Restructuring the Philadelphia Region
Restructuring the Philadelphia Region

Author: Carolyn Adams

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1592138977

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Restructuring the Philadelphia Region offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalities in America’s large urban regions. Moving beyond simplistic analyses of cities-versus-suburbs, the authors use a large and unique data set to discover the special patterns of opportunity in greater Philadelphia, a sprawling, complex metropolitan region consisting of more than 350 separate localities. With each community operating its own public services and competing to attract residents and businesses, the places people live offer them dramatically different opportunities. The book vividly portrays the region’s uneven development—paying particular attention to differences in housing, employment and educational opportunities in different communities—and describes the actors who are working to promote greater regional cooperation. Surprisingly, local government officials are not prominent among those actors. Instead, a rich network of “third-sector” actors, represented by nonprofit organizations, quasi-governmental authorities and voluntary associations, is shaping a new form of regionalism.

Restructuring the Chinese City
Restructuring the Chinese City

Author: Laurence J.C. Ma

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1134316097

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A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the convergence thesis that sees cities everywhere becoming more Western in form and suggestions that the Chinese city is best seen as a multiplex city, Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students in urban geography, urban planning and China studies.

Japan and Central Europe Restructuring
Japan and Central Europe Restructuring

Author: Winfried Flüchter

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9783447035316

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Revised and updated papers originally presented at the 7th Japanese-German Geographical Conference, Aug. 16-27, 1992, in Heidelberg and Duisburg, Germany.

Restructuring Education
Restructuring Education

Author: Simon Hakim

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2000-08-30

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0313022313

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American education is undergoing rapid change. Concern over poor student performance, the ability and motivation of teachers, and the inefficiency of school bureaucracy have led to numerous recommendations for changing the structure of American education. These vary from small changes in the current structure to wholesale privatization of public schools. The contributions in this book discuss a wide range of proposals, including greater school choice, charter schools, promoting contact with the business community, public-private partnerships, and more. Several chapters assess the current research on choice and restructuring. Overall the consensus is that proposed reforms have a good chance of yielding significant benefits.