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This Hooverville had its very own unofficial “mayor,” Jesse Jackson. The city of Seattle tolerated the unemployed living situation and imposed loose building and sanitation rules. A request from the city was that women and children would not be allowed to live in the shantytown.
The Pelham Park and City Island Railway was a short street railway in the Bronx, New York City, which connected City Island with the Bartow station of the Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad on the mainland. The line existed from 1884 to 1919, most of that time as a horse-drawn system.
Maryland reanimated the disputes over the supremacy of state sovereignty and federal power, between strict construction of the US Constitution and loose construction. [7] The Missouri Crisis in 1820 made the explosive political conflict between slave and free soil open and explicit. [ 8 ]
This one was based on the policies of Alexander Hamilton and his allies for a stronger national government, a loose construction of the Constitution, and a mercantile (rather than agricultural) economy. As time progressed, the factions which adhered to these policies organized themselves into the nation's first political party, the Federalist ...
Broadacre City was the antithesis of a city and the apotheosis of the newly born suburbia, shaped through Wright's particular vision. [2] It was both a planning statement and a socio-political scheme, inspired by Henry George , by which each U.S. family would be given a one-acre (0.40-hectare) plot of land from the federal lands reserves, and a ...
Despite losing the city, her opponent boosted his support in all five boroughs, most significantly in the Bronx, where his share of the vote almost tripled, reaching nearly 27% compared to 9% in 2016.
An urban myth holds that the buildings in Washington D.C. are currently, or were at one time, restricted to the height of the U.S. Capitol building. [7] In fact, the 1899 law set the maximum height of any building to 130 feet (39.6 m), [8] the height limit that firefighting equipment could effectively reach at the time, [2] and not the 289 feet (88 m) of the Capitol building.
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos [1] (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture.