[PDF] Twenty Minutes In Manhattan eBook

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0865477582

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Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.

Author : David Schickler
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2002-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385335679

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Hilarious, sexy, and deeply tender, Kissing in Manhattan was one of the most celebrated debuts in recent years. Acclaimed author David Schickler’s collection of linked stories follows a troupe of love-hungry urbanites through a charmed metropolis and into the Preemption--a mythic Manhattan apartment building. The Preemption sets the stage for a romantic fantasy as exuberant, dark, and dazzling as the city it occupies. Behind closed doors, the paths of an improbable cast of tenants--a seductive perfume heiress; a crabby, misunderstood actor; a preternaturally sharp-sighted priest--tangle and cross, while a perilous love triangle builds around three characters: James Branch, a shy young accountant with an unusual love for the Preemption’s antique elevator, and a strange destiny... Patrick Rigg, a Wall Street lothario who soothes his pain by seducing beautiful women, carrying a gun, and attending the nightly sermons of a foreboding priest... Rally McWilliams, a fetching, hopeful young writer who roams the city at night, searching for the soulmate she believes in but can’t find... Charged with joy and a deadly sense of humor, Kissing in Manhattan is a daring new writer’s vision of a world where men and women, good and evil, love and sex, meet, battle, and embrace on every street corner.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786635151

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A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of Sorkin’s beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks not simply the forms and practices—from zoning and political deals to the finer points of architectural design—that shape cities today but also offers spirited advocacy for another kind of city, reimagined from the street up on a human scale, a home to sustainable, just, and fulfilling neighborhoods and public spaces. Informing his writing is a lifetime’s experience as an architect and urbanist. Sorkin writes of the joys and techniques of observing and inhabiting cities and buildings in order to both better understand and to more happily be in them. Sorkin has never been shy about naming names. He has been a scourge of design mediocrity and of the supine compliance of “starchitects,” who readily accede to the demands of greed and privilege. What Goes Up casts the net wide, as he directs his arguments to students, professionals, and urban citizens with vigor, expertise, respect, and barbed wit.

Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1416550208

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An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --

Author : Beverly Swerling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743218450

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A sweeping epic of two families—one Dutch, one English—from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, to the triumph of the Revolution, when New York became a new nation’s city of dreams. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; but soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, Lucas and Sally make choices that will burden their descendants with a legacy of secrets and retribution, and create a heritage that sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and, ultimately, patriot against Tory. In what will be the greatest city in the New World, the fortunes of these two families are inextricably entwined by blood and fire in an unforgettable American saga of pride and ambition, love and hate, and the becoming of the dream that is New York City.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0865477574

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"A nonfiction book describing a walk from Greenwich Village to Tribeca, about urban life in New York City, written by an acclaimed architect and architectural critic"--

Author : William B. Helmreich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691166994

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A unique walking guide to Manhattan, from the author of The New York Nobody Knows. --Amazon.com.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1844672204

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Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.”

Author : Carol Weston
Publisher : Yearling Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0440420407

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Eleven-year-old Melanie records in her diary how she rediscovers her hometown of Manhattan, copes with competing for her best friend's attention, enjoys a litter of baby mice, and anxiously awaits email from her Spanish friend, Miguel.

Author : Colin Harrison
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429905255

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Now a major motion picture, Manhattan Night, starring Adrien Brody, Campbell Scott, Yvonne Strahovski, and Linda Lavin Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her husband, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life. Manhattan Nocturne is a brilliantly drawn tableau of the gritty, gaudy city, and a thrilling literary noir.