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Jacobs vs. Moses : a fight the city's soul --The patron saint and the Git-r-done man --The Bloomberg practice --Calls for new Moses --Planning and the narrative of threat --The armature for development --Ideas that converge --Ideas that travel --Design as civic virtue --Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind.

The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but in this book, the author aims to use the Moses-Jacobs rivalry as a means for examining and understanding the New York City administration's redevelopment strategies and actions. By showing how the Bloomberg administration's plans borrow selectively from Moses' and Jacobs' writing, the author lays bare the contradictions buried in such rhetoric and argues that there can be no equitable solution to the social and economic goals for redevelopment in New York City with such a strategy. This book shows how the legacies of these two planners have been interpreted - and reinterpreted - over time and with the evolution of urban space. Ultimately, the author makes the case that neither figure offers a meaningful model for addressing stubborn problems - poverty, lack of affordable housing, and segregation along class and racial lines - that continue to vex modern cities.

AbstractThe eighteenth-century Atlantic world was swept with a radical new form of Christian preaching that aimed to engage the feelings and sensations of mass audiences. In the nineteenth century, this heart-centered preaching became a mainstream form of American Christianity, but in its first hundred years, it was widely regarded as perverse, effeminate, and depraved. Early evangelical Christianity threatened to destabilize social and political orders, to drive the masses "out of their senses," and to throw gender norms into chaos. This article argues that attention to "trans tonality"—an investigation of trans at the level of tone, expression, and sensation—offers a surprising trans history of early American culture and opens up an archive rich with accounts of gender and sensory variance.

For decades the legacies of the Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs have loomed over redevelopment politics in New York City, serving as ideological opposites in ongoing struggles to influence the form of the urban built environment. In truth, the narrowness of this prevailing logic obscures the fact that both Jacobs and Moses represent a distinctly class-based strategy for remaking the city, one that fits neatly within the Bloomberg administration's ambitious plans for redeveloping neighborhoods from Manhattan's Far West Side to Willet's Point in Queens.

The Supreme Court's decision in Japan Whaling Association temporarily settled the question of whether the United States would pursue whale conservation with a hard line or moderate approach. The Court's decision to affirm the moderate approach will affect United States conservation efforts as well as the IWC's efforts. Conservationists argue that a strict approach to whale protection is the only effective alternative. Current United States policy and law reject that view. Had a full Court adopted a strict conservationist position with Justice Marshall and the other three dissenters, United States whale policy would be markedly different. United States policy would be certain and predictable. But, academic certainty and predictability may not protect whales. This hard line conservationist approach would present whaling nations with the alternative of whaling or continuing to fish in the United States EEZ. To Japan, this would pose a dilemma given the extent of Japanese fishing in the United States EEZ. Yet the Japanese may find it more profitable to continue whaling because they could substitute lost fishing opportunities in other countries' EEZs. The Soviets would not face a similar dilemma because they presently have no fishing allocation in the United States EEZ. The decision may also be easy for other whaling nations who may be able to fish elsewhere. United States law is set to cancel all foreign fishing in the United States EEZ. If that happens, Packwood-Magnuson Amendment sanctions would be meaningless.

About the Authors -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One: Kids in Pain -- Chapter Two: The Road to Resilience -- Chapter Three: Building Trust -- Chapter Four: Nurturing Talent -- Chapter Five: Promoting Power -- Chapter Six: Instilling Purpose -- Reproducibles -- Bibliography -- Strength-Based Training Opportunities

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- High Line Timeline -- Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park / Rosa, Brian / Lindner, Christoph -- Part I: Envisioning the High Line -- 1. Hunt's Haunts / Corner, James -- 2. Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line / Sherman, Danya -- 3. Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City / Smart, Alan -- Part II: Gentrification and the Neoliberal City -- 4. Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City / Loughran, Kevin -- 5. Park (In)Equity / Brash, Julian -- 6. Retro-Walking New York / Lindner, Christoph -- Part III: Urban Political Ecologies -- 7. The Garden on the Machine / Baker, Tom -- 8. The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park / Birge-Liberman, Phil -- 9. Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line / Patrick, Darren J. -- Part IV: The High Line Effect -- 10. A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? / Larson, Scott -- 11. Programming Difference on Rotterdam's Hofbogen / Wesselman, Daan -- 12. Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo's Minhocão: The High Line in Translation / Millington, Nate -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index