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The Spirit of Community by Dr. Amitai Etzioni
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Dr. Amitai Etzioni

Personal Responsibility, Self-Help, and Social Justice Community service is a fine thing, say the liberals, but it is far from enough. What America requires, they say, is massive “reallocation” (a ...
( Category: Social Policy March 17,2020 )
Paris, Capital of Modernity by Harvey David;
epub |eng | 2006-03-15 | Author:Harvey, David;

So what, then, could a single working woman do, living on bread and a little milk and working twelve hours a day? There were, most bourgeois commentators agreed, two basic ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 16,2020 )
Surviving the Machine Age by Kevin LaGrandeur & James J. Hughes
epub |eng | | Author:Kevin LaGrandeur & James J. Hughes

Notes 1.In my home university, NUI Galway, there is currently a large EU pilot project taking place on the use of robots for the care of aging patients with dementia. ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation March 16,2020 )
Taming Manhattan : Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (9780674745148) by Mcneur Catherine
epub |eng | | Author:Mcneur, Catherine

FIGURE 24. Hauling the Pigs Out from Under the Beds. Leslie and other journalists poked fun at Irish domesticity when they showed how closely the immigrants lived with livestock. From ...
( Category: Urban & Land Use Planning March 14,2020 )
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
epub |eng | | Author:Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Shortly after Cesar discovered Coco was pregnant by Wishman, Coco learned that Cesar had been courting Roxanne all along. Unknown to Coco still, Cesar had been writing Giselle ...
( Category: Poverty March 11,2020 )
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality by Patrick Sharkey
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Patrick Sharkey [Sharkey, Patrick]

Figure 5.5. Statistically adjusted scores on tests of broad reading skills and applied problems skills, by neighborhood poverty status over two generations. Considering the overall patterns present in figure 5.5, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 7,2020 )
The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome by John F. Wasik
epub |eng | 2010-12-20 | Author:John F. Wasik

Solar, Sexy, and Expensive Can a home be even more energy conscious than Kaufmann’s modular designs? Adding more solar panels and wind and geothermal appliances makes it possible to sell ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 5,2020 )
The Resilient City by Lawrence J. Vale
epub |eng | 2005-03-02 | Author:Lawrence J. Vale

The second reaction to the loss of the temple might be called envisioning. Here substitution takes the form of dreaming of an alternative more perfect than the one lost. In ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 3,2020 )
Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes by Tripti Lahiri
epub |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Tripti Lahiri [Lahiri, Tripti]

DEFENCE COLONY DIWALI IS FAMOUSLY THE FESTIVAL of lights, but it could just as well be called the festival of housekeeping, when each house is swept clean by the soft ...
( Category: Urban March 3,2020 )
Community Livability by Fritz Wagner;Roger Caves;
epub |eng | 2020-02-26 | Author:Fritz Wagner;Roger Caves;

Environment/Climate Change Toronto is a green city. It has a vast greenspace network as well as ravines and an increasingly appealing waterfront. The Greater Toronto Area itself is surrounded by ...
( Category: Urban & Land Use Planning February 27,2020 )
Masters of Craft by Ocejo Richard E.;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Ocejo, Richard E.; [Ocejo, Richard E.;]

Using the Senses, Harnessing Time Given the role of nature, an important aspect of these workers’ work is learning to control and harness it, specifically where and when in the ...
( Category: Urban January 19,2020 )
All Day by Liza Jessie Peterson
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Liza Jessie Peterson

For lunch I usually convene in the teachers’ lounge with other staff to watch whatever blood-curdling scary movie Mr. Wilcox, aka Trinidad, has brought in for lunchtime entertainment. It’s always ...
( Category: Minority Studies May 21,2017 )
Bikenomics by Blue Elly;
epub |eng | 2013-02-23 | Author:Blue, Elly;

Bike Lanes on Main Street 9 Magnolia Street in Fort Worth, Texas’s newly hip Near Southside, is the sort of story that urban planners dream of. In 2008, this retail, ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development February 24,2017 )
Confessions of a Second Story Man by Allen M. Hornblum
epub |eng | | Author:Allen M. Hornblum

“Scolnick was good at con games,” says Kripplebauer, “but when it came to real criminal shit he was nothing. Rosenberg and Paul figured that bank deal out; they deserve as ...
( Category: State & Local November 17,2016 )
Street Farm by Michael Ableman
epub |eng | 2016-08-05 | Author:Michael Ableman

There is no place to sit down at our market stand. We like to stay on our feet and meet eye-to-eye with eager eaters. Our market display requires hours to ...
( Category: Urban September 6,2016 )

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