Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Urban Renewal
Author: National Housing Center (U.S.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Selected Readings on Urban Affairs
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Public Health Service Publication
Author: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Planning Chicago
Author: D. Bradford HuntPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351177478
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the ensuing decades, planning did much to develop the Loop, protect Chicago’s famous lakefront, and encourage industrial growth and neighborhood development in the face of national trends that savaged other cities. But planning also failed some of Chicago’s communities and did too little for others. The Second City is no longer defined by its past and its myths but by the nature of its emerging postindustrial future. This volume looks beyond Burnham’s giant shadow to see the sprawl and scramble of a city always on the make. This isn’t the way other history books tell the story. But it’s the Chicago way.
Housing and Planning References
Author: Pests in the City
Author: Dawn Day BiehlerPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804866
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Dawn Day Biehler argues that the urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space. Community activists and social reformers strived to control pests in cities such as Washington, DC, Chicago, Baltimore, New York, and Milwaukee, but such efforts fell short when authorities blamed families and neighborhood culture for infestations rather than attacking racial segregation or urban disinvestment. Pest-control campaigns tended to target public or private spaces, but pests and pesticides moved readily across the porous boundaries between homes and neighborhoods. This story of flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats reveals that such creatures thrived on lax code enforcement and the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color. As Biehler shows, urban pests have remained a persistent problem at the intersection of public health, politics, and environmental justice, even amid promises of modernity and sustainability in American cities. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9PFxLY7K4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw
Civitas by Design
Author: Howard GillettePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812222229
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"The best study so far about the virtual collapse in the late twentieth century of South Jersey's largest city."--New York Times.
Slaughterhouse
Author: Dominic A. PacygaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022612309X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
On the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard, people got a firsthand look at Chicago's industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep disassembled with breathtaking efficiency. At their height, the kill floors employed 50,000 workers and processed six hundred animals an hour, an astonishing spectacle of industrialized death. Pacyga chronicles the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, served as the public face of Chicago for decades. He takes readers through the packinghouses as only an insider can, covering the rough and toxic life inside the plants and their lasting effects on the world outside. He shows how the yards shaped the surrounding neighborhoods; looks at the Yard's sometimes volatile role in the city's race and labor relations; and traces its decades of mechanized innovations.