Tag: Suburbs

Free Download Bluefield Housing As Alternative Infill for the Suburbs
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032276908 | 335 Pages | PDF (True) | 86 MB
Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-rise character, avoiding gentrification, and opening neighbourhoods to more diverse housing choices. Bluefield Housing offers a new land definition and co-located infill model addressing these concerns, through describing and deploying the types of ad-hoc modifications that have been undertaken in the suburbs for decades. Extending green-, brown-, and greyfield definitions, it provides a necessary middle ground between the ‘do nothing’ attitude of suburban preservation and the ‘do everything’ approach of knock-down-rebuild regeneration.

Free Download Visual Astronomy in the Suburbs: A Guide to Spectacular Viewing by Antony Cooke
English | PDF (True) | 2003 | 268 Pages | ISBN : 1852337079 | 8.7 MB
Most amateur astronomers, because they live in or near cities, have to carry out their observing from relatively light-polluted sites. It is possible to reduce the effects of a poor location by the use of CCD imaging, but many observers prefer to look at astronomical objects rather than photograph them. Skill, observing techniques, and modern technology – such as image intensifiers – can now be used to astonishing effect to observe the night sky in real-time. Illustrating the book with images and some of his own superb drawings, Antony Cooke explains how to observe some of the most spectacular objects from less than perfect observing sites.

Free Download Allison Hepler, "McCarthyism in the Suburbs: Quakers, Communists, and the Children’s Librarian"
English | ISBN: 1498569390 | 2018 | 208 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
In 1953, Mary Knowles was fired as a branch librarian for the Morrill Memorial Library, a public library in Norwood, Massachusetts. She had been called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and, when asked if she’d ever been a member of the Communist Party, she declined to answer, relying on her Fifth Amendment rights. She was fired less than three weeks later. Knowles thought she was unlikely to find a position as a librarian again and left the area. She found a job at a small library outside Philadelphia, where anticommunists who learned of her past tried to create public support for a Loyalty Oath, resulting in the loss of public funding for the library. The resulting controversy eventually brought national attention to the local Quakers who had hired Knowles, the FBI was asked to investigate, Knowles was convicted of contempt of Congress, and the Quakers were subpoenaed and testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Knowles, however, was never fired from this position, retiring from the library in 1979.

Free Download Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Carl Abbott
English | February 1, 2023 | ISBN: 0197599249 | 160 pages | PDF | 2.48 Mb
We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks who love dense cities scorn "suburbia," while people who like big yards dislike bustling sidewalks and subways. Social scientists argue whether contemporary suburbs are losing their luster or if a supposed back-to-the-city trend is a mirage-a debate that has been exacerbated by uncertainty over the effects of COVID-19.

Free Download Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4M649SF | 2023 | 4 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Carl Abbott
Narrator: Mike Lenz