Author: Chicago (Ill.). Dept. of Development and PlanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Comprehensive Plan of Chicago
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Dept. of Development and PlanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Growing Populations, Changing Landscapes
Author: National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170729
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
As the world's population exceeds an incredible 6 billion people, governmentsâ€"and scientistsâ€"everywhere are concerned about the prospects for sustainable development. The science academies of the three most populous countries have joined forces in an unprecedented effort to understand the linkage between population growth and land-use change, and its implications for the future. By examining six sites ranging from agricultural to intensely urban to areas in transition, the multinational study panel asks how population growth and consumption directly cause land-use change, and explore the general nature of the forces driving the transformations. Growing Populations, Changing Landscapes explains how disparate government policies with unintended consequences and globalization effects that link local land-use changes to consumption patterns and labor policies in distant countries can be far more influential than simple numerical population increases. Recognizing the importance of these linkages can be a significant step toward more effective environmental management.
Housing and Planning References
Author: Water and the Cities
Author: Peter Raven-HansenPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U. S. Engineering
Author: Amy E. SlatonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674054639
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 percent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education and employment, what do we make of an occupational pattern that perpetually follows the lines of race? Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering pursues this question and its ramifications through historical case studies. Focusing on engineering programs in three settings--in Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s--Amy E. Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. Her study reveals aspects of admissions criteria and curricular emphases that work against proportionate black involvement in many engineering programs. Slaton exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes--ideas and practices that are as limiting for the field of engineering as they are for the goal of greater racial parity in the profession.
Chicago's Politics and Society
Author: Vernon SimpsonPublisher:
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Category : Chicago
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Recent Trends in Rapid Racial Transition and Residential Abandonment in American Central Cities with Specific Reference to Chicago
Author: Carl AdrianopoliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Comprehensive Plan
Author: Tec-Search, Inc., Evanston, IllinoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: Freight Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use
Author: Harold Melvin MayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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