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Fodor's 25 best. Washington, D.C.
\"Top 25 Must-See Sights, Best bets for dining, lodging, sightseeing. Plus a full-color pullout map. Everything you need to experience Washington, D.C. Top lodging and dining picks for every budget; D.C.'s top attractions, from the museums of the Smithsonian Institution to the U.S. Capitol; Spectacular views of the city from the Kennedy Center and the Old Post Office Building Tower; Best itineraries covering Capitol Hill, the White House, and Dupont Circle; Excursions to Mount Vernon and Alexandria's Old Town in Virginia; Best attractions for children, from the local zoo to the National Air and Space Museum.\" -- (Source of summary not specified)
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The National Mall
The National Mall in Washington, D.C. is one of the most important and highly visible urban public spaces in the U.S. It is considered by many Americans to be “the nation’s front yard.” Yet few have written about the role of this public space in the twenty-first century.
In The National Mall , Lisa Benton-Short explores the critical issues that are redefining and reshaping this extraordinary public space. Her work focuses on three contemporary and interrelated debates about public space: the management challenges faced by federal authorities, increased demands for access and security post 9/11, and the role of the public in the Mall’s long-term planning and development plans. By taking a holistic view of the National Mall and analyzing the unique twenty-first century challenges it faces, Lisa Benton-Short provides a fluid, cohesive, and timely narrative that is as extraordinary as the Mall itself.
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Biking Uphill in the Rain
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United
States by Bicycling magazine. How did this notoriously
hilly and rainy city become so inviting to bicyclists? And what
challenges lie ahead for Puget Sound bike advocates? Tom Fucoloro,
a leading voice on bike issues in the region, blends his longtime
reporting with new interviews and archival research to tell the
story of how a flourishing bike culture emerged despite the
obstacles of climate, topography, and-most importantly-an
entrenched, car-centric urban landscape and culture. From the
arrival of the first bicycles in the late nineteenth century to the
bike-share entrepreneurs of the present day, the result is a unique
perspective on Seattle's history and its future. Advocates, policy
makers, city planners, and bike enthusiasts around the world can
learn plenty from the successes and failures of this city's past
130 years.
More than just a mode of transportation, the bicycle has been
used by generations of Seattleites as a tool for social change.
Biking Uphill in the Rain documents the people and
projects that made a difference and reveals just how deeply
intertwined transportation is with politics, public health, climate
change, and racial justice.
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Heartbreak City
To cities, sports have never been just entertainment.
Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics
to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial
justice, workers' rights, equality for women and LGBTQ+ city
dwellers, and environmental conservation. In Seattle, sports
initiatives have powered meaningful reforms, such as popular
stadium projects that promoted investments in public housing and
mass transit. At the same time, conservative forces also used
sports to consolidate their power and mobilize against the civic
good. In Heartbreak City Shaun Scott takes the reader
through 170 years of Seattle history, chronicling both well-known
and long-forgotten events, like the establishment of racially
segregated golf courses and neighborhoods in the regressive 1920s
and the 1987 Seahawks players' strike that galvanized organized
labor. At every step of the journey, he uncovers how sports have
both united Seattle in pursuit of triumph and revealed its most
profound political divides. Deep archival research and analysis
combine in this people's history of a great American city's quest
to become even greater-if only it could get out of its own way.
Heartbreak City was made possible in part by a grant from
4Culture's Heritage Program. A Michael J. Repass Book
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Insurrection
A profound analysis of the factors underlying the 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, arriving as the nation looks ahead to another tumultuous presidential election in 2024. Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington, DC's Capitol Building on that fateful day: January 6th, 2021. Going far beyond mere journalistic accounts, the book delves into structural trends within the United States, providing a broader and deeper context for comprehending the magnitude of the uprising. It explores the crisis of democracy, escalating violence, widening inequality, and the prominence of conspiratorial discourse within American politics. By examining both long-term issues as well as the tumultuous events of 2020, including the pandemic, policing challenges, and the fiercely contested presidential election, this book uncovers the catalysts behind conspiracy theories and the politics of outrage. This compelling narrative is essential reading for all those interested in the contemporary face of the United States.
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Resisting Garbage
Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today.Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’ environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this “weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.
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