Author: Philip HortonPublisher: Silver Link Publishing
ISBN: 9781857945775
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Last Years of BR Steam in Wessex
Author: Philip HortonPublisher: Silver Link Publishing
ISBN: 9781857945775
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
List of BPO Publications
Author: Bartlesville Project OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
City
Author: Douglas W. RaePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300134754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early “urbanist” decades of the twentieth century. Rae’s subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities. City: Urbanism and Its End begins with a richly textured portrait of New Haven in the early twentieth century, a period of centralized manufacturing, civic vitality, and mixed-use neighborhoods. As social and economic conditions changed, the city confronted its end of urbanism first during the Depression, and then very aggressively during the mayoral reign of Richard C. Lee (1954–70), when New Haven led the nation in urban renewal spending. But government spending has repeatedly failed to restore urban vitality. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work.
Railroads Across America
Author: Mike Del VecchioPublisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760306420
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Railroads across America
The Economics of Contemporary Latin America
Author: Beatriz ArmendarizPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262533154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Analysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and monetary policy. Latin America is richly endowed with natural resources, fertile land, and vibrant cultures. Yet the region remains much poorer than its neighbors to the north. Most Latin American countries have not achieved standards of living and stable institutions comparable to those found in developed countries, have experienced repeated boom-bust cycles, and remain heavily reliant on primary commodities. This book studies the historical roots of Latin America's contemporary economic and social development, focusing on poverty and income inequality dating back to colonial times. It addresses today's legacies of the market-friendly reforms that took hold in the 1980s and 1990s by examining successful stabilizations and homemade monetary and fiscal institutional reforms. It offers a detailed analysis of trade and financial liberalization, twenty–first century-growth, and the decline in poverty and income inequality. Finally, the book offers an overall analysis of inclusive growth policies for development—including gender issues and the informal sector—and the challenges that lie ahead for the region, with special attention to pressing demands by the vibrant and vocal middle class, youth unemployment, and indigenous populations.
Industry on the Move
Author: Gijsbert van LiemtPublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221064787
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Focusing on four industrial sectors: aircraft, automobiles, clothing and steel, examines changes in the distribution of manufacturing industry worldwide, and the process of adjustment which is a consequence of these changes. Contains four sectoral studies and four case studies (the US steel industry, the Italian clothing industry, the aircraft industry in Indonesia and Singapore, and Mexico's motor vehicle industry).
The American Gas Light Journal
Author: Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Author: Northeast and Midwest United States
Author: John T. CumblerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576079104
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An engaging, personalized look at the interplay between people and nature in the northeastern and midwestern United States, from prehistory to the present. The Northeast and Midwest regions of the United States provide a fascinating case study for the emergent field of environmental history. These regions, with their varied resources, were central to the early economic success of the nation. Consequently, the early industries in these regions altered and depleted the landscape as people changed their locations and occupations. Fishing and whaling on the northeastern coast have given way to tourism and sailing. The great stands of timber around the Great Lakes have been replaced by farms and dairies. The textile mills, powered by the falls of the Piedmont and once yielding wealth, now stand empty. That humans shape their environment and, in turn, must respond to the consequences is broadly obvious. Using the voices of historical figures, both notable and obscure, this book brings to life the interaction between humans and their environments and illustrates the consequences of those interactions. Part of ABC-CLIO's unique Nature and Human Societies series, this book enables readers to better understand humanity's effect on the environment.
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