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DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services


Free Download DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services by Kimberley Kinder
English | March 15, 2016 | ISBN: 0816697094 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1.50 Mb
For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought him an outpouring of attention and support. But what of Robertson’s Detroit neighbors, likewise stuck in a blighted city without services as basic as a bus line? What they’re left with, after decades of disinvestment and decline, is DIY urbanism-sweeping their own streets, maintaining public parks, planting community gardens, boarding up empty buildings, even acting as real estate agents and landlords for abandoned homes.

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DIY Food Photography – Capture Compelling Closeups of Fruit


Free Download DIY Food Photography: Capture Compelling Closeups of Fruit
Content Source:https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/DIY-Food-Photography-Capture-Compelling-Closeups-of-Fruit/435656890
Genre / Category:Photography
File Size :364MB
Have you ever wanted to watch a photographer set up a shot? Join me in this food-styling meets tabletop-photography class and I’ll lead you through a few different DIY setups that you can recreate in your own kitchen at home. In this class we will be photographing fruit and taking easy, actionable steps to add drama and life to your images.

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DIY City The Collective Power of Small Actions


Free Download DIY City: The Collective Power of Small Actions by Hank Dittmar
English | June 2, 2020 | ISBN: 1642830526 | 143 pages | PDF | 4.18 Mb
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities -from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the exception, and seldom turn out as envisioned by the utopian planner. Inviting city neighborhoods are more often works of improvisation on a small scale. This type of bottom-up development gives cities both their character and the ability to respond to sudden change.

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