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Summary: From the Publisher: In this important book, Dan Austin and Sean Doerr have restored the real people to many of Detroit's architectural landmarks, and not a moment too soon. These "lost" buildings still stand, or rather totter, in a dilapidated state, their histories fading like the paint on their walls. The buildings might not long survive, but thanks to this book and the efforts of Austin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 ThanksNorth, Tom (Thomas B.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.492 NORRaab, Scott
Summary: "The powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of never-before-seen color photos by the official site photographer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 RAAMoore, Andrew
Summary: No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Damiani Editore 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 MOOVanVulpen, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Rapids Historical Commission 1988
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.456 VANCall number: OVS 977.456 VANV
Skinner, Peter.
Summary: A collection of photos and articles about the history and construction of the massive World Trade Center, daily operations, and the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MetroBooks 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 725.23 SKIHarold, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.467 BuckleyBak, Richard
Contents: Eternal thanks -- Here and gone -- Boneyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.1 BAKSummary: Nearly twenty years in the making, this volume includes many of Detroit's most well-known churches, like Sainte Anne in Corktown, the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Boston-Edison, Saint Florian in Hamtramck, Mariners' Church on the riverfront, Saint Mary's in Greektown, and Central United Methodist Church downtown. The authors have incorporated information from publis resources,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 726.5 DETWertz, Julia
Summary: "Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974 WERHill, Eric J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 HILSharoff, Robert.
Summary: "In the 1910s and 1920s there was more steel going up in Detroit than anywhere outside of New York and Chicago. The result was the country's first high-tech metropolis, a city of lavish monuments and glittering skyscrapers." "The list of major architects who designed buildings for Detroit includes Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Stanford White, Daniel Burnham, Cass Gilbert, Albert Kahn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720.9774 SHAMorrison, Jeff (Jeffrey B.)
Summary: "Guardians of Michigan profiles the extraordinary architectural sculpture found in both the pleasant peninsulas of the Great Lakes State. Author Jeff Morrison spent years exploring Michigans largest cities and smallest towns, using telephoto photography to capture the sculptural details hidden from the naked eye, and researching the beautiful historic architecture he encountered. Organized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 729.09774 MorrisonPunter, Russell
Summary: "Join Kitty Kat on his journey across London. See the Crown Jewels, ride on the London Eye and even visit Buckingham Palace. Imaginative text accompanies spectacular illustrations in this captivating new version of the classic rhyme"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PUNArnaud, Michel
Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 ARNSobczak, John.
Summary: Product Description: This title contains photographs of the unique people, places, and events that make up a year in the life of Metropolitan Detroit. In "A Motor City Year", award-winning photographer John Sobczak captures everyday life in Metro Detroit in 365 images. His photographs showcase the familiar-the Thanksgiving Day parade in Detroit, vendors at Eastern Market, the Woodward Dream...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 SOBLester, Larry.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the various teams and players that spent time in the "Motor city." From the aftermath of the First World War, through the Jazz Age and Prohibition, the Great Depression, and through the 1950s, the history of the Negro Leagues parallels the history of Black America, from segregation to full inclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 LESEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Product Description: Amos Walker's Detroit visits dozens of unforgettable locations from Loren D. Estlemans Amos Walker series. As Estleman says of Detroit in the preface: It s a hard-boiled town, and the crumbling buildings and rusting railroad tracks of the warehouse district, the palaces across the limits in Grosse Pointe, and the black-hole shadows of the Cass Corridor were made to order...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Painted Turtle/Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 ESTSummary: Detroit is a city of stories. In this, we are rich. We begin with abundance. But while much is written about our city these hard days, it is typically meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Much of this writing is brilliant, but our anthology, this anthology, is different: it is a collection of Detroit stories for Detroiters. Through essays, photographs, poetry, and art, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rust Belt Chic Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DETRajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022