605 color images show the wide variety and creative ways balusters and columns were used to enhance the homes in historic Oak Bluffs and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. This photo archive of ornate Victorian details will assist in the restoration of campground cottages. Restorers of old homes, preservationists, students of architecture, and admirers of Victorian style will find this a valuable resource and use these photos to restore, preserve, or even recreate the embellishments.

Beautiful hand-wrought iron gates, grilles, architectural details, and fireplace equipment feature scrollwork and floral embellishments, from many ancient towns in Italy. Medieval and rococo elements are plentiful. 487 full-page, black and white photographs illuminate details that will inspire blacksmiths and designers today. The original locations of the ironwork are identified in the text.

Urban and suburban growth is a burning local issue for communities across the United States and many other parts of the world. Concerns include protecting habitats, high costs of infrastructure, social inequalities, traffic congestion and more intangible worries about ?quality of life.? Citizens pressure public officials to intensify development re

Why do some cities grow and expand, while others dwindle and decline? Why is Milwaukee a town of the past, while Minneapolis?St. Paul seems reborn and infused with future dynamism? And what do Milwaukee and the Twin Cities have to tell us about other cities' prospects, the trials and destinies of industrial Cleveland and post-industrial Austin?Anth