A gifted musician relates the events of 1967 that impacted his family and friends, from his indomitable "piano man" grandfather and struggling singer single mother to the everyday saints and sinners who shaped his life.
On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself.
In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live.
This book will help public officials, civic organizations, downtown business property owners, and people who care about cities learn from successful recent actions in downtowns across the country, and expand opportunities facing their ...
The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Johnson, Second Gold Rush, 30. 88. Coletta and Bauer, United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, 6864704. 89.Johnson, Second Gold Rush, 32. 90. Here Dellums is referring to the precursor to the Federal Employment Practices Com— mittee.
BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.
In The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers transports us to a magical world where reading is a remarkable adventure. Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book.
Mercy in the City is for anyone who is struggling to live in a meaningful, merciful way amid the pressures of “real life.” For those who feel they are already overscheduled and too busy, for those who assume that they are not ...
Or, better yet, in the words of Tamika Butler, “co-powering.” Where I fail, I will try to learn and do better in the future. I hope our approaches to housing policy advocacy and reform can share a similar spirit.
Not Charity but Justice: The Story of Jacob A. Riis. New York: Vanguard, 1974. Mills, C. Wright. ... In Power, Culture, and Place: Essays on New York City, edited by John Hull Mollenkopf, 223–58. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988.