Author: Charlottesville (Va.). City Planning DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Alternatives for Charlottesville
Author: Charlottesville (Va.). City Planning DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The International Alternative Right
Author: Joe MulhallTransit in Small Urban Communities
Author: Robert P. MaccubbinRoute 29 Corridor Study, US-250 Bypass to South Fork Rivanna River, Charlottesville
Author: An Annexation Alternative
Author: Mary Ann CurtinPublisher:
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Category : Annexation (Municipal government)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Alternatives
Author: Wilbur Cross Library (University of Connecticut). Special Collections DepartmentPublisher: [Storrs] : University of Connecticut Library
ISBN:
Category : Underground press
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Democracy in Chains
Author: Nancy MacLeanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101980974
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" “[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic “This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be.”—NPR An explosive exposé of the right’s relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, stop action on climate change, and alter the Constitution. Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. Democracy in Chains names its true architect—the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan—and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority. In a brilliant and engrossing narrative, Nancy MacLean shows how Buchanan forged his ideas about government in a last gasp attempt to preserve the white elite’s power in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. In response to the widening of American democracy, he developed a brilliant, if diabolical, plan to undermine the ability of the majority to use its numbers to level the playing field between the rich and powerful and the rest of us. Corporate donors and their right-wing foundations were only too eager to support Buchanan’s work in teaching others how to divide America into “makers” and “takers.” And when a multibillionaire on a messianic mission to rewrite the social contract of the modern world, Charles Koch, discovered Buchanan, he created a vast, relentless, and multi-armed machine to carry out Buchanan’s strategy. Without Buchanan's ideas and Koch's money, the libertarian right would not have succeeded in its stealth takeover of the Republican Party as a delivery mechanism. Now, with Mike Pence as Vice President, the cause has a longtime loyalist in the White House, not to mention a phalanx of Republicans in the House, the Senate, a majority of state governments, and the courts, all carrying out the plan. That plan includes harsher laws to undermine unions, privatizing everything from schools to health care and Social Security, and keeping as many of us as possible from voting. Based on ten years of unique research, Democracy in Chains tells a chilling story of right-wing academics and big money run amok. This revelatory work of scholarship is also a call to arms to protect the achievements of twentieth-century American self-government.
Transit Service and Organizational Alternatives for a Low Density Suburban-rural Area
Author: L. A. HoelPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Route 29 Bypass, Alternative 10, Albemarle County, Virginia
Author: Charlottesville-Albemarle Transportation CoaltionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway bypasses
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities
Author: Marouf A. Hasian Jr.Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030537714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City’s securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville’s Confederate monument controversies in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally; and Montgomery’s “double consciousness” at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum. By tracing the genealogies that can be found across three contested cityscapes—New York, Charlottesville, and Montgomery—this book opens up new vistas for research for communication studies as it shows how cities are agentic actors that can wage “war” on urban landscapes as massive actor-networks struggling to remember (and forget). With the rise of sanctuary cities against nativistic immigration policies, “invasions” from white supremacists and neo-Nazis objecting to “the great replacement,” and rhizomic uprisings of Black Lives Matter protests in response to lethal police force against persons of color, this timely book speaks to the emergent realities of how cities have become battlegrounds in America’s continuing cultural wars.