Author: James Turnage
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475951462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Michael Whitten looked out at the Pacific Ocean. He was alone, as always. He had just come back from a vacation in Reno, Nevada. He liked it so much, he decided to move there. He wanted to start a new life, have a better life. Little did he know that he would start a new career, and then slip right back into old patterns. What he had planned when he decided to move to the Biggest Little City, would not happen. His life would follow a course decided by fate, and poor decisions. But, none of it would be his fault.
A Little Murder in the Biggest Little City
Author: James Turnage
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475951462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Michael Whitten looked out at the Pacific Ocean. He was alone, as always. He had just come back from a vacation in Reno, Nevada. He liked it so much, he decided to move there. He wanted to start a new life, have a better life. Little did he know that he would start a new career, and then slip right back into old patterns. What he had planned when he decided to move to the Biggest Little City, would not happen. His life would follow a course decided by fate, and poor decisions. But, none of it would be his fault.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475951462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Michael Whitten looked out at the Pacific Ocean. He was alone, as always. He had just come back from a vacation in Reno, Nevada. He liked it so much, he decided to move there. He wanted to start a new life, have a better life. Little did he know that he would start a new career, and then slip right back into old patterns. What he had planned when he decided to move to the Biggest Little City, would not happen. His life would follow a course decided by fate, and poor decisions. But, none of it would be his fault.
Big House Little City
Author: Benedict Zucchi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000912450
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory and design. Leon Battista Alberti’s assertion in his famous Renaissance treatise that ‘the city is like a big house, and the house is in turn like a little city’ forms the springboard for a series of reflections on architecture’s relationship with urbanism and how their once intimate symbiosis, unravelled by International Style Modernism, can be recovered. Explicit references to Alberti’s house-city phrase have been made by figures as diverse as the architects Louis Kahn, Aldo Van Eyck, Denys Lasdun and Niels Torp and novelist Italo Calvino. But, as the book shows, thinking of buildings as little cities provides a new lens through which to reappraise the contributions of many other architects, including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Eliel Saarinen, Bernard Rudofsky, Hans Scharoun, Leon Krier, Fumihiko Maki, Charles Correa and Team 10. In doing so, the author identifies common themes that form an unexpected bridgehead between the urban and architectural approaches of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and 20th century. The book explores buildings from across the globe, including lesser-known projects, such as Wright’s unbuilt house in Italy or Saarinen’s master plan for Cranbrook Academy, as well as more recent projects by Niels Torp, Behnisch Architekten, Sou Fujimoto, Peter Barber and WOHA. It concludes with practical case studies of residential, health, education and workplace projects from different countries, fulsomely illustrated with many drawings and photographs. These show how architectural design viewed through an urban lens provides a conceptual framework for breaking down the scale of large buildings and integrating them with their context. And crucially, these also show a very accessible way of explaining evolving designs to the intended users and eliciting their participation in the design process. The book offers a compelling approach to the design of projects at all scales, within an ecological perspective: the sense that big and small, cities and buildings must be approached holistically if we are to reverse the degradation and depletion of our habitat, both natural and man-made.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000912450
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Combining architectural and urban thinking in an unusual and engaging way, this book presents an integrated approach to architectural theory and design. Leon Battista Alberti’s assertion in his famous Renaissance treatise that ‘the city is like a big house, and the house is in turn like a little city’ forms the springboard for a series of reflections on architecture’s relationship with urbanism and how their once intimate symbiosis, unravelled by International Style Modernism, can be recovered. Explicit references to Alberti’s house-city phrase have been made by figures as diverse as the architects Louis Kahn, Aldo Van Eyck, Denys Lasdun and Niels Torp and novelist Italo Calvino. But, as the book shows, thinking of buildings as little cities provides a new lens through which to reappraise the contributions of many other architects, including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Eliel Saarinen, Bernard Rudofsky, Hans Scharoun, Leon Krier, Fumihiko Maki, Charles Correa and Team 10. In doing so, the author identifies common themes that form an unexpected bridgehead between the urban and architectural approaches of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and 20th century. The book explores buildings from across the globe, including lesser-known projects, such as Wright’s unbuilt house in Italy or Saarinen’s master plan for Cranbrook Academy, as well as more recent projects by Niels Torp, Behnisch Architekten, Sou Fujimoto, Peter Barber and WOHA. It concludes with practical case studies of residential, health, education and workplace projects from different countries, fulsomely illustrated with many drawings and photographs. These show how architectural design viewed through an urban lens provides a conceptual framework for breaking down the scale of large buildings and integrating them with their context. And crucially, these also show a very accessible way of explaining evolving designs to the intended users and eliciting their participation in the design process. The book offers a compelling approach to the design of projects at all scales, within an ecological perspective: the sense that big and small, cities and buildings must be approached holistically if we are to reverse the degradation and depletion of our habitat, both natural and man-made.
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Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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The Congregationalist
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Category : Boston (Mass. )
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
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Category : Boston (Mass. )
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
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A Most Tolerant Little Town
Author: Rachel Louise Martin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982186852
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history-about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board-will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One day, she was sent to a small town in Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of August 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to undergo court-mandated desegregation. After recording a dozen interviews, Rachel asked the museum's curator why everyone she'd been told to gather stories from was white. Weren't there any Black residents of Clinton who remembered this history? A few hours later, she got a call from the head of the oral history project: the town of Clinton didn't want her help anymore. For years, Rachel Martin wondered what it was the white residents of Clinton didn't want remembered. So she went back, eventually interviewing sixty residents-including the surviving Black students who'd desegregated Clinton High-to piece together what happened back in 1956: the death threats and beatings, picket lines and cross burnings, neighbors turned on neighbors and preachers for the first time at a loss for words. The national guard had rushed to town, followed by national journalists like Edward Murrow and even evangelist Billy Graham. And still tensions continued to rise... until white supremacists bombed the school. In A Most Tolerant Little Town, Rachel Martin weaves together a dozen disparate perspectives in an intimate and yet kaleidoscopic portrait of a small town living through a tumultuous turning point for America. The result is a propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history that reads like a ticking time bomb... and illuminates the devastating costs of being on the frontlines of social change. You may have never before heard of Clinton-but you won't be forgetting the town anytime soon"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982186852
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history-about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board-will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One day, she was sent to a small town in Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of August 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to undergo court-mandated desegregation. After recording a dozen interviews, Rachel asked the museum's curator why everyone she'd been told to gather stories from was white. Weren't there any Black residents of Clinton who remembered this history? A few hours later, she got a call from the head of the oral history project: the town of Clinton didn't want her help anymore. For years, Rachel Martin wondered what it was the white residents of Clinton didn't want remembered. So she went back, eventually interviewing sixty residents-including the surviving Black students who'd desegregated Clinton High-to piece together what happened back in 1956: the death threats and beatings, picket lines and cross burnings, neighbors turned on neighbors and preachers for the first time at a loss for words. The national guard had rushed to town, followed by national journalists like Edward Murrow and even evangelist Billy Graham. And still tensions continued to rise... until white supremacists bombed the school. In A Most Tolerant Little Town, Rachel Martin weaves together a dozen disparate perspectives in an intimate and yet kaleidoscopic portrait of a small town living through a tumultuous turning point for America. The result is a propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history that reads like a ticking time bomb... and illuminates the devastating costs of being on the frontlines of social change. You may have never before heard of Clinton-but you won't be forgetting the town anytime soon"--
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2534
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Languages : en
Pages : 2534
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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A New System of Geography
Author: Anton Friedrich B{diaer}usching
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Public Works Appropriations for 1958
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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Public Works Appropriations for 1958
Author: United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
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