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Note: Gesehen am 31.10.08 , Das NL-Angebot umfasst 8 Zeitungen The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times und endet 1922

Language: English

Keywords: Datenbank

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Format: XXV, 374 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 1587990768

Content: "Blood, Sweat & Tears is a history of work, from the prehistoric times to the present day. It offers fascinating and intelligent analyses of the individuals, assumptions, theories, developments and practices that have so much changed work. Based on detailed research from around the world, the author examines early societies, slavery, the guilds, the creation of trade secrets and the influence of religion on work (such as the humanist ideals of the great Quaker industrialists). Donkin also investigates the ideas of the theorists, such as F. W. Taylor, Max Weber, Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett and W. Edwards Deming, and the impact they have had on our lives. And, controversially, the author challenges the work ethic on behalf of all those whose lives have increasingly become subsumed by the demands of employers, asking the question: Why do we do it?"--BOOK JACKET.

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: Großbritannien ; Arbeit ; Geschichte ; USA ; Arbeit ; Geschichte ; Großbritannien ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Geschichte ; USA ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Geschichte

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Format: XXIX, 326 p.

ISBN: 1565848373

Content: These interviews--with congressmen and cooks, union organizers and CEOs, students, immigrants, activists, veterans, priests and lawyers--constitute an alternative history of the American century. They form a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.--From publisher description.

Language: English

Keywords: Biografie ; Interview ; Literaturauslese

Author information: Terkel, Studs 1912-2008

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Format: XIV, 699 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. issued as an Oxford Univ. Press paperback

ISBN: 0195078969 , 0195147057

Language: English

Keywords: Chrysler, Walter P. 1875-1940 ; Biografie

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Format: XVI, 318 S.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0805069143

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: USA ; Unternehmer ; Biografie ; Biografie

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Format: 1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition: 20th ed.

ISBN: 9780195174502 , 9780198038917

Note: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Stollenwerck's Panorama, 1815 -- I: The Artisan Republic, 1788-1825 -- 1. "By Hammer and Hand": Artisans in the Mercantile City -- The Crafts in Flux -- Entrepreneurs -- Small Masters -- Journeymen -- A Restive Peace -- 2. Artisan Republicanism -- Redeeming the Revolution -- Republican Religion -- Articels Emblemattical of Our Trade, -- Republicanism and Conflict -- Artisan Republicanism and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism -- II: The Bastard Workshop, 1825-1850 -- 3. Metropolitan Industrialization -- Metropolitan Manufacturing and the Bastardization of Craft -- The Sweated Trades: Clothing, Shoes, and Furniture -- Technology and the Division of Labor: Printing -- Subcontracting and the Building Trades -- The Persistence of Tradition: Shipbuilding and Food Preparation -- Craft Workers in the Industrializing Metropolis -- III: Working Man's Advocates, 1825-1832 -- 4. Entrepreneurs and Radicals -- Entrepreneurial Crusades: Moral Reform and Political Economy -- Impious Artisans and the Uses of Morality -- Property, Producers' Rights, and the Assault on Competition -- The Outcasts Organize -- Background to Crisis -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the Working Men -- Republicanism, Party Democracy, and Politics -- Dramatis Personae -- The Radical Movement -- The Coup -- The End -- Artisan Radicalism and the Paradoxes of Politics -- IV: The Journeymen's Revolt, 1833-1836 -- 6. "A Phalanx of Honest Worth": The General Trades' Union of the City of New York -- Union Men -- Union Democracy -- Strikes and Politics -- Class Consciousness and the Republic of Labor -- The Boundaries of Class -- Radicalism and the Union -- 7. Oppositions: To the Crisis of 1836 -- The Republic of the Bowery -- The Masters: Toward an Ideology of Free Labor -- The Crisis of 1836 -- The Legacy of Union -- V: Hard Times and Politics, 1837-1849 , 8. Panic and Prejudice -- Free Labor and the Republic of Capital -- The Jovial Hurrah: Washingtonian Temperance -- American Republicanism: Nativism, Mutuality, and Liberty -- Reformation -- 9. Subterranean Radicals -- Mike Walsh and the Shirtless Democracy -- Land Reform -- Plebeian Protestants: The American Laboring Confederacy and the Mechanics' Mutual -- Trade Societies, Immigrants, and Labor Radicalism -- Radicalism and Self-Respect -- VI: Class Conflict in the American Metropolis -- 10. The Labor Crisis of 1950 -- Movements and Men -- To City Hall -- The Tailors' Strike -- Party Politics, Dissolution, and the Aftermath -- Conclusion: "The Most Radical City in America, -- Epilogue: Hudson Street, 1865 -- Appendix: Tables and Figures -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Additional Edition: Print version Wilentz, Sean Chants Democratic Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2004 ISBN 9780195174502

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Format: 1 online resource (545 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780521772976 , 9781139146364

Series Statement: Econometric Society Monographs v.Series Number 32

Content: These essays by Clive W. J. Granger span more than four decades and cover major topics in spectral analysis, seasonality, nonlinearity, methodology, and forecasting. The introduction by Eric Gysels, Norman R. Swanson and Mark W. Watson places the essays in context and demonstrates their enduring value

Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ACADEMIC PRESS -- AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION -- BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS -- BUREAU OF THE CENSUS -- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS -- CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- THE ECONOMETRICS SOCIETY -- ELSEVIER -- FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS -- HELBING AND LICHTENHAHN VERLAG -- JOHN WILEY andamp -- SONS, LTD. -- MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS, LTD. -- MIT PRESS -- TAYLOR andamp -- FRANCIS, LTD. -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Volume I -- SPECTRAL METHODS -- SEASONALITY -- NONLINEARITY -- METHODOLOGY -- FORECASTING -- Volume II -- CAUSALITY -- INTEGRATION AND COINTEGRATION -- LONG MEMORY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1 The ET Interview: Professor Clive Granger -- BOOKS -- PAPERS -- Forthcoming -- Submitted -- PRICE RESEARCH -- SPECULATIVE MARKETS AND THEORY OF FINANCE -- STATISTICAL THEORY AND APPLIED STATISTICS -- PART ONE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS -- CHAPTER 2 Spectral Analysis of New York Stock Market Prices -- Summary -- 1. THE RANDOM WALK HYPOTHESIS -- 2. SPECTRAL METHODS -- 3. RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS -- APPENDIX A -- Some Technical Considerations -- APPENDIX B -- Description of Series Analyzed -- Power Spectra -- Cross Spectra -- CHAPTER 3 The Typical Spectral Shape of an Economic Variable -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXAMPLES OF ESTIMATED SPECTRA -- 3. THE PROBLEM OF TREND -- 4. INTERPRETATION: BUSINESS CYCLES -- 5. DESCRIPTION: MODEL FITTING -- 6. IMPLICATIONS FOR MODEL BUILDING -- 7. IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTROL -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO SEASONALITY -- CHAPTER 4 Seasonality: Causation, Interpretation, and Implications -- 1. CAUSES OF SEASONALITY -- 1.1 Calendar -- 1.2 Timing Decisions -- 1.3 Weather -- 1.4 Expectation -- 2. DEFINITION -- 2.1 Definition 1 -- 2.2 Definition 2 -- 2.3 Definition 3 -- 3. SEASONAL MODELS -- 3.1 Model 1 , 3.2 Model 2 -- 3.3 Model 3 -- 3.4 Model 4 -- 3.5 Model 5 -- 3.6 Model 6 -- 4. DECOMPOSITION -- 5. WHY ADJUST? -- 6. OVERVIEW OF ADJUSTMENT METHODS -- 7. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION -- 7.1 Property 1 -- 7.2 Property 2 -- 7.3 Property 3 -- 7.4 Property 4 -- 7.5 Property 5 -- 7.6 Property 6 -- 8. EFFECTS OF ADJUSTMENT IN PRACTICE -- 9. RELATING PAIRS OF ADJUSTED SERIES -- 10. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 Is Seasonal Adjustment a Linear or Nonlinear Data-Filtering Process? -- 1. ON POTENTIAL SOURCES OF NONLINEARITY IN THE X-11 PROGRAM -- 1.1 The Decompositions -- 1.2 Multiplicative Versus Additive -- 1.3 Outlier Detections -- 1.4 Moving Average Filter Selection -- 1.5 Aggregation -- 2. A SIMULATION STUDY -- 2.1 The Data-Generating Processes -- 2.2 Properties of Linear Approximations -- 2.3 Linear Regression and Filtering -- 2.4 Technical Details -- 3. SIMULATION AND EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- 3.1 Seasonal Filtering and Linear Regression -- 3.2 Simulation Evidence on Properties of Linear Approximation -- 3.3 An Empirical Investigation -- 4. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART THREE NONLINEARITY -- CHAPTER 6 Non-Linear Time Series Modeling -- 1. NON-LINEAR MODELS -- 2. INSTANTANEOUS DATA TRANSFORMATIONS -- 3. INTRODUCTION TO BILINEAR MODELS -- 4. PARTICULAR CASE 1: A DIAGONAL MODEL -- 5. PARTICULAR CASE 2: WHITE NOISE MODELS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 Using the Correlation Exponent to Decide Whether an Economic Series is Chaotic -- Summary -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CORRELATION EXPONENT TABLES -- 3. THE BDS TEST -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 Testing for Neglected Nonlinearity in Time Series Models -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE NEURAL NETWORK TEST -- 3. ALTERNATIVE TESTS -- 3.1 The Keenan, Tsay, and Ramsey RESET Tests -- 3.2 The White Dynamic Information Matrix Test -- 3.3 The McLeod and Li Test , 3.4 The BDS Test -- 3.5 The Bispectrum Test -- 4. THE SIMULATION DESIGN -- 4.1 Block1 -- 4.2 Block2 -- 4.3 Bivariate Models -- 5. RESULTS OF THE SIMULATION -- 6. TESTS ON ACTUAL ECONOMIC TIME SERIES -- 7. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 Modeling Nonlinear Relationships Between Extended-Memory Variables -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BALANCE OF AN EQUATION WITH SIMPLE NONLINEARITY -- 3. ALTERNATIVE DEFINITIONS OF EXTENDED MEMORY -- 4. TESTING FOR LINEARITY -- 5. NONLINEAR MODELING -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10 Semiparametric Estimates of the Relation Between Weather and Electricity Sales -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION MODEL -- 3. THE DATA AND SOME MODIFICATIONS -- 4. RESULTS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART FOUR METHODOLOGY -- CHAPTER 11 Time Series Modeling and Interpretation -- Summary -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE SUM OF TWO INDEPENDENT SERIES -- 3. SERIES AGGREGATION AND OBSERVATIONAL ERROR MODELS -- 4. TIME AGGREGATION, NON-INTEGER LAGS AND FEEDBACK MODELS -- 5. REALIZABILITY OF SIMPLE MODELS -- 6. SIMULATION OF OBSERVATION ERROR MODELS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12 On the Invertibility of Time Series Models -- 1. A DEFINITION OF INVERTIBILITY -- 2. LINEAR MODELS -- 3. A CLASS OF NON-INVERTIBLE MODELS -- 4. BILINEAR MODELS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13 Near Normality and Some Econometric Models -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14 The Time Series Approach to Econometric Model Building -- 1. TWO PHILOSOPHIES -- 2. NONSENSE REGRESSIONS -- 3. PREWHITENING -- 4. BUILDING BIVARIATE FEEDBACK MODELS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER 15 Comments on the Evaluation of Policy Models -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE CONTROL MECHANISM -- 2.1 Test 1 -- 2.2 Test 2 -- 2.3 Test 3 -- 2.4 Test 4 -- 2.5 Test 5 -- 2.6 Test 6 -- 2.7 Discussion -- 3. AN APPLICATION TO A MODEL OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE , 4. AN APPLICATION TO TWO MODELS OF THE DEMAND FOR BORROWED RESERVES -- 5. AN APPLICATION TO A MODEL FOR THE DEMAND FOR NARROW MONEY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- 6. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX. DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16 Implications of Aggregation with Common Factors -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COMMON FACTORS, INDIVIDUAL FACTORS, AND MODEL SIMPLIFICATION -- 3. AN EXAMPLE: THE ARBITRAGE PRICING THEORY MODEL -- 4. EXPECTATIONS -- 5. SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 6. SUMMING UP -- APPENDIX: NONLINEAR MODELS -- REFERENCES -- PART FIVE FORECASTING -- CHAPTER 17 Estimating the Probability of Flooding on a Tidal River -- Abstract -- MATHEMATICAL THEORY -- PROBABILITY OF FLOODING AT GAINSBOROUGH -- Introduction -- Correlation Between Tides and Flow Over the Year -- The Distribution of Tide Heights -- Distribution of Flows -- Flood-Producing Flow/Tide Combinations -- The Probabilities of High Flows Occurring -- Final Results and Conclusion -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX -- Statistical Concepts Used in the Paper -- CHAPTER 18 Prediction with a Generalized Cost of Error Function -- INTRODUCTION -- QUADRATIC ERROR COST AND THE GAUSSIAN PROCESS -- LINEAR COST FUNCTION -- GENERAL SYMMETRIC COST FUNCTIONS -- NON-SYMMETRIC COST FUNCTIONS -- SOME PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE RESULTS -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- Proofs of two Theorems -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19 Some Comments on the Evaluation of Economic Forecasts -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. UNIVARIATE TIME SERIES PREDICTION -- 3. COST FUNCTIONS -- 4. RANKING FORECASTS ON A LEAST SQUARES BASIS -- 5. FORECAST EFFICIENCY -- 6. HOW GOOD IS A PARTICULAR SET OF FORECASTS? -- 7. DIAGNOSTIC CHECKS ON FORECAST PERFORMANCE -- 8. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20 The Combination of Forecasts -- INTRODUCTION -- CHOICE OF METHOD FOR DETERMINING WEIGHTS -- DESIRABLE PROPERTIES OF METHODS , 6. TRULY CHAOTIC MODELS , PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT METHODS -- MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO METHODS -- COMBINING FORECASTS FROM THE OUTSET -- COMMENTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- A1 Combining an Arithmetic and a Logarithmic Forecast -- A2 The Relationship Between the Combined Forecast Variance and the Variances of the Original Forecast Errors -- A3 The Distribution of... -- A4 Results of Combining Forecasts of the Airline Passenger Data -- Brown -- Box-Jenkins -- Harrison -- Constant -- Changing -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 21 Invited Review Combining Forecasts - Twenty Years Later -- Abstract -- THE BEGINNINGS -- SIMPLE EXTENSIONS -- FURTHER EXTENSIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 22 The Combination of Forecasts Using Changing Weights -- Abstract -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SWITCHING REGRESSION MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE COMBINATION OF FORECASTS -- 3. COMBINING FORECASTS USING SWITCHING REGRESSION MODELS -- 3.1 Switching Regression Models in Which the Regime is Indicated by the Lagged Forecast Error -- 3.2 Switching Regression Models in Which the Regime is Indicated by an Economically Relevant Variable -- 4. SMOOTH TRANSITION REGRESSION MODELS -- 5. A FURTHER EMPIRICAL EXAMPLE -- 6. A COMPARISON OF THE IN-SAMPLE AND OUT-OF-SAMPLE PERFORMANCE OF THE ALTERNATIVE COMBINING METHODS -- 7. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 23 Forecasting Transformed Series -- Summary -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AUTOCORRELATION PROPERTIES OF TRANSFORMED SERIES: THE STATIONARY CASE -- 3. AUTOCORRELATION PROPERTIES OF TRANSFORMED SERIES: INTEGRATED PROCESSES -- 4. FORECASTING TRANSFORMED VARIABLES -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- Properties of Hermite Polynomials -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 24 Forecasting White Noise -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CAUSAL VARIABLES -- 3. INSTANTANEOUS TRANSFORMATIONS -- 4. BILINEAR MODELS -- 5. NORMED MARKOV CHAINS

Additional Edition: Print version Granger, Clive W. J. Essays in Econometrics: Volume 1, Spectral Analysis, Seasonality, Nonlinearity, Methodology, and Forecasting New York : Cambridge University Press,c2001 ISBN 9780521772976

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Format: 1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780195147766 , 9780198033707

Content: This book is the first full length work in forty years on the history of early American banking. It reveals new interpretations of early banking practices and why there was a need to change and progress with the times. This volume compares early banking with today's more advanced economic theory. Each section contains valuable research as well as contemporary findings and interpretations

Note: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Establishment and Governance of the Antebellum Bank -- 3. Banking Theory and Banking Practice in Antebellum America -- 4. New England: Small Banks and Familial Ties -- 5. The Rise and Fall of the Suffolk System -- 6. Middle Atlantic: Conservatism and Experimentation -- 7. New York's Safety Fund System: America's First Bank Insurance Experiment -- 8. Free Banking: The Populist Revolt Takes Root in New York -- 9. Banking in the South and West: Banks and the Commonweal -- 10. Property Banking, Free Banking, and Branch Banking -- 11. Assessing America's Early Banks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Additional Edition: Print version Bodenhorn, Howard State Banking in Early America New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2002 ISBN 9780195147766

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Format: 544 pages , richly illustrated (chiefly colour), maps , 30 x 23 cm

ISBN: 9780810942530 , 0810942534

Content: "From ancient Egyptian royal cemeteries to great 18th-century English estates and the earth works of today, this volume spans the history of landscape design, revealing a great deal about the development of societies, and how cities, parks and gardens embody cultural values."

Content: "This volume presents a history of the ways in which human beings have shaped the landscape at cult sites, in cities and on great private estates, from prehistoric times to the present, throughout the world. The book considers what the evolution of the design of the landscape reveals about the development of society and culture, examining famous cities, palaces and parks, as well as lesser-known designed landscapes, and even sites now vanished from around the world. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, drawings and plans, the book leads the reader through ancient cities, palatial gardens and magnificent sanctuaries. Also covered are: the royal cemeteries of ancient Egypt; the superb temples of ancient Greece and Rome; the magnificent gardens of Renaissance and Baroque Europe and the Far East; the great public parks of the late 19th century; and some of the most exciting avant-garde gardens and earth works of the present day."

Note: FOREWORD THE SHAPING OF SPACE; THE MEANING OF PLACE MAGIC, MYTH, AND NATURE: LANDSCAPES OF PREHISTORIC, EARLY ANCIENT, AND CONTEMPORARY PEOPLES I. CAVES AND CIRCLES: Sustaining Life and Discerning Cosmic Order II. ARCHITECTURAL MOUNTAINS AND THE EARTH'S FIRST CITIES: Landscape as Urban Power in Early Ancient Civilizations III. RITUAL AND LANDSCAPE IN PREHISTORIC GREECE: Earth Goddess and the Mighty Lords IV COSMOLOGY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF THE AMERICAS: Spirits of Earth and Sky NATURE, ART, AND REASON: LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD I. GODS AND HUMANS: The New Contract with Nature II. POLIS AND ACROPOLIS: City and Temple in the Greek Landscape III. EMPIRE: Hellenism and Roman Urbanism IV GARDEN AND VILLA: The Art of Landscape in Ancient Rome VISIONS OF PARADISE: LANDSCAPE DESIGN AS SYMBOL AND METAPHOR I. PARADISE AS A LITERARY TOPOS: Gardens of God and Gardens of Love II. PARADISE ON EARTH: The Islamic Garden III. PARADISE CONTAINED: Walled Cities and Walled Gardens of the European Middle Ages CLASSICISM REBORN: LANDSCAPE IDEALS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY AND FRANCE I. PETRARCH, ALBERTI, AND COLONNA: Humanism and the Landscape II. BRAMANTE AND THE REDISCOVERY OF AXIAL PLANNING: Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Italy III. AXIAL PLANNING ON AN URBAN SCALE: The Development of Renaissance Rome IV CURRENTS OF FASHION: The Transformation of the Italian Garden in France V THE EVOLUTION OF FRENCH URBANIZATION AND GARDEN STYLE: Paris in the Time of Henry IV POWER AND GLORY: THE GENIUS OF LE NOTRE AND THE GRANDEUR OF THE BAROQUE I. THE MAKING OF VAUX-LE-VICOMTE AND VERSAILLES: Andre Le Notre II. THE GARDEN AS THEATER: Italian Baroque and Rococo Gardens EXPANDING HORIZONS: COURT AND CITY IN THE EUROPEAN GRAND MANNER I. FRENCH AND ITALIAN EXPORTS: The Application of Classical and Baroque Design Principles to Gardens in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Beyond II. THE HEROIC CITY: Expressions of Classical and Baroque Urbanism III. NATURE'S PARADISE: America in the Colonial and Federal Periods SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: LANDSCAPES OF THE AGE OF REASON, ROMANTICISM, AND REVOLUTION I. THE GENIUS OF THE PLACE: Forging a New Landscape Style Through Literature, Art, and Theory II. LEAPING THE FENCE: The Transformation of the English Landscape into a Pastoral Idyll with Political Meaning III. REMAKING ENGLAND: Capability Brown, Professional Improver IM NATURE'S CANVAS: English Philosophers and Practitioners of the Picturesque V LANDSCAPES OF MORAL VIRTUE AND EXOTIC FANTASY: The French Picturesque VI. DESIGNING NATURE's GARDEN: The Landscapes of Thomas Jefferson VII. THE LANDSCAPE OF MIND AND SOUL: Goethe and Wordsworth NATURE AS MUSE THE GARDENS OF CHINA AND JAPAN I. MOUNTAINS, LAKES, AND ISLANDS: Intimations of Immortality in the Chinese Garden II. TEA, Moss, AND STONES: Temple and Palace Gardens of Japan EXPANDING CITIES AND NEW SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN I. BOTANICAL SCIENCE, THE GARDENESQUE STYLE, AND PEOPLE'S PARKS: Landscape Design in Vitorian England II. REDEFINING RURAL AMERICA: The Influence of Andrew Jackson Downing III. HONORING HISTORY AND REPOSE FOR THE DEAD: Commemorative Landscapes and Rural Cemeteries IV THE NEW METROPOLIS: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as Park Builders and City Planners INDUSTRIAL AGE CIVILIZATION: BIRTH OF THE MODERN CITY, BEAUX-ARTS AMERICA, AND NATIONAL PARKS I. HAUSSMANN'S PARIS: Birth of the Modern City II. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL: Monumental Urbanism in Beaux-Arts America III. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: The National Park System LANDSCAPE AS AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT AND THE REVIVAL OF THE FORMAL GARDEN I. MODERNITY CHALLENGED: Ruskin's Influence, the Past Revalued, and Italy's Long Shadow II. THE EDWARDIAN AND POST-EDWARDIAN ENGLISH GARDEN: Aristocracy's Golden Afternoon and Twilight III. DESIGN SYNTHESIS: The End of the American Country Place Era SOCIAL UTOPIAS: MODERNISM AND REGIONAL PLANNING I. URBAN EXPANSION: Town Planningfor the Machine Age in Britain and Continental Europe II. GREENBELT TOWNS OR SUBURBS?: Creating the American Metropolis A NEW LANDSCAPE AESTHETIC: THE MODERNIST GARDEN I. TRANSITIONAL EXPERIMENTATION: Design Idioms of the Early Twentieth Century II. ABSTRACT ART AND THE FUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPE: Gardensfor Moder Living HOME, COMMERCE, AND ENTERTAINMENT: LANDSCAPES OF CONSUMERISM I. A HOME FOR THE FAMILY: The Landscape of Suburbia II. COMMERCE AND ENTERTAINMENT: Shopping Malls and Theme Parks HOLDING ON AND LETTING GROW: LANDSCAPE AS PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION, ART, SPORT, AND THEORY I. PRESERVING THE PAST: Place as Heritage, Identity, Tourist Landscape, and New Urbanist Community II. CONSERVING NATURE: Landscape Design as Environmental Science and Art III. EARTHWORKS, GOLF COURSES, PHILOSOPHICAL MODELS, AND POETIC METAPHORS: Landscape as Art Form, Sport, Deconstructivism, and Phenomenology THE WEAVING OF PLACE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF FLOWS: LANDSdAPE AS BODILY EXPERIENCE AND VERNACULAR EXPRESSION I. BODY AND SPACE: The Weaving of Place II. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: The Loom of Landscape

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Keywords: Case studies

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Format: 1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780816691012

Content: Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial, he is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately serious writer. In this new collection, Sorkin reviews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the past decade. From New York to New Delhi, from Shanghai to Cairo, Sorkin offers a sweeping assessment of the impact of globalization, environmental degradation, electronic media, rapid growth, and the legacies of modernist planning

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Cities/Places -- Eleven Tasks for Urban Design -- Branding Space -- Times Square: Status Quo Vadis -- Round and Round -- Cranes over TriBeCa -- Big Deal -- A Passage through India -- Instrumental Cities -- Containing Cairo -- Second Nature -- Millennium in Vegas -- Acting Urban -- Notes on Vibe -- Phoenix Rising -- Remembering the Future -- Part II. Architects/Buildings -- Animating Space -- Siza the Day -- The Borders of Islamic Architecture -- Filming Wright -- Inside the Biosphere -- Come and Getty -- Habitat and After -- MOR Is Less -- Far, Far AwAIA -- Amazing Archigram -- Admitting the Fold -- Forms of Attachment -- Airport 98 -- No Sex Please, We're British -- How French Is It? -- Upstairs, Downstairs -- Part III. Misfits -- Container Riff -- Family Values -- The Second Greatest Generation -- War Is Swell -- Genius Loco: A Success Story -- Publication Information

Additional Edition: Print version Sorkin, Michael Some Assembly Required Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c2001 ISBN 9780816634828

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