Author: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: University of California (1868-1952). Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
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Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Author: Nathaniel Lichfield
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: California. Department of Finance. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Paul Francis Wendt
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Category : Real estate investment
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Paul E. Groth
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068766
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.

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Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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Author: Douglas M. Wrenn
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: American Consulting Engineers Council
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Category : Consulting engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Author: Hideo Nakamura
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ISBN: 9784899741077
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Languages : en
Pages : 431

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Infrastructure is a priority around the world for all stakeholders. Infrastructure projects can continue for several years, from planning and construction to the provision of services. As development in Asia and the Pacific accelerates, governments must invest more in infrastructure to ensure continued economic growth. This book draws on lessons and case studies from Japan and worldwide, covering broad and long-term infrastructure projects. It describes the principles of developing quality infrastructure and focuses on the various steps of a project--from design, planning, and construction to operation and management. It also discusses overseas development assistance, taking examples from Asian Development Bank and World Bank projects. This book is an important reference tool for policy makers in Asia who are planning and implementing large-scale public infrastructure.