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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York
Philip Mark Plotch;Jen Nelles;Philip Mark Plotch;Jen Nelles
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has morphed in ways that would be unreco...
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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York
2023
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has morphed in ways that would be unrecognizable to its founders. Its mission evolved from improving rail freight to building motor vehicle crossings, airports, office towers, and industrial parks and taking control of a failing commuter rail line. In its early years, the agency was often viewed with admiration; however as it drew up plans, negotiated to take control of airfields and marine terminals, and constructed large bridges and tunnels, the Port Authority became the object of less favorable attention. It was attacked as a “super-government” that must be reined in, while the mayors of New York and Newark argued that it should be broken up with its pieces given to local governments for their own use. Despite its criticisms and travails, for over half a century the Port Authority overcame hurdles that had frustrated other public and private efforts, built the world's longest suspension bridge, and took a leading role in creating an organization to reduce traffic delays in the New York-New Jersey region. How did the Port Authority achieve these successes? And what lessons does its history offer to other cities and regions in the United States and beyond? In a time when public agencies are often condemned as inefficient and corrupt, this history should provide some positive lessons for governmental officials and social reformers. In 2021, the Port Authority marked its 100th birthday. Its history reveals a struggle between the public and private sectors, the challenges of balancing democratic accountability and efficiency, and the tension between regional and local needs. From selected Port Authority successes and failures, Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles produce a significant and engaging account of a powerful governmental entity that offers durable lessons on collaboration, leadership, and the challenge of overcoming complex political challenges in modern America.
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City planning--New York (State)--New York--History - Harbors--New York (State)--New York--HistoryContent provider:
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Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant : Studies in Honour of Gabi Mazor
Walid Atrash;Andrew Overman;Peter Gendelman;Walid Atrash;Andrew Overman;Pet...
Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant celebrates Gabriel Maz...
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Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant : Studies in Honour of Gabi Mazor
2022
Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant celebrates Gabriel Mazor and his lifetime of work at the monumental city of Nysa-Scythopolis, Bet Sheʼan Baysān. This metropolis , part of the storied Decapolis, or league of ten cities, that flourished during the Hellenistic, Roman-Byzantine and very early Islamic periods until the devastating earthquake of AD 748, has been the singular focus of Gabi Mazor for a generation. The excavations, conservation and reconstruction at the site, and the detailed publications all are deserving of praise and appreciation. Chapters by leading archaeologists in Israel and the Levant explore themes and sites, in most cases by the chief archaeologists themselves, providing the latest information and insights about cities and villages from the Hellenistic to early Islamic periods across the region. This rare assemblage of scholars offers new material and interpretations of many of the key archaeological sites active today. The result is a rich trove of up-to-date data and insights that will be a must read for scholars and students active in this part of the ancient Mediterranean world.
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The 'Great Society', the Academy and Architectural Education in the United States. Leonardo Ricci's Miami-Dade Model Cities Program 'academic exercise' (1968-1970).
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Studi e Ricerche di Storia dell'Architettura; 2023, Issue 14, p30-49, 20p
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Studi e Ricerche di Storia dell'Architettura; 2023, Issue 14, p30-49, 20p
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The 'Great Society', the Academy and Architectural Education in the United States. Leonardo Ricci's Miami-Dade Model Cities Program 'academic exercise' (1968-1970).
Studi e Ricerche di Storia dell'Architettura; 2023, Issue 14, p30-49, 20p
This article investigates the Miami-Dade Model City Programme designed by Leonardo Ricci, Riccardo Morandi and a group of students at the University of Florida (1968-1970) as part of the history of the Model Cities political Program. Namely, it looks at how the project intertwined between the Model Cities Staff and the Citizens' Task Forces' requests via focusing on how the involvement of scholars of different disciplines influenced the policies on the neighborhood and the work on the masterplans. This includes the study of those scholars, why they were called upon, and to what extent they affected the programme's complex progression. A historic overview on the program precedes a focus on the Task Forces' academic work in Johnson's 'Great Society', useful to analyze the Miami-Dade case study. The conclusion suggests a critical view on the project as 'academic exercise' and example for other Model Cities in its positive and negative aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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UNIVERSITY of Florida - URBAN renewal - ARCHITECTURAL education - CITIZENS - TASK forces - URBAN planningContent provider:
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Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity : Essays on the History of Sound
Joy Damousi;Desley Deacon;Joy Damousi;Desley Deacon
Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on...
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Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity : Essays on the History of Sound
2007
Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin's injunction that historians'can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception'.Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin's virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavours; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities.
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Auditory perception--Social aspects--Australia - Sounds - Oral communication--Social aspects--AustraliaContent provider:
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Connected Worlds : History in Transnational Perspective
Ann Curthoys;Marilyn Lake;Ann Curthoys;Marilyn Lake
This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, ...
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Connected Worlds : History in Transnational Perspective
2005
This volume brings together historians of imperialism and race, travel and modernity, Islam and India, the Pacific and the Atlantic to show how a'transnational'approach to history offers fresh insights into the past. Transnational history is a form of scholarship that has been revolutionising our understanding of history in the last decade. With a focus on interconnectedness across national borders of ideas, events, technologies and individual lives, it moves beyond the national frames of analysis that so often blinker and restrict our understanding of the past. Many of the essays also show how expertise in ‘Australian history'can contribute to and benefit from new transnational approaches to history. Through an examination of such diverse subjects as film, modernity, immigration, politics and romance, Connected Worlds weaves an historical matrix which transports the reader beyond the local into a realm which re-defines the meaning of humanity in all its complexity. Contributors include Tony Ballantyne, Desley Deacon, John Fitzgerald, Patrick Wolfe and Angela Woollacott.
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World history--Congresses - Historiography--CongressesContent provider:
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Wood, Gillen D'Arcy
HEART AND HOME: A MEMOIR.
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Legal Studies Forum. 2008, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p685-836. 152p.
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Canadian Historical Review; Dec1946, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p52-447, 396p
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