Gray |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1642832545 |
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up
Author | : Deanna Jean Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Kaitlin N. Sidorsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780700627868 |
Transforms the arguments about why women are not found in more and higher positions of political power from their lack of self-confidence or a biased political sphere by expanding the definition of political sphere beyond elective office.
Author | : Jerry Mitchell |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780791473108 |
Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life.