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1) NW: a novel
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"Four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan - try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end."--From publisher's information.
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From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress...
3) Hot shot
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"Loyalty is a way of life for the Sisterhood and their significant others. When lawyer Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is left critically injured after being shot by an unknown assailant, the men of BOLO Consultants head straight for Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie--and to uncover a dangerous enemy in the City of Sin. As head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies. Yet the shooting seems to be related to one of his private projects....
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"Adina Gellar is fed up with her hometown of NYC-the high cost, the constant competition, the never-satisfied men. She longs for a sweet, simple small-town romance like she sees in her favorite TV movies. So when Adina hears about a real estate developer creating a big condo monstrosity in Pleasant Hollow, a tiny town in the Hudson Valley, she follows her journalistic instincts straight to the source, sure that she'll find a David vs. Goliath scandal...
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"A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager...
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Melody Mountain Ranch is a gated, planned, suburban heaven for everyone but interior designer Hope Jordan. As Hope struggles through the letdown of several unsuccessful fertility treatments, her cul-de-sac neighbors Will Pierce-Cohn, a stay-at-home dad and community activist; Frank Griffin, a minister-cum-homeowners' board president; and Tim Trautman, a soon-to-be father of five, jockey for her attentions. When Hope has a few too many cocktails and...
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Presents the way Olmsted and Vaux used the principles to achieve their design goals and to produce an experience or feeling related to the landscape : following the design principes of choreography of views, preservation and enhancement of natural features, provisions for open space, and the fostering of improved health and convenience.
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Presents the way Olmsted and Vaux used the principles to achieve their design goals and to produce an experience or feeling related to the landscape : following the design principes of choreography of views, preservation and enhancement of natural features, provisions for open space, and the fostering of improved health and convenience.
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Presents the way Olmsted and Vaux used the principles to achieve their design goals and to produce an experience or feeling related to the landscape : following the design principes of choreography of views, preservation and enhancement of natural features, provisions for open space, and the fostering of improved health and convenience.
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Presents the way Olmsted and Vaux used the principles to achieve their design goals and to produce an experience or feeling related to the landscape : following the design principes of choreography of views, preservation and enhancement of natural features, provisions for open space, and the fostering of improved health and convenience.
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"In the early 1960's Robert Simon had a vision for American life that was radically different from 1950's post-war suburban sprawl. Simon dreamed of "another way of living" that valued community, nature, diversity and social equity. This innovative planner set out to build a new kind of walkable suburban community that integrated citizens across racial, economic, and religious divides. Inspired by the hill towns of Italy, Simon's ambitious vision...
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