[PDF] The New City Home eBook

Author : Leslie Plummer Clagett
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781561586486

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This illustrated guide to making the most of an urban living space profiles 25 homes in major metropolitan areas. 35 illustrations. 240 color photos.

Author : Andrew Alan Johnson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824847822

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Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake the city. For many Chiang Mai residents, new developments harbor the seeds of the crash, which manifest themselves in anxious stories of ghosts and criminals who conceal themselves behind the city’s progressive veneer. Hopes for rebirth and fears of decline have their roots in Thai conceptions of progress, which draw from Buddhist and animist ideas of power and sacrality. Cities, Johnson argues, were centers where the charismatic power of kings and animist spirits were grounded; these entities assured progress by imbuing the space with sacred power that would avert disaster. Johnson traces such magico-religious conceptions of potency and space from historical records through present-day popular religious practice and draws parallels between these and secular attempts at urban revitalization. Through a detailed ethnography of the contested ways in which academics, urban activists, spirit mediums, and architects seek to revitalize the flagging economy and infrastructure of Chiang Mai, Johnson finds that alongside the hope for progress there exists a discourse about urban ghosts, deadly construction sites, and the lurking anxiety of another possible crash, a discourse that calls into question history’s upward trajectory. In this way, Ghosts of the New City draws new connections between urban history and popular religion that have implications far beyond Southeast Asia.

Author : Joseph Rocco Mitchell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1614230994

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Published in anticipation of Columbias fortieth anniversary in 2007, this book showcases the history of one of the nations leading new towns. Built from the brilliant plan developed by visionary designer James Rouse, Columbias innovative design is the foundation for a unique community that has thrived for decades and flourishes today.

Author : Stephen Amidon
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 2010-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307480798

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A thought-prooking thriller and a literate page-turner, Stephen Amidon's The New City takes aim at the suburban American dream and captures the real nightmare behind it. It is 1973, the Vietnam War is winding down and the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. But Newton, Maryland, is a model community, an enclave of harmony and prosperity. Through years of cunning legal maneuvering and smooth real-estate deals, the white lawyer Austin Swope has made the dream of this new city a reality. His best friend is Earl Wooten, the black master builder who raised Newton from its foundations. Their teenaged sons, Teddy and Joel, each the repository of his father's deepest hopes for the future, are inseparable buddies. But cracks begin to appear in this pristiine and meticulously planned community, and an innocent misunderstanding is about to set the two men who control its quiet streets on a fateful collision course.

Author : Guy Ortolano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 110848266X

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