The Urban Context

Author : Alisdair Rogers,Stephen Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000323030

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The Urban Context by Alisdair Rogers,Stephen Vertovec Pdf

Addresses issues of current social and theoretical concern such as urban ethnic conflict, multiculturalism and immigration.How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? The essays in this volume argue that a powerful and related set of methodologies - including comparative research, the ethnography of situations such as dances and parades, and social network analysis - can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender. Written by leading researchers from a number of disciplines, these essays demonstrate a sensitivity to places and contexts ranging from Los Angeles to Queensland. Students of anthropology, geography and urban studies will find this book an invaluable guide to the intricacies of urban social life in the late 20th century.

Author : Taco Brandsen,Sandro Cattacin,Adalbert Evers,Annette Zimmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319215518

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Social Innovations in the Urban Context by Taco Brandsen,Sandro Cattacin,Adalbert Evers,Annette Zimmer Pdf

This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has significantly progressed, thanks to an abundance of studies on social innovation both general and sector-specific. However, despite the valuable research conducted over the past years, the systematic analysis of social innovation is still contested and incomplete. The questions asked in the book will be the following: 1. What is the nature of social innovations? 2.What patterns can be identified in social innovations emerging at the local level? 3.How is the emergence and spread of social innovations related to urban governance? More precisely, which conditions and arrangements facilitate and hinders social innovation? We explore these questions using different types of data and methods, and studying different contexts. In particular, we focus on innovations that aim at solving problems of the young unemployed, single parents and migrants. This analysis is based on original research carried out in the period 2010-2013 in the framework of a European project with a specific empirical research strategy. Research was carried out in 20 cities in 10 different European countries.

Author : Leonard J. Duhl,Trevor Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : City planning
ISBN : UCBK:C045914828

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Promoting Health in the Urban Context by Leonard J. Duhl,Trevor Hancock Pdf

Author : Markus Hesse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317038115

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The City as a Terminal by Markus Hesse Pdf

The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike. However, much analysis of freight transportation and the flow of goods into, out of and within urban areas focuses on functional, business-related approaches. This book examines the interrelationship between logistics development on one hand and urban development and geographical issues, such as land use and location, on the other. Avoiding certain one-dimensional views on 'logistics impacts on the city', it discloses the complex interaction of the logistics system with the entire urban environment. It also bridges the gap between recent geographical research into new production systems and (post)modern consumption patterns. Illustrated with case studies from the United States, Germany, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, it examines issues such as: the historical nexus between urban areas and logistics; current urban developments with regards to goods distribution; city-region related characteristics of freight flows; locational dynamics; and specific freight related urban problems and conflicts.

Author : Patsy Healey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034430176

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Managing Cities by Patsy Healey Pdf

This book is about the contemporary city and its management. Relates the analysis of urban and regional change to challenges for urban governance. Explores the socio-spatial consequences of economic, social and political change as these impact on the urban city. It reviews the conceptual and empirical challenges of understanding the future of urban management.

Author : Randy K. Lippert,Stefan Treffers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000335828

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Condominium Governance and Law in Global Urban Context by Randy K. Lippert,Stefan Treffers Pdf

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating. Condominiums are proliferating the world over and transforming the socio-spatial organization of cities and residential life. The collection assembles arguably the most prominent scholars in the world currently working in this broad area and situated in multiple disciplines, including legal and socio-legal studies, political science, public administration, and sociology. Their analyses span condominium governance and law on five continents and in nine countries: the United States (US), China, Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, South Africa, Israel, Denmark, and Spain. Neglected issues and emerging trends related to condominium governance and law in cities from Tel Aviv to Chicago to Melbourne are discerned and analysed. The book pursues fresh empirical inquiries and cogent conceptual engagements regarding how condominiums are governed through law and other means. It includes accounts of a wide range of governance difficulties including chronic anti-social owner behaviour, short-term rentals, and even the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they are being dealt with. By uncovering crucial cross-national commonalities, the book reveals the global urban context of condominium governance and law as empirically rich and conceptually fruitful. The book will appeal to researchers and students in socio-legal studies, law, sociology, political science, urban studies, and public administration as well as journalists, social activists, policymakers, and condo owners/board members.

Author : Patsy Healey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60114639

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Managing Cities by Patsy Healey Pdf

Author : Eberhard H. Zeidler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:994002995

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Multi-use Architecture in the Urban Context by Eberhard H. Zeidler Pdf

Author : Eberhard H. Zeidler
Publisher : New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015008058466

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Architecture Multifonctionnelle : 34 Exemples Internationaux by Eberhard H. Zeidler Pdf

Author : Stanley P. Saunders,Charles L. Campbell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725217416

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The Word on the Street by Stanley P. Saunders,Charles L. Campbell Pdf

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO SEMINARY PROFESSORS LEAVE their classrooms and spend time among the homeless people and teach on city streets? In this unique collection of essays and sermons, Stanley P Saunders and Charles L. Campbell reflect on their encounters with the homeless folks in Atlanta and seek to discern the way of Jesus on the streets of the city. These passionate, often moving writings demonstrate the power of Scripture to shape the way we see the world, and they explore the significance of social location for exegesis, ethics, worship, and preaching. From the perspective of the street, central Christian practices such as baptism, Eucharist, and preaching come to life in new ways. Scripture takes on fresh meaning too, while ancient insights into the principalities and powers, the practice of scapegoating, and the organization of households become contemporary and immediate. Even theological themes--grace and discipleship, sin and forgiveness, crucifixion and resurrection--look different when take to the street. Accented by six powerful artworks from Christina Bray's exhibit Street Prayers/Spiritual Journeys, this book also sheds light on the problem of homelessness in America and calls the church to action. Through their reflection on personal experiences and their interpretation of biblical texts, Saunders and Campbell provide meaningful theological categories for addressing pressing social issues in the urban context, making The Word on the Street a helpful resource on the realities of poverty, race, and injustice.

Author : Seo Ryeung Ju
Publisher : Seoul Selection USA, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1624120997

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Southeast Asian Houses by Seo Ryeung Ju Pdf

The modernization of traditional houses in each country may be understood as a process by which various aspects of culture and architecture originating from China, India, European colonial countries and international style were assimilated into various forms and elements of traditional houses. In contemporary houses recently developed in Southeast Asian cities, influences of more nearby regions such as South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore can easily be found. Even under such multi-cultural influences, Southeast Asian countries sought compromises and maintained each country's unique housing culture, resulting in the differentiation of each country's housing style. This book aims to find out the uniqueness of each Southeast Asian country's modern housing through the understanding of the modern housing typologies of each county produced by the process of modernization. Previous studies of Southeast Asia's urban housing were mostly on political, institutional and economic issues, which can be said to be macro-issues. However, this book focuses on the forms of urban housing, which is rather a micro-issue, compared to previous studies.

Author : Timothy A. Gibson,Mark Douglas Lowes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742540626

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Urban Communication by Timothy A. Gibson,Mark Douglas Lowes Pdf

City leaders now confront a global competition for economic investment, and urban elites are casting about for strategies that promise to secure a share of this future of global economic growth. However, many of these strategies are largely symbolic in nature. City leaders, for example, compete for the Olympics so they can broadcast spectacular urban vistas to global television audiences. Officials pour public funds into tourist amenities to cultivate an image of vitality and renewal. But how are the local politics of urban redevelopment intertwined with the global politics of circulating vital urban images? Urban Communication brings together scholars from communication, cultural studies, and urban sociology to explore the symbolic dimensions of contemporary city-building, drawing on case studies from around the world.

Author : Irwin Altman,Joachim F. Wohlwill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461335399

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Behavior and the Natural Environment by Irwin Altman,Joachim F. Wohlwill Pdf

The theme of the present volume concerns people' s response to the natural environment, considered at scales varying from that of a house hold plant to that of vast wilderness areas. Our decision to focus on this particular segment of the physical environment was prompted in part by the intrinsic interest in this subject on the part of a diverse group of sodal scientists and professionals-and of laypersons, for that matter and in part by the relative neglect of this topic in standard treatments of the environment-behavior field. It also serves to bring out once again the interdisdplinary nature of that field, and we are pleased to have been able to inc1ude representatives from geography, sodology, soda! ecology, and natural recreation among our contributors. We believe that this volume will serve a useful purpose in helping to integrate the find ings and concepts in this presently somewhat fragmented field, scat tered as they are over a very diverse array of publications representing a similarly varied group of spedalties. It is hoped that the result will be to stimulate future development of this area and to add a measure of in creased coherence to it. Volume 7 of our series will be devoted to the theme of elderly people and the environment, with M. Powell Lawton joining us as guest co-editor. The titles of the papers comprising Volume 7 are shown on page v. Irwin Altman J oachim F. Wohlwill ix Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Author : Niki Frantzeskaki,Katharina Hölscher,Matthew Bach,Flor Avelino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319692739

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Co-creating Sustainable Urban Futures by Niki Frantzeskaki,Katharina Hölscher,Matthew Bach,Flor Avelino Pdf

This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions. The book combines theoretical frameworks and tools with practical experiences on transition management as a framework that supports urban planning and governance towards sustainability. The book offers the opportunity to become actively engaged in working towards sustainable futures of cities. Readers of this book will be equipped to understand the complexity of urban sustainability transitions and diagnose persistent unsustainability problems in cities. Urban planners and professionals will build competences for designing transition management processes in cities and engaging with multidisciplinary knowledge in solution-seeking processes. The heart of the book marks the variety of very different local case studies across the world – including, amongst others, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, La Botija in Honduras, Sydney in Australia and Cleveland in the US. These rich studies give inspiration and practical insights to young planners on how to create sustainable urban futures in collaboration with other stakeholders. The case studies and critical reflections on applications of transition management in cities offer food for thought and welcome criticism. They also introduce new lenses to understand the bigger picture that co-creation dynamics play in terms of power, (dis-)empowerment, legitimacy and changing actor roles. This will equip the readers with a deep understanding of the dynamics, opportunities and challenges present in urban contexts and urban sustainability transitions.

Author : Dorothee Brantz,Avi Sharma
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450185

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Urban Resilience in a Global Context by Dorothee Brantz,Avi Sharma Pdf

Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in times of extreme global insecurity; for others, it is a neoliberal technology that marginalizes the voices of already marginal peoples. This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, narratives and temporalities that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive, and secure cities in the 21st century.