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Author: Sam Bass Warner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1987-06
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780812212433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History. "Packed with suggestive historical detail."--
Author: Philip J. Ethington
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-07-06
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 0520230019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new look at how the issues of concern in the public sphere were influenced by journalism and political organizing in American cities in the second half of the 19th century.
Author: Andy Coupland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-10-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1135816700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMixed use development is about retaining or creating a mix of different uses in cities or neighbourhoods. The trend in UK development has been towards specialisation and areas with single uses. Increasing the mix of uses is thought to reduce the need to travel, lower the likelihood of crime, improve the ambience and attractiveness of areas and contribute to the sustainability of cities.
Author: Martin V. Melosi
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0271044586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1992 Los Angeles riots catapulted the problems of the city back onto the policy agenda. The cauldron of social problems of the city, as the riots showed, offers no simple solutions. Indeed, urban policy includes a range of policy issues involving welfare, housing, job training, education, drug control, and the environment. The myriad of local, state, and federal agencies only further complicates formulating and implementing coherent policies for the city. This volume, while not offering specific proposals to remedy the problems of the city, provides a broad historical context for discussing contemporary urban policy and for arriving at new prescriptions for relieving the ills of the American city. The essays address issues related to public housing, poverty, transportation, and the environment. In doing so, the authors discuss larger themes in urban policy as well as provide case studies of how policies have been implemented over time in specific cities. Of particular interest are two essays that discuss the role of the historian in shaping urban policy and the importance of historical preservation in urban planning.
Author: Tovi Fenster
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-17
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1317880099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces in which they live. By deconstructing the meanings of these three notions and analyzing their expression in cognitive temporal maps, The Global City & The Holy City examines the practicalities of incorporating this kind of local embodied knowledge into the professional planning and management of cities in the age of globalization.
Author: Priscilla Ferguson Clement
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780838632161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe changes in the relative importance of humanitarianism, social control, and economy in the Philadelphia welfare system from 1800 to 1854 are examined by the author in regard to the management of public outdoor relief, indoor aid in the Alms-house, public and private assistance to needy children, and private charitable aid to impoverished adults.
Author: Jeb Brugmann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1608191869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last fifty years-the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America-were fundamentally urban revolutions. They were the revolutions of Manila, Teheran, Gdansk, Leipzig, Berlin, Johannesburg and Detroit, muscular assertions of new classes of city-dwellers intent on ending their marginalization as they struggled to build their new livelihoods, freedoms and communities in cities. In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, Jeb Brugmann argues that the city itself had become our era's medium for revolutionary change: not only political, but technological as well. Though we think of them as a hotbed for poverty and crime, cities are not just a source of problems and conflict. They can also be a source of solutions to the major problems of our day: poverty, social inequality and environmental sustainability. In Welcome to the Urban Revolution Brugmann will show what is unique and important about cities and how they grow, the ways global issues are being solved in individual cities, and how real people are living with urban migration day in and day out.
Author: Robert W. Kweit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 113564022X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised textbook for courses on urban politics challenges the notion that the field is dominated by political economy, showing that despite the undeniable importance of economic issues, citizens do play a significant part in urban politics.
Author: Robert W. Kweit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1135640505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Approximately 75 percent of Americans live in cities and surrounding suburbs, and the characteristics of those cities inescapably affect the quality of their lives. This book examines the extent to which these Americans use the political process to control the characteristics of life in their metropolises. In addition, this second edition revision places great emphasis on the role of political leaders, while recognising the interdependence between those leaders and various interests in the city.
Author: Richard T. LeGates
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9780415271738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third edition juxtaposes the very best publications on the city. It reflects the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. It is a comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies: old and new.
