Classification of the civil services of the city of Minneapolis. Civil Service Commission, May 20, 1931. 61 ppNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1002/ncr.4110210518Harvey WalkerJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.National Municipal Review
The classification of cities on the basis of their functions—and also on the basis of size, which primarily depends on the volume of these functions—should be supplemented by the features of the city’s geographic position and the nature of its relations with the territory near it. Thus, ...
The North Platte Canteen is well known globally, and North Platte is most famous for the Union Pacific's Bailey Yard. It is the largest railroad classification yard in the world. The fact that North Platte is situated in the wide, level Platte River Valley it attracted all three of these ...
I oversee a number of New York City agencies and initiatives, including the Department of Small Business Services; the Department of Youth and Community Development; the city’s M/WBE program; the Young Men’s Initiative; the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection; the Commission on Human...
[citation needed] The first president of Texas, Sam Houston, aimed to cooperate and make peace with Native tribes, but his successor, Mirabeau B. Lamar, took a much more hostile stance. Hostility towards Natives by white Texans prompted the movement of most Native populations north into what ...
D.C. The City of New Orleans stops at Hammond before continuing north to Chicago by way of Jackson and Memphis. The Sunset Limited serves Schriever, New Iberia, Lafayette, and Lake Charles on its route west to Los Angeles via Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and Tucson. Before Hurricane Ka...
At 2.7 million in 2012, New York's non-Hispanic white population is larger than the non-Hispanic white populations of Los Angeles (1.1 million), Chicago (865,000), and Houston (550,000) combined.[235] The European diaspora residing in the city is very diverse. According to 2012 Census ...
In this chapter we draw out some key themes of comparison in relation to context, the cities’ overall approaches towards their residents with precarious status, and their framing of any rationales that have been expressed for inclusion in services. We t
One of the outcomes of this stage is the classification of the indicators, based on this comparison, into three main categories: (1) moderate indicators whose values are equal or around the average within the last five years, (2) negative indicators reflecting aspects of challenges in achieving...
According to Strahler’s classification of stream order [52], the portion of Baxi stream in the study area is a third-order stream. Hydraulic structures in the studied river reach mainly include revetments (mostly concrete) and submerged dams. Some revetments are paved with pebbles or block ...