scholarly journals Forensic Engineering Analysis Of Building Codes And Staircase Accidents

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kravitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
Engineering Analysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forensic Engineering ◽  
The City

This Paper Will Discuss The Importance Of Determining The History Of A Building Where A Mishap Occurred On Either An Interior Or Exterior Staircase. The Writers Experience Is Primarily In The City Of New York, However, The Research And Types Of Laws Cited In This Paper Can Be Used As A Guide In The Research Of All Cities, Especially Older Cities Such As Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans, San Francisco, Etc. Researching A Buildings History Is The Primary Task Of The Forensic Engineer Whether He Is Preparing A Case For Either The Plaintiff Or Defense. Citing The Correct Codes Will Insure That His Opinion Will Be Accepted By The Court. It Must Be Understood That The Owner Of A Building Is Responsible To Maintain His/Her Building To The Codes To Which It Was Built Unless A Directive Was Issued By The Building Department To The Contrary, Or A Directive That Required The Owner To Comply With Current Codes.

Broad views of the urban past in Europe and its extensions

Urban History ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-352
Author(s):  
ANDREW LEES
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Big City ◽  
Readable Book ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Readers of English can currently refer to only two works that offer synthetic overviews of the history of European cities from the period of classical antiquity into the twentieth century. We have long had the powerfully argued and highly readable book by the architectural critic, Louis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformation, and Its Prospects (1961). Beginning with the earliest settlements in the Near East and continuing through the rise of the suburbs in the United States, Mumford's volume tells a dramatic story in which urbanity at its best (as exemplified by such communities as Athens and Amsterdam) gave way to a succession of assaults, whether in the form of Baroque planning, rampant industrialization, oversized ‘megalopolises’ or automobiles. Continuing in the vein of many earlier critics, Mumford saw the modern big city as a depressing departure from earlier norms of urban beauty and human solidarity, and his view of the future was bleak indeed. Nearly four decades later, Sir Peter Hall offered a similarly large-scale but otherwise very different view of the broad sweep of the urban past, in his Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order (1998). He constructed his book not as a narrative but instead as clusters of case studies, in which sixteen cities appear as scenes and agents of various types of exemplary achievement. Focusing on Europe, but not restricting himself to it, Hall presented not only Athens, Florence, Paris, Vienna, London, Manchester and Berlin but also New York, San Francisco and Tokyo as ‘places that [have] ignited the sacred flame of intelligence and human imagination’ (p. 7). It is primarily for this reason that, in Hall's view, the history of great metropolises is inseparable from the history of civilization itself.

Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004

Academe ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 90 (5) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Katherine Reynolds Chaddock ◽  
Robert A. McCaughey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

“The Principal Russian Church in America”: from the History of Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the City of New York

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11 (109)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Vladimir Pechatnov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ministry Of Finance ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Foreign Ministry ◽  
The City

Based on previously unearthed documents from the Russia’s State Historical Archive and the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire the article explores the history of the first Russian Orthodox parish in New York City and construction of Saint-Nickolas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in the city. It was a protracted and complicated interagency process that involved Russian Orthodox mission in the United States, Russia’s Foreign Ministry and its missions in the United States, the Holy Governing Synod, Russia’s Ministry of Finance and the State Council. The principal actors were the bishops Nicholas (Ziorov) and especially Tikhon (Bellavin), Ober-Prosecutor of the Holy Governing Synod Konstantine Pobedonostsev and Reverend Alexander Khotovitsky. This case study of the Cathedral history reveals an interaction of ecclesiastical and civil authorities in which private and civic initiative was combined with strict bureaucratic rules and procedures.

New York at its Core: A Review of an Exhibition at the City Museum of New York

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Thomas Wide
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThomas Wide visits a recent exhibition on the history of New York City

scholarly journals History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century

1909 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
J. H. Innes ◽  
Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City
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