Suburban Activity Centers/edge Cities
Author : Urban Land Institute
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Suburban life
ISBN :
Author : Urban Land Institute
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Suburban life
ISBN :
Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307801942
First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
Author : Robert E. Lang
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2003-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815796008
Edgeless cities are a sprawling form of development that accounts for the bulk of office space found outside of downtowns. Every major metropolitan area has them: vast swaths of isolated buildings that are neither pedestrian friendly, nor easily accessible by public transit, and do not lend themselves to mixed use. While critics of urban sprawl tend to focus on the social impact of "edge cities"—developments that combine large-scale office parks with major retail and housing—edgeless cities, despite their ubiquity, are difficult to define or even locate. While they stay under the radar of critics, they represent a significant departure in the way American cities are built and are very likely the harbingers of a suburban future almost no one has anticipated. Edgeless Cities explores America's new metropolitan form by examining the growth and spatial structure of suburban office space across the nation. Inspired by Myron Orfield's groundbreaking Metropolitics (Brookings, 1997), Robert Lang uses data, illustrations, maps, and photos to delineate between two types of suburban office development—bounded and edgeless. The book covers the evolving geography of rental office space in thirteen of the country's largest markets, which together contain more than 2.6 billion square feet of office space and 26,000 buildings: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington. Lang discusses how edgeless cities differ from traditional office areas. He also provides an overview of national, regional, and metropolitan office markets, covers ways to map and measure them, and discusses the challenges urban policymakers and practitioners will face as this new suburban form continues to spread. Until now, edgeless cities have been the unstudied phenomena of the new metropolis. Lang's conceptual approach reframes the current thinking on suburban sprawl and provides a valuable resource for
Author : Calthorpe Associates
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Land use, Urban
ISBN :
Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2248 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2011-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9048199204
This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Suburbs
ISBN :
Author : Dave Marcum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847375049
Backed by five years of research, David Marcum and Steven Smith's egonomicsinforms readers that the key to great leadership is understanding exactly what ego is - and what it should not be. With the aid of real-life examples and persuasive writing, egonomics argues that while most people believe ego is negative, it is actually a healthy, necessary element to management effectiveness and business leadership. Marcum and Smith illustrate that the distinction between a good and a great leader is how humility affects their ambition, and egonomics is full of ideas that help both upper and middle management keep their egos in balance. With a compelling combination of business and psychology expertise, these two specialists explain how (a) being too competitive can make you less competitive, (b) seeking respect and recognition dilutes effectiveness and (c) humility, curiosity and veracity are the essential components to outstanding leadership. Full of the best advice from the experts in the field, egonomics is poised to be the blockbuster business bestseller of the season.
Author : Becky Nicolaides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135396396
Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment—it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. Employing over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essays, The Suburb Reader documents the rise of North American suburbanization from the 1700s through the present day. Through thematically organized chapters it explores multiple facets of suburbia’s creation and addresses its indelible impact on the shaping of gender and family ideologies, politics, race relations, technology, design, and public policy. Becky Nicolaides’ and Andrew Wiese’s concise commentaries introduce the selections and contextualize the major themes of each chapter. Distinctive in its integration of multiple perspectives on the evolution of the suburban landscape, The Suburb Reader pays particular attention to the long, complex experiences of African Americans, immigrants, and working people in suburbia. Encompassing an impressive breadth of chronology and themes, The Suburb Reader is a landmark collection of the best works on the rise of this modern social phenomenon.
Author : Ram Charan
Publisher : Crown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Corporations
ISBN : 0609608398
A powerful lesson in what is really important in business, this remarkable book by an ultimate insider takes the lessons of the peddler and reveals how they can be used by the rest of us. Reminiscent of bestsellers such as "Who Moved My Cheese?" and" The One-Minute Manager, What the CEO Wants You to Know" is simple, direct, and of immense use to everyone in business.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Suburbs
ISBN :
This report summarizes a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) seminar on the issues associated with the growth and development of "edge cities"--The major mixed-use activity centers in the suburbs of many metropolitan areas. With nearly two-thirds of new jobs and housing going into suburban areas, edge city mobility may be the characteristic transportation problem of the future. The seminar focused specifically on the challenges posed by edge city development patterns, and the opportunities presented by the increased flexibility afforded by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) to meet those challenges