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City Machines
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Author : Connor Dayton
language : en
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Release Date : 2011-08-30
City Machines written by Connor Dayton and has been published by PowerKids Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with categories.
While the ear-splitting sound of a jackhammer at work or the rumble of a garbage truck early in the morning might t not be everyone's favorite noises--they come from important machines that keep the infrastructure of cities and towns running smoothly. This high-interest caption series highlights the amazing hard-working machines that help build and maintain our roads and cities. Each volume takes a look at the exciting activity of a construction site through the lens of a different machine. Emerging readers will eagerly build new vocabulary as they learn more about these machines and their roles in construction and overall city upkeep.
The Urban Growth Machine
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Author : Andrew E. G. Jonas
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1999-08-12
The Urban Growth Machine written by Andrew E. G. Jonas and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-12 with Political Science categories.
Harvey Molotch's "city as a growth machine" thesis is one of the most influential approaches to the analysis of urban politics and local economic development in the United States. However, the nature and context of urban politics have changed considerably since the growth machine thesis was first proposed more than twenty years ago, and recent attempts to apply it to settings outside the U.S. have revealed conceptual and empirical limitations. This book offers a unique critical assessment of the contribution of the growth machine thesis to research in urban political economy. Written from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, it brings together leading urban studies scholars. These contributors explore three organizing themes: urban growth, discourse and ideology; new dimensions of urban politics; and the growth machine in comparative perspective. These themes not only provide the focus for the critical examinations of the growth machine thesis, but also offer exciting new ways of thinking about and researching urban politics and local economic development. As Harvey Molotch himself notes in this book's concluding chapter, "The growth machine idea makes a substantive argument about the empirical substance of U.S. urban regimes. It asserts that virtually every city (and state) government is a growth machine and long has been. It asserts that this puts localities in chronic competition with one another in ways that harm the vast majority of their citizens as well as their environments. It anticipates an ideological structure that naturalizes growth goals as a background assumption of civic life. In a social science realm where successful empirical generalizations have been few, the growth machine idea robustly and usefully describes reality." Contributors include Thabit Abu-Rass, Keith Bassett, Mark Boyle, Allan Cochrane, Kevin R. Cox, Kyle Crowder, Melissa R. Gilbert, Bob Jessop, Andrew Kirby, Mickey Lauria, Helga Leitner, John R. Logan, Harvey Molotch, Jamie Peck, Stephanie Pincetl, Eric Sheppard, John Rennie Short, Adam Tickell, Rachel Bridges Whaley, and Andrew Wood.
City Machines
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Bosses Machines And Urban Voters
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Author : John M. Allswang
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2019-12-01
Bosses Machines And Urban Voters written by John M. Allswang and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-01 with History categories.
Originally published in 1986. Political machines, and the bosses who ran them, are largely a relic of the nineteenth century. A prominent feature in nineteenth-century urban politics, political machines mobilized urban voters by providing services in exchange for voters' support of a party or candidate. Allswang examines four machines and five urban bosses over the course of a century. He argues that efforts to extract a meaningful general theory from the American experience of political machines are difficult given the particularity of each city's history. A city's composition largely determined the character of its political machines. Furthermore, while political machines are often regarded as nondemocratic and corrupt, Allswang discusses the strengths of the urban machine approach—chief among those being its ability to organize voters around specific issues.
Big Machines In The City
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Author : Brienna Rossiter
language : en
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Big Machines In The City written by Brienna Rossiter and has been published by North Star Editions, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This fun book provides a simple explanation of buses, trucks, and other machines found in a city. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.
Men And Machines
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Author : Robert Silverberg
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2009-03-01
Men And Machines written by Robert Silverberg and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Included: "Counter Foil," by George O. Smith; "A Bad Day for Sales," by Fritz Leiber; "Without a Thought," by Fred Saberhagan; "Solar Plexus," by James Blish; "The Macauley Circuit," by Robert Silverberg; "But Who Can Replace a Man?," by Brian W. Aldiss; "Instinct," by Lester del Rey; "The Twonky," by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner); "Hunting Lodge," by Randall Garrett; and "With Folded Hands," by Jack Williamson.
City Brosses And Political Machines
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Author : Lee S. Greene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
City Brosses And Political Machines written by Lee S. Greene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
The Money Machines
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Author : Clifton K. Yearley
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1970-06-30
The Money Machines written by Clifton K. Yearley and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-06-30 with Political Science categories.
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.
The Automated City
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Author : Seng W. Loke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-09-01
The Automated City written by Seng W. Loke and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with Computers categories.
The book outlines the concept of the Automated City, in the context of smart city research and development. While there have been many other perspectives on the smart city such as the participatory city and the data-centric city, this book focuses on automation for the smart city based on current and emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. The book attempts to provide a balanced view, outlining the promises and potential of the Automated City as well as the perils and challenges of widespread automation in the city. The book discusses, at some depth, automated vehicles, urban robots and urban drones as emerging technologies that will automate many aspects of city life and operation, drawing on current work and research literature. The book also considers broader perspectives of the future city, in the context of automation in the smart city, including aspirational visions of cities, transportation, new business models, and socio-technological challenges, from urban edge computing, ethics of the Automated City and smart devices, to large scale cooperating autonomous systems in the city.
The City Machine
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Author : Louis Trimble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The City Machine written by Louis Trimble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Science fiction, American categories.
The entire population of that colonized planet was crowded into one all-enclosed self-functioning city construction. For the majority the situation was like living forever in the steerage of an immigrant freighter. For a few there were some privileges, and for the Highs, power and luxury had been secured by a change of language and the destruction of the old books. Which was where the man Ryne came in. For he was the last who could read the original language - and if they could ever locate the machine that could build new cities, he'd be the only one to read the instructions. The story of the search for the City Machines, the linguistics and logistics problems presented, and the fight for Ryne's very life is a science fiction novel of edge-of-the-seat excitement.'