Search all library resources

Physical and digital books, media, journals, archives, and databases.

Results include

• Book (19,179)
• Map (964)
• Music recording (132)

1. Vertical : lift, escalator, paternoster : a cultural history of vertical transport

   1st ed. - Berlin : Ernst & Sohn, 1994.

   The elevator is today considered a safe and modern means of transportation which even a child can operate and which everyone uses as a matter of course. However, the enthusiasm for the vertical movement, for the "earth-bound ascension" still influences the creative works of architects, writers, artists and film-makers. In the 1920s, the literati spoke of the "roaring lift of time" and thus captured in words a new "American" way of life. The fascination with the vertical movement inspired directors to make films which were able to capture the modern view of space in pictures which until then had not been seen. Building planners used the elevator not only to literally build high-rises in the sky, but also, with the use of transparent lifts or panorama elevators, to make it possible to experience architecture in unusual ways. This book attempts to introduce a largely forgotten chapter in the history of technology. It sets out to illustrate the successful history of vertical transportation in various cultural contexts and therby entice readers to newly discover a familiar and unfamiliar part of our everyday culture.

2. Vertical : 100 Jahre Kletterkunst

   Messner, Reinhold, 1944-

   München : BLV, c2002.

3. Vertical : the city from satellites to bunkers

   Graham, Stephen, 1965-

   London ; New York : Verso, 2016.

   "From the penthouse to the sewers--the political geography of the vertical city Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level, calling for a a new understanding of our surroundings that takes into account above and below: why Dubai has been built to be seen from GoogleEarth; how the superrich in Sao Paulo live their penthouse lives far from the street; why London billionaires build vast subterranean basements rather than move house. Vertical will make you look at the city anew: from the viewfinders of drones, satellites, from the top of skyscrapers, at street-level and from underground bunkers: this is a new politics of space and geography"--Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below. Starting at the edge of earth's atmosphere and, in a series of riveting studies, descending through each layer, Graham explores the world of drones, the city from the viewpoint of an aerial bomber, the design of sidewalks and the hidden depths of underground bunkers. He asks: why was Dubai built to be seen from Google Earth? How do the super-rich in Sao Paulo live in their penthouses far above the street? Why do London billionaires build vast subterranean basements? And how do the technology of elevators and subversive urban explorers shape life on the surface and subsurface of the earth? Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.

Your search also found 1 topic specific databases.

Course- and topic-based guides to collections, tools, and services.

1. LexisNexis Web Services API

2. Software Licensed by the Science Library

3. Children's books recently received by Cubberley Library

Library info; guides & content by subject specialists

1. Guiding Principles on Ethics in Digital Health Produced During a Seminar at Stanford Libraries

Digital showcases for research and teaching.

Geospatial content, including GIS datasets, digitized maps, and census data.

1. VMap1 Vertical Structures, Points

   National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   1995

   This datalayer is a point coverage representing a variety of agricultural or industrial tower-like structures (windmills, cranes, smokestacks, etc....

2. Verticals on an Oblate Earth

   1887

   Glass Lantern Slide, 3 1/4 X 4 in.

3. Magnetic Field - Vertical Component of the Total Field Intensity for the Epoch 2010.0

   National Geophysical Data Center

   2010

   This line shapefile shows lines of equal vertical intensity of the Earth's magnetic field, derived from the International Geomagnetic Reference Fie...