The Hegemann Report (1915), which resulted in the implementation of much of the Robinson Plan and included a regional vision for connecting to Berkeley and.The Robinson Plan, which emphasized civic infrastructure but was not implemented (1906).The Kellersberger survey and grid (1852).Here, we explore the early history of downtown Oakland through four key plans that shaped the place: Several of those topics will be explored in future articles in The Urbanist. Features such as the harbor, railroads, highways, BART and the scars of urban renewal have all left important legacies that affect the city today. So we decided to look at the planning history of its downtown, and to focus on decisions and plans that influenced the urban form and structure of downtown from the 1850s until just before WWII. And a successful downtown provides revenue for public services and opportunities to a city’s residents. It is the place of greatest density and the focus of its transit network. Most notably, downtown is where the city began. The underlying urban form of downtown was established shortly after the town’s founding: a basic grid that begins at today’s Jack London Square and extends north.Īs we launch our work in Oakland, SPUR is focusing initially on downtown for a number of reasons. Downtown Oakland began as a small town set in the midst of oak groves that grew along the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay.
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The Ocean at the end of the Lane is a mythological representation of fantasy and reality of childhood imagination. The narrator's memory plays a pivotal role in showing juxtaposes of a child's point of view to distinguish illusion perception of the truth from reality. Gaiman uses a symbolic representation of the narrator's parents as a symbolic representation of adult perspective and the reality of situations. A majority of the story's recounts shows the existence of illusion, mystery, and exaggerations in a child's way of thinking that resides different meaning from an adult's perspective of reality. The narrator's mind transverses from his memory to his present adulthood demonstrating the recounted description long after the occurrences, thus it bases the arguments from memory. Gaiman presents the main character in his piecework without making any formal identification his name does not appear throughout the narration. YA)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. Plausible science fiction with a frighteningly realistic reminder of recent tragedies here and abroad. Death is a constant threat, and Pfeffer instills despair right to the end but is cognizant to provide a ray of hope with a promising conclusion. Miranda’s daily litany of cutting firewood, rationing canned meals, short tempers flaring in a one-room confinement is offset by lots of heart-to-heart talks about life and its true significance with her mother, older brother and religiously devout best friend. Pfeffer paints a gruesome and often depressing drama as conditions become increasingly difficult and dangerous with the dwindling of public and private services. Miranda’s American teen view gradually alters as personal security, physical strength and health become priorities. The change in the moon’s gravitational pull begins to cause natural havoc around the globe in the form of catastrophic tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes and other weather-related disasters. Sixteen-year-old Miranda begins a daily ten-month diary documenting the survival ordeal her rural Pennsylvania family endures when a large meteor’s collision with the moon brings on destruction of the modern world and all its technological conveniences. I can also tell you another thing: in 1962, a year after her book came out, the city council in Copenhagen closed one kilometer of the main street and turned it into a car-free street. They were reacting to the motor car invasion. And what was overlooked was how all this influenced people’s lives. We looked at that and thought: there’s something wrong here, something must have been overlooked. We were incensed to see how traffic was ruining the cities and how insensitive architects and planners were putting up suburbs and modernistic residential areas in concrete blocks. My wife and I had started to study how the built form influenced people’s behavior. But her book was highly inspiring, especially in relation to my research. I only learned to know fear in 1972, when I visited North America for the first time. I can remember my enormous surprise that the first chapter was on sidewalk safety, because that was not an issue in this part of Europe at that time. And throughout her essays, Roy interrogates her own roles as "writer" and "activist." Desperately working against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homeland and Pakistan, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. demands for a war on Iraq, Roy confronts the call to militarism. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat, India, to U.S. Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. War Talk collects new essays by this prolific writer. Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan -Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks of September 11, 2001, Roy challenged those who equate dissent with being "anti-American." Her previous essays on globalization and dissent have led many to see Roy as "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence" ( New York Times). The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel. As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. Her will bequeathes this fortune to her three children, who all believe her to be delusional. A lineage and legacy that makes her extremely wealthy. However, Bertha Baumgartner swears to an ancestral background rooted in Vienna, Austria. Locally, the “Baroness” is known as a cleaning woman of modest means. Gamache, Myrna Lander, the village bookseller, and a young builder are all summoned to an abandoned farmhouse at the request of deceased Bertha “Baroness” Baumgartner to be the executors of her will. The first story line begins as a Three Pines local mystery. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, six months into his suspension from the Surete du Quebec, finds himself involved in two separate criminal investigations. For Penny fans, this read will be a welcome return to Three Pines, an inviting Quebeec village, and to its inhabitants. But a friend sent me an ARC so I feel the need to write a more reasoned review and I wanted another chance to take my time with the book anyway. In my zeal to read a new book by Sarah Addison Allen, I found that I had inhaled this book in two sittings. When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment on an island outside of Charleston she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors, including a girl on the run, two estranged middle-aged sisters, a lonely chef, a legendary writer, and three ghosts. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning old cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe, and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. An enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go.īetween the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Although the authorities and the other guests pressure Archie into changing his story, Nero Wolfe believes him and decides to settle the matter by solving the case himself. Archie promises to watch over her, but towards the end of the evening Faith collapses and dies from cyanide poisoning after drinking a glass of champagne.Īlone of the guests, Archie maintains that Faith Usher did not commit suicide, claiming that he observed her constantly throughout the evening and that she never had an opportunity to pour the cyanide from her bottle into her glass. During the dinner, Archie learns from one of the unwed mothers that another, Faith Usher, has a bottle of cyanide in her purse Faith has been suffering from depression, and her friend fears that she might attempt suicide. Robilotti's being a former client of Nero Wolfe's who bears him a personal dislike. Byne claims to have a cold and is unable to attend although skeptical, Archie agrees to stand in for him, despite Mrs. Byne routinely acts as a chaperone for an annual dinner hosted by his aunt, Louise Grantham Robilotti, which is given in honour of four young unwed mothers living at Grantham House, a charity supported by her late husband. Archie, missing a dancing partner as good as Celia Grantham, in Champagne for One, chapter 3.Īrchie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor.Īrchie Goodwin receives a phone call from an acquaintance, Austin "Dinky" Byne, asking for a favour. Wife, Margaret, he spent many summers in Gueures, in the Married Marie-Ernestine Lalanne they divorced in 1895. Leblanc's first novel, enjoyed only a moderate success. Leblanc then studied law in Paris but abandoned business career toīecome a pulp crime writer and police reporter for French periodicalsĪnd newspapers, such as Figaro, Gil Blas, and Echo de Paris. In Rouen, in Germany (Berlin) and Italy, he worked for the family firm. When the war ofġ870 broke out, Maurice was six. At the age ofįour the young Maurice was saved from a burning house. Of Italian ancestry, and Blance Brohy she died in 1885. He was the second child of Emile Leblanc, who was Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was born in Rouen into a wealthyĪnd cultured family. Himself has invented" ( The Exploits of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc, 1907, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos originally published in French in 1907 as Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur, 1907 ) Heartily at the comic dialogue and diverting situations which he Thoroughly enjoys his own plays and who stands in the wings laughing He gave the impression of a dramatist who Lupin was aįorerunner of Simon Templar (the Saint) andīut also for his amusement. Was written for periodical Je sais tout in 1905. Time in the crime story 'L'arrestation d'Arsène Lupin,' which Was a very prolific writer – he published over 60 novels and short A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĬreator of Arsène Lupin, master of disguises, the French As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now." From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights-or with each other. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.Įxploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. |