Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by Design
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    Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by Design
    Avi Friedman
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    The suburbs house two-thirds of North America's population and are the subject of much debate and criticism. Planning the New Suburbia, by Avi Friedman, explores this phenomenon and proposes ways to respond to the challenge of creating affordable, adaptable, and environmentally sustainable neighbourhoods. An architect and planner, Friedman suggests new methods of design and regulation that would enable urban planners to conceive and inhabitants to adapt suburban communities and homes to their evolving needs, as a result of changing family size, an aging population, or new working conditions.

    Friedman surveys the evolution of urban planning, the history of "ideal" communities, the development of North American suburbs, and the theory behind flexible suburban design. Three case studies offer practical examples of his approach, and all are generously illustrated with drawings, plans, and photographs to demonstrate Friedman's ideas in action. Rather than dismissing a suburb as an unattractive, impersonal sprawl, Friedman shows how they can be modified into an affordable, sustainable, and adaptable community.
    Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by Design. (Residential Land Use Issues).(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
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      Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by Design. (Residential Land Use Issues).(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
      Paul Lusk
      Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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      ASIN: B0008FL7C2
      Release Date: 2005-07-30

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      This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 791 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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      Title: Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by Design. (Residential Land Use Issues).(Book Review)
      Author: Paul Lusk
      Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
      Date: September 22, 2002
      Publisher: American Planning Association
      Volume: 68 Issue: 4 Page: 456(2)

      Article Type: Book Review

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          5 out of 5 stars Very good book, with unconventional ideas.......2007-10-24

          This book brings fresh and unconventional ideas to the table. The author challenges the very popular buy and hold strategy, and presents a very good case on how using it in the next few years might not be very rewarding.

          His idea is that we are entering a secular bear market, similar to the one that occurred in the 60s-70s. A secular bear market is a long period (10-20 years) where the stock market doesn't perform very well. Although it might have its ups and downs, the buy and hold strategy in this environment leads to ... unexpected returns. As an example, buying and holding in the 60s with a 10-15 year time frame would lead to almost 0% returns.

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          If you want to learn about the market (or playing field of the market) this is the book for you. It re-enforced a lot of the views of the market for me.

          5 out of 5 stars One of the best.......2007-03-16

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          Inside the Minds: The Return of Bullish Investing is the most authoritative book ever written on the basics of market trends and the fundamentals of prudent investing. This titles features some of the nation's leading financial analysts and advisors, who have each contributed chapters akin to objective, experience-related, white papers or essays on the core issues surrounding investing. In an overarching as well as in-depth presentation of the fundamentals, authors articulate the unspoken rules and the important issues looking to the future. From applicable investment strategies, to the key concepts that help to govern the ways in which markets operate today and will going forward, this book pulls readers through all facets of investment strategy from beginning to end. The different niches represented and the varied perspectives presented, enable readers to really get inside the great minds of financial research and analysis and pull practical advice, as the experts go back to basics in a must-read for every individual investor.

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          5 out of 5 stars Excellent big picture view from established pro's..........2005-02-17

          Some of the finest advisors share their portfolio philosophies. Excellent for a big picture view, while acknowledging current structural changes that may require more exposure to alternative asset classes, hard assets, and hedging-like strategies. Highly, highly recommended.
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          Back in black: understanding the financial impact of CRM. (Customer Relationship Management).: An article from: Customer Interaction Solutions
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            Back in black: understanding the financial impact of CRM. (Customer Relationship Management).: An article from: Customer Interaction Solutions
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            Title: Back in black: understanding the financial impact of CRM. (Customer Relationship Management).
            Author: Doug Tanoury
            Publication: Customer Interaction Solutions (Magazine/Journal)
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            Financial risk management--understanding returns.(FOCUS ON INVESTMENT CONDITIONS): An article from: Real Estate Issues
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              Title: Financial risk management--understanding returns.(FOCUS ON INVESTMENT CONDITIONS)
              Author: Kenneth, Jr. Riggs
              Publication: Real Estate Issues (Refereed)
              Date: June 22, 2004
              Publisher: The Counselors of Real Estate
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                        The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust
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                        "You can't make the dead good again. We can only take a modicum of justice--a modicum of attempting to somehow right wrongs in a small way for those who are still alive." So remarked a Holocaust survivor on receiving compensation--small, but meaningful--for the tortures he had suffered six decades before. That compensation, for him and thousands of other victims, was a long time in coming. When it did, it was not done out of innate goodness on, say, the part of the banks of Switzerland, which had held billions of dollars deposited there by men and women who would not live to claim them--even though, financial journalists Authers and Wolffe are quick to remark, those banks were staffed by good and well-intentioned people. What compelled those banks, along with companies and governments throughout the world, to do so was massive legal action, a chain of class-action lawsuits that stretched out for half a decade, brought on by lawyers, victims, and civil rights groups in a dense storm of argumentation. In this careful, complex study, Authers and Wolffe detail how these actions took shape against very long odds. Their book is a fascinating case study in justice served--if, some critics continue to charge, too little and too late. --Gregory McNamee

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                        An extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of money, justice, and the fallout that remains from the twentieth century's worst crime.

                        In April 1996 a billionaire businessman pulled aside Hillary Rodham Clinton at a political fund-raiser in his Manhattan apartment. Handing Mrs. Clinton a magazine article on the secretive Swiss banks, Edgar Bronfman launched an emotional fight for the forgotten fortunes of the Nazis' victims. The First Lady took the bait, and with a simple call to her husband, set in motion a whirlwind of events that rewrote history and offered a last glimmer of hope to a dwindling number of elderly war survivors.

                        Backed by the White House, a small group of Americans embarked on an epic journey to pursue the debts owed to Holocaust victims for more than a half century. For five years they traveled from country to country and company to company, confronting those who profited from the war -- the bankers, insurers, and industrial executives who never fully acknowledged their companies' complicity in the Nazi crimes. Armed with class-action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, the disparate band of American lawyers, politicians, and Jewish groups fought fire with fire against some of the world's most powerful corporations and governments.

                        But what began as a moral crusade quickly degenerated into a bare-knuckled global battle that opened up painful debates about justice and how to achieve it. The demands for billions of dollars in restitution triggered bitter disputes over who should pay the survivors and who should receive the cash. Many Europeans dismissed the demands as blackmail.

                        The Victim's Fortune tells the remarkable tale of the Americans who cajoled, bullied, and squabbled their way across the world. It also reveals how Europeans first stonewalled, then nickel-and-dimed their way toward peace with the past.

                        John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle, which has blazed a trail for future reparations settlements of every kind. It is a riveting political drama that captures the outsize personalities, ruthless tactics, and moral dilemmas surrounding the light over compensation, all unfolding against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history.

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                        5 out of 5 stars Epic Saga Of Redressing Justice Long Overdue.......2002-09-05

                        John Auteurs and Richard Wolffe have written a thorough, often mesmerizing, account on recent efforts to win compensation for Holocaust survivors from Swiss, German, Austrian and Italian banks and insurance firms and German and Austrian firms. "The Victim's Fortune" chronicles how an unlikely alliance of American Jewish leaders and lawyers successfully confronted these banks and firms, winning long-overdue compensation to those who had lost savings and life insurance policies to the Nazis and their allies or were slave laborers working for German and Austrian firms during World War Two. To their credit the authors wade successfully through an intriguing mix of characters, covering in separate chapters legal battles in Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Austria. This important book should be required reading by those interested in World War Two, The Holocaust, and present efforts in seeking compensation from those countries and individuals who supported Al Qaeda's dastardly terrorist attacks on the United States last year.

                        5 out of 5 stars good read which brings 'boring' negotiations to life.......2002-08-02

                        The Victim's Fortune is a good read and it offers interesting insights into the compensation talks saga. It is written in the style of `barbarians at the gate,' i.e. it tells a story by following the people involved and the personal axes they have to grind.

                        At the time, I followed the news of the Swiss banks and German companies with half an eye, dismissing it as (tedious) legal blackmail. But this book, which fell into my lap by chance, brought the whole dispute to life for me, including yes the greedy lawyers but also the victims and companies who tried to do the right thing. As with everything, it is much more interesting when you feel you know the people involved. Contrary to a previous review, the authors do not simplify the conflicts or the characters, which is a strong point. The 'gossip' in the book is what makes it human, and a book about these settlements that does not take the human angle runs the risk of being exceedingly boring.

                        I also learned a thing or two about the grounds for compensation-the use of slave labor by daimler, even ford; and the arrogance with which insurance companies asked for a death certificate to honor life insurance of holocaust victims. As a victim says, 'at auschwitz, they didn't give death certificates.'

                        But it's not just for novices- those with a greater knowledge and interest in the compensation dispute will certainly find an extra couple of layers of intrigue and emotion.

                        The book is also about the difficulty of trying to compensate for something as profoundly horrific as the holocaust, the uselessness of monetary compensation.

                        For such a complicated issue, with so many actors involved, it is quite an easy and pleasant read.

                        5 out of 5 stars An epic account of an epic struggle.......2002-07-30

                        The publisher says "John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account" of the international struggle to retrieve some of the debts owed to Holocaust victims for more than half a century by bankers, insurers and industrial executives. I rarely agree with a publisher's endorsement of abook but in the case of "The Victim"s Fortune" I can only agree with the judgement.
                        The authors meticulously give their sources for what participants say and do, and, by having visited many of the major protagonists are able to sketch accurate and very lively pen-pictures not only of people but of locations: there are 45 pages of notes and sources and a full index - the general reader may not need them but they are there to reinforce the veracity of the account.
                        It would have been easy to have been less than even-handed to some of the powerful characters encountered in the book: it is a tribute to the authors that they maintain an even keel while charting the reader through a variety of events which could easily have seemed an incoherent maelstrom. The story starts in 1995 and culminates in June 2001 when payments of $5000 begin to be made to the dwindling band of holocaust survivors. The six years saw the involvement of a swathe of characters, from Jewish leaders, lawyers, bankers, insurers, judges, to President Clinton and Christoph Meili, a security guard at UBS who found in the course of his patrol that key documents had been put ready in the shredding room. In return for his whistle-blowing he had to flee his native Switzerland when he received death threats and warnings that his children would be kidnapped, and make a home in USA, the first Swiss citizen ever to seek asylum there on grounds of political persecution.
                        It is a roller-coaster of a book with new, well-defined and important characters arriving in most chapters. It is a fascinating read both for the issues involved and the egos on display. I have only had time to read the book once and will certainly do so again. It is no exaggeration to refer to the epic battle over the debts of the holocaust: I am profoundly grateful to the authors for opening my eyes to the reality of how deals get made, who truly benefits in such a tangled web. Lawyers, companies, governments even, had their own agenda: the payment was too little, too late; to quote one former slave-labourer "if it had been earlier or larger, it would have been no more moral".
                        This book is a triumph and deserves to be widely read.

                        2 out of 5 stars Too gossippy for a serious book.......2002-07-23

                        I thought "The Victim's Fortune" by John Authers and Richard Wolffe
                        (New York: HarperCollins, 2002) might help me understand the strange
                        process by which the Claims Resolution Tribunal goes about granting
                        awards to Jewish claimants for a small percentage of the money that
                        the tribunal decided to give them.

                        The book did no such thing. I read the first 106 pages which were filled with gossipy details about the many competing lawyers, dropping snide remarks about many of them along the way, especially Ed Fagan, whom the authors describe as a small-time personal-injury lawyer (even though Fagan was well enough off to afford having his office on the 84th floor of the World Trade
                        Center).

                        The book is also filled (up to where I stopped reading) with other
                        put-downs, such as the one where U.S. District Judge Edward Korman
                        tries to have the competing lawyers bury the hatchet by inviting them
                        to dine at Gage and Tollner, a non-Kosher Brooklyn eatery where poor
                        Israel Singer has to make do with a glass of water.

                        In the end, an award is hammered out. But there are many references
                        to a separate audit by a group headed by Paul Volcker, and to an
                        Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP). None of this is
                        explained. Nor is the process by which the ICEP determines who will
                        get what, whether the information is based on the Volcker audits, why
                        only 35% of the award is paid out while the rest is held back in case
                        of competing claims, even though claims were closed several years ago.

                        I now know a great deal about how some of these lawyers acted without
                        hope of being paid while others (Fagan is targeted here, along with
                        some others) are acting on a contingency basis. But I still know
                        nothing about the process in operation.

                        Starting on Page 107, the authors do their thing about insurance,
                        slave labor, property confiscations, etc. I could not bear to punish
                        myself any more.

                        5 out of 5 stars Authoritative...and gripping.......2002-06-14

                        What a great book. Not only did I learn the intimate details of one of the most fascinating legal battles in recent decades, but I was thoroughly entranced. It reads like one of those great non-fiction legal thrillers that have come out recently, like A Civil Action. Full of incredible details, like the contents of hand-written messages passed across the table during furious negotiations inside grand Swiss halls, and incredible personalities: Al D'Amato, Edgar Bronfman, Bill Clinton, Jorg Haider...what more could you ask for!?!?
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