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UNINA9910453776903321 |
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Matthews Michael <1978-> |
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The civilizing machine : a cultural history of Mexican railroads, 1876-1910 / / Michael Matthews |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations |
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Popular culture - Mexico - History - 20th century |
Railroads - Mexico - Public opinion - History - 20th century |
Railroads - Social aspects - Mexico - History - 20th century |
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Mexico History 1867-1910 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The discourse of development : the railroad debate of the early Porfiriato -- De viaje : elite views of modernity and the railroad boom -- Festivals of progress : the railroad ceremony -- The price of progress : popular perceptions of the railroad accident -- La loco-matona : the railroad in the popular and opposition press. |
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"In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country's booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation's status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico's railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination. In The Civilizing Machine, Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people's understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of General Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network |
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represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad's development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, "order and progress." The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution."-- |
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UNINA9911020453503321 |
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Planning, public policy & property markets / / edited by David Adams, Craig Watkins, and Michael White |
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Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishing, 2005 |
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9786610748129 |
9781280748127 |
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9780470760833 |
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9780470757789 |
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9781405173049 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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AdamsDavid <1954-> |
WatkinsCraig |
WhiteMichael <1965-> |
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Land use - Government policy - Great Britain |
Real estate development - Government policy - Great Britain |
Housing policy - Great Britain |
Commercial real estate - Great Britain |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index. |
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Planning, Public Policy & Property Markets; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part 1 Introduction; 1 Examining Public Policy and Property Markets; Introduction; The scope of the book; Property research and public policy; Structure of the book; Part 2 Conceptualising Relationships; 2 Conceptualising State-Market Relations in Land and Property: The Mainstream Contribution of Neo-Classical and Welfare Economics; Introduction; Insights on supply, demand and public policy from neo-classical economics |
Insights on market failure and public policy from welfare economicsConclusions; Notes; 3 Conceptualising State-Market Relations in Land and Property: The Growth of Institutionalism - Extension or Challenge to Mainstream Economics?; Introduction; The institutional framework for land and property market operations; New institutional economics; The political economy of institutionalism; Uncertainty, risk containment and confidence building; Conclusions; Notes; 4 Planning Tools and Markets: Towards an Extended Conceptualisation; Introduction; Understanding 'planning'; Mainstream economics |
The political economy of institutionalismA typology of planning tools; Market characteristics; Conclusions; Notes; Part 3 Unravelling the Relationships; Section 3.1 Modelling Relationships; 5 Modelling Local Housing Market Adjustment in England; Introduction; Background; Datasets; Modelling framework and techniques; Estimation of key relationships; Policy simulations; Conclusions; Appendix 5.1 Variable definitions and sources; 6 Estimating the Impact of Planning on Commercial Property Markets; Introduction; Model development and specification; Empirical study and results; Conclusions; Notes |
Appendix 6.1 ResultsSection 3.2 Measurement Issues; 7 UK Roads Policy, Accessibility and Industrial Property Rents; Introduction; Roads policy and the UK motorway network; Transport infrastructure and the spatial economy; Measuring the effect of transport investment; Hedonic pricing analysis and the impact of the UK motorway network; Discussion and policy implications; Notes; 8 Urban Regeneration, Property Indices and Market Performance; Introduction; The urban regeneration policy context; Data and research methods; Comparing urban regeneration and prime property market performance |
The total returns indexConclusions; Section 3.3 Surveys and Case Studies; 9 Planning for Consumers' New-Build Housing Choices; Introduction; Planning and new-build housing; The new-build housing choice process; The housing preference study; Overview of the findings; Preferences and satisfaction with room layouts and features; Density and variety on new-build housing estates; Conclusions; 10 Planning Obligations and Affordable Housing; Introduction; The research context; Research methods; How much affordable housing is being provided? Government evidence |
How is Section 106 operating? Evidence from local authorities |
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The focus of this book is on how public policy - and especially the planning system - both shapes and reflects the essential characteristics of land and property markets. It challenges the common misconceptions that property markets operate in isolation from public policy and that planning permission is the only significant form of state intervention in the market. Planning, Public Policy & Property Markets contends that effective state-market relations in land and property are critical to a prosperous economy and a robust democracy, especially at |
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a time when development aims to b |
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