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Author : Gregory D. Newton
Release : 2001
Genre : Broadcasting policy
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Book Synopsis Localism Considered ... are Reconsidered by : Gregory D. Newton
Download or read book Localism Considered ... are Reconsidered written by Gregory D. Newton. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simin Davoudi
Release : 2015-01-09
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 156/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reconsidering Localism by : Simin Davoudi
Download or read book Reconsidering Localism written by Simin Davoudi. This book was released on 2015-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come to shape urban governance and urban planning. Moving beyond the UK, this book examines localism and similar shifts in planning policy throughout Europe, and features essays on localism and place-making, sustainability, social cohesion, and citizen participation in community institutions. It explores how debates over localism and citizen control play out at the neighborhood, institutional and city level, and has come to effect the urban landscape throughout Europe. Reconsidering Localism is a current, vital addition to planning scholarship.
Author : Mark T. Mitchell
Release : 2018
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Localism in the Mass Age by : Mark T. Mitchell
Download or read book Localism in the Mass Age written by Mark T. Mitchell. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto assembles thirty essays by a variety of scholars and practitioners seeking to articulate a better vision for humanity. The writers are convinced the true, the good, and the beautiful are best realized within a dense web of meaningful family, neighborhood, and community relationships built to human scale. This book seeks to renew American culture by promoting political decentralism, economic localism, and cultural regionalism. In short, the Front Porch Republic promotes those ideals truly conducive to human flourishing by arguing for their enactment in the places they are most likely to be realized: in strong families, communities, and local cultures. -- Back Cover
Author : David L. Imbroscio
Release : 2011-01-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Urban America Reconsidered by : David L. Imbroscio
Download or read book Urban America Reconsidered written by David L. Imbroscio. This book was released on 2011-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian governance, acute social problems such as extreme poverty, and social and economic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate similar to that of New Orleans before and after the hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelopment schemes merely distract from this disturbing reality. Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban analysis and scholarship. Little has been offered in the way of solving urban America's problems, and much of what has been proposed or practiced remains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio's view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies: regime theory, which provides an understanding of governance in cities, and liberal expansionism, which advocates regional policies linking cities to surrounding suburbs. Declaring both approaches to be insufficient—and sometimes harmful—Imbroscio illuminates another path for urban America: remaking city economies via an array of local economic alternative development strategies (or LEADS). Notable LEADS include efforts to build community-based development institutions, worker-owned firms, publicly controlled businesses, and webs of interdependent entrepreneurial enterprises. Equally notable is the innovative use of urban development tools to generate indigenous, stable, and balanced growth in local economies. Urban America Reconsidered makes a strong case for the LEADS approach for constructing progressive urban regimes and addressing America's deepest urban problems.
Author : Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Release : 2017-11-08
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 516/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reconsidering Ian McHarg by : Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Download or read book Reconsidering Ian McHarg written by Ignacio Bunster-Ossa. This book was released on 2017-11-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning. His seminal work, Design by Nature, blazed the trail for sustainable urban development. The road was paved with good intentions. But where exactly did it lead? And where do we go from here? Reconsidering Ian McHarg offers a fresh assessment of McHarg’s lessons and legacy. It applauds his call for environmental stewardship while acknowledging its unintended results. For McHarg’s idyllic developments at the edge of nature turned greenfield sites into suburban communities. They added to sprawl and made America more dependent on cars. And they may even have delayed the kind of urban redevelopment needed to make today’s cities more sustainable.
