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Free Download Venice: City of Pictures by Martin Gayford
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0500022666 | 464 pages | MOBI | 179 Mb
A visual journey through five centuries of the city known for centuries as, "La Serenissima"―a unique and compelling story for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art.

Free Download Bernice Neugarten, "Social Status in the City"
English | ISBN: 1138533017 | 2017 | 334 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Social Status in the City presents a scientific method for measuring social status in urban settings – the Index of Urban Status (IUS). The authors show how the index and the concepts of status on which it is based were derived by describing the procedures used in studying the social structure of a particular Midwestern city. Richard P. Coleman modified the IUS when he was employed in commerce research studies of social class phenomena in American cities.A social class is a group of people who are judged by members of the community as equal to one another in social prestige. They are believed to be either superior or inferior in prestige and acceptability to other groups who constitute the social classes that are below or above them. By this definition, Yankee City, Deep South, Jonesville, Kansas City – and presumably every community in the U.S. – can all be described as having social class systems. This book is a case study aimed at larger theoretical importance.The study should be considered in the context of sociology’s concerns with problems of urban stratification, the characteristics of various social class groups, and the ways these groups change over time. In this context, the book makes a contribution to social science methods as well as observation. The authors have followed in the tradition of W. Lloyd Warner and others who have attempted to understand the status structures of whole communities. This classic volume has brilliantly stood the test of time.

Free Download Frommer’s New York City Day by Day (Day by Day), 7th Edition by Pauline Frommer
English | January 1st, 2025 | ISBN: 162887631X | 194 pages | True EPUB | 71.93 MB
Fully re-researched and updated, Frommer’s New York City Day By Day allows users to map their own adventure with a variety of suggested daily itineraries, vibrant photos, and multiple maps.

Free Download Helen English, "Music and World-Building in the Colonial City: Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860-1880 "
English | ISBN: 0367077647 | 2020 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 13 MB
Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, focusing on coalmining regions of New South Wales. It explores how music-making helped British migrants to create communities in unfamiliar country, often with little to no infrastructure. Its key themes are as follows:

Free Download DK Top 10 New York City (Pocket Travel Guide) by DK Travel
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 0241676312 | 192 pages | MOBI | 147 Mb
Exhilarating, ever-evolving and unforgettable-New York is one of the most visited cities in the world, known for its world-class museums and galleries, dazzling Broadway shows, towering skyscrapers, amazing food, and fast-paced life. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you’ll find your way around New York City with absolute ease.

Free Download Christopher P. Heuer, "The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries"
English | 2008 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 0415433061, 0415542324 | PDF | 14,4 mb
The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the production of imaginary architecture. Painter, architect, rhetorician, perspective theorist, festival designer, and draughtsman, Vredeman was active in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Prague, where he designed a mysterious body of architectural prints, works which by the seventeenth century had influenced buildings from Tallinn to Peru.Vredeman’s strange publications were among the most widely-distributed "Renaissance" books on building and vision, shipped to England, Spain and even Mexico by 1600.The City Rehearsedoffers an entirely new perspective on Vredeman and printed architecture in early modern Europe. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.

Free Download Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), "Drama and Pride in the Gateway City: The 1964 St. Louis Cardinals "
English | ISBN: 0803243723 | 2013 | 376 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again.

Free Download Gordon Young, "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City"
English | ISBN: 0520270525 | 2013 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the world’s highest per capita income levels but had become one of the country’s most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer could afford a lavish mansion, speculators scooped up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson was often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification.

Free Download Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future by Natalie Whittle
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1891011898 | 192 pages | PDF | 2.89 Mb
"[Shrink the City] surveys ways in which cities around the globe have created compact neighborhoods where residents’ daily needs are quickly accessible on foot or by bicycle―a concept known as the 15-minute city. . . . deeply researched and winsomely written. . . an invaluable overview of the cutting edge of urban planning."―✅Publishers Weekly

Free Download DK Top 10 Mexico City (Pocket Travel Guide) by DK Travel
English | December 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0241698103 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 195.09 MB
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Mexico City will lead you straight to the very best the city has to offer. Whether you’re looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide and its pull-out map is the perfect pocket-sized companion.