Download or read book The Twentieth Century City Classic Reprint written by Josiah Strong and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Twentieth Century City The material side of modern civilization. Increase In our knowledge of matter. Resulting scepticism. In crease of power. Steam-power of United States, Great Britain, Germany, and France. Increase of wealth. Mr. Gladstone's estimate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Atlanta a Twentieth Century City written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Atlanta, a Twentieth-Century City: October Tenth, 1903 After its baptism of fire in November, 186-1, when the inhabitants had been dispersed by the exigencies of war, and of more than houses only 300 remained, the city took a new start, and its great growth dates from that time. It is therefore, a city of the new regime, erected on the ruins of the old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Planning the Twentieth century American City written by Mary Corbin Sies and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.
Download or read book Leaders of the Twentieth Century written by Samuel Mendelson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Leaders of the Twentieth Century: New York City, 1918 The literary story of those included, the advance guard and premiers among statesmen, lawyers, physi eiaus, bankers, and merchants, in fine, the thinkers and doers who made New York the Proud Princess of Cities, would sound of the writers, but their likenesses, though silent, sound aloud with enduring fame, the character, purpose, and possibilities, of the hundreds portrayed herein. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Magnetic Los Angeles written by Greg Hise and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban development is often considered synonymous with enhanced personal mobility, single-family housing, and life cycle homogeneity. According to this view, individual suburbs are residence-only enclaves, isolated commuter-sheds for a managerial and mercantile elite. Magnetic Los Angeles challenges this common vision of the expanding, twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning, lacking any discernable order.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Classics written by Rajiva Wijesinha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth Century Classics is a collection of essays on 20th-century English society through surveys of leading prose writers of that period. In this book the author, Rajiva Wijesinha, puts together 51 writers of English literature whose works have the best claim towards the hallmark of 'classic' in the 20th century. Each of the writers included in this book is representative of the period in terms of his or her literary concerns and choice of themes and subjects. Initially published in Sri Lanka in the newspaper, The Island, as a weekly column, the essays also contribute much to our understanding of the society they describe, the changes the society experienced and the moral perspectives that governed it. The essays are educational and written in a lucid manner. They can be a reader's best guide to good literature of the previous century.
Download or read book Boston Days written by Lilian Whiting and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Boston Days: The City of Beautiful Ideals Concord, and Its Famous Authors the Golden Age of Genius Dawn of the Twentieth Century First Decade of Twentieth Century Reverently may it be said that it doth not yet appear what greatness may await the Boston of the future, with her present wonderful activity in commercial and industrial development; in extension of her residence regions by means of her splendid system of local transit in the growing strength Of her institutions, in the power and influence Of her citizens; but'in one quality must the Boston of the Past and the Boston of the Future forever be united in identity, - the quality that has made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Twentieth Century Crusade written by Giuliana Chamedes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Vatican’s agenda to defeat the forces of secular liberalism and communism through international law, cultural diplomacy, and a marriage of convenience with authoritarian and right-wing rulers. After the United States entered World War I and the Russian Revolution exploded, the Vatican felt threatened by forces eager to reorganize the European international order and cast the Church out of the public sphere. In response, the papacy partnered with fascist and right-wing states as part of a broader crusade that made use of international law and cultural diplomacy to protect European countries from both liberal and socialist taint. A Twentieth-Century Crusade reveals that papal officials opposed Woodrow Wilson’s international liberal agenda by pressing governments to sign concordats assuring state protection of the Church in exchange for support from the masses of Catholic citizens. These agreements were implemented in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, as well as in countries like Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. In tandem, the papacy forged a Catholic International—a political and diplomatic foil to the Communist International—which spread a militant anticommunist message through grassroots organizations and new media outlets. It also suppressed Catholic antifascist tendencies, even within the Holy See itself. Following World War II, the Church attempted to mute its role in strengthening fascist states, as it worked to advance its agenda in partnership with Christian Democratic parties and a generation of Cold War warriors. The papal mission came under fire after Vatican II, as Church-state ties weakened and antiliberalism and anticommunism lost their appeal. But—as Giuliana Chamedes shows in her groundbreaking exploration—by this point, the Vatican had already made a lasting mark on Eastern and Western European law, culture, and society.
Download or read book Street Meeting written by Mark Wild and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This insightful analysis of ethnoracial contact and social networks among immigrants and racial groups in the central districts of Los Angeles is the product of new thinking. Wildís conclusions are fresh and sound."—Tom Sitton, coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s "This stimulating and exciting book is a work of synthesis that draws on dozens of previous theses and studies, as well as reminiscences, oral histories, testimony, and other first-person accounts. The result is an original and persuasive interpretation of the West's most important city."—Carl Abbott, author of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West
Download or read book The Just City written by Susan S. Fainstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy. Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level. In the first half of The Just City, Fainstein draws on the work of John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Fraser, and others to develop an approach to justice relevant to twenty-first-century cities, one that incorporates three central concepts: diversity, democracy, and equity. In the book's second half, Fainstein tests her ideas through case studies of New York, London, and Amsterdam by evaluating their postwar programs for housing and development in relation to the three norms. She concludes by identifying a set of specific criteria for urban planners and policymakers to consider when developing programs to assure greater justice in both the process of their formulation and their effects.
Download or read book The City written by Allen J. Scott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. The editors of THE CITY have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. 58 illustrations.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Socialism written by Edmond Kelly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is How It May Come Each of the two volumes on Government was devoted, as Evolution and Effort had been, to establish ing firmly a specific proposition. When Mr. Kelly began writing the first volume, which bore the sub-title J us tice, he was a lecturer in the Faculty of Political Science at Columbia University and was intensely interested in the movement for the reform of municipal politics in New York city. Believing that adequate organization was the chief need, he had founded the City Club and the subsidiary Good Government Clubs. In the dis cussions which this movement called forth, he says One fact stood out with startling conspicuousness. Not one out of a thousand was able to formulate a clear idea as to the principles upon which he stood; upon one measure he was an Individualist; upon another, a Col lectivist; one day he was for strong governmental action; the next for liberty of contract; and of those who pre sented the claims of expediency and justice respectively, no one was able. To say what justice was. It seemed, therefore, to Mr. Kelly that on the theoret ical side we needed first, and above all else, a clear con ception of justice as an end to be attained. For con elusions already arrived at in Evolution and Effort made it impossible for him to believe that justice is satisfied by merely rewarding every man according to his per formance. Seeing in evolution possibilities beyond present attainment, he believed that a way should be found to enable every man to achieve his potential performance. Thus his notion of justice, derived from the principle of evolution, became substantially identical with that which had been set forth two thousand years ago by Plato in The Republic. TO quote Mr. Kelly's own words: Justice may, then, be described as the effort to eliminate from our social conditions the effects of the inequalities Of Nature upon the happiness and advancement of man, and particularly to create an artificial environment which shall serve the individual as well as the race, and tend to perpetuate noble types rather than those which are base. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Solaris Farm written by Milan C. Edson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century Frenchmen, M. Godin, the author of Social SO lutions, and the founder of the Familistere, with its famous industrial enterprise, located at the city of Guise, France; the grandest co-operative success of. The age! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Chicago the Magnificent the Empire City of the West written by Carroll Ryan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago the Magnificent, the Empire City of the West: A Souvenir of the World's Fair More than this, Chicago in its peculiarities is a city of the future. A twentieth century city it Should be called, when compared with other cities of Europe and America. It is, as yet, only an infant - a very big infant sprawling, so to speak, Over the prairie that stretches along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. But, in the giant uncouthness Ofi ts infantile proportions may be seen the promise and the potency of mural greatness, grandeur, activity, enterprise, and population such as the world has never witnessed before. The most enthusiastic admirer Of Chicago, however, cannot claim that it is beautiful, in the sense that Paris and Florence are called beautiful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book London in the Twentieth Century written by Jerry White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
Download or read book 20th Century History of the City of Washington and Washington County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Classic Reprint written by Joseph F. McFarland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 20th Century History of the City of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens Special prominence has been given to the portraits of representative citizens which appear throughout the volume, and we believe that they will prove not its least interesting feature. We have sought in this department to illustrate the different spheres of industrial and professional achievement as conspicuously as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
