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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 207 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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Readers learn to appreciate geographic and cultural diversitywith the beautifully illustrated series The Great CitiesLibrary. The books place urban centers around the globe in theirindividual historic and geographic perspectives. In each volume,readers get an overview that includes a full-color MAP, and a CITYDIRECTORY that lists interesting facts about the city. A section onthe PLACE describes physical features of the land and highlightsunique characteristics of the area. A section on the PAST details thehistory of the city from its inception to the present day, showing howthe city's identity has developed. A section on the PEOPLE defines thetraditions, ethnic makeup, and cultures that give the city its life. Asection ON THE TOUR BUS highlights special events and places ofinterest. A CHRONOLOGY, a BIBLIOGRAPHY, and an INDEX are also includedalong with a useful listing of WHERE TO GET MORE INFORMATION.

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For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century by Henry W. Lawrence provides a comprehensive and handsome guide to the history of trees in urban landscapes. Covering four centuries of development in the cities of Europe and America, this book shows how trees became integral to urban landscapes by looking at the historical evolution of the spaces in which they were planted and how these spaces were used.

Reflecting on the impact trees have had on what many consider to be the fundamental aspects of city life-people, buildings, social and economic activity-Lawrence draws on graphic materials, written descriptions, local histories, and archival research to provide a unique look at the tree's role in urban landscape history. Primarily concerned with aesthetics, power, and national traditions, Lawrence reflects on the differing impacts city trees have had on multiple aspects of culture, from their roles as symbols and their representation of economic prosperity to the differing ways nations planted their trees, which gradually blended into an international style of urban planting.

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A very good book on the history of urban tree planting - all of which is based on European and American cities, with some very, very limited discussion on colonial cities of Africa and Asia. The author has done an amazing job in pulling together incredibly diverse research to document the whys and wherefores of the presence of trees alongcity streets. Profusely illustrated with city plans and prints, the book chronicles the growth of the idea of greening the city streets, from the arcades of Renaissance cities to the bulwarks of Dutch towns, from England to New England and to Park Avenue.I think it stands alongside "Design on the Land" as a great example of landscape architectural history.For future editions of this book, I would hope, however, some accounting of Chinese and Japanese and and especially Arabic and Persian urban planting would also be addressed. Otherwise, it is an outstanding book. ... Read more

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Providing a compact literary history of the twentieth century in England, Cities of Affluence and Anger studies the problematic terms of national identity during England's transition from an imperial power to its integration in the global cultural marketplace. While the countryside had been the dominant symbol of Englishness throughout the previous century, modern literature began to turn more and more to the city to redraw the boundaries of a contemporary cultural polity. The urban class system, paradoxically, still functioned as a marker of wealth, status, and hierarchy throughout this long period of self-examination, but it also became a way to project a common culture and mitigate other forms of difference. Local class politics were transformed in such a way that enabled the English to reframe a highly provisional national unity in the context of imperial disintegration, postcolonial immigration, and, later, globalization.

Kalliney plots the decline of the country-house novel through an analysis of Forster's Howards End and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, each ruthless in its sabotage of the trope of bucolic harmony. The traditionally pastoral focus of English fiction gives way to a high-modernist urban narrative, exemplified by Woolf'sMrs. Dalloway, and, later, to realists such as Osborne and Sillitoe, through whose work Kalliney explores postwar urban expansion and the cultural politics of the welfare state. Offering fresh new readings of Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, the author considers the postwar appropriation of domesticity, the emergence of postcolonial literature, and the renovation of travel narratives in the context of globalization.

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 156 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. In 1961, the town and the surrounding area was designated a National Historic Landmark District, the Virginia City Historic District. The population was 130 at the 2000 census. In 1863, the area was part of the Dakota Territory until March, when it became part of the newly formed Idaho Territory. On May 26, 1864, the Territory of Montana was formed, with Bannack briefly becoming the territorial capital, Virginia City would quickly take that title from Bannack. In May 1863, a group of prospectors were headed towards the Yellowstone River and instead came upon a party of the Crow tribe and were forced to return to Bannack. Gold was discovered on the retreat trip when Bill Fairweather stuck a pick near Alder Creek joking he might find something to fund some tobacco. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 206 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 186 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 106 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pamplin City is a town in Appomattox and Prince Edward counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 199 at the 2000 census.The Appomattox County portion of Pamplin City is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.Pamplin is the home of a Clay Pipe Factory, formerly the largest factory in the world, this factory is now on the registry of national landmarks and is located off the side of Business 460 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. Hampton Roads is the common name for the metropolitan area that surrounds the body of water of the same name. The land portion of Hampton Roads has been historically divided into two regions, the Virginia Peninsula or Peninsula on the north side, and South Hampton Roads on the south side. Geographically located at the northwestern reaches, Charles City and New Kent counties are by some criteria part of the Virginia Peninsula. However, in modern times, they are usually considered part of the Richmond-Petersburg region. ... Read more

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Danville is an independent city in Virginia, bounded by Pittsylvania County, Virginia and Caswell County, North Carolina. It was the last capital of the Confederate States of America. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Danville with Pittsylvania county for statistical purposes under the Danville, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. Danville is also called the city of churches because it has more churches per square mile than any other city in the state of Virginia. The population was 48,411 at the 2000 census. It hosts the Danville Braves baseball club of the Appalachian League. Dan River Industries, formerly one of the world's largest textile mills, recently closed leaving a large number of Danvillians without jobs. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paden City is a city in Tyler and Wetzel Counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River. The population was 2,860 at the 2000 census.As of the census of 2000, there were 2,860 people, 1,183 households, and 843 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,228.4 people per square mile (1,240.7/km²). There were 1,300 housing units at an average density of 1,467.5/sq mi (564.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 99.34% White, 0.10% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.10% Asian, and 0.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.49% of the population. ... Read more

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Farming once dominated the landscape of France for generations but now the landscape is changing. Giant farms have been created from smaller ones. In remoter, less fertile areas, farmers have abandoned the land altogether. Towns and cities are growing, with suburbs sprawling out into the countryside. In the past, France was famous for its food; in future, it may be more famous for its engineering and its high-tech industries. Meet the people of France and discover the diversity of their lives, from the organic-wine producer to the engineering student who dreams of designing a space station on Mars. Includes maps and graphic panels showing statistics and fact boxes about size, flag, population, religion, currency and language. ... Read more