Power Community And The City

Author : Floyd Hunter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469616940

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Community Power Structure by Floyd Hunter Pdf

In this study of busy, complex Regional City -- and it is a real city -- the author has analyzed the power structure from top to bottom. He has searched out the men of power and, under fictitious names, has described them as they initiate policies in their offices, their homes, their clubs. They form a small, stable group at the top of the social structure. Their decision-making activities are not known to the public, but they are responsible for whatever is done, or not done, in their community. Beneath this top policy group is a clearly marked social stratification, through which decisions sift down to the substructures chosen to put them into effect. The dynamic relations within the power structure are made clear in charts, but the real interest lies in the author's report of what people themselves say. The African American community is also studied, with its own power structure and its own complicated relations with the large community. The method of study is fully described in an Appendix. The book should be of particular value to sociologists, political scientists, city-planning executives, Community Council members, social workers, teachers, and research workers in related fields. As a vigorous and readable presentation of facts, it should appeal to the reader who would like to know how his/her own community is run. Community Power Structure is not an expose. It is a description and discussion of a social phenomenon as it occured. It is based on sound field research, including personal observation and interviews by the author.

Author : Michael P. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887387349

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Power, Community and the City by Michael P. Smith Pdf

Author : Eugene B. Rumer,Dmitriĭ Trenin,Huasheng Zhao
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0765624648

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Community Power in a Postreform City by Eugene B. Rumer,Dmitriĭ Trenin,Huasheng Zhao Pdf

The eminent contributors to this volume offer a four-part analysis of Central Asia's new importance in world affairs since the distingration of the Soviet Union.

Author : Robert F. Pecorella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315485638

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Community Power in a Postreform City by Robert F. Pecorella Pdf

This book represents the culmination of several years of research on community politics in New York City.

Author : Tom Borrup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000245080

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The Power of Culture in City Planning by Tom Borrup Pdf

The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners’ "base maps" to start with a richer understanding of human cultures. Borrup argues for cultural master plans in parallel to transportation, housing, parks, and other specialized plans, while also changing the approach of city comprehensive planning to put people or "users" first rather than land "uses" as does the dominant practice. Cultural plans as currently conceived are not sufficient to help cities keep pace with dizzying impacts of globalization, immigration, and rapidly changing cultural interests. Cultural planners need to up their game, and enriching their own and city planners’ cultural competencies is only one step. Both planning practices have much to learn from one another and already overlap in more ways than most recognize. This book highlights some of the strengths of the lesser-known practice of cultural planning to help forge greater understanding and collaboration between the two practices, empowering city planners with new tools to bring about more equitable communities. This will be an important resource for students, teachers, and practitioners of city and cultural planning, as well as municipal policymakers of all stripes.

Author : Steve Herbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226327358

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Citizens, Cops, and Power by Steve Herbert Pdf

Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but in Citizens, Cops, and Power, Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, he shows that residents’ pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. Surprising and provocative, Citizens, Cops, and Power provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well.

Author : Meredith Glaser
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789059727144

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The City at Eye Level by Meredith Glaser Pdf

Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These "plinths" are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by over two hundred beautiful color images and engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.

Author : Meade, Rosie,Shaw, Mae
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447317401

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Politics, power and community development by Meade, Rosie,Shaw, Mae Pdf

The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and the power relations it reflects and projects, is shaping the field today. This first title in the timely Rethinking Community Development series presents unique and critical reflections on policy and practice in Taiwan, Australia, India, South Africa, Burundi, Germany, the USA, Ireland, Malawi, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia and the UK. It addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism, and the extent to which practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence. Addressing key dilemmas and challenges being navigated by students, academics, professionals and activists, this is a vital intellectual and practical resource.

Author : Kevin R. Cox
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015007222618

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Conflict, Power, and Politics in the City by Kevin R. Cox Pdf

Author : Richard Schragger,Richard C. Schragger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780190246662

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City Power by Richard Schragger,Richard C. Schragger Pdf

"Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues like income equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so"--

Author : Shalanda Baker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642830675

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Revolutionary Power by Shalanda Baker Pdf

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.

Author : James Bertram Haugh,Barbara Trump Nudelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0819110612

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Power and Influence in a Southern City by James Bertram Haugh,Barbara Trump Nudelman Pdf

Author : Li Zhang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804779340

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Strangers in the City by Li Zhang Pdf

With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control. This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government’s household registration system. The author explores this important social change through a detailed ethnographic account of the construction, destruction, and eventual reconstruction of the largest migrant community in Beijing. She focuses on the informal privatization of space and power in this community through analyzing the ways migrant leaders build their power base by controlling housing and market spaces and mobilizing social networks. The author argues that to gain a deeper understanding of recent Chinese social and political transformations, one must examine not only to what extent state power still dominates everyday social life, but also how the aims and methods of late socialist governance change under new social and economic conditions. In revealing the complexities and uncertainties of the shifting power and social relations in post-Mao China, this book challenges the common notion that sees recent changes as an inevitable move toward liberal capitalism and democracy.

Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642831337

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The Affordable City by Shane Phillips Pdf

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

Author : Alison Hope Alkon,Yuki Kato,Joshua Sbicca
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479834433

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A Recipe for Gentrification by Alison Hope Alkon,Yuki Kato,Joshua Sbicca Pdf

How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe for Gentrification explores this widespread phenomenon, showing the ways in which food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined. Contributors provide an inside look at gentrification in different cities, from major hubs like New York and Los Angeles to smaller cities like Cleveland and Durham. They examine a wide range of food enterprises—including grocery stores, restaurants, community gardens, and farmers’ markets—to provide up-to-date perspectives on why gentrification takes place, and how communities use food to push back against displacement. Ultimately, they unpack the consequences for vulnerable people and neighborhoods. A Recipe for Gentrification highlights how the everyday practices of growing, purchasing and eating food reflect the rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century.