Author: Victor Gruen AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Report of the Studies and Recommendations for a Program of Revitalization of the Central Business District of Downtown Honolulu
Author: Victor Gruen AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A Better Way to Build
Author: Michael R. AdamsonPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612492312
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as civil engineering and construction management. It details the contributions that Charles J. Pankow, a 1947 graduate of Purdue University, and his firm have made as builders of large, often concrete, commercial structures since the company's foundation in 1963. In particular, it uses selected projects as case studies to analyze and explain how the company innovated at the project level. The company has been recognized as a pioneer in "design-build," a methodology that involves the construction company in the development of structures and substitutes negotiated contracts for the bidding of architects' plans. The Pankow companies also developed automated construction technologies that helped keep projects on time and within budget. The book includes dozens of photographs of buildings under construction from the company's archive and other sources. At the same time, the author analyzes and evaluates the strategic decision making of the firm through 2004, the year in which the founder died. While Charles Pankow figures prominently in the narrative, the book also describes how others within the firm adapted the business so that the company could survive a commercial market that changed significantly as a result of the recession of the 1990s. Extending beyond the scope of most business biographies, this book is a study in industry innovation and the power of corporate culture, as well as the story of one particular company and the individuals who created it.
The Honolulu Central Business District
Author: Downtown Improvement Association, HonoluluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Chinatown, Honolulu
Author: Nancy E. RileyPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231551827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The Chinese experience in Hawai‘i has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese community in Hawai‘i as an example of racial harmony and American opportunity, claiming that all ethnic groups had the possibility to attain middle-class lives. Today, Honolulu’s Chinatown is not only a destination for tourism and consumption but also a celebration of Chinese accomplishments, memorializing past discrimination and present prominence within a framework of multiculturalism. This narrative, however, conceals many other histories and processes that played crucial roles in shaping Chinatown. This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization. Nancy E. Riley foregrounds elements that are often left out of narratives of Chinese history in Hawai‘i, particularly the place of Native Hawaiians, geopolitics and U.S. empire building, and the ongoing construction of race and whiteness. Tracing how Chinatown became a site of historical remembrance, she argues that it is also used to reinforce the ideology of neoliberal multiculturalism, which upholds racial hierarchy by lauding certain ethnic groups while excluding others. An insightful and in-depth analysis of the story of Honolulu’s Chinatown, this book offers new perspectives on the making of the racial landscape of Hawai‘i and the United States more broadly.
A Program for the Central Business District of the City of Honolulu
Author: James M. GilliesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A-Mer
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: The City and County of Honolulu
Author: Donald Dalton JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Chinatown Historic Preservation Plan
Author: Aotani & Hartwell AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Master Plan for the Central Business District, Honolulu an Interim Planning Report
Author: Downtown Improvement Association, HonoluluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description