Book Description
History of Dallas-Fort Worth freeways and associated landmarks and events
Author : Erik Slotboom
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Express highways
ISBN : 9780974160511
History of Dallas-Fort Worth freeways and associated landmarks and events
Author : Erik Slotboom
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : David Courtney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1477312978
A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Author : M. Jeffrey Hardwick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812292995
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and Pop stores. So ubiquitous are malls that most people would be suprised to learn that they are the brainchild of a single person, architect Victor Gruen. An immigrant from Austria who fled the Nazis in 1938, Gruen based his idea for the mall on an idealized America: the dream of concentrated shops that would benefit the businessperson as well as the consumer and that would foster a sense of shared community. Modernist Philip Johnson applauded Gruen for creating a true civic art and architecture that enriched Americans' daily lives, and for decades he received praise from luminaries such as Lewis Mumford, Winthrop Rockefeller, and Lady Bird Johnson. Yet, in the end, Gruen returned to Europe, thoroughly disillusioned with his American dream. In Mall Maker, the first biography of this visionary spirit, M. Jeffrey Hardwick relates Gruen's successes and failures—his work at the 1939 World's Fair, his makeover of New York's Fifth Avenue boutiques, his rejected plans for reworking entire communities, such as Fort Worth, Texas, and his crowning achievement, the enclosed shopping mall. Throughout Hardwick illuminates the dramatic shifts in American culture during the mid-twentieth century, notably the rise of suburbia and automobiles, the death of downtown, and the effect these changes had on American life. Gruen championed the redesign of suburbs and cities through giant shopping malls, earnestly believing that he was promoting an American ideal, the ability to build a community. Yet, as malls began covering the landscape and downtowns became more depressed, Gruen became painfully aware that his dream of overcoming social problems through architecture and commerce was slipping away. By the tumultuous year of 1968, it had disappeared. Victor Gruen made America depend upon its shopping malls. While they did not provide an invigorated sense of community as he had hoped, they are enduring monuments to the lure of consumer culture.
Author : Automotive Safety Foundation
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1956
Category : City traffic
ISBN :
Author : Leonard Merewitz
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Roads
ISBN :
Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594201998
Recounts how Texas oil transformed wealth and power in America through the stories of the state's four most influential oil families, tracing how they rose from modest backgrounds, shaped the government, and bankrolled the rise of modern conservatism.
Author : June Naylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762767359
This guide details twenty-three itineraries ideal for getaways from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, including trips to Galveston, San Antonio, Nacogdoches, and South Padre Island.
Author : Victor Gruen Associates
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1971
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Author : Wendell Cox
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1998-05
Category : Express highways
ISBN : 0788141864
Without a first class system of interstate highways, life in America would be far different -- it would be more risky, less prosperous, & lacking in the efficiency & comfort that Americans now enjoy & take for granted. The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate & Defense Highways, in place & celebrating its 40th anniversary, must surely be the best investment a nation ever made. Consider this: it has saved the lives of at least 187,000 people; it has prevented injuries to nearly 12 million people; it has returned more that $6 in economic productivity for each $1 it cost, & much more. Photos. Charts & tables.