Visible Cities prompts readers to reconsider their relationship to the landscapes of cities. Poems explore streets in cities all over the world, while the photographs find beauty in back lanes, observe people taking their coffee breaks...
Cities and towns
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Author:Wall, Kathleen, 1950-, Geminder, VeronicaSummary: -
Author:Abujidi, NurhanSummary:Exploring the way urbicide is used to un/re-make Palestine, as well as how it is employed as a tool of spatial dispossession and control, this book examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial...
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Author:Ghigna, Charles, Wilkinson, Annie, Down, ChristianSummary:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. From dusk to dawn a forest creeps into a town where the grown-ups are too distracted to notice. But the children do. They see greenery take root in the lifeless cracks of dull...
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Author:Ghigna, Charles, Down, ChristianSummary:From dusk to dawn a forest creeps into a town where the grown-ups are too distracted to notice. But the children do. They see greenery take root in the lifeless cracks of dull sidewalks. They see an eagle build her nest atop a forgotten...
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Author:Hicks, Faith ErinSummary:The Nameless City--held by the rogue Dao prince Erzi--is under siege by a coalition of Dao and Yisun forces who are determined to end the war once and for all... Rat and Kai must infiltrate Erzi's palace and steal back the ancient and...
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Author:Hicks, Faith ErinSummary:Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of...
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Author:Crary, DuncanSummary:James Howard Kunstler is best known for his unflinching commentary on the collapse of the American dream in the face of the reality of Peak Oil. Written as a long-form conversational interview, The KunstlerCast explores urban planning,...
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Author:Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Arkadiĭ, Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, BorisSummary:As nightmarish scenarios begin to affect an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and off at night, a young astronomer rises through the political hierarchy.
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Author:Wingate, LisaSummary:The associate producer of TV's hottest show fears Amber Amberson's tiny Texas hometown already knows its Amber is an American Megastar finalist. But after several hilarious culture clashes, the Hollywood pro enlists the help of the...
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Author:Peterson, DaleSummary: -
Author:Meacham, LeilaSummary:One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts. We begin in the antebellum South, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the...
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Author:Davis, MikeSummary: -
Author:Malla, PashaSummary:Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New...
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This is a guided tour of 725 Saskatchewan communities, based on the author's extensive travel throughout the province. The entry for each community includes its history, origin of its name, origins of the original settlers and its...
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Author:Dawson, JoanSummary:Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone...
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:Winner of the IODE National Chapter Award, and Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection. In this brillant and poetic novel, Brian Doyle returns to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of his novels Up to Low and Uncle Ronald. Mary...
- Author:Gariépy, RogerSummary:
Au début du siècle dernier, l’Ouest canadien intéresse de plus en plus les bâtisseurs, promoteurs et autres aventuriers avec la construction d’un important réseau ferroviaire. Une petite ville au nord de l’Alberta, encore isolée de tout...
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Author:Dimmel, Brandon R.Summary:For decades, people living in communities along the Canada–US border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours across the line. The introduction of new security measures during the First World War threatened...
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Author:Kingsbury, KateSummary:Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza, open a bed-and-breakfast inn on the Oregon coast replete with a friendly ghost, one very real skeleton in the closet, and a freshly dead body on the beach. It seems someone doesn't appreciate...
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Author:Hall, PeterSummary:Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and...
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