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Download or read book Levittown written by David Kushner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade after World War II, one entrepreneurial family helped thousands of people buy into the American dream of owning a home, not just any home, but a good one, with all the modern conveniences. The Levitts--two brothers, William and Alfred, and their father, Abe--pooled their talents in land use, architecture, and sales to create story book town with affordable little houses. They laid out the welcome mat, but not to everyone. Levittown had a whites-only policy. This is the story that unfolded in Levittown, PA, one unseasonably hot summer in 1957 on a quiet street called Deepgreen Lane. There, a white Jewish Communist family named Wechsler secretly arranged for a black family, the Myers, to buy the little pink house next door. What followed was an explosive summer of violence that would transform their lives, and the nation. It would lead to the downfall of a titan, and the integration of the most famous suburb in the world. It's a story of hope and fear, invention and rebellion, and the power that comes when ordinary people take an extraordinary stand.
Book Synopsis Managing Local Government by : Kimberly L. Nelson
Download or read book Managing Local Government written by Kimberly L. Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Local Government: An Essential Guide for Municipal and County Managers offers a practical introduction to the changing structure, forms, and functions of local governments. Taking a metropolitan management perspective, authors Kimberly Nelson and Carl W. Stenberg explain U.S. local government within historical context and provide strategies for effective local government management and problem solving. Real-life scenarios and contemporary issues illustrate the organization and networks of local governments; the roles, responsibilities, and relationships of city and county managers; and the dynamics of the intergovernmental system. Case studies and discussion questions in each chapter encourage critical analysis of the challenges of collaborative governance. Unlike other books on the market, this text’s combined approach of theory and practice encourages students to enter municipal and county management careers and equips them with tools to be successful from day one.
Book Synopsis In Levittown’s Shadow by : Tim Keogh
Download or read book In Levittown’s Shadow written by Tim Keogh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best nonfiction books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly! There is a familiar narrative about American suburbs: after 1945, white residents left cities for leafy, affluent subdivisions and the prosperity they seemed to embody. In Levittown’s Shadow tells us there’s more to this story, offering an eye-opening account of diverse, poor residents living and working in those same neighborhoods. Tim Keogh shows how public policies produced both suburban plenty and deprivation—and why ignoring suburban poverty doomed efforts to reduce inequality. Keogh focuses on the suburbs of Long Island, home to Levittown, often considered the archetypal suburb. Here military contracts subsidized well-paid employment welding airplanes or filing paperwork, while weak labor laws impoverished suburbanites who mowed lawns, built houses, scrubbed kitchen floors, and stocked supermarket shelves. Federal mortgage programs helped some families buy orderly single-family homes and enter the middle class but also underwrote landlord efforts to cram poor families into suburban attics, basements, and sheds. Keogh explores how policymakers ignored suburban inequality, addressing housing segregation between cities and suburbs rather than suburbanites’ demands for decent jobs, housing, and schools. By turning our attention to the suburban poor, Keogh reveals poverty wasn’t just an urban problem but a suburban one, too. In Levittown’s Shadow deepens our understanding of suburbia’s history—and points us toward more effective ways to combat poverty today.
Book Synopsis Local government by : Bucks County Planning Commission
Download or read book Local government written by Bucks County Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1962 Census of Governments: Local government in metropolitan areas by : United States. Bureau of the Census
Download or read book 1962 Census of Governments: Local government in metropolitan areas written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center by : Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center written by Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :200 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Role of State and Local Governments Developing Housing Strategies with Emphasis on S. 566 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
Download or read book The Role of State and Local Governments Developing Housing Strategies with Emphasis on S. 566 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of Local Government by : Barry E. Truchil
Download or read book The Politics of Local Government written by Barry E. Truchil and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation of budgets, regulation, and control of development (including conversion of open space to housing and business buildings), as well as the initiation of progressive changes such as the use of green energy and control of corruption. Given the limited available research in this area, this book fills a void for scholars in the field, undergraduate and graduate students as well as those interested in the politics of local government.
Book Synopsis Politicians, Judges, and City Schools by : Joel S. Berke
Download or read book Politicians, Judges, and City Schools written by Joel S. Berke and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1985-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1970s, a nationwide school finance reform movement—fueled by litigation challenging the constitutionality of state education funding laws—brought significant changes to the way many states finance their public elementary and secondary school systems. School finance reform poses difficult philosophical questions: what is the meaning of equality in educational opportunity and of equity in the distribution of tax burdens? But it also involves enormous financial complexity (for example, dividing resources among competing special programs) and political risk (such as balancing local control with the need for statewide parity). For those states (like New York) that were slow to make changes a new decade has brought new constraints and complications. Sluggish economic growth, taxpayer revolts, reductions in federal aid, all affect education revenues. And the current concern with educational excellence may obscure the needs of the poor and educationally disadvantaged. This book will provide New York's policy makers and other concerned specialists with a better understanding of the political, economic, and equity issues underlying the school finance reform debate. It details existing inequities, evaluates current financing formulas, and presents options for change. Most important, for all those concerned with education and public policy in New York and elsewhere, it offers a masterful assessment of the trade-offs involved in developing reform programs that balance the conflicting demands of resource equalization, political feasibility, and fiscal responsibility. "Synthesizes the political and fiscal research [on school finance reform] and applies it to the New York Context....A blueprint for how to redesign state school finance....A fine book." —Public Administration Review "This is a book that lucidly discusses the issues in school finance and provides valuable reference material." —American Political Science Review
Book Synopsis Names, Titles and Mailing Addresses of Officials of (local Governments) Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by :
Download or read book Names, Titles and Mailing Addresses of Officials of (local Governments) Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Levittown written by Marc Palmieri and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: When Kevin, the grandson of a World War II combat veteran, returns early from yet another college, he learns that his deeply troubled sister is about to be married. With renewed hope, he attempts to reconcile his family with the abusive
Book Synopsis State and Local Government by : Inter-university Case Program
Download or read book State and Local Government written by Inter-university Case Program and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reasoning With Democratic Values 2.0, Volume 2 by : David E. Harris
Download or read book Reasoning With Democratic Values 2.0, Volume 2 written by David E. Harris and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extensively updated edition presents an engaging approach to teaching U.S. history that promotes critical thinking and social responsibility. In Volume 2, students investigate 19 significant historical episodes beginning with the era of expansion and reform and ending with problems facing Americans in the contemporary era. A comprehensive Instructor’s Manual is also available for purchase. In Volume 2, students can grapple with such ethical dilemmas as: Should Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have supported the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?Was investigative journalist Nellie Bly justified in lying to gain access to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum?Was Woodrow Wilson right to call for entry of the United States into World War I?Should interned Japanese Americans have volunteered to serve in the United States Army during World War II?Should Hollywood director Elia Kazan have named communists in his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee?Should Representative John Conyers have introduced legislation for reparations to African Americans? “A powerful approach to learning history. The lively and exciting true stories provide ample background to engage students in discussions of well-framed questions that are perennial and important.” —Diana Hess, dean, University of Wisconsin–Madison “Ethical reasoning is joined with historical reasoning—values with inquiry—in an array of well selected cases. This curriculum belongs in every U.S. history classroom.” —Walter C. Parker, University of Washington “Clearly organized and eminently balanced, these volumes will help students become citizens who can converse across their differences.” —Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania “These volumes will help build a deeper understanding of significant historical concepts and present wonderful opportunities to engage in critical thinking.” —Amy Bloom, J.D., social studies education consultant, Oakland Schools
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Download or read book Journal of the American Institute of Planners written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Local Government Administration by : Gargan
Download or read book Handbook of Local Government Administration written by Gargan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-10-11 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This theoretically and experientially grounded reference provides a complete overview of the principles and applications of government administration and management practices in the local public sector. Written by over 25 distinguished academics and professionals with substantial experience as practitioners and consultants of administrative operations to local governments, the book covers the effects of environmental conditions on local administrators and management techniques to administration in different types of local government. It helps readers reduce research time by presenting advanced materials on local government administration and management in a single source.
Book Synopsis Building Suburbia by : Dolores Hayden
Download or read book Building Suburbia written by Dolores Hayden and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live. From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the decisions that have generated America’s diverse suburbs. Residents have sought home, nature, and community in suburbia. Developers have cherished different dreams, seeking profit from economies of scale and increased suburban densities, while lobbying local and federal government to reduce the risk of real estate speculation. Encompassing environmental controversies as well as the complexities of race, gender, and class, Hayden’s fascinating account will forever alter how we think about the communities we build and inhabit.
Author :University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :864 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley by : University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library
Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley written by University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
