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  • THROUGH THE GREAT CITY: Impressions of Megalopolis. by Bailey, Anthony.
    Bailey, Anthony.
    THROUGH THE GREAT CITY: Impressions of Megalopolis.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Macmillan, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - An informal and entertaining look at urban planning, highways and infrastructure in the Northeast of the US. This corridor is often considered not just as several cities but as a megalopolis - and Bailey is interested in exploring just what that means. The author drove from Boston to Washington, D.C. visiting friends along the way, and talking to people about what is happening - he visited MIT which was working on a high speed transportation system, cities like Providence, RI and unique areas like the NJ Pine Barrens, took a trip on the Hudson in Lawrence Rockefeller's motor cruiser, visited with Lewis Mumford, and talked to real estate agents and…

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    New York: Macmillan, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - An informal and entertaining look at urban planning, highways and infrastructure in the Northeast of the US. This corridor is often considered not just as several cities but as a megalopolis - and Bailey is interested in exploring just what that means. The author drove from Boston to Washington, D.C. visiting friends along the way, and talking to people about what is happening - he visited MIT which was working on a high speed transportation system, cities like Providence, RI and unique areas like the NJ Pine Barrens, took a trip on the Hudson in Lawrence Rockefeller's motor cruiser, visited with Lewis Mumford, and talked to real estate agents and small town administrators. Map frontispiece. Bibliography, index. 276 pp. Map endpapers.

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    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84605
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  • ATTORNEY FOR THE SITUATION. by Hazard, Leland.
    Hazard, Leland.
    ATTORNEY FOR THE SITUATION.

    Edition: First printing.

    Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this prominent attorney, author and who was also an innovator in urban development. "In Kansas City, base for his early career, he participated in initial attempts to bring down the Pendergast machine. At age 44 he moved to Pittsburgh and for the next 20 years served as general counsel, vice president and director of Pittsburgh Plate Class Company. He was active in the planning and implementing of the famed 'Renaissance,' helped initiated the city's (and nation's) first educational TV station, and in his retirement years, taught humanities to businessmen. These corporate and civic accomplishments are retold straight-forwardly with quiet (and justifiable) pride." (Library Journal)…

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    Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this prominent attorney, author and who was also an innovator in urban development. "In Kansas City, base for his early career, he participated in initial attempts to bring down the Pendergast machine. At age 44 he moved to Pittsburgh and for the next 20 years served as general counsel, vice president and director of Pittsburgh Plate Class Company. He was active in the planning and implementing of the famed 'Renaissance,' helped initiated the city's (and nation's) first educational TV station, and in his retirement years, taught humanities to businessmen. These corporate and civic accomplishments are retold straight-forwardly with quiet (and justifiable) pride." (Library Journal) INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Illustrated with photographs, index. xix, 314 pp. ISBN: 0-231038984.

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    Condition: Good overall in a fair only dust jacket (name on front endpaper, newpaper obituary of his wife tipped onto to rear endpaper, dust jacket is split along side of spine, overall edgewear, now protected by an archival cover)

    Book ID: 90712
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  • WHITE POWER / BLACK FREEDOM; PLANNING THE FUTURE OF URBAN AMERICA. by Schuchter, Arnold.
    Schuchter, Arnold.
    WHITE POWER / BLACK FREEDOM; PLANNING THE FUTURE OF URBAN AMERICA.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Beacon Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A discussion of the essential factors needed to create a planned revolution which can deal with both the urban and the racial explosion, but preserve the continuity of democratic order and traditions of our society. The author was involved in the Baltimore model city project, an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty. In 1966, new legislation expanded this program to more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to develop new antipoverty programs and alternative forms of municipal government. However, while this did succeed in fostering a new generation of mostly black urban leaders, as the nation moved to the right after the urban riots…

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    Boston: Beacon Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A discussion of the essential factors needed to create a planned revolution which can deal with both the urban and the racial explosion, but preserve the continuity of democratic order and traditions of our society. The author was involved in the Baltimore model city project, an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty. In 1966, new legislation expanded this program to more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to develop new antipoverty programs and alternative forms of municipal government. However, while this did succeed in fostering a new generation of mostly black urban leaders, as the nation moved to the right after the urban riots of the late 1960s, this program was abandoned in 1974. The ideas presented here, with the emphasis on the necessity of creating multiracial urban communities still have some relevance, even more more than 60 years later. Maps, tables. Notes, bibliography, index. xvii, 650 pp.

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    Condition: Ex-library with only a few markings, and overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (no markings on the dj, but a keyhole window on the spine, sunning to spine, minor edgewear)

    Book ID: 91658
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