Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375174624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Report of the Commissioner appointed to Inquire into the Turnpike Trusts, Ireland
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375174624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375174624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Statement as to the state of the turnpike trusts in England and Wales
Author: William Foote
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Roads to Power
Author: Jo Guldi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264134
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264134
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.
Transport and Economy
Author: Eric Pawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Speech ... on moving the second reading of the Turnpike Trusts Bill, etc
Author: Edward Hugessen Knatchbull HUGESSEN (Baron Brabourne.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Public Bills
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Annual Report of the Local Government Board ...
Author: Great Britain. Local Government Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health status indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health status indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Author:
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349588024
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 7493
Book Description
The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is now available as a dynamic online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. Regularly updated! This product is a subscription based product.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349588024
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 7493
Book Description
The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is now available as a dynamic online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. Regularly updated! This product is a subscription based product.