Building Gotham - Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 18981938

Informationen zum Autor Keith D. Revell is an associate professor of public administration in the School of Policy and Management at Florida International University. Klappentext "An excellent text for students and researchers to better understand the often unique and always complex set of issues and actors that initiated, implemented, or thwarted urban planning efforts in New York City." -- "Journal of Planning Education and Research" Zusammenfassung Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city.

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• Authors: Keith D Revell, Keith D. Revell, Keith D. (Florida International University Revell, Keith D. (Florida International University) Revell
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2003
• EAN: 9780801870736
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7073-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy, New York (state)