Download or read book Who Cleans the Park written by John Krinsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars—both public and private—fund urban jewels like Manhattan’s Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment tested, and leaves raked. Bringing this often-invisible work into view, however, raises profound questions for citizens of cities. In Who Cleans the Park? John Krinsky and Maud Simonet explain that the work of maintaining parks has intersected with broader trends in welfare reform, civic engagement, criminal justice, and the rise of public-private partnerships. Welfare-to-work trainees, volunteers, unionized city workers (sometimes working outside their official job descriptions), staff of nonprofit park “conservancies,” and people sentenced to community service are just a few of the groups who routinely maintain parks. With public services no longer being provided primarily by public workers, Krinsky and Simonet argue, the nature of public work must be reevaluated. Based on four years of fieldwork in New York City, Who Cleans the Park? looks at the transformation of public parks from the ground up. Beginning with studying changes in the workplace, progressing through the public-private partnerships that help maintain the parks, and culminating in an investigation of a park’s contribution to urban real-estate values, the book unearths a new urban order based on nonprofit partnerships and a rhetoric of responsible citizenship, which at the same time promotes unpaid work, reinforces workers’ domination at the workplace, and increases the value of park-side property. Who Cleans the Park? asks difficult questions about who benefits from public work, ultimately forcing us to think anew about the way we govern ourselves, with implications well beyond the five boroughs.

Download or read book Operation Park Clean Up written by Miriam Phillips and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can learn computer science, even at the elementary school level. This book delves into the essential computer science concept of problem decomposition using age-appropriate language and colorful illustrations. A meaningful storyline is paired with an accessible curricular topic to engage and excite readers. This book introduces readers to a relatable character and familiar situation, which demonstrates how problem decomposition is used in everyday life. Luis volunteers for a community campaign and learns how to break down a big project into smaller steps. This fiction book is paired with the nonfiction book Our Local Government (ISBN: 9781508137931). The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: Vocabulary, Background knowledge, Text-dependent questions, Whole class activities, and Independent activities.

Download or read book Clean Up City Park Ride Bikes Not Cars We Need New Playground Equipment written by Cynthia Swain and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have an idea to make your world a better place? Then make your ideas known by writing letters to people who can help. How?

Download or read book Comprehension Grade 4 written by Hatfield and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehension is the key to reading success! Reading for Every Child: Comprehension encourages fourth-grade students to be stronger readers using a wide range of reading comprehension activities. Reading selections from across the disciplines encourages students to understand, evaluate, and interpret what they read. This 80-page book includes projects, worksheets, games, and graphic organizers. It supports Reading First and aligns with Common Core State Standards.

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 2nd Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decoration Day in the Mountains written by Alan Jabbour and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our national Memorial Day. Little has been written about this tradition, but it is still observed widely throughout the Upland South, from North Carolina to the Ozarks. Written by internationally recognized folklorist Alan Jabbour and illustrated with more than a hundred photographs taken by Karen Singer Jabbour, Decoration Day in the Mountains is an in-depth exploration of this little-known cultural tradition. The Jabbours illuminate the meanings behind the rituals and reveal how the tradition fostered a grassroots movement to hold the federal government to its promises about cemeteries left behind when families were removed to make way for Fontana Dam and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Richly illustrated and vividly written, Decoration Day in the Mountains presents a compelling account of a widespread and long-standing Southern cultural practice.

Download or read book Repair Park Operation written by United States. Army. Motor Transport Corps and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Park and Cemetery and Landscape Garderning written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Court of Appeal 1st Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Board of West Chicago Park Commissioners written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annual Southwest Park and Recreation Training Institute Proceedings written by Southwest Park and Recreation Training Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Park Department of the City of Cincinnati written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Read about the Parkman written by Francine Klagsbrun and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1971 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the many available jobs, from zoo keeper to recreation leader, for those who want to work in parks.

Download or read book Bulletin written by New York Zoological Society and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 31, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 1928, commemorates "A quarter-century of the New York Aquarium."