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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has traditionally
maintained very fruitful relationships with non-governmental
organizations. The editors want to emphasize here is the
significant role that these institutions play in designing and
implementing programs to promote the development of children and
women. This *book is an analysis of non-go
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has traditionally
maintained very fruitful relationships with non-governmental
organizations. The editors want to emphasize here is the
significant role that these institutions play in designing and
implementing programs to promote the development of children and
women. This *book is an analysis of non-go
“Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for,
what we stay for, what we hunger for”, wrote Charles Downing Lay,
prominent American landscape architect and planner of the early
1920s. These words are relevant today as density and congestion are
once again under siege, especially in our most productive and
thriving cities. Published in 1926, The Freedom of the City by
Charles Downing Lay is an eloquent and timely defence of urbanism
and city life. Award-winning author and urban historian Thomas J.
Campanella has given Lay’s text new life and relevance, with the
addition of explanatory notes, imagery, an introduction, and
biographical essay, to bring this important work to a new
generation of urbanists. Lay was decades ahead of his time, writing
The Freedom of the City as Americans were just beginning to fall in
love with the automobile and leave town for a romanticised life on
the suburban fringe. Planners and theorists were arguing that
heavily congested cities were a form of cancer, that great
metropolitan centres like London and New York City must be decanted
into a leafy “garden cities” in the countryside. Lay saved his
sharpest pen for these anti-urbanists in his own profession of city
and regional planning. Lay writes of the delights of city life and
– especially - that importance of the singular, essential
ingredient that makes it all possible: “congestion” (closest in
definition to “density” today). Congestion, to Lay, is the
secret sauce of cities, the singular element that gives London,
Paris, or New York its dynamism and magic. He believed that the
amenities and affordances of a city are “the direct result of its
great congestion”; indeed, congestion is “the life of the city.
Reduce it below a certain point and much of our ease and
convenience disappears. Campanella writes “for all his blind
spots, Lay's core argument still obtains. The Freedom of the City
was prescient in 1926 and timely now. Certainly, the essentials of
good urbanism extolled in the book- human scale, diversity,
walkability, the serendipities of the street; above all, density -
are articles of faith among architects and urbanists today.”
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Australian Markets For American Hardware; Issue 42 Of
Miscellaneous Series United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, William Charles Downs Govt. Print. Off., 1916 History;
Australia & New Zealand; Australia; Hardware; History /
Australia & New Zealand; History / Oceania; United States
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ The Fruits And Fruit-trees Of America: Cherries, Grapes,
Peaches, Pears, &c; Volume 2 Of The Fruits And Fruit-trees Of
America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, And Management, In The
Garden And Orchard, Of Fruit-trees Generally; With Descriptions Of
All The Finest Varieties Of Fruit, Native And Foreign, Cultivated
In This Country; Andrew Jackson Downing 2 Andrew Jackson Downing,
Charles Downing J. Wiley & Son, 1872 Fruit; Fruit-culture
With Descriptions Of All The Finest Varieties Of Fruit, Native And
Foreign, Cultivated In This Country.
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
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With His Reflections Thereon And His Resultant Conception Of His
World-Personality Inductively Established From His Text.
With His Reflections Thereon And His Resultant Conception Of His
World-Personality Inductively Established From His Text.
With Descriptions Of All The Finest Varieties Of Fruit, Native And
Foreign, Cultivated In This Country.
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