Authors:Kenneth Hall, Gerald Porterfield,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: small, communities, suburbs, urbanism, design, new, community
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-03-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 007134523X
ISBN-13: 9780071345231

*A practical guide to implementing New Urbanism principles in suburbs and small communities*Case studies present clear solutions for typical suburban problems: the need for pedestrian access, the lack of parking, the presence of industrial-park eyesores, and the issue of how to create a "sense of place"*Illustrations take architects and planners step-by-step through the design and development process

Authors:Gerald Porterfield, Kenneth Hall,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: planning, community, guide, concise
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 1994-08-01
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0070255911
ISBN-13: 9780070255913

Once an ad hoc, informal process, community planning has now become a demanding discipline that gathers together architects, landscape architects, developers, and civil engineers. In this concise, easy-to-use handbook, readers will get a clear overview of land development issues--plus dozens of job-tested design strategies and illuminating real case examples. From environmental impact to traffic congestion, from specialized demographic needs of the elderly and handicapped to proven ``rules of thumb’’ in residential development, the book is packed with the do’s and dont’

Authors:Amanda Porterfield, Amanda Porterfield, Denis R. Jan
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: christianity, history, people, modern
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2007-08-20
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0800634160
ISBN-13: 9780800634162

After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment, and colonization. This volume explores the spread of Christianity to lands outside Europe and the Middle East, the new pluralism within Christianity, and the incredible transformation of the Americas and of Christianity in the Americas, including the advent of Evangelical, African American, and Asian Christianities. Includes 50 illustrations, maps, bibliographies, and an 8-page color gallery. In this volume, the way in which lived Christianity and its practices were altered by t

Author: James D. Porterfield
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: golden, railroad, cuisine, america, recipes, rail, history, dining
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-05-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0312187114
ISBN-13: 9780312187118

The History and Recipes of America’s Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine

Author: Amanda Porterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: religious, humanism, religion, america, emergence, england, piety, puritan, new, female
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1991-11-21
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0195068211
ISBN-13: 9780195068214

A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield’s book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed examinations of historical records showing the changing patterns of church membership and domestic life. She finds that by conflating marriage as a trope of grace with marriage as a social construct, Puritan ministers invested relationships between husbands and wives with religious meaning. Images of female piety represented the humility that Puritans believed led all Christians to self-control and, ultimately, to love. But while images

Author: Jason Porterfield
Publisher: Rosen Central
Keywords: mythology, world, scandinavian
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $29.25
ISBN-10: 1404207406
ISBN-13: 9781404207400

Author: Jason Porterfield
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: economics, world, real, works, depression
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-09
List price: $30.60
ISBN-10: 1435853229
ISBN-13: 9781435853225