9780805023527 - A Good Place to Live: America's Last Migration [Idioma Inglés] de Pindell, Terry (18 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Stated First Edition. Light Soiling To The Jacket, Binding Is Crisp And Pages Are Clean. "A Good Place To Live Is His Exploration Of Place And Community In A Nation Where People Have Never Stopped Moving In Their Efforts To Discover And Create.

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Hard Back. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition First Printing Stated. 417 Pages Indexed. Dust jacket price $27.50 is unclipped. After living for twenty years in a picture-book new England town envied for its autumn maples and Currier-and-Ives snowfalls, Terry Pindell sensed something missing in his community and set out to find it. What he soon discovered was that he was participating in a widespread contemporary phenomenon. Everywhere he went he met people escaping from a variety of environments: crime-ridden, suffocating small owns, stultifying suburbs. The great surprise to him was that initially everyone seemed to be headed for the same handful of places, and he became fascinated with the 'return to the center' offered in these locales--cities and towns in which a sense of community was paramount. This is his exploration of place and community in a nation where people have never stopped moving in their efforts to discover and create the two. Pindell embarks on the journey we all would like to take, identifying sixteen of his favorite places and speaking with fellow migrants and city planners about creating a good place to live. He looks at the void so common in Anyplace U.S.A., a lack of the kind of gathering places other societies are buildt around. He finds home seekers who have realized they don't have to choose between natural and cultural amenities and describes those people who are engineering the re-creation of communities with a heart, a focal point, and a strong, unique, often idiosyncratic sense of place. He discovers people who convince him that they have found and nurtured a good place to live. Here are the fourteen cities: Santa Fe, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Williamette Valley, Puget Sound, Southern British Columbia, Missoula, Minneapolis, Ithaca, Brulington, Portsmouth, Charlottesville, Asheville, and Wilmington. Plus epilogue Lessons of the Pioneers, Appendix and Bibliography.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Binding Tight Very Minor Underlining Wraps Worn. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Henry Holt & Co, 1995. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with shefl and edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good -. First Edition. (1995), 413pp, 1st ed., 1st printing, light shflwear to cover, slight soiling & edgewear to dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Dust jacket price clipped. No markings to text block. No marks of personal identification.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hard cover. Condición: Fine in very good dust jacket. First edition. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 413 p. Audience: General/trade.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine condition. First edition, first printing.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Condición: Near Fine/VG+. 1st. 8vo. 413pp.

Condición: Near Fine/VG+. 1st. 8vo. 413pp. Signed by the author: Inscribed "To Jan (15 word inscription), Terry. Pindell" Light ring stain on front of DJ.

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over white boards, gilt lettering on spine. "For three years, Pindell (Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey) traversed North America, visiting several mostly small cities he views as good places to live. His report, he says, is "surprisingly good news," and it also makes good reading for both questers and those merely wondering about what makes for "place" in the '90s. In Santa Fe, his first stop, he fine-tuned his criteria, which are different from the standard tables of schools, taxes and crime: they include walkability, the presence of "third places" like coffee houses, a mix of cultural and natural amenities and a sense of local identity. Pindell's curiosity and engaging style, combined with reflections on his native New Hampshire, overcome the occasional superficiality of his reports. In San Luis Obispo, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, he finds a unique chamber of commerce devoted to preservation "not only of lands but of buildings," while in Bellingham, Wash., he sees the only Seattle suburb surviving the Long Islandization of the region. He discovers pockets of cosmopolitanism in writerly Missoula, Mont., and Wilmington, N.C., a filmmaking center. While Ithaca, N.Y., seems a fractured town, Burlington, Vt., is the most civil place he's visited. He concludes by assessing the preconditions for livable cities and reflecting that the voices of urban critics like Jane Jacobs and Howard Mumford, who stressed that cityscapes should provide mixed-use zoning and downtown living, still echo." - Publisher's Weekly . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition other than minor shelf-wear; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi, (ii), 413 pp.

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