Annual report of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company.

Published: Chicago: Stromberg, Allen & Co., 1900-

The politics of technology adoption : Water metering in Progressive Era Chicago

This paper examines the interactions between knowledge and power in the adoption of technologies central to municipal water supply plans, specifically investigating decisions in Progressive Era Chicago regarding water meters. The invention and introduction into use of the reliable water meter early in the Progressive Era allowed planners and engineers to gauge water use, and enabled communities willing to invest in the new infrastructure to allocate costs for provision of supply to consumers relative to use. In an era where efficiency was so prized and the role of technocratic expertise was increasing, Chicago’s continued failure to adopt metering (despite levels of per capita consumption nearly twice that of comparable cities and acknowledged levels of waste nearing half of system production) may indicate that the underlying characteristics of the city’s political system and its elite stymied the implementation of metering technologies as in Smith’s (1977) comparative study of nineteenth century armories. Perhaps, as with Flyvbjerg’s (1998) study of the city of Aalborg, the powerful know what they want and data will not interfere with their conclusions: if the data point to a solution other than what is desired, then it must be that the data are wrong. Alternatively, perhaps the technocrats failed adequately to communicate their findings in a language which the political elite could understand, with the failure lying in assumptions of scientific or technical literacy rather than with dissatisfaction in outcomes (Benveniste 1972). When examined through a historical institutionalist perspective, the case study of metering adoption lends itself to exploration of larger issues of knowledge and power in the planning process: what governs decisions regarding knowledge acquisition, how knowledge and power interact, whether the potential to improve knowledge leads to changes in action, and, whether the decision to overlook available knowledge has an impact on future decisions.

Seated portrait of Dr. Eugen Oppenheimer; Chicago Portraits Men

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Leo Baeck sitting at table speaking with Congressman Adolph Sabath; Chicago Portraits; Groups; Men

Page 61 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3

Leo Baeck shaking hands with Congressman Adolph Sabath; Chicago Portraits; Groups; Men

Page 62 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3

Baron de Hirsch Fund records undated, 1870-1991.

Contains Deed of Trust, By-Laws, Annual Reports, Corporation Minutes (1909, 1913-1919, 1923-1924, 1926-1933), Minutes of the Board of Trustees (1893, 1899, 1907, 1910, 1915-1916, 1918, 1923, 1926-1927, 1930-1933), and the minutes, correspondence, and reports of the various national and local committees. Financial materials include income and expenditure records (1891-1933), audits (1919-1923, 1926-1928), the records of agricultural loans and mortgages, bond and real estate holdings, and bequests. Includes also correspondence and other materials regarding the establishment of the Fund, correspondence of and other papers concerning the Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, and several histories of the Fund. Included in the wide range of activities are material on the work of the Agriculture Bureau and the Jewish Agriculture Society, Housing, English Classes, Immigration (including monthly reports for several ports of entry 1885-1916) and Immigrant Aid, German Refugee Aid in the early years of the Holocaust, Kings Park, N.Y. Test Farm, the Laundry Project, Peekskill Farm, Public Baths, Student Loans, the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, and the Woodbine Colony and Baron De Hirsch Agricultural & Industrial School. Contains also materials on the Colonization attempts made in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Galveston, Texas, The Southwest, Washington, Canada, and Mexico.

O Direito Urbanístico e o controle da criminalidade no espaço urbano: as lições da Escola de Chicago a partir da experiência do Favela-Bairro na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

O planejamento urbano no Brasil passou por diversas fases de sua construção no estabelecimento do controle do espaço através dos instrumentos de regulamentação do uso do solo, mas marcado por intensa desigualdade, discriminação e exclusão social e de desconsideração das camadas menos favorecidas da população quando beneficiárias das melhorias sociais que a cidade pode oferecer. Esta tendência mudou quando na década de 1990, introduziram-se as premissas dos planos diretores e da inclusão e participação popular na formulação das políticas da cidade. O entendimento em questão busca contribuir para produção e adequação de instrumentos ou sugestões de instrumentos do direito urbanístico à construção de espaços urbanos públicos seguros baseados a princípio na busca das causas endógenas oriundas do próprio ambiente urbano, enfatizadas no presente trabalho por meio da ecologia humana e das causas exógenas fruto de características independentes do ambiente urbano, objeto de estudo das ciêcias criminais, por meio da contribuição da Escola de Chicago, através de seu ecologismo social, será procendente a análise das estatísticas que demonstram a distribuição da violência no espaço localizado das intervenções do programa favela-bairro e quais proposições podem ser formuladas no âmbito do planejamento urbano e do direito urbanístico e se podem contribuir para o combate ou controle da criminalidade.

Short reflections on the history of African communication

This article aims to propose a chronological subdivision in the history of African communication. African communication today is one of the most important axes for implementing development strategies, sustaining education, health, and schooling programmes, and so on. However, many of these programmes fail due to a lack of or ineffective communication between international organisations, local elite and lay people. The reasons for this situation must be found in Africa’s history of communication, which has undergone radical transformations in its different phases. Using the functionalist analysis drawn up by Jakobson, this article proposes a new chronological subdivision of Africa’s history of communication, reflecting on the current contradictions in contemporary communication in Africa.

Modèle des 2 temples de Bahai qui seront élevés à Chicago et New York et qui seront des temples de prière pour toutes les religions : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59709

Louis Bourgeois, architecte [des maquettes des 2 temples de Bahai qui seront élevés à Chicago et New York et qui seront des temples de prière pour toutes les religions] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59710