John Vachon's America [[electronic resource] ] : photographs and letters from the Depression to World War II / / John Vachon ; edited, with introductory texts, by Miles Orvell |
Autore | Vachon John <1914-1975.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Disciplina |
770/.92
B |
Altri autori (Persone) | OrvellMiles |
Soggetto topico |
Photographers - United States
Documentary photography - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-27699-2
9786613276995 0-520-92503-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457251403321 |
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Public space and the ideology of place in American culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (461 p.) |
Disciplina | 720.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
MeikleJeffrey L. <1949-> |
Collana | Architecture, technology, culture |
Soggetto topico |
Public spaces - United States
Public architecture - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-59459-1
9786612594595 90-420-2878-5 1-4416-1340-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space / Anna Minta -- \'How the Devil It Got There”: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian “Castle” / John F. Sears -- The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past / Torben Huus Larsen -- Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past / Miles Orvell -- Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- “Terra Incognita” in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer -- Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago / Peter Bacon Hales -- The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places / Laura Lawson -- Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail / Kay F. Edge -- Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space / Bryant Simon -- The Public Space of Urban Communities / Rickie Sanders -- Walking the High Line / Eric J. Sandeen -- The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture / Kerstin Schmidt -- Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park / Timothy Davis -- Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts / David E. Nye -- Air and Space / Sarah Luria -- Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place / Andrew S. Gross -- Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age / Klaus Benesch -- Contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455430903321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
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Public space and the ideology of place in American culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (461 p.) |
Disciplina | 720.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
MeikleJeffrey L. <1949-> |
Collana | Architecture, technology, culture |
Soggetto topico |
Public spaces - United States
Public architecture - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-59459-1
9786612594595 90-420-2878-5 1-4416-1340-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space / Anna Minta -- \'How the Devil It Got There”: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian “Castle” / John F. Sears -- The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past / Torben Huus Larsen -- Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past / Miles Orvell -- Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- “Terra Incognita” in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer -- Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago / Peter Bacon Hales -- The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places / Laura Lawson -- Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail / Kay F. Edge -- Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space / Bryant Simon -- The Public Space of Urban Communities / Rickie Sanders -- Walking the High Line / Eric J. Sandeen -- The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture / Kerstin Schmidt -- Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park / Timothy Davis -- Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts / David E. Nye -- Air and Space / Sarah Luria -- Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place / Andrew S. Gross -- Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age / Klaus Benesch -- Contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777960903321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
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Public space and the ideology of place in American culture / / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (461 p.) |
Disciplina | 720.973 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
MeikleJeffrey L. <1949-> |
Collana | Architecture, technology, culture |
Soggetto topico |
Public spaces - United States
Public architecture - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-59459-1
9786612594595 90-420-2878-5 1-4416-1340-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space / Anna Minta -- \'How the Devil It Got There”: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian “Castle” / John F. Sears -- The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past / Torben Huus Larsen -- Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past / Miles Orvell -- Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- “Terra Incognita” in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer -- Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago / Peter Bacon Hales -- The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places / Laura Lawson -- Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail / Kay F. Edge -- Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space / Bryant Simon -- The Public Space of Urban Communities / Rickie Sanders -- Walking the High Line / Eric J. Sandeen -- The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture / Kerstin Schmidt -- Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park / Timothy Davis -- Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts / David E. Nye -- Air and Space / Sarah Luria -- Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place / Andrew S. Gross -- Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age / Klaus Benesch -- Contributors. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815105503321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
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Rethinking the American city : an international dialogue / / edited by Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch ; foreword by Dolores Hayden |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
Disciplina | 720.973/09051 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
BeneschKlaus <1958-> HaydenDolores |
Collana | Architecture | Technology | Culture |
Soggetto topico |
City planning - United States - History - 21st century
Cities and towns - United States - History - 21st century Architecture and society - United States - History - 21st century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8122-0901-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Energy -- Sustainability -- The Multicultural City -- Ruins -- Aesthetic Space -- Designing the City -- Mobility -- The Digital City -- Future City -- Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464662403321 |
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 | ||
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Rethinking the American city : an international dialogue / / edited by Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch ; foreword by Dolores Hayden |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
Disciplina | 720.973/09051 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
BeneschKlaus <1958-> HaydenDolores |
Collana | Architecture | Technology | Culture |
Soggetto topico |
City planning - United States - History - 21st century
Cities and towns - United States - History - 21st century Architecture and society - United States - History - 21st century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Architecture Technology and Engineering Urban Studies |
ISBN | 0-8122-0901-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Energy -- Sustainability -- The Multicultural City -- Ruins -- Aesthetic Space -- Designing the City -- Mobility -- The Digital City -- Future City -- Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788902803321 |
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 | ||
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Rethinking the American city : an international dialogue / / edited by Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch ; foreword by Dolores Hayden |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
Disciplina | 720.973/09051 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OrvellMiles
BeneschKlaus <1958-> HaydenDolores |
Collana | Architecture | Technology | Culture |
Soggetto topico |
City planning - United States - History - 21st century
Cities and towns - United States - History - 21st century Architecture and society - United States - History - 21st century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Architecture Technology and Engineering Urban Studies |
ISBN | 0-8122-0901-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Energy -- Sustainability -- The Multicultural City -- Ruins -- Aesthetic Space -- Designing the City -- Mobility -- The Digital City -- Future City -- Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823780503321 |
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 | ||
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