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Book The City on Wednesday

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  • Author : Maggie Helwig
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The City on Wednesday written by Maggie Helwig and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heart of the City

Download or read book The Heart of the City written by Alexander Garvin and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to understand what downtown is all about; how and why some American downtowns never stopped thriving (such as San Jose and Houston), some have been in decline for half a century (including Detroit and St. Louis), and still others are resurging after temporary decline (many, including Lower Manhattan and Los Angeles). The downtowns that are prospering are those that more easily adapt to changing needs and lifestyles. In The Heart of the City, distinguished urban planner Alexander Garvin shares lessons on how to plan for a mix of housing, businesses, and attractions; enhance the public realm; improve mobility; and successfully manage downtown services. Garvin opens the book with diagnoses of downtowns across the United States, including the people, businesses, institutions, and public agencies implementing changes. In a review of prescriptions and treatments for any downtown, Garvin shares brief accounts--of both successes and failures--of what individuals with very different objectives have done to change their downtowns. The final chapters look at what is possible for downtowns in the future, closing with suggested national, state, and local legislation to create standard downtown business improvement districts to better manage downtowns. This book will help public officials, civic organizations, downtown business property owners, and people who care about cities learn from successful recent actions in downtowns across the country, and expand opportunities facing their downtown. Garvin provides recommendations for continuing actions to help any downtown thrive, ensuring a prosperous and thrilling future for the 21st-century American city.

Book The Cat and The City

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  • Author : Nick Bradley
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books
  • Release : 2020-06-04
  • ISBN : 1786499908
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The Cat and The City written by Nick Bradley and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 'Ingenious ... touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking.' Guardian 'If you're itching to read a new novel by David Mitchell ... try this.' The Times _______________ In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways. But the city is changing. As it does, it pushes her to the margins where she chances upon a series of apparent strangers - from a homeless man squatting in an abandoned hotel, to a shut-in hermit afraid to leave his house, to a convenience store worker searching for love. The cat orbits Tokyo's denizens, drawing them ever closer. 'Masterfully weaves together seemingly disparate threads to conjure up a vivid tapestry of Tokyo; its glory, its shame, its characters, and a calico cat.' David Peace, author of THE TOKYO TRILOGY One of the Independent's best debuts

Book The London Gazette

Download or read book The London Gazette written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unity

Download or read book Unity written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Primates of Park Avenue

Download or read book Primates of Park Avenue written by Wednesday Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--

Book The Survey

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1032 pages

Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stepmonster

Download or read book Stepmonster written by Wednesday Martin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest and groundbreaking guide to understanding the complicated emotions that develop between stepmothers and children. When faced with often overwhelming challenges, what woman with stepchildren is unfamiliar with that “stepmonster” feeling? Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. To guide women new to this role—and empower those who are struggling with it—Wednesday Martin draws upon her own experience as a stepmother. She's frank about the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, she considers the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, and she counteracts the cultural notion that stepmothers are solely responsible for the problems that often develop. Along the way, she interviews other stepmothers and stepchildren and offers up fascinating insights from literature, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology that explain the little-understood realities of this unique parent-child relationship and—in an unexpected twist—shows why the myth of the Wicked Stepmother is the single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are and how they feel.

Book The English Reports

Download or read book The English Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Gazette

Download or read book Official Gazette written by Philippines and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The City Record

Download or read book The City Record written by New York (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Templar s Magazine

Download or read book The Templar s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law Times

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  • Release : 1864
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book The Law Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York State Journal of Medicine

Download or read book New York State Journal of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletins and Other State Intelligence

Download or read book Bulletins and Other State Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa

Download or read book Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa written by Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: