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:Noguer, IreneSummary:Savais-tu que le plus grand complexe souterrain au monde se trouve à Montréal? Qu'une ville se cache sous le sable du désert australien? Ou qu'un cimetière a été aménagé sous Paris? Villes: Curiosités souterraines et trésors cachés te...
- Author:Rushdie, SalmanSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries-from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling...
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Author:Kluckner, MichaelSummary:The old buildings and historic places of B.C. form a "roadside memory", a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history. This book is a record of these places and the...
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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...
- Author:Bullard, LisaSummary:
Rachel has been chosen to ride a bike in Riverdale's parade! There's only one problem—she doesn't know how. But she's determined to learn! She and her dad go all over Riverdale to prepare for the big day—from the...
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Author:Hicks, Faith ErinSummary:Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political...
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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, CharlesSummary: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.
- Author:Kohlstedt, Kurt, Mars, RomanSummary:
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast.
- 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...
- Author:Jenkins, PatrickSummary:
A cat shaped pendant with magical powers, takes a detective on a precarious journey through a mysterious city. Award winning artist and animator Patrick Jenkins has devised a story as affecting as his complex line art. A mixture of film...
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Author:Peterson, DaleSummary:Peterson travels around the country discovering the zany stories behind nearly sixty towns, guided by local stroytellers and lots of curiosity.
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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...
- Author:Bennett, Robert JacksonSummary:
As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy. A few years ago, Sancia Grado would've happily watched Tevanne burn....
- Author:Giffen, P. J.Summary:
At the close of WW II, politicians throughout western Canada were concerned about how small prairie towns would adapt to the new technologies and society of the post-war era. In Manitoba, Premier Stuart Garson appointed a Royal...
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