Author: John Forester
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: power, face, planning
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1988-12-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520064135
ISBN-13: 9780520064133

Why do our best-laid plans often over-reach and under- achieve? Why do our attempts to solve problems in some rational way often run afoul of politics and power? Why do we so often accomplish so little, even as we sense that so much more is possible? By looking closely at the work of city planners, Planning in the Face of Power addresses these questions and provides a new way of thinking about the practical and inevitably political work of improving our neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, and the public institutions that shape our lives. Power and inequality are realities that pla

Author: John Forester
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: cycling, effective
Number of Pages: 625
Published: 1992-12-29
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0262560704
ISBN-13: 9780262560702

The core of John Forester’s concept of Effective Cycling is that bicyclists fare best when they act, and are treated in return, as drivers of vehicles, with the same rights and responsibilities that motorists have. In this new edition of his classic introductory work, Forester reasserts this idea in terms of practice and education as well as theory while also addressing--among much else--the two major forces that have shaped bicycling since the early 1980s: the proliferation of high-quality equipment and the seriously insufficient progress on the social, political, and psychological f

Author: John Forester
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: transportation, engineers, cycling, second, bicycle, handbook
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1994-08-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0262560798
ISBN-13: 9780262560795

This new edition of John Forester’s handbook for transportation policy makers and bicycling advocates has been completely rewritten to reflect changes of the last decade. It includes new chapters on European bikeway engineering, city planning, integration with mass transit and long-distance carriers, "traffic calming," and the art of encouraging private-sector support for bicycle commuting. A professional engineer and an avid bicyclist, John Forester combined those interests in founding the discipline of cycling transportation engineering, which regards bicycling as a form of vehicula

Author: John F. Forester
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: planning, processes, participatory, encouraging, practitioner, deliberative
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 1999-10-29
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0262561220
ISBN-13: 9780262561228

"This book represents the culmination of a decade’s work and succeeds. Forester, perhaps the finest planning theorist in the U.S., uses a variety of case studies to show how his ideas about deliberation shape planning practice. He speaks to the problems and worries of practitioners and students of planning in all types of public settings. This book will likely prove popular as a text in planning schools and appeal to professionals in a variety of allied disciplines." -- Charles J. Hoch, Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, University of Illinois at Chicago Citizen par

Author: C.S. Forester
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: quarters, beat, hornblower
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1985-09-30
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0316289329
ISBN-13: 9780316289320

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: La

Author: C.S. Forester
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: queen, african
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1984-06-30
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316289108
ISBN-13: 9780316289108

First published in 1935, The African Queen is the story of Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disheveled trader and an English spinster missionary, who are thrown together when World War I reaches the heart of the African jungle.

Author: C. S. Forester
Publisher: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of Ame
Keywords: stories, war, connecticut, captain
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1999-06-21
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1877853305
ISBN-13: 9781877853302

No one but a madman would put to sea in such conditions. A blizzard cut visibility to yards. Long Island Sound was galloping whitecaps. But in this second year of the war of 1812, conditions like these spelled opportunity to Captain Josiah Peabody, USN. His mission: break the British Blockade. The only thing in his favor was surprise. Who would expect a Yankee frigate in Long Island Sound at night? Peabody is a fictional character, and C.S. Forester’s first American hero. Yet it was men like him who compensated for our tragic lack of warships and set the world sounding with the fea