Real Estate Development and Urban Form: Roadblocks in the Path to Residential Exclusivity

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Burgess Stach
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Structure Of Communities ◽  
Subsequent Application ◽  
Deed Restrictions ◽  
Land Use Control

Many real estate developers in the United States consciously attempted to shape residential neighborhoods, but their success in determining the spatial and social structure of communities was mixed. This article describes the methods available to land developers and realtors and examines the application of these tools to a section of Columbus, Ohio. It demonstrates that the intentions of deed restrictions and other private means of land use control were often undermined by construction delays, general economic conditions, and outmoded requirements, as well as by the timing of annexation and the subsequent application of public zoning ordinances.

A Metropolitan Entrepreneur Par Excellence: Henry E. Huntington and the Growth of Southern California, 1898–1927

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Friedricks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Los Angeles Basin ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
City Planner ◽  
Street Railways

Henry E. Huntington, according to the following article, placed his imprint on the development of his region, the Los Angeles basin, to an extent unique among urban entrepreneurs. His great wealth and foresight, and especially his interests in street railways, real estate development, and hydroelectric power, enabled him to become a de facto city planner for one of the most important metropolitan regions in the United States.

“Little Plants in the Country”: Henry Ford's Village Industries and the Beginning of Decentralized Technology in Modern America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 181-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard P. Segal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New York ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Physical Proximity ◽  
The World ◽  
Word Processors

“Technology Spurs Decentralization Across the Country.” So reads a 1984 New York Times article on real-estate trends in the United States. The contemporary revolution in information processing and transmittal now allows large businesses and other institutions to disperse their offices and other facilities across the country, even across the world, without loss of the policy- and decision-making abilities formerly requiring regular physical proximity. Thanks to computers, word processors, and the like, decentralization has become a fact of life in America and other highly technological societies.

Urban form and air quality in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 168-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua McCarty ◽  
Nikhil Kaza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
The United States

Understanding America Better A Ten-book Challenge

LOGOS ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-55
Author(s):  
Gordon Graham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Real Estate Agent ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International Entrepreneur

AbstractEleven Americans, including a publisher, an international entrepreneur, two librarians, an historian, an art designer, a real estate agent, an author, an academic, an IT consultant and a bibliophile, were asked to choose which ten books they would recommend to a new arrival in the United States. Their target was defined as literate in English, well read, and with an intelligent outsider's knowledge of the United States. The participants, who made their choices unbeknown to one another, were invited to annotate their choices. The result is a kaleidoscope of views and arguments, with surprisingly little overlap, reflecting the endless diversity of the subject. The earliest of the 87 titles recommended is dated 1786, the most recent 2011. They include the famous and the obscure, scholarly and popular, tomes and light reading, poetry and essays, history and biography, science and sociology.

Features of the language of law: A comparative study of Polish, English and Indonesian legal texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Zozula
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Text ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
Parallel Texts

Abstract Researchers studying the language of law agree that there is a number of certain features which are characteristic of the legal genre, regardless of the language of the legal text. Among the most commonly listed features of lingua legis are: conventionalised sentences, performative verbs, Latinisms, euphemisms, and time expressions. The paper provides a discussion of these features, as well as provides examples of their occurrence in Polish, English, and Indonesian legal texts. The analised corpus includes the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, The Constitution of the United States of America with amendments, Polish and Indonesian Civil Codes (clauses concerning obligations), together with a set of parallel texts of rental agreements and real estate sale contracts.

Cambodia in 2018

Asian Survey ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-176
Author(s):  
Aurel Croissant
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Opposition Party ◽  
General Elections ◽  
The Eu

In 2018, ever-incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen scored a landslide victory in the Cambodian general elections. Three factors in particular explain this outcome. First, the elimination of the main opposition party, whose strategy of a peaceful election boycott failed. Second, favorable economic conditions and government handouts of spoils to constituencies that traditionally supported the opposition. Third, the weak leverage of the United States and the EU, and the Hun Sen regime’s strong links with China.

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