Jim Rouse

Capitalist/Idealist

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Jim Rouse: Capitalist/Idealist is the story of a very special businessman. A successful capitalist—a real estate developer—Jim Rouse led his life as a practicing idealist. He sought to help people enrich their lives. He wanted people to live in an enjoyable environment and to experience the joy in caring for each other. But he knew that to raise the capital to accomplish those goals his companies had to be profitable.As an enthusiast of urban renewal, he worked to rid core downtown areas of American cities of blight and despair. He created indoor malls in the new post-war suburbs that would be focal points for community life. He developed a whole new city—Columbia, Maryland—to show what an American city could be like. For one thing, it would be a city totally integrated racially, a city in which anyone could buy or rent on any street. In retirement, Rouse founded the Enterprise Foundation to produce profits that would be used to provide the poorest of Americans with a decent place to live. Rouse was one of America's first practitioners of social enterprise.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-11-06
Mått:153 x 231 x 20 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761839446

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Paul Marx is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Haven. He is the author of The Modern Rules of Style (American Bar Association Publishing, 2007) and Utopia in America (Burke Publishing, 2002). He is the editor of Modern and Classical Essayists (McGraw-Hill, 1996) and Twelve Short Story Writers (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970). As a freelance writer, he has had articles in, among other journals, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Baltimore Sun.

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Jim Rouse and Warren Buffett knew and had the highest respect for each other. They were aware of each other as men driven by a strong zest for life. Rouse, though, focused on “the improvement of mankind.” Buffett focused on financial returns for investors; Rouse produced houses and neighborhoods, villages and shops, woods and lakes. Except to the extent that it could limit his good works, Rouse did not care about financial returns. His worry was solvency, not increasing profitability. He had an abhorrence of selfishness.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 PrefacePart 2 AcknowledgementsPart 3 ChronologyChapter 4 What's the PurposeChapter 5 Huck on the ChesapeakeChapter 6 Jim at SchoolChapter 7 A Poor RelationChapter 8 The AceChapter 9 The Fights Against Blight and WarChapter 10 Stepping StonesChapter 11 The Company and the CityChapter 12 Bad Mall, Good MallChapter 13 The Summer of 1963Chapter 14 The Village of Cross KeysChapter 15 Columbia: The Dream, the PlansChapter 16 Columbia: The Next AmericaChapter 17 Columbia and the Vietnam WarChapter 18 A Downward TurnChapter 19 Festival Marketplace: BostonChapter 20 Festival Marketplace: BaltimoreChapter 21 The Social EntrepreneurChapter 22 Back to BaltimoreChapter 23 Last YearsChapter 24 Columbia Fully GrownChapter 25 LegacyPart 26 BibliographyPart 27 IndexPart 28 About the Author