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Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCSC:32106015341404
Author : Roger Friedland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Sociology, Urban
ISBN : WISC:89010884880
Author : Kian Tajbakhsh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520222786
This volume proposes a theoretical grounding for the study of cities and the people who live and work in them. Using a threefold, interdisciplinary approach to urban identities which links agency, space, and structure, the book examines the work of three major urban theorists.
Author : G. William Domhoff,Michael J. Webber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804779029
Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three major initiatives and explores why there were no viable alternatives put forward by the opposition. More generally, this book analyzes the seeming paradox of policy support and political opposition. The authors seek to demonstrate the superiority of class dominance theory over other perspectives—historical institutionalism, Marxism, and protest-disruption theory—in explaining the origins and development of these three policy initiatives. Domhoff and Webber draw on extensive new archival research to develop a fresh interpretation of this seminal period of American government and social policy development.
Author : Kevin R. Cox
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015007222618
Author : Irene S. Rubin
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483301709
Offering case studies of financial management in numerous American cities over a period of enormous growth and change, Irene Rubin explores the historical context of municipal budgeting in the United States and the political environment that conditions reform and problem solving at the local level.
Author : David F. Marley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576075746
With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities. Written by award-winning author David F. Marley, Historic Cities of the Americas covers the hard-to-find information of these cities' earliest years, including the unique aspects of each region's economy and demography, such as the growth of local mining, trade, or industry. The chronological layout, aided by the numerous maps and photographs, reveals the exceptional changes, relocations, destruction, and transformations these cities endured to become the metropolises they are today. Historic Cities of the Americas provides over 70 extensively detailed entries covering the foundation and evolution of the most significant urban areas in the western hemisphere. Critically researched, this work offers a rare look into the times prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and explores the common difficulties overcome by these European-conquered or -founded cities as they flourished into some of the most influential locations in the world.
Author : United States. Federal Power Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electric utilities
ISBN : OSU:32435068463462
Author : G÷ran Therborn
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784785451
Why are cities centers of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world’s major capital cities, showing how they have been shaped by national, popular, and global forces. Their stories begin with the emergence of various kinds of nation-state, each with its own special capital city problematic. In turn, radical shifts of power have impacted on these cities’ development, in popular urban reforms or movements of protest and resistance; in the rise and fall of fascism and military dictatorships; and the coming and going of Communism. Therborn also analyzes global moments of urban formation, of historical globalized nationalism, as well as the cities of current global image capitalism and their variations of skyscraping, gating, and displays of novelty. Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutations of modernist architecture to the contemporary return of urban revolutions, Therborn questions received assumptions about the source, manifestations, and reach of urban power, combining perspectives on politics, sociology, urban planning, architecture, and urban iconography. He argues that, at a time when they seem to be moving apart, there is a strong link between the city and the nation-state, and that the current globalization of cities is largely driven by the global aspirations of politicians as well as those of national and local capital. With its unique systematic overview, from Washington, D.C. and revolutionary Paris to the flamboyant twenty- first-century capital Astana in Kazakhstan, its wealth of urban observations from all the populated continents, and its sharp and multi-faceted analyses, Cities of Power forces us to rethink our urban future, as well as our historically shaped present.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103150991
Author : Ahteshamul Haque,Akhtar Kalam,Himanshu Sharma
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781003844730
This book discusses the integration of power electronics, renewable energy, and the Internet of Things (IoT) from the perspective of smart cities in a single volume. The text will be helpful for senior undergraduate, graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering fields including electrical, electronics and communication, and computers. The book: Covers the integration of power electronics, energy harvesting, and the IoT for smart city applications Discusses concepts of power electronics and the IoT in electric vehicles for smart cities Examines the integration of power electronics in renewable energy for smart cities Discusses important concepts of energy harvesting including solar energy harvesting, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers, and switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) Explores IoT connectivity technologies such as long-term evolution (LTE), narrow band NB-IoT, long-range (LoRa), Bluetooth, and ZigBee (IEEE Standard 802.15.4) for low data rate wireless personal communication applications The text provides the knowledge about applications, technologies, and standards of power electronics, renewable energy, and IoT for smart cities. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer engineering, civil engineering, and environmental engineering.
Author : Ralf Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351873079
The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a detailed examination of the relationship between urban elites and the exercise of 'power', bringing together economic, social and cultural history with the political history of power resources and decision-making. The volume challenges common perceptions of a monolithic urban elite by looking at specific case studies. Collectively these essays provide a more sophisticated view of the exercise of urban power as the negotiation of various elite groups defined by their economic, social, political or cultural privilege. To contribute to this complex account of the history of cities, elites, and their influence, the collection applies a range of methodological approaches to studying European and American cities, as well as the wider world.
Author : Marisela B. Gomez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739175002
This book examines the historical and current practices of rebuilding abandoned and disinvested communities in America. Using a community in East Baltimore as an example, Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore shows how the social structure of race and class segregation of the past contributed in the creation of our present day urban poor and low-income communities of color; and continue to affect the way we rebuild these communities today. Specific to East Baltimore is the presence of a powerful and prestigious medical complex which has directly and indirectly affected the abandonment and rebuilding of East Baltimore. While it has grown in power and land over the past 100 years, the neighborhoods around it have decreased in size and capital, widening the gap between the rich and the poor. The author offers a critical analysis of the relationships between powerful private institutions like the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and government and their intention in rebuilding urban communities by asking the question "How do we determine equity in benefit?" Focusing on a current rebuilding project using eminent domain to displace historical African-American communities, and the acquiring of land for private development, this book details the role of community organizing in challenging these types of non-community participatory rebuilding processes, resulting in the gentrification of urban neighborhoods. The detailed analysis of the community organizing process when families are displaced offers similarly affected communities a tool box for challenging current developers and government in unfair rebuilding practices. The context of these practices highlights the current laws and policies that contribute to continued displacement and disadvantage to poor communities without addressing the rhetoric of the intention of government-subsidized private development. This book examines the effect of such non-participatory and non-transparent rebuilding practices on the health of the people and place.
Author : Oliver Schmidtke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351762953
This title was first published in 2002. This multi-faceted account of the transformation of social democracy in Europe provides a unique critical discussion of the normative claims and the key policy initiatives that characterize Third Way politics. Designed to cover a broad range of aspects, this text provides fresh understanding of the transformation of social democratic politics in a globalizing world. Including accounts of the changes in the socio-political environment in which the New Social Democracy operates, the socio-cultural roots of Third Way politics and the underlying political and ideological shift of the contemporary established left, this text offers comparative insights into national case studies and an interpretative framework for the transformation that this political force has undergone in recent years. The reader will benefit from this book’s expert and easily accessible multi-faceted approach to one of the key political issues in contemporary Western societies.
Author : Ohio. Constitutional convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015076448821