The Values and Traditions of the Metropolitan Council
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 32
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The Culture of Design
Author: Guy Julier
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012-06-21
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1446204537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPraise for the first edition: `Julier provides an important contemporary account of how design disciplines act and interact in the world.... an important resource for the student of design... perfection as a cultural studies text′ - European Journal of Cultural Studies Aimed at students of design studies, design history, cultural studies and sociology, The Culture of Design, offers a unique overview of design practice in contemporary culture and society. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Julier nevertheless foregrounds the everyday business and professional context in which designers work. The second edition of The Culture of Design, has been thoroughly revised and updated, and contains new case studies, including one on the iPod. In addition, the book now has a new introductory chapter that outlines academic approaches to ′design culture′ and an extended final chapter which looks at the links between design and management studies and how the creative industries function in the context of urban regeneration and social participation.
Culture and the City
Author: Deborah Stevenson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1317980840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined, experienced and shaped by those who reside within them, those who manage or govern them, and those who, as visitor, tourist or traveller, pass through them. Attention will be paid to the influence that these various inhabitants have on city life and living and the dialectic that exists between their sometimes collective and sometimes divergent, perceptions and uses of city space. In conjunction with this, the collection will explore the ways in which local culture and cultural policy are used by public and private interests as the framework for changing the image and amenity of the city in order to raise its profile and attract tourists. The book contributes to discussions of the increasingly high profile place that cultural programs have in urban regeneration initiatives and explore the tensions, conflicts and negotiations that emerge in urban spaces as a result of policy and culture coming together. Papers will be sought from researchers around the world with a view to examining the nexus between tourism, leisure and cultural programming from a number of perspectives and with reference to a range of international case studies. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events.
Purpose & Role of the Metropolitan Council
Author: Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Area
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCulture and Neighbourhoods: A comparative report
Author: Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9789287132703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccounting for Culture
Author: Caroline Andrew
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2005-03-30
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0776615335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply. The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling alternative rationale for government intervention in the cultural sector. Likewise, the articulation and use of cultural indicators and of governance concepts are also new arrivals, emerging as potentially powerful tools for policy and program development. Accounting for Culture is a unique collection of essays from leading Canadian and international scholars that critically examines cultural citizenship, cultural indicators, and governance in the context of evolving cultural practices and cultural policy-making. It will be of great interest to scholars of cultural policy, communications, cultural studies, and public administration alike.
A Culture of Everyday Credit
Author: Marie Eileen Francois
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0803269234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the role of pawnshops in the lives and culture of working and middle-class families in Mexico City from the eighteenth century to the present.
Imagined Societies
Author: Willem Schinkel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1108210694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many countries in Western Europe, the demand for immigrant integration has inevitably raised questions about the 'societies' into which immigrants are asked to integrate. Imagined Societies critically intervenes in debates on immigrant integration and multiculturalism in Western Europe. Schinkel argues that the term 'multiculturalism' is not used primarily to describe a type of policy or political philosophy in countries such as the Netherlands, France, Germany or Belgium, but rather as a rhetorical device that promotes demands for 'integration'. He analyses how such demands are ways of imagining the very idea of a 'host society' as 'modern', 'secular' and 'enlightened'. Starting from debates in social theory on social imaginaries, and drawing on public debates on citizenship, secularism and sexuality, and on the social science of measuring immigrant integration, this book presents a highly original study of immigrant integration that challenges our understanding of the concept of society.
Culture Works
Author: Arlene M. Dávila
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0814744311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on research in Puerto Rico, New York, and Buenos Aires.
Comparative Civic Culture
Author: Laura A. Reese
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1317163206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe quest for a theoretical framework for understanding urban policy-making has been a recurring focus of research into local governments. Civic culture is a means for understanding how municipal policy-makers weigh the interests of different groups, govern the local community, frame local goals, engage in decision-making, and ultimately select and implement public policies. While it seems that culture 'matters' in local policy making, how to measure culture in a valid and replicable fashion presents a significant challenge which the authors address in this book. They present their findings of a large multi-city research project to explore the nature of civic culture in cities in the US and Canada. The focus of their analysis is on three overarching 'systems' of community power system, the community value system, and the community decision-making system. The authors address a number of questions around the nature of civic culture and the relationships between the three systemic elements of civic culture, to refine and apply a more sophisticated theory of urban policy-making.
