Author: Flint (Mich.). City Planning BoardPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The City Plan of Flint, Michigan
Author: Flint (Mich.). City Planning BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The City Plan of Flint, Michigan, Including the Reports of John Nolen, City Planner, and Bion J. Arnold, Transportation Engineer, as Approved by the City Planning Board and Accepted by the Common Council. George C. Kellar, Mayor. Frank D. King, City Clerk
Author: Flint (Mich ) City Planning BoardPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017699173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Traffic and the City Plan
Author: Saginaw (Mich.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
City Planning
Author: The Poisoned City
Author: Anna ClarkPublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250125154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives. It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the water was poisonous. By that time, twelve people had died and Flint’s children had suffered irreparable harm. The long battle for accountability and a humane response to this man-made disaster has only just begun. In the first full account of this American tragedy, Anna Clark's The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion of democratic decision making. Places like Flint are set up to fail—and for the people who live and work in them, the consequences can be fatal.
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Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Chasing World-Class Urbanism
Author: Jacob LedermanPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452962774
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—establishing creative districts dedicated to technology and design, “greening” the streets, reinventing historic districts as tourist draws—were deployed to build a globally competitive Buenos Aires after its devastating 2001 economic crisis. In this richly drawn account, Jacob Lederman explores what those efforts teach us about fast-evolving changes in city planning practices and why so many local officials chase a nearly identical vision of world-class urbanism. Lederman explores the influence of Northern nongovernmental organizations and multilateral agencies on a prominent city of the global South. Using empirical data, keen observations, and interviews with people ranging from urban planners to street vendors he explores how transnational best practices actually affect the lives of city dwellers. His research also documents the forms of resistance enacted by everyday residents and the tendency of local institutions and social relations to undermine the top-down plans of officials. Most important, Lederman highlights the paradoxes of world-class urbanism: for instance, while the priorities identified by international agencies are expressed through nonmarket values such as sustainability, inclusion, and livability, local officials often use market-centric solutions to pursue them. Further, despite the progressive rhetoric used to describe urban planning goals, in most cases their result has been greater social, economic, and geographic stratification. Chasing World-Class Urbanism is a much-needed guide to the intersections of culture, ideology, and the realities of twenty-first-century life in a major Latin American city, one that illuminates the tension between technocratic aspirations and lived experience.
A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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