Waterfront Home Plans - I found this book difficult to read much less follow.
I found this book difficult to read much less follow. I have a great interest in “old” Hollywood and have read many books on the subject. This book would be at the bottom of the list.
Astonishing mistake in the Editorial Review above. That Natasha Fraser could be called a “French journalist” boggles the mind, since her father was the British M.P. Hugh Fraser, her mother is Lady Antonia Fraser herself daughter of the Earl and Countess of Longford , and her mother is married to Harold Pinter! Authors all.This woman comes from as distinguised a line of BRITISH authors as can be imagined.
Like their book on the Pan American Exposition, Leary and Sholes brought together historic photographs of Buffalo’s waterfront with an amazing array of information. Weaving together industrial history with recreation and other themes, they tell a fascinating story of a area generally ignored for its rough passage, its grit, and its harsh life. Who knew that so many people lived, worked, and died along the lake and river of Buffalo? Setting the lives of ordinary people next to the power of the industries that hired them and sometimes displaced them this book really brings home the importance of everyone’s history. I really liked that the authors told a lot of ‘hidden history’ and refuted some tired erroneous notions about Buffalo and about America. I hope everyone reads this book and learns the value of knowing the people and events of the lesser known parts of our history. It’s a great way to know where we came from.
I like this book because it show the poetic and the force on the meet between the land and the water For urban designers it show that to work in the situation and context is to work in the most important urban’s place because it there is public space
4 stars
