Author: Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Bureau Publication
Author: Waterfront Manhattan
Author: Kurt C. SchlichtingPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425238
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the city's government did not have the responsibility or the fiscal resources to develop needed port facilities. To build the infrastructure, the government awarded "water-lots" to private individuals to build wharves and piers, surrendering public control of the waterfront. For over 250 years private enterprise ran the waterfront; the city played a peripheral role. By the end of the Civil War chaos reigned and threatened the port's dominance. In 1870 the city and state created the Department of Docks to exercise public control and rebuild the maritime infrastructure for the new era of steamships and ocean liners. A hundred years later, technological change in the form of the shipping container and jet airplane rendered Manhattan's waterfront obsolete within an incredibly short time span. The maritime use of the shoreline collapsed, mirroring the near death of the city of New York in the 1970s. Ships disappeared and abandoned piers and empty warehouses lined the waterfront. The city slowly and painfully recovered. The empty waterfront allowed visionaries and planners to completely reimagine a shore lined with parkland. Along the new waterfront, luxury housing has transformed the waterfront neighborhoods where the Irish longshoremen once lived. A few remaining piers offer spectacular views of the city's waterways, now a most precious asset. The rebirth has been driven by complex private/public partnerships, with the city of New York playing only a peripheral role. The contentious question of private vs. public control of the waterfront remains a continuing issue in the 21st century"--
Annual Reports of the City Departments of the City of Cincinnati ...
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio)Statistical Reference Index
Author: Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
State Commissions for the Study and Revision of Child-welfare Laws
Author: United States. Children's BureauPublisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Report of the Department of Labour for the Year Ended ...
Author: Canada. Department of LabourPublisher:
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South AustraliaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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