Author: Mel ScottPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
American City Planning
Author: Mel ScottPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339290
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Urban Planning and Land Policies
Author: United States. National Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Urban Spaces
Author: John Morris DixonPublisher: Visual Reference Publications
ISBN: 9781584711056
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
'Urban Spaces 5' offers an illustrated tour of a diversity of projects. John Morris Dixon explains the chief design challenges and the solutions developed by the outstanding firms profiled in this volume.
Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: New Towns Planning and Development
Author: Gideon GolanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: Supplementary Report of the Urbanism Committee to the National Resources Committee: Urban planning and land policies
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on UrbanismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"On August 9, 1937, the National Resources Committee submitted to the President its report on 'Our cities--their role in the national economy.' In the course of preparing this report a large volume of basic data and information was collected which could not then be included. The publication of these supplementary volumes has been undertaken to make such data and information available."--Vol. l, p. iii.
Planning, Current Literature
Author: The Atomic West
Author: Bruce W. HevlyPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295800623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities—particularly the ones most likely to spread pollution—in western states. The Manhattan Project manufactured plutonium at Hanford, Washington; designed and assembled bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on June 16, 1945. In the years that followed the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected additional western sites for its work. Many westerners initially welcomed the atom. Like federal officials, they, too, regarded their region as “empty,” or underdeveloped. Facilities to make, test, and base atomic weapons, sites to store nuclear waste, and even nuclear power plants were regarded as assets. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, regional attitudes began to change. At a variety of locales, ranging from Eskimo Alaska to Mormon Utah, westerners devoted themselves to resisting the atom and its effects on their environments and communities. Just as the atomic age had dawned in the American West, so its artificial sun began to set there. The Atomic West brings together contributions from several disciplines to explore the impact on the West of the development of atomic power from wartime secrecy and initial postwar enthusiasm to public doubts and protest in the 1970s and 1980s. An impressive example of the benefits of interdisciplinary studies on complex topics, The Atomic West advances our understanding of both regional history and the history of science, and does so with human communities as a significant focal point. The book will be of special interest to students and experts on the American West, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.