Author: Anthony Hitchcock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891022350
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Anthony Hitchcock
Publisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN: 9780891022725
Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Author: Jan Nijman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487510799
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification. This edited volume brings together seventeen reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With these differing approaches and perspectives on the Canal District the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the District’s historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions in this collection have an important bearing on broader questions of urban historic preservation elsewhere, and on questions about enduring urban design.

Author: Tyler Bagwell
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780752409351
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Anthony Hitchcock
Publisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN: 9780891022749
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Shelley-Maree Cassidy
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 3822819115
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Who minds sleeping under a mosquito net when it's royally draped over the bed in a lush Kenyan, open-walled hut, fashioned from tree trunks and shielded from the sun by a sumptuous thatched roof? This selection of the most-splendid getaway havens nestled throughout the African continent is sure to please even the most finicky would-be voyagers. Photos.

Author: Franklin Pub Burt
Publisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN: 9780891023531
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Robert S. Conte
Publisher: Trans Allegheny Books
ISBN: 9780929521145
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: Anthony Hitchcock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891021605
Category : Hotels
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Author: Stanley Turkel CMHS
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496933346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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The word maven is defined by Wikipedia as a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. Since the 1980s it has become more common when the New York Times columnist William Safire adapted it to describe himself as the language maven. The word from Hebrew is mainly confined to American English and was included in the Oxford English Dictionary second edition (1989). My three hotel mavens are: 1) Lucius M. Boomer, one of the most famous hoteliers of his time, was chairman of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corporation. In a career of over half a century, he directed such celebrated hotels as the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia, the Taft in New Haven, the Lenox in Boston, and the McAlpin, Claridge, Sherry-Netherland and the original as well as the current Waldorf-Astoria in New York. 2) George C. Boldt who was the genius of the original Waldorf-Astoria. It was said of him that he made innkeeping a profession and, more than any man, was responsible for the modern American hotel. 3) Oscar of the Waldorf who was described in 1898 by the New York Sun: In only one New York hotel, however, is there a personage deserving to be called a matre dhotel. Anyone who studies him closely will soon arrive at a firm conviction that he might quite as appropriately have been called General or Admiral, if circumstances had not led him into the hotel business. Oscar knows everybody. Oscar was a superstar of his time and one of the stalwarts who managed both the original and the current Waldorf-Astoria. Among his many duties, Oscar commanded a staff of 1,000 persons bedsides conducting a school for waiters, at the time the only one of its kind in the United States. In 1896, Oscar wrote one of the greatest cookbooks of its time: The Cook Book by Oscar of the Waldorf. It contains 907 pages and 3,455 recipes.