Authors:Alan A. Altshuler, Robert D. Beh,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Pre
Keywords: opportunities, dilemmas, challenges, government, american, innovation
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0815703570
ISBN-13: 9780815703570

Innovation does happen--even in government! Despite all the news about government scandals and failures, public officials are innovative. This book analyzes numerous examples of ingenious problem solving--in education in California, in the Department of Juvenile Justice in New York City, in government operations in Minnesota, in human service programs across the country.All organizations, both public and private, need innovation, but making innovation work in government is a greater challenge than doing so in business. This book identifies a number of dilemmas that complicate the process of in

Authors:Alan Altshuler, David Luberoff,
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: public, investment, urban, politics, projects, changing, mega
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-04-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815701292
ISBN-13: 9780815701293

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, 2003 Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In Mega-Projects, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred in American cities during the 1950s and 1960s; the social upheavals they triggered, which derailed large numbers of projects during the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the political impulses tha

Authors:Alan A. Altshuler, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Arnold M. H
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: land, exactions, economy, political, revenue, regulation
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 1993-05
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0815703554
ISBN-13: 9780815703556

The objective of this study is to examine the burgeoning movement to raise public revenue by regulating growth in the United States.

Authors:Alan Altshuler, Martin Anderson, Daniel Jones, Daniel
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: automobile, program, international, report, future, mit
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1986-10-09
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0262510383
ISBN-13: 9780262510387

A new shape for the world auto industry emerges from this far-ranging study, which reveals a path of development quite different from those widely forecast and leaves no doubt that the changes ahead will be dramatic. Cited by Business Week as one of 1984’s ten best books on business and economics, The Future of the Automobile is the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted of the world’s largest industry. It is a collaborative study by leading researchers and industry experts in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States that covers the

Author: Michael Altshuler
Publisher: Caister Academic Press
Keywords: guide, essential, troubleshooting, pcr
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1904455077
ISBN-13: 9781904455073

Author: Bruce Altshuler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: art, contemporary, museums, new, collecting
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-07-23
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691133735
ISBN-13: 9780691133737

Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring such art, museums gamble on the future. In addition, new technologies and alternative conceptions of the artwork have created special problems of conservation, while social, political, and aesthetic changes have generated new categories

Author: Bruce Altshuler
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: history, volume, art, made, biennial, exhibitions, salon
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2008-07-02
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0714844055
ISBN-13: 9780714844053

SALON TO BIENNIAL explores the development of modern art as shown through a series of highly influential group exhibitions. It is the most important reference book available on the subject, and the only book available that charts these groundbreaking events in such detail and scope. Volume I opens with the revolutionary first Salon des Refusés in Paris in 1863, and concludes with the multi-locational international exhibition ’The New American Painting,’ organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1958-59. SALON TO BIENNIAL depicts a wealth of rare documentary material an