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The New Suburbanites

Race and Housing in the Suburbs

By: Robert W. Lake

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The New Suburbanites

Race and Housing in the Suburbs

By: Robert W. Lake

National data indicates a surge in African-American suburbanization during the 1970s. What are the barriers that have slowed this process for so long? Is black entry to the suburbs synonymous with integration? To what extent does it contribute to convergence in the residential distributions of whites and blacks? This careful and thorough study marshals evidence that black suburbanization offers less than full realization of the American Dream.Homeownership in the United States is a source of security, a sign of status, a means of equity accumulation, and a bond to the community. The basic premise underlying The New Suburbanitesis the preeminence of equal access. Survey data collected for this analysis pertains to successful homebuyers - whites and blacks who were able to negotiate safely the treacherous housing market conditions.Specifically, Robert W. Lake draws from a unique survey of black and white homebuyers to assess the institutional and housing market barriers to black suburban homeownership. How does racial discrimination add to the cost, time, and difficulty of housing search for black homebuyers? What is the effect of discrimination on housing prices, resale value, and equity accumulation? What is behind the complexity of white and black attitudes to suburban racial integration? What is the perspective of the real estate agent, the key market intermediary? The book addresses each of these questions and concludes with a critique of present federal fair housing legislation and an assessment of policy implications.

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Routledge

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1351478419

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9781351478410

Construction Site Erosion and Sediment Controls

Planning, Design and Performance

By: Robert Pitt,Shirley E. Clark,Donald W. Lake

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Construction Site Erosion and Sediment Controls

Planning, Design and Performance

By: Robert Pitt,Shirley E. Clark,Donald W. Lake

Contains critical design tools for practical implementation of techniques to control and abate run-off and sediment from construction sites.

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398

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DEStech Publications, Inc

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193207838X

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9781932078381

Readings in Urban Analysis

Perspectives on Urban Form and Structure

By: Robert W. Lake

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Readings in Urban Analysis

Perspectives on Urban Form and Structure

By: Robert W. Lake

This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis. The field of urban analysis is characterized by the multiplicity of approaches, philosophies, and methodologies employed in the examination of urban structure and urban problems. This fragmentation of perspectives is not simply a reflection of the multifaceted and complex nature of the city as subject matter. Nor is it a function of the variety of disciplines such as geography, planning, economics, history, and sociology. Cross-cutting all of these issues and allegiances has been the emergence in recent years of a debate on fundamental issues of philosophy, ideology, and basic assumptions underlying the analysis of urban form and structure. The notion of urban analysis Robert W. Lake discusses focuses on the spatial structure of the city, its causes, and its consequences. At issue is the city as a spatial fact: a built environment with explicit characteristics and spatial dimensions, a spatial distribution of population and land uses, a nexus of locational decisions, an interconnected system of locational advantages and disadvantages, amenities and dis-amenities. Beginning with landmark articles in neo-classical and ecological theory, the reader covers the latest departures and developments. Separate sections cover political approaches to locational conflict, institutional influences on urban form, and recent Marxist approaches to urban analysis. Among the topics included are community strategies in locational conflict, the political economy of place, the role of government and the courts, institutional influences in the housing market, and the relationship between urban form and capitalist development. This is a valuable introductory text for courses in urban planning, urban geography, and urban sociology.

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351

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1351494716

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9781351494717

Dutch Chicago

A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City

By: Robert P. Swierenga

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Dutch Chicago

A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City

By: Robert P. Swierenga

Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years "below the radar screens" of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch Chicago Robert Swierenga offers a colorful, comprehensive history of the Dutch Americans who have made their home in the Windy City since the mid-1800s. The original Chicago Dutch were a polyglot lot from all social strata, regions, and religions of the Netherlands. Three-quarters were Calvinists; the rest included Catholics, Lutherans, Unitarians, Socialists, Jews, and the nominally churched. Whereas these latter Dutch groups assimilated into the American culture around them, the Dutch Reformed settled into a few distinct enclaves -- the Old West Side, Englewood, and Roseland and South Holland -- where they stuck together, building an institutional infrastructure of churches, schools, societies, and shops that enabled them to live from cradle to grave within their own communities. Focusing largely but not exclusively on the Reformed group of Dutch folks in Chicago, Swierenga recounts how their strong entrepreneurial spirit and isolationist streak played out over time. Mostly of rural origins in the northern Netherlands, these Hollanders in Chicago liked to work with horses and go into business for themselves. Picking up ashes and garbage, jobs that Americans despised, spelled opportunity for the Dutch, and they came to monopolize the garbage industry. Their independence in business reflected the privacy they craved in their religious and educational life. Church services held in the Dutch language kept outsiders at bay, as did a comprehensive system of private elementary and secondary schools intended to inculcate youngsters with the Dutch Reformed theological and cultural heritage. Not until the world wars did the forces of Americanization finally break down the walls, and the Dutch passed into the mainstream. Only in their churches today, now entirely English speaking, does the Dutch cultural memory still linger. Dutch Chicago is the first serious work on its subject, and it promises to be the definitive history. Swierenga's lively narrative, replete with historical detail and anecdotes, is accompanied by more than 250 photographs and illustrations. Valuable appendixes list Dutch-owned garbage and cartage companies in greater Chicago since 1880 as well as Reformed churches and schools. This book will be enjoyed by readers with Dutch roots as well as by anyone interested in America's rich ethnic diversity.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802813119

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9780802813114

The Architects and the City

Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918

By: Robert Bruegmann

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The Architects and the City

Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918

By: Robert Bruegmann

This book connects architectural history with urban history by looking at the work of a major architectural firm, Holabird & Roche. No firm in any large American city had a greater impact. With projects that ranged from tombstones to skyscrapers, boiler rooms to entire industrial complexes, Holabird & Roche left an indelible stamp on the city of Chicago and, indeed, far beyond. In this volume, the first of two on Holabird & Roche and its successor, Holabird & Root, Robert Bruegmann traces the firm's history from its founding in 1880 to the end of the First World War.

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592

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University of Chicago Press

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0226076954

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9780226076959

The Restaurant Manager's Handbook

How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation

By: Douglas Robert Brown

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The Restaurant Manager's Handbook

How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation

By: Douglas Robert Brown

Accompanying CD-ROM contains copies of all forms contained within the text.

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Atlantic Publishing Company

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0910627096

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9780910627092

Book's by Robert W. Lake

The New Suburbanites

The New Suburbanites

Construction Site Erosion and Sediment Controls

Construction Site Erosion and Sediment Controls

Readings in Urban Analysis

Readings in Urban Analysis

Dutch Chicago

Dutch Chicago

The Architects and the City

The Architects and the City

The Restaurant Manager's Handbook

The Restaurant Manager's Handbook

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