Suburban Space or Supervision in the Hospitality Industry

Suburban Space: The Fabric of Dwelling

Author: Renee Y Chow

Renee Y. Chow offers an alternate vision to the conventional suburban housing that characterizes much of our domestic landscape. Her integrated, original approach to design sees the residential setting as a fabric of interrelated spaces that supports cultural diversity and change, promotes sharing in a setting, and sustains a more intense use of land. With its concise, informative text and abundant illustrations--including photographs and Chow's superbly executed drawings--Suburban Space challenges architects, landscape architects, developers, and planners to reconceptualize suburban housing.
Chow has made comparative studies of neighborhoods in Boston, Charleston, San Francisco, Levittown, Radburn, and housing by Rudolf Schindler and Irving Gill, as well as other residential settings. Her argument for a fabric of dwelling is founded not on generalizations about how people live but on documented observations of the particular ways in which people organize their daily lives. This groundbreaking book demonstrates how one of the most disparaged yet common types of housing in the United States can become more environmentally and culturally viable.

Robert Fishman

An impassable gulf would seem to separate the complex urban fabric of nineteenth-century Charleston or San Francisco from the sprawl of suburban Levittown and its successors. But Renee Y. Chow has perceived that the complex relationships of density and diversity, public and private in older cities could provide vital lessons for breaking out of the boxes and cul-de-sacs of conventional suburban design. Yet Chow is no antiquarian: her brilliantly original representations of suburbia lead directly to a radical transformation in suburban design.

Dolores Hayden

Using meticulous methods of measurement to undergird her formal analyses of interior and exterior spaces, Renee Chow has created a brilliant analysis of American suburban habitats, from the tracts of Levitt to the compact projects of Schindler and Gill. Her elegant book, Suburban Spaces: The Fabric of Dwelling, belongs on the desk of every architect, landscape architect, and planner concerned about neighborhood densities in the twenty-first century.

John Habraken

Renee Chow advocates a new way of seeing suburban environments. She proposes a view where inside and outside space are given equal attention and interact as part of a continuous fabric.

Interesting book: Werbung durch das Design: Das Schaffen von Sehkommunikationen mit dem Grafischen Einfluss

Supervision in the Hospitality Industry

Author: Jack E Miller

Guidelines to becoming a winning manager in the foodservice and hotel industries

Successful managers effectively use theory, practice, and experience to lead their staffs. Supervision in the Hospitality Industry provides comprehensive coverage of the principles, theories, human relations techniques, and decision-making skills that are required to manage a workforce to profitable results. Along with updated material in each chapter and a variety of training activities for real-world simulation, this Fourth Edition is the complete guide to managing in the hospitality industry.

It takes a lot of savvy to manage a thriving hospitality business. Managers must satisfy obligations to owners, customers, and employees, while maintaining a positive work climate, developing job expectations, disciplining marginal employees, and addressing workplace diversity. Methods for achieving these goals as well as for communicating effectively, planning, organizing, and maintaining a management point of view are reinforced through quizzes, exercises, self-assessments, simulations, case studies, role-playing, and journal writing.

Supervision in the Hospitality Industry, Fourth Edition is the complete guide for students in culinary and hospitality programs, as well as foodservice professionals and chefs.

Table of Contents:

1	The supervisor as manager	3
2	The supervisor as leader	39
3	Equal opportunity in the workplace	69
4	Creating a positive work climate	97
5	Developing performance standards	145
6	Recruiting and selecting applicants	179
7	Teamwork and teambuilding	223
8	Employee training and development	247
9	Evaluating performance	283
10	Discipline and employee assistance programs	315
11	Planning and organizing	373
12	Communicating effectively	409
13	Delegating	447
14	Decision making and control	471