This book is terrific, just terrific.” —Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff, Grunt, and Gulp “The 99% Invisible City brings into view the fascinating but often unnoticed worlds we walk and drive through every day, ...
Author: Roman Mars
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0358125022
Category: Design
Page: 400
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A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER “[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.” —The New York Times Book Review “Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t see, see but don’t know. Each entry is a compact, surprising story, a thought piece, an invitation to marvel. Together, they are almost transformative. To know why things are as they are adds a satisfying richness to daily existence. This book is terrific, just terrific.” —Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff, Grunt, and Gulp “The 99% Invisible City brings into view the fascinating but often unnoticed worlds we walk and drive through every day, and to read it is to feel newly alive and aware of your place in the world. This book made me laugh, and it made me cry, and it reminded me to always read the plaque.” —John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All The Way Down A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? Or stopped to consider why you don't see metal fire escapes on new buildings? Or pondered the story behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships? 99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs. Now, in The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design, host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments, and the unsung marvels of the world around them.
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcastHave you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean?Or ...
Author: Roman Mars
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780358540175
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Page: 400
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... 79-80; appreciation of rental property in, 88; demolition of rental properties in,
85; drop in construction in non-controlled cities in, 79; housing receivership
programs in, 185; landlord/tenant laws in, 99; property taxes in, 86-87; rent
control in, ...
Author: John I. Gilderbloom
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292778924
Category: Social Science
Page: 281
View: 634
A legendary figure in the realms of public policy and academia, John Gilderbloom is one of the foremost urban-planning researchers of our time, producing groundbreaking studies on housing markets, design, location, regulation, financing, and community building. Now, in Invisible City, he turns his eye to fundamental questions regarding housing for the elderly, the disabled, and the poor. Why is it that some locales can offer affordable, accessible, and attractive housing, while the large majority of cities fail to do so? Invisible City calls for a brave new housing paradigm that makes the needs of marginalized populations visible to policy makers. Drawing on fascinating case studies in Houston, Louisville, and New Orleans, and analyzing census information as well as policy reports, Gilderbloom offers a comprehensive, engaging, and optimistic theory of how housing can be remade with a progressive vision. While many contemporary urban scholars have failed to capture the dynamics of what is happening in our cities, Gilderbloom presents a new vision of shelter as a force that shapes all residents.
The orphaned Pip is serving as a blacksmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
Author: charles dickens
Publisher:
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Page: 469
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Great Expectations Devotional
Francesco Sabatini , the great man of the new city of Madrid , was pensive and
dejected within doors , but when about his work ... my friend STANNUKU
LIBRARIES and master's many virtues - some of which might not 99 THE
INVISIBLE CITY.
Author: Emili Rosales
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 261
View: 766
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... 290 , 323 Fisher , Irving : 163 , 341 Flynn , Dennis O . : 163 , 341 Forbes ,
Alexander Kinloch : 38 , 190 - 1 Foster , William : 18 , 98 , 99 , 120 , 141 , 143 ,
144 , 148 , 215 , 239 , 247 , 248 , 260 , 297 Foucault , Michel : 4 , 42 , 73 Fox ,
Richard G ...
Author: Frank Perlin
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
ISBN:
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 366
View: 580
These five studies represent a detailed view of monetary production, forms of exchange and processes of state formation. They uncover the infrastructures of a common life that, the author argues, stretches across Asia and Europe and underlies all regional and local developments.
99 Invisible Cities , by Italo Calvino , translated by William Weaver ( Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich , 1974 ) . Mark Strand sent me a postcard . It said : Read
Invisible Cities . I always do what postcards tell me . It was a good idea .
Sometimes ...
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Category: Creative writing
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... heard her , because Laurie's attention was so quickly reabsorbed in the
boutique and the three new customers who had just come in . 99 Jenny decided
to go back to the palace and share 82 THE SECRET OF THE INVISIBLE CITY.
Author: Dale Bick Carlson
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
ISBN:
Category: Detective and mystery stories
Page: 135
View: 308
Jenny is puzzled by her invitation to Krishna-la, a crystalline city where aliens from a distant galaxy make it possible for Jenny and her friends to live out their most-dreamed about fantasies.
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Author: Markus Richter
Publisher:
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Category: Art, Modern
Page: 318
View: 617
Zamosc is an extraordinary treasure of late Renaissance architecture singular in its urban conception, located near the Polish-Ukrainian border, on route between Lublin and Lwow. The never destroyed city will host the works of contemporary artists from twelve European and six non-European countries amidst its traces of a once truly multicultural society, the former orthodox churches, the cathedral, the synagogue as well as the Armenian houses. Only few ideal cities were ever partially or completely built. In particular, the ideal city plannings that were closely tied to societal utopias usually remained unrealized. Zamosc, conceived by Count Jan Zamoyski and built between 1580 1605 by Italian architect Bernardo Morando, is one of the rare existing examples of an ideal city. Today Zamosc is included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage. The artists working site-specifically will react to the given architecture and insert their work in public spaces and buildings, hidden courtyards or squares. Lawrence Weiner enfolds the arcades at the main square with one of his word sculptures. Monika Sosnowska composed a fountain while Miroslaw Balka sculpture relates to wounds, deeply cut during the second World War. Daniela Brahm, Colin Ardley, Kai Schiemenz determine squares and public spaces anew, Franka Hoernschemeyer reflects with her installation the clear gridding of the citys layout and Lucas Lenglet drafted a columbarium for one of the courtyards. Les Schliesser sets up a museum for a fictive architect born in Zamosc, Jakob Kolding investigates functional city planning with a poster project and Craigie Horsfield introduces a sound installation. David Tremlett inserted pastel wall drawings into the cartouches of the Renaissance synagogue, while the structural works of Katarzyna Jozefowicz and Pedro Cabrita Reis dialogue across its naves and Sol Lewitt inhabits its courtyard temporarily. Tilman Wendlands installation in the historical museum will integrate documentation on ideal city plans of the moderns Le Corbusier, Niemeyer and Hansen and Jaroslaw Flicinski will conceive a large wall painting for the academy, in the gymnasium of which George Hadjimichalis will install his Workshop of Projects and Images in Crisis. In the casemates of the decorates fortress Zamosc, the photo, film and video works by Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Francis Alys, Tacita Dean and Rula Halawani address the issues of geometry, order, defence systems, resistance and alleged security. In the historical academy building, which today houses the towns high school, in the Historical Museum and at the Zamosc City Gallery 20 artists will be showing their works relating to the major themes of the exhibition including memory and the grid. The contemporary art works will engage in a challenging and substantial discourse with the historical city and the underlying invisible cities, hidden beyond or masked by time and history. All in short walking distance, the exhibition will cover the entire city of Zamosc from June 18, 2006 to August 22, 2006. In September and October, a freshly adapted version of the exhibition will be shown in the city of Potsdam, which was mainly planned and built during Baroque times.
A book about Delhi's secret and seldom-visited monuments.
Author: Rakhshanda Jalil
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788189738778
Category: Architecture
Page: 342
View: 790
A book about Delhi's secret and seldom-visited monuments.
Author: Dermot Bolger
Publisher:
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Category: Dublin (Ireland)
Page: 152
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Author: Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Publisher:
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Category: Operas
Page: 362
View: 238
However , fiberless optics vendors claim that their networks are between 99 . 99
percent and 99 . ... Another test conducted by Washington ' s Infrared
Communication Systems in an undetermined southwestern United States city
measured 99 .
Author: Robert C. Elsenpeter
Publisher: Network Professional's Library
ISBN:
Category: Computers
Page: 487
View: 596
Learn the basics of optical networking using this practical and easy-to-follow introductory guide. You'll get an overview of concepts behind the technology, as well as helpful information on Cisco, Nortel, and Juniper certifications. Also, a handy 16-page blueprint section offers additional visual instruction.
Yet from the perspective of our species ' existence on Earth , cities are a very
recent phenomenon . For 99 percent of human existence , we were hunter -
gatherers , following game and plants through the seasons . Only in the past 10
millennia ...
Author: David Suzuki
Publisher: Stoddart Pub
ISBN: 9780773757301
Category: Human ecology
Page: 230
View: 975
'...Suzuki covers much of the valuable ground here...skewed priorities, the fragmentation of modern life and a profound alienation from our biological roots... In spite of its weight, the message here is not entirely devoid of hope.' ---Vancouver Sun
me OR CENTURIES , CITIES HAVE BEEN magnets for people . Yet from the
perspective of our species ' existence on Earth , cities are a very recent
phenomenon . For 99 percent of human existence , we were hunter - gatherers ,
following ...
Author: David T. Suzuki
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Environmental policy
Page: 230
View: 107
Chautauqua County has a white population of almost 99 percent , of which about
5.6 percent are of Swedish extraction . ... of cities such as Erie and James town )
which have experienced declining growth rates for the past three decades .
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The Invisible City of Kitezh is a haunting work , but of the three to appear recently
I or a confirmed balletophobe , it is ... Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Gatti Conifer
75605 51343-2 ( 3/99 ) Stravinsky Orpheus Orpheus Chamber Orchestra DG ...
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The Invisible City of Kitezh is a haunting work , but of the three to Per appear
recently I Kishe bacoy the boom would suggest the ... Tchaikovsky Romeo and
Juliet Gatti Conifer 75605 51343 - 2 ( 3 / 99 ) Stravinsky Orpheus Orpheus
Chamber ...
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Consolidation of the city ' s gas firms finally occurred on June 5 , 1897 , when
Illinois governor John R . Tanner signed the “ Gas Consolidation Act . ” This act
allowed ... a mixture of thorium dioxide ( 99 percent ) and cerium oxide ( 1
percent ) .
Author: Christopher James Castaneda
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780805798302
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 250
View: 401
With in-depth surveys on business trends and waves of industrial progress, this series offers a critical look at the practices and evolution of the business world.
Most of my classmates were Mainlanders, since there were lots of Mainlanders in
that city. Other classmates were Southern ... June 16, 2006). Doris remembered
thinking that her Hakka language was not high FRoM INVISIBLE TO VISIBLE 99.
Author: May H. Hsieh
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469141027
Category: Education
Page: 228
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From invisible to visible: Stories of Taiwanese Hakka heritage teachers journeys is a study exploring teachers views and experiences with Hakka heritage language education and instruction in Taiwan. These teachers are involved in Taiwans current heritage language program and also experienced the Mandarin Movement which started several decades ago. Data for this qualitative study was collected from interviews with 10 Hakka teachers involved in Hakka heritage language instruction in elementary schools in Taiwan. The research findings indicate that the heritage language program reinforces the value of Hakka culture and Hakka identity. In addition, this study shows that the Mandarin Movement demonstrated the elementary schools important role in the cultivation of students language use habits and perceptions toward the various Taiwanese languages.