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Author | : Cristiano Bianchi |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262043335 |
A photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's “model” utopia. The story of Pyongyang is unique even in the annals of model cities and modernist utopias. Entirely rebuilt after the Korean War, North Korea's capital city was planned and fully implemented to embody a single ideological vision. This extraordinary, richly illustrated book takes readers on a photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's “model” utopia. Built as an ideological guide for its citizens, Pyongyang displays a unique architectural cohesion and narrative. From the city's large-scale monumental axes to its symbolic sports halls and experimental housing, Model City offers offers comprehensive visual access to Pyongyang's restricted buildings. The architecture of Pyongyang exists within a culture that favors construction and renewal over historical preservation, and in recent years many buildings have been redeveloped to remove interior features or render facades unrecognizable. Often kitschy, colorful, and dramatic, Pyongyang's architecture makes it difficult to distinguish between reality and theater. As befits a culture that has carefully crafted its own narrative, the backdrop of each photograph in Model City has been replaced with a color gradient, evoking the pastel skies of North Korea's propaganda posters. Model City features two hundred color illustrations of buildings rarely seen by non-North Koreans, diagrams and architectural drawings that reveal the planning behind the city's elaborate symbolism, and texts by experts on Korean architecture—including an excerpt from On Architecture by Kim Jong-Il, father of the current leader Kim Jong-un. The authors' research has been supported by Koryo Studio and Korea Cities Federation.
Author | : Marshall Kaplan, Gans, and Kahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Describes the characteristics of a wide variety of rodents--mice, rats, squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, lemmings, beavers, and others--and discusses their suitability as pets.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Housing |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Housing |
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Author | : Mandi Isaacs Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2008-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the “ideal city” by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By reexamining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city's present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to redefine and reimagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes.
Author | : Marshall Kaplan, Gans, and Kahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : United States. President's Task Force on Model Cities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : Donna Stonecipher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9781848613881 |
Model City answers its own inaugural question 'What was it like?' in 288 different ways. The accumulation of these answers offers a form of sustained and refined negative capability, which by turns is wry, profound and abundant with an unspecified longing for the passing ghost of European idealism. In the various enquiries and explorations of Model City this is also the mapping of a lived condition and its relationships not readily found on every street corner, nor in the broken ideologies from the populist bargain basement proffered by our political cadres. What becomes apparent is that the model city/Model City exists by virtue of a poet's wit and inventiveness, in its accomplished and elegantly measured language. Stonecipher's mesmerizing, epigrammatic fables establish the off-centre polis where, oddly, we find ourselves at home.-Kelvin Corcoran
Author | : Ross J. Gittell |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400863090 |
The cities of Lowell and New Bedford in Massachusetts, Jamestown in New York, and McKeesport in Pennsylvania have all undergone years of adversity and decline, their economic bases having been badly damaged by structural changes in the national economy, particularly in the manufacturing sector. In situations like these, can local development efforts make a difference? Ross Gittell answers in the affirmative. This interdisciplinary work focuses on comparative case studies of the four cities. The book reveals how public, private, and community-based local economic development initiatives affect local economic performance: what works and what does not work. City leaders and institutions can help reorganize and "reshuffle" local resources, with results that include increased investment, greater effort by local individuals and institutions, more cooperation among different development interests, and improvement in city economic positioning relative to the regional economy and local development cycles. Gittell emphasizes the possibility of shifting from a "zero-sum game" (attracting jobs from elsewhere) toward the goal of converting underutilized local resources to higher-value uses through alternative forms of economic and political organization. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : George J. Washnis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : City planning |
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