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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Borough of North Plainfield, Somerset County, New Jersey, Master Plan
Author: North Plainfield (N.J.). Planning BoardPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (N.W.R.) Master Plan
Author: NJ-92 from US-206 to NJ-33, Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset Counties
Author: Community Facilities Plan
Author: Compendium of Research Reports
Author: The Highlands
Author: Richard G. LathropPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813552087
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Think of the Highlands as the “backyard” and “backstop” of the Philadelphia–New York–Hartford metroplex. A backyard that spans over three million acres across Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, the Highlands serves as recreational open space for the metroplex’s burgeoning human population. As backstop, Highlands’ watersheds provide a ready source of high-quality drinking water for over fifteen million people. The Highlands is the first book to examine the natural and cultural landscape of this four-state region, showing how it’s distinctive and why its conservation is vital. Each chapter is written by a different leading researcher and specialist in that field, and introduces readers to another aspect of the Highlands: its geological foundations, its aquifers and watersheds, its forest ecology, its past iron industry. In the 1800s, the Highlands were mined, cutover, and then largely abandoned. Given time, the forests regenerated, the land healed, and the waters cleared. Increasingly, however, the Highlands are under assault again—polluted runoff contaminating lakes and streams, invasive species choking out the local flora and fauna, exurban sprawl blighting the rural landscape, and climate change threatening the integrity of its ecosystems. The Highlands makes a compelling case for land use planning and resource management strategies that could help ensure a sustainable future for the region, strategies that could in turn be applied to other landscapes threatened by urbanization across the country. The Highlands are a valuable resource. And now, so is The Highlands.
Compendium of Research Contracts and Reports
Author: United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and ResearchPublisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
US-206 Improvement, CR-518 to Somerville Circle, Somerset County
Author: Suburban Erasure
Author: Walter David GreasonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN: 1611475716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new framework for understanding both the history of the United States and of the world. Suburban Erasure by Walter David Greason contributes to the most recent developments in historical writing by recovering dozens of previously undiscovered works about the African-American experience in New Jersey. More importantly, his interpretation of these documents complicates the traditional understandings about the Great Migration, civil rights activism, and the transformation of the United States as a global, economic superpower. Greason details the voices of black men and women whose vision and sacrifices made the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. possible. Then, in the second half of this study, the limitations of this dream of integration become clear as New Jersey—a state that took the lead in showing American how to overcome the racism of the past—fell victim to a recurring pattern of colorblindness that entrenched the legacy of racial inequality in the consumer economy of the late twentieth century. Suburbanization simultaneously erased the physical architecture of rural segregation in New Jersey and ideologically obscured the deepening, persistent injustices that became the War on Drugs and the prison-industrial complex. His solution for the twenty-first century involves the most fundamental effort to racially integrate state and local government conceived since the Reconstruction Era. Suburban Erasure is a must read for people concerned with democracy, human rights, and the future of civil society.