City

  • City: Urbanism and Its End
    By Douglas W. Rae

    I was also in charge of delivering magazines to students over at Yale while still in grade school. In 1924 I started out working for Barnes Typewriter at the age of fourteen. Barnes would take off for Florida, leave the place in the ...

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    By Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated

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  • City
    By Phil Hubbard

    Incidentally, another film with Julia Roberts – Notting Hill (1999) – represents London as an urban village where people from all walks of life mingle, allowing social and sexual relations to be forged between unlikely protagonists.

  • City
    By Clifford D. Simak

    The ones that called the family roll – starting with William Stevens, 1920–1999. Gramp Stevens, they had called him, Webster remembered. Father of the wife of that first John J. Webster, who was here himself – 1951–2020.

  • City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
    By David Macaulay

    Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.

  • City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
    By P.D. Smith

    ... 92 Hong Kong, 66-7, 203, 222, 298 Hoovervilles, 135 Hoppé, E. O., 167 Horta, Victor, 240 hospitals, 41, 55 hotels, 152-9 Houston, James D., 174 Howard, Ebenezer, 44, 47-8, 141, 144 Howrah, 21 Hughes, Langston, 13o hundred-mile city, ...

  • City
    By Nicholas Harris

    In this title, you can read about the story of a city. From its humble beginnings as a small farming village, it grows into a Roman fortress town, a Viking trading centre and a medieval cathedral city.

  • City: Rediscovering the Center
    By William H. Whyte

    Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . .

  • City
    By Clifford D. Simak

    This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers.

  • City
    By Abi Hall

    Run little fingers along these chunky, die-cut shapes and guess what created the tracks!

  • City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
    By P.D. Smith

    Whereas downtowns were once the engines of the American economy, now 'boomburbs' are the new economic powerhouses. Grouped around freeway intersections, shopping strips and office parks, boomburbs are a product of the suburban ...

  • City
    By Phil Hubbard

    In this volume, Phil Hubbard locates the concept of ‘the city’ within current traditions of social thought, providing a basis for understanding its varying usages and meanings through a critical discussion of the contribution of key ...

  • City
    By Peggy Pancella

    It may have thousands or even millions of people. Most cities have a downtown with many tall buildings. Other neighborhoods have homes and businesses. A city and the communities around it make up a metropolitan area.

  • City: Rediscovering the Center
    By William H. Whyte

    Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . .

  • City
    By Phil Hubbard

    ... Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. Shaw, K. (2015) The ... urbanism: a manifesto. Urban Geography 34(7): 893–900. Shevky, E. and Bell, W. (1955) Social Area Analysis. Stanford ...

  • City: A Poem from the End of the World
    By Michael Boughn

    The poetic narration in this series operates as a kind of cloaking device, surprising our assumptions with its anti-spatiality from 'those mouths at the edge of the sky.

  • City
    By Alessandro Baricco

    Out of these stories, Alessandro Baricco creates a masterpiece of metaphysical pulp fiction that recalls both Scheherazade and Italo Calvino. By turns exhilarating and deeply moving, City is irresistible.

  • City
    By Clifford D. Simak

    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.