Capital City

  • Capital City
    By Lee Hurwitz, Tim Treanor

    Washington DC Mayor Wendell P. Wastson's legacy comes undone when a woman turns down his advances and he sets his burly security guards on her. Evelyn Boone accidentally witnesses the...

  • Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900
    By Thomas Kessner

    To protect its own business, Illinois Steel set out to create a steel combine of a scale to compete with Carnegie, sending chief counsel Elbert H. Gary to 2 3 Wall Street early in 1 898 to secure the funding for a series of purchases of ...

  • Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    By Samuel Stein

    27 Goldberg, Leo. “Game of zones: Neighborhood rezonings and uneven urban growth in ... “'What we haven't figured out yet is the question of gentrification.'” City Lab, October 8, 2013. 34 Larson, “Building like Moses with Jacobs in ...

  • Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    By Samuel Stein

    Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.

  • Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900
    By Thomas Kessner, Kingsborough Community College Thomas Kessner

    Describes the emergence of New York City, as it evolved from a port city to metropolis via the birth of capitalism, and how such moguls as Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan helped define the foundation of twentieth-century financial ...

  • Capital City
    By Omar Tyree

    Life is supposed to be easy and carefree when you are young, but if you live in Washington D.C., that’s not always the case.

  • Capital City
    By Mari Sandoz

    The stories of Cassie's house party were scarcely cold around town , particularly the one about Harold Welles ... they found had nothing of the clean sharp tang of burning grass , but the damp , heavy stench of smoldering city dumps .

  • Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    By Samuel Stein

    Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.

  • Capital City: London as a Financial Centre
    By Frances Cairncross, Hamish McRae

    The book also answers a series of questions on the City’s performance, accountability and honesty and explains how the City reached its present position, discuss its future.

  • Capital City: World Geography
    By Color Smart

    The capital City is the area of a country, province, region, or state regarded as enjoying primary status and it is generally recognized as a city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government, or ...