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Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
ISBN: 9780199874057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in East Harlem--Zipp unearths a host of forgotten stories and characters that flesh out the conventional history of urban renewal. He shows how boosters hoped to make Manhattan the capital of modernity...
Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp...
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182,16 zł |
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The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World
ISBN: 9780674737518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Wendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became America's most effective ambassador, embarking on a 7-week plane trip to bolster the allied cause, encountering everyone from de Gaulle and Stalin to Chiang Kai-shek. Against a wave of nationalism, Willkie promoted a message of global interconnection and peaceful engagement.
Wendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became America's most effective ambassador, embarking on a 7-week plane trip to bolster the al...
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cena:
160,39 zł |