Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Ware Creek Water Supply Reservoir, James City County
Green Spring Colonial National Historical Park, James City County, General Management Plan Amendment
Author: General Aviation and Community Development
Author: Michael Z. SincoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
National Union Catalog
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ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Management Plan
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Estuarine area conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
West's South Eastern Reporter
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ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Virginia Town & City
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-level Rise
Author: Publisher: Climate Change Science Program
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
One of 21 climate change synthesis and assessment products commissioned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), this report examines the effects of sea level rise, impacts on society, and opportunities to prepare for those consequences, focusing on the eight coastal states from New York to North Carolina. Using scientific literature and policy documents, the report describes potential changes to barrier.
Health planning reports subject index
Author: United States. Health Resources AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Great Society Subway
Author: Zachary M. SchragPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415771
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.