City Choices

Author : Kenneth K. Wong
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438424415

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City Choices by Kenneth K. Wong Pdf

City Choices argues that both economic concerns and political factors can be synthesized in a new framework in city policymaking. This synthesis is based on a systematic empirical study of policymaking in two large cities. Using numerous governmental documents and conducting extensive interviews with local, state, and federal officials, the author examines how the two cities have implemented both federal redistributive and development programs in education and housing. The author uses three models in explaining city choices: "economic constraint"; "clientele participation"; and "institutional diversity" and concludes by offering his "political choice" perspective, which identifies specific sets of local political forces that are likely to alter the city's rational choices in development and redistributive issues.

Author : Dick Smakman,Jiří Nekvapil,Kapitolina Fedorova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000555431

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Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City by Dick Smakman,Jiří Nekvapil,Kapitolina Fedorova Pdf

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban sociolinguistics across the globe. Bearing in mind the impact of international travel and migration, the book accounts for the shifting contemporary studies to the workings of language choices in places where people with many different backgrounds meet and exchange ideas. It specifically addresses how people handle language use challenges in a broad range of settings to present themselves positively and meet their information and identity goals. While a speaker’s experience runs like a thread through this volume, the linguistic, cultural and situational focus is as broad as possible. It runs from the language choices of Chinese immigrants to Beijing and Finnish immigrants to Japan to the use of the local lingua franca by motor taxi drivers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, and how Hungarian students in their dorm rooms express views on political correctness uninhibitedly. As it turns out, language play, improvisation, humour, lies, as well as highly marked subconscious pronunciation choices, are natural parts of the discourses, and this volume provides numerous and extensive examples of these techniques. For each of the settings discussed, the perspective is taken of personalised linguistic and extra-linguistic styles in tackling communicative challenges. This way, a picture is drawn of how postmodern individuals in extremely different cultural and situational circumstances turn out to have strikingly similar human behaviours and intentions. Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City is of interest to all those who follow theoretical and methodological developments in this field. It will be of use for upper level students in the fields of Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Linguistic Anthropology and related fields in which urban communicative settings are the focus.

Author : Michael Streissguth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438479897

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City on the Edge by Michael Streissguth Pdf

Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintessential rust-belt metropolis. Once a booming industrial center with a dynamic civic life and prominence on the world stage, Syracuse has endured decades of crime, drugs, economic depression, absent-minded political leadership, and population decline. Michael Streissguth spent more than three years interviewing a young survivor of the streets, a refugee from Cuba, an urban farmer, a community activist, and a city elder, who shared their stories as they found ways to make life work against sometimes formidable odds. He also contextualizes their extended commentary and storytelling with secondary characters and various episodes, such as a tragic Father's Day riot and the trial that followed. The result is an eye-opening look at life in America in the twenty-first century, where people strive to turn their ideas, frustrations, and disadvantages into new hope for themselves and the city where they live.

Author : Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning. Policy Analysis Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951P00475167K

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Energy Conservation Choices for the City of Portland, Oregon by Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning. Policy Analysis Section Pdf

Author : Clarence Nathan Stone
Publisher : Studies in Government & Public
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015002507276

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Changing Urban Education by Clarence Nathan Stone Pdf

With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high. Teachers decry inadequate resources while critics claim educators are more concerned with job security than effective teaching. Though urban education has reached crisis proportions, contending players have difficulty agreeing on a common program of action. This book tells why. Changing Urban Education confronts the prevailing naivete in school reform by examining the factors that shape, reinforce, or undermine reform efforts. Edited by one of the nation's leading urban scholars, it examines forces for change and resistance in urban education and proposes that the barrier to reform can only be overcome by understanding how schools fit into the broader political contexts of their cities. Much of the problem with our schools lies with the reluctance of educators to recognize the profoundly political character of public education. The contributors show how urban political contexts vary widely with factors like racial composition, the role of the teachers' union, and relations between cities and surrounding metropolitan areas. Presenting case studies of original field research in Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, and six other urban areas, they consider how resistance to desegregation and the concentration of the poor in central urban areas affect education, and they suggest how cities can build support for reform through the involvement of business and other community players. By demonstrating the complex interrelationship between urban education and politics, this book shows schools to be not just places for educating children, but also major employers and large spenders of tax dollars. It also introduces the concept of civic capacity—the ability of educators and non-educators to work together on common goals—and suggests that this key issue must be addressed before education can be improved. Changing Urban Education makes it clear to educators that the outcome of reform efforts depends heavily on their political context as it reminds political scientists that education is a major part of the urban mix. While its prognosis is not entirely optimistic, it sets forth important guidelines that cannot be ignored if our schools are to successfully prepare children for the future.

Author : David Stea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351513630

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Image and Environment by David Stea Pdf

Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It refers to the attributes and relative locations of people and objects in the environment, and is an essential component in the adaptive process of spatial decision-making--such as finding a safe and quick route to from work, locating potential sites for a new house or business, and deciding where to travel on a vacation trip. Cognitive processes are not constant, but undergo change with age or development and use or learning. Image and Environment, now in paperback, is a pioneer study. It brings a new academic discipline to a wide audience. The volume is divided into six sections, which represent a comprehensive breakdown of cognitive mapping studies: "Theory"; "Cognitive Representations"; "Spatial Preferences"; "The Development of Spatial Cognition"; "Geographical and Spatial Orientation"; and "Cognitive Distance." Contributors include Edward Tolman, James Blaut, Stephen Kaplan, Terence Lee, Donald Appleyard, Peter Orleans, Thomas Saarinen, Kevin Cox, Georgia Zannaras, Peter Gould, Roger Hart, Gary Moore, Donald Griffin, Kevin Lynch, Ulf Lundberg, Ronald Lowrey, and Ronald Briggs.

Author : Deborah G. Martin,Joseph Pierce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509536207

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How To Think About Cities by Deborah G. Martin,Joseph Pierce Pdf

Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities’ intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. How To Think About Cities sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities. This book describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as place frames, and the constant process of negotiating which place frames best explain the city as place-making. Martin and Pierce call for an explicitly hybrid perspective that shifts between many different frames for making sense of cities. This approach highlights how any given stance opens up some lines of inquiry and understanding while closing off others. Thinking of cities as sites of contested perspectives promotes a synthetic approach to urban analysis that emphasizes difference and political possibility. This mosaic view of the city will be a welcome read for those within urban studies, geography, and social sciences exploring the many faces of urban life.

Author : George V Chilingar,Leonid F. Khilyuk,Herman H. Reike
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780127999708

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Probability in Petroleum and Environmental Engineering by George V Chilingar,Leonid F. Khilyuk,Herman H. Reike Pdf

Written by three of the world’s most renowned petroleum and environmental engineers, Probability in Petroleum and Environmental Engineering is the first book to offer the practicing engineer and engineering student new cutting-edge techniques for prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management. The authors combine a rigorous, yet easy-to-understand, approach to probability and how it is applied to petroleum and environmental engineering to solve multiple problems that engineers or geologists face every day.

Author : Emmanuel Voyiakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509902835

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Private Law and the Value of Choice by Emmanuel Voyiakis Pdf

Some say that private law ought to correct wrongs or to protect rights. Others say that private law ought to maximise social welfare or to minimise social cost. In this book, Emmanuel Voyiakis claims that private law ought to make our responsibilities to others depend on the opportunities we have to affect how things will go for us. Drawing on the work of HLA Hart and TM Scanlon, he argues that private law principles that require us to bear certain practical burdens in our relations with others are justified as long as those principles provide us with certain opportunities to choose what will happen to us, and having those opportunities is something we have reason to value. The book contrasts this 'value-of-choice' account with its wrong- and social cost-based rivals, and applies it to familiar problems of contract and tort law, including whether liability should be negligence-based or stricter; whether insurance should matter in the allocation of the burden of repair; how far private law should make allowance for persons of limited capacities; when a contract term counts as 'unconscionable' or 'unfair'; and when tort law should hold a person vicariously liable for another's mistakes.

Author : Ronald K. Vogel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313032943

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Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States by Ronald K. Vogel Pdf

A comprehensive reference work which provides a way to access research on urban politics and policy in the United States. Experts in the field guide readers through major controversies, while evaluating and assessing the subfields of urban politics and policy. Each chapter follows the same basic organization with topics such as methodological and theoretical issues, current states of the field, and directions for future research. For students, this work provides a starting place to guide them to the most important works in a particular subfield and a context to place their work in a larger body of knowledge. For scholars, it serves as a reference work for immediately familiarity with subfields of the discipline, including classic studies and major research questions. For urban policymakers or analysts, the handbook provides a wealth of information and allows quick identification of existing academic knowledge and research relevant to the problem at hand.

Author : Andy Harris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470590546

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JavaScript and AJAX For Dummies by Andy Harris Pdf

Learn to use these powerful tools together and build Web sites that work If you want to build Web pages that offer real value to your site's visitors, JavaScript and AJAX are top tools for the job. Even if you're new to Web programming, this book helps you create sites any designer will admire. With easy-to-understand steps and an emphasis on free tools, you'll be able to jump right into building a site using the same techniques as the pros. Down to basics learn your way around JavaScript and choose an editor and test browser Manage complexity use functions, arrays, and objects to create more sophisticated programs Page magic discover how to control what happens on your pages, animate objects, and put pages in motion Get beautiful Use the jQuery User Interface library to add sliders, tabbed interfaces, and custom dialogs to a site Come clean with AJAX build AJAX requests into your programs, use jQuery, and work with AJAX data Open the book and find: How to choose a test browser How to discuss string concatenation with a straight face Tips for debugging your code How to add useful information to a dropdown list Why AJAX connections should be asynchronous The exciting possibilities of the jQuery library How to use the Aptana editor Online resources for JavaScript programmers

Author : Phil Pine
Publisher : Peterson's
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780768927917

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Master The SAT - 2010 by Phil Pine Pdf

For students, this updated guide teaches test-taking strategies and tests all the skills needed to do well on the SAT. For parents, there is a 24-page Parent's Guide that provides information on financial aid and scholarships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433320894

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Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content-Area Literacy: World Cultures Through Time Kit by Anonim Pdf

Differentiate content, process, and product and promote content-area literacy with this dynamic kit about world cultures through time. This kit provides leveled informational texts featuring key historical themes and topics embedded within targeted literacy instruction. Teachers can assess comprehension of informational text using the included Culminating Activity. Additionally, teachers can use multimedia activities to engage students and extend learning. The 60 colorful Leveled Text Cards in this kit are written at four distinct reading levels, each card featuring subtle symbols that denote differentiated reading levels, making differentiation strategies easy to implement. Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content-Area Literacy: World Cultures Through Time Complete Kit includes: Leveled Text Cards; digital resources; Lessons; a Culminating Activity; Tiered Graphic Organizers; Assessment Tools; and audio recordings (of thematic raps and leveled texts).

Author : O'SULLIVAN
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780077147907

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Ebook: Urban Economics by O'SULLIVAN Pdf

Ebook: Urban Economics

Author : Dick Smakman,Jiří Nekvapil,Kapitolina Fedorova
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Language and Identity
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Identity (Philosophical concept)
ISBN : 0367366738

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Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City by Dick Smakman,Jiří Nekvapil,Kapitolina Fedorova Pdf

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban sociolinguistics across the globe. Bearing in mind the impact of international travel and migration, the book accounts for the shifting contemporary studies to the workings of language choices in places where people with many different backgrounds meet and exchange ideas. It specifically addresses how people handle language use challenges in a broad range of settings to present themselves positively and meet their information and identity goals. While a speaker's experience runs like a thread through this volume, the linguistic, cultural and situational focus is as broad as possible. It runs from the language choices of Chinese immigrants to Beijing and Finnish immigrants to Japan to the use of the local lingua franca by motor taxi drivers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, and how Hungarian students in their dorm rooms express views on political correctness uninhibitedly. As it turns out, language play, improvisation, humour, lies, as well as highly marked subconscious pronunciation choices, are natural parts of the discourses, and this volume provides numerous and extensive examples of these techniques. For each of the settings discussed, the perspective is taken of personalised linguistic and extra-linguistic styles in tackling communicative challenges. This way, a picture is drawn of how postmodern individuals in extremely different cultural and situational circumstances turn out to have strikingly similar human behaviours and intentions. Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City is of interest to all those who follow theoretical and methodological developments in this field. It will be of use for upper level students in the fields of Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Linguistic Anthropology and related fields in which urban communicative settings are the focus.