Renewing the City

Renewing the City
Author: Robert D. Lupton
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005-07-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830833269

Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton looks to the Old Testament example of Nehemiah as a role model for community transformation and renewal.

The City in American Political Development

The City in American Political Development
Author: Richardson Dilworth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135853177

There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban centers more than a century before the American Revolution. Yet despite their estimable size and prevalence in the United States, city government and politics has been a woefully neglected topic within the recent study of American political development. The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building. Each chapter shows explicitly how the American city demonstrates durable shifts in governing authority throughout the nation’s history. By filling an important gap in scholarship the book will thus become an indispensable part of the American political development canon, a crucial component of graduate and undergraduate courses in APD, urban politics, urban sociology, and urban history, and a key guide for future scholarship.

City Futures

City Futures
Author: E. A. Pieterse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9781350219199

City museums and city development

City museums and city development
Author: Ian Jones
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2008-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0759112320

Traditionally, city museums have been keepers of city history. Many have been exercises in nostalgia, reflecting city pride. However, a new generation of museums focuses increasingly on the city's present and future as well as its past, and on the city in all of its diversity, challenges, and possibilities. Above all, these museums are gateways to understanding the city—our greatest and most complex creation and the place where half the world's population now lives. In this book, experts in the field explore this 'new' city museum and the challenge of contributing positively to city development.

Town Planning towards City Development

Town Planning towards City Development
Author: Patrick Geddes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 811
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317646754

Patrick Geddes is one of the most important figures in planning history, variously presented as an inspiration to regional planning, environmental planning and sustainability, grass-roots planning, citizen democracy, historic preservation, neighbourhood upgrading, university–community partnership, lifelong learning, and co-operative housing. Though well-known and often praised by planning historians, his scholarship extended across a much broader range of disciplines, with extensive publication on biology and on civics, and significant contributions to sociology, economics, geography, education, and the arts and humanities. With the exception of his plan of Dunfermline, published in 1904, his plans are very hard to find. Most of his plans were prepared in India between 1915 and 1923, but beyond brief extracts from four of them included by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt in the book Patrick Geddes in India, they are very difficult to obtain. Some are lost altogether and the remainder are available in a handful of libraries, often held in Archives. Of all the plans prepared after Dunfermline, the most extensive is for the city of Indore, originally published in two volumes that combine a comprehensive scheme for the urban development of the city with a detailed plan for the proposed University of Central India.

Fundamental Trends in City Development

Fundamental Trends in City Development
Author: Giovanni Maciocco
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-12-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3540741798

The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three basic trends of the city are investigated; "discomposed", "generic" and "segregated" phenomena with the loss of the city as a space of social interaction and communication. Important questions are posed: What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In what way can the city project construct contemporary public space?

Play the City. Games Informing the Urban Development

Play the City. Games Informing the Urban Development
Author: Ekim Tan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9789490322878

A new book by Play the City. From Cape Town to Amsterdam to Istanbul, the book sheds light into the particular applications and outcomes of City Gaming in diverse planning and city making regimes worldwide. Following Ekim Tan's PhD work on city gaming, this book has been designed to make her research more accessible to all. The book features a chapter dedicated to unravelling the city-gaming method as developed by the Play the City teams, with case studies from Shenzhen, Cape Town, Amsterdam, Almere and Istanbul. In addition to Play the City's work, the book includes reviews of select influential city-games from around the world, and is enriched with personal interviews from gaming experts such as Eric Gordon, Pablo Suarez and Mohini Dutta.0.

Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China

Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China
Author: Axel Baeumler
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2012-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821389882

This book summarizes experiences from the World Bank s activities related to low-carbon urban development in China. It highlights the need for low-carbon city development and presents details on specific sector-level experiences and lessons, a framework for action, and financing opportunities.