Download or read book Plan for New York City 1969 Queens written by New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes comprise New York's official "Master Plan," enormous and far-reaching in scope but designed for the speediest possible implementation. The independent Regional Plan Association has called it "the first comprehensive plan for New York City."Like any bold and innovative undertaking, the proposals of the plan have caused much controversy and even disruption since their first public presentation in November 1969. Reactions have ranged from high praise as "a strong and extremely significant document" to charges of being "merely a listing of problems rather than solutions" and to chants of "damn the masters' plan." From the point of view of the "New York Times, " the Master Plan is "in part one more call, a particularly urgent and persuasive one, for the unshackling of the cities by the states and a reordering of national priorities."These proposals are addressed to the people of New York City (and involve, by extension, the survival of "all" large metropolitan centers) as well as to the planning community. It is "not" a plan for a futuramic year 2000 but is concerned rather with current, key problems now facing the city: it stressed objectives, goals, methods, and techniques. It is a social document as well as a physical consideration of people's needs. There is as much concern with the solution of drug addiction and other social dilemmas, as there is with blueprints and data control techniques to resolve problems.Each of the volumes is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and full-color maps and charts (in all, there are 200 maps, 800 photographs, 750 charts). Volume 1, "Critical Issues, " introduces and summarizes all the main recommendations contained in the subsequent volumes. It contains an atlas of New York City, with numerous multicolored maps; a photo essay of historical New York; a sociological summation of New York's past and its present; a plan for the city which derives from human and social needs rather than physical and topographical reconstruction as the central program. In this sense, the first and subsequent volumes are a unique approach to city planning. There are no monorail, geodesic, archigram, or other "world's fair" conceptions; if it has a bias, the bias is toward an effective and realistic approach, to be put into practice as soon as possible.The literary draftsman of "Critical Issues" was William H. Whyte, author of "The Organization Man" and the more recent book "The Last Landscape." He devoted 15 months to the job of writing the 90,000-word design for better living in New York.Volumes 2 through 6 pertain to each of the five boroughs of New York: Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx, and Manhattan. Each work treats in great detail recommendations for the particular borough. Each borough is thoroughly mapped by aerial and conventional cartography. A historical introduction of each is sketched, including subplanning districts within the borough. From that point the planners move to a description of the assets and liabilities of each district. Traditional concern with land-use, housing, zoning, and transportation are discussed fully; recommendations concerning job training, community action, education, health, and recreation are made within the actual context of the physical and social environments.
Download or read book Housing and Planning References written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Working Class New York written by Joshua B. Freeman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Largely through the efforts of its working class and the dynamic labor movement it built, New York City became the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all. Working-Class New York is an “engrossing” (Dissent) account of the birth of that ideal and the way it came crashing down. In what Publishers Weekly calls “absorbing and beautifully detailed history,” historian Joshua Freeman shows how the anticommunist purges of the 1950s decimated the ranks of the labor movement and demoralized its idealists, and how the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s dealt another crushing blow to liberal ideals as the city’s wealthy elite made a frenzied grab for power. A grand work of cultural and social history, Working-Class New York is a moving chronicle of a dream that died but may yet rise again.
Download or read book Plan for New York City 1969 Manhattan written by New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes comprise New York's official "Master Plan," enormous and far-reaching in scope but designed for the speediest possible implementation. The independent Regional Plan Association has called it "the first comprehensive plan for New York City."Like any bold and innovative undertaking, the proposals of the plan have caused much controversy and even disruption since their first public presentation in November 1969. Reactions have ranged from high praise as "a strong and extremely significant document" to charges of being "merely a listing of problems rather than solutions" and to chants of "damn the masters' plan." From the point of view of the "New York Times, " the Master Plan is "in part one more call, a particularly urgent and persuasive one, for the unshackling of the cities by the states and a reordering of national priorities."These proposals are addressed to the people of New York City (and involve, by extension, the survival of "all" large metropolitan centers) as well as to the planning community. It is "not" a plan for a futuramic year 2000 but is concerned rather with current, key problems now facing the city: it stressed objectives, goals, methods, and techniques. It is a social document as well as a physical consideration of people's needs. There is as much concern with the solution of drug addiction and other social dilemmas, as there is with blueprints and data control techniques to resolve problems.Each of the volumes is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and full-color maps and charts (in all, there are 200 maps, 800 photographs, 750 charts). Volume 1, "Critical Issues, " introduces and summarizes all the main recommendations contained in the subsequent volumes. It contains an atlas of New York City, with numerous multicolored maps; a photo essay of historical New York; a sociological summation of New York's past and its present; a plan for the city which derives from human and social needs rather than physical and topographical reconstruction as the central program. In this sense, the first and subsequent volumes are a unique approach to city planning. There are no monorail, geodesic, archigram, or other "world's fair" conceptions; if it has a bias, the bias is toward an effective and realistic approach, to be put into practice as soon as possible.The literary draftsman of "Critical Issues" was William H. Whyte, author of "The Organization Man" and the more recent book "The Last Landscape." He devoted 15 months to the job of writing the 90,000-word design for better living in New York.Volumes 2 through 6 pertain to each of the five boroughs of New York: Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx, and Manhattan. Each work treats in great detail recommendations for the particular borough. Each borough is thoroughly mapped by aerial and conventional cartography. A historical introduction of each is sketched, including subplanning districts within the borough. From that point the planners move to a description of the assets and liabilities of each district. Traditional concern with land-use, housing, zoning, and transportation are discussed fully; recommendations concerning job training, community action, education, health, and recreation are made within the actual context of the physical and social environments.
Download or read book The City Lost Found written by Katherine A. Bussard and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980. The Art Institute of Chicago, October 26, 2014-January 11, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, February 21-June 7, 2015"--Colophon.
Download or read book Competition in Real Estate and Mortgage Lending written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Summer in the City written by Joseph P. Viteritti and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These first-rate essays provide a positive revaluation of [John Lindsay’s] mayoralty, a convincing defense of the progressive tradition he championed.” —Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of Gotham Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society Program. Providing an even-handed reassessment of Lindsay’s legacy and the policies of the period, the essays in this volume skillfully dissect his kaleidoscope of progressive ideas and approach to leadership—all set in a perfect storm of huge demographic changes, growing fiscal stress, and an unprecedented commitment by the federal government to attain a more equal society. Compelling archival photos and a timeline give readers a window into the mythic 1960s, a period animated by civil rights marches, demands for black power, antiwar demonstrations, and a heroic intergovernmental effort to redistribute national resources more evenly. Written by prize-winning authors and leading scholars, each chapter covers a distinct aspect of Lindsay’s mayoralty (politics, race relations, finance, public management, architecture, economic development, and the arts), while Joseph P. Viteritti’s introductory and concluding essays offer an honest and nuanced portrait of Lindsay and the prospects for shaping more balanced public priorities as New York City ushers in a new era of progressive leadership. “Summer in the City artfully balances the interplay of leadership, ideas about urbanism that were prevalent at the time, and deep political, intergovernmental, demographic, and economic structural forces at play in the 1960s, producing the best volume about Mayor John Lindsay ever published.” —Richard Flanagan, City University of New York
Download or read book Public Works Appropriations for 1969 for Water and Power Resources Development and the Atomic Energy Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Works Appropriations for 1969 for Water and Power Resources Development and the Atomic Energy Commission written by United States. Congress. House Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Architects written by Muriel Emanuel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Us All written by Roger Sanjek and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area's two-decade experience of multiracial diversity offers us an early look at the future of urban America. The result of more than a dozen years' work, this remarkable book immerses us in Elmhurst-Corona's social and political life from the 1960s through the 1990s. First settled in 1652, Elmhurst-Corona by 1960 housed a mix of Germans, Irish, Italians, and other "white ethnics." In 1990 this population made up less than a fifth of its residents; Latin American and Asian immigrants and African Americans comprised the majority. The Future of Us All focuses on the combined impact of racial change, immigrant settlement, governmental decentralization, and assaults on local quality of life which stemmed from the city's 1975 fiscal crisis and the policies of its last three mayors. The book examines the ways in which residents--in everyday interactions, block and tenant associations, houses of worship, small business coalitions, civic rituals, incidents of ethnic and racial hostility, and political struggles against overdevelopment, for more schools, and for youth programs--have forged and tested alliances across lines of race, ethnicity, and language. From the telling local details of daily life to the larger economic and regional frameworks, this account of a neighborhood's transformation illuminates the issues that American communities will be grappling with in the coming decades.
Download or read book Transportation and Economic Opportunity written by Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of the New York Bight List of citations written by Environmental Science Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of the New York Bight written by Environmental Science Information Center and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brooklyn written by New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
