Save Our City
Title | Save Our City PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Kalen-Sukra |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2019-04-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781926843421 |
At a time when incivility appears to be on the rise and increasingly tolerated, Diane Kalen-Sukra's new book, Save Your City, is a vital call to action for communities and leaders everywhere. The book takes readers from the very beginning of democracy to the challenges being addressed by communities today. This special Municipal World edition contains a forward by George B. Cuff and an exclusive companion workbook.
Recast Your City
Title | Recast Your City PDF eBook |
Author | Ilana Preuss |
Publisher | Island Press |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2021-06-22 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1642831921 |
Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.
Saving Our Cities
Title | Saving Our Cities PDF eBook |
Author | William W. Goldsmith |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2016-08-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501706586 |
In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane. Goldsmith argues that America has been in the habit of abusing its cities and their poorest suburbs, which are always the first to be blamed for society's ills and the last to be helped. As federal and state budgets, regulations, and programs line up with the interests of giant corporations and privileged citizens, they impose austerity on cities, shortchange public schools, make it hard to get nutritious food, and inflict the drug war on unlucky neighborhoods.Frustration with inequality is spreading. Parents and teachers call persistently for improvements in public schooling, and education experiments abound. Nutrition indicators have begun to improve, as rising health costs and epidemic obesity have led to widespread attention to food. The futility of the drug war and the high costs of unwarranted, unprecedented prison growth have become clear. Goldsmith documents a positive development: progressive politicians in many cities and some states are proposing far-reaching improvements, supported by advocacy groups that form powerful voting blocs, ensuring that Congress takes notice. When more cities forcefully demand enlightened federal and state action on these four interrelated problems—inequality, schools, food, and the drug war—positive movement will occur in traditional urban planning as well, so as to meet the needs of most residents for improved housing, better transportation, and enhanced public spaces.
Economic Distress in Our Cities
Title | Economic Distress in Our Cities PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Energy and the City
Title | Energy and the City PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on the City |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
The Unsung Song
Title | The Unsung Song PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Alisauskas |
Publisher | Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | 1092 |
Release | 2020-12-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1646283198 |
It’s a good thing you found this book when you did. As it is written for you, the person who loves music and lyrics and putting the two together to create beautiful works of art. The book you are holding in your hands right now is one of the most dynamic expressions of the modern-day poet—otherwise known as a lyricist. Herein lies not just words, but words that captivate your senses, catapult your imagination, and palpitate sensations you never knew you had. These lyrical twists and turns tell stories that make you laugh, pull at your heartstrings, push your imagination to the brim of existence, and takes you on a journey to the center of your mind. Listen as a whirlwind of characters come to life before your ears and eyes. “It’s just another hungry day in our hometown of thieves, begging the blind for some sweet sunshine...” “All is lost if nothing’s found.” “She was a butterfly by day and a firefly by night” “Take me to your island before all my passion drowns” “I’ve been waiting for your lonely tides to capture seasons out of time. Fold your gentle majesty into lone soliloquies.” There are also eighty songs, inspired by Jim Morrison, and fifty songs worth of lyrics inspired by Emily Dickinson, and a tribute to others’ section. Let these musical-lyrical rhymes be your guiding light on your way toward shining your own light.
The City That Ate Itself
Title | The City That Ate Itself PDF eBook |
Author | Brian James Leech |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | 394 |
Release | 2018-02-28 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0874175984 |
Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.