Author: John Lee
Publisher: Wilderness Pre
Keywords: walking, hip, hangouts, tasty, diversions, neighborhoods, waterfront, vancouver, tours, exploring, spectacular, dynamic
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0899974902
ISBN-13: 9780899974903

There’s no better way to explore one of the world’s most livable cities than on foot. Walking Vancouver shows you Vancouver, British Columbia as you’ve never seen it before, whether you’re a die-hard local or a first-time visitor. Site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the city is already renown for its diverse neighborhoods, easily accessible sites, and clean and green image. With this book you ll explore neighborhoods such as Chinatown, Kitsilano, and the West End, accompanied by the amusing and savvy descriptions from the author, a Vancouver insider. The 36 anecdote-packe

Author: Ryan Ver Berkmoes
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Keywords: architecture, historic, dynamic, neighborhoods, lakeshore, famous, sites, scandalous, tours, chicago, windy, city, bars, classic, walking
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0899974163
ISBN-13: 9780899974163

Walk the streets of Chicago and discover why the town that brought us Michael Jordan, Al Capone, and Oprah is anything but a "Second City." Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods represent a true melting pot of America--from Little Italy to Greektown, Chinatown to New Chinatown, and La Villita to the Ukrainian Village. It’s also the most walkable city in the country, with flat streets laid out in a sensible grid and 21 miles of stunning lakeshore. Here you can get ethnic culture in Andersonville or high culture at the Art Institute, listen to the blues on the South Side or catch a ballga

Author: Amanda I. Seligman
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: block, studies, urban, america, historical, chicago, neighborhoods, public, policy, west
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0226746658
ISBN-13: 9780226746654

In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white flight. In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman’s study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were

Author: Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Chil
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: development, childhood, science, neighborhoods, neurons
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0309069882
ISBN-13: 9780309069885

Authoritative yet accessible, Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the newest evidence about early brain development and how children learn to speak, think, get along with others, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the surrounding context-family, child care, community-within which the child grows. Are the early years a time of vulnerability or resilience? To what extent are our future prospects constrained by how well we navigate them? How can we get all children off to a good start in life? When should we worry? The committee provides a framework for approaching such vital qu

Author: Alexander von Hoffman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: house, block, neighborhoods, urban, rebirth, america
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-10-07
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0195176146
ISBN-13: 9780195176148

Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston’s Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how local activists and community groups helped turn these areas around. For sixty years, federal policy has attempted with little success to solve the problems of housing and poverty in America’s inner cities. Yet increasingly, local organizations are picking up where Washington has left off.

Authors:Urban Design Associates, Urban Design Associates,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: building, neighborhoods, tool, book, pattern, architectural
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-08-23
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0393731340
ISBN-13: 9780393731347

Documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design. From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing and using pattern books—a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius and Palladio, and the source of many beautiful houses—to design neighborhoods today. It describes techniques and working methods for contemporary development and construction processes. 200 color illustrations.

Authors:John R. Rogers, Amy T. Rogers,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, neighborhoods, historic, charlotte
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 073856737X
ISBN-13: 9780738567372

The history of Charlotte is inseparable from the history of its neighborhoods. From the city’s founding until the late 1890s, the four wards created by the crossing of Trade and Tryon Streets defined the residential fabric of Charlotte. As the twentieth century approached, the Southern textile boom fueled labor and housing demands that were met by the earliest suburbs that rose out of the farms and pastures surrounding the small town. Dilworth was the first of these suburbs, connected to the towncenter by the city’s maiden electric streetcar line. More new communities quickly follo