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The Urban Wilderness

A History of the American City

By: Sam Bass Warner

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The Urban Wilderness

A History of the American City

By: Sam Bass Warner

Warner is in some ways almost unique among urban historians in the ways in which he has linked visual and cultural representations with socioeconomic analysis. The strength of The Urban Wilderness is its scope and reach and the author's willingness to take risks intellectually. This book is a work of passion and engagement."--Margaret Marsh, author of Suburban Lives

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Univ of California Press

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0520202244

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9780520202245

The Private City

Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth

By: Sam Bass Warner

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The Private City

Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth

By: Sam Bass Warner

Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History. "Packed with suggestive historical detail."--

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812212436

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9780812212433

The Urban Wilderness

A History of the American City

By: Sam Bass Warner

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A History of the American City

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Greater Boston

Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present

By: Sam Bass Warner

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Greater Boston

Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present

By: Sam Bass Warner

Selected byChoice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "A study of the economic and social characteristics of greater Boston's cities and suburbs."--Boston Globe "Affection combined with wisdom is the strength of the book. Warner's acute eyes and ears allow him to realize a lasting portrayal of greater Boston at the beginning of the twenty-first century. . . . Warner's observations about the metropolitan future have national implications."--H-Urban

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812217691

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9780812217698

Restorative Gardens

The Healing Landscape

By: Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs,Richard Enoch Kaufman,Sam Bass Warner

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Restorative Gardens

The Healing Landscape

By: Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs,Richard Enoch Kaufman,Sam Bass Warner

Restorative gardens for the sick, which were a vital part of the healing process from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, provided ordered and beautiful settings in which patients could begin to heal, both physically and mentally. In this engaging book, a landscape architect, a physician, and a historian examine the history and role of restorative gardens to show why it is important to again integrate nature into the institutional--and largely factorylike--settings of modern health care facilities. In this unique book, Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs, Dr. Richard Enoch Kaufman, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr., unfold their argument by presenting the history of restorative gardens and studies of six American health care centers that cherish the role of their gardens in the therapeutic process. These institutions are examined in detail: community hospitals in Wausau, Wisconsin, and Monterey, California; a full-care mental institution in Philadelphia; a nursing home in Queens; a facility for rehabilitative medicine in New York City; and a hospice in Houston. In their comprehensive review the authors suggest that contemporary scientific understanding clearly recognizes the beneficial physiological effects of garden environments on patients’ well-being. The book ends with a plea to make gardens--rather than the shopping mall atria so often seen in newly renovated hospitals--a vital part of the medical milieu.

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Yale University Press

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0300107102

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9780300107104

American Urban Form

A Representative History

By: Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Andrew Whittemore

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American Urban Form

A Representative History

By: Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Andrew Whittemore

An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of “the City”—a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

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195

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MIT Press

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0262525321

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9780262525329

Province of Reason

By: Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Sam Bass Warner

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Province of Reason

By: Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Sam Bass Warner

This book sees the sweeping changes of the 20th century through the eyes of 14 Bostonians in an attempt to understand the disorienting experiences of recent history. These lives span the years from 1850 to 1980, a time when American cities were being rebuilt according to the specifications of science, engineering, mass wealth, and big corporations.

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Harvard University Press

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0674719581

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9780674719583

Streetcar Suburbs

The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition

By: Sam Bass WARNER

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Streetcar Suburbs

The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition

By: Sam Bass WARNER

In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to a modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuter suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044894

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9780674044890

Writing the Materialities of the Past

Cities and the Architectural Topography of Historical Imagination

By: Sam Griffiths

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Writing the Materialities of the Past

Cities and the Architectural Topography of Historical Imagination

By: Sam Griffiths

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thinking since the 1950s. Author Sam Griffiths argues that the social theory of cities in this period was characterised by the dominance of socio-economic and linguistic-cultural models, which served to impede our understanding of time-space relationality towards historical events and their narration. The book engages with studies of historical writing to discuss materiality in the built environment as a form of literary practice to express marginalised dimensions of social experience in a range of historical contexts. It then moves on to reflect on England’s nineteenth-century industrialization from an architectural topographical perspective, challenging theories of space and architecture to examine the complex role of industrial cities in mediating social changes in the practice of everyday life. By demonstrating how the authenticity of historical accounts rests on materially emplaced narratives, Griffiths makes the case for the emancipatory possibilities of historical writing. He calls for a re-evaluation of historical epistemology as a primarily socio-scientific or literary enquiry and instead proposes a specifically architectural time-space figuration of historical events to rethink and refresh the relationship of the urban past to its present and future. Written for postgraduate students, researchers and academics in architectural theory and urban studies, Griffiths draws on the space syntax tradition of research to explore how contingencies of movement and encounter construct the historical imagination.

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183

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Routledge

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0429804059

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9780429804052

Restorative Gardens

The Healing Landscape

By: Nancy Gerlach-Spriggs,Richard Enoch Kaufman,Sam Bass Warner

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The Healing Landscape

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Yale University Press

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Energy Follies

Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America's Energy Policy

By: Robert R. Nordhaus,Sam Kalen

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Energy Follies

Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America's Energy Policy

By: Robert R. Nordhaus,Sam Kalen

Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America's Energy Policy explores how a century of energy policies, rather than solving our energy problems, often made them worse; how Congress and other federal agencies grappled with remedying seemingly myopic past decisions. Sam Kalen and Robert R. Nordhaus investigate how misguided or naïve energy policy decisions caused or contributed to past energy crises, and how it took years to unwind their effects. This work recounts the decades-long struggles to move to market supply and pricing policies for oil and natural gas in order to make competition work in the electric power industry and to tame emissions from the coal fleet left to us by the 1970s coal policies. These historic policies continue to present struggles, and this book reflects on how future challenges ought to learn from our past mistakes.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108334091

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9781108334099

Eat Fresh, Stay Healthy

By: Tony Tantillo,Sam Gugino

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Eat Fresh, Stay Healthy

By: Tony Tantillo,Sam Gugino

TV and radio personality Tony Tantillo has filled this book with everything readers ever wanted to know about fruits and vegetables and much more. Co-author Sam Gugino has created more than 200 delicious, healthy recipes for cooking with fruits and vegetables, from soups, salads, sauces, and side dishes to main-course dinners. 120 line drawings.

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MacMillan Publishing Company

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0028603834

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9780028603834

Greater Boston

Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present

By: Sam Bass Warner

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Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present

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Streetcar Suburbs

The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900, Second Edition

By: Sam Bass Warner

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Streetcar Suburbs

The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900, Second Edition

By: Sam Bass Warner

Studies the growth in Boston from 1870 to 1900 and discusses the role the streetcar played in this growth. Argues that the streetcar divided the inner city of commerce and slums from the outer suburbs of commuters. Includes black-and-white maps, charts, and photographs.

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Harvard University Press

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0674842111

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9780674842113

Province of Reason

By: Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Sam Bass Warner

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By: Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Sam Bass Warner

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The Urban Wilderness

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The Private City

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The Urban Wilderness

The Urban Wilderness

Greater Boston

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Restorative Gardens

Restorative Gardens

American Urban Form

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Province of Reason

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Streetcar Suburbs

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Writing the Materialities of the Past

Writing the Materialities of the Past

Restorative Gardens

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Energy Follies

Energy Follies

Eat Fresh, Stay Healthy

Eat Fresh, Stay Healthy

Greater Boston

Greater Boston

Streetcar Suburbs

Streetcar Suburbs

Province of Reason

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