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Author : E. Blake
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : History
ISBN : 9785874913878
Greater Oakland, 1911, a volume dealing with the big metropolis on the shores of San Francisco Bay
Author : George W. Calderwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89073027955
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHJ5X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : MINN:31951D02275088Q
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1530 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016643771
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Oakland (Calif.)
ISBN : UCAL:B3625834
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Corporations
ISBN : WISC:89017616558
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Interstate commerce
ISBN : UIUC:30112064408310
Author : Gregory Simon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520292796
Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire—in terms of structures lost—in California history. More than 3,000 residential structures burned and 25 lives were lost. Although this fire occurred in Oakland and Berkeley, others like it sear through landscapes in California and the American West that have experienced urban growth and development within areas historically prone to fire. Simon skillfully blends techniques from environmental history, political ecology, and science studies to closely examine the Tunnel Fire within a broader historical and spatial context of regional economic development and natural-resource management, such as the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees as an exotic lure for homeowners and the creation of hillside neighborhoods for tax revenue—decisions that produced communities with increased vulnerability to fire. Simon demonstrates how in Oakland a drive for affluence led to a state of vulnerability for rich and poor alike that has only been exacerbated by the rebuilding of neighborhoods after the fire. Despite these troubling trends, Flame and Fortune in the American West illustrates how many popular and scientific debates on fire limit the scope and efficacy of policy responses. These risky yet profitable developments (what the author refers to as the Incendiary), as well as proposed strategies for challenging them, are discussed in the context of urbanizing areas around the American West and hold global applicability within hazard-prone areas.
Author : Charles C. Euchner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 080184973X
Can a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants—a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms—by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. "We had to make threats," the owners said. "If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn't have gotten the deal." "Sports is not a dominant industry in any city," writes Charles Euchner, "yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers." In Playing the Field, Euchner looks at why sports attracts this kind of attention and what that says about the urban political process. Examining the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, Euchner argues that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable. According to Euchner, this greater leverage of sports franchises is due, at least in part, to their overall economic insignificance. Since the demands of a franchise do not directly affect many interest groups, opponents of stadium projects have difficulty developing coalitions to oppose them. The result is that civic leaders tend to succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports, rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies.
Author : Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756037
San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years. The area’s diversity, anti-establishment leanings, and unique and beautiful natural surroundings are explored in the context of a dynamic sporting past that includes events broadcast to millions or activities engaged in by just a few. Professional and college events are covered along with lesser-known entities such as Oakland’s public parks, tennis player and Bay Area native Rosie Casals, environmentalism and hiking in Marin County, and the origins of the Gay Games. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies how sport is connected to identities based on sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Just as crucial, the stories here illuminate how sport and recreation can potentially create transgressive spaces, particularity in a place known for its nonconformity.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031806086
Author : Arnold J. Meltsner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520027736
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN : OSU:32435076355148
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2712 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UOM:39015065626908