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Book 365 Things to Do in Ithaca New York

Download or read book 365 Things to Do in Ithaca New York written by Laurel Guy and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative guidebook, Ithaca insider Laurel Guy weaves 10,000 details into a portrait of the town, its people and yes, the weather. Recording her thoughts over the course of a year, she takes readers on a on-of-a kind exploration of the city and its surroundings, delving into both history and wahat's new ... Natural wonders. Offbeat outings. ... Cornell trivia. Restaurants and bars. Coffee. Art. Theater. Kidstuff. ... gorgeous gorges.--

Book Shaping a City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mack Travis
  • Publisher : Cornell Publishing
  • Release : 2018-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501730150
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Shaping a City written by Mack Travis and published by Cornell Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment. Shaping a City is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer’s involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire city—jobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of how he, along with other local developers transformed a quiet, economically challenged upstate New York town into one that is recognized nationally as among the best small cities in the country. The lessons and principles of personal relationships, cooperation and collaboration, the importance of density, and the power of a Business Improvement District to catalyze change, are ones you can take home for the development and revitalization of your city.

Book Surrounded by Reality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Turback
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-12-06
  • ISBN : 9781790869817
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Surrounded by Reality written by Michael Turback and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a popular bumper sticker in this Upstate New York town that reads, Ithaca: 10 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality. The sentiment surely has something to do with the compelling history, eccentric characters, and quirky charm of this intellectually advantaged, culturally progressive, geographically isolated place. After you've browsed through this updated edition of a local classic, you will better understand the bumper sticker's message - Ithaca is almost too good to be true. Fascinating tidbits and trivia in purposely random sequence (with generous cross-references) create a ready-to-explore trail of knowledge about Ithaca and its environs, informing and entertaining, correcting myths and misconceptions, mostly revealing an unexpected treasure trove that brings a culture and a place into sharp focus.

Book Choosing a Sustainable Future

Download or read book Choosing a Sustainable Future written by Liz Walker and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small city's big vision that can help transform your own community. We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming-one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice andcreativity. Ithaca is showing the way to meet the challenges of the day with a wide variety of practical, real-world solutions. Filled with inspiring examples, Choosing a Sustainable Future provides readers with a remarkable sense of possibility. Explore Ithaca's: bustling, vibrant farmers markets, overflowing with fresh, local produce award-winning community credit union that triples the savings of low-income people flagship college sustainability programs pioneering alternative transportation programs, such as Ithaca Carshare innovative efforts by coalitions of local business, university, government and activists to create transformation in areas as diverse as green building, city planning, health and wellness, and honoring cultural diversity. Taken together, these examples of citizen engagement are a taste of what life could be like in a sustainable city of the future. In a time of overwhelming economic, social and environmental crises, Choosing aSustainable Future provides a quiet, authoritative voice of hope.

Book The People We Keep

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allison Larkin
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-06-28
  • ISBN : 1982171308
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The People We Keep written by Allison Larkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a run-down motorhome, flunking out of school, and picking up shifts at the local diner. But when April realizes she's finally had enough-enough of her selfish, absent father and barely surviving in an unfeeling town-she decides to make a break for it. Stealing a car and with only her music to keep her company, April hits the road, determined to live life on her own terms. She manages to scrape together a meaningful existence as she travels, encountering people and places she's never dreamed of, and could never imagine deserving. From lifelong friendships to tragic heartbreaks, April chronicles her journey in the beautiful music she creates as she discovers that home is with the people you choose to keep. "Allison Larkin knows her characters so well," (Rainbow Rowell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor Park) and brings her "tender, and real" (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones The Six) prose to this unflinching, lyrical tale that is perfect for anyone who has ever yearned for the fierce power of belonging or to understand the profound beauty of a family found along the way"--

Book Ithaca s Neighborhoods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol U. Sisler
  • Publisher : De Witt Historical Society
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780942690378
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Ithaca s Neighborhoods written by Carol U. Sisler and published by De Witt Historical Society. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blockchain Chicken Farm

Download or read book Blockchain Chicken Farm written by Xiaowei Wang and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. From pork farmers using AI to produce the perfect pig, to disruptive luxury counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, Wang unravels the ties between globalization, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion. Accompanied by humorous “Sinofuturist” recipes that frame meals as they transform under new technology, Blockchain Chicken Farm is an original and probing look into innovation, connectivity, and collaboration in the digitized rural world. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.

Book Ithaca Farmers Market Cookbook

Download or read book Ithaca Farmers Market Cookbook written by Michael Turback and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ithaca

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Williams
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0738592552
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Ithaca written by Mary Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ithaca, New York has often been called the Hollywood of the East, growing from farms to factories to Cornell University--Ithaca's history is an interesting and broad one. Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes, Ithaca was planned by surveyor Simeon DeWitt and incorporated in 1821 when steamboats signaled Cayuga Lake's heyday of commerce and recreation. Spectacular creeks and waterfalls powered grist, plaster, carding, and other mills. From farms, merchants, and mills, Ithaca's industries grew to include the famous Thomas-Morse Aviation Company and Morse Chain Works. By 1914, Wharton Studios was producing silent films in this Hollywood of the East. Such notable residents as actress Irene Castle, the Tremans, and community leader James L. Gibbs called Ithaca home. Ithacans became known for community involvement early on. St. James AME Zion Church served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, and Elizabeth Beebe built a mission for needy Rhiners. Ezra Cornell and Andrew D. White realized their ideal of education when Cornell University opened in 1868, followed in 1892 by the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, which became Ithaca College in 1931. Students protested segregation in front of Woolworth's 30 years later, and echoes of this idealism can still be found here today.

Book Year book

Download or read book Year book written by American Institute of Electrical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitution, by-laws, list of members, etc.

Book Surrounded by Reality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Turback
  • Publisher : Createspace Indie Pub Platform
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781448658299
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Surrounded by Reality written by Michael Turback and published by Createspace Indie Pub Platform. This book was released on 2009 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a popular bumper sticker in this Upstate New York town that reads, "Ithaca: 10 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality." The sentiment surely has something to do with the compelling history, eccentric characters, and quirky charm of this intellectually advantaged, culturally progressive, geographically isolated place. After you've browsed through this little book, you will better understand the bumper sticker's message - Ithaca is almost too good to be true. Surrounded by Reality offers readers fascinating tidbits and trivia in purposely random sequence (with generous cross-references) to create a ready-to-explore trail of knowledge about Ithaca and its environs, informing and entertaining, correcting myths and misconceptions, mostly revealing an unexpected treasure trove that brings a culture and a place into sharp focus.

Book Ithaca

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Kammen
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2008-10-20
  • ISBN : 1614230676
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Ithaca written by Carol Kammen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calmly nestled among the glacial streams and hills of central New York, residents of Ithaca may find it hard to believe that their city began with a rocky start. Transient teamsters and salt barge workers gave the town a rowdy reputation in its pioneer days, and the fledgling village seemed doomed as the “most isolated place on the Eastern Seaboard.” Over the course of the nineteenth century, Ithaca’s character swung like a pendulum from debauchery to temperance, from boisterous vagrancy to religious fervor and reform. Though the town was hit hard by the Depression of 1837 and periodically ravaged by fire and flood, Ithaca survived to become a lively and bustling community and an important center of education, technological innovation and cultural vibrancy. In this comprehensive history, Carol Kammen shows exactly why Ithaca is known as the “Crown of Cayuga.”

Book Annual Reports to the Common Council of the City of Ithaca  New York

Download or read book Annual Reports to the Common Council of the City of Ithaca New York written by Ithaca, N. Y. Common Council and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ithaca College

Download or read book Ithaca College written by Sarah Hofius and published by College Prowler, Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at Ithaca College from the students' viewpoint.

Book The University Records

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  • Author : Cornell University
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 974 pages

Download or read book The University Records written by Cornell University and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cornell University Announcements

Download or read book Cornell University Announcements written by Cornell University and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Library Bulletin of Cornell University

Download or read book The Library Bulletin of Cornell University written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: