Simple text and photographs present common shapes that can be found in buildings, signs, and other parts of a city.

"A lyrical, empowering poem that celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young ones to dream big and achieve their goals"--

"Take a journey through New York City: shapes, colors, patterns, and people are everywhere - and things look different depending on who is going the looking. In this playful, poetic ode to photography and point of view, one young girl captures moments of insight and community in her beloved hometown. This fictional exploration will delight children and parents in today's world of images and bold self-expression." -- Jacket.

"Oakland is a city shaped by water. The waterfront, home to the port and the rail yards, is also ripe for development. The remnants of World War II shipyards are being bulldozed for retail shops and condos. There's money to be made, and where there's money, greed and crime follow, as Oakland PI Jeri Howard learns when she looks into the murder of a former co-worker. Cal Brady worked as a security guard at a construction site on the Embarcadero. Now...

While the old Roman Empire of the west crumbled to ruin, the eastern empire grew strong and powerful. Under such leaders as Constantine and Justinian, the Byzantine Empire flourished. The Byzantines preserved the great works of the ancient world and made Constantinople a magnificient city. During their one-thousand-year reign, the Byzantines transformed Christianity, protected Europe from would-be invaders, and later carried the seeds of the Renaissance...

Describes, through a song, how a collection of shapes can be used to draw a city of skyscrapers, a beachside water slide, and even a dance party in a park.

Without the Thames, there would be no London or England. From earliest times, the city's needs, whether for stone, gold, or coal, for hay to feed livestock or food, wine and spices for human beings-were supplied from the river, as the fierce tides brought ships upstream or carried them down again. Only with the age of trunk road and rail did London's global importance as a port diminish. Even after that, the tides continued to drive the great power...

A lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities--from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments--that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them. Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way--as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe. It...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes “a portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone” (Time).

“What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides...