Seeing the City
Author | : Nanke Verloo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789463728942 |
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Author | : Nanke Verloo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789463728942 |
Author | : F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781640322806 |
Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920's America, Fitzgerald's lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound. This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader.
Author | : Frank Gagliano |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : One-act plays, American |
ISBN | : 9780573620805 |
Author | : Ash Amin |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-01-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1509515623 |
Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city. Such a view locates urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks, which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping social opportunities, maintaining order and simply enabling life. More than the silent stage on which other powers perform, such networks represent the essence of the city. They also form an important political project, a politics of small interventions with large effects. The increasing evidence for an Anthropocene bears out the way in which humanity has stamped its footprint on the planet by constructing urban forms that act as systems for directing life in ways that create both immense power and immense constraint.
Author | : Michelle Sinclair Colman |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 152471500X |
See the city through the eyes of a child and parent in this heartwarming exploration of a day spent together. You see a bustling city, I see adventure ahead! What will you see in the city? It depends on who you ask! As a parent and child visit the newspaper stand, the store, the park, and more, each points out what they can see . . . and their perspectives might surprise you! With spare, rhyming text and a bold limited palette, this simple board book captures the fun and tenderness of exploring new places together, and the joy of seeing the world through a child's eyes. Don't miss the first book in this series, You See, I See: On the Farm!
Author | : Sean Corcoran |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0500545529 |
An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd Webb. I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics—from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb’s work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. A native of Detroit, Webb studied photography in the 1930s under the guidance of Ansel Adams at the Detroit Camera Club, served as a navy photographer during World War II, and went on to become a successful postwar photographer. His work is in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This book, now available in a compact edition, helps contemporary audiences get to know a forgotten American artist and an ever-changing city.
Author | : Tova Mirvis |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544047745 |
While spying on her neighbors with her son's toy binoculars, Nina becomes entranced with the subjects of her secret vigils until she encounters them in the real world and must decide whether to let them into her life or not.
Author | : N. K. Jemisin |
Publisher | : Orbit |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 031650985X |
Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power. In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it's as if the paint is literally calling to her. In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels. And they're not the only ones. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The Broken Kingdoms The Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella) Dreamblood Duology The Killing Moon The Shadowed Sun The Dreamblood Duology (omnibus) The Broken Earth The Fifth Season The Obelisk Gate The Stone Sky How Long 'til Black Future Month? (short story collection) "A glorious fantasy." —Neil Gaiman
Author | : China Miéville |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345515668 |
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.
Author | : James Morrow |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156180429 |
Jack Sperry is a loyal citizen of Veritas, the City of Truth, until tragedy strikes his life, and he must hide from truth in order to save his son's life.