Tag search:cities

The end of the suburbs : where the American dream is moving

by (Journalist) Leigh Gallagher
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
'library book', suburbs, suburban life, United States, history, American dream, walkable communities, automobiles, commuting, cities, history of suburbia — 8 more, families, home building industry, Portfolio Penguin, Leigh Gallagher, urban exodus, New York City, population, Great Recession
Status
Available
Call number
307.740973

All over the map : a cartographic odyssey

by Betsy Mason
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
'library book', cartography, cartography - history, history, reference, atlas, historical geography, social science, cultural anthropology, historical atlases, pictorial — 21 more, Betsy Mason, Greg Miller, maps, waterways, cities, conflict and crisis, landscapes, economies, human experiences, art and imagination, charting rivers & seas, mapping urban environments, cartography of war & strife, challenge of mapping terrain, mapping money industry & trade, beauty of scientific maps, capturing the human condition, understanding the world thru maps, creative cartography, moon, National Geographic
Status
Available
Call number
526.09

The cities book : a journey through 86 of the world's greatest cities

by Heather Carswell
Hardcover, 2016
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'library book', Lonely Planet kids, geography, cities, cities and towns, voyages and travels, worldwide, guidebooks, juvenile literature, New York City, Montreal — 12 more, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney Australia, Venice, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Beijing, pictorial, travel, sites
Status
Available
Call number
910.91732

The last London : true fictions from an unreal city

by Iain Sinclair
Paper Book, 2017
Tags
London, nonfiction, stories, Iain Sinclair, Oneworld Publications, travels, cities, Thames River, experiences, wanderings, fictional feel — 4 more, Society of St Margaret, walking, losing some things and finding others, psychogeography
Status
Available
Call number
942.1

The works : anatomy of a city

by Kate Ascher
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
city planning, infrastructure, undergound areas, economics, public utilities, Kate Ascher, bridges, New York City, subway cars, electricity, garbage removal — 14 more, maps, mail, natural gas, steam, traffic, streets, water system, nonfiction, geography, Anatomy of a City, engineering, cities, freight, transportation
Status
Available
Call number
307.1216

The Gaia Atlas of Cities (Gaia Original)

by Herbert Girardet
Paperback, 1993
Tags
'library book', urban ecology, cities, illustrated, case studies, urban renewal, city and town life, atlas, maps, geography, sustainable urban living — 17 more, sick cities, healing the city, ecology of settlements, solar power, air pollution, recycling, Los Angeses, forest, waste, diseases, energy, inner city, sewage, color photos, Gaia Atlas, Anchor Book, 1993
Status
Available
Call number
307.3416

Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined

by Steve McDonald Illustrator
Paperback, 2015
Tags
coloring book, cities, fantasti cities, large format, Steve McDonald, line drawings, illustrated, fictional, aerial views, Chronicle Books, architecture
Status
Available
Call number
741.023

Metronome : a history of Paris from the underground up

by Lorànt Deutsch
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
Paris, public transport, travel, Paris metro, Paris - history, miscellanea, rapid transit, Paris Metro stations, city history, historic treasures, maps — 2 more, Lorànt Deutsch, cities
Status
Available
Call number
944/.361

Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World

by Tristram Hunt
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
British Empire, history, cities, urban life, Boston, Bridgetown Barbados, Dublin, Cape Town South Africa, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay — 12 more, Melbourne Australia, New Delhi, Liverpool, British imperialism, architecture, Irish, slavery, Protestantism, sugar, non-fiction, urban biographies, infrstructure
Status
Available
Call number
941

Streetcars of America (Shire Library USA)

by Brian Solomon
Paperback, 2014
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streetcars, illustrated, public transport, North America, United States, Canada, trolleys, PCC's, history, electric street railways, urban transit — 1 more, cities
Status
Available
Call number
388.460973

Detroit disassembled

by Andrew Moore Photographer
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Detroit MI, photographs, abandoned buildings, desolation, pictorial, Andrew Moore, Philip Levine, cities, Rust Belt, decay, urbanity
Status
Available
Call number
770

This is who we were : a companion to the 1940 Census

by Scott Derks
Paper Book, 2012
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'library book', census, 1940 Census, United States, data, information, statistics, 2010 comparison, economy, social conditions, demographics — 12 more, analysis, comparative data, state rankings, profiles of workers, 1930's, background information, illustrated, population, cities, principal cities, reference, nonfiction
Series
This Is Who We Were
Status
Available
Call number
330.973

Jerusalem, Jerusalem : how the ancient city ignited our modern world

by James Carroll
Paper Book, 2011
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'library book' Jerusalem, James Carroll, description, history, travel, religion, ethnic relations, violence, Bible, Judaism, Christianity — 9 more, Islam, cities, holy cities, God, crusades, Israel, Jews, sacrifice, Jerusalem Temple
Collection
Do Not Own
Status
Available
Call number
956.94/42

Trolley buses around the world : [a photo gallery]

by William A. Luke
Paper Book, 2006
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'library book', trolley buses, public transport, nonfiction, pictorial, illustrated, manufacturers, history, worldwide, North America, South America — 12 more, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia - Belarus - Ukraine, Australia & New Zealand, East Asia, Central & South Asia, Africa, preservation, cities, Iconografix
Status
Available
Call number
388.4/13223

Straphanger : saving our cities and ourselves from the automobile

by Taras Grescoe
Paper Book, 2012
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transportation, public transport, Bogota, New York City, buses, cars, commuting, Copenhagen, Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris — 14 more, Philadelphia, Portland OR, Vancouver, roads, suburbs, subways, Tokyo, traffic, Phoenix, Nook, Taras Grescoe, urban planning, automobiles, cities
Collection
Nook
Status
Available
Call number
388.4

Gridlock : why we're stuck in traffic and what to do about it

by Randal O'Toole
Paper Book, 2009
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'library book', transportation, gridlock, traffic, USA, public transport, congestion, highways, roads, automobile driving, polemical — 7 more, Cato Institute, Randal O'Toole, rail transit, high-speed rail, state and local transportation policy, railroads, cities
Status
Available
Call number
388.0973

AMERICA The Story of Us Book 4: The City Beautiful

by Kevin Baker
Ebook, 2012
Tags
history, United States, American cities, urban life, T series, print version, History Channel, A&E, Nook, opening the city, rebuilding Chicago — 14 more, Andrew Carnegie - steel, skyscrapers, electric light, tenements, Jacob Riis, temperance crusade, Triangle Factory fire, car culture, Los Angeles, U. S. - world power, Red Scare, great migration, gangsterism, cities
Collection
Nook
Series
AMERICA The Story of Us (bool 4)
Status
Available

Seeing cities with the eyes of God

by Floyd McClung
Paper Book, 1991
Tags
cities, religion, city churches, Christianity, Floyd McClung, urban challenge, 1991, fight for the city, meaning of the city, church in the city, families in the city
Status
Available
Call number
270.8/2/091732

Still standing : a century of urban train station design

by Christopher Brown
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
'library book', railroads, train stations, worldwide, station design, architecture, cities, pictorial, railway stations, history, Railroads Past and Present series — 1 more, transportation
Status
Available
Call number
725/.31

The KunstlerCast : conversations with James Howard Kunstler : --the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl

by James Howard Kunstler
Paper Book, 2011
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interviews, essays, dialgoue, cities, James Hoard Kunstler, Duncan Crary, opinions, geography of nowhere, end of suburbia, aerican culture, architecture — 10 more, getting there, city in mind, urban polemicists, parting words, car dependency, parking, redevelopment, New Urbanism, iconoclastic, Early Reviewer
Status
Available
Call number
307.760973

The neighborhood project : using evolution to improve my city, one block at a time

by David Sloan Wilson
Paper Book, 2011
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evolution, religion, neighborhoods, Binghampton, genetic evolution, cooperative groups, environment, David Sloan Wilson, cities, cultural evolution, economics — 10 more, humans, nature, Teilhard de Chardin, wasps, water striders, immune system, crows, behavior, adaptation, Early Reviewer
Status
Available
Call number
307.76

London under : the secret history beneath the streets

by Peter Ackroyd
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
London, underground, history, description, travel, symbolism, Peter Ackroyd, London Underground, Dickens, railways, cities — 3 more, Roman London, sewers, public transport
Status
Available
Call number
914.2104

Paper cities : an anthology of urban fantasy

by Ekaterina Sedia Editor
Paper Book, 2008
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'library book', anthology, urban fantasy, cities, stories, fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, Ekaterina Sedia
Status
Available
Call number
813.08766

The cities book : a journey through the best cities in the world

by Roz Hopkins Publisher
Paper Book, 2006
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'library book', travel, coffee table book, non-fiction, pictorial, cities, description, world, color, 200, best cities
Series
Lonely Planet Pictorial
Status
Available
Call number
910.91732

London : a cultural history

by Richard Tames
Paper Book, 2006
Tags
'library book', London, England, travel, geography, sightseeing, Cityscapes, history, culture, description, cities — 1 more, guide
Series
Cities of the Imagination, Cityscapes
Status
Available
Call number
942.1

The City-manager directory 1969

by International City Managers' Association
Magazine (paper), 1969
Tags
directory, city managers, cities, 1969, council-manager government, ULTB
Status
Available
Call number
352/.00724/025

Urban sprawl

by Debra A. Miller
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
cities, sprawl, controversies, opposing viewpoints, land use, automobiles, pollution, suburbs, environment, decline of cities
Series
Current Controversies
Status
Available
Call number
307.76

Transit maps of the world

by Mark Ovenden
Map, 2007
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transit, public transport, maps, subways, rapid transit, buses, transportation, cartography, graphic design, geography, reference — 4 more, urban planning, mass transit, cities, atlas
Series
Public Transport Maps
Status
Available
Call number
912

Cities from the sky : an aerial portrait of America

by Thomas J. Campanella
Paper Book, 2001
Tags
'library book' United States, aerial photography, aerial, cities, history, geography
Status
Available
Call number
779/.473

Banning the car downtown, selected American cities

by Roberto Brambilla
1977
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cities, automobiles, auto-free, traffic, streets, malls, Kalamazoo, Springfield, Illinois, Minneapolis, Eugene — 12 more, Sacramento, Fresno, Pomona, Riverside, Burbank, Lake Charles, Galveston, Trenton, New London, Providence, Ottawa, Quebec City
Status
Available
Call number
711/.55

Life 2.0 : how people across America are transforming their lives by finding the where of their happiness

by Richard Karlgaard
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
'library book', information, United States, living conidtions, internet, Silicon Valley, cities
Collection
Do Not Own
Status
Available
Call number
307.76

The New American Ghetto

by Camilo Jose Vergara
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
'library book', pictorial, cities, inner cities, decay, ghettoes, depopulation, transformation, ruralization, urban landscape, housing — 10 more, relics, fortifications, Harlem, Newark, Detroit, Chicago, Watts, Camden, Brooklyn, USA
Status
Available
Call number
307.3362

Cities ranked & rated : more than 400 metropolitan areas evaluated in the U.S. and Canada

by Bert Sperling
Paper Book, 2004
Tags
United States, Canada, ratings, cities, statistics, data, metropolitan areas, rankings, evaluations
Status
Available
Call number
917.104648

Here is where we meet

by John Berger
Hardcover, 2005
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"library book", fiction, travels, social life, customs, cities, Lisboa, reminicence, Genève, Kraków, London — 7 more, Islington, Pont d'Arc, Madrid, Szum, Ching, 8½, literary journey
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

The economy of cities

by Jane Jacobs
Paper Book, 1969
Tags
cities, economics, growth, towns, history, manufacturing, breakaways, urban planning, Jane Jacobs
Status
Available
Call number
338/.09173/2

Railroads in the streets of Syracuse

by National Railway Historical Society.,
Paper Book, 1979
Tags
railroads, New York state, Syracuse, pictorial, New York Central, photographs, stations, cities
Status
Available
Call number
385/.09747/66

Cities in modern Britain

by Camilla Lambert
Paper Book, 1975
Tags
cities, Britain, theories, growth and development, shape and differentiation, people and places, power and resources, control, change, ideologies, sociology
Status
Available
Call number
301.36/3/0941

The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects

by Lewis Mumford
Paper Book, 1961
Tags
cities, history, urban development, towns, suburbs, kingship, houses, urban planning
Status
Available
Call number
301.36

The Exploding metropolis

by Editors of Fortune Illustrator
Paperback, 1958
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cities, metropolitan, urbanism, cars, City Hall, slums, urban sprawl, Downtowns, essays, anthology, Jane Jacobs — 8 more, William Whyte, overdevelopment, 1958, housing, mayors, downtown, government, Philadelphia
Status
Available
Call number
307.76/0973

Indiana: A New Historical Guide

by Robert M. Taylor
Paperback, 1990
Tags
Indiana, history, cities, Fort Wayne, Muncie, Richmond IN, Madison, New Albany, Evansville, Terre Haute, Bloomington — 6 more, Columbus, Indianapolis, Anderson, Lafayette, South Bend, Calumet region
Status
Available
Call number
917.720443

The city : a global history

by Joel Kotkin
Paper Book, 2005
Tags
cities, history, urban history, world, rise of cities, classical European cities, oriental epoch, western cities reassert, industrial city, modern metropolis, spiritual — 3 more, political, economic, "library book"
Status
Available
Call number
307.76/09

Twelve cities

by John Gunther
Book, 1969
Tags
cities, world, London, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Hamburg, Vienna, Warsaw, Moscow, Jerusalem — 3 more, Beirut, Amman, Tokyo
Status
Available
Call number
910.09/173/2

City Life: Urban Expectations In A New World

by Witold Rybczynski
Hardcover, 1995
Tags
urban life, cities, city planning, Chicago, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, suburbs, population, transportation, buildings
Status
Available
Call number
711.40973

Cities: A Magisterial Exploration of the Nature and Impact of the City from Its Beginnings to the Mega-Conurbations of T

by John Reader
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
cities, history, towns, thriving, decline, growth
Status
Available
Call number
307.76

American Cities (Small Panorama)

by Michael Heatley
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
cities, United States, pictorial, visual, life
Status
Available
Call number
917

English Towns in Transition 1500-1700 (Opus Books)

by Peter Clark
Paperback, 1976
Tags
England, towns, cities, economy, social structure, political order, culture, history, London, Bristol, York — 5 more, Norwich, Newcastle, Exeter, gentry, industry
Status
Available
Call number
301.36

Cities in New Testament times

by Charles Ludwig
Paperback, 1976
Tags
New Testament, cities, ancient, Rome, Athens, Corinth, Philippi, Thessalonica, Ephesus, Antioch, Tarsus — 4 more, Jericho, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth
Status
Available
Call number
225.91

Good City Form

by Kevin Lynch
Paperback, 1984
Tags
cities, city form, form, city planning, urban performance, vitality, sense, fit, access, control, efficiency — 8 more, justice, city size, growth, conservation, urban textures, networks, city models, city design
Status
Available
Call number
307.7601

Transport: Selected readings (Modern economic readings; Penguin education)

by Denys Lawrence Munby
1968
Tags
transportation, anthology, costs and prices, traffic and cities, project appraisal, consumers' surplus and pricing, cost, traffic, cities, ULTB
Status
Available

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950

by Robert M. Fogelson
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
business districts, downtowns, CBD, cities, United States, decentralization, rapid transit, public transport
Status
Available
Call number
307.3
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