Result of: subject:"Cities and towns"

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

Silhouettes illustrate a family's trip to a large city and their return trip home to the country.

The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the attention of both the city of New York and the ...

Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Harston returns to North Carolina and to a hostile family, only to find himself ...

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back.

Watch the book trailer for Hollowing Out the Middle In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved ...

When Dodsworth and the duck vacation in Paris, they have a grand time despite running out of money and accidentally riding their bicycles in the Tour de France.

A rainy-day errand introduces Carrie to many different kinds of bread, including chapatis, challah, and papusaa. Includes recipes.

When life in Winnipeg does not go as planned, Knute Corea-McCloud returns to her parents' home in tiny Algren, Manitoba, with her daughter, Summer Feelin', and ...

Vibrant illustrations enhance this bright introduction to the people and places of Harlem as seen and experienced by a young boy from the community. 12,500 ...

After writing a novel that lampooned nearly everyone in his hometown, he is forced to return to that same town to care for his father and discovers that people ...

The classic work on the evaluation of city form.

Three members of the Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism give voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to ...

An examination of Cities of the Western world tracing their development from Egypt through the Middle Ages to the present

Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground ...

A narrative exploration of France's lesser-known landscapes and inhabitants celebrates the country's ancient tribes, prehistoric networks, and early religions, ...

A rhythmic tale follows different updated fairy tale characters--including Goldilocks, Tom Thumb, and Li'l Red Riding Hood--as they attend a hip-hop Halloween ...

ZUR ERNÄHRUNG UND DEM GEBRAUCH VON PFLANZEN IM HERAION VON SAMOS IM 7, JAHRHUNDERT V. CHR. vonDusanka Kucan I. EINLEITUNG In Anknüpfung an die langjährigen ...

INSTANT INFORMATION In an effort to facilitate the rapid dissemination of information and publications on minerals and materials, two electronic document ...

Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese ...