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Book Synopsis Cities in the Commonwealth by : Allen J. Share
Download or read book Cities in the Commonwealth written by Allen J. Share and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1780s, when Louisville and Lexington were tiny clusters of houses in the wilderness, to the 1980s, when more than half of all Kentuckians live in urban areas, the growth of cities has affected nearly all aspects of life in the Commonwealth. These urban centers have led the state in economic, social, and cultural change. Cities in the Commonwealth examines the crises that have shaped the history of Kentucky's cities and sheds light on such continuing concerns as urban competition, provision of essential services, the importance of the arts, and the struggle for racial justice. By allowing contemporaries to tell much of the story in their own words, Allen J. Share conveys a sense of the exuberance and dynamism of urban life and thought in Kentucky.
Book Synopsis Survival of the City by : Edward Glaeser
Download or read book Survival of the City written by Edward Glaeser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent as people worked from home—if they could work at all. The normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in digital technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. Great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. It is possible to drive a city into the ground, pandemic or not. Glaeser and Cutler examine the evolution that is already happening, and describe the possible futures that lie before us: What will distinguish the cities that will flourish from the ones that won’t? In America, they argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.
Book Synopsis Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth by : Paul Musselwhite
Download or read book Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth written by Paul Musselwhite and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some sought wealth from the land, while others saw it as a place of trade, a political experiment, or a potential spiritual sanctuary. But like other European colonizers in the Americas, they all aspired to found, organize, and maintain functioning towns—an aspiration that met with varying degrees of success, but mostly failure. Yet this failure became critical to the economy and society that did arise there. As Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth reveals, the agrarian plantation society that eventually sprang up around the Chesapeake Bay was not preordained—rather, it was the necessary product of failed attempts to build cities. Paul Musselwhite details the unsuccessful urban development that defined the region from the seventeenth century through the Civil War, showing how places like Jamestown and Annapolis—despite their small size—were the products of ambitious and cutting-edge experiments in urbanization comparable to those in the largest port cities of the Atlantic world. These experiments, though, stoked ongoing debate about commerce, taxation, and self-government. Chesapeake planters responded to this debate by reinforcing the political, economic, and cultural authority of their private plantation estates, with profound consequences for the region’s laborers and the political ideology of the southern United States. As Musselwhite makes clear, the antebellum economy around this well-known waterway was built not in the absence of cities, but upon their aspirational wreckage.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Commonwealth by : Phil Withington
Download or read book The Politics of Commonwealth written by Phil Withington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Commonwealth offers a major reinterpretation of urban political culture in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Examining what it meant to be a freeman and citizen in early modern England, it also shows the increasingly pivotal place of cities and boroughs within the national polity. It considers the practices that constituted urban citizenship as well as its impact on the economic, patriarchal and religious life of towns and the larger commonwealth. The author has recovered the language and concepts used at the time, whether by eminent citizens like Andrew Marvell or more humble tradesmen and craftsmen. Unprecedented in terms of the range of its sources and freshness of its approach, the book reveals a dimension of early modern culture that has major implications for how we understand the English state, economy and 'public sphere'; the political upheavals of the mid-seventeenth-century and popular political participation more generally.
Book Synopsis The American Commonwealth - by : Viscount James Bryce
Download or read book The American Commonwealth - written by Viscount James Bryce and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1888, The American Commonwealth was an instant classic, a three-volume set discussing the political structure of American society, its legal system, and its people with an analysis that is both broad and in-depth. Volume I covers the Constitution and the American political system. It discusses the structure of American government and the ways in which the living American government as an entity responds to crisis. The possibilities and power struggles inherent in the American system of government are examined and documented with a fair hand. Bryce goes into further detail about state constitutions and the differing legal structures that exist on a more local level. Anyone with an interest in politics or American history will find Bryce's commentary penetratingly insightful. British historian VISCOUNT JAMES BRYCE (1838-1922) attended the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Oxford. He is best known for his scholarship of the Holy Roman Empire. His popular works include Studies in History and Jurisprudence (1901) and Studies in Contemporary Biography (1903).
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board
Download or read book Annual Report written by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Passed Subsequently to the Revised Statutes, 1836 to 1849 Inclusive. Supplements to the Revised Statutes by : Theron Metcalf
Download or read book Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Passed Subsequently to the Revised Statutes, 1836 to 1849 Inclusive. Supplements to the Revised Statutes written by Theron Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Commonwealth: Vol. 2: The State Governments by : James Bryce
Download or read book The American Commonwealth: Vol. 2: The State Governments written by James Bryce and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Bryce’s work rises at once to an eminent place among studies of great nations and their institutions. It is, so far as America goes, a work unique in scope, spirit, and knowledge. There is nothing like it anywhere extant, nothing that approaches it. Without exaggeration, it may be called the most considerable and gratifying tribute that has yet been bestowed upon America by an Englishman, and, perhaps, by even England herself. . . . One despairs in an attempt to give an adequate account of a work so infused with knowledge and sparkling with Suggestion. Every thoughtful American will read it, and will long hold in grateful remembrance its author’s name. It is a work that takes instant rank as the keenest critique and most trustworthy description of America’s social and political life and is recognized as the most remarkable among English books for the accuracy of its statements, its fairness of judgment, and its clearness of comprehension. Written with full knowledge by a distinguished Englishman to dispel vulgar prejudices and to help kindred people to understand each other better, Prof. Bryce’s work is in a sense an embassy of peace, a message of good-will from one nation to another. This is volume two out of four, “The State Governments”.
Book Synopsis Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... by : Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc
Download or read book Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... written by Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth by : Paul Musselwhite
Download or read book Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth written by Paul Musselwhite and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some sought wealth from the land, while others saw it as a place of trade, a political experiment, or a potential spiritual sanctuary. But like other European colonizers in the Americas, they all aspired to found, organize, and maintain functioning towns—an aspiration that met with varying degrees of success, but mostly failure. Yet this failure became critical to the economy and society that did arise there. As Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth reveals, the agrarian plantation society that eventually sprang up around the Chesapeake Bay was not preordained—rather, it was the necessary product of failed attempts to build cities. Paul Musselwhite details the unsuccessful urban development that defined the region from the seventeenth century through the Civil War, showing how places like Jamestown and Annapolis—despite their small size—were the products of ambitious and cutting-edge experiments in urbanization comparable to those in the largest port cities of the Atlantic world. These experiments, though, stoked ongoing debate about commerce, taxation, and self-government. Chesapeake planters responded to this debate by reinforcing the political, economic, and cultural authority of their private plantation estates, with profound consequences for the region’s laborers and the political ideology of the southern United States. As Musselwhite makes clear, the antebellum economy around this well-known waterway was built not in the absence of cities, but upon their aspirational wreckage.
Book Synopsis Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2008 by :
Download or read book Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report 2008 written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Acts and Joint Resolutions, Amending the Constitution, of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia by : Virginia
Download or read book Acts and Joint Resolutions, Amending the Constitution, of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes separately published extra sessions.
Book Synopsis Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by : Pennsylvania
Download or read book Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia by : Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates
Download or read book Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 13 - 1920 by :
Download or read book Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 13 - 1920 written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by : Pennsylvania
Download or read book Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia by : Virginia
Download or read book Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
