Puget Sound Region

Puget Sound Region
Author: Puget Sound Regional Planning Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1943
Genre: City planning
ISBN:

New Deal Planning

New Deal Planning
Author: Marion Clawson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1135995540

First Published in 2011. The purposes of this book are to analyze and describe the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB) and its direct predecessor agencies in the setting of their times, and to draw any lessons their experience offers us today. Resources for the Future (RFF) has a long tradition of conducting studies of government agencies that administer natural resource programs and policies. This book is in the RFF tradition of institutional studies with exhaustive coverage of an agency no longer in existence to anticipate emerging problems and provide a comprehensive viewpoint of its successes and failures. The audience for this book are all persons interested in government, natural resources, economic and social studies, and in planning generally.

The American West Transformed

The American West Transformed
Author: Gerald D. Nash
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803283602

The industrialization of the American West during World War II brought about rapid and far-reaching social, cultural, and economic changes. Gerald D. Nash shows that the effect of the war on that region was nothing less than explosive.