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Book Remaking American Communities

Download or read book Remaking American Communities written by David C. Soule and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban sprawl has gained much national attention in recent years. Sprawl involves not only land-use issues but also legal, political, and social concerns. It affects our schools, the environment, and race relations. Comprehensive enough for high school students and also appropriate for college undergraduates, Remaking American Communities delves into the challenges of urban sprawl by turning to some of America's top thinkers on the problem, including Robert Yaro, president of the Regional Plan Association. Other cutting-edge essays include a foreword about the emergence of sprawl by nationally syndicated columnist Neal Peirce, views about race and class by former mayor of Albuquerque David Rusk, and a discussion of transportation dynamics by Curtis Johnson, president of the Citistates Group. ø The essays in this collection explore the core issues of sprawl and the agenda for dealing with it. Complete with a glossary, resources, and contact information for smart-growth alliances, this book is extremely user-friendly. David C. Soule offers an unbiased viewpoint of this national phenomenon in a way that will be accessible to students and those with little background in the issue.

Book Revolutionary Ideas in Planning

Download or read book Revolutionary Ideas in Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Games People Play

Download or read book Games People Play written by Eric Berne and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Triangle

Download or read book The Golden Triangle written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and India. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture, "Empire of Signs", but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas, political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, and a number of other social scientists. This manuscript is, at first, a guide to Rajasthan and India, and it is that but it is also more in that it considers tourism from both an anthropological and sociological level.Berger begins with statistics on tourism and other aspects of life in Rajasthan and India, and then considers how tourism in India compares with tourism in other important tourism destinations. He refers to the "Imaginary India" as the picture created in tourists' minds with the help of guidebooks, media, and the Internet before they actually travel to India. He then discusses these representations and how they are actually different from the country itself. The trip itself then becomes the search for the authentic India - the goal is to find places before they are discovered. He calls this "Semiotic Rajasthan," where the representations are compared to actuality.After offering a discussion of semiotic theory, it interprets and analyzes a number of important aspects of Rajasthani and Indian culture such as: the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Winds in Jaipur, the notorious rat temple in Deshnok, and sacred cows. Lastly, he discusses his own trip and how the impact of Rajasthan did not fully register until he returned home.This manuscript's strength lies in the author's ability to write in an accessible manner, assemble the project in an interesting way, and include only that information which will guide the reader along the narrative trail. While this manuscript really is a guidebook to Rajasthan, it could also serve as a good introduction to ethnography for beginning students and an interested general audience. It moves from basic explanations, such as that of semiotics, to complex applications all with the grace of good story telling.

Book Monthly Checklist of State Publications

Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.

Book I 805 Nobel Drive Interchange and Extension Project  Between Nobel Drive and Miramar Road LaJolla Village Drive and the Extension of Nobel Drive from Shoreline Drive to Miramar Road

Download or read book I 805 Nobel Drive Interchange and Extension Project Between Nobel Drive and Miramar Road LaJolla Village Drive and the Extension of Nobel Drive from Shoreline Drive to Miramar Road written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pittsburgh Area Transportation Study

Download or read book Pittsburgh Area Transportation Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Massachusetts State Publications

Download or read book Massachusetts State Publications written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture

Download or read book The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture written by Michael Brightman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporate SketchUp into every phase of your design If you want to go beyond the basics and start using SketchUp 3D modeling software in all phases of your design, The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is the perfect place to start. From preliminary schematics to construction documentation and everything in between, the book sketches out a workflow that is flexible enough to use from start to finish. You'll discover helpful techniques, smart tips, and best practices that will make your design process easier, as well as helping you easily export your models into BIM programs. The book includes in-depth coverage of the lightly-documented LayOut toolset and video tutorials on more advanced methods. Goes beyond the basics into intermediate and advanced techniques for architects, designers, and engineers who want to use SketchUp in all stages of design Guides you from basic schematics through design development to construction documentation Includes best practices for organizing projects and workflows and helpful tips Provides special coverage of the LayOut toolset, an often-underused component of SketchUp Pro The SketchUp Workflow for Architecture is a valuable addition to your design toolkit.

Book Appalachia

Download or read book Appalachia written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sport in a Changing World

Download or read book Sport in a Changing World written by Howard Nixon II and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world. This edition is a condensed and updated version of the first edition, with an emphasis on current social issues in sport. It also has more global content. The golden triangle concept is more developed and applied more extensively. Other key themes of the first edition—power, status, and inequality—are also more developed. New "Stop and Think Questions" have been added to challenge students to think about the meaning of what they have read. The book is now divided into five sections. The new sections highlight sociology and the sociology of sport; inequality and diversity; globalization and social deviance; major social contexts of sport, including the high school, college, and professional levels; and power, political economy, and global sports.

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North Shore Connector Project  Allegheny County

Download or read book North Shore Connector Project Allegheny County written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resource Use Efficiency and Optimum Cropping Pattern in Rajasthan

Download or read book Resource Use Efficiency and Optimum Cropping Pattern in Rajasthan written by Dr. M. K. Jangid, Dr. (Mrs.) Latika Sharma, Dr. D. C. Pant and published by Nitya Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First of all, I ordiently pay my obeisance to “Maa Saraswati and Lord Hanumana” with whose grace and blessings I could accomplish this task. It is a matter of pride and honour for me to express my sincere and deep sense of gratitude to my esteemed teacher and major advisor, Dr. (Mrs.) Latika Sharma, Assistant Professor & Officer Incharge (CCPC), Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur for stimulative guidance, incessant encouragement, constructive suggestions, painstalking, keen and sustained efforts throughtout the course of study without which it would not have been possible for me to complete this work.

Book Understanding Alain Robbe Grillet

Download or read book Understanding Alain Robbe Grillet written by Roch C. Smith and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transforming bewilderment into understanding and pleasure while preserving a sense of Robbe-Grillet's considerable richness and complexity, Smith elucidates the defining elements of the writer's fictional world - characters that barely exist, changeable narrators, plots that defy logic, notoriously meticulous descriptions that never quite form a complete story. Smith examines Robbe-Grillet's embrace of discontinuity, circularity, indeterminacy, and linguistic play. Smith also poses questions about how we should view this perplexing writer: as an author of hyperobjective novels and short stories, a subjective novelist, a realist, or a writer who undermines the narrative's claim to represent reality. In addition Smith evaluates the sado-erotic imagery of Robbe-Grillet's middle and late novels as a metaphorical play with textual and social conventions."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Digital Paper

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Abbott
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-08-04
  • ISBN : 022616781X
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Digital Paper written by Andrew Abbott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shows the reader how to harness new technology while upholding the highest standards of research. The result is a joy to read . . . a boon for students.” —Robert J. Sampson, professor of the social sciences at Harvard University Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern university research library? In Digital Paper, Andrew Abbott provides some much-needed answers to that question. Abbott tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a nonlinear world. He breaks library research down into seven basic and simultaneous tasks: design, search, scanning/browsing, reading, analyzing, filing, and writing. He moves the reader through the phases of research, from confusion to organization, from vague idea to polished result. He teaches how to evaluate data and prior research; how to follow a trail to elusive treasures; how to organize a project; when to start over; when to ask for help. He shows how an understanding of scholarly values, a commitment to hard work, and the flexibility to change direction combine to enable the researcher to turn a daunting mass of found material into an effective paper or thesis. More than a mere how-to manual, Abbott’s guidebook helps teach good habits for acquiring knowledge, the foundation of knowledge worth knowing. Those looking for ten easy steps to a perfect paper may want to look elsewhere. But serious scholars, who want their work to stand the test of time, will appreciate Abbott’s unique, forthright approach and relish every page of Digital Paper.