Business Action for Better Cities: A Complete Report on the Businessmen's Conference on Urban Problems, Portland, Oregon, June 23 and 24, 1952[Anonymus AC09041426] Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1952 - Broj stranica: 185 |
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Stranica 18 - Men come together in cities in order to live. They remain together in order to live the good life.
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Stranica 148 - Cities, compiled in 1938 by the Construction and Civic Development Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, listed 179 symphony orchestras.
Stranica 123 - The establishment of an assessment district for the purpose of making arbitrary levies against property in the district to establish off-street parking funds has been tried in a few places. Honolulu, Hawaii, has used it in a limited way. El Paso, Texas, established a district and held an election for the purpose of making it a lawful enterprise. Some advocates of this plan claim that it is the superior of all plans.
Stranica 63 - First, it has denied private ownership the privilege of earning a reasonable rate of return upon the value of the property devoted to public service.
Stranica 123 - Revenue Bonds Backed By Meter Funds Municipal facilities find most favor in smaller cities for supplying off-street parking facilities. In California in 1950, seventy-nine cities provided 187 lots with over 17,000 spaces. Thirty-one lots were metered. Riverside, California, is one of several cities with such a parking plan. In this case, as well as in many others, the parking meter revenue on the streets was earmarked to acquire off-street parking facilities. As rapidly as funds were available, these...
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Stranica 127 - These utilities of an adequate type and an adequate amount to compete with the newer shopping centers at the edge of town, together with the modernization of the old buildings in the downtown areas, are problems that must be met by property owners, merchants, municipalities, and taxpayers working as a unit. If the solutions of the problems are not reached, it appears that many of our downtown districts will become ghost areas and commercial slums.