Author: Ottawa History Collection (Ottawa Public Library)Publisher:
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Category : Annexation (Municipal government)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Building the Best of All Worlds
Author: Ottawa History Collection (Ottawa Public Library)Publisher:
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Category : Annexation (Municipal government)
Languages : en
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Building the Best of All Worlds : a New Capital City with Boroughs
Author: Ottawa-Carleton (Ont.)Publisher:
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Category : Annexation (Municipal government)
Languages : en
Pages :
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A New Capital City with Boroughs : Building the Best of All Worlds. Submitted to Glen Shortliffe, Special Advisor on Municipal Restructuring in Ottawa-Carleton, October 22, 1999
Author: Region of Ottawa-Carleton. Corporate Resource CentrePublisher:
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Languages : en
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To Build New York
Author: The General Contractors Association of New YorkPublisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071608626
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Spectacular Blend of Photographs, Facts, Anecdotes, and Personal Stories that Tell How the World's Greatest City Was Built! Without its vast infrastructure, New York would not have been able to forge five boroughs into one city, welcome millions of newcomers, and become the financial and cultural capital of the world. Covering the period from 1909-2009, To Build New York is an informative, engaging account of the who, what, when, where, how, and why of New York's infrastructure--together with stories of the people who did all the work. This superb urban chronicle offers readers a revealing inside look at the building of New York's roads and highways, bridges and tunnels, the subway system and rail lines, airports and aqueducts, skyscrapers, electric power grid, sewage treatment plants, and other facilities. Written in a vivid and highly entertaining style, To Build New York features: An authoritative account of New York City's physical development from 1909 to 2009 More than 100 illustrations, including archival never-before-published photographs and details Numerous facts, anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes information about how and why certain elements of the infrastructure came to exist Fascinating sidebars that describe the technologies devised for the construction projects in each area of infrastructure A Foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg Panoramic in scope yet filled with hundreds of amazing particulars, To Build New York is the story of the creation of the world's greatest city--told from the point of view of the inventive, hardworking people who built it.
Fourth Estate
Author: Building the Best Capital City in the World
Author: Alice M. RivlinPublisher:
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Category : Capitals (Cities)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The Athenaeum
Author: The Plumbers Trade Journal
Author: The Assassination of New York
Author: Robert FitchPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453234039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Apple’s best-loved businesses have closed their doors? It didn’t start with Michael Bloomberg—or with Robert Moses. As Robert Fitch meticulously demonstrates in this eye-opening book, the planning to assassinate New York began a century ago, as the city’s very richest few—the Morgans, the Mellons, and especially the Rockefellers—looked for ways to maximize the value of their real estate by pushing Gotham’s vibrant and astonishingly varied manufacturing sector out of town, and with it, the city’s working class. The Assassination of New York attacks a Goliath-like enemy: the real-estate developers who maintain a stranglehold on the city’s most valuable commodity. Their efforts to increase land value by replacing low-rent workers and factories with high-rent professionals and office buildings was one of the single most decisive factors in the city’s downturn. In the 1980s the number of real-estate vacancies eclipsed that of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. In September of 1992 there was a staggering twenty-five million square feet of empty office space. Are the city’s problems fixable? How will the future of New York play out through the twenty-first century? Fitch comes up with solutions, from saving jobs to promoting economic diversity to rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure. But it will take vision and hard work to restore New York to what it once was while creating a new and better home for coming generations.
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