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Author : American Public Works Association
Publisher : Association
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036579212
Author : Karen M. O'Neill
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387862
The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented in conjunction with state governments and local contractors and levee districts. Karen M. O’Neill analyzes the social origins of the flood control program, showing how the system initially developed as a response to the demands of farmers and the business elite in outlying territories. The configuration of the current system continues to reflect decisions made in the nineteenth century and early twentieth. It favors economic development at the expense of environmental concerns. O’Neill focuses on the creation of flood control programs along the lower Mississippi River and the Sacramento River, the first two rivers to receive federal flood control aid. She describes how, in the early to mid-nineteenth century, planters, shippers, and merchants from both regions campaigned for federal assistance with flood control efforts. She explains how the federal government was slowly and reluctantly drawn into water management to the extent that, over time, nearly every river in the United States was reengineered. Her narrative culminates in the passage of the national Flood Control Act of 1936, which empowered the Army Corps of Engineers to build projects for all navigable rivers in conjunction with local authorities, effectively ending nationwide, comprehensive planning for the protection of water resources.
Author : Stanley Greenberg
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781568983882
A collection of photographs which profile the aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks of New York's water system.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Capital investments
ISBN : PURD:32754078798463
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN : UOM:39015027007494
Author : Matthew Gandy
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262572168
An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City. In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city's political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation's colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Water quality management
ISBN : UOM:39015029606582
Author : Stephen W. Stathis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452267449
Documents Congress's most momentous accomplishments in determining the national policies to be carried out by the executive branch, in approving appropriations to support those policies, and in fulfilling its responsibility to ensure that such actions are being implemented as intended.
Author : David P. Billington,Donald C. Jackson,Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0160728231
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Author : Stephen W. Stathis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452292298
The Second Edition of this renowned treasure trove of information about the most important laws and treaties enacted by the U.S. Congress now deepens its historical coverage and examines an entire decade of new legislation. Landmark Legislation 1774-2012 includes additional acts and treaties chosen for their historical significance or their precedential importance for later areas of major federal legislative activity in the over 200 years since the convocation of the Continental Congress. Brand new chapters expand coverage to include the last five numbered Congresses (10 years of activity from 2003-2012), which has seen landmark legislation in the areas of health insurance and health care reform; financial regulatory reform; fiscal stimulus and the Temporary Asset Relief Program; federal support for stem cell research; reform of federal financial support for public schools and higher education; and much more. Features & Benefits: Each chapter covers one of the numbered Congresses with a historical essay, followed by the major acts of that Congress arranged in chronological order of passage – with each act summarized. A Finder’s Guide summarizes all of the acts and treaties into approximately 40 separate topical policy areas. The work’s extensive bibliography has been expanded and updated. This one-volume resource is a must-have for any public or academic library, especially those with strong American history or political science collections.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : IND:30000076205198
Author : John Lonnquest,Bert Toussaint,Joe Manous
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Military history
ISBN : UIUC:30112105161225
Author : Remo Dalla Longa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031237850
The book deals with the concept of urban infrastructure and the strong evolution of globalization, in particular the driving force taken by global cities. Urban infrastructure is a constituent part of the global cities, both have a synergistic evolution. The main reference is to western global cities in the intertwining of financialization, settling and brownfield which is a little different from the urbanization of other global cities of other non- developed countries, or emerging countries. There is therefore a significant link between globalization and urban infrastructure. The occurrence of slowbalization can have consequences on urban areas infrastructures and more generally on the different dichotomy between global city and nation. With the pandemic infectious and the post COVID, there is already a different configuration between the global city and the rest of the national territory. A driving element of the urban infrastructure and the global city has been the financialization and identification of assets within global cities. Urban infrastructure as an asset has grown considerably in the last two decades, in the wake of what has already been highlighted previously for real estate. There are contiguous issues that affect the concept of urban infrastructures and they are the enormous growth of finance and the landings of this in the great cities of the world with investments that first involved Real Estate and then urban infrastructures. There has also been a technological revolution that has merged the ubiquitous technological infrastructure with other more traditional components of the infrastructure, even apparently recent themes, such as smart cities, come from this evolutionary trend and merge with urban infrastructures. The theme of smart cities, if properly interpreted, gives strength to the concept of urban infrastructure.
Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822977766
As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is responsible for its distribution as a public good. Melosi provides historical background on the construction, administration, and adaptability of water supply and wastewater systems in urban America. He cites budgetary constraints and the deterioration of existing water infrastructures as factors leading many municipalities to seriously consider the privatization of their water supply. Melosi also views the role of government in the management of, development of, and legal jurisdiction over America’s rivers and waterways for hydroelectric power, flood control, irrigation, and transportation access. Looking to the future, he compares the costs and benefits of public versus private water supply, examining the global movement toward privatization.