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17 self-guided tours for observing the history and diversity of unique cobblestone buildings. Historical Secrets Revealed Learn why, during a mere 35-year span in the middle of the 19th century, approximately 700 cobblestone structures were erected within a 65-mile radius of Rochester, New York, and no where else. Many have endured the test of time and stand today as monuments to human ingenuity in using available resources. Learn about this creative building technique and about the lives of the early pioneers who developed it. Go See For Yourself On the tours youll view a diversity of cobblestone buildings, including homes, farmhouses, barns, stagecoach taverns, smokehouses, stores, churches, schools, factories, and more. Each cobblestone building is a unique work of folk art, created by local craftsmen. Enjoy the tours by car, motorcycle or bicycle.
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Fabulous resource.......2006-12-06
I live in the Rochester area but it took visiting friends, who brought this book with them, to discover the area's treasures. We spent a wonderful day following one of the trips - the directions were superb, the explanations about each structure were well done - in short - I bought the book, read it, found some more hidden delights! This book is worth every penny!
Tour that can be enjoyed enjoyed by car, motorcycle, bicycle or armchair.......2006-02-03
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (2/06)
"Cobblestone Quest" presents 17 self-guided tours, of cobblestone structures in upstate New York, that can be taken by car or bicycle. If you are unable to travel to this area, but enjoy learning about interesting architecture you will still enjoy this book. The authors, Rich and Sue Freeman, begin by presenting a background about the history of cobblestone structures.
In the United States, from 1825 to 1860, 90% of these structures were built within a 65-mile radius of Rochester, New York. The authors also discuss the geological makeup of the stones and the building techniques used to put the structures together. They mention that cobblestone is actually a construction method and not an architectural style. The most common architectural style of the cobblestone buildings is Greek Revival. The buildings are all unique unto themselves.
The book contains many photographs so that if you are unable to take the tour, you can see what some of these structures actually looked like. I really like how the book is set up. After reading the background information on cobblestones, the tours begin. Each tour lists the distance involved and the approximate time of the tour if taken by car. The authors give very detailed directions on where to start the tour and how to get to each location, much more descriptive than you would get from Mapquest.com!
Very interesting descriptive information is given about each address. At most stops, the original owner, the year built, the time period and the style are also listed. I really enjoyed reading background information that was given about the people living at these sites and how some of the buildings have evolved over time. Some of the homes have continued to be owned by the descendants of the families that built them. "Cobblestone Quest" is a book that I would highly recommend to readers who enjoy traveling to interesting places and learning about the places and people who have resided there. These tours can be taken by car, bicycle or by armchair as I did. I would also recommend it to people that live in the area of Rochester, New York. I think that they would find it fascinating to learn about these places that are in their own backyards.
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Great Book!!.......2005-09-21
Gives some excellent ideas on what to do with your Nikon, and some old fashioned ideas as well :).
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Farmers, who own or rent most of the private land in America, hold the key not only to the nation's food supply, but also to managing community growth, maintaining an attractive landscape, and protecting water and wildlife resources.
While the issue of protecting farmland and open space is not new, the intensity of the challenge has increased. Farmers are harder pressed to make a living, and rural and suburban communities are struggling to accommodate increasing populations and the development that comes with them. Holding Our Ground can help landowners and communities devise and implement effective strategies for protecting farmland. The book:
- discusses the reasons for protecting farmland and how to make those reasons widely known and understood
- describes the business of farming, federal government farm programs, and the role of land in farmers's decisions
- analyzes federal, state, and local farmland protection efforts and techniques
- explores a variety of land protection options including purchase of development rights; transfer of development rights; private land trusts; and financial, tax, and estate planning
- reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the farmland protection tools available
The authors describe the many challenges involved in protecting farmland and explain how to create a package of techniques that can meet those challenges. In addition, they offer appendixes with model zoning ordinances, nuisance disclaimers, conservation easements, and other documents that individuals and communities need to carry out the programs discussed.
Holding Our Ground provides citizens, elected officials, planners, and landowners with a solid basis for understanding the issues behind farmland protection, and will be an invaluable resource in developing techniques and programs for achieving long-term protection goals.
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Daniels Describes Basics of Preserving AG Land.......2000-10-12
Tom Daniels provides this concise yet detailed description of several land use based agriculture preservation tools including, TDR's, PDR's, conservation easements, ag zoning, urban growth boundaries, and local right-to-farm laws. There are model documents provided in the appendices which give a detailed view of specific preservation measures.
As a county planner, I found this book provided me with a basis of knowledge to promote responsible land use decisions in my county. This book should be national standard reading for land use professionals.
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Title: Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmlands. (book reviews)
Author: Kurt E. Danison
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Date: March 22, 1998
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v64
Issue: n2
Page: p253(2)
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In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm relationships, he shows how this new business enterprise succeeded in reconciling traditional values with the coming of an age of mass consumption and bureaucracy.
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A riveting journey through a French department store.......2007-06-04
Michael Miller's The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920 is fundamentally a book about changes in the nineteenth-century Parisian retail market and their effects on the identity and aspirations of the Parisian bourgeoisie. Miller seeks to model a professional change in the way historians craft narratives of social and entrepreneurial history through his treatment of the Boucicaut family and the changes involved in their highly successful Bon Marché store. For Miller, change in general, but particularly business and social change, is complex, not easily explained through class and cultural dichotomies. The success of the Bon Marché and the emerging influence of the French bourgeoisie in the late nineteenth century did not occur "through a radical break with the past" (11). Instead these changes involve complex mélanges of tradition with innovation.
Following a fast-paced introduction that sets Miller's idea of complex change against the previous works of business and social historians, Part I of the book situates the Bon Marché within the nineteenth-century context of emerging business practices and shifting bourgeois attitudes. The creation of the world's largest department store involved a gradual evolution of the French business culture. Miller explains the momentous 1869 groundbreaking ceremony of the new Bon Marché and the store's subsequent successes through a complicated intersection of a transformation in mass society, personalization in bureaucratization, and innovations in rationalization.
"Part Two: Internal Relations" aptly comprises the book's center, for it is indeed the heart of the work. Forcibly written and amply documented, this section locates the Bon Marché within the Parisian family, social and business environments, and details managerial practices that catapulted the house of Boucicaut above its competitors in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. In contrast to André Saint-Martin's understanding that "all department story history...is dominated by this idea...circulate the capital as often as possible" (58), Miller argues persuasively that "for the Boucicauts, building the Bon Marché required more than pioneering marketing strategies and administrative structures" (77).
Miller does not present a hagiography of Aristide and Marguerite Boucicaut as purely pro-employee or pro-middle class. Yet, neither does he present them as anti-worker. His narrative depicts the Boucicauts as family shopkeepers (albeit keepers of the world's largest shop) of a traditional social system who possessed the wherewithal to facilitate and adapt to changes in French bourgeois culture, expectations, and behavior. Miller explains their tradition-plus-dynamism managerial formula this way: "Basically wedded to the French household tradition, the Boucicauts were to cope with fundamental changes in their culture, not by abandoning its practices and its tenets, but by redefining these to fit their new needs and new ends" (99).
One of Miller's important contributions is his attention to the managerial and familial relationships within diverse levels of employees within the house of Boucicaut. Aristide and Marguerite established the new Bon Marché upon a managerial paternalism not only out of a genuine benevolence and sense of duty for those in their charge, but also out of a need to maintain control over the store's performance and progress. Employees of the Bon Marché were among the best-paid store employees in Paris, enjoying attractive benefits. However, the Boucicauts' rationalized, bureaucratic working environment did not tolerate deviation from established procedures. Control rested in the hands of the patrons. In 1876, Aristide Boucicaut announced the unilateral, store-sponsored establishment of a financial fund for employees, telling his workers, "It is my wish that every employee be a pillar of my House" (105). There was no question that the Bon Marché was his House. The Boucicauts' executive successors, most brought up through the ranks of the store, continued and fortified the paternalistic system to survive the First World War and post-war entrepreneurial changes.
In Part III, as Miller gives life the Bon Marché, the institution itself becomes a part of the bourgeoisie, offering splendor, art, nouveautés, a library, and concerts. The store explicitly attracts a clientele of "those who shared, or wished to share, in the middle-class way of life" (179). Not only did the store's employee pool augment the numbers of the middle-class ranks and its merchandizing schemes personify middle-class values, the Bon Marché helped construct how the middle-class looked and acted. "Consumption itself became a substitute for being bourgeois," and the department store "now became the arbiter of bourgeois identity, defining it accordingly with what the House had to sell" (185). The Bon Marché's public relations strategy, using tours, cards, and the press, endeared the store to the bourgeois public as a national institution. In addition, the store's paternalism turned outward. Public-focused efforts invited the bourgeoisie to feel 'at home' in the house of Boucicaut, billing the store as one that shared their values.
One of the book's strong and weak points is Miller's comfort with complexity. He strives, and succeeds on most levels, to demonstrate the complexities of organizational, class, interpersonal changes within Bon Marché and the French bourgeoisie. He remains numbered among those he critiques in his analysis of Boucicaut-styled paternalism. While brilliantly detailing the complex nature of the Bon Marché business strategy, Miller characterizes the employees as simply accepting the Boucicautian procedures and benefits with no contemplation of their lot. Employees received higher pay, promotions, profit-sharing, disability, and a pension in exchange for loyalty, excellence, and longevity. Likewise, concerning increased bourgeois consumption and female kleptomaniacs whose "monomania of possession" led them to steal things they could not afford, Miller's 'the-store-made-me-do-it' assessment robs individuals of the responsibility to exercise restraint (203). Miller's Bon Marché is an incredibly shrewd employer and seller; but the environment he describes hardly seems as coercive as the analysis suggests.
The Bon Marché is a well-researched, well-drafted, and well-organized book whose argumentation is linear and sequential. The book will entice business historians with early discussions of merchandising practices, marketing techniques, business strategies, and market forces; but, the paucity of consistent number crunching may leave some business-minded readers unsatisfied. With similar ambitions as Patrick Joyce's work on nineteenth-century English social history [Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)], Miller sets some high expectations of revising the traditional narrative of the social history of modern business enterprises. In the end, after a riveting 266-page journey through the life of the house that Boucicaut built, The Bon Marché achieves the goal--if not in whole, at least in part--of telling a nineteenth-century social history that strongly links the firm's rise to human involvements and the period's cultural elements.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1785 edition published in Londres.
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Today's “managerial” capitalism has grown hopelessly out of touch with the people it should be serving. The Support Economy explores the chasm between people and corporations and reveals a new society of individuals who seek relationships of advocacy and trust that provide support for their complex lives.
Unlocking the wealth of these new markets can unleash the next great wave of wealth creation, but it requires a radically new approach—“distributed” capitalism. The Support Economy is a call to action for every citizen who cares about the future.
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It is Beginning to Happen.......2007-02-11
I purchased the hardback version when it was first available because I had found Ms Zuboff's other book and her presentations to be enlightening and perceptive regarding the impact of the computer and information technology. That was a few years ago but I have continued to look for markers indicating the concepts in The Support Economy were as perceptive as they seemed. Many of those markers are appearing. Individual pods of services that will be required are now appearing in startup companies and old line service vendors. It will be a while before the necessary institutional compromises will occur that ties the services together but it is happening.
I repeatedly loaned out the hardcopy and recently bought a softback copy to insure I had a reference copy available. If an electronic copy is later made available I will purchase it as well (I find reference information in an electronic version is so much more efficient).
I am smarter than you !.......2005-11-04
The core of the book is correct, but much is an attempt to show how clever the writers are and how much research they have collected over the years. Sure a business does need the people who drive their own car to a passenger's home 150 miles away to deliver a birthday present left on their aircraft, but if you have more than a few of these, you go broke. If things look too good compared to the world around them then they probably they are just too good to be real. Markets are a fine balance bewteen giving paying customers what they will pay for, and having a few layers of very thin gold plate (based on extreme service stories) that make the offer look better than what they are paying for today. Ask anyone who started a business (and gets paid last after the staff and the government) if they believe in the tooth fairy of good times capitalism, and they will tell you if this exists, they are yet to see it.
An Outstanding Diagnosis.......2004-01-06
I strongly recommend The Support Economy.
I'll start with the negatives -- it took me about 100 pages to really get into it; like most business books the authors repeat themselves; the future state they outline is sketchy; and they don't even really attempt to describe how we get from here to there.
The reason I'm recommending it is that Zuboff and Maxmin absolutely nail the diagnosis of what's wrong with the interaction between producers and consumers today -- the way that individuals (at home and at work) are the shock absorbers between what enterprises know how to do and what people today need; the reason that managerial capitalism has to give way to, well, something new that they call "distributed capitalism;" the need to move beyond the relentless optimization of transactions and towards the maximization of value in the context of people's lives. And, thinking about my own situation and those of many of my peers, it just rings true. My personal trainer (who is also an event planner) is a kind of poster child for this new capitalism.
While "support" is in the title, this isn't a book about technical support -- it's about a new value proposition of people helping people, not just better-products-cheaper. That being said, it is strongly influencing my thinking about technical support in general and my consulting company's value proposition in particular.
Stellar!!.......2003-09-17
This book has changed the way I think about the world and business. I never thought about the fact that when markets change the way we do business must change. The book calls us ' history's shock absorbers" as we live with the pain and opportunity that arises when one business model is dying and another is being born. The book is packed with insights, facts and theory that open the mind to a new way of doing business. It is ground breaking stuff. We never think about capitalism in our everyday business lives but maybe we should have done . We are part of history and we can make more money and build better corporations if we really understood this. I would recommend this book to everyone. It is a great read and a map to a new future.
A Pedantic Mess of a Good Idea.......2003-09-10
These authors are on the right track but they are more interested in impressing readers with their vocabulary than following through with some do-able solutions. I firmly believe that corporations need to catch up to what the customer really wants but this book meanders through a maze of technical and non-related issues which distract from the great theme it is about. I trudged through the whole book waiting for an answer to the problem I could understand but there was absolutely no common sense I could grasp that would lead me to a satisfactory conclusion. Felt like I was back in school again. Ugh!
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