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Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book The Massachusetts Register written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin B. Hollander
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319607057
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book An Ordinary City written by Justin B. Hollander and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book paints an intimate portrait of an overlooked kind of city that neither grows nor declines drastically. In fact, New Bedford, Massachusetts represents an entire category of cities that escape mainstream urban studies’ more customary attention to global cities (New York), booming cities (Atlanta), and shrinking cities (Flint). New Bedford-style ordinary cities are none of these, they neither grow nor decline drastically, but in their inconspicuousness, they account for a vast majority of all cities. Given the complexities of growth and decline, both temporarily and spatially, how does a city manage change and physically adapt to growth and decline? This book offers an answer through a detailed analysis of the politics, environment, planning strategies, and history of New Bedford.
Author : James C. O'Connell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026231407X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Hub's Metropolis written by James C. O'Connell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and “smart growth.” Boston's metropolitan landscape has been two hundred years in the making. From its proto-suburban village centers of 1800 to its far-flung, automobile-centric exurbs of today, Boston has been a national pacesetter for suburbanization. In The Hub's Metropolis, James O'Connell charts the evolution of Boston's suburban development. The city of Boston is compact and consolidated—famously, “the Hub.” Greater Boston, however, stretches over 1,736 square miles and ranks as the world's sixth largest metropolitan area. Boston suburbs began to develop after 1820, when wealthy city dwellers built country estates that were just a short carriage ride away from their homes in the city. Then, as transportation became more efficient and affordable, the map of the suburbs expanded. The Metropolitan Park Commission's park-and-parkway system, developed in the 1890s, created a template for suburbanization that represents the country's first example of regional planning. O'Connell identifies nine layers of Boston's suburban development, each of which has left its imprint on the landscape: traditional villages; country retreats; railroad suburbs; streetcar suburbs (the first electric streetcar boulevard, Beacon Street in Brookline, was designed by Frederic Law Olmsted); parkway suburbs, which emphasized public greenspace but also encouraged commuting by automobile; mill towns, with housing for workers; upscale and middle-class suburbs accessible by outer-belt highways like Route 128; exurban, McMansion-dotted sprawl; and smart growth. Still a pacesetter, Greater Boston has pioneered antisprawl initiatives that encourage compact, mixed-use development in existing neighborhoods near railroad and transit stations. O'Connell reminds us that these nine layers of suburban infrastructure are still woven into the fabric of the metropolis. Each chapter suggests sites to visit, from Waltham country estates to Cambridge triple-deckers.
Author : Christina D. Rosan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293258
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Governing the Fragmented Metropolis written by Christina D. Rosan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban sprawl, spatial segregation, gentrification, education, housing affordability, regional equity, and more. Unfortunately, local governments do not have the capacity to respond to the interlocking set of problems facing metropolitan regions, and future challenges such as population growth and climate change will not make it easier. But will we ever have a more effective and sustainable approach to developing the metropolitan region? The answer may depend on our ability to develop a means to govern a metropolitan region that promotes population density, regional public transit systems, and the equitable development of city and suburbs within a system of land use and planning that is by and large a local one. If we want to plan for sustainable regions we need to understand and strengthen existing metropolitan planning arrangements. Christina D. Rosan observes that policy-makers and scholars have long agreed that we need metropolitan governance, but they have debated the best approach. She argues that we need to have a more nuanced understanding of both metropolitan development and local land use planning. She interviews over ninety local and regional policy-makers in Portland, Denver, and Boston, and compares the uses of collaboration and authority in their varying metropolitan planning processes. At one end of the spectrum is Portland's approach, which leverages its authority and mandates local land use; at the other end is Boston's, which offers capacity building and financial incentives in the hopes of garnering voluntary cooperation. Rosan contends that most regions lie somewhere in between and only by understanding our current hybrid system of local land use planning and metropolitan governance will we be able to think critically about what political arrangements and tools are necessary to support the development of environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable metropolitan regions.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
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Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Department of Housing and Urban Development and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1989: Nondepartmental witnesses written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
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Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book Department of Housing and Urban Development and certain independent agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1989 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold R. Wallenstein
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Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Barriers and Incentives to Solar Energy Development written by Arnold R. Wallenstein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
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Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
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Total Pages : 1816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ... written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Third Harbor Tunnel, I-90/Central Artery, I-93, Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress Senate
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Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
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Total Pages : 716 pages
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Download or read book Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1980 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
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Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983: Agricultural programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Total Pages : 1780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book HUD's Policies on Multifamily Housing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1814 pages
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Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Warburg
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807054321
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Harness the Sun written by Philip Warburg and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going from the inner city to the open desert, a seasoned environmental advocate looks at solar energy’s remarkable ascent and its promise for America’s future Solar power was once the domain of futurists and environmentally minded suburbanites. Today it is part of mainstream America. Scan the skyline of downtown neighborhoods, check out the rooftop of the nearest Walmart, and take a close look at your local sports arena. Chances are you’ll find solar panels in those and many other unexpected places. In Harness the Sun, Philip Warburg takes readers on a far-flung journey that explores America’s solar revolution. Beginning with his solar-powered home in New England, he introduces readers to the pioneers who are spearheading our move toward a clean energy economy. We meet the CEOs who are propelling solar power to prominence and the intrepid construction workers who scale our rooftops installing panels. We encounter the engineers who are building giant utility-scale projects in prime solar states like Nevada, Arizona, and California, and the biologists who make sure wildlife is protected at those sites. Warburg shows how solar energy has won surprising support across the political spectrum. Prominent conservatives embrace solar power as an emblem of market freedom, while environmental advocates see it as a way to reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, economic-justice activists celebrate solar’s potential to lift up low-income communities, and Native American leaders welcome the income and jobs that the industry will bring to their communities. Yet solar energy has its downsides and detractors too. Conservationists worry about the impact of large solar farms on protected animal species, and some local citizens groups resent the encroachment of solar projects on farmland and open spaces. Warburg gives voice to those at the epicenter of these conflicts and points the way to constructive solutions. Harness the Sun offers a grounded, persuasive vision of America’s energy future. It is a future fueled by clean, renewable sources of power, with solar at center stage.
