10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRACT HOUSE»
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tract house in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tract house and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blueprint Remodel:
Tract Home Transformations that Turn ...
The author of the Blueprint series presents a series of plans for turning the average suburban home into a spacious and elegant domicile, using before-and-after photographs to show how this transformation can be accomplished at the least ...
... tack on a mud room-pantry that serves as a kind of entry air lock. This side
entry is totally re- styled, with its stoop compressed and Continued Most dramatic
face lift is along north walls. "Decorative" shutter. You can transform a tract house
..
hen you look at the picture on the right, you probably don't think "Texas"; you
think "suburbia," and that's a region blander and more homogeneous than we
want Texas to be. But the truth is that Texas today is the tract house capital of the
world.
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Annual Report of the American
Tract Society
Dispensed the bread of life this afternoon at the Tract House tu many starving
and eager applicants. 11, Sabbath.— This was a most delightful morning to my
soul. Spent •three and a half hours at the Tract house, closely 12S (1S40.
American Tract Society, 1836
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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Tappan and Allen paid for the construction of Tract House on Nassau Street,
which, like the ABS's nearby Bible House, held the organization's oflices, foundry,
bindery, and stereotype-finishing functions. (The availability of stereotyping in ...
Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace, 1998
Hidden within Di Santo and Joines-Novotny's design is a strategy to sneak
environmental building technology into the suburbs. The concept is simple:
Design a structure that is, as Joines-Novotny says, "a tract house, but not a tract
house.
... respectfully report: That they have attended to that service, and held several
meetings in the months of March, April, and May at the Tract-house in this city.
The Committee entered upon this duty with a deeply felt sense of their need of
Divine ...
American Tract Society, 1854
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Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
Fredric Jameson describes a house designed by architect Frank Gehry in Santa
Monica.17 This house juxtaposes two modes of building: a conventional, box-like
, suburban, tract house and a "wrapper," composed of more or less junk ...
John Law, Annemarie Mol, 2002
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The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the ...
The vast majority of tract-house builders showed little sensitivity to climate. In
most postwar subdivisions, the arbitrary geometry of the grid, not the principles of
solar orientation, still determined the layout of the houses. The new techniques of
...
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The Presbyterian review and religious journal
Two brethren of the Siamese, and one of the Chinese department of the mission,
have occupied the tract house, situated in the great market, as a- preaching stand
, and with increasing encouragement in their labours. At the Siamese station, ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRACT HOUSE»
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tract house is used in the context of the following news items.
Hastert indictment is related to old allegations of sexual misconduct …
Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in House history, is not expected ... While tract houses and strip malls continue to claim farmland here, about 50 ... «Washington Post, May 15»
Hastert paid off former pupil, official says
YORKVILLE, Ill. - The indictment of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was ... While tract houses and strip malls continue to claim farmland here, about 50 ... «Philly.com, May 15»
Making your tract house stand out
Q: My fiance and I just bought our first house. We are excited, but it's in the middle of a big, brand-new townhouse development, and all the houses look the ... «Philly.com, Mar 15»
Arrol Gellner: How tract houses got their flimsy design
“Cracker box.” That's only one of the unflattering names we've given postwar tract houses thanks to their thin, flimsy look. Funny thing is, most of these houses ... «San Antonio Express, Apr 12»
