City in a Garden

City in a Garden
Author: Andrew M. Busch
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469632659

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its growth. Yet, as Austin modernized and attracted an educated and skilled labor force, the demand to preserve its natural spaces was used to justify economic and racial segregation. This effort to create and maintain a "city in a garden" perpetuated uneven social and economic power relationships throughout the twentieth century. In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. While Austin's mainstream environmental record is impressive, its minority groups continue to live on the economic, social, and geographic margins of the city. By demonstrating how the city's midcentury modernization and progressive movement sustained racial oppression, restriction, and uneven development in the decades that followed, Busch reveals the darker ramifications of Austin's green growth.

Garden City

Garden City
Author: John Mark Comer
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310337321

You've heard people say, "Who you are matters more than what you do." But does the Bible really teach us that? Join pastor and bestselling author John Mark Comer in Garden City as he guides twenty- and thirty-somethings through understanding and embracing their God-given calling. In Garden City, John Mark Comer gives a surprisingly countercultural take on the typical "spiritual" answer the church gives in response to questions about purpose and calling. Comer explores Scripture to discover God's original intent for how we're meant to spend our time, reshaping how you view and engage in your work, rest, and life. In these pages, you'll learn that, ultimately, what we do matters just as much as who we are. Garden City will help you find answers to questions like: Does God care where I work? Does he have a clear direction for me? How can I create a practice of rest? Praise for Garden City: "In Garden City, John Mark Comer takes the reader on a journey--from creation to the final heavenly city. But the journey is designed to let each of us see where we are to find ourselves in God's good plan to partner with us in the redemption of all creation. There is in Garden City an intoxication with the Bible's biggest and life-changing ideas." --Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

From the Garden to the City

From the Garden to the City
Author: John Dyer
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 082548930X

Believers and unbelievers alike are saturated with technology, yet most give it little if any thought. Consumers buy and upgrade as fast as they can, largely unaware of technology’s subtle yet powerful influence. In a world where technology changes almost daily, many are left to wonder: Should Christians embrace all that is happening? Are there some technologies that we need to avoid? Does the Bible give us any guidance on how to use digital tools and social media?

Growing a Garden City

Growing a Garden City
Author: Jeremy N. Smith
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-10-06
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1616081082

An in-depth look at local, community-based...

The City in a Garden

The City in a Garden
Author: Julia Sniderman Bachrach
Publisher: Center for Amer Places Incorporated
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2001-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781930066021

Enhanced by 140 images, a documentary chronicle of Chicago's parks profiles thirty-one of the city's finest spaces--both contemporary and historical-along with detailed vignettes and captions to trace their development.

The City in a Garden

The City in a Garden
Author: John Mark Hansen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2019
Genre: Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.)
ISBN: 9781647130817

The Art of Building a Garden City

The Art of Building a Garden City
Author: Kate Henderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-08-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000701476

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the 21st Century. Bringing together key findings from the TCPA’s campaign work, and drawing on lessons from the first garden cities, the new towns programme and other large-scale developments, it identifies what steps need to be taken in order to deliver the highest standards of design and place making today.

Colby and Garden City, Kans

Colby and Garden City, Kans
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1977
Genre: Food relief
ISBN:

Planning the Good Community

Planning the Good Community
Author: Jill Grant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2006
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9780415700757

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today's planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good. With the benefit of twenty years' hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.