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Author : Delos Franklin Wilcox
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Total Pages : 746 pages
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Download or read book Municipal franchises written by Delos Franklin Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delos Franklin Wilcox
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Total Pages : 750 pages
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Download or read book Municipal Franchises; a Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which Private Corporations Enjoy Privileges in the Street of American Cities written by Delos Franklin Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delos Franklin Wilcox
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781150576119
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Municipal Franchises written by Delos Franklin Wilcox and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. TELEPHONE FRANCHISE REGULATIONS. 146. Public control--Massachusetts. 151. Competition to reduce rates--In 146. Monopoly without conditions--New dlanapolis. York City. 152. Competition secured through the 147. Stringent conditions proposed for a Initiative--Portland, Oregon. competing company--New York 153. Franchise conditions approved by City. the Probate Court--Toledo. 148. Monopoly conditioned by ordinance 154. Local and long distance Independ flxlng rates--Chicago. ent franchises in the Twin Cities-- 149. Telephone contract dominated by Minneapolis and St. Paul. business interests--New Orleans. 155. Telephones in a city of 15,000--Ann 150. Monopoly under Federal laws-- Arbor, Michigan. Washington. 156. Important points in a telephone franchise. 145. Public control --Massachusetts.--By a law passed in 1906, Massachusetts brought telephone companies within that commonwealth under the supervision of the State Highway Commission.1 By this act the jurisdiction of the commission was extended over "all companies engaged in the transmission of intelligence by electricity." The commissioners were prohibited from accepting employment from any of these companies, from owning any stock in them, from being in any way pecuniarily interested in the manufacture or sale of any article or commodity used by them, or from being connected with or in the employ of any person, partnership or corporation which finances any such company. Under this law, whenever a complaint in writing relative to the service or charges of any company is filed by any city or town in the state, signed by the proper officers or by 20 customers of the company, the commission is required to give a public hearing and to make such recommendation concerning reduction or modification of charges o...
Author : Delos F 1873-1928 Wilcox
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343666818
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Municipal Franchises written by Delos F 1873-1928 Wilcox and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard R. John
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088131
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Network Nation written by Richard R. John and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasnÕt until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.
Author : Clifton K. Yearley
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873950725
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Money Machines written by Clifton K. Yearley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Money Machines advances the provocative thesis that the mechanisms for financing state and local government in the Northern United States from 1860 to 1920 were deeply enmeshed with those financing the extralegal--often illegal--activities of the major political parties, complicating reform or change mandated by the post-Civil War breakdown of the North's legal fiscal machinery. Few reformers then recognized the interdependence of government and the party money machines; fewer still acknowledged the effectiveness or social value of the extralegal machines. On the contrary, basic fiscal reform in this period was characterized by attempts to exorcise "politics" in any form, which in turn provoked counteraction from politicians whose organizations had the same need for efficient, reliable revenue systems as did governments. Dr. Yearley demonstrates the failure of the established legal money machines to cope with the demands of postwar governments facing industrialization and urbanization. He characterizes the revolt of old and new middle classes against fiscal inequity and inefficiency and shows how much of the North's new wealth escaped taxation altogether while much of its old wealth similarly went into hiding. Because of its forbidding complexities, tax reform was sustained by a small group of experts from the middle class, whose sincerity and competence were unquestionable, but whose reformism evidenced the peculiar views and prejudices of their class. Here, therefore, the graft-grabbing politician is presented in a fresh light. In his efforts to maintain his sources of revenue and power, he emerges as a vital instrument of mass democracy, of the new politics of the ever-growing urban lower classes as well as their principal source of government welfare or support. The author reevaluates the Gilded Age politician in several important ways, principally regarding his power relationship to the business communities and his ability to perform his job well despite middle class disdain and continual allegations of fraud and incompetence. Further, Dr. Yearley shows that often politicians were ahead of reformers in their fiscal thinking in recognizing and utilizing taxation of income rather than of property. The volume considers in some depth several individual reformers, revealing them to be, among other things, prototypes of present academic experts used by government to manage problems too complex for laymen. The book then proceeds to explain essential changes made in local fiscal systems and which of these were to be the most effective, explanations that are of particular interest in view of the continuing crises in state and local financing today.
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Delos Franlin Wilcox
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Download or read book Municipal Franchises :a Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which Private Corporations Enjoy Special Privileges in the Streets of American Cities written by Delos Franlin Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Municipal Journal and Public Works written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James B. McSwain
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807169137
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Petroleum and Public Safety written by James B. McSwain and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, cities such as Houston, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile grappled with the safety hazards created by oil and gas industries as well as the role municipal governments should play in protecting the public from these threats. James B. McSwain’s Petroleum and Public Safety reveals how officials in these cities created standards based on technical, scientific, and engineering knowledge to devise politically workable ordinances related to the storage and handling of fuel. Each of the cities studied in this volume struggled through protracted debates regarding the regulation of crude petroleum and fuel oil, sparked by the famous Spindletop strike of 1901 and the regional oil boom in the decades that followed. Municipal governments sought to ensure the safety of their citizens while still reaping lucrative economic benefits from local petroleum industry activities. Drawing on historical antecedents such as fire-protection engineering, the cities of the Gulf South came to adopt voluntary, consensual fire codes issued by insurance associations and standards organizations such as the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Southern Standard Building Code Conference. The culmination of such efforts was the creation of the International Fire Code, an overarching fire-protection guide that is widely used in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In devising ordinances, Gulf South officials pursued the politics of risk management, as they hammered out strategies to eliminate or mitigate the dangers associated with petroleum industries and to reduce the possible consequences of catastrophic oil explosions and fires. Using an array of original sources, including newspapers, municipal records, fire-insurance documents, and risk-management literature, McSwain demonstrates that Gulf South cities played a vital role in twentieth-century modernization.
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Total Pages : 1184 pages
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Download or read book Progressive Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book Gas Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes summaries of proceedings and addresses of annual meetings of various gas associations. L.C. set includes an index to these proceedings, 1884-1902, issued as a supplement to Progressive age, Feb. 15, 1910.
Author : Yan Wei
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662436833
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Regulating Municipal Water Supply Concessions written by Yan Wei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the recently introduced concession policy, which is also known as PPP worldwide, on municipal utilities policy in China. In this context, critics have claimed that there is a gap in accountability with regard to concessions. The author utilizes interdisciplinary methods and comparative studies, taking into account the situation in the EU and US to analyze the accountability gap some feel will be created when the policy is implemented. Taking water sector concessions as the subject of discussion, the author distinguishes between three types of accountability: traditional bureaucratic accountability, legal accountability and public accountability. By systematically analyzing the essential problems involved, the book attempts to achieve a better understanding of concession and its application in the context of public utilities and finds that the alleged accountability gap is attributed to traditional bureaucratic accountability in China and the concession system per se.
Author : Richard F. Hirsh
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421443627
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Powering American Farms written by Richard F. Hirsh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Challenging traditional scholarship on the New Deal, the book reinterprets the history of rural electrification. It tells the previously unacknowledged story of how private power companies, with allies in land-grant universities, engendered social and technical innovations in the 1920s and early 1930s that enabled growing numbers of farmers to obtain electrical service, well before the creation of Depression-era government programs"--
Author : Nancey Green Leigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317338987
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education written by Nancey Green Leigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is the first comprehensive handbook with a unique focus on planning education. Comparing approaches to the delivery of planning education by three major planning education accreditation bodies in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and reflecting concerns from other national planning systems, this handbook will help to meet the strong interest and need for understanding how planning education is developed and delivered in different international contexts. The handbook is divided into five major sections, including coverage of general planning knowledge, planning skills, traditional and emerging planning specializations, and pedagogy. An international cohort of contributors covers each subject’s role in educating planners, its theory and methods, key literature contributions, and course design. Higher education’s response to globalization has included growth in planning educational exchanges across international boundaries; The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is an essential resource for planners and planning educators, informing the dialogue on the mobility of planners educated under different national schema.
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Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Municipal Journal and Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Werner Troesken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922197
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Pox of Liberty written by Werner Troesken and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth—behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others. Some fault the absence of universal health care or the persistence of social inequalities. Others blame unhealthy lifestyles. But these emphases on present-day behaviors and policies miss a much more fundamental determinant of societal health: the state. Werner Troesken looks at the history of the United States with a focus on three diseases—smallpox, typhoid fever, and yellow fever—to show how constitutional rules and provisions that promoted individual liberty and economic prosperity also influenced, for good and for bad, the country’s ability to eradicate infectious disease. Ranging from federalism under the Commerce Clause to the Contract Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment, Troesken argues persuasively that many institutions intended to promote desirable political or economic outcomes also hindered the provision of public health. We are unhealthy, in other words, at least in part because our political and legal institutions function well. Offering a compelling new perspective, The Pox of Liberty challenges many traditional claims that infectious diseases are inexorable forces in human history, beyond the control of individual actors or the state, revealing them instead to be the result of public and private choices.
