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City Of Ambition
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Author : Mason B Williams
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2014-06-24
City Of Ambition written by Mason B Williams and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-24 with History categories.
“Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust”—shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins—sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America’s cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation’s cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia’s Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story.
City Of Ambition
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Author : Mason B. Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
City Of Ambition written by Mason B. Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Depressions categories.
Describes the revitalization of New York during the Great Depression as President Roosevelt and Mayor LaGuardia worked together to build parks, bridges, and schools and put people to work by channeling federal resources into cities and counties.
Cities Of Ambition
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Author : Charles Landry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-20
Cities Of Ambition written by Charles Landry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-20 with City and town life categories.
"Cities of Ambition asks why some cities make more of their assets and resources and do better than expected. It explores the landscape of ambitious cities across Europe and assesses their special qualities looking at the pioneers and pathbreakers and how they overcome obstacles and realized their aims. It asks why cities like Barcelona, Malmo and Copenhagen or Eindhoven, Torino and Manchester are so admired as well as smaller places like Freiburg, Nantes or Umea. The central messags are: 'try to be yourself', 'identify and orchestrate your unique resources' 'be willing to look at things afresh', 'be open to ideas', 'acquire and value the new skills fit for the times, such as being a connector or orchestrator', 'connect across the world and become globally fluent', 'develop a leadership grouping', and 'do not think you can do it on your own - collaborate and partner with others'.
City Of Ambition Fdr Laguardia And The Making Of Modern New York
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Author : Mason B. Williams
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2013-05-28
City Of Ambition Fdr Laguardia And The Making Of Modern New York written by Mason B. Williams and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with History categories.
“Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review
City Of Ambition
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Author : Elisabeth Sussman
language : en
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Release Date : 1996
City Of Ambition written by Elisabeth Sussman and has been published by Flammarion-Pere Castor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
City of Ambition, published to accompany a Whitney Museum exhibition, takes its title from the famous 1910 Alfred Stieglitz photograph of New York's then-burgeoning skyline. Both the book and exhibition explore the creative ferment of the first half of the century, seeking to reveal and revel in the notion of ambition as an idealized source of energy and inspiration. Paintings, prints, sculptures, and photographs by some of America's most renowned artist - Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Edward Hopper, Diane Arbus, Jackson Pollock, and many more - provide a broad overview of expressive interpretations. This magnificently illustrated catalogue includes a preface and introductions to each plate section by Whitney Museum curator Elisabeth Sussman and Corey Keller. In addition, the volume includes a selection of reprinted poems, excerpts, and lyrics by well-known writers, and a lively essay on New York and its artists by Brendan Gill.
Chongqing
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Author : Ferit Kuyas
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Chongqing written by Ferit Kuyas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architectural photography categories.
The Elusive City
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Author : Jonathan Barnett
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1986
The Elusive City written by Jonathan Barnett and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Architecture categories.
Encapsulates 500 years of urban planning. Barnett, an urban designer, is skeptical about the possibility of successful urban design, given the matrix of powerful social and economic forces within which the profession must operate. As a keen student of Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities , he is unafraid of the street, and he knows the pitfalls of unbridled idealism as well. This is neither a textbook nor a social and architectural history, but rather, uniquely, a survey of design strategies, pithy and provocative.
Chongqing
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Author : Ferit Kuyas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Chongqing written by Ferit Kuyas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architectural photography categories.
The Chinese city of Chonqing is little known in the West. Yet with its 32 million inhabitants, the city is twice as big as the Netherlands. Located on the Yangtze river in the province of Sichuan in southwestern China, it is one of Chinas most rapidly growing cities. Ferit Kuyas stayed in Chonqing on dozens of occasions for long periods and became totally fascinated by the megalomaniacal construction fervour he witnessed there, as well as its beauty. The almost ubiquitous haze naturally present in this region but intensified by large-scale pollution gave his work almost automatically an added layer of mystery. Kuyas focussed predominantly on the periphery of the city, where the enormity of it cannot be directly seen, but rather felt. The result is a stifling and exceptional book that displays all the superlatives that describe China: huge, unstoppable, terrifying, incomprehensible, fascinating, beautiful...
The New Arab Urban
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Author : Harvey Molotch
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-02-05
The New Arab Urban written by Harvey Molotch and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with Social Science categories.
Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world’s tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar facilities; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from scratch; the Louvre, the Guggenheim and the Sorbonne, as well as many American and European universities, all have handsome outposts and campuses in the region. Such initiatives bespeak strategies to diversify economies and pursue grand ambitions across the Earth. Shining special light on Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha—where the dynamics of extreme urbanization are so strongly evident—the authors of The New Arab Urban trace what happens when money is plentiful, regulation weak, and labor conditions severe. Just how do authorities in such settings reconcile goals of oft-claimed civic betterment with hyper-segregation and radical inequality? How do they align cosmopolitan sensibilities with authoritarian rule? How do these elite custodians arrange tactical alliances to protect particular forms of social stratification and political control? What sense can be made of their massive investment for environmental breakthrough in the midst of world-class ecological mayhem? To address such questions, this book’s contributors place the new Arab urban in wider contexts of trade, technology, and design. Drawn from across disciplines and diverse home countries, they investigate how these cities import projects, plans and structures from the outside, but also how, increasingly, Gulf-originated initiatives disseminate to cities far afield. Brought together by noted scholars, sociologist Harvey Molotch and urban analyst Davide Ponzini, this timely volume adds to our understanding of the modern Arab metropolis—as well as of cities more generally. Gulf cities display development patterns that, however unanticipated in the standard paradigms of urban scholarship, now impact the world.
The Ambition To Rule
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Author : Steven Forde
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
The Ambition To Rule written by Steven Forde and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a fresh examination of Thucydides' treatment of Alcibiades in his History of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades' significance in the History, and his relation to Thucydides' political themes.