Places of Encounter, Volume 1
Places of Encounter, Volume 1

Author: Aran MacKinnon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0429972954

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Places of Encounter provides a place-based approach to world history, focusing on specific locations at critical moments when human history was transformed as a result of encounters-physical, political, cultural, intellectual, and religious. Original, contributed essays by leading academics in the field explore places from Hadar to Xi'an, Salvador to New York, and numerous other locations that have produced historical shockwaves and significant global impact throughout history. With a chronologically organized table of contents, each chapter dissects a particular moment in history, with personal commentary from each contributor, a narrative of the location's historical significance at the time, and a section on significant global connections. Primary sources and discussion questions at the end of each chapter allow students a view into the lives of individuals of the time. Students will experience the narrative of historic individuals as well as modern scholars looking back over documentation to offer their own views of the past, providing students with the perfect opportunity to see how scholars form their own views about history.

Cities and Spaces of Leadership
Cities and Spaces of Leadership

Author: Cristina D'Alessandro

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-19

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1137561912

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Cities and Spaces of Leadership investigates the interaction between leadership, leaders and spaces at various levels. It analyzes how spaces and places influence leaders and leadership, as well as how the presence, distribution, action, and concentration of leaders in spaces contribute to their transformation.

Silver Cities
Silver Cities

Author: Peter Bacon Hales

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780826331786

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This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.

Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude

Author: Dennis R. Judd

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2015-03-16

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 087417970X

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Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude explores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America’s last urban frontier. In recent decades Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Boise have become the anchors for sprawling metropolitan regions. This population explosion has been fueled by the maturing of Las Vegas as the nation’s entertainment capital, the rise of Reno as a magnet for multitudes of California expatriates, the development of Salt Lake City’s urban corridor along the Wasatch Range, and the growth of Boise’s celebrated high-tech economy and hip urban culture. The blooming of cities in a fragile desert region poses a host of environmental challenges. The policies required to manage their impact, however, often collide with an entrenched political culture that has long resisted cooperative or governmental effort. The alchemical mixture of three ingredients--cities, aridity, and a libertarian political outlook--makes the Great Basin a compelling place to study. This book addresses a pressing question: are large cities ultimately sustainable in such a fragile environment?

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 2286

ISBN-13:

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Report
Report

Author: Utah. State Bureau of Immigration, Labor and Statistics

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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Underground Cities
Underground Cities

Author: Mark Ovenden

Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 178131893X

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With over 60 per cent of the world’s population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet – which keep the cities above moving – are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work. Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a ‘skyline of the underground’ through specially commissioned cut-away illustrations and unique cartography. Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what our cities look like from the bottom up.