Libraries in Metropolis
Author | : Community Studies, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Community Studies, Inc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ben Wilson |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385543476 |
In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, cities created such a flourishing of human endeavor—new professions, new forms of art, worship and trade—that they kick-started civilization. Guiding us through the centuries, Wilson reveals the innovations nurtured by the inimitable energy of human beings together: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Époque Paris. In the modern age, the skyscrapers of New York City inspired utopian visions of community design, while the trees of twenty-first-century Seattle and Shanghai point to a sustainable future in the age of climate change. Page-turning, irresistible, and rich with engrossing detail, Metropolis is a brilliant demonstration that the story of human civilization is the story of cities.
Author | : B. A. Shapiro |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616209585 |
This masterful novel of psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger follows a cast of unforgettable characters whose lives intersect when a harrowing accident occurs at the Metropolis Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But was it really an accident? Was it suicide? A murder? Six mysterious characters, who rent units in, or are connected to, the self-storage facility, must now reevaluate their lives. We meet Serge, an unstable but brilliant street photographer who lives in his unit, which overflows with thousands of undeveloped pictures; Zach, the building's owner, who develops Serge's photos as he searches for clues to the accident; Marta, an undocumented immigrant who is finishing her dissertation and hiding from ICE; Liddy, an abused wife and mother, who recreates her children's bedroom in her unit; Jason, who has left his corporate firm and now practices law from his storage unit; and Rose, the office manager, who takes kickbacks to let renters live in the building and has her own complicated family history. The characters have a variety of backgrounds: they are different races; they practice different religions; they're young and they're not so young; they are rich, poor, and somewhere in the middle. As they dip in and out of one another's lives, fight circumstances that are within and also beyond their control, and try to discover the details of the accident, Shapiro both dismantles the myth of the American dream and builds tension to an exciting climax. For readers of Janelle Brown, Lucy Foley, Megan Abbott, and Laura Lippman, Metropolis is an original, spellbinding, and moving story of what we hang on to, what we might need to let go, and how unexpected events can lead us to discover our truest selves.
Author | : Julia Guarneri |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022634133X |
Julia Guarneri's book considers turn-of-the-century newspapers in New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago not just as vessels of information but as active agents in the creation of cities and of urban culture. Guarneri argues that newspapers sparked cultural, social, and economic shifts that transformed a rural republic into a nation of cities, and that transformed rural people into self-identified metropolitans and moderns. The book pays closest attention to the content and impact of "feature news," such as advice columns, neighborhood tours, women's pages, comic strips, and Sunday magazines. While papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility. Editors drew in new reading audiences--women, immigrants, and working-class readers--giving rise to the diverse, contentious, and commercial public sphere of the twentieth century.
Author | : Peter J. Westwick |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520289064 |
"Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation
Author | : Andreas Huyssen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674416724 |
Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.
Author | : Patrick F. Cannon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Traces the birth and growth of the early-twentieth-century Prairie School, a baker's dozen of architects working in Chicago who designed houses marked by simplicity, honesty of materials, open planning, and organic decoration.
Author | : Benoit Tardif |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2020-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781787418547 |
Author | : Reginald Pelham Bolton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |