Download or read book At Home in the City written by Elizabeth Klimasmith and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.
Download or read book At Home in the City written by Stacy Torres and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2025 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. The sensitive portrait Torres paints in At Home in the City moves us beyond stereotypes of older people as either rich and pampered or downtrodden and frail to capture the multilayered complexity of late life. These pages chronicle how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan served as a public living room, providing company to ease loneliness and a sympathetic ear to witness the monumental and mundane struggles of late life. Through years of careful observation, Torres peels away the layers of this oft-neglected social world and explores the constellation of relationships and experiences that Western culture often renders invisible or frames as a problem. At Home in the City strikes a realistic balance as it highlights how people find support, flex their resilience, and assert their importance in their communities in old age.
Download or read book At Home in Rome A Blogger s Eye View of the Eternal City written by Shelley Ruelle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has ever been to Rome, lived in Rome, or just dreamed about Rome... Shelley Ruelle, a blogger living in Rome since 2001, spends a year capturing the spirit of the Eternal City by exploring its cuisine, chatting with its people, and revealing hidden treasures and curiosities that many tourists never get the chance to see. Part guide book, part personal memoir, and part journalistic investigation, At Home in Rome takes you behind the scenes in one of the most beautiful and intriguing cities in the world.
Download or read book The Woman Home maker in the City written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Officers Teachers and Students of the Ottawa City and Township High School Ottawa La Salle County Illinois written by Ottawa (Ill.). Board of Trustees and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staycation Ideas Exciting Vacation Ideas for Your Home City written by Victoria B. and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Staycations may not be a new concept, but they are quickly becoming a trendy alternative to spending time off work in hotels, cabins or on the road. A staycation, at the heart, is a vacation held in your home. You may indulge in restaurant fare, visit local tourist attractions or simply lounge around resting and reading books, but you do it in the comfort of your own house. Thousands of American families are giving up on the idea of driving or flying to faraway locations to take their annual vacation. Between busy family schedules and the state of the economy, more and more families are opting to spend their time off work at home, exploring the sites nearby and simply relaxing in their own house and yard. While economics is the main reason many of these families opt for a staycation, you save a number of other things by staying home instead of going on the road. Physically, it may be more comfortable to spend your vacation time at home. You can sleep in your own bed, cook your own food or eat at familiar restaurants and avoid the germs from thousands of people who you might otherwise meet at a crowded vacation spot. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Every time you travel on vacation, your carbon footprint increases dramatically. Using transportation often can't be helped during your average work week, but you can completely avoid having a damaging impact on the environment while on vacation by indulging in a staycation instead of going out-of-town. Restricting travel reduces carbon dioxide emissions as well as fuel consumption, two critical areas where environmentalists are concerned. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Driving a car adds to the excess carbon dioxide in the air, adding to the greenhouse effect. Every time you make an unnecessary trip in your car, you're damaging the environment when you didn't need to. If the emissions from automobile exhaust are bad, airplane trips are even worse. According to a study by The Babcock School, the average airplane gives off one pound of carbon dioxide per mile for every passenger on board. When you consider the hundreds of miles each plane flies and the hundreds of passengers in the average commercial flight, you can begin to see the problem with unneeded plane flights going across the country every single day... Buy a copy to keep reading!
Download or read book Designing for Health Wellbeing Home City Society written by Matthew Jones and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from, amongst other things, road traffic. Within this tripartite structure of health issues in the built environment, there are multiple individual issues affecting both the developed and the developing worlds and the global north and south. Reflecting on a broad set of interrelated concerns about health and the design of the places we inhabit, this book seeks to better understand the interconnectedness and potential solutions to the problems associated with health and the built environment. Divided into three key themes: home, city, and society, each section presents a number of research chapters that explore global processes, transformative praxis and emergent trends in architecture, urban design and healthy city research. Drawing together practicing architects, academics, scholars, public health professional and activists from around the world to provide perspectives on design for health, this book includes emerging research on: healthy homes, walkable cities, design for ageing, dementia and the built environment, health equality and urban poverty, community health services, neighbourhood support and wellbeing, urban sanitation and communicable disease, the role of transport infrastructures and government policy, and the cost implications of ‘unhealthy’ cities etc. To that end, this book examines alternative and radical ways of practicing architecture and the re-imagining of the profession of architecture through a lens of human health.
Download or read book Report of a Conference of City Supervisors of Home Economics Cornell University July 5 14 1939 written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Postcolonial City and its Subjects written by Rashmi Varma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks—the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.
Download or read book City Document written by Worcester (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers Orphans of Pennsylvania for the Year written by Pennsylvania. Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on various Pennsylvania military orphan schools including description, activities and finances with some registers of students.
Download or read book Report written by Pennsylvania. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the National Conference for Good City Government and of the Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League written by National Municipal League and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Municipal Government of the City of Franklin for the Financial Year written by Franklin (N.H.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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