No Little Plans: How Government Built America's Wealth and Infrastructure

ISBN-13: 9781138594104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Ian Wray

Opis

In his new book Ian Wray asks what role the US public sector has played and should play in the country’s major projects, and whether it is help or hindrance to enterprise and innovation.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations and Sources  1. Introduction  PART I: AMERICAN RETREAT  2. The Crucible of ’68: The Rise and Fall of Rational Planning in America  3. The Fraying of America: The Symptoms, Causes and Consequences of National Fragmentation  PART II: AMERICAN ADVANCE  4. The Great and Shining Roads: Planning and Building the American Railroads  5. The Worthless Lands: Creating the World’s First National Parks  6. Deals and Dams 86: Hydroelectric Power and Water for a Continent  7. Engines and Octanes: Wartime Plans and the Evolution of the Military Industrial Complex  8. On the Road : Engineering the Interstate Highways  9. No Little Plans: Power Brokers, Business Elites, and the Making of New York  10. The Moon and the Computer: Apollo 11 and the Shaping of the American Economy  11. Frontiers of the Mind: How Government Created the Internet  PART III: AMERICAN DILEMMA  12. The Road from Serfdom: American Missions, Asian Plans, and the Future  Index

O autorze

Ian Wray is Visiting Professor in Civic Design and Heseltine Institute Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Vice Chair of World Heritage UK. He was Chief Planner, Northwest Development Agency, 2000–2010. He has written for the Architects Journal and Management Today and is the author of Great British Plans: Who Made Them and How They Worked.