Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Manhattan East Side Transit Alternatives Study (MESA)
Author: Bargaining for Brooklyn
Author: Nicole P. MarwellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226509087
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations that sought to bring direly needed resources back to the inner city. Today there are tens of thousands of these CBOs—private nonprofit groups that work diligently within tight budgets to give assistance and opportunity to our most vulnerable citizens by providing services such as housing, child care, and legal aid. Through ethnographic fieldwork at eight CBOs in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick, Nicole P. Marwell discovered that the complex and contentious relationships these groups form with larger economic and political institutions outside the neighborhood have a huge and unexamined impact on the lives of the poor. Most studies of urban poverty focus on individuals or families, but Bargaining for Brooklyn widens the lens, examining the organizations whose actions and decisions collectively drive urban life.
Hampton Roads Crossing Study
Author: United States. Federal Highway AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center
Author: Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
Author: Anthony M. OrumPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118568451
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2919
Book Description
Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida. Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.
Annual Report of the City Planning Commission
Author: New York (N.Y.). City Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
New Market Flood Control Study, York County
Author: There Was Nothing There
Author: Sara MartucciPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147981556X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents- those who are newcomers and those who have remained as Williamsburg transformed around them"--
Report of the Business and Transactions of the President of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York for the Year
Author: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Flood Plain Information
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Baltimore DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description