Summer Folks 'n Year-Round Neighbors
Author: Linda Bahner-Duncan
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Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780963375124
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Author: Linda Bahner-Duncan
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Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780963375124
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780963375100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Uloth Malone
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738584904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the city of La Porte and its neighboring communities is laden with important events and personalities. Pioneers began settling the area 10 years before Texas won its independence from Mexico; the land that was to become the cities of Morgan's Point, Shoreacres, Lomax, and La Porte was home to such Texas luminaries as Gen. Sidney Sherman, Gov. Ross Sterling, Andrew Jackson Houston, and James Morgan. The beauty of the area attracted legions of summer visitors, including Sam Houston and Dr. Ashbel Smith. Years later, Texas oil pioneers looked to the shores of La Porte's Galveston Bay to build summer places. La Porte was legally organized January 1, 1892, and in over a century of ups and downs has remained steadfast in preserving the natural beauty that is its legacy, the friendliness that is its nature, and the educational excellence to which the city's founders aspired. Today, La Porte is a unique mix of quaint small-town living with big-city amenities.
Author: Herman Berges
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Published: 1993*
Total Pages: 17
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1572
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michelle Mulder
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1459816935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlacemaking—personalizing public and semi-private spaces like front yards—is a growing trend in cities and suburbs around the world, drawing people out of their homes and into conversation with one another. Picture a busy avenue. Now plant trees along the boulevard, paint a mural by the empty lot, and add a community garden. Set up benches along the sidewalks and make space for kids' chalk drawings, and you've set the scene for a thriving community. Kids are natural placemakers, building tree forts, drawing on sidewalks and setting up lemonade stands, but people of all ages can enjoy creative placemaking activities. From Dutch families who drag couches and tables onto sidewalks for outdoor suppers to Canadians who build little lending libraries to share books with neighbors, people can do things that make life more fun and strengthen neighborhoods. Home Sweet Neighborhood combines upbeat text, fun facts and colorful photos to intrigue and inspire readers.
Author: Ann Uloth Malone, Dan Becker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467132071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSylvan Beach is synonymous with bathing beauties, moonlit pavilions, the jitterbug, the Charleston, and a train called the Moonlight Express, as well as picnics, carnivals, music, romance, love, and legend. The unlikely truth is that familiarity and age can make our most beautiful treasures banal if we do not pause to remember and observe and venerate the events and moments when we first saw, or most appreciated, a place like Sylvan Beach. For this reason, we ask you to come back with us to Sylvan Beach, where, for over 100 years, Houston and much of Texas has come to play, dance, pray, fall in love, relax, or simply swim in the bay. Today, the park and its pavilion are enjoying renewed popularity.
Author: United States. Department of Labor. Manpower Administration
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 68
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Japonica Brown-Saracino
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-01-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0226076644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNewcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as A Neighborhood That Never Changes demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities—the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden—Japonica Brown-Saracino paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification. The new breed of gentrifiers, Brown-Saracino finds, exhibits an acute self-consciousness about their role in the process and works to minimize gentrification’s risks for certain longtime residents. In an era of rapid change, they cherish the unique and fragile, whether a dilapidated house, a two-hundred-year-old landscape, or the presence of people deeply rooted in the place they live. Contesting many long-standing assumptions about gentrification, Brown-Saracino’s absorbing study reveals the unexpected ways beliefs about authenticity, place, and change play out in the social, political, and economic lives of very different neighborhoods.