From Sun Cities to the Villages
Author: Judith Ann Trolander
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780813045559
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From Sun Cities to the Villages
Author: Judith Ann Trolander
Publisher:
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813044484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Youngtown, Arizona, opened in 1954 and was the first development community to have a minimum age requirement (then 65) and to ban underage children as permanent residents. The developer Del Webb unveiled Sun City six years later. Adjacent to Yountown, it offered modest homes abutting a golf course. In the ensuing decades, active adult communities have proliferated, including Harold Schwartz's The Villages in central Florida, today [America's] largest retirement community. For nearly sixty years, the success of these and similar communities has changed the image of retirees from frail, impoverished old people to energetic, well-off adults enjoying a resort-like lifestyle. While some experts predicted these communities would fail or undermine the obligations between generations, they are now firmly embedded as one possible extension of the American Dream. Judith Ann Trolander's study of the "active adult" lifestyle focuses specifically on how the development of age-restricted communities has redefined the sense of self-identity among the elderly; changed the popular image of retirees; called attention to attitudes of the elderly toward children; popularized golf-course, gated, and amenity-rich developments; and made this new, age-restricted lifestyle affordable or accessible to large numbers of retirees - some of whom may actually continue working. Examining the origins, development, failures, and challenges facing these communities as the baby boomer population continues to age, Trolander offers a truly original defense of a sometimes controversial aspect of American life."--Book cover.
High Life
Author: Matthew Gordon Lasner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0300164084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City's first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.
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The Story of a Sun Village
Author: Çetin Göksu
Publisher: Cosmo Publishing Company
Published: 2019-08-21
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 194987219X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Güneş, Gök, Doğa, Su and Ay, a group of five young graduates fresh out of university, who have reunited in their out-of-the-way Anatolian village high in the Caucuses, set out on an adventure that will change not only their lives but that of their rural community, for ever. On a journey that takes them into the remote forests and mountains above their quiet Anatolian home, they confront many challenges and quite a few scary moments before finally arriving at the Mysterious Garden of the Sun. While there, they meet some extraordinary characters who teach them about all about a lost civilisation that enables people to live in harmony with nature and the ancient Anatolian philosophy of the sun… a way of life that their country has virtually forgotten…
Magic Lands
Author: John M. Findlay
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-09-22
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0520084357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes—Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair—John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts. In 1954, Walt Disney began building the world's first theme park, using Hollywood's movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment, but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nation's prototypical "research park" and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley. In 1960, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Del E. Webb built Sun City, the largest, most influential retirement community in the United States. Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and provided a futuristic, somewhat fanciful vision of modern life. These four became "magic lands" that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle, they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.
Organizing Age
Author: Stephen Fineman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0199578044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an accessibly-written critical introduction to the role of age in and beyond organizations, providing insights into the history of age, the social construction and politics of age, age stratification, and age discrimination.
In the Land of Good Living
Author: Kent Russell
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0525521380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate." In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: "America Concentrate") seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul. The journey, with two friends intent on filming the ensuing mayhem, quickly reduces the trio to filthy drifters pushing a shopping cart of camera equipment. They get waylaid by a concerned citizen bearing a rifle; buy cocaine from an ex-wrestler; visit a spiritual medium. The narrative overflows with historical detail about how modern Florida came into being after World War II, and how it came to be a petri dish for life in a suddenly, increasingly diverse new land of minority-majority cities and of unrivaled ethnic and religious variety. Russell has taken it all in with his incomparably focused lens and delivered a book that is both an inspired travelogue and a profound rumination on the nation's soul--and his own. It is a book that is wildly vivid, encyclopedic, erudite, and ferociously irreverent--a deeply ambivalent love letter to his sprawling, brazenly varied home state.
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A New Beginning in the City of the Sun
Author: Jaspal Dinesh Bhaskara
Publisher: tredition
Published: 2021-10-22
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 3347328213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Be a seeker and discover the wisdom of the past! This book is an overwhelming adventure full of great solutions. You will learn what spiritual development really means and what unique abilities you and other people can achieve with devotion and a pure heart. Experience how human civilization can be rebuilt after a legendary flood. Accompany five young people on their risky adventures on their inner path. Immerse yourself with them in a deeper knowledge of ancient scriptures and get an extraordinary insight into life, its dynamic challenges and how you can master them in a friendly and peaceful way. Reviews: "The topic is gripping, the explanations extremely informative." "The whole thing was fascinating, excitingly structured and captivating." "This novel brings together myths and philosophies from various ancient civilizations in a fresh and entertaining way."
