Author: New York (N.Y.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Minutes of the City Planning Commission of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Minutes of the City Planning Commission of the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Checklist of Basic Municipal Documents
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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State and Local Government Special Studies
Author: The Box
Author: Marc LevinsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170819
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that reshaped manufacturing. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, years of high-stakes bargaining, and delicate negotiation on standards. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible. -- from back cover.
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State).Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Tunneling to the Future
Author: Peter DerrickPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Derrick (archivist, Bronx County Historical Society) tells the story of what was, at the time, the largest and most expensive single municipal project ever attempted--the 1913 expansion of the New York City Dual System of Rapid Transit. He considers the factors motivating the expansion, the process of its design, the controversies surrounding financing it, and its impact on New York then and today. Appendixes summarize the contracts and related certificates and list the opening dates of Dual System lines. Twenty-four pages of photographs are also included. c. Book News Inc.
State and Local Government Special Studies
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Homeless
Author: Ella HowardPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers this question by tracing the history of skid rows from their rise in the late nineteenth century to their eradication in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on New York's infamous Bowery, Homeless analyzes the efforts of politicians, charity administrators, social workers, urban planners, and social scientists as they grappled with the problem of homelessness. The development of the Bowery from a respectable entertainment district to the nation's most infamous skid row offers a lens through which to understand national trends of homelessness and the complex relationship between poverty and place. Maintained by cities across the country as a type of informal urban welfare, skid rows anchored the homeless to a specific neighborhood, offering inhabitants places to eat, drink, sleep, and find work while keeping them comfortably removed from the urban middle classes. This separation of the homeless from the core of city life fostered simplistic and often inaccurate understandings of their plight. Most efforts to assist them centered on reforming their behavior rather than addressing structural economic concerns. By midcentury, as city centers became more valuable, urban renewal projects and waves of gentrification destroyed skid rows and with them the public housing and social services they offered. With nowhere to go, the poor scattered across the urban landscape into public spaces, only to confront laws that effectively criminalized behavior associated with abject poverty. Richly detailed, Homeless lends insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offers us a new perspective on the modern welfare system.
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