Author: Flint (Mich.). City Planning BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Comprehensive City Plan for Flint, Michigan; Part I, Traffic Survey and Thoroughfare Plan
Author: Flint (Mich.). City Planning BoardPublisher:
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Category : Traffic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports Compiled
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
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
A Comprehensive City Plan for Flint, Michigan
Author: Flint (Mich.). City Planning BoardPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Ed Bacon
Author: Gregory L. HellerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220784X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia's image to the level of great world cities. Urban development came with costs, however, and projects that displaced residents and replaced homes with highways did not go uncriticized, nor was every development that Bacon envisioned brought to fruition. Despite these challenges, Bacon oversaw the planning and implementation of dozens of redesigned urban spaces: the restored colonial neighborhood of Society Hill, the new office development of Penn Center, and the transit-oriented shopping center of Market East. Ed Bacon is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. Gregory L. Heller traces the trajectory of Bacon's two-decade tenure as city planning director, which coincided with a transformational period in American planning history. Edmund Bacon is remembered as a larger-than-life personality, but in Heller's detailed account, his successes owed as much to his savvy negotiation of city politics and the pragmatic particulars of his vision. In the present day, as American cities continue to struggle with shrinkage and economic restructuring, Heller's insightful biography reveals an inspiring portrait of determination and a career-long effort to transform planning ideas into reality.
Index of Research Projects ...
Author: United States. Work Projects AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A Town Abandoned
Author: Steven P. DandaneauPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438400454
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Hometown to both General Motors and the United Auto Workers, and the setting for the documentary film Roger and Me, Flint, Michigan, is a striking example of a declining city in America's Rust Belt. A Town Abandoned examines Flint's response to its own social and economic decline and at the same time pursues a broad analysis of class and culture in America's late capitalist society. It tells the story of how Flint's local institutions and citizens interpret and rationalize their city's massive auto-industry job loss and consequent decline, and it relates these interpretations to statewide, national, and international forces that led to the deindustrialization. Using a critical-theory approach, Dandaneau reveals the futility of Flint's efforts to confront essentially global problems and moreover depicts the disturbing conceptual and cultural distortions that result from its sustained powerlessness. Dandaneau shows that all policy solutions to Flint's problems were in essence public relations solutions, and he gives a moving portrayal of the consequences for local communities of the internationalization of American business.
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental StudiesPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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