Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there was gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn't) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and how it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country. The Mountains That Remade America combines geology with history to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced daily life in the United States in the past and how they continue to do so today. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and contemporary society, Craig H. Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast impact this mountain range has had on the American West.

Geology --- Human geography --- Mountains --- Gold mines and mining --- Gold discoveries --- Gold extraction (Mining) --- Gold fields --- Gold mining --- Gold rush --- Gold rushes --- Goldfields --- Goldmining --- Goldrush --- Goldrushes --- Sites, Gold mining --- Mines and mineral resources --- Hills --- Mountain peaks --- Mountain ranges --- Mountain ridges --- Mounts (Mountains) --- Orography --- Orology --- Peaks --- Pinnacles --- Ranges, Mountain --- Ridges, Mountain --- Summits (Mountains) --- Uplands --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- History. --- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) --- Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nev.) --- Sierra Nevada Range (Calif. and Nev.) --- Sierras (Calif. and Nev.) --- american landscape. --- american west. --- backpacker. --- cartographer. --- contemporary society. --- geographer. --- geography. --- geological science. --- geologist. --- geology. --- hiker. --- historical geology. --- mountain range. --- natural science. --- outdoorsman. --- sierra nevada mountains. --- travel guide.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences and knowledge institutions, arguing that these resources are a vital supplement and corrective to increasingly prevalent algorithmic models.Shannon Mattern begins by examining the ethical and ontological implications of urban technologies and computational models, discussing how they shape and in many cases profoundly limit our engagement with cities. She looks at the methods and underlying assumptions of data-driven urbanism, and demonstrates how the "city-as-computer" metaphor, which undergirds much of today's urban policy and design, reduces place-based knowledge to information processing. Mattern then imagines how we might sustain institutions and infrastructures that constitute more diverse, open, inclusive urban forms. She shows how the public library functions as a steward of urban intelligence, and describes the scales of upkeep needed to sustain a city's many moving parts, from spinning hard drives to bridge repairs.Incorporating insights from urban studies, data science, and media and information studies, A City Is Not a Computer offers a visionary new approach to urban planning and design.

Architecture. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Urban renewal. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Smart cities. --- City planning. --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Architecture, Primitive --- Accessibility. --- Advertising. --- American Forests. --- Archivist. --- Bloomberg Terminal. --- CARTO. --- Career. --- Civic engagement. --- Climate change. --- Collaboration. --- Colonialism. --- CompStat. --- Computation. --- Computer scientist. --- Consideration. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Control engineering. --- Control room. --- Copyright. --- Critical practice. --- Cultural heritage. --- Data set. --- Database. --- Decision tree. --- Decision-making. --- Design tool. --- Designer. --- Digital humanities. --- Ecosystem. --- Emerging technologies. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Environmental justice. --- Epistemology. --- Eric Klinenberg. --- Funding. --- Generative Design. --- Geographer. --- Governance. --- Hardware store. --- Household. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Information literacy. --- Information management. --- Information science. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Knowledge economy. --- Laundry. --- Librarian. --- Librarians. --- Library. --- Literature. --- Machine learning. --- Measurement. --- Mierle Laderman Ukeles. --- Movement for Black Lives. --- Obsolescence. --- Operating system. --- Operationalization. --- Oslo School of Architecture and Design. --- Park. --- Pedagogy. --- Philosopher. --- Police. --- Politics. --- Pollution. --- Princeton University Press. --- Processing (programming language). --- Public Knowledge. --- Public infrastructure. --- Public library. --- Publishing. --- Push-button. --- Racism. --- Real estate development. --- Reproductive labor. --- Restorative justice. --- Scaffolding. --- Sidewalk Labs. --- Smart city. --- Smartphone. --- Supply chain. --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Telecommunication. --- The Various. --- Tree planting. --- Twitter. --- Unemployment. --- University of California, Berkeley. --- University of Toronto. --- University of Washington. --- Urban ecology. --- Urban history. --- Urban planning. --- Urbanism. --- Washington University in St. Louis. --- Wi-Fi. --- Year.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates the power of our greatest books to illuminate our lives. Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor's life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person--and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature's knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters' lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge--and come to understand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters most because we never stop discovering who we are"--

Literature --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Philosophy. --- Weinstein, Arnold --- Books and reading. --- A Book Of. --- Alliteration. --- Antihero. --- Author. --- Blood sugar. --- Career. --- Cause and Effect (Numbers). --- Chutzpah. --- Classroom. --- Close-up. --- Coercion. --- Colonialism. --- Comparative literature. --- Correction (novel). --- Creative writing. --- Credential. --- Death poem. --- Electric power system. --- Emily Dickinson. --- En route (novel). --- English literature. --- Epistemology. --- Essay. --- Ethos. --- Everyday life. --- Fiction. --- French literature. --- Genre. --- Geographer. --- Grant writing. --- Grunt Work. --- Guideline. --- Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights). --- Hotel. --- Human Desire. --- Humanities. --- Ideology. --- Imagery. --- Intersectionality. --- James Merrill. --- Jocasta. --- John Barth. --- Journalism. --- Juncture. --- Lecture. --- Liberal education. --- Literary criticism. --- Literature. --- Louis Althusser. --- Madame Bovary. --- Misery (novel). --- Molloy (novel). --- Narrative. --- Newspaper. --- Newsprint. --- Novelist. --- Only Words (book). --- Pedagogy. --- Pen name. --- Philosopher. --- Picaresque novel. --- Playwright. --- Poet. --- Poetry. --- Prose poetry. --- Prose. --- Rant (novel). --- Realia (education). --- Recitation. --- Respondent. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Samuel Beckett. --- Saving. --- Seminar. --- Slavery. --- Soliloquy. --- Sonnet. --- Sophocles. --- Spelling. --- Standardized test. --- Storytelling. --- Subtraction. --- Sympathy. --- Text display. --- The Actual (novel). --- The Chronicle of Higher Education. --- The Newspaper. --- The Suspicion (Animorphs). --- Thesis. --- Treatise. --- Urban studies. --- Utterance. --- Vetting. --- William Faulkner. --- Wisdom literature. --- Wound. --- Writer's block. --- Writer. --- Writing center. --- Writing.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Today, architectural plans and drawings are always signposted with colors: pink for poché, or exterior walls, yellow for certain interior elements, and blue for details and ornament. How and why did this practice begin? The craft of architectural drawing-plans, sections, and details-was originally developed during the Italian Renaissance under the influence of engravers. The results were correspondingly monochromatic, relying on representation through line and perspective. But in the 1800s, an influx of painters-turned-architects in Holland and Germany brought color into their designs. This innovation eventually spread throughout Europe, inspiring French architectural engineers to adopt a common color system in order to more clearly communicate their designs across the kingdom, and giving architects another tool with which to impress academic juries and the public. In this book, author Basile Baudez argues that color was not an essential feature of architectural drawing until European architects adopted a precise system of representation in response to political and artistic rivalry between countries, as well as the needs of public exhibitions. He shows that French engineers learned to use color from the Dutch colleagues they worked with and then fought against during the Dutch War (1672-78), demonstrating that a color-based system was published in French manuals for military engineers and used by royal architects, and that architects who wanted to compete with paintings for the public's attention needed to use the familiar language of color. This history reveals that color came to have three functions: to imitate architectural materials, to establish concise representational conventions that could span large geographic distances, and to seduce the public, including tourists. The book will feature a large number of fascinating, previously unpublished archival drawings, and will contribute to growing interest in the origins and professionalization of architecture, as well as the history of drawing as a medium"--

Color in art. --- Architectural drawing --- History. --- Architecture --- Drawing --- Graphic arts --- architectural drawings [visual works] --- prints [visual works] --- color [perceived attribute] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Couleur dans l'art --- Dessin d'architecture --- Histoire --- ARCHITECTURE / History / Renaissance. --- Colors in art --- Art --- Monochrome art --- Drawing, Architectural --- Plans --- Architectural design --- Communication in architectural design --- Mechanical drawing --- History --- 72.017 --- 72.02 --- Europa --- Kleur (architectuur) --- Architectuurtekeningen --- Architectuurtekenen --- Couleur (art). --- Dessins et plans. --- Couleur (art) --- Accademia di San Luca. --- Agostino Veneziano. --- Amiens. --- Andrea Palladio. --- Arbitrariness. --- Architectural Design. --- Architectural drawing. --- Architectural historian. --- Architectural painting. --- Architectural style. --- Architectural theory. --- Archive. --- Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. --- Boarding school. --- Canaletto. --- Carlo Maderno. --- Cartography. --- Checker shadow illusion. --- Civil engineer. --- Color engraving. --- Color of water. --- Color wash. --- Country of origin. --- Croome Court. --- Ditchley. --- Drafter. --- Drawing. --- Ealing. --- Earned income tax credit. --- Engraving. --- Explanation. --- Facsimile. --- Francesco Algarotti. --- Francesco Borromini. --- Francesco da Volterra. --- Funding. --- General Idea. --- Geographer. --- Gerard de Lairesse. --- Giorgio Vasari. --- Giotto. --- Gouache. --- Guideline. --- Henry IV of France. --- Hybrid image. --- Immigration policy. --- Infrastructure. --- Inigo Jones. --- Jacques-Germain Soufflot. --- Jagodina. --- James Wyatt. --- Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. --- La Chaise-Dieu. --- Le Mans Cathedral. --- Lighting. --- Masonry. --- National Gallery of Art. --- National Policy. --- Nicholas Hawksmoor. --- North Africa. --- Of Education. --- Officer and Laughing Girl. --- Orthographic projection. --- Palace. --- Parchment. --- Paul Sandby. --- Pierre Crozat. --- Pilaster. --- Pink and Blue (Renoir). --- Populuxe. --- Print culture. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Racialization. --- Refugee. --- Renaissance architecture. --- Result. --- Rood screen. --- Rosin. --- Royal Institute of British Architects. --- Santa Maria Antiqua. --- Social capital. --- Sociology. --- Spanish Army. --- Stippling. --- Strasbourg Cathedral. --- Suburb. --- Tempio Malatestiano. --- Trajectory. --- Trapping. --- Treatise. --- Triumphal arch. --- Ugo da Carpi. --- Vellum. --- Welfare state. --- William L. Clements Library. --- Woodcut. --- Woodworking. --- Workplace. --- Writing. --- Yale Center for British Art. --- Color in art