Download or read book Independence Park written by Amir Sumaka?i Fink and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence Park, Tel Aviv, is the best-known meeting place for gay men in Israel, and the hope for independence is the dominant theme of this wide-ranging collection of personal narratives told in the voices of 12 gay men who represent a cross-section of contemporary Israeli society.
Download or read book African Modernism written by Manuel Herz and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When the first edition of African Modernism was published in 2015, it was received with international praise and has been sought after constantly ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary, this landmark book becomes available again in a new edition. In the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial power. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed countries expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features one hundred buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, and selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were newly taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster for the book's first edition. Their photographs document the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed in an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Further essays on postcolonial Africa and specific aspects and topics, also illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.
Download or read book Chicago s Parks written by John Graf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other city in the world has a park system as great as Chicagos, which includes over 550 parks totaling more than 7,000 acres. Each park has its own story, as well as unique characteristics and history, and yet the majority of Chicagoans are not aware of the wealth, variety, and sheer number of parks that exist, to say nothing of the ideas they project, the history they commemorate, and the origins of their names. Chicagos Parks: A Photographic History seeks to remedy this oversight. From Chicagos first park, Dearborn Park, to its more famous parks of Grant and Lincoln, this book provides a wealth of information concerning the origins of the names and plans of these Chicago landmarks. A formal plan for the creation of a park system was developed in 1869, and soon Chicago had some of the greatest parks to be found anywhere in the world. When Chicago was founded in 1837, the citys fathers adopted the motto urbs in horto, or the city set in a garden. Despite the numerous changes that have taken place over the past 160 years, Chicago is still a city set in a garden. Chicagos Parks: A Photographic History captures the growth of that garden with its nearly 200 historic photographs.
Download or read book Rethinking Urban Parks written by Setha M. Low and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of public recreation space and how urban developers can encourage ethnic diversity through planning that supports multiculturalism. Urban parks such as New York City’s Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people. This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City’s Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area, as well as New York’s Ellis Island Bridge Proposal and Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park “restorations” that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.
Download or read book National Parks Forever written by Jonathan B. Jarvis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wallace Stegner called the national park system one of the United States' best ideas. That good idea has led to an institution that has grown over the past one hundred years, and the park system now encompasses four hundred areas that host over three hundred million visitors in typical year. Jonathan Jarvis (as a ranger, biologist, and director of the National Park Service in the Obama administration) and Destry Jarvis (as an advocate, policy analyst, and lobbyist) have worked to better the parks for over forty years. They offer here a history of the National Park Service (NPS) and an argument for the NPS to become an independent agency--similar to the Smithsonian Institution and separated from the Department of the Interior. Their reasoning relates to politics, finances, and science, and their proposal aims to safeguard the future of our national parks"--
Download or read book Norumbega Park and Totem Pole Ballroom written by Clara Silverstein and published by Images of America. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Constitution Center written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell written by Robert W. Sands Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, two of America's most revered symbols of freedom, date back to the British rule of the American colonies. The main structure of Independence Hall was completed in 1732, and the final casting of the Liberty Bell was completed in 1753. Visited by over two million people yearly, these historic icons have been used as backdrops for many political and social demonstrations and speeches. Filled with images from the archives of Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia Department of Records, and collections from around the country, Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell illustrates how these two historic relics generate a sense of pride and patriotism set forth by the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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Download or read book Heterotopia and the City written by Michiel Dehaene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucault’s influential 1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect the debate on the privatization of public space. Wastelands and terrains vagues are studied in detail in a section on urban activism and transgression and the reader gets a glimpse of the extremes of our dualized, postcivil condition through case studies on Jakarta, Dubai, and Kinshasa. Heterotopia and the City provides a collective effort to reposition heterotopia as a crucial concept for contemporary urban theory. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand the city in the emerging postcivil society and post-historical era. Planners, architects, cultural theorists, urbanists and academics will find this a valuable contribution to current critical argument.
Download or read book Queen Of My dream written by Saniul Alom Sun and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever if you are that - I will fulfill all our dreams together, if you are such - I will not hear everything, then you will be able to hear all our ways, then you have a warm touch on my hands, why do you think today is a stubborn world? Why today is the first love of love Tumibina unsaturated? That's a spring of a spring beside you and the breath of the love of the love of love - even today, if it is still rite in the trap in the end - at the beginning of all, you will lose again and I will lose again once in your belief that you will return again in your faith Once again, I will go to your sweet laughing flood that will be deleted, these memories may be deleted, maybe you will be satisfied with Satisfaction, the last scene of life in the eyes of life ... till you stop the diary and stop the diary. Many are written, but for whom it is going to be someone else today, someone else will write something about him today. It is not just something that it is the illiteracy of the heart of the heart of Abir's breakdown. Maybe it will be written about the new sort of poetry, or some of the love-makers who are involved in the same sheet where she will take his heavenly in the face of someone else ... to be around 2 pm. There is no sleeping in Abir. The real reason - Ammu could not go to 8 pm tonight in the euphoria tonight. And mental reasons - today is married to Anila. Abir did not get upset with the unrestricted pain of the head. The PC opened the laptop in front of the table. Nowadays, he often studies small with 'bypolar disorder'. It is not very profitable. All the words of the same type of words in Zajagaya are sitting on her fingers - "You have to live with this illness. It can be covered with medicines for a long time, but if the drug is released, the first first Abir's "life 'was afraid of reading. Can Anila be able to accept this reality by fighting one hand with the whole world? Waiting for this disease continuously waiting for a boy to be destroyed in a boy? The losing his father has been suffering throughout his life in the mother of his mother, what he wanted to increase the burden of the hardship with a sick boy's own shoulder? The nightmare was not at a moment that in a evening in the ridge of Dhanmondi Rizbie's shop, Anila's head of Abir's shoulder in the shoulder of Aadho light in a evening in a evening in the sectum, said in the shoulder of Abir's shoulder, "I loved you so much. I do not have any life fall like a dry leaf. To me, you are a son of Tukhar, who is a good boy, who heard the child's book, who heard the song written by the saints, I was fascinated by News. Daily printed in the stare, which I used to cut off each of the books I used to read the same text repeatedly after reading the book of Aarrat, "Yes, Anila belongs to himself. It was more likely to have the emotional kingdom more than reality. So the cruelty of life and the world could not understand. Or maybe the hands of people like Anilah was born in cruelty. Unusual stress is considered to be a big reason for this illness. Abir was the eldest son of the family, the first child of the parents. From his childhood, a man growing in the fear of father's fears. As far as the share of the affection, he was once buried and behind his father's duration chain. So he was a good student, so everyone could have hopes for the skyscraper surrounded by him. The expectation of when he has made him a prisoner man, may not even understand the people of his family. Abir's work worked for a long time. Over time, there arises to grow in the form of this illness. When Abir repeatedly did not take the study of the reciprocity in the University, he was not able to take a daughter of a poor character like Mili, when the whole of his friends had been poisoned, when someone was in the family, when he had no hope in the family, This is 8:00 pm drugs? -No-don't? There is no escape, so do not eat.
Download or read book Annual Report of West Chicago Park Commissioners written by Chicago (Ill.). West Chicago Park Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for 1988 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiencing Cities written by Mark Hutter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary text for undergraduate urban students is a reflection of Mark Hutter’s academic interests in urban sociology and his life-long passion for experiencing city life. His deep academic roots in the Chicago School of Sociology help inform and appreciate the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people living in cities. This text, however, extends the Chicago School perspective by combining its traditions with a social psychological perspective derived from symbolic interaction and also with a macro-level examination of social organization, social change, stratification and power in the urban context, informed by political economy. This entirely new, 3rd Edition has a global outlook on city life, and a visual presentation unmatched among books in this genre.
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