Author : Olen Steinhauer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312374860
Homicide inspector Emil Brod reluctantly investigates the death of lieutenant general Yuri Kolev who may have been murdered by an underground prodemocracy group.
Author : Olen Steinhauer
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429974745
From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist... The revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer's fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary crime series, with its two Edgar Award nominations along with other critical acclaim, one of today's most acclaimed. Finally having reached the tumultuous 1980s, the series comes full circle as one of the earliest cases of the People's Militia reemerges to torment all of the inspectors, including Emil Brod, now the chief, who was the original detective on the case. His arrest of one of the country's revolutionary leaders in the late 1940s resulted in the politician's conviction and imprisonment, but Emil was too young in those days to understand what it meant to go up against someone so powerful—and win. Only now, in 1989, when he is days from retirement and spends more time looking over his shoulder than ahead, does he realize that what he did may get him—and others—killed. Told against the backdrop of the crumbling forty-year-old government—with the leaders who were so new in the series debut, The Bridge of Sighs—Victory Square is Steinhauer at his best. Once again he masterfully makes crime fiction both personal and political, combining a story of revenge at any cost with a portrait of a country on the brink of collapse.
Author : Thomas A. Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135983801
Chapter 1 The reassertion of production in the inner city -- chapter 2 Process: Geographies of production in the central city -- chapter 3 Place: The revival of inner city industrial districts -- chapter 4 Restructuring narratives in the global metropolis: From postindustrial to 'new industrial' in London -- chapter 5 London's inner city in the New Economy -- chapter 6 Inscriptions of restructuring in the developmental state: Telok Ayer, Singapore -- chapter 7 The New Economy and its dislocations in San Francisco's South of Market Area -- chapter 8 New industry formation and the transformation of Vancouver's metropolitan core -- chapter 9 The New Economy of the inner city: An essay in theoretical synthesis.
Author : Mark Sundquist
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738580081
The Puget Sound region was inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before settlers arrived. After initially landing at Alki Beach in West Seattle, the Denny Party established a settlement on the eastern shores of Elliott Bay in 1852. For years, the cultural and commercial life centered around Yesler's Wharf and Sawmill. The city grew rapidly following the 1870s after the discovery of coal in the Cascade foothills. The entire commercial district was incinerated in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, but it was quickly rebuilt out of enduring brick and stone. The city stumbled economically following the Panic of 1893, but it recovered after the Klondike Gold Rush began in 1897. By the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle was the undisputed leader in the Pacific Northwest.
Author : Lance Berelowitz
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781553651703
Located at the edge of a continent and at the corresponding edge of national public consciousness, Vancouver has developed in unique and unanticipated ways. It is now emerging as an experiment in contemporary city-making, with international interest in Vancouver as a model of post-industrial urbanism increasing exponentially. Lance Berelowitz explores the links between the city's seductive natural setting, its turbulent political history and changing civic values, and its planning and design culture. He also makes the startling case that Vancouver is to Canada's imagination what Los Angeles is to the American -- a mythologized place of endless possibilities, while being grounded in an altogether more limited set of socio-economic and environmental limitations. Dream City is richly illustrated with both historical and contemporary photographs of many significant buildings and public spaces, as well as specially commissioned maps that reveal the underlying patterns of growth and change of Canada's youngest metropolis.
Author : Jeremy Howard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781426200502
These information-packed guides offer savvy advice and the in-depth information that sophisticated travelers demand. Each guide features: Detailed background and site descriptions; mapped walking and driving tours; full-service sidebars with fascinating vignettes on history, culture, and contemporary life; a 60-page directory of visitor information, including notable hotels and restaurants, entertainment, and shopping; and foldout end flaps, printed with maps and quick reference information, that serve as handy bookmarks.
Author : Russell Smandych
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 042976300X
First published in 1999, this volume brings together for the first time the work of leading researchers in the new field of governmentality studies and crime control. Specific chapters of the volume are written by leading internationally-recognized criminologists and socio-legal scholars from Canada, the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Individual chapters deal with key theoretical and methodological issues now being addressed by researchers in the field, while also reporting the results of innovative theoretically-informed research on a range of substantive topics including: crime prevention: dangerousness: criminalisation and gender: risk management and government of drug users: along with the government of youth, property relations, urban space and indigenous peoples. Collectively, chapters reflect the range of new theoretical approaches and substantive research topics that are being developed by socio-legal scholars and criminologists who are working in the wake of the critical postmodern tide that is entering law and criminology partly through the influence of Foucault.
Author : Quentin Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317390032
The so-called ‘creative industries’ are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development. Until now, research on the clustering of such activities has been limited to economics, geography and urban policy. This book is the first to gather together emerging research in urban design and spatial planning that explores what characteristics of the built form of cities support the distinctive activity patterns of various creative industries, and how and why they cluster together at a range of local scales. The book offers detailed case studies and comparative analyses of creative city neighbourhoods on five continents. Contributions examine urban forms, building types, and other qualities of place that attract and retain creative workers and foster creative production, outlining a range of methodologies for studying them. Taken altogether, Creative Milieux offers new insights for urban design practice, and for its role in wider urban policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Design.
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : Ivo Mijnssen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0253056217
World War II, known as the Great Patriotic War to Russians, ravaged the Soviet Union and traumatized those who survived. After the war, memory of this anguish was often publicly repressed under Stalin. But that all changed by the 1960s. Under Brezhnev, the idea of the Great Patriotic War was transformed into one of victory and celebration. In Russia's Hero Cities, Ivo Mijnssen reveals how contradictory national recollections were revised into an idealized past that both served official needs and offered a narrative of heroism. This triumphant narrative was most evident in the creation of 13 Hero Cities, now located across Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. These cities, which were host to some of the fiercest and most famous battles, were named champions. Brezhnev's government officially recognized these cities with awards, financial contributions, and ritualized festivities. Their citizens also encountered the altered history at every corner—on manicured battlefields, in war memorials, and through stories at the kitchen table. Using a rich tapestry of archival material, oral history interviews, and newspaper articles, Mijnssen provides a thorough exploration of two cities in particular, Tula and Novorossiysk. By exploring the significance of Hero Cities in Soviet identity and the enduring but conflicted importance they hold for Russians today, Russia's Hero Cities exposes how the Great Patriotic War no longer has the power to mask the deep rifts still present in Russian society.
