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"Trains are trips. And trips are adventures. And adventures are new ideas and romance and you can't ever know what in the world will happen which is exactly why you are going." This is precisely the species of serendipity that bounces and leaps through the pages of Maira Kalman's picture book Next Stop Grand Central, a charming tribute to New York's Grand Central Station by the artist whose murals currently spice up the historic terminal. Kalman--brilliant creator of Max the millionaire poet dog in Ooh-la-la (Max in Love)--not only reflects the vibrant nature of the busy hub, she paints comical portraits of the folks behind the scenes who make it all happen: ("Etha delivers the mail--a letter to Mr. Pickle cannot go to Mr. Schnikle.") We're also introduced to the people who "zip and zap and whiz" through Grand Central as passengers: ("The woman with the blue pancake hat is going to Chinatown to buy Poo Nik Tea.") Snapshots of "things you'll see" in the terminal include someone waiting patiently, someone waiting impatiently, and someone looking up. Things you won't see? Einstein sailing and the pyramids of Giza. Next Stop Grand Central is a compassionate, quirky view of a cross-section of humanity--and that, Kalman seems to be saying, is what Grand Central Station is all about. (Ages 5 and older) --Karin Snelson
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At Grand Central Station, Chief of Police George Coppola finds lost people, and Mr. Chidchester, head of the Lost and Found, finds lost dogs. Marino Marino makes oyster stew, while thinking up interesting math problems. A man in a porkpie hat buys cherry pies. Maira Kalman's stylized artwork, along with entertaining text, brilliantly captures the excitement of Grand Central Station, "the busiest, fastest, biggest place there is."
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Great book for a great place.......2005-11-16
I read this book last week for an elementary school storytime, and it was a rousing success. Questions and riotous laughter abounded. The giant chicken on the tracks was a big hit, especially. There are lots of small visual gags for the sharp eyed, as well as marvelous wordplay. This is a book easily enjoyed by adults and children alike.
FORGET BARNEY AND RUGRATS -FINALLY A DECENT BOOK FOR KIDS.......2003-07-03
Not since Roald Dahl has a writer spoken to kids with such respect and imagination. When I read this to my 4 year old she was filled with questions and ideas and that is all I need to know. Some people have an unconventional style that fits both children and adults and Maira Kalman is certainly one of those people. This book and the Max series will be included in the lives of all the children I will ever know and they will be the happier, more imaginative and more creative for it.
Inappropriate for any age level.......2002-09-27
The artwork is unappealing, and seems as though she is ridiculing people. The tone is too bitter for children, and the book lacks any emotional truth that might appeal to a teenager or an adult. Like most of Kalman's work, this book generally is pointless; like when a college student feels embarrassed after making some vapid comment, and so pretends that it's an "inside" joke.
Just Another Day at Grand Central............2002-02-25
Author Maira Kalman takes us on a fascinating and entertaining whirlwind tour of Grand Central Station, "the busiest, fastest, biggest place there is." Meet some of the people who work there from Lenny Maglione who's in charge of the whole building, Wanda who hears complaints, Ed, the lightbulb changer, and Marino Marino who makes oyster stew at the Oyster Bar, to Audrey in the information booth who will answer your questions, Melvin Johnson who helps you find the right train and step aboard, and Frank Chidester who runs the Lost and Found. And watch the travelers, waiting, looking up and down and all around, rushing, eating, and going to work, or play, or appointments, or visits. The action never stops at Grand Central because people need to come and go all day and all night long..... Ms Kalman's creative text is full of wordplay, puns, energy, humor, and fun that will send imaginations soaring, and is only outdone by her bold, busy and engaging artwork. Kids will love poring over all the marvelous detailed illustrations and are sure to find something new and exciting each and every time they open the book. Perfect for youngsters 5 and older, Next Stop Grand Central is an innovative smorgasbord of fast-paced action and fun that transports the reader to this very "grand" place for the adventure of a lifetime. "Trains are trips. And trips are adventures. And adventures are new ideas and romance and you can't ever know what in the world will happen which is exactly why you are going." Jump aboard and enjoy!
It's like Grand Central in here..........2001-12-14
This book rules. I work at Grand Central TERMINAL (not Station!) and Kalman captures the marevelous energy and wackiness of the building. I can think of few places that offer such a great opportunity for people watching, and "Next Stop Grand Central" portrays this in a bright and colorful way that adults and children alike can enjoy.
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This book tells the stories of patients whose stories are typically not told: the urban dying poor. By illustrating how the issues and needs of this especially vulnerable group are shaped by the experience of living in poverty, this work provides an important contribution to the growing literature on palliative care for special populations.
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A Beautiful Book.......2004-04-27
This is a beautiful book. It is beautiful to look at, it is beautiful to read. The words have a symbiotic relationship with the illustrations, and the illustrations with the words. Together they tell a story that in lesser hands would be just another one of those "we built a bigger better longer something" book, but in the capable hands of the writer and designer they tell the story of Grand Central Terminal - which is basically a story of engineering and city planning - as if they were witnessing the miracle of birth, which, of course, they were. We gave the book to a ten-year old girl who lives next door. She shyly took it, opened it, looked at it, thanked us, and disappeared with it.
great building; great book.......2003-09-15
As this interesting new book tells us, there is a lot more to Grand Central Terminal than the present building. The story behind the Terminal is fascinating, and it's told here in a compelling, accessible fashion that both competent young readers and adults can enjoy. Author has a warm, chatty style that works well for the story, which gets complex at times. Book is gorgeous to look at as well--stunning photos, although too bad some are so small. Nice maps, time line, glossary, etc. Overall, extremely informative and highly recommended.
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Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City's preeminent buildings, stands as a magnificent Beaux-Arts monument to America's Railway Age, and it remains a vital part of city life today. Completed in 1913 after ten years of construction, the terminal became the city's most important transportation hub, linking long-distance and commuter trains to New York's network of subways, elevated trains, and streetcars. Its soaring Grand Concourse still offers passengers a majestic gateway to the wonders beyond 42nd Street.
In Grand Central Terminal, Kurt C. Schlichting traces the history of this spectacular building, detailing the colorful personalities, bitter conflicts, and Herculean feats of engineering that lie behind its construction. Schlichting begins with Cornelius Vanderbilt--"The Commodore"--whose railroad empire demanded an appropriately palatial passenger terminal in the heart of New York City. Completed in 1871, the first Grand Central was the largest rail facility in the world and yet--cramped and overburdened--soon proved thoroughly inadequate for the needs of this rapidly expanding city. William Wilgus, chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, conceived of a new Grand Central Terminal, one that would fully meet the needs of the New York Central line. Grand Central became a monument to the creativity and daring of a remarkable age.
The terminal's construction proved to be a massive undertaking. Before construction could begin, more than 3 million cubic yards of rock and earth had to be removed and some 200 buildings demolished. Manhattan's exorbitant real estate prices necessitated a vast, two-story underground train yard, which in turn required a new, smoke-free electrified rail system. The project consumed nearly 30,000 tons of steel, three times more than that in the Eiffel Tower, and two power plants were built. The terminal building alone cost $43 million in 1913, the equivalent of nearly $750 million today.
Some of these costs were offset by an ambitious redevelopment project on property above the New York Central's underground tracks. Schlichting writes about the economic and cultural impact of the terminal on midtown Manhattan, from building of the Biltmore and Waldorf-Astoria Hotels to the transformation of Park Avenue. Schlichting concludes with an account of the New York Central's decline; the public outcry that prevented Grand Central's new owner, Penn Central, from following through with its 1969 plan to demolish or drastically alter the terminal; the rise of Metro-North Railroad; and the meticulous 1990s restoration project that returned Grand Central Terminal to its original splendor. More than a history of a train station, this book is the story of a city and an age as reflected in a building aptly described as a secular cathedral.
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A world of information in 222 pages.......2002-02-05
I found this book to be very easy reading. It compresses just about every aspect of Grand Central Station into 222 pages. I would say that as an overview of how the station was built, for who, and why this is a great book to start out with. For those of us who know something of the building, the book is still very interesting but in the end lacks some of the detailed information that I would have liked to have seen. Still, the incredible lengths that the author goes to in informing the reader of just how vast the Grand Central Terminal is must have been both daunting and difficult to explain. I give most credit to the author for his ability to relate the political and historical relevance of the terminal complex to complicated engineering used to construct it. in essence, Grand Central Terminal in not merely the station we all have seen and admire, but a complex system of real estate and tunnels all with a magnificent Beaux-Arts concourse.
Best Book On Grand Central.......2001-08-21
Yes this book provides an excellent overview of the historical and social context of the building of Grand Central terminal in New York, but where it excels is in conveying the genius behind the engineering of the complex.
That the terminal continues to function so well in the 21st century is testimony to the creativity and forethought of the original design. The engineers, learning from the very short life of the original terminals due to skyrocketing volumes of passengers, set out to ensure that the new Grand Central would be flexible and handle ever increasing traffic. Of course intercity rail travel is almost dead in the US and the premiere passenger trains which called on Grand Central are long gone, but the station functions very well as a gateway for ever growing numbers of commuters to New York's northern suburbs.
Also featured in the book is the role of the terminal's design played in its success. Even today walking through the terminal is an uplifting experience surrounded by the grand scale of its wonderful architecture. The author expands upon the process where the building was designed to impress and create an image and be more than just a functional building. Part of what made this possible was covering over the Park Avenue rail yards north of the station thereby providing the New York Central with a salable asset to fund the terminal. They succeded in creating what still remains some of the most valuable real estate in the City.
Anyone interested in urban history, realroads, architecture or business history will find this a fascinating book. The author did extensive research and has provided new insights into the topic... something not easy to do given the vintage of the terminal and the several books already focusing on Grand Central. Highly recommended.
An excellent blend of engineering and social history.......2001-06-07
This story of the design and construction of New York's Grand Central Terminal in 1913 provides a coverage not only of the project and the ten years it took to complete, but its impact on the development of Manhattan. Any with an interest in New York City history will find Grand Central Terminal to be an excellent blend of engineering and social history, packed with details and vintage photos.
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Terminal Cafe
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It is a few decades after a revolutionary technology has given humans the ability to resurrect the dead. The ever-increasing population of the risen dead is segregated into areas called necrovilles. Here they have created a wild culture, untouched by the restrictions of the law - except that the dead cannot stray into the realm of the living, nor the living into the teeming necrovilles, after nightfall. It is November 1, the Day of the Dead. Virtual artist Santiago Columbar, creator of drugs and 'ware that melt and reconfigure reality for his many disciples, has grown bored with the realities at his command. There is one reality he has yet to try, the culmination of his life as an artist: He will venture into the forbidden streets of the Saint John dead town, and there walk willingly into the open arms of death. At Santiago's invitation, four of his friends will meet in Saint John to record his death and resurrection. On their way to witness Santiago's transformation, as the necroville erupts into the first volley of a revolution against the living, each will face danger and adventure in the wild streets of the dead...and find that life has changed forever.
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Terminal Cafe will stir some thoughts...........2002-04-16
Imagine waking up, and realizing that you are dead? In the world created here by McDonald, nanotechnolgy has led to a method for reanimating dead people. Unfortunately, those reincarnated get to spend eternity as a vast slave/labor class, supporting the world of the living.
Needless to say, this sets up a predictable scenario of rebellion. However, where that scenario goes is unpredictable and, in my opinion, quite interesting. Author McDonald has created a lush "dead" culture, and most of the story takes place in the Necroville of Tijuana on the night before and day of "Day of the Dead." The main characters are a group of artists who meet in the titular cafe annually on this holiday to catch up with each other.
The details and substory lines grow and expand for the first half of the book, making it a bit hard to keep everyone and all their actions sorted out. For the second half, it begins an ever-tightening spiral, pulling all the details and characters back together until their final reunion.
Cyberpunk flavor without being too self-referential of the genre. The language has a lot of Spanish influences due to the setting and it provides a nice mix of feelings and expressions.
Incomprehensible.......2001-12-04
This was one of the very, very few books that I actually could not read. At all. The combination of bad writing, ridiculous premise and an excessive collection of side plots makes this book only marginally more entertaining than a core dump in hex. Now, I could be wrong - maybe the book gets better later on. However, I haven't been able to read enough of the book to actually find out.
I'd suggest Cyteen (by C.J.Cherryh) or Diamond Age (by Neal Stephenson) as books that deal with some of the issues that Terminal Cafe supposedly covers; however, these two books are pretty well written, so that a human being can actually comprehend them.
One of the all-time most inventive!.......2001-08-24
Ian Mcdonald seems to have an uncanny understanding of the human condition, of the primal urges and fears that drive us. If you changed the rules which govern life and death, which govern the very evolution of the human race, what will come of those urges and fears? That to me is the central question of Terminal Cafe. Once you've been dead, of what are you afraid? Nothing. If you can manipulate flesh and machine with equal ease, what could you be? Anything. One of my Top 5 favorite SF novels. Ian McDonald stands head and shoulders above the crowd of SF authors.
A Towering Achievement.......2000-07-19
(I always wanted to say that.) At once repulsive and enthralling, this book is a must-read for those who are not too easily offended. Reminded me of Varley's Steel Beach, though much darker.
The NanoTech resurrection of 600 million wax dolls.......1999-12-24
The First Resurrection of the Dead will start sooner than Terminal Cafe would suggest! My guess is that it will start in about 55 years.
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Terminal City
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Grade A story, Grade A art.......2006-11-10
Dean Motter has a masterpiece here.
The art is nostalgic and moody and it reminds you of film noir.
So does the story. And this was going on a bit before Sin City.
I really liked this book and fully recommend it.
Modern life cliché party.......2006-01-18
''Terminal City'' is probably not an original novel under any possible perspective, but besides being highly entertaining, it brings the literary tradiction of big-city-novels to the comic book world. No, I'm not comparing Motter to Joyce, Dublin or Dos Passos, but it's a rare fact among this specific sort of literature that the city itself represents its most important character. All the rest are secondary acts - the characters have no charisma at all, the argument is nothing special, but the metropolis in front of it all is what makes this novel enjoyable. It's a cold, futurist-retro environment (imagine something like Truffault's take on Bradbury's ''Fahrenheit 451''), with robots interacting with humans in some kind of (Hannah-Barbera's) The Jetsons style, where everything that happens is just surreal. Criticism on the cruelty of modern society and life in big cities are obviously unoriginal. There's someone running from criminals here with a briefcase attached to his arm with no explanation given, but it still doesn't generate any aprehension (no, this guy is no Kafka's K.). Anti-heroes and 'loser heroes' all over, it's so full of cliches that it's hard to believe it can be at the same time so special among comic books for grown up kids. The experience is indeed enjoyable, and won't hurt you at all. 2,5 stars.
From Cliche to Archetype to Cliche.......2004-06-10
This is an odd sort of graphic novel- you certainly shouldn't expect super-heroes or classic golden age Mystery Men. That's just it, the only thing really bigger than life is the great City that the novel is named for. It is a magnificent, colossal art-deco Metropolis that looks like the futuristic vision of all the great World's Fairs of the 1930's lumped together. There are monorails, zeppelins, flying wings- even streamlined robots and flying cars. But it is a sterile city- stagnant. There has been no new construction for years. It dwarfs and oppresses the spirit of its human inhabitants dwelling in the shadows. It makes them seem small and insignificant. Every character seems like a stock stereotype from the 30's. There is no originality here. Everything is frozen into dead forms. In the absence of vitality and optimism, the rule of the jungle reigns.
Even the main character, Cosmo Quinn, doesn't come across as much of a hero. In true film noir style he is presented as an everyman (who just happens to be the most famous daredevil in the world) who is caught up in dark machinations out of his control. In fact, just about every daredevil, adventurer, and would be hero-symbol in the city has mysteriously died, disappeared, or been framed and smeared over the years. Most of the story deals with Quinn and his friends slowly (and I mean SLOWLY) uncovering the hidden corruption in the great city.
The one great saving scene in the whole overlong epic is when the disgraced world-champion boxer Kid Gloves fights his way back to the top against a collection of subhuman apes and missing links- and finally a robot. Like John Henry he lives just long enough to triumph over the monsters and machines that symbolize the great social Darwinist hell- only to die of a burst heart at the moment of his greatest glory. Another cliche, but one that actually does manage to make the leap to the archetypical.
Of course there is also the strange case of the "sleep walkers" that defy the physical laws in their slumber- that is never really addressed. It is like they pop up now and then to remind us that there are mysteries that transcend a mechanical, oppressive, sterile existence...
Zany Retro-Futurist Fun.......2002-02-26
Kind of noirish, kind of retro-futurish (think Art Deco and Streamline design), Terminal City is loose but entertaining story of aging daredevils and a mysterious briefcase. The city is a vividly reimagined New York (complete with Coney Island) with beautiful lines, a monorail, zeppelins, and all manner of lovely to look at decay-here, flyers and newspapers are always billowing in the wind at the edges of panels. The plot is a zany half-baked affair involving a crooked mayor, crooked industrialist, land schemes, a mysterious cases, missing legendary crown jewels, a naive newcomer to town, an old boxer, and too many others to mention. While the hero is nominally Cosmo Quinn, former "Human Fly" daredevil turned window washer, the Grand Hotel-like plot jumps between multiple stories and people. Readers will catch references and homages to Kiss Me Deadly (the pinnacle of noir film), Fawlty Towers (John Cleese's hilarious post-Python British screwball comedy), Tintin (the European comic series), Abbott and Costello, Orwell and Huxley (although this futurist vision is much more benign than theirs), Casablanca, and many others. The art is straightforward and easy to look at, while the colors and vivid and expressive, a very fun experience overall-although the punning gets too cutesy at times.
An altenative future world comes to life........2000-03-28
Termial City is an award nominated series which is, strangly enough, set in the advanced East Coast US metropolis "Terminal City". This comic revolves around a group of modern day Daredevils, primarily Cosmo Quinn, "the Human Fly" who scales the tallest of buildings as well as living a double life cleaning the windows of such glass towers. The Streamline styling harks back to the thirties, the sky filled with enormous zepplins captained by German aviators, high speed trains cross the Atlantic with the greatest of ease whilst surly dome topped robots keep things running smoothly and on the other hand cause total havoc. This is an another excellent book from Vertigo, very well written and researched as well as paying homage to great authors such as George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.
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Compassionate Cities Public Health and End-of-life Care
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Imagine if whole communities - not simply a community's direct health services - really cared about its member's health and social well-being. Imagine if that care extended to the dying, death and losses experienced by everyone in that community. Imagine if "death" was an idea that went beyond the "death of the body" and came to include the deaths of identity and belonging as these endings apply to people living with dementia or the aftermath of sexual abuse, dispossession of indigenous or refugee peoples. Such community and policy frameworks partly do exist in the World Health Organization's "Healthy Cities" international programs, but they often do not include end-of-life care issues such as death, dying and loss. This book takes the idea of the Healthy City and extends these policy and practice ideas to include frequently overlooked end-of-life care experiences and concerns. Compassion is an idea that goes beyond "health" and "welfare" and embraces and promotes empathy and support as new forms of "health promotion".
Beginning with an examination of the parallel histories of public health and end-of-life care the book moves to a critique of the current limits of both for human experiences of death, dying and loss. The theory and policy ideas of Healthy Cities are introduced and a comparison with Compassionate Cities policies made. Policies of Compassionate Cities are discussed alongside their sociological basis. The strengths and weaknesses of such large-scale programs are examined. The final sections of the book outline and summarize basic models of community development and action strategies for implementing a Compassionate Cities program.
This is a book for practitioners who want to include end-of-life care issues into their health promotion and community development practices. It is also a book for end-of-life care practitioners who want to include community development and health promotion ideas into their practice. For social sciences, public health and end-of-life care academics this book argues that the integration of death, loss and compassion into contemporary public health ideas may address important long-standing limits and criticism of public health. "Compassion" may go beyond "infection control" and "health promotion" and invite us to think of a "third wave" movement of public health that joins empathy, equality and action together as practical policies for future domestic and international well-being.
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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a “borderless world”, cities become a more important criteria in prioritizing markets, as opposed to regions, continents, or countries. This report covers the top 2000 cities in over 200 countries. It does so by reporting the estimated market size (in terms of latent demand) for each major city of the world. It then ranks these cities and reports them in terms of their size as a percent of the country where they are located, their geographic region (e.g. Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Latin America), and the total world market. In performing various economic analyses for its clients, I have been occasionally asked to investigate the market potential for various products and services across cities. The purpose of the studies is to understand the density of demand within a country and the extent to which a city might be used as a point of distribution within its region. From an economic perspective, however, a city does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries. To an economist or strategic planner, a city represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another. In what follows, I summarize the economic potential for the world\'s major cities for "point-of-sale terminals and funds-transfer devices" for the year 2007. The goal of this report is to report my findings on the real economic potential, or what an economist calls the latent demand, represented by a city when defined as an area of dominant influence. The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. For many items, latent demand is clearly observable in sales, as in the case for food or housing items. Consider, however, the category "satellite launch vehicles". Clearly, there are no launch pads in most cities of the world. However, the core benefit of the vehicles (e.g. telecommunications, etc.) is "consumed" by residents or industries within the world\'s cities. Without certain cities, in other words, the market for satellite launch vehicles would be lower for the world in general. One needs to allocate, therefore, a portion of the worldwide economic demand for launch vehicles to both regions and cities. This report takes the broader definition and considers, therefore, a city as a part of the global market.
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Airport Terminals (Butterworth Architecture Library of Planning and Design)
Christopher J. Blow
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Airport passenger terminals have become a major new public building-type representing transportation in the late twentieth century. The functional planning of facilities for aircraft and people, and the architectural forms to accommodate them, are of great interest to designers and the myriad of people who work in and visit airports. The book is a discourse rather than a design guide. It is written for an international readership and illustrated from the author's experience.
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Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5x11".
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