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Journal articles on the topic "Garden City Company of California"

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Sanz, Alberto. "Torres Blancas: a Vertical Garden City." Housing for All, no. 65 (2021): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/65.a.r36xto0h.

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Torres Blancas, the building designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza for the Huarte company, was built between 1964 and 1972. Its powerful sculptural form, the expressive use of bare concrete and its experimental nature make it an iconic example of Madrid’s architecture. Proposed as a vertical city with an organic emphasis, Torres Blancas is not the usual stack of flats, but a residential complex of independent housing units with garden terraces and the amenities of a small community. This building thus combines Le Corbusier’s unités d’habitation and Frank Lloyd Wright’s towers.
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Sinha, Amita, and Jatinder Singh. "Jamshedpur." Journal of Planning History 10, no. 4 (2011): 263–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538513211420367.

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The steel city of Jamshedpur originated in a small company town in the backwaters of eastern India as a new experiment in urbanism in 1907. The article critically examines its evolution to trace the influence of the most significant twentieth century town planning ideas—the garden city and the neighborhood unit—on the industrial township. A reevaluation of the planning reports of 1911, 1920, 1936, and 1944–45 reveals the reworking and adaptation of twentieth century modern urban planning and the limited success it achieved in India. The planning ideals included open green spaces of the garden city as an antidote to industrialization, urban infrastructure adapted to local site conditions, neighborhood units self-sufficient in civic amenities, and street hierarchy as a means of traffic segregation. Regionalization of global planning ideals as well as the tension between planned development and organic growth is evident in the narrative of Jamshedpur evolving from a company town to industrial city to the present day urban agglomeration
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Yanuar, Citra Sari Kusuma Wardhani Dan. "Analisis Kelayakan Pengembangan Proyek Apartemen Citra Living Citra Garden City." Jurnal Manajemen Bisnis dan Kewirausahaan 3, no. 6 (2019): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/jmbk.v3i6.6098.

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Jakarta is experiencing a favourite residential growth due to the high level of urban migration to Indonesia’s capital. Therefore, PT CD, through its subsidiary, PT CMG, KSO, tries to fulfill the increasing demand of residential housing by developing a ± 1 ha of land in the West of Jakarta. The development is called the Apartement Citra Living project. This paper is developed to determine the feasibility of the project through cash flow sensitivity analysis. There are 2 (two) assumptions used, which are : the normal, and optimistic assumptions. These assumptions are tested through 4 (four) calculation methods: Payback Period, Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Profitability Index (PI). The results of the sensitivity analysis are as follows Payback periods for the project are 8 months for normal and, 3 months for optimistic; The NPV is positive for all assumptions; The IRR for the normal and optimistic assumptions are higher than the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) 10%. The PI for normal and optimistic assumptions are more than 1 (one). So, the project is feasible. Therefore, based on the results of the sensitivity analysis of the project’s cash flow, it is concluded that the Apartement Citra Living project is a profitable business decision. To increase profitability level, the company should try to find other financing alternatives to lower the cost of capital.
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BOLZ, CEDRIC. "From ‘garden city precursors’ to ‘cemeteries for the living’: contemporary discourse on Krupp housing and Besucherpolitik in Wilhelmine Germany." Urban History 37, no. 1 (2010): 90–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926810000088.

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ABSTRACT:In the Wilhelmine era (1871–1918) the Krupp steel company developed into Germany's largest industrial establishment and most famous armaments manufacturer. While the firm further cultivated its reputation as ‘Cannon Kings’, it claimed to be a leader in an entirely different area: the provision of housing. Extensively marketed through company publications, displays at international exhibitions and its Besucherpolitik (visitor policy), Krupp's housing developments in Essen generated considerable domestic and international interest. During a period when the housing question increasingly entered the political realm, high-profile individuals such as Kurt Eisner, Hannes Meyer and Alfred von Tirpitz all passionately expressed their views on Krupp's housing developments. This article assesses their historically neglected first-hand observations against the quantitative and qualitative housing achievements of the steel giant.
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Montes Espín, Rosalina, Ileana Fernández-Santana, Amanda Lucía Vitlloch Ramos, Leosveli Vasallo Rodríguez, Mario A. Lima Cruz, and Javier Francisco-Ortega. "The expeditions of the research yacht Utowana and the building of the plant living collections of the oldest botanical garden of Cuba." Webbia 76, no. 2 (2021): 143–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/jopt-10929.

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Cienfuegos Botanical Garden is the oldest functioning botanical institution of Cuba. It was established originally as a joint endeavor between sugar magnate Edwin F. Atkins and Harvard University in 1901. Between 1925 and 1934, the research yacht Utowana performed ample plant germplasm collections for the USDA in the New and Old World as well as archeological and zoological surveys in the Neotropics. The botanical expeditions were conducted mostly, under the leadership of David Fairchild. In this contribution we review to what extent Utowana expeditions and collections were instrumental in building the living collections of Cienfuegos Botanical Garden. A total of 278 accessions (comprising 254 species) were introduced into this garden directly or indirectly through these expeditions. Currently 57 of these species (132 individuals) are still part of its living collections. Interestingly, five of the Caribbean expeditions of this research yacht carried plant material between the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden and two other botanic gardens that were operated by US entities, namely the Lancetilla Botanical Garden in Honduras (owned by the United Fruit Company) and the Summit Gardens in Panama City (managed by the Panama Canal governmental agency). Our study also shows that plant material collected during Utowana expeditions was sent from Old World and Caribbean Island botanic gardens to Cienfuegos Botanical Garden. Thomas Barbour, director of this botanical institution between 1927 and 1946 joined four of these plant hunting endeavors. He provided strong support for the growing of the Cienfuegos Botanical Garden living collections with plant material collected during Utowana expeditions.
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Starostenko, Yulia D. "The Hospital Town of «the First Garden City in Russia» near Prozorovka: the History of Design and Construction (1912-1930)." Scientific journal “ACADEMIA. ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION”, no. 2 (June 28, 2018): 40–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22337/2077-9038-2018-2-40-49.

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The article is devoted to the buildings of the hospital town an implemented fragment of one of the most famous town planning projects of early 20th century. «The first Garden City in Russia» at Prozorovka (now Kratovo), which was to include not only the hospital town, but a set of other major public buildings, was designed by civil engineer V. N. Semyonov, by order of the Board of Directors of Joint-stock company of the Moscow-Kazan Railway for this company employees. The initiator of the project was the Chairman of The Board of Directors N.K. von Meck. The article on base on a wide range of archival sources, recreates the history of designing the hospital town in 1912-1913 and contains previously unknown facts and materials. Among these materials is the original project of the hospital town (primary drawings of this project published in the article the first time) and the discussions papiers of the project in the Ministry of Railways in 1913. It also provides information about the construction process of the buildings of the hospital town in 1915-1918. For the first time on archival documents is fixed the condition of buildings at the time of completion of the first constructions phase in 1918. Special attention is paid to the hospital complex fate in 1924-1930, when the buildings were rebuilt and adapted for accommodation of the tuberculosis sanatorium of Cusstrah No. 1. The revealed papiers make it possible to understand how during completing of the buildings in the second half of the 1920s, there preserves neoclassical facades, designed by architect A.I. Tamanov (Tamanyan) in 1913.
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Rego, R. L., and K. S. Meneguetti. "British urban form in twentieth-century Brazil." Urban Morphology 12, no. 1 (2007): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.51347/jum.v12i1.3940.

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A number of new towns were created in northern Paraná State, Brazil, by the British company Parana Plantations as part of a colonization scheme in the first half of the twentieth century. The urban landscapes created by these towns are distinct from those associated more generally with the colonization of Brazil. However, there has been no extended analysis of their origin, organization, conformation and impact. Drawing on contemporary sources, this task is attempted here. Set within a broader context, a systematic colonization is revealed in relation to its British colonial background. The layouts of the towns founded by Parana Plantations show many features of a British colonial town model. The colonization scheme reflects some of the garden city tenets that were circulating widely in the colonial world.
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Cooper, Drew, Joe Castiglione, Alan Mislove, and Christo Wilson. "Profiling Transport Network Company Activity using Big Data." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 42 (2018): 192–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118798459.

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Transportation network companies (TNCs) provide vehicle-for-hire services. They are distinguished from taxis primarily by the presumption that vehicles are privately owned by drivers. Unlike taxis, which must hold one of approximately 1,800 medallions licensed by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) to operate in San Francisco, there is no regulatory limit on the supply of TNCs. TNCs have an increasingly visible presence in San Francisco. However, there has been little or no objective data available on TNCs to allow planners to understand the number of trips they provide, the amount of vehicle miles traveled they generate, or their effects on congestion, transit ridership, transit operations, or safety. Without this type of data it is difficult to make informed planning and policy decisions. Discussions with Uber, Lyft, and the California Public Utilities Commission, which collects trip-level data from TNCs in California, requesting information on TNC trips have not resulted in any data being shared. Under increasing pressure from policymakers for objective data to inform policy decisions, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) partnered with researchers from Northeastern University who developed a methodology for collecting data through Uber’s and Lyft’s application programming interfaces (APIs) with high spatial and temporal resolution. This paper provides a brief literature review on transport network company (TNC) data, and goes one to describe the methodology used to collect data, summarizes the process for converting the raw data into estimated TNC trips, and presents an analysis of the results of the TNC trip estimates. This study determined that TNCs serve a substantial number of trips in San Francisco, over 170,000 on a typical weekday, that these trips follow traditional time of day distributions, and that they tend to take place in the busiest parts of the City.
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Coox, Alvin D. "Okinawa 1945: Gateway to Japan. By Ian Gow. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1985. 224 pp. Illustrations, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $16.95." Journal of Asian Studies 46, no. 1 (1987): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2056692.

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Carstensen, Fred. "A Corporate Tragedy: The Agony of International Harvester Company. By Barbara Marsh. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1985. Pp. viii, 324. $19.95." Journal of Economic History 47, no. 2 (1987): 566–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700048725.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Garden City Company of California"

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Goncalves, De Aranjo Passos Stéphanie. "Une guerre des étoiles: les tournées de ballet dans la diplomatie culturelle de la Guerre froide, 1945-1968 /cStéphanie Gonçalves de Aranjo-Passos." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209106.

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Ma thèse de doctorat explore les tournées de ballet des « six grandes » compagnies mondiales pendant la Guerre froide (1945-1968) :ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, Royal Ballet de Covent Garden, Bolchoï et Kirov, New York City Ballet et American Ballet. Elle envisage le ballet comme un outil de diplomatie culturelle transnationale, avec un focus particulier sur les acteurs, qu’ils soient institutionnels, artistiques ou commerciaux. Outre un aspect quantitatif qui nous a amené à cartographier les tournées, il s’agit d’une histoire incarnée par des femmes et des hommes − les danseurs − dont le métier est de tourner sur les scènes internationales, encadrés par des administrateurs et des gouvernements, qui n’ont pas les mêmes priorités et agendas les uns et les autres.

Cette recherche met justement en avant les tensions, les difficultés et les dynamiques entre les différents acteurs. La thèse se construit autour de tournées représentatives du lien ténu entre danse et politique, des épisodes qui mettent en valeur les points chauds de cette Guerre froide, ayant comme point de départ ou d’arrivée Londres et Paris.

La description de la danse comme un langage, une pratique physique et un métier permet de comprendre en quoi la danse peut être un outil de communication politique et comment il a été utilisé comme tel dans la longue durée et en particulier pendant la guerre froide. Les différentes échelles – le passage régulier de la macro-histoire à la micro-histoire et inversement ainsi que les flux d’échanges culturels multiples à l’échelle internationale – ont permis de mettre en avant une multiplicité d'acteurs (artistiques, gouvernementaux, commerciaux). La constitution du mythe de la danseuse étoile, et ses représentations, résonne également avec d’autres figures mythiques construites dans la Guerre froide, comme celle de l’astronaute.
Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Books on the topic "Garden City Company of California"

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. To validate certain conveyances in the city of Tulare, Tulare County, California: Report (to accompany H.R. 960). U.S. G.P.O., 1997.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. To validate certain conveyances in the city of Tulare, Tulare County, California: Report (to accompany H.R. 960). U.S. G.P.O., 1997.

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US GOVERNMENT. An Act to Validate Certain Conveyances in the City of Tulare, Tulare County, California, and for Other Purposes. U.S. G.P.O., 1998.

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Committee, California Legislature Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management. Martinez/Shell oil spill: Martinez City Council Chambers, 525 Henrietta Street, Martinez, California, Friday, May 6, 1988, 9:45 A.M. May be purchased from Joint Publications, 1988.

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Resources, United States Congress House Committee on. To validate certain conveyances in the city of Tulare, Tulare County, California: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 960) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). U.S. G.P.O., 1997.

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Resources, United States Congress House Committee on. To validate certain conveyances in the city of Tulare, Tulare County, California: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 960) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). U.S. G.P.O., 1997.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. To validate certain conveyances in the city of Tulare, Tulare County, California: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 960) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). U.S. G.P.O., 1997.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. To validate certain conveyances in the city of Tulare, Tulare County, California: Report together with additional views (to accompany H.R. 960) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). U.S. G.P.O., 1997.

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San Francisco (Calif.). Planning Dept. and Rincon Ventures, L.L.C., eds. Notice of preparation of an environmental impact report: [One Rincon Hill residential development (formerly 425 First Street)]. Planning Department, 2004.

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San Francisco (Calif.). Office of the Controller. City Services Auditor Division. Board of Supervisors: A review of Comcast of California III, Inc.'s franchise fee payments 2003 through 2005. Office of the Controller, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Garden City Company of California"

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Van Zee, Marynel Ryan. "Form and Reform: The Garden City of Hellerau-bei-Dresden, Germany, between Company Town and Model Town." In Company Towns. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137024671_2.

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Pickel, Susanne. "Seymour M. Lipset: Political Man. The Social Basis of Politics, Doubleday & Company: Garden City, New York 1959, 432 S. (dt. Ausgabe: Soziologie der Demokratie. Hermann Luchterhand Verlag: Neuwied/Berlin 1962, 388 S.)." In Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13213-2_47.

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Busch, Andrew M. "Industry without Smokestacks." In City in a Garden. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632643.003.0006.

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This chapter looks at Austin’s emergent tech industry in the 1950s and 1960s and the role that the University of Texas at Austin played in that grow. It argues that the city promoted a natural landscape and environmental amenities aimed at attracting knowledge workers and non-industrial businesses. A close relationship between city leaders and university leaders emerged, personified in J. Neils Thompson who directed a university research facility and also served on the chamber of commerce. Tracor emerged as Austin’s first nationally-recognized spinoff company. The city and region grew dramatically.
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Ray, Ranita. "Port City Rising from the Ashes." In Making of a Teenage Service Class. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520292055.003.0002.

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This chapter provides a brief economic and sociohistorical overview of Port City—where the author conducted her fieldwork. The chapter discusses the role of one large pharmaceutical company in the city’s recent “revitalization” efforts and its resulting consequences. It also provides a thick description of the various Port City neighborhoods that are still socioeconomically segregated and provides key details regarding the city’s structures and residents.
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Smith, Catherine Parsons. "“The Largest and Most Enthusiastic Audience That Ever Has Assembled in the City”: The National Opera Company of 1887." In Making Music in Los AngelesTransforming the Popular. University of California Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520251397.003.0002.

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Goodwin, Joshua A. "Aggregate mining on Mount Zion, Clayton, California." In Regional Geology of Mount Diablo, California: Its Tectonic Evolution on the North America Plate Boundary. Geological Society of America, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2021.1217(05).

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ABSTRACT Two construction aggregate companies, Cemex and Hanson Aggregates, operate respective crushed stone quarries on the east and west slopes of Mount Zion in Clayton, California. These sidehill quarries utilize a single highwall and mine Jurassic diabase of the Coast Range ophiolite that formed as a sheeted dike complex. Hydrothermal veins, some containing 20%–30% disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite, cut the diabase. The east quarry, operated by Cemex, was started by the Harrison-Birdwell Company in 1947. The west quarry, operated by Hanson, was started by the Henry J. Kaiser Sand and Gravel Company in 1954. The Cemex quarry highwall is visible as you come into the city of Clayton on Marsh Creek Road, with a height of ~280 m (920 ft). The height of the highwall at the Hanson quarry is ~215 m (700 ft). Both operations remove weathered diabase overburden to expose fresh diabase, which is drilled, blasted, and hauled to the plant for processing. To ensure aggregate is suitable for construction, quality assurance testing is conducted in accordance with the specifications of various agencies. These quarries supply the surrounding area with aggregate for hospitals, schools, highways, dams, and other buildings. Noteworthy projects supplied by the Clayton quarries include the Concord BART Station, Interstate-680, Interstate-580, Calaveras Dam, Sherman Island Levee, Highway 4, Highway 24, and Bay Bridge epoxy asphalt. Before aggregate was mined, Mount Zion was the site of a copper rush from 1862 to 1864. Gold and silver were also reported in various assays from the Clayton district. Although prospecting created excitement around Clayton, no productive orebodies were ever discovered.
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Manko, Katina. "“The Dawn of a New Era”." In Ding Dong! Avon Calling! Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499822.003.0005.

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Throughout the 1930s, the California Perfume Company expanded in both numbers of representatives and sales. It introduced the Avon brand of cosmetics and toiletries in 1929 and created new sales strategies, such as two-for-one campaigns, and efficiency measures, such as reducing the sales cycle from four weeks to three. David McConnell’s son and a new management team led by John Ewald, who remained as CEO well into the 1960s, created the company’s first national advertising campaign and a plan to develop city markets. They also spearheaded the efforts by the National Association of Direct Sales Companies to write independent contractor legislation to protect them against new minimum wage and unemployment regulations. The company officially changed its name to Avon in 1939, cementing its place as a leader in direct selling committed to developing women’s entrepreneurial opportunities.
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Li, Jie Jack. "Beginning of an Era: The First Blockbuster Drug, Tagamet." In Blockbuster Drugs. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199737680.003.0005.

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Tagamet emerged as the first blockbuster drug when its sales exceeded $1 billion in 1986, three years after its introduction to the market. An anti–peptic ulcer drug, Tagamet was discovered by James W. Black and his colleagues at Smith Kline & French’s (SK&F) British subsidiary in Welwyn Garden City. Before Tagamet, SK&F was a little-known U.S. drug firm in Philadelphia. After Tagamet, SK&F became one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The history of Tagamet is one of the most extraordinary in the annals of medicine. It is a saga of a drug that almost escaped detection because the research efforts that began in 1964 did not seem to produce results within the first 11 years! Smith Kline started as a humble drug store in Philadelphia in 1830. During the American Civil War, Smith Kline was founded as a small apothecary by two physicians, John K. Smith and John Gilbert on North Second Street. Not only was Philadelphia the birthplace of the United States of America, it was also the cradle of American pharmacy. Wyeth, McNeil, Rorer, and Warner-Lambert all trace their origins to small drug stores established there during the Civil War. In the 1880s, Mahlon N. Kline led the company into research and manufacturing of its own products. In 1891, it absorbed French, Richards & Co. founded by Harry B. French, creating Smith Kline & French. After its establishment, the company slowly expanded its inventory. By the 1920s, it had some 15,000 products ranging from aspirin to liniment. Their Eskay’s Albumenized Food was highly popular as a digestible food for infants and the disabled. Later, the company did very well with Eskay’s Tablets for Seasickness. Its specialty, Eskay’s Neurophosphates, a nerve tonic, soothed millions of people at home and abroad. In 1929, Smith Kline & French Laboratories was created to devote itself solely to research and development (R&D). During the Great Depression year of 1936, the company stepped up its efforts in R&D (in a recent contrast, many pharmaceutical companies stepped down their R&D investments during the last recession of 2008).
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Broughton, Chad. "Unrest in the Magic Valley." In Boom, Bust, Exodus. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199765614.003.0005.

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One Evening in May 1967, in the parched border city of Mission, Texas, Ed Krueger had worked into the early evening on a painting and was late to the demonstration at the railroad crossing. He arrived there at 8:45 p.m. with his wife, Tina; his 18-year-old son, David; and Doug Adair, a young journalist writing for the magazine El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker. Just a few union members and bystanders were at the crossing when they arrived. Krueger, 36, a lanky and clean-cut minister, had been working with Local 2 of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFW) and had expected to see thirty or forty striking farmworkers and activists protesting the “scab melons” passing by on the next train. But they weren’t there, and Krueger was worried. They parked 75 feet south of the railroad crossing, on the west side of Conway Street. Krueger and his wife grabbed some hamburgers and sodas and leaned on their bumper to eat with their son. Adair went to talk to a reporter on the north side of the crossing. Joining Krueger was Magdaleno Dimas, an itinerant 29-year-old farmworker. A Mexico-born U.S. citizen, Dimas had a dragon tattoo on his right arm, a rose on his left, and an edgy zeal for the strike. They were waiting for a freight train carrying tens of thousands of recently harvested cantaloupes and honeydews loaded into thirty or so refrigerated cars. The melons had just been cut at La Casita ranch in Rio Grande City, thirty miles west of Mission. After a switch down-valley in Harlingen, the ranch’s melons would head north to San Antonio. La Casita, owned by a California company, operated nearly year round and employed 300 to 500 laborers on 2,700 acres of melons, peppers, carrots, cabbage, celery, and lettuce. The southern boundary of its well-ordered fruit and vegetable fields was the snaking Rio Grande River. All that separated La Casita from Mexico was a short swim across the slow-moving, greenish river that irrigated its fields.
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Gelernter, David. "The Orb." In Mirror Worlds. Oxford University Press, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195068122.003.0009.

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To use a Mirror world program, you sit down at your computer, which has a large color screen and a connection to the local fiberoptic utility cable. (The screen and the cable are garden-variety technology today.) Or—if you’re willing to put up with a smaller picture and it’s a nice day—you pick up your laptop, tune in Data Radio and head for the hammock. In either case, you flip channels until you find the Mirror world of your choice, and then you see a picture. Capturing the structure and present status of an entire company, university, hospital, city or whatever in a single (obviously elliptical, high-level) sketch is a hard but solvable research problem. The picture changes subtly as you watch, mirroring changes in the world outside. But for most purposes, you don’t merely sit and stare. You zoom in and poke around, like an explorer in a miniature sub. At every level the display is live: it changes as you watch. You move a viewing-frame around the picture with a mouse or equivalent, probably equipped with knobs for zooming. You meet your software agents and other Mirror world visitors along the way. when your agents have developments to report, or when you choose to ask questions or plant new agents, you pop into a sub-screen that displays ordinary text. You can enter a Mirror world through any household computer, but a few extra controls come in handy. Your basic Mirror world computer is equipped with a perspective shifter, a diving mouse, a “history” key (with a time-travel velocity knob right next to it), the all-important “experience” key, and finally an “agent” key. There is the ordinary keyboard besides. (I’m describing hardware gadgets that are similar to what you can buy today at the corner computer store. If you plan to do lots of Mirror worlding, you’ll invest in the Mirror world Value Pack, or whatever; the extra gadgets are tacked onto the computer in the same way your mouse is attached. The “viewpoint shifter” probably looks like a joystick; the diving mouse is the same as any other mouse, but equipped with an altitude-control knob.
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Conference papers on the topic "Garden City Company of California"

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Gómez Cavazos, Enrique Esteban. "The route of company towns in Lower California: historic centers and industrial heritage." In Virtual City and Territory. Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8120.

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Company towns in the peninsula of Baja California can be considered a tool for urban development from the late nineteenth till early twentieth century. The Mexican Government used the industrialization in northern Mexico as a strategy of economic occupation, a great challenge to occupy a peninsula scarcely populated. Major territorial concessions to foreign companies allow them to settle large industries, to build up company towns and industrial cities. In the article I analyze the occupation and development policy of this part of Mexico showing 10 cases where companies mapped cities in this territory. I defend the hypothesis that these cities may have new development opportunities due to the rich industrial heritage they contain.
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Occhiuto, Rita. "Resistance & Permanence of Green Urban Systems in the Globalization Age." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6328.

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Rita Occhiuto Faculté d’Architecture. Université de Liège, ULG. 1, Rue Courtois 4000 Liège (BE) Tél. +3242217900 e-mail : r.occhiuto@ulg.ac.be Keywords: public space, park system, green and water infrastructure, morphological green writings, landscape memory The rapid transformation and the trivialization of landscapes in Wallonia (BE), require reformulating tools and objectives of morphological studies. Built fabrics and landscapes show the effects of abandoning or losing interest in the interrelations between natural and human actions. This contribution focuses on studies of cities and territories that have ceased to be the object of spatial policies attentive to the relationship between the need to live, maintain or care for green or natural spaces. After the systematic reduction of urban environments to simple green covers, morphological reading allows the recognition of traces of park systems or green infrastructures, whose communities often do not remember. The research's focus has shifted from the building to the green space structure. This displacement of interest makes it possible to find commons cultures that have acted on the territory of Liège (industrial city) on the one hand, through the building’s extension and on the other hand, through the project of forests, walks, squares, parks and public gardens. Now, these fragmented places become the main resource for reorganizing natural and human systems in order to offer new - social and spatial - coherence for tomorrow. Thus the historical green systems become a strong structuring link which serves to seek new dialectics of balance between existing fabrics and green systems. This system’s regeneration stands, on the one hand, to the hybridization of materials - water, green and buildings - and, on the other hand, to the physical and mental memory of the inhabited environments that populations keep. Green systems impose themselves as powerful vectors for the construction of new socio-spatial balances of cities and territories of globalization, as in the study case for the landscape systems in Liège and for the water and landscapes infrastructure in Chaudfontaine.References Foxley, A. (2010), Distance & engagement. Walking, thinking and making landscape. Vogt landscape architects, Lars Müller Publishers Cronon,W., Coll., Uncommon ground. Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. W.W.Norton & Company New York/London McHarg, I.(1969), Design with Nature, 1th, New York Spirn, A.W. (1994), The granite garden. Urban Nature and Human Design, ed. Basic Book Ravagnati, C. (2012), L’invenzione del Territorio. L’atlante inedito di Saverio Muratori, ed. Franco Angeli, Milano
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Palacios, Ronald N., Steven S. Fan, Hansong Lee, and Michael A. Soto. "From Grease to Gas: Anaerobic Digestion of Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) at the Hyperion Treatment Plant." In ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2011-54108.

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Anaerobic digestion of high-strength organic wastes, such as Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) has become increasingly popular among wastewater treatment facilities in Southern California [1]. In 2010, the City of Los Angeles’ Hyperion Treatment Plant started running its own FOG Digestion Pilot Project. The project injects processed grease trap wastewater (FOG) into one of 16 anaerobic digesters at the facility. A partnership was formed between the Hyperion Treatment Plant (HTP) and Baker Commodities, Inc., a Grease rendering company located in the City of Vernon. They provide processed grease trap wastewater (FOG) to the pilot project. The plan was to load the digester with increasing amounts of FOG and observe the impact. The parameters monitored in the digester during the test are volatile acids, pH, alkalinity, temperature, and gas production in the digester. The pilot project’s objective was to obtain a 10 to 20% increase in gas production. So far those expectations have been exceeded.
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Wendelin, Tim, Ken May, and Randy Gee. "Video Scanning Hartmann Optical Testing of State-of-the-Art Parabolic Trough Concentrators." In ASME 2006 International Solar Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/isec2006-99172.

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Significant progress has been made recently in solar parabolic trough technology development and deployment. Part of this success is due to the changing world energy scenario and the recognition that viable renewable energy technologies can play a role in supplying world energy needs. Part is also due to ongoing collaborative efforts by industry and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Concentrating Solar Power Program (CSP) to enhance the state of the technology in terms of both cost and performance. Currently, there are two trough concentrator projects which the DOE CSP program is supporting. One company, Solargenix, is developing a design to be used in a 64MW plant outside of Boulder City, Nevada. This design is based on the original LUZ LS-2 trough concentrators employed at the Solar Electric Generating Systems (SEGS) plants in Southern California. Another company, Industrial Solar Technology (IST), is working on a scale-up of their design used historically for process heat applications. Very different from the LS-2 approach, this design is still in the research and development stages. One way in which the DOE CSP parabolic trough program assists industry is by providing optical testing and qualification of their concentrator designs. This paper describes the Video Scanning Hartmann Optical Test System (VSHOT) used to optically test both of these designs. The paper also presents the results of tests performed in the past year and what impact the testing has had on the developmental direction of each design.
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Gallagher, Dennis G., and William D. Olstad. "Integrated Diver Display Mask (IDDM) System for Special Diving Applications." In ASME 2002 21st International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2002-28038.

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The United States Navy’s Coastal Systems Station (CSS) - Panama City, Florida has developed an Integrated Diver Display Mask (IDDM) system for special diving applications. The IDDM contains a miniature liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, multi-element optics, microcontroller, depth transducer, RF (radio frequency) receiver, replaceable battery, and controlling software – all built directly into a dive mask. The miniature LCD displays the diver’s depth, bottom time, and bottle pressure. In addition, the display has a number of annunciators that are illuminated when certain warning, or limit conditions are reached (i.e. ascent/descent rate too fast, low bottle pressure, or low battery). The multi-element optical lens provides a clear, highly magnified image of the LCD which is viewable regardless of environmental conditions. A commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) RF transmitter module transmits the diver’s bottle pressure to the mask. The system is operational to depths of 135 FSW. The IDDM Project was funded by the Office of Special Technology (EOD/LIC Program), Ft. Washington, Maryland. It was conducted as a joint-development project under a Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (NCRADA - NSWCCSS-98-015) between the US Navy’s Coastal Systems Station of Panama City, Florida; and American Underwater Products, Inc. (parent company of Oceanic USA and Pelagic Pressure Systems) of San Leandro, California. The paper will describe the development of the IDDM system and suggest military, scientific, and other special applications for this unique diving technology.
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Reports on the topic "Garden City Company of California"

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In-depth survey report: control technology for agricultural environmental enclosures at Nelson Manufacturing Company, Inc., Yuba City, California. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.26616/nioshectb22311b.

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In-depth survey report: control technology for environmental enclosures - an evaluation of in-use enclosures at Nelson Manufacturing Company, Yuba City, California. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.26616/nioshectb22318a.

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