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Book To Build in a New Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allen G. Noble
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780801841880
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book To Build in a New Land written by Allen G. Noble and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, To Build in a New Land includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer landscapes in western Canada, Cajun farmsteads in Louisiana, Czech settlements in South Dakota, Danish homes in Iowa and Minnesota, vernacular architecture of the German-Russian Mennonites of southeastern Manitoba, Afro-American housing in the southeastern United States, and the regional variations of Irish, English, and Scottish construction in Ontario.

Book The New Land

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  • Author : Richard Chadbourne
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 088920862X
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book The New Land written by Richard Chadbourne and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume were originally presented at a workshop held at the University of Calgary on August 1–5, 1977 and sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. The phrase “the new land” underwent careful scrutiny and reassessment during the course of the conference, and the insights that resulted from the readings and discussions were of considerable value to participants and observers alike. Chronologically and thematically the essays cover a wide range: from La Nouvelle France as seen by the early missionaries and by the French Romantic writer Chateaubriand to variations on the new land theme in present-day Qußbec; from the Prairies as seen by an early homesteader-novelist from France, Constantin-Weyer, to the Manitoba of Gabrielle Roy, which in turn is contrasted to the Nebraska of Willa Cather; from a historical recreation of the Saskatchewan landscape and history by a gifted contemporary novelist Rudy Wiebe, to a paradisal celebration of British Columbia reflected in the later works of Malcolm Lowry. What emerged from all of this, among other things, was the articulation of a mythology about the new land that was far more complex and expansive than the one derived originally through an old–world perspective.

Book Learning a New Land

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  • Author : Carola Suárez-Orozco
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674044118
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Learning a New Land written by Carola Suárez-Orozco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.

Book Minecraft  Let s Build  Land of Zombies

Download or read book Minecraft Let s Build Land of Zombies written by Mojang Ab and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to build an entire land dedicated to battling zombies? This guide will show you how it’s done! Inside you’ll find build ideas for everything from a zombie arena and a zombie-infested graveyard to an undead city and a top-secret lab where zombies are created and cured. Just follow the steps for each build, and before you know it you’ll have an entire Land of Zombies to enjoy with your friends! This ebook is best viewed on a color device with a larger screen. Collect all of the official Minecraft books: Minecraft: The Island Minecraft: The Crash Minecraft: The Survivors’ Book of Secrets Minecraft: Exploded Builds: Medieval Fortress Minecraft: Guide to Exploration Minecraft: Guide to Creative Minecraft: Guide to the Nether & the End Minecraft: Guide to Redstone Minecraft: Mobestiary Minecraft: Guide to Enchantments & Potions Minecraft: Guide to PVP Minigames Minecraft: Guide to Farming Minecraft: Let’s Build! Theme Park Adventure Minecraft: Let’s Build! Land of Zombies

Book Arbitrary Lines

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  • Author : M. Nolan Gray
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2022-06-21
  • ISBN : 1642832553
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Arbitrary Lines written by M. Nolan Gray and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development? It’s time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary—if not sufficient—condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Reform is in the air, with cities and states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Fayetteville, and Hartford, the key pillars of zoning are under fire, with apartment bans being scrapped, minimum lot sizes dropping, and off-street parking requirements disappearing altogether. Some American cities—including Houston, America’s fourth-largest city—already make land-use planning work without zoning. In Arbitrary Lines, Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common confusions and myths about how American cities regulate growth and examining the major contemporary critiques of zoning. Gray sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Despite mounting interest, no single book has pulled these threads together for a popular audience. In Arbitrary Lines, Gray fills this gap by showing how zoning has failed to address even our most basic concerns about urban growth over the past century, and how we can think about a new way of planning a more affordable, prosperous, equitable, and sustainable American city.

Book New Country Life

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book New Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shrinking Cities

Download or read book Shrinking Cities written by Harry W. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards. The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale – from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed in this volume is the question of whether urban shrinkage policies are necessary or effective. The book comprises four parts: world or regional issues (with reference to the European Union and Latin America); national case studies (the United States, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Estonia); city case studies (Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Naples, Belfast and Halle); and broad issues such as the environmental consequences of shrinking cities. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the fields of urban studies, economic geography and public policy.

Book The Construction Record

Download or read book The Construction Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Legislative Documents

Download or read book New York Legislative Documents written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York  1675 1776

Download or read book Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York 1675 1776 written by New York (N.Y.). Common Council and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Angry Earth

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  • Author : Sally Watson
  • Publisher : Booklocker.com
  • Release : 2009-10-28
  • ISBN : 9781601459992
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Angry Earth written by Sally Watson and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1811, New Madrid, Missouri was shattered by a series of massive earthquakes. For weeks, the shocked citizens coped with a world gone mad. They all changed, fell apart, and endured. This is a fictionalized account of the true story of a family and a town who faced the terror and hardship of unthinkable, prolonged natural violence with courage, love, and even humor.

Book A Pattern Language

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  • Author : Christopher Alexander
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-20
  • ISBN : 0190050357
  • Pages : 1216 pages

Download or read book A Pattern Language written by Christopher Alexander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

Book The Wages Regulation  Milk Distributive   England and Wales  Order 1971

Download or read book The Wages Regulation Milk Distributive England and Wales Order 1971 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enabling power:The Wages Councils Act 1959 s. 11.. Made:20.10.71.. Coming into force:21.11.71.. Effect:S.I. 1970/1240 Revoked.

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1782 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Industrial Development and Manufacturers  Record

Download or read book Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Transition to Sustainable Housing

Download or read book A Transition to Sustainable Housing written by Trivess Moore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.

Book The Southeastern Reporter

Download or read book The Southeastern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: