Author: Lee Robert WilliamsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Economic Structure of Houston, Texas
Author: Lee Robert WilliamsFree Enterprise City
Author: Joe R. FeaginPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The mission of this book is to attack the idea that Houston is a conservative role model, a city that succeeds due to its boundless devotion to free enterprise. In this mission, Feagin fails more than he succeeds- partially because to get to his substantive argument a reader has to get through a chapter or two of sociological jargon, and another chapter or two of mind-numbing factual detail about every business leader who has ever lived in Houston. This book would have been better had it been about half its size. When he gets to substance, his attack on Houston fails because he shows nothing more than that Houston has problems just like other cities- pollution, congestion, poverty, sprawl. So Houston isn't utopia. So what? Feagin fails because he makes little effort to compare Houston to other cities, except for a stray remark here and there. So he really didn't persuade me that Houston's problems were due to its allegedly small government, or that more socialistic policies would be more successful. Moreover, Feagin is utterly blind to the unintended consequences of government action. For example, he praises Houston for enacting minimum parking requirements and setback regulations, overlooking the possibility that such regulations contribute to the ills that he complains about by forcing pedestrians to walk through seas of parking to get to buildings. He complains that Houston has less public housing than other cities- but how many Cabrini-Greens and similar fiascoes does a city need? He praises Minneapolis as a role model- overlooking the small fact that Minneapolis has lost a fourth of its 1950 population, while Houston keeps growing. One thing Feagin does right: he points out that Houston is hardly a laissez-faire paradise, in that government has consistently subsidized its business elite through spending on roads, port facilities, convention centers, etc.
The Texas Triangle
Author: Henry CisnerosPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1648430112
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This important new study examines the intricately linked phenomena of interwoven population growth, economic power, quality education, business leadership, and fiscal significance as exemplified in the “Texas Triangle,” a network of metropolitan complexes that are reshaping the destiny of Texas and adding a strong pinnacle in the global system of economic mega-centers. The Texas Triangle consists of three metropolitan complexes: Dallas–Fort Worth at the northern tip, Houston-Galveston at the southeastern point, and Austin–San Antonio at the southwestern edge. It consists of four US Census–designated metropolitan statistical areas and includes 35 urban counties that comprise those areas. The Texas Triangle soon will include four of the ten most populous cities in the United States. Together these metro areas represent the fifteenth largest economy in the world. The authors describe the trajectories of each of the Texas Triangle metros in which they live and work and integrate them into a larger dynamic of functioning cohesion and effective collaboration. The Texas Triangle offers community leaders, elected officials, policy makers, and others a more nuanced understanding of an important moment in America’s continuing urban development. With broader perspectives for how community-building advances the public interest, this book lays important foundations for matching the path of economic prosperity to an informed sense of what is possible.
A Review of the Economic and Cultural Problems of Houston, Texas
Author: National Urban LeaguePublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Factors in economic development of Houston, Texas
Author: William Barrington SheltonPublisher:
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Category : Houston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Prophetic City
Author: Stephen L. KlinebergPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501177931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white southern city, has transformed into one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metro areas in the nation, surpassing even New York by some measures. With a diversifying economy and large numbers of both highly-skilled technical jobs in engineering and medicine and low-skilled minimum-wage jobs in construction, restaurant work, and personal services, Houston has become a magnet for the new divergent streams of immigration that are transforming America in the 21st century. And thanks to an annual systematic survey conducted over the past thirty-eight years, the ongoing changes in attitudes, beliefs, and life experiences have been measured and studied, creating a compelling data-driven map of the challenges and opportunities that are facing Houston and the rest of the country. In Prophetic City, we'll meet some of the new Americans, including a family who moved to Houston from Mexico in the early 1980s and is still trying to find work that pays more than poverty wages. There's a young man born to highly-educated Indian parents in an affluent Houston suburb who grows up to become a doctor in the world's largest medical complex, as well as a white man who struggles with being prematurely pushed out of the workforce when his company downsizes. This timely and groundbreaking book tracks the progress of an American city like never before. Houston is at the center of the rapid changes that have redefined the nature of American society itself in the new century. Houston is where, for better or worse, we can see the American future emerging.
The Economic Structure of the HOTCOG Region
Author: Heart of Texas Council of GovernmentsPublisher:
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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City of Houston, Texas
Author: Wainwright, Ramsey and Lancaster, firm, New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Houston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Houston Facts & Figures
Author: Texas Commerce Bank (Houston, Texas). Economics DeptPublisher:
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Category : Houston (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Economic Profile for Houston, Texas
Author: Houston (Tex.). Department of Planning and DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Harris County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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