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Abby Hopper Gibbons
The first contemporary biography of Abby Hopper Gibbons, a nineteenth-century American social activist. Involved in a broad range of reform activities, she is particularly known for her pioneering efforts to improve the treatment of women prisoners.
The Third City
Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City—inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko—with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city. Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the ...
Affordable Housing in New York
A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to today A colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have helped make New York City livable, Affordable Housing in New York is a comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated history of the city's public and middle-income housing from the 1920s to today. Plans, models, archival photos, and newly commissioned portraits of buildings and tenants by sociologist and photographer David Schalliol put the efforts of the past century into context, and the book also looks ahead to future prospects for below-market subsidized housing. A dynamic account of an evolving city, Affordable Housing in New York is essential reading for understanding and advancing debates about how to enable future generations to call New York home.
Insuring the City
An in-depth look at Boston's Prudential Center and what its story reveals about the evolution of the modern American city The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower. It is also a historical beacon, representing a midcentury moment when insurance companies such as Prudential were particularly aware of how their physical presence and civic engagement reflected upon their intangible product: financial security. Looking to New York's Rockefeller Center, the creators of the Prudential Center aspired to use real estate development as a tool toward civic achievement, reinvigorating central Boston and integrating a large complex of buildings with new infrastructure for the automobile. Now available in paperback, this award-winning book tells the full story of “The Pru,” placing it in the political, economic, and architectural contexts of the period, and providing new insights into urban renewal in postwar America.
A New Home--who'll Follow?
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哈佛商業評論2016年8月號
迎接企業數位盛世 數位轉型已在企業間達到引爆點。才在過去幾年，「數位」還只是企業常態做法下的次要考量。現在，數位不再只是經濟的一部分，它本身就是經濟。根據麻省理工史隆管理學院的一項研究顯示，能順應數位潮流的企業，獲利率比同產業的其他企業高出26％。然而，在企業擬訂數位策略之前，必須先了解數位化帶來的機會和挑戰。 進行數位轉型必須思索的第一個問題，是決定公司的核心事業究竟為何？傳統的觀念認為企業應專注經營某個領域，但在以資訊為競爭基礎的時代，愈來愈難決定什麼是核心、什麼...
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
...a very readable book. Personalities and their relationships are vividly described. * American Historical Review ...Schaeper is to be warmly congratulated ...This is a piece of thorough and careful research, well organized, and a quite fascinating book. * Contemporary Review ...a careful and interesting record of a unique and largely successful transatlantic experiment * Daily Telegraph London ...entertaining and informative reading. * Library Journal ...a fascinating study based on numerous interviews with former Rhodes scholars and American administrators of the program, and on the memoirs and autobiographies of Rhodie alumni ...Produced in a clear, straightforward prose and with a touch...
