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Book The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems

Download or read book The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems written by Raymond Vernon and published by Cambridge : Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. This book was released on 1966 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of urban area neighbourhood and community development in the USA - covers historical aspects, the social structure, poverty, urban planning, and problems of transportation, housing and location of industry.

Book The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems

Download or read book The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems written by Charles McGaw and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems

Download or read book The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems written by Raymond Vernon and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Myth and Reality of Our Problems

Download or read book The Myth and Reality of Our Problems written by Raymond Vernon and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Policy Studies  Review Annual

Download or read book Policy Studies Review Annual written by Ray Rist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth edition of this annual collection of the year's best work in policy studies. Contributions in this volume reflect the increased emphasis on budget conscious and carefully targeted social programmes. Exemplifying a range of analytic and methodological strategies, this edition features studies from Australia, the United States, West Germany, and Great Britain.

Book The Mythe and Reality of Our Urban Problems

Download or read book The Mythe and Reality of Our Urban Problems written by Raymond Vernon and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Downtown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Groth
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520219540
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Living Downtown written by Paul Groth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.

Book New Perspectives on the American Community

Download or read book New Perspectives on the American Community written by Roland Leslie Warren and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael N. Danielson
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1982-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780520906891
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book New York written by Michael N. Danielson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-09-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the fourth in the Franklin K. Lane series on the governance of major metropolitan regions. The series is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of International Studies, University of California in Berkeley. Readers of these volumes and other relevant literature will no doubt agree with the authors of this book that similar patterns are found in New York, London, Toronto, Stockholm, and indeed in "every other major metropolitan region in the United States and in other advanced industrial societies." The presence of such common factors and trends, although they assume different configurations in various metropolitan regions, has been demonstrated by the work of many scholars, including Peter Hall, Brian Berry, Marion Clawson, Jean Gottmann, Larry Bourne and William Robson, as well as by the authors of the other Franklin K. Lane books—Donald Foley, Albert Rose and Thomas Anton. In the present volume Michael Danielson and Jameson Doig have described and analyzed the cultural, economic, political and other social forces shaping development in the New York region. They present a picture of a region singular in its attractions, problems, geographic scope, magnitude of development, and complexity of the network of organizations involved in its governance.

Book Nation s Cities

Download or read book Nation s Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Perspectives on the American Community

Download or read book New Perspectives on the American Community written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books in Series

Download or read book Books in Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 3328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leaders

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  • Author : Stanley McChrystal
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-10-23
  • ISBN : 0525534385
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Leaders written by Stanley McChrystal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant national bestseller! Stanley McChrystal, the retired US Army general and bestselling author of Team of Teams, profiles thirteen of history’s great leaders, including Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, and Robert E. Lee, to show that leadership is not what you think it is—and never was. Stan McChrystal served for thirty-four years in the US Army, rising from a second lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division to a four-star general, in command of all American and coalition forces in Afghanistan. During those years he worked with countless leaders and pondered an ancient question: “What makes a leader great?” He came to realize that there is no simple answer. McChrystal profiles thirteen famous leaders from a wide range of eras and fields—from corporate CEOs to politicians and revolutionaries. He uses their stories to explore how leadership works in practice and to challenge the myths that complicate our thinking about this critical topic. With Plutarch’s Lives as his model, McChrystal looks at paired sets of leaders who followed unconventional paths to success. For instance. . . · Walt Disney and Coco Chanel built empires in very different ways. Both had public personas that sharply contrasted with how they lived in private. · Maximilien Robespierre helped shape the French Revolution in the eighteenth century; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi led the jihadist insurgency in Iraq in the twenty-first. We can draw surprising lessons from them about motivation and persuasion. · Both Boss Tweed in nineteenth-century New York and Margaret Thatcher in twentieth-century Britain followed unlikely roads to the top of powerful institutions. · Martin Luther and his future namesake Martin Luther King Jr., both local clergymen, emerged from modest backgrounds to lead world-changing movements. Finally, McChrystal explores how his former hero, General Robert E. Lee, could seemingly do everything right in his military career and yet lead the Confederate Army to a devastating defeat in the service of an immoral cause. Leaders will help you take stock of your own leadership, whether you’re part of a small team or responsible for an entire nation.

Book The Americans  The Democratic Experience

Download or read book The Americans The Democratic Experience written by Daniel J. Boorstin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases

Book Behind the Postmodern Facade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Magali Sarfatti Larson
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520201613
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Behind the Postmodern Facade written by Magali Sarfatti Larson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style--she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America. The author's novel approach in synthesizing sociological research and theory proposes nothing less than a new cultural history of architecture. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of culture and the sociology of knowledge, as well as to architectural and urban history. Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style--she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America. The author's novel approach in synthesizing sociological research and theory proposes nothing less than a new cultural history of architecture. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of culture and the sociology of knowledge, as well as to architectural and urban history.