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Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks and condo towers an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl? The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, during an exhilarating journey through some of the world’s most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced ...
Vancouver's past, present, and future, in words and photographs.
A detailed and unique study of early Kentucky settlement in the eastern border area of the Big Sandy River. A discussion of the discovery of a significant error in a 1785 Virginia Land Grant survey that has precipitated controversy, debate, and litigation for more than 150 years. Includes details and location of the David French patent of 1802.
Contains the list of accessions to the library, formerly (1894-1909) issued quarterly in its series of "Bulletins."
Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.