Post-Industrial America (Routledge Revivals).
Author: David Clark
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Published: 2012
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ISBN-13: 9781283886833
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Post-Industrial America
Author: David Clark
Publisher:
Published: 2012-07-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780415609531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1984, this book analyses contemporary changes in industry, employment, education, science and technology, social attitudes and values in the USA, leading to the emergence of a new geography of post-industrial America. David Clark emphasizes the distributional processes and trends that have occurred over the post-war period. Data are analysed by reference to the then most recent census, of 1980. Throughout, the book provides a valuable and very comprehensive text that will be welcomed by all those wishing to study the geography of the contemporary USA.
Urban Decline (Routledge Revivals)
Author: David Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 113509506X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. When this book was first published in 1989, however, a massive process of counter-urbanization was underway, which saw the loss of population and jobs in cities and a pronounced urban to rural shift. This book analyses the causes and consequences of urban decline in Britain and the developed world during this period and beyond, and assesses the implications for urban planning and policy. David Clark’s relevant and comprehensive title will be of value to students with a particular interest in urban geography and development.
Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)
Author: Paul L Knox
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1315452758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1988, this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners, and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial for the way proposals are taken up, modified and carried out. The author explores the world-view of architects and planners, considering their approach to design and the factors which influence this — work patterns, career paths and the firms in which they operate. The author also studies their place in the political decision-making process as it affects urban questions and then explores how architects and planners roles are changing.
The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Nancy Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1317744357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasingly important mode of domination during the modern period as ruling ideas became a form of violence in their own right. This reissue will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in the concept of violence, and the boundaries and capacity of discourse.
Industrial Society (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Richard Scase
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-06-03
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1317536967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAny study of contemporary industrial societies must take into account the role of power, ideology and class, and the degree to which these determine the development of social structures. This book, first published in 1977 and based on a selection of eleven papers given at a conference of the British Sociological Association, focuses upon aspects of continuity and change in modern society, comparing and contrasting dimensions of class, cleavage and control in capitalist and socialist societies. This book is key reading for students of both sociology and business studies.
Commercial Distribution in Europe (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John Dawson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1317598857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe physical distribution of products is an important element in the marketing operations of all productive enterprises, and in many cases efficient distribution is the most important single factor leading to success. With the emergence of post-industrial society the role of distribution has come to increasingly be viewed as a generator of wealth in the economy, attracting the interest of public policy makers anxious to influence investment, employment and efficiency in the sector. First published in 1982, this book isolates the major trends affecting the main institutions in distribution and contrasts the processes of change amongst the countries and regions of the European Economic Community. Structural change in the industry is related to spatial change in the regions and comparisons made of the varied public policy responses in member countries. An interesting and relevant reissue, this title will be of particular value to economics and business students with an interest in the development of the European consumer and post-industrial Europe.
Future Visions of Urban Public Housing (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Wolfgang F. E. Preiser
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 1009
ISBN-13: 1315530716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on ‘Future Visions of Urban Public Housing’ held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Participants included public housing officials, academics, practitioners and public housing residents who came together to debate, compare and analyse practices and issues in urban and public housing in industrialised nations. The 55 collected papers address the following key topics: public housing policy; comprehensive neighbourhood planning for public housing; public housing in the urban design context; quality of design standards and guidelines for public housing; resident participation and enhanced self-sufficiency in public housing; public housing alternatives; revitalising and rehabilitating public housing; the Elderly, Children, and special populations in public housing. The findings suggest new directions for policy and agendas for action.
Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-15
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1135155518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1982, Professor Bauman’s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the ‘crisis of late-industrial society’. The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of ‘surveillance power’ and control, and shows how these patterns preceded and made possible the industrial system. Subsequently ‘economised’ into the industrial system, these same patterns of control have now proved to be inadequate under social conditions brought about by this economisation of the power conflict.
Postmodernized Simmel
Author: Deena Weinstein
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415609258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmel's writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory
