Download or read book The Mancunian Way written by Jane Price and published by Clinamen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of photographs of Manchester, taken by the city's best photographers, which portrays its diversity and vibrancy.
Download or read book Tests on a One twelfth Scale Model of the Mancunian Way written by G. Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Roads written by Joe Moran and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favourite cultural historians reveals how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-like pattern of roundabouts, flyovers, and spaghetti junctions. Using a unique blend of travel writing, anthropology, history and social observation, he explores how Britain's roads have their roots in unexpected places, from Napoleon's role in the numbering system to the surprising origin of sat-nav. Full of quirky nuggets of history, such as the day trips organised to see the construction of the M1 and the 2.5m Mills and Boons used to build the M6 Toll Road, On Roads also celebrates innovators whose work we take for granted, such as the designers of the road sign system. On subjects ranging from speed limits to driving on the left, and the 'non-places where we stop to the unwritten laws of traffic jams, these hidden stories have never been told together, until now.
Download or read book Bridge Bearings and Expansion Joints Second Edition written by D J Lee and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1994-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a guide to movement and restraint in bridges for bridge engineers and will enable them to draw up design calculations and specifications for effective installation, and satisfactory service and durability of bearings and joints. It has been fully revised and updated in line with current codes and design practice, modern developments and products.
Download or read book Realising the city written by Camilla Lewis and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city’s football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city’s annual civic parade. These perspectives help trace the multiple dynamics of a vibrant and rapidly changing post-industrial city, showing how people’s decisions and actions co-produce the city and give it shape. Using the metaphor of the kaleidoscope, with each turn of the wheel, another aspect of the city is materialised. In doing so, the contributors complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance as driven by the city administration’s entrepreneurial ethos. By taking up civic space and resources with council-led cultural representations focused largely on generating financial income for the city, three decades of command-and-control politics has inhibited grassroots and spontaneous forms of emergent publics.
Download or read book Physical Models written by Bill Addis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical models have been, and continue to be used by engineers when faced with unprecedented challenges, when engineering science has been non-existent or inadequate, and in any other situation when the engineer has needed to raise their confidence in a design proposal to a sufficient level to begin construction. For this reason, models have mostly been used by designers and constructors of highly innovative projects, when previous experience has not been available. The book covers the history of using of physical models in the design and development of civil and building engineering projects including bridges in the mid-18th century, William Fairbairn?s Britannia bridge in the 1840s, the masonry Aswan Dam in the 1890s, concrete dams in the 1920s, thin concrete shell roofs and the dynamic behaviour of tall buildings in earthquakes from the 1930s, tidal flow in estuaries and the acoustics of concert halls from the 1950s, and cable-net and membrane structures in the 1960s. Traditionally, progress in engineering has been attributed to the creation and use of engineering science, the understanding materials properties and the development of new construction methods. The book argues that the use of reduced scale models have played an equally important part in the development of civil and building engineering. However, like the history of engineering design itself, this crucial contribution has not been widely reported or celebrated. The book concludes with reviews of the current use of physical models alongside computer models, for example, in boundary layer wind tunnels, room acoustics, seismic engineering, hydrology, and air flow in buildings.
Download or read book Lucky Ignatius written by Mike Scantlebury and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's only an old church, isn't it? Well, No, the Church of England has abandoned the old building and taken it out of commission. Even though it was designed by one of the foremost Victorian architects, they'd be happy to see it rot, or, perhaps, turned into designer flats by a local property developer. Until that happens, it's a perfect Safe House, a bolt hole for the man Mickey has promised to protect - a man called Lucky. So 'lucky' that he's the target of three local gangs and numerous villains. How lucky is that? His problem, from the point of view of safety, is that he has recently been the lucky winner of several million of pounds of Lottery money. That attracts a lot of attention, and once the news gets out that he's in residence, all kinds of experts and enthusiasts turn up, hoping to see the distinguished building brought back into use. That would be a happy outcome. But if the gangs get their way, there will be nothing but trouble. They like to fight, and Lucky is right in their cross-hairs.
Download or read book The Cloven Land Trilogy written by Simon Kewin and published by Stormcrow Books. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hedge Witch written by Simon Kewin and published by Stormcrow Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen year-old Cait Weerd has no idea she's being sought by the undain: sorcerous creatures that feed off the spirit of the living. She doesn't know they need her blood to survive. She doesn't even know she's a witch, descended from a long line of witches. Cait Weerd doesn't know a lot, really, but all that's about to change. At Manchester Central Library she's caught up in sudden violence. In the chaos she's given an old book that's been hidden there. Given it and told to run. Hide the book or destroy it. The book contains all the secrets of the undains' existence. They and their human servants want to find it as much as they want to find her. Cait learns the fates of two worlds are at stake. Just what she needs. Along with definitely-not-a-boyfriend Danny, she has to decide what the hell to do. Run, fight or hope it all goes away. It's only then she learns who she really is, along with the terrible truth of what the undain have been doing in our world all this time...
Download or read book Manchester written by Clare Hartwell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mills of Ancoats to the new Lowry centre, this book explores Manchester's extraordinary wealth of civic, industrial and commercial architecture, using more than 200 colour illustrations.
Download or read book Paradoxical Urbanism written by Malcolm Miles and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Malcolm Miles argues that these two currents undermine modernism’s progressive vision. This book examines the roots of modernist urbanism in the seamless, self-contained systems of Cartesian space; and identifies contradictions within modernist urbanism in its instrumentalism and reliance on de-politicised professional expertise. Miles adroitly reviews the postmodern culture of industrial ruinscapes; and posits that if cities are to be places of proximity, diversity, mobility and agency, this will require a move from modernist instrumentalism to a creative and radically democratic co-production of the built environment.
Download or read book Urban Evolutionary Morphology The Vestige City written by Des Fagan and published by Infra Press . This book was released on 2012 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is changing: no longer is it an aesthetic creation, nor purely an industrial powerhouse. It is becoming a living, breathing super-organism, with a myriad of multiple, competing functions enabling the city to dwell within its particular ecology. As a super-organism, the future city will be defined more by its metabolism, than purely its primary function or spatial form. These biospheric flows of energy and materials will drive the new city and create new synergies for living. This book develops the composition of the evolutionary and the city through architectural and landscape insertions in the Greengate area of Salford, Manchester UK. These designs will engage with the idea of the city as biotic and as a host for biota as well as humans. These new ‘natural’ landscapes will be resilient, through new biodiversity that not only provides a productive landscape, but also links and extends the city’s function and liveability. We have been wrong to force designs on the city: as a superorganism, the new city will be born, not made.
Download or read book The Three Colonies Book One written by Matthew Wilkins and published by Matthew Wilkins. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2077, the world was just beginning to emerge from the aftermath of a disastrous but limited nuclear war that left it disunited, scarred and at risk of further calamity. Scientific breakthrough and the prospect of expansion into the solar system offered a glimmer of hope for a brighter future. Global stability existed within an all too fragile balance, set against a backdrop of yet more trouble looming on the horizon. In the year 10020, the worlds stood on a precipice of political strife and building terrorist atrocity. A long standing and comfortable stability had blinded many to the inflexibility and hubris that threatened the order that they so relied on for peace and prosperity. Attitudes to outsiders hardened. Selfish interests took centre stage. Few made the connections necessary to recognise the spectre coalescing in their midst. Meet: The Professor The Government The Computer The People The Businessman The Engineer The Healer The Travellers The Cops The Acrobat, and The Politician… Will the product be greater than the sum of its parts?
Download or read book The Book of Shenanigans written by David J Walkden and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff is having a biblically bad day. For a start, his car gets written off and he loses his job at a call centre in Manchester. Then the Devil tells him he’s the Anti-Christ and unless he delivers the apocalypse, he’ll be tortured for eternity at a call centre in Hell. With the help of the Devil, his best friend, Rob, who turns out to be an infamous duke of Hell, and Mr Sox, a Hell hound trapped in a cat’s body, they are chased by the forces of good and that’s when all the fun starts... The Book of Shenanigans is the word of God that is full of: MORE Nuns with Guns MORE Talking Animals MORE Decapitations MORE Cute Musical Satanists MORE Cordless Drills MORE Evil Nazis MORE Tea Drinking MORE Scary Stuff IMPORTANT READING GUIDANCE The following groups are strictly prohibited from reading The Book of Shenanigans: British Royal Family Cancel Culture Cartel Members Catholic Church Cats Folk Bands Mexicans Norwegian Blue Nose Rabbits Nuns Penguins Satanists Scots Seal Pups Serial Killers Snowflakes Swedes Unicorns Witches
Download or read book Urban Maps written by Richard Brook and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban territories; on surfaces, in the margins or within voids. The diverse media of arts practices as well as commercial branding are used to explore narratives that reveal latent characteristics of urban situations that conventional architectural inquiry is unable to do.
Download or read book British Urban Policy written by Rob Imrie and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of British Urban Policy provides a comprehensive account of the policies, programmes, and effects of one of the most controversial urban policy programmes ever brought to bear upon British cities. The authors place the policies and practices of the urban development corporations (UDCs) in the wider sociopolitical context of evolving urban policy; present case studies of eight UDCs; and explore the legacies of the UDCs and the evolving framework for urban policy into the millennium.
Download or read book Hale to Mumps More Slices of Manchester Life written by Tom Molloy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With days spent in the drudgery of factory work and nights spent dodging Top Gear repeats, is it possible to escape the boredom of modern life? Why don't you join the author on his musical journey across Manchester, fuelled by pies, real ale, paella and Welsh whisky. Throw in some disasters, dodgy characters, sport, comedy, hiking, art and travel. Not to mention the planes, trains and lost mobiles.
