streets

Examines the link between London's transformation into a modern, organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture.

Photographs show pavers making the roads we drive on every day. Straightforward text explains to young readers the components of these machines and the tasks they perform.

Sally goes shopping on the High Street, visiting each store until she finds everything on her list.

Illustrations without text trace the evolution of an English main street from medieval times through the Elizabethan, Restoration, Georgian, Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian periods to the present.

Relates, in rhyming verse, how dump trucks and paving machines layer and compact hot asphalt to make a street.

Describes how different streets, alleys, avenues, plazas, parks, and corners got their names.

Ten-year-old Connie, who lives in the Brooklyn neigborhood called The Alley, investigates a burglary with her friend Billy Maloon.

Labeled pictures present life on a city street, where skateboards roll, pigeons fly, and traffic moves.