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Yale University Press Invented Cities The Creation of Landscape in NineteenthCentury New York Boston Paper The Creation of Landscape in NineteenthCentury New York and Boston Revised
Book SynopsisInvestigating why cities look the way they do, this book compares the strikingly different landscapes of Boston and New York. It explores the physical differences between the two, comparing building patterns and architectural styles to show how a society's vision creates its own urban form.
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Hachette Book Group USA Civilizing American Cities
Book Synopsis"Frederick Law Olmsted (1822--1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Bu"Table of Contents* Introduction by S. B. Sutton Expanding Cities: Random versus Organized Growth * The Structure of Cities: A Historical View * The Misfortunes of New York * Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns City Parks and Improved Use of Metropolitan Spaces * San Francisco, 1866: A City in Search of Identity * Buffalo: A Lakeshore Park and Pleasing Parkways * Chicago: Taming the Waterfront * Montreal: A Mountaintop Park and Some Thoughts on Art and Nature * Boston: Parks and Parkwaysa Green Ribbon Suburban Solutions * Berkeley: A University Community * Riverside, Illinois: A Planned Community near Chicago
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Hachette Book Group USA City on a Grid
Book SynopsisYou either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring headstrong Founding Father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, estates, and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the land, the dense undergarment of the future city.No other grid in Western civilization was so large and uniform as the one ordained in 1811. Not without reason. When the grid plan was announced, New York was just under two hundred years old, an overgrown town at the southern tip of Manhattan, a notorious jumble of streets laid at the whim of landowners. To bring order beyond the chaos--and g
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux A Burglars Guide to the City
Book SynopsisAt the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked locks and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and second-guessed.Trade ReviewThis is a marvelous wonder-room of a thing, an intricate, deeply researched, and brilliantly written mad scientist s tour of crime and how it s bound to the world we ve built. Revealing, spectacular, and riveting. Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine and The Planetary Omnibus This burglar s guide isn t for ordinary smash and grab burglars, it s for the rest of us who like to steal in, steal out, and get away with glorious dreams. A spectacularly fun read. Robert Krulwich, co-host of Radiolab Murphy s Law anything that can go wrong will go wrong is especially true for architecture. Geoff Manaugh s liaisons with burglars and bank robbers reveal unexplored niches and loopholes in our cities, and through the eyes of urban hackers we find new possibilities for reinterpreting the built environment. A Burglar s Guide to the City shows that architecture is too important to leave to just the architects. Bjarke Ingels, BIG Architects Who knew urban studies could be so riveting? Geoff Manaugh excels at finding new, illicit, and fresh angles on a subject as loved as it is overexposed the city. In his new book, elegant, perverse, sinuous supervillains maneuver and master the city like parkour champions. I see the TV series already. Paola Antonelli, MoMA Reading Geoff Manaugh is like donning night-vision goggles at the edge of a dark forest you are suddenly aware of, and alive to, a world that was always there but occluded. A Burglar s Guide to the City is a crackerjack intellectual caper. Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of You May Also Like and Traffic Despite its title, Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City won't teach you how to break into houses. It won't help you outsmart wily cat burglars with ingenious home alarm systems, either. Instead, it explores something a lot weirder and more interesting: Manaugh argues that burglary is built into the fabric of cities and is an inevitable outgrowth of having architecture in the first place. Annalee Newitz, Los Angeles Times An exhilarating, perspective-shifting read. Patrick Lyons, VICE For years, Geoff Manaugh has entertained and fascinated us with his BLDGBLOG, and now he's even better at full-length, with A Burglar's Guide to the City, a multidisciplinary, eclectic, voraciously readable book that views architecture, built environments, and cities themselves through the lens of breaking-and-entering... Manaugh's work is characteristically far-ranging and eclectic, and always fascinating... Come for the true crime, stay for the education in architecture and urban planning. Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Intriguing... a surprising and fascinating true-crime epic. BBC I cannot think of a more informed, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable tour guide through the historical and contemporary intersection of burglary and architecture than Geoff Manaugh. A Burglar s Guide to the City makes disparate connections seem obvious in hindsight, and my worldview is altered a little bit more, and far for the better, as a result. Sarah Weinman, Barnes & Noble Review Geoff Manaugh s A Burglar s Guide to the City gives the realm of architecture the kinetic thrills of a heist film. Alex Bozikovic, The Globe and Mail Architecture blogger Geoff Manaugh s fascinating book A Burglar s Guide to The City posits that our living and working spaces, no matter how seemingly secure, are proving grounds for small-time crooks and sophisticated criminals alike; a smart thief will calibrate his routine based on the way a specific structure is designed. Manaugh s book locates the spot where architecture and crime intersect. Marc Weingarten, The Guardian A compelling review of the ingenious ways that burglars negotiate the built environment and what we can learn from their infrastructural ingenuity. Robbie Gonzalez, Wired Smart, original... delirious with ideas... it s hard to argue with Manaugh s contention that burglary is a new science of the city, proceeding by way of shortcuts, splices, and wormholes. The Boston Globe A Burglar s Guide to the City is a masterpiece of mad ideas, pouring out one after another. The book is one of the most enjoyable volumes of the year. The Washington Free Beacon Manaugh turns the building world inside out in this fascinating view of the modern city as seen through the eyes of a potential burglar... Readers of this illuminating study will never look at the buildings and cities they live in the same way. Publishers Weekly "
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Random House Publishing Group The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs?s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book?s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic. The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as ?perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book?s arguments.? Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs?s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
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Bloomsbury Academic Exploring the Thought of Jane Jacobs
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Rome A Living Portrait of an Ancient City Ancient Society and History
Book SynopsisIn doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.Trade ReviewAn important addition to the literature on classical Rome... Highly recommended. Choice 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface1. Approaching the Ancient City2. The Creation of the Ancient Megalopolis of Rome3. Rome after Hannibal4. From Sulla to Octavian5. The Creation of the Imperial City6. The Consolidation of the Imperial City7. The Antonine City8. Neighborhoods, Pathways, and Rituals of the Imperial City9. Supply, Service, and Productivity: The Urban Economy of Ancient Rome10. The People of Imperial Rome11. On the Fringe: Rome beyond the Pomerium12. The Prelude to the Christian CityNotesGlossary of Latin TermsBibliographyIndex
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