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Tinicum & Eastwick

Author : Will Caverly
Publisher : Brookline Books
ISBN 13 : 1955041156
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Tinicum & Eastwick written by Will Caverly and published by Brookline Books. This book was released on 2024-12-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshes to be razed, two grassroots movements took up the cause—battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice. In the 1950s, city planners eager to change the face of Philadelphia had designs on the city’s southwest. They planned to raze the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and level the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshlands to make room for a new “city within a city.” In response, two grassroots movements began a resistance that spanned decades—battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice. The Eastwick neighborhood’s resistance to the project was racially diverse and working class in nature. Led by housewives, they went toe to toe with a government bureaucracy hungry for progress. As Eastwick rallied to defend itself, a parallel grassroots effort by bird watchers desperately worked to save the embattled Tinicum marshes. These unspoiled remains of Pennsylvania’s last freshwater tidal marsh were home to hundreds of threatened species of wildlife. Amid protest marches and bomb threats, political intrigue and outrage, a question emerged that would forever influence the region. Who deserves a home: wildlife or human beings? Through oral history and exhaustive research, Tinicum & Eastwick documents one of the most egregious civil-rights violations in Pennsylvania history, as well as one of the state’s greatest environmental triumphs. Author Will Caverly confronts the intersection of eminent domain and environment, told through the struggles everyday residents of Southeastern Pennsylvania endured to pursue justice.

Eastwick Letters

Author : David J Knapp
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039179134
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Eastwick Letters written by David J Knapp and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EASTWICK LETTERS transcribes and illustrates 117 individual sheets written 1844–51 by Andrew McCalla Eastwick, his wife Lydia, their children, and business associates as the family set up works, and home in 19th century St. Petersburg, Russia. Eastwick was one of three partners in the Philadelphia firm of Harrison, Winans & Eastwick. The business had been awarded a $3 million/ five-year contract to build rolling stock, (locomotive engines and cars) for Czar Nicholas I for a railroad to connect St. Petersburg and Moscow. The enterprise required Eastwick and partners to take possession of a large Imperial industrial complex on the Neva River, known as Alexandroffsky Head Mechanical Works. Once in operation they were to use serf labor and Russian materials to fulfill the contract. Concurrently, Major George Washington Whistler (West Point civil engineer and father of the famous artist), was to oversee the construction of the 420 miles of railway track and railbed required. Presented chronologically and extensively illustrated, EASTWICK LETTERS opens a window into the private emotions of the writers, and illustrates a colorful story of Russian life and times at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. More so than early photographs, the letters vividly reveal the inner thoughts of each writer, and what they observed in a foreign land. In 1851 the Eastwick family returned to Philadelphia where Andrew purchased Bartram’s Garden along the Schuylkill River and saved it from industrial development. Years later after Andrew’s passing, Lydia Eastwick bequeathed the property to the City of Philadelphia where today, Bartram’s Garden is a landmark. The conservatory is open to the public and carries on the legacy of John Bartram, first American botanist to the Colonies.

The Witches of Eastwick

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645888
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Witches of Eastwick written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick—and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche. “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.”—Newsday

Urban Redevelopment

Author : Barry Hersh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317663063
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Urban Redevelopment written by Barry Hersh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city, and the goal of this book is to examine the various aspects of redevelopment, its principles and practices in the North American context. Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader seeks to shed light on the practice by looking at both its failures and successes, ideas that seemed to work in specific circumstances but not in others. The book aims to provide guidance to academics, practitioners and professionals on how, when, where and why, specific approaches worked and when they didn’t. While one has to deal with each case specifically, it is the interactions that are key. The contributors offer insight into how urban design affects behavior, how finance drives architectural choices, how social equity interacts with economic development, how demographical diversity drives cities’ growth, how politics determine land use decisions, how management deals with market choices, and how there are multiple influences and impacts of every decision. The book moves from the history of urban redevelopment, The City Beautiful movement, grand concourses and plazas, through urban renewal, superblocks and downtown pedestrian malls to today’s place-making: transit-oriented design, street quieting, new urbanism, publicly accessible, softer, waterfront design, funky small urban spaces and public-private megaprojects. This history also moves from grand masters such as Baron Haussmann and Robert Moses through community participation, to stakeholder involvement to creative local leadership. The increased importance of sustainability, high-energy performance, resilience and both pre- and post-catastrophe planning are also discussed in detail. Cities are acts of man, not nature; every street and building represents decisions made by people. Many of today’s best recognized urban theorists look for great forces; economic trends, technological shifts, political movements and try to analyze how they impact cities. One does not have to be a subscriber to the "great man" theory of history to see that in urban redevelopment, successful project champions use or sometimes overcome overall trends, using the tools and resources available to rebuild their community. This book is about how these projects are brought together, each somewhat differently, by the people who make them happen.

The Locomotive Engine, and Philadelphia's Share in Its Early Improvements ... Revised Edition with an Appendix. Illustrated

Author : Joseph HARRISON (Mechanical Engineer)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Locomotive Engine, and Philadelphia's Share in Its Early Improvements ... Revised Edition with an Appendix. Illustrated written by Joseph HARRISON (Mechanical Engineer) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Digest of Patents, Issued by the United States, from 1790 to January 1, 1839 : Published by Act of Congress Under the Superintendence of the Commission of Parents, Henry L. Ellsworth to which is Added the Present Laws Relating to Patents

Download A Digest of Patents, Issued by the United States, from 1790 to January 1, 1839 : Published by Act of Congress Under the Superintendence of the Commission of Parents, Henry L. Ellsworth to which is Added the Present Laws Relating to Patents PDF Online Free

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Digest of Patents, Issued by the United States, from 1790 to January 1, 1839 : Published by Act of Congress Under the Superintendence of the Commission of Parents, Henry L. Ellsworth to which is Added the Present Laws Relating to Patents written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Digest of Patents

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Digest of Patents written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Documents

Author : West Virginia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Public Documents written by West Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia

Author : West Virginia. Public Service Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia written by West Virginia. Public Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part III of the First annual report 1913/14, "covers the work of the Commission as the administrative board of the Workmen's compensation fund."

Messages of Governor ... to Legislature of ... and Governor ... to Legislature of ... and Reports and Documents Covering the Fiscal Years Ending ...

Author : West Virginia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Annual Report - Public Service Commission

Author : West Virginia. Public Service Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report - Public Service Commission written by West Virginia. Public Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part III of the First annual report 1913/14, "covers the work of the Commission as the administrative board of the Workmen's Compensation Fund."

Governor's Message ...

Author : West Virginia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (962 download)

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Annual Report - The Public Service Commission

Author : West Virginia. Public Service Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report - The Public Service Commission written by West Virginia. Public Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part III of the First annual report 1913/14, "covers the work of the Commission as the administrative board of the Workmen's compensation fund."

Awards ... Third Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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The Fitch Bond Book

Author : Fitch Investors Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Fitch Bond Book written by Fitch Investors Service and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1986: Department of Commerce

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1864 pages
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Download or read book Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1986: Department of Commerce written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: