cities and towns

Examines the history, growth, preservation, and planning of cities and predicts what life will be like in the city of the future.

"When LEGO City crook Hank Cooper steals a space shuttle, his adventure quickly goes away and it's up to the fire department and the police to help clean up the mess!"--Information from Amazon.com.

Presents an historical atlas of the Industrial Age and Urban America, and discusses westward expansion, reform movements, the Progressive era, and the age of Jazz in the early 1920s.

Adam Chase, run out of town after being narrowly acquitted of the murder of a local football hero, returns to North Carolina five years later at the request of his best friend Danny, but he finds that while some attitudes have softened, there are those--including family members--who still believe he is guilty, and when Danny turns up dead, tempers ignite with violent consequences.

Examines housing, transportation, trade, warfare, and other aspects of medieval life in the English town of Lincoln from the Norman conquest to the Wars of the Roses.

Introduces the environmental problems that affect life in cities.

Examines extreme overpopulation and poverty in various parts of Africa, increased mortality rates as a result of the AIDS epidemic, and high birth rates.

William Geist offers an amusing and expansive collection of essays exploring some of America's quirky, strange and offbeat towns and people.