The Amazing City

The Amazing City

Author: John Frederick Macdonald

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-28

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3387087055

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.


What Makes a Great City

What Makes a Great City

Author: Alexander Garvin

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2016-09-08

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1610917588

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One of Planetizen's Top Planning Books for 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle's 2016 Holiday Books Gift Guide Pick What makes a great city? City planner and architect Alexander Garvin set out to answer this question by observing cities, largely in North America and Europe, with special attention to Paris, London, New York, and Vienna. For Garvin, greatness is about what people who shape cities can do to make a city great. A great city is a dynamic, constantly changing place that residents and their leaders can reshape to satisfy their demands. Most importantly, it is about the interplay between people and public realm, and how they have interacted throughout history to create great cities. What Makes a Great City will help readers understand that any city can be changed for the better and inspire entrepreneurs, public officials, and city residents to do it themselves.


In the City

In the City

Author: Don Kilby

Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781553379843

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Describes different types of trucks and what they are used for in the city, such as garbage trucks, delivery trucks, and street sweepers.


Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

Author: Elizabeth Mann

Publisher: Wonders of the World Book

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931414104

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Describes the history of the Inca civilization and the construction of the city of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.


The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon: A Children's Book Also for Adults

The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon: A Children's Book Also for Adults

Author: Fiona Hawthorne

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-07

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9789887963936

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Imagine living in a high-rise mini-city that people built with their own hands. This city took up only the size of a sports stadium, but it was home to sixty thousand people! What would it be like to live in the most tightly packed place on Earth? Fiona wanted to find out, so she went there to paint, draw and meet the people of the amazing Kowloon Walled City. There was nowhere else in the world like it. The extraordinary things she discovered are inside this book...


Last Summer in the City

Last Summer in the City

Author: Gianfranco Calligarich

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0374600163

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The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author André Aciman. In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between run-down hotels and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends, without whom he would probably starve. At thirty, he’s still drifting: between jobs that mean nothing to him, between human relationships both ephemeral and frayed. Everyone he knows wants to graduate, get married, get rich—but not him. He has no ambitions whatsoever. Rather than toil and spin, isn’t it better to submit to the alienation of the Eternal City, Rome, sometimes a cruel and indifferent mistress, sometimes sweet and sublime? There can be no half measures with her, either she’s the love of your life or you have to leave her. First discovered by Natalia Ginzburg, Last Summer in the City is a forgotten classic of Italian literature, a great novel of a stature similar to that of The Great Gatsby or The Catcher in the Rye. Gianfranco Calligarich’s enduring masterpiece has drawn comparisons to such writers as Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and Jonathan Franzen and is here made available in English for the first time.


City Trains

City Trains

Author: Christina Leighton

Publisher: Bellwether Media

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1681033992

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Driving around a busy downtown area can be a hassle, especially during rush hour. Cars, taxis, buses, bicycles, and pedestrians create traffic jams on city streets. So city trains are the answer for many people. In this title, beginning readers will follow city trains from stop to stop.


The Divided City

The Divided City

Author: Alan Mallach

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1610917812

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In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.


World of Wanderlust

World of Wanderlust

Author: Brooke Bellamy

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2016-10-31

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 176014343X

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What are the world’s greatest destinations? Where are the best places to travel solo? From airport fashion to road trip rules, professional traveller Brooke Saward shows us where to go, what to do and how to get that holiday feeling without even leaving home. Full of beautiful photographs that will ignite the imagination and featuring enduring favourites like Paris, New York, and London, this is the book that will inspire you to make every day an adventure.