Author: Pacific Design ConceptsPublisher:
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Category : Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Capitol Hill Urban Center Village Housing Needs
Author: Pacific Design ConceptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Draft Neighborhood Plan Recommendations
Author: Capitol Hill Urban Center Village Planning Committee (Seattle, Wash.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Draft Neighborhood Plan Summary
Author: Capitol Hill Neighborhood Planning Committee (Seattle, Wash.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Back to the City
Author: Shirley Bradway LaskaPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483142205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Back to the City: Issues in Neighborhood Renovation focuses on the policies, social issues, and approaches involved in the residential revitalization of inner cities. The book first offers information on an urban land institute survey of private-market housing renovation in central cities and reinvestment by long-time residents and newcomers. Considerations include character of neighborhood renewal, reasons for reinvestment timing, and an overview of the experience on private renewal. The selection also takes a look at the racial and socioeconomic changes in central-city housing, as well as changes in racial successions, limited support for urban revitalization, and characteristics of transition households. The publication reviews the case studies done at neighborhood resettlements in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Columbus, Seattle, Charleston, and Philadelphia. Topics include residential mobility of new homeowners; neighborhoods in transitions; displacement; satisfaction with the neighborhood; contrasting conceptions of the neighborhood; and historic preservation and neighborhood. The selection is a dependable reference for geographers, urban planners, and sociologists.
Yesler Terrace Redevelopment
Author: Federal Courthouse Building (Project No. ZWA-81061), Seattle
Author: Spatial Flexibility
Author: Raymond J. SayersPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This thesis will first look at the basic case for flexible housing design, both for spatial efficiency and accommodating different family structures beyond the 20th-century nuclear definition. In addition, this thesis will explore how urban housing could benefit from accommodating different family structures and stages, by increasing social dependency and sharing resources and services. This approach would not only contribute to lowering long term housing costs, but also have tremendous effect on resident wellness. It has been linked that the cause of early onset dementia was due to lack of physical and social interaction with other people of varying ages. This thesis integrates concepts of spatial flexibility to promote healthy family communities with long term affordability to create a housing typology in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, providing additional dwelling options not currently available.
Strengthening Urban Management
Author: Thomas L. BlairPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146847586X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Managing cities and providing housing, essential infra structure and public services in an era of great pressures on municipal resources are challenging domestic issues in all parts of the world. Increasingly, city administrators and local government authorities in developing countries and western industrial nations are seeking to share experiences and exchange information in a search for solutions. This highly informative volume attempts to meet this critical need and to aid development cooperation among municipalities. Strengthening Urban Management presents the practical problems and approaches to the provision of housing, trans portation, and the mobilization of the requisite finance and manpower for local government in contrasting urban situ ations. It draws upon selected papers contributed to inter national meetings and world congresses sponsored by the International Union of Local Authorities, The Hague, Netherlands. Subject areas are illustrated in city examples given by mayors, administrators and planners from Lusaka, Harare, Nairobi, Osaka. Jakarta. Bandung. Vienna, Stockholm, Caracas, and Rio de Janeiro. Theme introductions and contributions from leading international and national agencies highlight Hie important role and grave difficulties facing local government in urban management and planning.
Independent Offices and Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations, Hearings Before ... 90-2
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Public Wealth of Cities
Author: Dag DetterPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815729995
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term investments necessary for future generations. It doesn’t have to be this way. This book by two internationally recognized experts in public finance describes a new way of restoring economic vitality and financial stability to cities, using steps that already have been proven remarkably successful. The key is unlocking social, human, and economic wealth that cities already own but is out of sight—or “hidden.” A focus on existing public wealth helps to shift attention and resources from short-term spending to longer-term investments that can vastly raise the quality of life for many generations of urban residents. A crucial first step is to understand a city’s balance sheet—too few cities comprehend how valuable a working tool this can be. With this in hand, taxpayers, politicians, and investors can better recognize the long-term consequences of political decisions and make choices that mobilize real returns rather than rely on more taxes, debt, or austerity. Another hidden asset is real estate. Even poor cities own large swathes of poorly utilized land, or they control underperforming utilities and other commercial assets. Most cities could more than double their investments with smarter use of these commercial assets. Managing the city’s assets smartly through the authors’ proposed Urban Wealth Funds—at arm’s-length from short-term political influence—will enable cities to ramp up much needed infrastructure investments.