Phoenix Cities

Author : Anne Power,J¿¶rg Pl¿¶ger,Astrid Winkler,Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781847426833

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Phoenix Cities by Anne Power,J¿¶rg Pl¿¶ger,Astrid Winkler,Joseph Rowntree Foundation Pdf

'Weak market cities' across European and America, or 'core cities' as they were in their heyday, went from being 'industrial giants' dominating their national, and eventually the global, economy, to being 'devastation zones'. In a single generation three quarters of all manufacturing jobs disappeared, leaving dislocated, impoverished communities, run down city centres and a massive population exodus.So how did Europeans react? And how different was their response from America's? This book looks closely at the recovery trajectories of seven European cities from very different regions of the EU. Their dramatic decline, intense recovery efforts and actual progress on the ground underline the significance of public underpinning in times of crisis. Innovative enterprises, new-style city leadership, special neighbourhood programmes and skills development are all explored. The American experience, where cities were largely left 'to their own devices', produced a slower, more uncertain recovery trajectory. This book will provide much that is original and promising to all those wanting to understand the ground-level realities of urban change and progress.

Author : Michael F. Logan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971108

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Desert Cities by Michael F. Logan Pdf

Examines the natural and economic resource competition between Phoenix and Tucson and the other factors contributing to the divergent growth of the two cities.

Author : Nicolas A. Valcik,Todd A. Jordan,Teodoro J. Benavides,Andrea D. Stigdon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351589758

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City Planning for the Public Manager by Nicolas A. Valcik,Todd A. Jordan,Teodoro J. Benavides,Andrea D. Stigdon Pdf

Why should public administrators care about city planning? Is city planning not a field ruled by architects and public works personnel? Much of city planning in fact requires expertise in areas other than buildings and infrastructure, and with city planning expertise, urban administrators are empowered to make more informed decisions on matters that involve budgeting, economic development, tax revenues, public relations, and ordinances and policies that will benefit the community. City Planning for the Public Manager is designed to fill a gap in the urban administration literature, offering students and practitioners hands-on, practical advice from experts with diverse city administration experience, and demonstrating where theory and practice intersect. Divided into three sections, the book provides an overview of the life cycle of a municipality and its services, explores city planning applications for planners on a strict budget, and walks the reader through a real-life planning research project, demonstrating how it was formulated, implemented, and analyzed to produce usable results. Topics explored include justifications for specific city services, internal and external benchmarking used for city planning, common technical tools (e.g., GIS), legal aspects of planning and zoning, environmental concerns, transportation, residential planning, business district planning, and infrastructure. City Planning for the Public Manager is required reading for students of urban administration and practicing city administrators interested in improving their careers and their communities.

Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226535418

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Cities in the Urban Age by Robert A. Beauregard Pdf

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic—it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn’t necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.

Author : Robert Brinkmann,Sandra J. Garren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319713892

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The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability by Robert Brinkmann,Sandra J. Garren Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of sustainability through a diverse range of case studies spanning across varied fields and areas of expertise. It provides a clear indication as to the contemporary state of sustainability in a time faced by issues such as global climate change, challenges of environmental justice, economic globalization and environmental contamination. The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability explores three broad themes: Environmental Sustainability, Social Sustainability and Economic Sustainability. The authors critically explore these themes and provide insight into their linkages with one another to demonstrate the substantial efforts currently underway to address the sustainability of our planet. This handbook is an important contribution to the best practises on sustainability, drawn from many different examples across the fields of engineering, geology, anthropology, sociology, biology, chemistry and religion.

Author : Sean Benesh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621893257

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Metrospiritual by Sean Benesh Pdf

Metrospiritual: The Geography of Church Planting is about church planting in the city. There is an outpouring of new expressions of church being started throughout metro areas across North America. Where are these new churches being started? Maybe a more subterranean question is, "Why"? Why are churches being started where they are and why is there is a bias towards one part of the city and an overall neglect of other parts? Metrospiritual explores these questions and more as it builds off of recent research and surveys of hundreds of church planters in seven large cities in the United States and Canada. There is a deeper look at pivotal issues such as gentrification, the Creative Class, community transformation, urban renewal, and the role new churches play in all of these.

Author : Peggy Saari,Diane L. Dupuis
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021998540

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Cities of the United States by Peggy Saari,Diane L. Dupuis Pdf

Author : Craig R. Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231144458

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Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems by Craig R. Allen Pdf

Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape structure, ecologists began to explore the theoretical and applied consequences of discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems. Are ecosystems and their components continuously distributed and do they adhere to scaling laws, or are they discontinuous and more complex than early models would have us believe? The resulting propositions over the structure of complex systems sparked an ongoing debate regarding the mechanisms generating discontinuities and the statistical methods used for their detection. This volume takes the view that ecosystems and other complex systems are inherently discontinuous and that such fields as ecology, economics, and urban studies greatly benefit from this paradigm shift. Contributors present evidence of the ubiquity of discontinuous distributions in ecological and social systems and how their analysis provides insight into complex phenomena. The book is divided into three sections. The first focuses on background material and contrasting views concerning the discontinuous organization of complex systems. The second discusses discontinuous patterns detected in a number of different systems and methods for detecting them, and the third touches on the potential significance of discontinuities in complex systems. Science is still dominated by a focus on power laws, but the contributors to this volume are convinced power laws often mask the interesting dynamics of systems and that those dynamics are best revealed by investigating deviations from assumed power law distributions. In 2008, a grand conference on resilience was held in Stockholm, hosting 600 participants from around the world. There are now three big centers established with resilience, the most recent one being the Stockholm Resilience Center, with others in Australia (an international coral reef center), Arizona State University's new sustainability center focusing on anthropology, and Canada's emerging social sciences and resilience center. Activity continues to flourish in Alaska, South Africa, and the Untied Kingdom, and a new center is forming in Uruguay.

Author : Shireen Jahn Kassim,Noor Hanita Abdul Majid,Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811916373

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Eco-Urbanism and the South East Asian City by Shireen Jahn Kassim,Noor Hanita Abdul Majid,Dzulkifli Abdul Razak Pdf

This book traces the history of urban design in tropical South East Asia with a view to offering solutions to contemporary architectural and urban problems. The book examines how pre-colonial forms and patterns from South East Asian traditional cities, overlaid by centuries of change, recall present notions of ecological and organic urbanism. These may look disorganised, yet they reflect and suggest certain common patterns that inform eco-urban design paradigms for the development of future cities. Taking a thematic approach, the book examines how such historical findings, debates and discussions can assist designers and policy makers to interpret and then instil identities in urban design across the Asian region. The book weaves a discourse across planning, urban design, architecture and ornamentation dimensions to reconstruct forgotten forms that align with the climate of place and resynchronise with the natural world, unearthing an ecologically benign urbanism that can inform the future. Written in an accessible style, this book will be an invaluable reference for researchers and students within the fields of cultural geography, urban studies and architecture.

Author : Deirdre A. Gaquin,Mary Meghan Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1411 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781636710013

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County and City Extra 2021 by Deirdre A. Gaquin,Mary Meghan Ryan Pdf

When you want only one source of information about your city or county, turn to County and City Extra. This trusted reference compiles information from many sources to provide all the key demographic and economic data for every state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district, and for all cities in the United States with a 2010 population of 25,000 or more. In one volume, you can conveniently find data from 1990 to 2020 in easy-to-read tables. The annual updating of County and City Extra for 29 years ensures its stature as a reliable and authoritative source for information. No other resource compiles this amount of detailed information into one place. Subjects covered in County and City Extra include: Population by age and race Government finances Income and poverty Manufacturing, trade, and services Crime Housing Education Immigration and migration Labor force and employment Agriculture, land, and water Residential construction Health resources Voting and elections The main body of this volume contains five basic parts and covers the following areas: Part A-States Part B-Counties Part C-Metropolitan areas Part D-Cities with a 2010 census population of 25,000 or more Part E-Congressional districts In addition, this publication includes: Figures and text in each section that highlight pertinent data and provide analysis Ranking tables which present each geography type by various subjects including population, land area, population density, educational attainment, housing values, race, unemployment, and crime Multiple color maps of the United States on various topics including median household income, poverty, voting, and race Furthermore, this volume contains several appendixes which include: Notes and explanations for further reference Definitions of geographic concepts A listing of metropolitan and micropolitan areas and their component counties A list of cities by county Maps showing congressional districts, counties, and selected places within each state

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1684 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D035465539

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General Revenue Sharing by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015000225428

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Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders by United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders Pdf

Author : Czeslaw Tubilewicz,Natalie Omond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000388671

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The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China by Czeslaw Tubilewicz,Natalie Omond Pdf

This book examines US subnational engagement in foreign relations, or paradiplomacy, with China and Taiwan from 1949 to 2020. As an alternative diplomatic history of the United States’ relations with divided China, it offers an in-depth chronological and thematic discussion of state and local communities’ responses to the China-Taiwan sovereignty conflict and their impact on US diplomacy. The book explains why paradiplomacy matters not only in the ‘low politics’ of economic and cultural cooperation, but also in the ‘high politics’ of diplomatic recognition. Presenting case studies of US states and cities developing policies towards divided China that paralleled, clashed or aligned with those pursued by federal agencies, it also identifies Chinese and Taiwanese objectives and strategies deployed when competing for US subnational ties. Conceptually, the book builds upon Constructivism, redefining paradiplomacy as an institutional fact, reflective of subnational identities and interests, rather than as a subnational pursuit of foreign markets, driven by objective economic forces. Featuring new empirical evidence and a novel conceptual framework for paradiplomacy, The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China will be a useful resource for students and scholars of US foreign policy, the politics of China and Taiwan, paradiplomacy and international relations.

Author : Qihao Weng
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466564503

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Global Urban Monitoring and Assessment through Earth Observation by Qihao Weng Pdf

Cities and towns are the original producers of many of the global environmental problems related to waste disposal, and air and water pollution. There is a rapidly growing need for technologies that will enable monitoring of the world's natural resources and urban assets, and managing exposure to natural and man-made risks. The Group on Earth Obser

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89113676845

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1970 Census of Population: National origin and language by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf