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Author : Matt Hern
Release : 2010
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 108/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Common Ground in a Liquid City by : Matt Hern
Download or read book Common Ground in a Liquid City written by Matt Hern. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unapologetic defense of city life in a time of environmental crisis.
Author : Sean Benesh
Release : 2011-02-24
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 432/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Metrospiritual by : Sean Benesh
Download or read book Metrospiritual written by Sean Benesh. This book was released on 2011-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Barry K. Morris
Release : 2020-03-20
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Faithful Public-Prophetic Witness by : Barry K. Morris
Download or read book A Faithful Public-Prophetic Witness written by Barry K. Morris. This book was released on 2020-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book hails from decades of challenging trial-and-error work, abundant reading, and an enduring obligation to ministers, activists, and unsung lay heroes whose legacies matter. As there is little that actually addresses the elusive meanings, if not the dangers inherent in pursuing alleged spoils of “success,” it is kairos time. Seemingly scarce resources and competition to make and maintain ministries in the city challenge those of us in the field, or on the sidelines, to speak, write, and communicate clearly, and convincingly—not only for ourselves and our “people,” past and present, but for those who come along soon to receive the baton or wear the mantle. Concretely narrated, with unique case studies, a cast of dozens contribute their earthy, earnest testimonies and are, at long last, energetically affirmed. Specifically, this work proffers constructive attention to the critical cautions concerning subtle temptations to “succeed,” including: commodification, cooptation, communalism, clientelism, and cowardice—and, not bailing on fierce charity-justice tensions (with benevolence protectively dominant). Narrative analysis and biography-as-theology, social ethics, biblical theology, and recent church history give apt attention to how a compelling case is possible for success, if justice is practiced, given a hopeful realism and perspective of prophetic eschatology.
Author : Dan Webb
Release : 2017-05-18
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 469/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political” by : Dan Webb
Download or read book Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political” written by Dan Webb. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space. Because the city and urban space is so prominent in other critical disciplines, most notably, geography and sociology, a driving question of the book is: what kind of distinct contribution can political theory make to the already existing critical urban literature? The answer is to be found in what Webb calls the "properly political" approach to understanding political conflict as developed in the work of thinkers like Chantal Mouffe, Jodi Dean, and Slavoj Žižek. This "properly political" analysis is contrasted with and a curative to the predominant "ethical" or "post-political" understanding of the urban found in so much of the geographical and sociological critical urban theory literature. In order to illustrate this primary theoretical argument of the book, Webb suggests that "common property" is the most useful category for conceiving the city as a site of the "properly political." When the city and urban space are framed within this theoretical framework, critical urbanists are provided a powerful tool for understanding urban political struggles, in particular, anti-gentrification movements in the inner city.
Author : Sigrid Bürstmayr
Release : 2020-06-08
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 035/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Designing Sustainable Cities by : Sigrid Bürstmayr
Download or read book Designing Sustainable Cities written by Sigrid Bürstmayr. This book was released on 2020-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the fact that, by 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, the subject of "sustainable urban design" is an important issue for UNESCO’s Cities of Design. Taking into account that urban design can make a significant contribution to positive changes in environmental and social matters, the book presents seven inspirational examples for copying; included are analyses and measures for the cities of Detroit, Graz, Istanbul, Mexico City, and Puebla, as well as non-location bound projects. The authors investigate the efficiency of certificates, climate installations for urban spaces, and new ecological, architectural, and sociological concepts for mega-cities. A reader for stakeholders at the interface of social and urban design.
