·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Learn the history of the land where New York is now located, New Amsterdam and its association with the Lenape Native American tribe, how it got the name "The City that Never Sleeps", the fur wars, the Harlem Renaissance, the great building boom of high rises and skyscrapers, the Twin Towers Memorial, and interesting sights to see when visiting the Big Apple like The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Central Park, and the Empire State Building. ·Includes historical and current pictures of New York City chronology of events (spanning 1600s to today), includes the Twin Tower memorial, chapter notes, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and city. ·Includes information on all five boroughs.
Award-winning author Cat Patrick returns with a charming tale full of first crushes and new friendships, as one girl learns a little more about who she is and who she wants to be all while on the road trip of lifetime. It’s the summer of 1985, when air guitar, jelly bracelets, and huge hair are all the rage, and twelve-year-old Stevie is finally old enough to go on her performing troupe’s annual cross-country tour. Twenty-six teen cast members will lip-synch and dance their way through more than twenty cities, and Stevie and her best friend, Wes, can’t wait—for more reasons than one!
·Reading Level 3-6 ·Learn the history of Philadelphia and its association with the Lenape Native American tribe, New Sweden, and William Penn, how it got its nickname "The City of Brotherly Love", how Philadelphia was the last stop on the Underground Railroad and African Americans played a big role in population growth, and interesting sights for visitors like Independence Hall, the Rocky Statue and Geno's cheesesteaks. ·Includes historical and current pictures of Philadelphia, a chronology of events (spanning 1638 to today), chapter notes, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and city.
We Build The City features a selection of the exemplary infrastructure, public realm and civic building projects developed during New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration under Commissioner David Burney's groundbreaking Department of Design + Construction Excellence (D+CE) program. This publication celebrates the DDC's commitment to the idea that design matters and that great design reinvigorates public spaces and, ultimately, transforms people's lives. The DDC has been lauded for its fresh approach to facilitating innovative and collaborative architecture and urban planning solutions and improving public buildings, spaces and communities with a focus on design that reflects important key values: education and culture, health and safety, and diversity and opportunity. The D+CE program has offered dynamic design and construction strategies that have inspired some of the best architects and engineers in the world--and given the city's small firms--the opportunity to work with the DDC to reimagine and reshape the built environment. From the Queen's Botanical Garden, Mariner's Harbor Library, Brooklyn Children's Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Arts to Madison Avenue, Houston Street, Columbus Circle, the Central Park Precinct and PSAC II, the DDC and its pioneering D+CE initiative has helped to transform all five boroughs of the great City of New York. Highlighting the work of numerous talented design and construction firms, We Build The City showcases a collection of some the most notable public projects developed and built under the acclaimed D+CE program. Each featured project--whether large- or small-scale, visible or underground--has contributed to the improvement of the city, building upon principles of creativity, sustainability, performance, efficiency and longevity. The publication includes detailed drawings and striking imagery that reveal the complex processes that have shaped one of the most active and successful design periods in NYC's history.
·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Learn the history of the land where Chicago is now located, the World's Fair, the Winnebago Native American tribe, the influx of Germans that created the city, the Great Chicago Fire, the Chicago River and more than 550 parks, and interesting sights to see when visiting the windy city like Wrigley Field, the Willis Tower, and Shedd Aquarium. ·Includes historical and current pictures of Chicago, chronology of events in Chicago (spanning 1673 to today), suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and city.
Shows how women got suckered into going out with the mates their mothers found for them. This collection features 25 victims of poor arrangements, well-meaning fix-ups, and just plain bad judgment calls.
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Gaining their freedom and continuing their efforts to build the city of their dreams, Rick and Evie are confronted by a terrifying new Mastercorp weapon that has the power to turn anything into stinking garbage.
How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue? Sarah Song offers a political theory of immigration that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. What is required, she argues, is not a policy of open or closed borders but open doors.
Being an effective city planner means being an effective leader. You need to be prepared to convince people that good planning matters. Often a well-written, thoughtful and inclusive plan doesn’t result in meaningful action, because planners don’t show leadership skills. At some point, some city planners become cynical and worn down, wondering why no one listens to them but not doing the self-reflection about how that could change. Leadership in Planning explains how to get support for planning initiatives so they don’t just fade from memory. It will guide city planners to think less about organizational charts and more about: · being a respected voice within your organization, both with staff and with your boss; · being a good communicator with people outside your organization; and · being able to understand how and when to push for good planning ideas to turn them into actions. Along the way, case studies bring these concepts to the real world of municipal planning. In addition, past planning figures’ actions are explored to see what they did right and what mistakes they made.
