Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The urban prospect The urban prospect Lewis Mumford Collection of essays and papers. OL1879239W
Associational life in African cities Associational life in African cities Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa The 17 essays in this volume focus on the multitude of voluntary associations to have emerged in African cities in recent years. Recurrent themes include the contexts in which people have organised t… OL24441602W
Steden in groei en bloei Steden in groei en bloei Mark Girouard Geschiedenis en ontwikkeling van steden in de westerse wereld van de tiende tot in de twintigste eeuw. OL24623123W
De grenzeloze stad De grenzeloze stad Anneke Brassinga Opstellen met als thema 'de stad'. OL26191220W
Symfonie van honger, dood en hoop Symfonie van honger, dood en hoop Brian Moynahan Geschiedenis van de Duitse belegering van Leningrad (1941-1944) en de première van de Zevende Symfonie van Sjostakovitsj in die stad. OL27677973W
Sprawl Sprawl Robert Bruegmann As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to ca… OL3274625W
The Image of the City The Image of the City Kevin Lynch What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr… OL4477193W
Finding the lost cities Finding the lost cities Rebecca Stefoff Explores twelve archeological "lost cities," with accounts of site discovery and investigation of the meaning of recovered objects. OL56014W
Life in a medieval city Life in a medieval city Frances Gies,Joseph Gies Recreates the life of the rich and poor family, the housewife, businessman, doctor, scholar, clergy, artist, and writer of the Middle Ages, with insights into many customs and traditions of the perio… OL6552652W
Nineteenth-century cities Nineteenth-century cities Yale Conference on the Nineteenth-Century Industrial City New Haven 1968.,Richard Sennett,Stephen Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom Research on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century cities held in November 1968 at Yale University. These papers from the conference attempt to define wh… OL7212453W
Big plans Big plans Kenneth L. Kolson "Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city - as expressed through visual images such as architectural drawings, three-dimensional model… OL7795666W
Making San Francisco American Making San Francisco American Barbara Berglund This book attempts to explain how the racially mixed and roughly egalitarian culture of mining-era SF was gradually molded into something acceptable to “cultured” Americans – both to the nouveau rich… OL8330614W
Private pleasure, public plight Private pleasure, public plight David Popenoe "This is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations - the United States, Sweden, and England. The author focuses on how environment and culture interact t… OL93573W