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bibliography biography Educational films. Internet videos. Juvenile works. Videorecording.Sedlak, David L.
Summary: "Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 SEDBinelli, Mark.
Summary: "The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2012
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 307.1 BINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1216 BINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.1216 BINGornick, Vivian.
Summary: "A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GORNICK, VIVIAN GORKaner, Etta.
Summary: A tour of some of the world's greenest structures
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Design KanerSummary: Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit's most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods, although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in financial distress. Through interviews with and essays by residents;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 ThanksLynn, Robin.
Contents: "The Lungs" / James Huneker (1914) -- Along the Water's Edge -- Manhattan. Historic Battery Park ; Battery Park City ; East River Waterfront ; Hudson River Park and Riverside Park South ; Riverside Park ; Riverbank State Park ; West Harlem Piers Park -- Brooklyn. Brooklyn Bridge Park ; Williamsburg Waterfront ; Erie Basin Park ; Newton Creek Nature Walk -- Queens. Gantry Plaza State Park --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 LYNContents: The Art and Science of Architecture (2:47) -- Urban Architecture (1:43) -- Rural Architecture (1:11) -- A Village in New Jersey (2:08) -- Corporate Architecture (1:22) -- Unconventional Projects (1:55) -- Private Home Design (1:18) -- Urban Development (1:30) -- A Career in Architecture (1:50) -- Personalities and Working Styles (2:13) -- Studying Architecture (2:02) -- Professional Licensing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006