Tag: City

Free Download Quilt City Cookbook: A Funny Companion to the Hadley Carroll Mysteries by Bruce Leonard
English | August 4, 2024 | ISBN: 8986823527 | 204 pages | EPUB | 4.73 Mb
Bruce Leonard never dreamed of owning a bakery. He wanted to be a novelist, but he found himself flour-dusted and sleep-deprived after his mother and he opened The Blues Bakery in Ventura, California. He loved creating recipes, interacting with customers, and drinking Blues Brew, the bakery’s proprietary blend. But the physical demands of the job wore out his body, and the Leonards were forced to sell the business.

Free Download Alfred Thomas, "Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City"
English | 2010 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 0226795403 | PDF | 0,8 mb
A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten-from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde-Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and pre-Holocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia.

Free Download Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne – afterword, Jan Gehl – foreword, Andrew Joseph Perez (Narrator), "The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet"
English | ASIN: B0D5SKP2HX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:55:00 | 218 MB
In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.
This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time. Hundreds of mayors worldwide have already embraced the concept as a way to help recover from the pandemic, and the idea continues to gain speed. You’ll learn why more and more cities are planning to make cars far less necessary for contemporary city-dwellers and how they’re planning to achieve that goal. You’ll also find strategies for cities to recover and adapt to benefit residents, saving them precious time; techniques to change the habits of automobile-dependent city residents and maximize social benefits of living in a human-centric city; and scientifically developed, research-backed solutions for enduring urban issues.
An essential, timely resource, The 15-Minute City will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in innovative approaches to challenging urban issues that have bedeviled policy makers and city residents since the invention of the car.

Free Download Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CV2P6JY9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Simon Kuper
Narrator: Tim Frances
An entertaining and openhearted tale of a naïf eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society-at least a little. When Simon Kuper left London for Paris in his early thirties, he wasn’t planning to make a permanent move. Paris, however, had other plans. Kuper has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his American wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city’s notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on their neighborhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.

Free Download Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future by Natalie Whittle
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1891011898 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 1.86 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 Lonely Planet New York City (Travel Guide) by Brian Healy, Rachel Chang, John Garry
English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1838691707 | 336 pages | MOBI | 53 Mb
Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to New York City.

Free Download Jerusalem: City of the Book by Merav Mack, Benjamin Balint, Frédéric Brenner
English | May 14, 2019 | ISBN: 0300222858 | 272 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words

Free Download Kheir Al-Kodmany, "Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art"
English | ISBN: 1032362650 | 2024 | 332 pages | PDF | 85 MB
The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art. This captivating exploration delves into the art of turning towering skyscraper cities into vibrant havens that foster human connection, celebrate culture, and build communities. Unveiling the secrets behind the creation of urban spaces, from dynamic plazas that encourage social interaction to tranquil parks that infuse life into steel and glass, the book unfolds a narrative that resonates with the innate rhythms of humanity. Examining 20 major high-rise cities worldwide (including Chicago, New York City, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, among others), synthesizing extensive literature, and enriched with over 200 photographs, this book showcases projects seamlessly weaving nature, art, and connectivity into the urban fabric. These endeavors craft environments that enhance well-being and instill a profound sense of belonging amid the challenges of urban density. As the global landscape increasingly tilts toward vertical living, this book serves as a guiding light, illuminating the path to a heightened and enriched experience of high-rise urban living. This book will be useful to practitioners and students of architecture, urban planning, and urban design interested in improving high-rise cities.

Free Download Deborah Frethem, "Haunted Ybor City"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1626196222, 1540211045 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 4.3 mb
The memorable architecture and fine cigars of Ybor City attract and delight visitors, but locals and tourists aren’t the only ones prowling the city’s narrow brick streets and old nightclubs. Invisible revelers still linger at sites like the Florida Brewing Company, where Eduardo Sandoval seeks revenge from the drunken brawl that killed him in 1896. Jose Marti himself still fights by night for Cuba’s liberation in Parque Amigos de Jose Marti on Eighth Avenue. Grab a Cuban sandwich or a cafe con leche and join local historian Deborah Frethem as she traces the spectral happenings of Florida’s Latin Quarter.

Free Download Kyle T. Bulthuis, "Four Steeples Over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1479831344, 147981427X | EPUB | pages: 285 | 3.7 mb
Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.