Planning And The Human Condition

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595226528

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Planning and the Human Condition by Anonim Pdf

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300252989

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Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Pdf

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Author : Wendy Steele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317422082

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Planning Wild Cities by Wendy Steele Pdf

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now have serious doubts about the prospects for humanity to live within cities that are socially just and responsive to planetary limits. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? This book argues it is. Drawing on international literature and Australian case examples, this book explores issues around climate change, colonization, urban (in)security and the rights to the city for both humans and nature. It is within this context that this book focuses on the urgent need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed, and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our ‘wild’ city futures.

Author : Douglas Obey
Publisher : BHC Press/Amber Horn
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Money and the Human Condition by Douglas Obey Pdf

Make your money work for you… With so much at stake—family security, financial growth and retirement—it is concerning that most people have little to no understanding of financial matters, investments or how the economy works. Master the art of making money work for you instead of continuing to work so hard for it.

Author : Jennifer Summit,Blakey Vermeule
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226032375

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Action Versus Contemplation by Jennifer Summit,Blakey Vermeule Pdf

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman, in 1856: “Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.” It is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? To do or to think? To make an impact, or to understand the world more deeply? Aristotle argued for contemplation as the highest state of human flourishing. But it was through action that his student Alexander the Great conquered the known world. Which should we aim at? Centuries later, this argument underlies a surprising number of the questions we face in contemporary life. Should students study the humanities, or train for a job? Should adults work for money or for meaning? And in tumultuous times, should any of us sit on the sidelines, pondering great books, or throw ourselves into protests and petition drives? With Action versus Contemplation, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address the question in a refreshingly unexpected way: by refusing to take sides. Rather, they argue for a rethinking of the very opposition. The active and the contemplative can—and should—be vibrantly alive in each of us, fused rather than sundered. Writing in a personable, accessible style, Summit and Vermeule guide readers through the long history of this debate from Plato to Pixar, drawing compelling connections to the questions and problems of today. Rather than playing one against the other, they argue, we can discover how the two can nourish, invigorate, and give meaning to each other, as they have for the many writers, artists, and thinkers, past and present, whose examples give the book its rich, lively texture of interplay and reference. This is not a self-help book. It won’t give you instructions on how to live your life. Instead, it will do something better: it will remind you of the richness of a life that embraces action and contemplation, company and solitude, living in the moment and planning for the future. Which is better? Readers of this book will discover the answer: both.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429513589

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Airplanes, the Environment, and the Human Condition by Hans A. Baer Pdf

The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change. This book examines the aviation industry from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the sector’s environmental impact and the challenges facing attempts to shift to more sustainable solutions. Hans Baer outlines how airplanes have become a key component of modern cultural and social life, and how the world system has become increasingly dependent on them to function. He critically examines current efforts to mitigate the climatic impact of the air travel and argues for a significant move away from air transport, suggesting that such a shift may only be achieved through a more fundamental change in the world system.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402063022

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Education in Human Creative Existential Planning by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Education is the transmission of knowledge and skill from one generation to another, and is vitally significant for the growth and unfolding of the living individual. It manifests the quintessential ability of the logos to differentiate life in self-individualization from within, and in its spread through inter-generative networks. The present collection of papers focuses on the underpinnings of the creative workings of the human strategies of reason.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781793604897

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Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition by Hans A. Baer Pdf

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.

Author : Brendan Gleeson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136678486

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The Urban Condition by Brendan Gleeson Pdf

This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these threats are encountered and countered in the urban age, focusing on the issue of human knowledge and self-awareness, just as Hannah Arendt’s influential The Human Condition did half a century ago. The Human Condition is now The Urban Condition. And it is this condition that will define human prospects in an age of default and risk. Gleeson expertly explores the concept through three main themes. The first is an exploration of what defines the current human condition, especially the expanding cities that are at the heart of an over-consumptive world economic order. The second exposes and reviews the reawakening of forms of knowledge (‘naturalism’) that are likely to worsen not improve our comprehension of the crisis. The new ‘science of urbanism’ in popular new literature exemplifies this dangerous trend. The third and last part of the book considers prospects for a new urban, and therefore human, dispensation, ‘The Good City’. We must first journey in our urban vessels through troubled times. But can we now start to plot the way to new shores, to a safer, more resilient city that provides for human flourishing? The Urban Condition attempts this ideal, conceiving a new urbanism based on the old idea of self-limitation. The Urban Condition is an original, timely book that reconsiders and redeploys Arendt’s famous notion of The Human Condition in an age of cities and risk. It brings together several important strands of human consideration, urbanisation, climate threat, resource depletion, economic default and critical knowledge and weaves them into a new analysis of the times. It also looks to a future that is nearly with us—of changed climate, resource scarcity and economic stress. The book journeys into these troubled times, proposing the idea of Lifeboat Cities as a way of thinking about the human journey to come

Author : Melville C. Branch
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780275938260

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Planning and Human Survival by Melville C. Branch Pdf

Continuing a life-long study, this latest work by Melville Branch describes planning as an essential element in all human activity, a principal determinant of the current condition as well as the future of society and the survival of the species. He explains planning as a primary force in the development, prospects, and continuation of human society. He defines the crucial role of the mass media in the types and success of planning. In clear, nontechnical language, Branch investigates the primary problems confronting human society; individual characteristics and societal features that affect planning, the types and applications of planning, advanced planning education and knowledge, and the societal situation and planning. This book treats planning from a broader, more fundamental perspective than other studies in the field: as a process inherent in human activities, critical to societal success, and a distinct intellectual discipline and managerial method. It will primarily be of interest to planners in civil government, business, and the military. And to those who are active and concerned with the role of the mass media--particularly television--in our future.

Author : Norman Walzer,Rhonda Phillips,Robert Blair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000208733

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50 Years of Community Development Vol II by Norman Walzer,Rhonda Phillips,Robert Blair Pdf

This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development. The evolution of community development as an area of scholarship and application, and the subsequent founding of the discipline, is vital to capture. At the 50-year mark, it is particularly relevant to revisit issues that reoccur throughout the last five decades and look at approaches to addressing them. These include issues and themes around equity and inclusion, collective impact, leadership and policy development, as well as resilience and sustainability. Community change over time has much to teach us, and this set will provide a foundation for fostering understanding of the history of community development and its focus on community change. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Community Development.

Author : Sven R. Larson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030656430

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Democracy or Socialism by Sven R. Larson Pdf

This book discusses socialism and democracy. It approaches socialism not as a label but as an ideology. Based on a careful examination of what socialism is, traced back to Karl Marx, this book explains the tense relationship between socialism and democracy and how it has influenced political thought and practice in both Europe and America. This book carefully avoids conventional wisdom, seeking instead to originate its definition and analysis of socialism in its political theory and practice. Building on the relationship between socialism and democracy, the book explores how this uneasy roommate agreement may affect America’s future.

Author : Ellis, Hugh,Henderson, Kate
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447330349

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English Planning in Crisis by Ellis, Hugh,Henderson, Kate Pdf

Good town and city planning is essential to the future of our society, and to the quality of life we look for today. Yet in the wake of recent government reforms and widespread deregulation, argue Hugh Ellis and Kate Henderson, the English planning system is in crisis. This book details the extent and significance of that crisis as well as makes a clear, straightforward case for why planning is essential. From there, they offer ten evidence-based steps to rebuild the planning system in England, built on policy examples from around the United Kingdom and throughout the world.

Author : John Kekes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199588886

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The Human Condition by John Kekes Pdf

"Chapter I was published as "The Human World" in Ratio 22 (2009): I37-56. Chapter 5 is a substantial revision of Chapter 6 in Enjoyment: The Moral Significance of Styles of Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008). Chapter 7 includes parts of Chapter 13 in The Roots of Evil (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005)"--Acknowledgements.

Author : Hector J. Ritey
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0876687311

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The Human Kingdom by Hector J. Ritey Pdf

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