Imparts important lessons about governance. This title focuses on key management functions such as personnel, performance, and leadership, as well as on the impact of changes in federalism, technology, and regulation. It covers crime, health, and education as well as other pressing concerns like homeland security and ethics in government.
Imparts important lessons about governance. This title focuses on key management functions such as personnel, performance, and leadership, as well as ...
Millions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure. The 1950s are regarded as the golden age of community, but 1960s rebellion and 1980s nostalgia have blurred our view of what life was really like back then.In The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt cuts through the fog, immersing us in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of life in America forty years ago. He takes us down the streets and into the homes, schools, and shops of three neighborhoods in one quintessentially American city: Chicago. In St....
Millions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure....
Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future. In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals how the roles of America s cities and suburbs are changing places young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent are moving out and addresses the implications of these shifts for the future of our society. Ehrenhalt shows us how the commercial canyons of lower Manhattan are becoming residential neighborhoods, and how mass transit has...
Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future. In The Great Inversion...
