Car Country

Author : Christopher W. Wells
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780295804477

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Car Country by Christopher W. Wells Pdf

For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country—a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car. The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical development. In Car Country, Wells rejects the idea that the nation's automotive status quo can be explained as a simple byproduct of an ardent love affair with the automobile. Instead, he takes readers on a tour of the evolving American landscape, charting the ways that transportation policies and land-use practices have combined to reshape nearly every element of the built environment around the easy movement of automobiles. Wells untangles the complicated relationships between automobiles and the environment, allowing readers to see the everyday world in a completely new way. The result is a history that is essential for understanding American transportation and land-use issues today. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48LTKOxxrXQ

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : UIUC:30112104063794

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Used-car Markets of Foreign Countries by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. E. Haynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112104064248

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Motor-vehicle Taxation and Regulations in Foreign Countries by C. E. Haynes Pdf

Author : Richard F. Doner,Gregory W. Noble,John Ravenhill
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Auto Industry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Industrial Competitiveness of the Auto Parts Industries in Four Large Asian Countries by Richard F. Doner,Gregory W. Noble,John Ravenhill Pdf

Abstract: Rationalization and stabilization following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s combined with the expansion and liberalization of regional and global trade to create significant parts industries in China, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea. Conventional policies of stabilization and liberalization, however, cannot fully explain growth patterns. Japan and Korea grew into major players before liberalizing trade and investment, while even after extensive liberalization Indonesia has yet to move from extensive to intensive growth. These anomalies suggest that to explain success in the auto parts industry we need to move beyond liberalization to look at policies and institutions promoting economies of scale, skill formation, quality upgrading, supplier-linkage cooperation, and innovation. In Japan, the regional and global leader, innovative assemblers led industrial development and supported key suppliers, but the government also supported diffusion of quality control techniques and new technology to small and medium enterprises, and encouraged stable employment among core employees. Korea remains weaker on both small and medium enterprise and employment fronts, but government-encouraged consolidation around a small number of business groups, an extended period of protection, and support for export promotion led to economies of scale. Liberalization of foreign investment after the financial crisis helped ameliorate the excessive statism of earlier policies and strengthened the parts industry. In China, liberalization for WTO entry, rapid expansion in demand, and strong support by local governments encouraged a wave of foreign investment in both assembly and parts. In contrast, institutional weaknesses continue to constrain development opportunities in Indonesia.

Author : M. Nolan Gray
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642832549

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Arbitrary Lines by M. Nolan Gray Pdf

It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:103587329

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Railway Journal ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Atle Midttun,Nina Witoszek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317644279

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Energy and Transport in Green Transition by Atle Midttun,Nina Witoszek Pdf

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition. It frames the ongoing transformation in terms of a "battle of modernities" with the emerging vision of ecomodernity as the final destination. It also offers a systematic exploration of the potential for extensive transformation of carbon-intensive sectors – with a focus on energy and transport – towards a low or post-carbon economy. The book does so in a comparative perspective, by pointing to a diversity of techno-economic and institutional solutions in the mature Western economies, and in the rapidly growing East and developing South. The contributors highlight a broad spectrum of available alternatives as well as illuminate conflicting interests involved. They also demonstrate how solutions to the climate challenge require parallel technological and governance innovation. The book advocates a new, overarching vision and agenda of ecomodernity – based on a synergistic paradigm-shift in industry, politics and culture – to trigger and sustain the ecological innovation necessary to tip development in a green direction. This vision cannot be monolithic; rather, it should reflect the diverse interests and conditions of the global population. This book is aimed at researchers and postgraduate students of energy, transport, environmental and climate policies, as well as development, environment, innovation and sustainability.

Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030569415

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The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548445

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Manhattan Prep
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1411 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781937707828

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10 Real LSATs Grouped by Question Type by Manhattan Prep Pdf

Designed as a study aid for the students of Manhattan Prep’s elite LSAT prep classes, 10 Real LSATs Grouped by Question Type provides students with an opportunity for targeted practice. Cut from Practice Tests 41-50, this book allows students to hone their skills on specific question types in Logical Reasoning, Logic Games, and Reading Comprehension, including Assumptions, Inferences, Binary Grouping, and more. In-depth explanations for every question are written by Manhattan Prep’s expert LSAT instructors and feature hand-drawn diagrams that allow students to get inside the mind of a 99th percentile scorer. By providing a means for targeted training, 10 Real LSATs Grouped by Question Type is an invaluable study tool, enabling students to get acclimated to the nuances of the exam and achieve a higher level of mastery on every question the LSAT has to offer!

Author : Brian K. Darragh
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781460246542

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The Streetcars of Winnipeg - Our Forgotten Heritage by Brian K. Darragh Pdf

On the 19th of September, 2015 it will be 60 years since the last streetcar made it’s final run through Winnipeg’s well known Portage and Main. Even our oldest daughter in her mid fifties never had a chance to see a Winnipeg streetcar operating, and naturally her children and grandchildren haven’t either. What an experience they have missed! I operated the streetcars for the final 17 months of existence here, April 1954 to September 1955. I was the third youngest streetcar operator at that time. I turned 86 years old in November 2014 so the remaining half dozen operators will be in their mid nineties now. I have tried to capture the experience that the 73 years of streetcar service provided to Winnipeg and the surrounding towns. From the start of the horse cars in 1882 where the drivers were paid 12 cents an hour, to the beginning of electric streetcars in January 1891, this book describes with the aid of numerous pictures the essence of the transportation experience of those times. The streetcars ran for approximately 35 years before the first four buses came in 1918. In that time the streetcars supported the growth of the city to 150,000 people by 1912 becoming the third largest city in Canada. Writing this book has brought back many fond memories of those days. The last Winnipeg streetcar book was written by the late John Baker 32 years ago. It’s about time for another.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Farm produce
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128558918

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Daily Commercial Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heinrich August Winkler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300204896

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The Age of Catastrophe by Heinrich August Winkler Pdf

One of Germany's leading historians presents an ambitious and masterful account of the years encompassing the two world wars Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative project of the West and unleashed devastation across the world. In this total history of the thirty years between the start of World War One and the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Winkler blends historical narrative with political analysis and encompasses military strategy, national identity, class conflict, economic development and cultural change. The book includes astutely observed chapters on the United States, Japan, Russia, Britain, and the other European powers, and Winkler's distinctly European perspective offers insights beyond the accounts written by his British and American counterparts. As Germany takes its place at the helm of a unified Europe, Winkler's fascinating account will be widely read and debated for years to come.

Author : Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552770054

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Car Nation by Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by Prairie grain farmers, the new modern woman, travellers to the north, and rough-and-tumble adventurers looking for a thrill by traversing the immense length of the country. The automobile was the symbol of the modern Canada of the twentieth century, and the final victory of technology over landscape. Canadians were building cars from the beginning. Independent firms and branches of the big American manufacturers vied for the lucrative Canadian market. Automaking has been an integral part of Canada's economy since the car's introduction. For more than a century, Canadians have lived with this automobile revolution, and all the consequences and permutations that it represents. Blending social, cultural and economic history, Dimitry Anastakis's engaging text tells the fascinating story of the car across Canada from earliest days, when cars and horses jockeyed for parking space, to the multilane freeways of the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000008784674

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Yearbook of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf