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Insuring the City

Author : Elihu Rubin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170181
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Insuring the City written by Elihu Rubin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at Boston's Prudential Center and what its story reveals about the evolution of the modern American city The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower. It is also a historical beacon, representing a midcentury moment when insurance companies such as Prudential were particularly aware of how their physical presence and civic engagement reflected upon their intangible product: financial security. Looking to New York's Rockefeller Center, the creators of the Prudential Center aspired to use real estate development as a tool toward civic achievement, reinvigorating central Boston and integrating a large complex of buildings with new infrastructure for the automobile. Architectural historian Elihu Rubin tells the full story of "The Pru," placing it within the political, economic, and architectural contexts of the period. The Prudential Center played a pivotal role in the economic redevelopment of Boston and was arguably one of the most significant urban developments of the 1950s and '60s. It is an important story, and one that provides great insight into the evolution of the modern city in postwar America.

Prudential Center Redevelopment Application for Planned Development Area Designation

Author : Boston Redevelopment Authority
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Prudential Center Redevelopment Application for Planned Development Area Designation written by Boston Redevelopment Authority and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... a compilation of documents concerning a proposed Prudential Center redevelopment project in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood; consists of the following items: a BRA memorandum, a letter dated Nov. 27, 1989 addressed to Stephen Coyle, (BRA Director) from the Prudential Insurance Company of America, site plans, a fact sheet, a "Development Plan and Development Impact Project Plan", a "Development Impact Project Agreement Including Provisions for the Jobs Contribution Grant for Planned Development Area No. 37", a cooperation agreement, a "Disclosure Statement Concerning Beneficial Interest(s)" required by article 31A of the Boston Zoning Code, a chronological listing of "Prudential Center Redevelopment Public Sector and PRUPAC (Prudential Project Advisory Committee) Meetings", and letters of support; this item was in the BRA collection ...

Proposed Master Plan Update Development Actions, Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport, King County

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Site Planning

Author : Gary Hack
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262534851
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Site Planning written by Gary Hack and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the art and science of designing settlements on the land—encompasses a range of activities undertaken by architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and engineers. This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to site planning that is global in scope. It covers planning processes and standards, new technologies, sustainability, and cultural context, addressing the roles of all participants and stakeholders and offering extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack wrote the classic text on the subject, and this book takes up where the earlier book left off. It can be used as a textbook and will be an essential reference for practitioners. Site Planning consists of forty self-contained modules, organized into five parts: The Art of Site Planning, which presents site planning as a shared enterprise; Understanding Sites, covering the components of site analysis; Planning Sites, covering the processes involved; Site Infrastructure, from transit to waste systems; and Site Prototypes, including housing, recreation, and mixed use. Each module offers a brief introduction, covers standards or approaches, provides examples, and presents innovative practices in sidebars. The book is lavishly illustrated with 1350 photographs, diagrams, and examples of practice.

Joint Project Concept

Author : Barton-Aschman Associates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Urban Renewal Symposium

Author : Federal Bar Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban Renewal Symposium written by Federal Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lafayette Place Redevelopment, Boston

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Building A New Boston

Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555532468
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Building A New Boston written by Thomas H. O'Connor and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1995-08-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is one of the great stories in American urban history told by a great historian. In 1949, Boston was 'a hopeless backwater' . . . by 1970, a 'New Boston' had been created . . . Thomas O'Connor, the dean of Boston historians, brings to this tale of transformation rich learning, intimate familiarity with his subject, and a lucid sometimes witty pen." -- Jack Beatty, Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly

Insuring the City

Author : Elihu Rubin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300280815
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Insuring the City written by Elihu Rubin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at Boston's Prudential Center and what its story reveals about the evolution of the modern American city The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower. It is also a historical beacon, representing a midcentury moment when insurance companies such as Prudential were particularly aware of how their physical presence and civic engagement reflected upon their intangible product: financial security. Looking to New York's Rockefeller Center, the creators of the Prudential Center aspired to use real estate development as a tool toward civic achievement, reinvigorating central Boston and integrating a large complex of buildings with new infrastructure for the automobile. Now available in paperback, this award-winning book tells the full story of “The Pru,” placing it in the political, economic, and architectural contexts of the period, and providing new insights into urban renewal in postwar America.

A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come

Author : J. Wharton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137277726
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come written by J. Wharton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor Cory Booker's rise to power and prominence both in the city and in American political consciousness. Newark's recent political history offers an interesting case study in mayoral elections, community development, and coalition building politics. While Newark is the quintessential post-industrial city, Booker has received critical attention for his post-racial politics since he frequently bypasses racial and traditional urban politics. At the same time, relations between the mayor, the municipal council, and Newark's diverse communities were often so fractious that sustainable coalition building proved to be an elusive goal to resolve longstanding crime, education, and other social problems. Based on original interviews with Cory Booker, city council members, and other prominent Newark politicians, A Post Racial Change is Gonna Come is a powerful history of how Newark became the focal point for transformative politics in urban America.

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1804 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

Author : Steve Tiesdell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444341162
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process written by Steve Tiesdell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban design enables better places to be created for people and is thus seen in Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process as a place-making activity, rather than the application of architectural aesthetics. Urban design policy can change the 'decision environment' of developers, financiers, designers and other actors in the real estate development process to make them take place-making more seriously. This book reports diverse international experience from Europe and North America on the role and significance of urban design in the real estate development process and explores how higher quality development and better places can be achieved through public policy. The book is focused on four types of policy tool or instrument that have been deployed to promote better urban design: those that seek to shape, regulate or provide stimulus to real estate markets along with those aim to build capacity to achieve these. Urban design is therefore seen as a form of public policy that seeks to steer real estate development towards policy-shaped rather than market-led outcomes. The editors set the examples, case studies and evidence from international contributors within a substantive discussion of the impact of urban design policy tools and actions in specific development contexts. Contributions from leading urban design theorists and practitioners explore how: Masterplanning and infrastructure provision encourage high quality design Design codes reconcile developers' needs for certainty and flexibility Clear policy combined with firm regulation can transform developer behaviour Intelligent parcelisation can craft the character of successful new urban districts Powerful real estates interests can capture regulatory initiatives Stimulus instruments can encourage good design Development competitions need careful management Design review can foster developer commitment to design excellence Speculative housebuilders respond in varied ways to the brownfield design challenge Physical-financial models could help in assessing the benefits of design investment Urban design can add value to the benefit of developers and cities as a whole.

Site Planning, Volume 1

Author : Gary Hack
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262350890
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Site Planning, Volume 1 written by Gary Hack and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebook Volume 1 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Ebook Volume 1 of 3. Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the art and science of designing settlements on the land—encompasses a range of activities undertaken by architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and engineers. This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to site planning that is global in scope. It covers planning processes and standards, new technologies, sustainability, and cultural context, addressing the roles of all participants and stakeholders and offering extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack wrote the classic text on the subject, and this book takes up where the earlier book left off. It can be used as a textbook and will be an essential reference for practitioners. Site Planning consists of forty self-contained modules, organized into five parts: The Art of Site Planning, which presents site planning as a shared enterprise; Understanding Sites, covering the components of site analysis; Planning Sites, covering the processes involved; Site Infrastructure, from transit to waste systems; and Site Prototypes, including housing, recreation, and mixed use. Each module offers a brief introduction, covers standards or approaches, provides examples, and presents innovative practices in sidebars. The book is lavishly illustrated with 1350 photographs, diagrams, and examples of practice.

Fodor's Boston [With Map]

Author : Debbie Harmsen
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 030792923X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Boston [With Map] written by Debbie Harmsen and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a dramatic visual design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions and other valuable features. Original.

Convention Center Follies

Author : Heywood T. Sanders
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812245776
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Convention Center Follies written by Heywood T. Sanders and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 40 million square feet in 1990 to 70 million in 2011—an increase of almost 75 percent. Proponents of these projects promised new jobs, new private development, and new tax revenues. Yet even as cities from Boston and Orlando to Phoenix and Seattle have invested in more convention center space, the return on that investment has proven limited and elusive. Why, then, do cities keep building them? Written by one of the nation's foremost urban development experts, Convention Center Follies exposes the forces behind convention center development and the revolution in local government finance that has privileged convention centers over alternative public investments. Through wide-ranging examples from cities across the country as well as in-depth case studies of Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis, Heywood T. Sanders examines the genesis of center projects, the dealmaking, and the circular logic of convention center development. Using a robust set of archival resources—including internal minutes of business consultants and the personal papers of big city mayors—Sanders offers a systematic analysis of the consultant forecasts and promises that have sustained center development and the ways those forecasts have been manipulated and proven false. This record reveals that business leaders sought not community-wide economic benefit or growth but, rather, to reshape land values and development opportunities in the downtown core. A probing look at a so-called economic panacea, Convention Center Follies dissects the inner workings of America's convention center boom and provides valuable lessons in urban government, local business growth, and civic redevelopment.

The Ever-changing American City

Author : John F. Bauman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442201827
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Ever-changing American City written by John F. Bauman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the definition of what constitutes a city in the U.S. and how who lives and works in them has changed markedly since 1945. After World War II, the cityscape was altered to better accommodate the automobile and the city transformed from a place of production to a place of consumption. During the 1980s, city neighborhoods once occupied by migrants from the American South and immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to house newcomers from Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The economic, environmental, and social issues now facing America cities, will require them to continue the process of remaking or reinventing themselves.

Boston 2008

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1400018129
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston 2008 written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features.