Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

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A lively history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live, Building Suburbia chronicles two centuries in the birth and development of America’s metropolitan regions.

From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the decisions that have generated America’s diverse suburbs. Residents have sought home, nature, and community in suburbia. Developers have cherished different dreams, seeking profit from economies of scale and increased suburban densities, while lobbying local and federal government to reduce the risk of real estate speculation. Encompassing environmental controversies as well as the complexities of race, gender, and class, Hayden’s fascinating account will forever alter how we think about the communities we build and inhabit.

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The American Suburb in History.......2004-07-16

Building Suburbia is a capable synthesis of historical and recent scholarship on the development of the suburbs in America. Hayden, a professor of architecture and urbanism and professor of American Studies at Yale, knows what she is talking about. It was clear to me that this book is written for a general, rather then specialized audience.

Hayden's writting style is easy to understand, and she provides multiple in text illustrations and photographs to illuminate the text. The book tracks the historical development of suburbs in time (the subtitle is "Green Fields and Urban Growth 1820-2000.) She starts with "Borderlands", then covers "Picturesque Enclaves", "Streetcar Buildouts", "Mail-Order and Self-Built Suburbs", "Sitcom Subrurbs", "Edge Nodes" and "Rural Fringes". This historical approach is book ended by an introduction with two chapters and a conclusion with two chapters.

Hayden includes excellent end notes and a selected bibliography that is worthwhile to have on your shelf. Since this book was written in 2003, the bibliography is chock full of RECENT books on urban studies that allow the student or casual reader to follow up in any number of directions.

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This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1076 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dolores Hayden. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000.(Book Review)
Author: David Banash
Publication: Utopian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 16 Issue: 2 Page: 280(4)

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Suburbs and sprawl.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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Suburbs and sprawl.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Terry Moore , and Christopher Silver
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1932 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Suburbs and sprawl.(Book Review)
Author: Terry Moore
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 70 Issue: 4 Page: 490(2)

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The suburbs are not all the same.(Book Review): An article from: Planning

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The suburbs are not all the same.(Book Review): An article from: Planning
Harold Henderson
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 319 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The suburbs are not all the same.(Book Review)
Author: Harold Henderson
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 69 Issue: 11 Page: 40(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Among the first books to provide art students with instructions for correctly drawing perspective outlines, this classic reference clearly demonstrates the principles of light and shade by revealing the effects of common daylight, sunshine, and candle or artificial light on geometrical solids. 13 plates of illustrations.

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Shade & Light.......2007-07-27

I have had to re-read this little book over and over to fully grasp the nature of light explained in it. It is a good little reference book to have, however it is one that needs to be re-read several times to really understand what is being explained. I still need to re-read it some more! The language it is written in is a little out dated but still it is worth picking up if you are serious about your art.

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Now widely recognized as one of the early twentieth century's most extraordinary photographers, Tina Modotti was remembered until recently more for her relationship to Edward Weston than for her own strong, sensuous work. This comprehensively produced biography, now published for the first time in paperback, captures in over 100 striking photographs and a sympathetic, meticulously researched text the fullness of a life wholly committed to political, personal, and artistic freedom. From her early days in Hollywood as a silent film actress, through the creative, fruitful years in Mexico with Weston and her political exile in 1930s Europe, to her sudden death in 1942, Tina Modotti's courage, clear vision, and dramatic flair made her one of the most internationally controversial and widely admired artistic figures of her day. Perceptive and authoritative, Tina Modotti lifts the veil on a fragile life of iron.

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Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life
Mildred Constantine
Manufacturer: Paddingtion Press LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RJDWYK

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Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life.
Tina]. Constantine, Mildred. [MODOTTI
Manufacturer: San Francisco: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UG3OB6

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Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life
Mildred Constantine
Manufacturer: Chronicle books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MXTIVM

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Here—in book format with accompanying CD-ROM—is a tutorial for beginning cartoonists. It presents detailed instruction on creating comics, from scripting and storytelling to finished composition and distribution both to print and Internet publishers. The book opens with a short history of cartoons and points out different comic book styles that have evolved over the decades. It goes on to recommend software for beginning cartoonists, focusing on widely-used Photoshop software and explaining how to use it. Additional advice and instruction explains how to choose and customize images from the accompanying disc, how to add text and dialogue balloons to a story, how to size formats for printing on the Web, and even how to create your own image library. The book features more than 400 color illustrations and the CD-ROM contains more than 100 copyright-free comic book images.

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Nice idea but poorly executed.......2007-09-02

Several issues:

If you have never used Photoshop before, the guide is almost useless. You will need to do a lot of digging around online to find out how to use the Photoshop Elements plug-in.

Photoshop Elements does not come with this book. A trial of the program does. If you want Elements it will cost you approximately $100 US.

The guide to creating scenes is fair - but it is, at best, a very brief look at techniques that are better described elsewhere.

Sometimes, You Just Have to Make Your Own Rules: A Luann Book (Luann)

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A Commercial Rip-Off
Great tool for parents who have forgotten those teens years!
Finally!

Sometimes, You Just Have to Make Your Own Rules: A Luann Book (Luann)
Greg Evans
Manufacturer: Rutledge Hill Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1558536167

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A GREAT GIFT BOOK!.......2001-12-27

I love this book so much that I have bought it for many of my friends too. It's such a cute book where the jokes are immediate and very humorous. It's a great book to have on you coffee table to give you a laugh when you need one.

A Commercial Rip-Off.......1998-08-24

I bought this book because Luanne is one of my favorite comic strips. However, this is little more than a commercialized rip-off of the strip. It occupied me for only three minutes because it's so short. In addition, what's here tends to focus on the cynical instead of the up-beat. NOT Recommended.

Great tool for parents who have forgotten those teens years!.......1998-07-20

This is a great short but sweet book. I like it better, I think, than some of the collection books, however, I wish there were more rules. All those I know who have the book are tickled by the rules Luann has made. She is definitely "with it" more than she thinks. Greg has so much insight to teens today it's a little scary. I wonder if he's really as old as he says he is...? Can't wait for the next book! From Guess Who!

Finally!.......1998-06-06

Now that Luann is in a book which I can enjoy time and time again. Thank you, Greg.

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MAKE YOUR OWN COMICS
Richard Cummings
Manufacturer: Random House Children's Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 067951208X
Release Date: 1985-12-12

Zap! Splat! Ka-pow!: Make Your Own Comic Book

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Zap! Splat! Ka-pow!: Make Your Own Comic Book
Rod and Naylor, Dillon Tokely
Manufacturer: Omnibus Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1862913978

Make Your Own Comic (Activity Fun Packs)

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Make Your Own Comic (Activity Fun Packs)

Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Paperback

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An instant classic in the literature of friendship: the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her New Yorker editor For forty years, until her death in 1978, Sylvia Townsend Warner (poet, novelist, and short-story writer) and her New Yorker editor William Maxwell (himself a fiction writer of great distinction) exchanged more than 1,300 letters. Their formal relationship quickly grew into a real, unshakable love, and their letters back and forth became the most significant and longest-lasting correspondence of their lives. As Maxwell told the editor of these letters, "Sylvia needed to write for an audience, a specific person, in order to bring out her pleasure in enchanting," and Maxwell was that person, both as editor and as correspondent. Warner brought out the best in Maxwell too. "I suspect that of all the writers I edited, I was most influenced by Sylvia. . . I think that what you are infinitely charmed by you can't help unconsciously imitating." In these letters they wrote about everything that amused, moved, and perplexed them-the physical world, personal relationships, the New York City blackout, the Cuban missile crisis, their ceaseless reading, the coming of old age. Gratitude and love are on every page. Not to mention pleasure and delight.

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Letters that show delight in language and friendship.......2003-01-17

Sylvia Townsend Warner counted herself very lucky to have William Maxwell as her New Yorker editor and readers of this volume of their correspondence would agree Warner wrote 153 stories between 1936 and 1977 and found a devoted and discering fan in Maxwell. Many of the letters deal with both Warner's and Maxwell's writing. On occasion Maxwell has to gracefully reject one of Warner's stories (usually with the reassurance that the story is wonderful "but not for The New Yorker"). But what the reader comes to appreciate are the writers' accounts of momentous occasions and everyday life. Maxwell gives us wonderful accounts of an Adlai Stevenson rally and the Vietnam Moratorium. His account of the NYC blackout (in a letter dated November 17, 1965)is one of the best things I've ever read and worth the price of the book. It's such a seamless piece of writing, with each detail depending on what came before, that to quote bits of it would be to trivialize it.
Maxwell, who lived with his wife and two daughters in NYC, is also good with domestic detail and affecting and funny observations. He relates a conversation in which his small daughter laments that he is bald."'Would you trade me in for a daddy with more hair?'" 'Yes," she says, teaching me a lesson."
And on his resuming piano lessons in middle age: ". . .And Mozart is sustaining though I cannot do it. I would rather not be able to do Mozart than any composer I can think of."
Townsend who lived in England with her companion, Valentine Ackland offers a number of home remedies for illness, my favorite being champagne for any ailment above the waist, brandy for anything below. And she writes with droll humor of her life in an English village: "Poor Niou (a Siamese cat) has just had her first affair of the heart, and of course it was a tragedy. As a rule he flies from strange men, cursing under his breath, and keeping very low to the ground. Yesterday an electrician came; a grave mackintoshed man, but to Niou all that was romantic and lovely. He gazed at him, he rubbed against him, he lay in an ecstasy on the tool-bag. The electrician felt much the same, and gave him little washers to play with. He said he would come again today to to finish off properly. Niou understands everything awaited him in dreamy transports and practising his best and most amorous squint. The electrician came, Niou was waiting him on the windowsill. A paroxysm of stage-fright came over him, and he rushed into the garden and disappeared.
He'll get over it in time; but just now he's terribly downcast."
The volume is filled with fine writing and the reader wants very much to know these two people personally.

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The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west—about 2,160 men and 1,440 women—tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal land law that awarded a husband and wife a full section.

Volume 3 of Covered Wagon Women contains the diaries and letters of six Oregon-bound women, as well as the journal of an English Mormon woman who described her experience all the way from Liverpool to Salt Lake City. The words of these pioneer women convey their exhilaration, courage, exhaustion, and terror in traveling so far into the unknown.

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Honorable, virtuous.......2004-01-16

More heartfelt, lively accounts from the Oregon Trail during the year 1851.
Harriet Talcott Buckingham's diary is both poetic and colorful, describing prairies, mountain passes, river crossings, flora, Indians and other travelers met along the way.
Amelia Hadley's writing style is very sincere. She not only visually describes streams, buffalo, landforms and Indians, but along with counting the number of graves they encounter, she also puts names to these graves (very historical).
Susan Amelia Cranston talks much about the availability, or lack of, water, fuel and grass.
Lucia Loraine Williams's party had quite an exciting but also quite dispirited journey. She lost her ten year old son due to a runaway wagon; had an Indian offer to swap her child for Lucia's three year old; thievery surrounding Fort Hall; etc. Her letter is just, truthful and illustrative of life on the trail.
Esther Lockhart was also in Lucia's wagon train and her reminisces are both vivid and picturesque of the trek.
The diaries of Elizabeth Wood and Eugenia Zieber are a delight to read.
The jewel of the book lies in Jean Rio Baker's diary. A Mormon widow with seven children, she leaves England to make the pilgrimage to Salt Lake City. A fascinating read of courage, tenacity and nerve.
Excellent book.

Librarians say one of the best.......2003-06-26

This is a treat to listen to in the car on the way to work. An extraordinary story - women, migration, inner strength. I shared this with four other librarians who all enjoyed the tapes and proclaimed this one of the best audio books they had ever listened to.

the trek of a lifetime.......2003-02-01

In COVERED WAGON WOMEN, the diaries & letters of three mature women on the journeys of their lifetime, record their trek west into the sun; across oceans, towns, rivers, farms, forests, prairies & deserts; friendly & hostile Indian territories until, at last they reach their journeys' ends.

As you listen to actors Georgia Goodwin & Jane Merrifield-Beecher read the thoughts, observations & feelings of these three mother ancestors, you catch glimpses of how we used to live. They take us through springs of ground-level thunderstorms & sudden floods, summers of dust, mosquitos & enervating heat, & autumns of mild beauty & the biggest harvests they've ever seen. We learn of broken wagons, dying companions, days of endless trudging & nights of immense beauty. Over mountains, through rivers & down defiles, these intrepid women take us there with their simple, evocative words.

COVERED WAGON WOMEN is truly a record of an adventure that shaped our nation & our psyche. The only thing missing are sound effects!

An outstanding "living history" audio recording.......2002-02-09

The latest release in the "Living Voices of the Past" series, Covered Wagon Women 1851 is drawn from the diaries and letters of women who experienced the travails of the wagon trails west in 1851. Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holms and used with the permission of the University of Nebraska Press, we are treated to excerpts from the diary of Lucia Williams and the epilogue of Esther Lockhart (superbly narrated by Jane Merrifield-Beecher) describing their trip from Ohio to Oregon. Also featured are excerpts (dramatically narrated by Georgia Goodwin) from the diary of Jean Rio Baker, a Mormon who traveled from Liverpool by Windjammer and to Salt Lake City by Prairie Schooner. Surviving exposure to attacks from Native Americans, the scourge of cholera and smallpox, and the many hardships and deprivations of a pioneer excursion in a covered wagon, Covered Wagon Women 1851 is an outstanding "living history" audio recording and strongly recommended for personal, school, and community library collections.

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890: 1851 (Covered Wagon Women)

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890: 1851 (Covered Wagon Women)

Manufacturer: Arthur H Clark
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Binding: Hardcover

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890. Volume III, 1851.

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1840-1890. Volume III, 1851.
Kenneth L. (edited & compiled by). Holmes
Manufacturer: The Arthur H. Clark Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UX0854

COVERED WAGON WOMEN; DIARIES AND LETTERS FROM THE WESTERN TRAILS, 1851; VOLUME 3

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COVERED WAGON WOMEN; DIARIES AND LETTERS FROM THE WESTERN TRAILS, 1851; VOLUME 3

Manufacturer: Bison Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HT77WS

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