[PDF] North America Skyline eBook

Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1387408615

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"This book collects and describes every known North American streamlined - or semi-streamlined - steam locomotive with photographs of every class and every significant design variation and it packages those descriptions with information about the locomotives' origins, service lives and ultimate destinies."--Book

Author : Thomas F. McIlwraith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742500195

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This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of society, resource exploitation, regional and national integration, and landscape change. With six new chapters, redrawn maps, a new introduction that explores scholarly trends in historical geography since publication of the first edition, and a new final chapter guiding students to the basic sources for historical geographic enquiry, North America will be an indispensable text in historical geography courses.

Author : Jason M. Barr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199344388

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The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held misconceptions about the city's history. Starting with Manhattan's natural and geological history, Barr moves on to how these formations influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the location of skyscrapers built during the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century. Barr then explores the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. He discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown-but not in between the two areas. Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to the depths of Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station. Rather, midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street after the Civil War. Building the Skyline also presents the first rigorous investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city. The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust future skyline.

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Page : 1736 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Periodicals
ISBN :

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Author : Charles A. Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 1992-11-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521438117

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Details information about volcanoes found in the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada.

Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1888729333

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This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed, along with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. Detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions are also included.