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Author | : Ernest C. Brown Esq. PE |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2020-02-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1532090056 |
This a book about the legal system in the Golden State. California’s economy, on a global scale, is large enough to constitute the fifth largest national economy. The City of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area are the second and fourth largest population centers in the U.S., respectively. They are also among the fastest growing regions in the nation. The State of California spends billions of dollars on infrastructure projects. For example, the California Department of Transportation (“CalTrans”) has more than 23,000 employees with a budget of $14.7 billion — up more than 50% from 2017-2018. CalTrans will repair or repave more than 17,000 miles of road surfaces in the next eight years, as well as fix 500 bridges and 55,000 culverts. This book is dedicated to architects, engineers, contractors, suppliers, elected public officials and ordinary citizens who want these infrastructure projects to be built legally, economically and safely.
Author | : David E. Dowall |
Publisher | : Public Policy Instit. of CA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1582130450 |
Author | : Rupert Darwall |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1641770457 |
Rupert Darwall’s Green Tyranny traces the alarming origins of the green agenda, revealing how environmental scares have been deployed by our global rivals as a political instrument to contest American power around the world. Drawing on extensive historical and policy analysis, this timely and provocative book offers a lucid history of environmental alarmism and failed policies, explaining how “scientific consensus” is manufactured and abused by politicians with duplicitous motives and totalitarian tendencies.
Author | : Ethan N. Elkind |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520278275 |
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.
Author | : Steven Greenhut |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2021-08-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781934276440 |
Saving California is focused on policy changes that could help restore some of California's lost luster. The authors are all current or former Californians, people with deep expertise in their respective policy areas.
Author | : Malcolm Mellor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Ice prevention |
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Author | : Charles L. Marohn, Jr. |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1119564816 |
A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Author | : Ellen Hanak |
Publisher | : Public Policy Instit. of CA |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1582131414 |
Author | : Clark Morrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781938166310 |
Author | : Parag C. Das |
Publisher | : Thomas Telford |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780727725912 |
Discusses "the safety concepts which form the basis of modern bridge design and assessment codes" and "the background work carried out in the development of the new UK bridge and route-specific traffic loading requirements, and the proposed whole life performance-based assessment rules" -- Preface.