Remaking The Urban Social Contract

Author : Michael A. Pagano
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252099137

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Remaking the Urban Social Contract by Michael A. Pagano Pdf

This new volume draws from provocative discussions on the urban social contract among policy makers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2015 UIC Urban Forum. Michael A. Pagano presents papers that emphasize political agreements, disagreements, challenges, and controversies on health, energy, and environmental policies. Authors explore the substantive and philosophical changes in the urban social contract and offer proposals for remaking it in the new century. Topics range from big-picture analyses to specifics covering areas like public services, the smart cities movement, and greening strategies. Contributors: Alba Alexander, Megan Houston, Dennis R. Judd, Cynthia Klein-Banai, William C. Kling, Howard A. Learner, David A. McDonald, David C. Perry, Emily Stiehl, Anthony Townsend, Natalia Villamizar-Duarte, and Moira Zellner.

Author : Alfers, Laura,Chen, Martha,Plagerson, Sophie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839108068

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Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South by Alfers, Laura,Chen, Martha,Plagerson, Sophie Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline. Illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust, Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations characterised by recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity.

Author : Leila Patel,Sophie Plagerson,Isaac Chinyoka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800378421

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Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South by Leila Patel,Sophie Plagerson,Isaac Chinyoka Pdf

This cutting-edge Handbook argues for social protection to be situated in a wider system of social welfare and development programmes for low- and middle-income countries. Focusing on the role of citizens and communities in enhancing human development, it explores how welfare systems are unfolding in diverse contexts across the global South.

Author : Bank, Leslie,Cloete, Nico
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331759

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Anchored in Place by Bank, Leslie,Cloete, Nico Pdf

Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contribution of the university to place-based development. This volume is the first in South Africa to engage seriously with the place-based developmental role of universities. In the international literature and policy there has been an increasing integration of the university with place-based development, especially in cities. This volume weighs in on the debate by drawing attention to the place-based roles and agency of South African universities in their local towns and cities. It acknowledges that universities were given specific development roles in regions, homelands and towns under apartheid, and comments on why sub-national, place-based development has not been a key theme in post-apartheid, higher education planning. Given the developmental crisis in the country, universities could be expected to play a more constructive and meaningful role in the development of their own precincts, cities and regions. But what should that role be? Is there evidence that this is already occurring in South Africa, despite the lack of a national policy framework? What plans and programmes are in place, and what is needed to expand the development agency of universities at the local level? Who and what might be involved? Where should the focus lie, and who might benefit most, and why? Is there a need perhaps to approach the challenges of college towns, secondary cities and metropolitan centers differently? This book poses some of these questions as it considers the experiences of a number of South African universities, including Wits, Pretoria, Nelson Mandela University and especially Fort Hare as one of its post-centenary challenges.

Author : Markus D. Dubber,Frank Pasquale,Sunit Das
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190067403

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The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI by Markus D. Dubber,Frank Pasquale,Sunit Das Pdf

This volume tackles a quickly-evolving field of inquiry, mapping the existing discourse as part of a general attempt to place current developments in historical context; at the same time, breaking new ground in taking on novel subjects and pursuing fresh approaches. The term "A.I." is used to refer to a broad range of phenomena, from machine learning and data mining to artificial general intelligence. The recent advent of more sophisticated AI systems, which function with partial or full autonomy and are capable of tasks which require learning and 'intelligence', presents difficult ethical questions, and has drawn concerns from many quarters about individual and societal welfare, democratic decision-making, moral agency, and the prevention of harm. This work ranges from explorations of normative constraints on specific applications of machine learning algorithms today-in everyday medical practice, for instance-to reflections on the (potential) status of AI as a form of consciousness with attendant rights and duties and, more generally still, on the conceptual terms and frameworks necessarily to understand tasks requiring intelligence, whether "human" or "A.I."

Author : Michael A. Pagano
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252050152

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Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow by Michael A. Pagano Pdf

The new volume in the Urban Agenda series addresses the challenges shaping the development of human capital in metropolitan regions. The articles, products of the 2016 Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, engage with the overarching idea that a dynamic metropolitan economy needs a diverse, trained, and available workforce that can adapt to the needs of commerce, industry, government, and the service sector. Authors explore provocative issues like the jobless recovery, migration and immigration, K-12 education preparedness, the urban-oriented gig economy, postsecondary workforce training, and the recruitment and professional development of millennials. Contributors: Xochitl Bada, John Bragelman, Laura Dresser, Rudy Faust, Beth Gutelius, Brad Harrington, Gregory V. Larnell, Twyla T. Blackmond Larnell, and Nik Theodore.

Author : Michael A. Pagano
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252052446

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Are We There Yet? by Michael A. Pagano Pdf

Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology represents a possible paradigm shift in our way of life. But complex challenges and obstacles impose a reality at odds with the utopian visions propounded by AV enthusiasts in the private and public sectors. The new volume in the Urban Agenda series examines the technological questions still surrounding autonomous vehicles and the uncertain societal and legislative impact of widespread AV adoption. Assessing both short- and long-term concerns, the authors probe how autonomous vehicles might change transportation but also land use, energy consumption, mass transit, commuter habits, traffic safety, job markets, the freight industry, and supply chains. At the same time, the essays discuss opportunities for industry, researchers, and policymakers to make the autonomous future safer, more efficient, and more mobile. Contributors: Austin Brown, Stan Caldwell, Chris Hendrickson, Kazuya Kawamura, Taylor Long, and P. S. Srira.

Author : Gert de Roo,Claudia Yamu,Christian Zuidema
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786439185

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Handbook on Planning and Complexity by Gert de Roo,Claudia Yamu,Christian Zuidema Pdf

This Handbook shows the enormous impetus given to the scientific debate by linking planning as a science of purposeful interventions and complexity as a science of spontaneous change and non-linear development. Emphasising the importance of merging planning and complexity, this comprehensive Handbook also clarifies key concepts and theories, presents examples on planning and complexity and proposes new ideas and methods which emerge from synthesising the discipline of spatial planning with complexity sciences.

Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351493598

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Remaking Urban Citizenship by Andrew M. Greeley Pdf

Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement. The disjuncture between citizenship and daily life has led to devolution of claims from national to urban space. Within nation-states characterized by structured inequalities, citizens have not reduced their social differences. This leads increasingly to calls for greater direct involvement of marginalized classes in reshaping the institutions and spaces directly affecting their lives.These concerns—cities without citizenship and people without political power—inform the agendas of organizations that seek to restructure urban citizenship in more democratic directions. Remaking Urban Citizenship focuses on the uses and limits of such political organizations and coalitions, shows the various ways they pursue expanded rights within the city, and describes the institutional changes necessary to empower global migrants and popular classes as urban citizens.Offering individual or comparative case studies of cities in the United States, Europe, and China, contributions to this volume describe the development of actual practices of organizations working to reinvigorate citizenship at the urban scale. Collectively, they locate institutional forms that help migrants lay claim to their cities, show how migrants can become politically empowered, and identify how they can expand their rights or find other ways to belong.

Author : Michael Peter Smith,Michael MacQuarrie
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412846189

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Remaking Urban Citizenship by Michael Peter Smith,Michael MacQuarrie Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Duncan McLaren,Julian Agyeman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262329712

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Sharing Cities by Duncan McLaren,Julian Agyeman Pdf

How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability. The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. In Sharing Cities, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue that the intersection of cities' highly networked physical space with new digital technologies and new mediated forms of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart technology to justice, solidarity, and sustainability. McLaren and Agyeman explore the opportunities and risks for sustainability, solidarity, and justice in the changing nature of sharing. McLaren and Agyeman propose a new “sharing paradigm,” which goes beyond the faddish “sharing economy”—seen in such ventures as Uber and TaskRabbit—to envision models of sharing that are not always commercial but also communal, encouraging trust and collaboration. Detailed case studies of San Francisco, Seoul, Copenhagen, Medellín, Amsterdam, and Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) contextualize the authors' discussions of collaborative consumption and production; the shared public realm, both physical and virtual; the design of sharing to enhance equity and justice; and the prospects for scaling up the sharing paradigm though city governance. They show how sharing could shift values and norms, enable civic engagement and political activism, and rebuild a shared urban commons. Their case for sharing and solidarity offers a powerful alternative for urban futures to conventional “race-to-the-bottom” narratives of competition, enclosure, and division.

Author : David Boucher,Paul Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134839681

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The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls by David Boucher,Paul Kelly Pdf

First published in 2004. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT? The concept of a social contract has been central to political thought since the seventeenth century. Contract theory has been used to justify political authority, to account for the origins of the state, and to provide foundations for moral values and the creation of a just society. In The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls, leading scholars from Britain and America survey the history of contractarian thought and the major debates in political theory which surround the notion of the social contract. The book examines the critical reception to the ideas of thinkers including Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, and includes the more contemporary ideas of John Rawls and David Gauthier. It also incorporates discussions of international relations theory and feminist responses to contractarianism. Together, the essays provide a comprehensive introduction to theories and critiques of the social contract within a broad political theoretical framework.

Author : J.R. Blau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585281872

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Social Contracts and Economic Markets by J.R. Blau Pdf

The thesis of this book is that people enter into social contracts because they are different from one another and have incentives to cooperate. In economic life, people have identical interests—namely, their own se- interests—so they have an incentive to compete. The social worlds that we create, or map, and those that are already mapped for us are increasingly complex, and thus the tracking of rationality is not so straightforward, although it is everywhere evident. In a sense, this book grew out of two questions: Why hasn't the United States had a second revolution? Or is the revolution yet to come? Many have discussed the current crises that confront contemporary society, such as great economic inequalities, poverty, the declining quality of jobs, the growing power of corporate elites, and racial antago nisms. I attempt to understand these problems in terms of the radical restructuring of social life by economic and spatial forces. My specula tive thesis is that social organizations must reinforce social contracts and nurture the opportunities for them to be forged. However, contemporary organizations, particularly economic ones, have internalized the princi ples of economic markets, thereby inducing competition and easing out cooperation. In defining social contracts, I draw from Rousseau and also from Marx and his analysis of use value. One hopes that new organiza tional forms based on principles of democracy and community will evolve. In a diverse, multicultural society, this requires great mutual understanding and cooperation and the recognition of differences.

Author : Barbara Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015015461778

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Remaking Cities by Barbara Davis Pdf

Author : Joseph Wilson,Manning Marable,Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742546918

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Race and Labor Matters in the New U.S. Economy by Joseph Wilson,Manning Marable,Immanuel Ness Pdf

In this powerful new work, Marable, Ness, and Wilson maintain that contrary to the popular hubris about equality, race is entrenched and more divisive than any time since the Civil Rights Movement. Race and Labor in the United States asserts that all advances in American race relations have only evolved through conflict and collective struggle. The foundation of the class divide in the United States remains, while racial and ethnic segregation, privilege, and domination, and the institution of neoliberalism have become a detriment to all workers.