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Author | : Brian James Leech |
Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2018-02-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0874175984 |
Winner of the Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the Best Book in Mining History, 2017-2018 Brian James Leech provides a social and environmental history of Butte, Montana’s Berkeley Pit, an open-pit mine which operated from 1955 to 1982. Using oral history interviews and archival finds, The City That Ate Itself explores the lived experience of open-pit copper mining at Butte’s infamous Berkeley Pit. Because an open-pit mine has to expand outward in order for workers to extract ore, its effects dramatically changed the lives of workers and residents. Although the Berkeley Pit gave consumers easier access to copper, its impact on workers and community members was more mixed, if not detrimental. The pit’s creeping boundaries became even more of a problem. As open-pit mining nibbled away at ethnic communities, neighbors faced new industrial hazards, widespread relocation, and disrupted social ties. Residents variously responded to the pit with celebration, protest, negotiation, and resignation. Even after its closure, the pit still looms over Butte. Now a large toxic lake at the center of a federal environmental cleanup, the Berkeley Pit continues to affect Butte’s search for a postindustrial future.
Author | : Welford Beaton |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781361223055 |
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Author | : Welford [From Old Catalog] Beaton |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781341508967 |
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Author | : Inga Saffron |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-06-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 197881707X |
Over the past two decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of Philadelphia's transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron's work, as she explores the tangled intersections of design, politics, and money at the heart of the city's resurgence.
Author | : Welford [From Old Catalog] Beaton |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781289797638 |
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Author | : Ben Green |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-04-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262352257 |
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity. Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself. In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedestrians, civic engagement is limited to requesting services through an app, police use algorithms to justify and perpetuate racist practices, and governments and private companies surveil public space to control behavior. Green describes smart city efforts gone wrong but also smart enough alternatives, attainable with the help of technology but not reducible to technology: a livable city, a democratic city, a just city, a responsible city, and an innovative city. By recognizing the complexity of urban life rather than merely seeing the city as something to optimize, these Smart Enough Cities successfully incorporate technology into a holistic vision of justice and equity.
Author | : Billy Mills |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2017-03 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1326931547 |
Billy Mills was born Dublin 1954. He has lived and worked in Spain and the UK, and now lives in Limerick. Billy is the founder and co-editor (with Catherine Walsh) of hardPressed poetry and the Journal. His books include Lares/Manes: Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2009), Imaginary Gardens (hardPressed poetry 2012), Loop Walks (with David Bremner, hardPressed poetry 2013), from Pensato (Smithereens Press e-book, 2013). Since 2007, he has been a regular contributor to the Guardian Books site, including the popular Poster Poems series: http: //www.guardian.co.uk/profile/billymills He blogs at https: //ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com
Author | : Kevin Lynch |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1964-06-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262620017 |
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
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Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Charles Merivale (Dean of Ely.) |
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Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1875 |
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