America's Top-Rated Cities
America's Top-Rated Cities

Author: Grey House Publishing

Publisher:

Published: 2005-04

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9781592370764

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America's Top-Rated Cities is a four-volume set, each book covering a specific region of the United States - Southern, Wstern, Central, and Eastern. Each volume includes narrative city backgrounds, statistical information, rankings, and comparative data in one easy-to-use source, on cities that have scored high marks on economy, education, health care, crime, transportation, leisure activities, and arts & culture. the final list of top-rated cities is derived from our unique rating system, which is based on a number of well-known "best of" lists and firth-hand experience

America's Top-Rated Cities, Volume 3: Central Region: A Statistical Handbook
America's Top-Rated Cities, Volume 3: Central Region: A Statistical Handbook

Author: Grey House Publishing

Publisher: America's Top-Rated Cities: V.

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781619251236

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America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 100 cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the United States.

Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Britannica Student Encyclopedia

Author: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc

Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 2900

ISBN-13: 1625131720

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Entertaining and informative, the newly updated Britannica Student Encyclopedia helps children gain a better understanding of their world. Updated for 2015, more than 2,250 captivating articles cover everything from Barack Obama to video games. Children are sure to immerse themselves in 2,700 photos, charts, and tables that help explain concepts and subjects, as well as 1,200 maps and flags from across the globe. Britannica Student is curriculum correlated and a recent winner of the 2008 Teachers Choice Award and 2010 AEP Distinguished achievement award.

The Place Economy - Volume 3
The Place Economy - Volume 3

Author: Andrew Hoyne

Publisher: Andrew Hoyne Design

Published: 2023-06-05

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 1038648815

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As a project undertaken before, during and in the aftermath of a global pandemic, The Place Economy Volume 3 represents an increased appreciation of our need as humans for place and community. Spanning 80-plus stories, featuring the work of more than 100 global experts, you will find a celebration of the people, places and ideas that make cities great, alongside close examination of the barriers and challenges still facing communities in Australia and abroad. As with Volume 1 and 2, every story here presents compelling evidence of the better return on investment that occurs for developers and communities alike when insightful placemaking underpins a vision.

Arbitrary Lines
Arbitrary Lines

Author: M. Nolan Gray

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2022-06-21

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1642832545

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It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up