Download or read book Building Rural Michigan written by Gene W. Heck and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rural Advocate written by Michigan. Rural Development Program and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rural Schoolhouses written by Michigan. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings written by Hemalata Dandekar and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thoughtfully documenting the voice and emotions of many who might otherwise remain unheard, Hemalata Dandekar provides in-depth accounts and insights, underpinned by quietly rigorous analysis, about family interactions and the perceptions, understandings, and memories of family members . . . a tribute to the indomitability of the human spirit as an enduring force in sustaining farm life on the Michigan farms." ---Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Michigan's family farms form the backbone of the state. One need only see the Centennial Farm signs that dot the sides of the state's country roads to understand that. Hemalata Dandekar shows in her new book just how connected those family farm buildings are to the families that inhabit them. Eight family-farm case studies display farm buildings' relationship to the land they sit on, their function on the farm, the materials they're made with, the farm enterprises themselves, and the families who own them. Photographs, plans, elevations, and sections of typical, exemplary traditional farm buildings show the aesthetic and architectural qualities of those types of buildings across the state. The ways in which the buildings serve the productive activities of the farm, shelter and nourish the people and livestock, yield a living, and enable the aspirations of farm people are shown in the words and photographs of the farmers themselves. The buildings form a window into the lives of Michigan's family farms and into the hearts and minds of the people who have lived and worked in them their entire lives. Hemalata C. Dandekar is head of City and Regional Planning at California Polytechnic State University. She specializes in urbanization, urban-rural linkages, rural development, and gender and housing. She developed her love of Michigan farmers and farm architecture during her years as a student, professor, and then director at the Urban Planning program of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.
Download or read book Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings written by Hemalata Dandekar and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A window into the roles and construction of Michigan family farms
Download or read book Rural Michigan written by Lew Allen Chase and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III OTHER RESOURCES OF MICHIGAN The possessors of the land came into a rich inheritance of natural wealth?of forest life, of edible and medicinal plants, of aquatic animal and vegetable organisms, of valuable rocks, minerals, metals and fuels. The varied conditions of climate, topography, soil and geological structure favored a great variety of natural resources. This in turn has affected the distribution of population and of industries. The limitation of agriculture to restricted areas has perpetuated undeveloped regions still open to exploration and exploitation by the industrial pioneer. THE FORESTS To the first white settlers, the timber resources of Michigan appeared inexhaustible, and they fiercely assailed the forest as the chief hindrance to a livelihood from the soil it encumbered. Yet the pioneer was peculiarly dependent on the forest for the means of existence. It yielded building material of every sort and of a quality that today is scarcely to be obtained. It afforded shapes of every form and quality for implements and tools, furniture andequipage. Prostrate it served as fences, while its succulent twigs saved hungry live-stock from winter starvation. Erect it warded off the blasts of winter, and it bestowed upon the surface of the land its covering of humus which, of itself and through the organic life it housed, fertilized the soil and rendered sterile sands agriculturally productive, retained soil- moisture and retarded the run-off of rain and snow, withheld erosion while preserving an even flow of spring and stream. It sheltered bird and animal life useful to man. It furnished primitive road material in a land of swamps and marshes. It dripped delicious sweets and exuded essential gums and pitch. It hived the bee whose honey made a substitute for...
Download or read book Michigan Barns Et Cetera written by Jerry R. Davis and published by Artemesia Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book features fifty black and white illustrations of barns, bridges, churches, and other rural buildings throughout Michigan. Each drawing is enhanced by a vignette about the structures featured. The fifty illustrations are suitable for framing and the accompanying vignettes (only one or two pages in length) contain interesting facts, figures, and anecdotes about the buildings. Michigan Barns, Et Cetera is a wonderful book for anybody interested in art and the rural history of Michigan.
Download or read book Building Rural Linkages written by Mary A. Agria and published by . This book was released on 1981* with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buildings of Michigan written by Kathryn Bishop Eckert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert provides the first study of Michigan's architectural history to encompass the full range of buildings from early settlement to the present and to account for the full spectrum of architectural styles unique to this state. Dividing the state into two regional sections--the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula--the book examines such structures as the mine locations in the Copper Range, early inns and houses along the Sauk Trail, the sandstone architecture of the Lake Superior region, resort architecture of the Little Traverse region, lighthouses and lifesaving stations of the Michigan shorelines of the Upper Great Lakes, the great houses of automotive industrialists in Grosse Pointe, the factories of Albert Kahn, the work of various local architects, and so on. Buildings of each period, style, type, and material is represented and a balanced selection of structures from urban, suburban, and rural areas are maintained to capture the essence of Michigan's architectural experience.
Download or read book School Buildings Equipment and Grounds for City Graded and Rural Agricultural School Districts written by Michigan. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for Hickories written by Tom Springer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterfully written collection that establishes a new voice for the spirit of the upper Midwest and Michigan and offers a fresh look at the landscape as well as the everyday lives of the people who make up the region's small communities
Download or read book 2012 Michigan Residential Code written by ICC/Michigan and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hard Lessons written by Michigan Land Use Institute and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
