research-l Mailing List: Re: Book with no index - a workaround

[Torres (m_torres]

Wonderful, Fred, as always your commentaries are so helpful!
Cheers,
Maru

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> On Aug 26, 2017, at 11:03 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> We just got the book from the library:
> 
> _Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design_
> By Charles Montgomery, 2013
> 
> After browsing the book Becca says it says it discusses ways to change
> American cities to recover from the criticisms that Jane Jacobs made
> in her classic book that she also read recently:
> 
> From Wikipedia:
> Her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities
> (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most
> city-dwellers. In the book she introduced sociological concepts such
> as "eyes on the street" and "social capital.
> 
> While Becca is initially impressed by _Happy City_ it has one
> shortcoming -- no index.  We wanted to see (before reading the whole
> book) whether he mentioned cohousing.
> 
> We found there is an alternative way to find topics in a book:
> Google's "books" facility has an unlabeled search box
> THAT SEARCHED THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK
> (cohousing is mentioned on page 143-144 with a description of
> N Street Cohousing - retrofit cohousing that converted a suburban block
> into cohousing.)
> 
> How I got there: search for "Happy Books" on Google, click on "books" at
> the top and pick the (first in this case) link to link at
> https://books.google.com )  Full URL:
> 
> https://books.google.com/books?id=lWcTAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq
> =happy+city&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2vcmvkPXVAhVr4IMKHQStAgoQ6AEIKTAA#v
> =onepage&q=happy%20city&f=false
> 
> Note that in the process I got to another Google page about the book
> that DID NOT have a search box and I did not see a way to get to the
> other page that does have search box:
> https://books.google.com/books/about/Happy_City.html?id=hXoBAAAAQBAJ
> 
> Fred
> 
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> Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
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