Monotowns
Author: David Navarro
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9788395057489
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Monotown
Author: Clayton Strange
Publisher: ORO Applied Research + Design
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781939621573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrange examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned single-industry towns that emerged as a distinctive sociopolitical project of urbanization in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
Putin's Labor Dilemma
Author: Stephen Crowley
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1501756303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require restructuring the country's industrial landscape. At the same time, doing so threatens to generate protest and instability from a key regime constituency. However, continuing to prop up Russia's Soviet-era workplaces, writes Crowley, could lead to declining wages and economic stagnation, threatening protest and instability. Crowley explores the dynamics of a Russian labor market that generally avoids mass unemployment, the potentially explosive role of Russia's monotowns, conflicts generated by massive downsizing in "Russia's Detroit" (Tol'yatti), and the rapid politicization of the truck drivers movement. Labor protests currently show little sign of threatening Putin's hold on power, but the manner in which they are being conducted point to substantial chronic problems that will be difficult to resolve. Putin's Labor Dilemma demonstrates that the Russian economy must either find new sources of economic growth or face stagnation. Either scenario—market reforms or economic stagnation—raises the possibility, even probability, of destabilizing social unrest.
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities
Author: Robert W. Orttung
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 178533316X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from Muslim cultures are reshaping the social fabric of northern cities, and provides a detailed analysis of climate change and its impact on urban and industrial infrastructure.
OECD Territorial Reviews: Kazakhstan
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9264269436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis review looks at how a modern approach to regional development can help Kazakhstan, by mobilising the growth potential of different parts of the economy and territory, supporting economic diversification and reducing regional inequalities.
Eastern Blocks
Author: Zupagrafika
Publisher: Brutalist Architecture
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788395057434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSleeping districts? of Moscow, Plattenbauten of East Berlin, modernist estates of Warsaw, Kyiv's Brezhnevki: although these are home to the vast majority of city dwellers, post-war suburbs of central and eastern Europe have been invisible for decades.00'Eastern Blocks' by Zupagrafika is a photographic journey through the cityscapes the former Eastern Bloc, inviting readers to explore the districts and peripheries that became a playground for mass housing development after WW2, including objects like Soviet?flying saucers?, houses?on chicken legs? or hammer-shaped tower blocks.00Showcasing modernist and brutalist architecture scattered around the cities of Moscow, (East) Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Kyiv and Saint Petersburg, the book contains over 100 photographs taken by Zupagrafika throughout the last decade as a reference archive for their illustrated kits and books, with special contributions by local photographers. Divided into 6 chapters, 'Eastern Blocks' includes a foreword by writer and journalist Christopher Beanland, orientative maps, index of architects and informative texts on the featured cities and constructions.
Kazakhstan’s Developmental Journey
Author: Anastasia Koulouri
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9811568995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses Kazakhstan’s transitioning trajectory to a market economy since it declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.. It analyses the evolution of key policy areas and sectors through the lens of policy development and implementation, and evaluates their suitability in pursuing the country’s strategic objectives. Topics include policy initiatives for economic development, new policy paradigms in public service delivery and infrastructure improvement, and water-energy-food (WEF) nexus thinking in governing the WEF sectors. The book argues that policies developed in the 1990s and 2000s have so far served the nation’s needs. Nevertheless, as Kazakhstan seeks to achieve a competitive edge worldwide, many of these policies would require adjustment, or a paradigm shift. Providing a unique outlook on policy and governance, this book will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners involved with Kazakhstan and Central Asia and interested in the transformation of ex-Soviet nations, their policy, and sustainable development.
OECD Urban Policy Reviews: Kazakhstan
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2017-06-08
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9264268855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report provides a comprehensive assessment of Kazakhstan’s urban policies in terms of economic, social and environmental impact.
Non-humans in Social Science
Author: Petr Gibas
Publisher: Pavel Mervart
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 8074650103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeas of dead, inert space, non-living, machinelike reflexive controlled bodies and passive, meaningless things are very modern. At the very heart of the program of modernity, resource exploitation and consumption is the idea that non-humans have no agency – they are simply resources to be manipulated and exploited at our will. Mostly leaving aside the more and more evident ethical concerns of this worldview and this setting of the human – non-human boundary, this volume attempts to explore what social sciences have to say about the relationship between the human and non-human. The intention of this book is to offer a non-human perspective. We realize that it is sometimes difficult to say whether the outcome of such a perspective would be just a shallow tendency to anthropomorphize, or whether we could reach some of the previously unseen properties of non-humans. Being aware of the dangers, this volume puts together different case studies that are more or less inspired by this non-human perspective. The aim is to explore what has been for a long time put aside and to provide new insights, new revelations that can lead social science to undiscovered or hidden realms. The outcome of this thrilling adventure can in the end be a discovery that the role of natural and social sciences, or even more, the character of the nature-culture dichotomy would have to be re-evaluated.
ICMLG2014 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance
Author: Philip Arthur Dover
Publisher: Academic Conferences Limited
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1909507989
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