Under Manhattan's Sky
Under Manhattan's Sky

Author: Andrea Golden.

Publisher: Babelcube Inc.

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1071577573

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WHEN YOU LOST ALL HOPE OF FOLLOWING IN LOVE AGAIN... The writer takes us with delicacy into a beautiful love story that happens in two scenerios totally opposed, from one another, one full of wealth, and another one devastated by poverty in an environment similar to AFRICAN MEMORIES. Story told by the same characters, from their different points of view. Angela, an agressive business woman whose life has been marked with loneliness. She needs to break with that rare life that she had created for herself, full of loves, and heartbreaks. But, as a turn of destiny, which happen with no control, makes a man appear in her life, bringing sensations that she never expected. Peter, a brilliant Spanish Architect, that confront the most ambitious project in his carrer, never thought that meeting Angela would change his life; his boss. After a sudden encounter, she disappears from his life, coming back with an enigmatic call and a risky proposition. He will take a trip that will change his life forever, one of the most challenging events in his life, in an unknown, poor and faraway country, where he never thought about going, thrown by the love of a woman, that is unreacheable for him and is dryving him crazy. NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I present to you a new love story approach. In each moment I express the feelings of each character (narrated by both). If you wish to read something different I invite you to dare. These types of books have many lovers and many non lovers. ANDREA GOLDEN Bibliography August 2015 " Under Manhattan's Sky" ( Best Seller/ Romantic/Fiction) July 2016 " Secret of a Memory" ( Best Seller/ Historical/Fiction)

The Sky's the Limit
The Sky's the Limit

Author: Steven Gaines

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0759513880

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With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities -- from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna. Gaines uncovers the secretive, unwritten rules of co-op boards: why diplomats and pretty divorcees are frowned upon, what not to wear to a board interview, and which of the biggest celebrities and CEOs have been turned away from the elite buildings of Fifth and Park Avenues. He introduces the carriage-trade brokers who never have to advertise for clients and gives us finely etched portraits of a few of the discreet, elderly society ladies who decide who gets into the so-called Good Buildings. Here, too, is a fascinating chronicle of the changes in Manhattan's residential skyline, from the slums of the nineteenth century to the advent of the luxury building. Gaines describes how living in boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status, and how the co-operative apartment, originally conceived as a form of housing for the poor, came to be used as a legal means of black-balling undesirable neighbors. A social history told through brick and mortar, The Sky's the Limit is the ultimate look inside one of the most exclusive and expensive enclaves in the world, and at the lengths to which people will go to get in.

Building the Skyline
Building the Skyline

Author: Jason M. Barr

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0199344388

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The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held misconceptions about the city's history. Starting with Manhattan's natural and geological history, Barr moves on to how these formations influenced early land use and the development of neighborhoods, including the dense tenement neighborhoods of Five Points and the Lower East Side, and how these early decisions eventually impacted the location of skyscrapers built during the Skyscraper Revolution at the end of the 19th century. Barr then explores the economic history of skyscrapers and the skyline, investigating the reasons for their heights, frequencies, locations, and shapes. He discusses why skyscrapers emerged downtown and why they appeared three miles to the north in midtown-but not in between the two areas. Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to the depths of Manhattan's bedrock, nor the presence of Grand Central Station. Rather, midtown's emergence was a response to the economic and demographic forces that were taking place north of 14th Street after the Civil War. Building the Skyline also presents the first rigorous investigation of the causes of the building boom during the Roaring Twenties. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the boom was largely a rational response to the economic growth of the nation and city. The last chapter investigates the value of Manhattan Island and the relationship between skyscrapers and land prices. Finally, an Epilogue offers policy recommendations for a resilient and robust future skyline.

High Line
High Line

Author: Joshua David

Publisher: FSG Originals

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780374532994

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How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand--and beloved--open space The High Line, a new park atop an ele-vated rail structure on Manhattan's West Side, is among the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. The story of how it came to be is a remarkable one: two young citizens with no prior experience in planning and development collaborated with their neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, and leaders of burgeoning movements in horticulture and landscape architecture to create a park celebrated worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically sound public space. Joshua David and Robert Hammond met in 1999 at a community board meeting to consider the fate of the High Line. Built in the 1930s, it carried freight trains to the West Side when the area was defined by factories and warehouses. But when trains were replaced by truck transport, the High Line became obsolete. By century's end it was a rusty, forbidding ruin. Plants grew between the tracks, giving it a wild and striking beauty. David and Hammond loved the ruin and saw in it an opportunity to create a new way to experience their city. Over ten years, they did so. In this candid and inspiring book-- lavishly illustrated--they tell how they relied on skill, luck, and good timing: a crucial court ruling, an inspiring design contest, the enthusiasm of Mayor Bloomberg, the concern for urban planning issues following 9/11. Now the High Line--a half-mile expanse of plants, paths, staircases, and framed vistas--runs through a transformed West Side and reminds us that extraordinary things are possible when creative people work together for the common good.

First We Take Manhattan
First We Take Manhattan

Author: Diana Theodores

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1134375859

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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Sky Detective
The Sky Detective

Author: Azadeh Tabazadeh

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1491760613

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When Azadeh was an eight-year-old girl growing up in Iran in March 1973, her uncle gave her a chemistry kit. That got her hooked on science early and provided an opportunity for her to find herself. In The Sky Detective, Azadeh shares her life storyone that includes an insiders look at life during the Islamic Revolution and Iraqi War and details how one little girl grew up to become a gifted scientist. Set inside Iran in the final years of the monarchy, the author narrates a true story of friendship between two girls growing up in the same household in Tehran: Azadeh, the daughter of an affluent engineer, and Najmieh, a child servant who arrives from a small village in northern Iran to live with Azadehs family. When the girls are teenagers, political turmoil interrupts their lives, sending them down different paths. This memoir recalls friendship and faith, the bonds between parents and daughters in a paternalistic society, and the clash of values among relatives from different generations in a family. The Sky Detective describes the rich culture of a beautiful but deeply troubled land undergoing radical transformation. In spite of the hardship that comes along with the establishment of a theocratic regime, Azadeh shows her will and determination as a young woman to persevere and realize her childhood dream of becoming a world-renowned scientist.

Nearest Thing to Heaven
Nearest Thing to Heaven

Author: Mark Kingwell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-11-20

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780300126129

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A new perspective on a beloved cultural icon, its place in our history, and its meaning in the American imagination This elegantly written appreciation of the Empire State Building opens up the building's richness and importance as an icon of America. The book leads us through the facts surrounding the skyscraper's conception and construction, then enters into a provocative theoretical discussion of its function as an icon, its representation in pictures, literature, and film, and the implications of its iconic status as New York's most important architectural monument to ambition and optimism. The Empire State Building literally cannot be seen in its totality, from any perspective. And paradoxically, this building of unmistakable solidity has been made invisible by familiarity and reproduction through imagery. Mark Kingwell encourages us to look beneath the strong physical presence of the building, to become aware of its evolving layers of meaning, and to see how the building lives within a unique imaginative space in the landscape of the American consciousness. He offers new ways of understanding the Empire State Building in all its complexity and surprising insights into its special role as an American icon.

Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories

Author: Donald Barthelme

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-09-30

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780142437391

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With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Sadie
Sadie

Author: g.l. parker

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published:

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1257782061

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Brooklyn!
Brooklyn!

Author: Ellen Marie Snyder-Grenier

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781592130825

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Lavishly illustrated with prints, paintings, memorabilia, and objects from The Brooklyn Historical Society's unparalleled collection, Brooklyn! will bring every reader closer to the Brooklyn of legend and fact.