Background
Mallach, Alan was born on October 15, 1944 in Pittsburgh.
( What is a decent home? Does it simply provide shelter f...)
What is a decent home? Does it simply provide shelter from the elements? Is it affordable enough that you can buy the other necessities of life? Does it connect you to a community with adequate social and economic resources? Noted housing expert Alan Mallach turns his decades of experience to these questions in "A Decent Home". Mallach's nuanced analysis of housing issues critical to communities across the country will help planners evaluate the housing situation in their own communities and formulate specific plans to address a variety of housing problems. The book is both a practical step-by-step guide to developing affordable housing and a sophisticated introduction to housing policy. Chapters address design, site selection, project approval, financing, and the history of housing policy in the United States. Planners will find useful information about inclusionary and exclusionary zoning, affordable housing preservation, and the risks and rewards of affordable-home-ownership programs. Mallach also connects the dots among regional economic competitiveness, quality of life, community revitalization, and affordable housing.
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(With the passing of giants like Rossini, Bellini, and Don...)
With the passing of giants like Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, and with Verdi in decline, Italian opera at the end of the nineteenth century appeared to be on the wane. Then, suddenly, with the legendary premiere of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana in 1890, Italian opera entered into a period of enormous artistic creativity and commercial success. In The Autumn of Italian Opera, Alan Mallach chronicles the last years of Verdi and Catalani and the emergence of the Giovane Scuola (young school) of Italian composers led by the superstar composers Puccini and Mascagni, and including such lesser-known but important figures as Giordano, Cilèa, and Leoncavallo. Mallach carries their story through to the first World War and a new generation of composers, including Zandonai and Wolf-Ferrari, through the rise of musical modernism in Italy early in the twentieth century. In doing so he offers opera scholars and aficionados a detailed and richly textured perspective on an important but widely misunderstood period in Italian opera. Mallach places the emergence of the Giovane Scuola firmly within the great social and political upheavals of the time, which brought previously unexplored themes and exotic settings into the Opera House. Their works expressed an intensity of passion, sentimentality, and violence, which appealed to a new generation of operagoers, reflecting the growing dominance of the bourgeois in the new Italy that emerged after unification. Their music reflected the nation’s growing cosmopolitanism, integrating themes and styles from composers as diverse as Massenet and Wagner, Strauss, and Debussy into the Italian operatic tradition. While the author’s principal emphasis is on operas and composers, he also provides portraits of the outstanding operatic singers and conductors of the time, and the developments that transformed the opera industry toward the end of the nineteenth century. Mallach discusses the powerful role played by the two dominant publishers, Giulio Ricordi and Edoardo Sonzogno, the ownership and operation of the nation’s opera houses, the make-up of the operatic audience, and the diffusion of opera throughout Italy through civic bands and choral societies. This is a landmark and highly readable work of scholarship that sheds light on the last great era of Italian opera.
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( Abandoned properties are a plague across the United Sta...)
Abandoned properties are a plague across the United States, from rust belt cities like Detroit and Buffalo to small towns like Lima, Ohio, and Waterloo, Iowa. Even in Sunbelt cities such as Houston and Las Vegas, abandonment is a major problem, as investment flows to the periphery, leaving the older, inner neighborhoods behind. In Bringing Buildings Back, Alan Mallach provides policymakers and practitioners with the first in-depth guide to understanding and dealing with the many ramifications that this issue holds for the future of our older cities. Combining practical suggestions with a thoughtful exploration of policy, Mallach pulls together insights from law, economics, planning, and design to address all sides of the problem, from how abandonment can be prevented to how best to bring these properties back into productive reuse. Focusing on the need for sustainable reuse and revitalization of America's cities and neighborhoods, Bringing Buildings Back shows how finding solutions for individual buildings can and must be tied to the larger process of making our cities economically stronger and environmentally sounder places to live and work. The book is replete with examples of how cities, community development corporations, and others have come up with creative, effective solutions. Written by a distinguished urban planner and practitioner with three decades of experience, Bringing Buildings Back provides both a detailed toolkit and a call to rethink the way America carries out urban redevelopment. It is a book that should be on the desk of every mayor, city planner, community developer, or neighborhood activist, and used in every course on urban redevelopment or neighborhood revitalization.
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( Written by a distinguished urban planner and practition...)
Written by a distinguished urban planner and practitioner with three decades of experience, the original volume of Bringing Buildings Back provided both a detailed toolkit and a call to rethink the way America carries out urban redevelopment. This second edition of Alan Mallach's now classic work contains new material that directly addresses the issues that have arisen as communities across the country try to stabilize their neighborhoods in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. It discusses both the fundamental "big picture" issues and the technical and practical questions that have emerged. Mallach explores the concept of neighborhood stability and explains how it relates to the economic forces affecting a community, city, or region. As in the prior volume, this updated edition of Bringing Buildings Back does not seek simply to provide technical guidance to practitioners; it also suggests creative ways of thinking about local policies, strategies, and actions. Ultimately, no plan for dealing with problem real estate is about just the properties themselves; it is about how to build stronger, healthier neighborhoods, towns, and cities.
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(Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) was a dazzling and influentia...)
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) was a dazzling and influential figure in italian opera during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Just 26 when the electric premiere of his "Cavalleria Rusticana" at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome catapulted the impoverished musician into sudden fame and fortune, Mascagni went on to write 15 more operas, including "L'Amico Fritz", "Guglielmo Ratcliff", "Iris", "Parisina", and "Il Piccolo Marat". This in-depth biography of Mascagni charts the course of his intriguing life and career. With access to extensive primary sources, including Mascagni's 4200 letters to Anna Lolli, his mistress for more than three decades, Alan Mallach provides a portrait of a flambuoyant, combative and emotional man who was passionately devoted to the Italian opera tradition and committed to innovation in musical language and dramatic form.
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consultant writer city planner
Mallach, Alan was born on October 15, 1944 in Pittsburgh.
Bachelor cum laude, Yale University, 1966.
Evaluation coordinator Community Progress, Incorporated, New York Haven, 1965-1967. Director program development New Jersey Department Community Affairs, Trenton, 1967-1971. Assistant dean Livingston College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1971-1973.
Assistant professor Stockton State College, Pomona, 1973-1974. Research director New Jersey Government Study Commission, Trenton, 1973-1975. President Alan Mallach Associates, Inc., Philadelphia, 1975-1980.
Executive director Atlantic Company Improvement Authority, Atlantic City, 1980-1983. City planning and housing consultant Roosevelt, New Jersey, 1983-1990. Director department housing and development City of Trenton, 1990-1999.
Private practice Roosevelt, since 1999. Research director National Housing Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, 2003—2008. Non-resident senior fellow The Brookings Institution, since 2008.
Senior fellow Center Community Progress, since 2010. Adjustment lecturer Rutgers University, Newark, 1988-1990, New Brunswick, 2001-2003. Executive committee Housing and Community Development Network New Jersey, since 1988.
Visiting scholar, Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia, since 2007, University Nevada Las Vegas, since 2010. Visiting lecturer Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, since 2010.
( What is a decent home? Does it simply provide shelter f...)
( Written by a distinguished urban planner and practition...)
(With the passing of giants like Rossini, Bellini, and Don...)
( Abandoned properties are a plague across the United Sta...)
(Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) was a dazzling and influentia...)
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Vice president Bedminster Hills Housing Corporation, Pluckemin, New Jersey, 1985-1991. Chairman Roosevelt Borough Planning Board, 1986-1990. President Abrams Hebrew Academy, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 1984-1987.
Secretary board directors Roosevelt Arts Project, since 1987. Commissioner Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, 1990-1999. New Jersey advisory board Local Initiatives Support Corporation, 1997-2003.
Secretary, board directors Preservation New Jersey, 1999-2005. President, board directors The Fund Roosevelt. Member American Planning Association (Paul Davidoff award New Jersey chapter 1998).
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