Where We Want to Live

Where We Want to Live

By :"Ryan Gravel"
Published on 2016-03-15 by St. Martin's Press

Category :"Architecture"

After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity), divided neighborhoods, and a non-walkable life. Urban designer Ryan Gravel makes a case for how we can change this. Cities have the capacity to create a healthier, more satisfying way of life by remodeling and augmenting their infrastructure in ways that connect neighborhoods and communities. Gravel came up with a way to do just that in his hometown with the Atlanta Beltline project. It connects 40 diverse Atlanta neighborhoods to city schools, shopping districts, and public parks, and has already seen a huge payoff in real estate development and local business revenue. Similar projects are in the works around the country, from the Los Angeles River Revitalization and the Buffalo Bayou in Houston to the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis and the Underline in Miami. In Where We Want to Live, Gravel presents an exciting blueprint for revitalizing cities to make them places where we truly want to live.

Lenght : 256

Language : en

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

How to Steal the Mona Lisa

How to Steal the Mona Lisa

By :"Taylor Bayouth"
Published on 2016-03-01 by Perigee Books

Category :"Humor"

A step-by-step guide for the craft of high stakes thievery In How to Steal the Mona Lisa , author Taylor Bayouth meticulously describes seven heists of priceless art and artifacts: the Hope Diamond, the \

Lenght : 224

Language : en

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Unruly Cities?

Unruly Cities?

By :"Chris Brook","Gerry Mooney","Steve Pile"
Published on 2006-02-01 by Routledge

Category :"Science"

The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Dispatches from Pluto

Dispatches from Pluto

By :"Richard Grant"
Published on 2015-10-13 by Simon and Schuster

Category :"Travel"

Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Mississippi's #1 Bestseller of 2015 (The Clarion-Ledger) A New York Times Bestseller In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining. On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters—blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes. Reporting from all angles as only an outsider can, Grant also delves deeply into the Delta’s lingering racial tensions. He finds that de facto segregation continues. Yet even as he observes major structural problems, he encounters many close, loving, and interdependent relationships between black and white families—and good reasons for hope. Dispatches from Pluto is a book as unique as the Delta itself. It’s lively, entertaining, and funny, containing a travel writer’s flair for in-depth reporting alongside insightful reflections on poverty, community, and race. It’s also a love story, as the nomadic Grant learns to settle down. He falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home. Mississippi, Grant concludes, is the best-kept secret in America.

Lenght : 320

Language : en

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Power Cubed #4

Power Cubed #4

By :"Paul Tobin"
Published on 2016-01-06 by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Category :"Comics & Graphic Novels"

Humans in hot rods, zombies in raucous roadsters, and plants perched in radical racers! The car-filled competition for Neighborville is underway, and Crazy Dave and Dr. Zomboss are neck and neck! Paul Tobin (Bandette, Colder) and Ron Chan (Star Wars, The Guild) return to deliver another hilarious zombie battle to your burg! Artist Ron Chan and colorist Matthew J. Rainwater [do] an excellent job of capturing the bright, cheery art style of the PvZ games and generally creating an energetic, vibrant cartoon landscape.�-IGN

Lenght : 32

Language : en

This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword cubed

Power Cubed #2

Power Cubed #2

By :"Aaron Lopresti"
Published on 2014-10-22 by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Category :"Comics & Graphic Novels"

If, on your birthday, you could make a wish, _any_ wish, before you blew out your candles, what would it be? On his eighteenth birthday, Kenny got something better than one wish. He was given alien technology that lets him create literally anything he can wish for! How about a flying robot or a life- sized T. rex? To keep it, and also stay, you know, _alive_, he'll have to outwit the persistent government agent Claire Covert and a Nazi mad scientist. On top of that, when Kenny's father is abducted by some old friends, Kenny will have to use every ounce of imagination to save him! * A weird and wonderful adventure from the atomic mind of Aaron Lopresti (_Wonder Woman_, _Detective Comics_).

Lenght : 32

Language : en

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword cubed

hpa: The Story of Ho & Partners

hpa: The Story of Ho & Partners

By :
Published on 2011 by Images Publishing

Category :"Architecture"

Arkitektfirmaet Ho & Partner Architects projekter præsenteres med fotografier, modeller og tegninger

Lenght : 233

Language : en

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword the story of buildings