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Author | : Andrew Webber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
'Cities in Transition' looks at the complex yet enduring relationship between cinema and the city, discussing how early cinema, digital technology and changing urban geographies have all impacted upon notions and representations of the modern city.
Author | : Nirmala Rao |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2008-01-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134332610 |
This is an up-to-date and topical treatment of how six major cities in Europe, North America and Asia are coping with the new demands on urban government. Population expansion, the migration of new peoples and disparities between cities and suburbs are longstanding features of the urban crisis. Today, city governments also face demands for popular participation and better public services while they struggle to position themselves in the new world economy. While each of the cities is located in its unique historical setting, the emphasis of the book is upon the common dilemmas raised by major planning problems and the search for more suitable approaches to governance and citizen involvement. A principal theme is the re-engineering of institutional structures designed to foster local responsiveness and popular participation. The discussion is set in the context of the globalizing forces that have impacted to different degrees, at different times, upon London, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, Hyderabad and Atlanta. Cities in Transition is a major and original addition to the comparative literature on urban governance.
Author | : Norton Sydney Ginsburg |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824812973 |
Asian urbanization is entering a new phase that differs significantly from the patterns of city growth experienced in other developing countries and in the developed world. According to a recent hypothesis, zones of intensive economic interaction between rural and urban activities are emerging. The zones appear to be a new form of socioeconomic organization that is neither rural nor urban, but preserves essential ingredients of each.
Author | : Wowo Ding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789462082434 |
Cities in Transition investigates the recent urban and political-economic developments in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and China. It features contributions by more than 30 experts in the field, including Saskia Sassen, M. Christine Boyer, Vittorio Lampugnani, Erik Swyngedouw, Marc Angélil, Joan Busquets, David Grahame Shane, George Baird, Maarten Hajer, West 8, MVRDV and many others.
Author | : Jos Gamble |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Shanghai (China) |
ISBN | : 0700715711 |
China's largest metropolis, Shanghai, has undergone a decade of far-reaching economic and social transformation. This book presents an evocative and richly nuanced series of ethnographic perspectives of the city's shifting sociological landscape in this period of transition. It is based upon research conducted over the past 10 years. The topics explored range from the perceived consequences of Shanghai's more porous boundaries to intra-national and global flows of people, capital and cultural items, to notions of 'Shanghaiese' identity, the impact of mass consumerism and the work of share dealers in Shanghai's recently recreated stock exchange. The book builds upwards from street level perspectives and stresses ways in which the lives of Shanghai citizens are implicated with wider historical, political and economic phenomena.
Author | : Andrew T. Simpson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0812296516 |
In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston's economy. While traditional Texas industries like oil and natural gas still played a critical role, the presence of the massive Texas Medical Center, billed as "the largest medical complex in the world," had helped to rebrand the city as a site for biomedical innovation and ensured its stability during the financial crisis of the mid-2000s. Taking Pittsburgh and Houston as case studies, The Medical Metropolis offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine transformed American cities in the postindustrial era. Andrew T. Simpson explores how the hospital-civic relationship, in which medical centers embraced a business-oriented model, remade the deindustrialized city into the "medical metropolis." From the 1940s to the present, the changing business of American health care reshaped American cities into sites for cutting-edge biomedical and clinical research, medical education, and innovative health business practices. This transformation relied on local policy and economic decisions as well as broad and homogenizing national forces, including HMOs, biotechnology programs, and hospital privatization. Today, the medical metropolis is considered by some as a triumph of innovation and revitalization and by others as a symbol of the excesses of capitalism and the inequality still pervading American society.
Author | : William Lever |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This is a study of economic change, jobs, and public policy in the Clydeside conurbation.
Author | : Thomas A. Hutton |
Publisher | : IRPP |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780886451721 |
Author | : Chiara Cavalieri |
Publisher | : Park Publishing (WI) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9783038600626 |
Two contrasting terms are joined to conjugate the traditional idea of metropolis with horizontality; to combine the center of a vast territory--hierarchically organized, dense, vertical, and produced by polarization--with the idea of a more diffuse, isotropic urban condition, where center and periphery blur. Beyond a simplistic center versus periphery opposition, the concept of a horizontal metropolis reveals the dispersed condition as a potential asset, rather than a limit, to the construction of a sustainable and innovative urban dimension. Around 1990, Terry McGee, an urban researcher at University of British Columbia, coined the term desakota, deriving from Indonesian “desa” (village) and “kota” (city). Desakota areas typically occur in Asia, especially South East Asia. The term describes an area situated outside the periurban zone, often sprawling alongside arterial and communication roads, sometimes from one agglomeration to the next. They are characterized by high population density and intensive agricultural use, but differ from densely populated rural areas by more urban-like characteristics. The new book The Horizontal Metropolis investigates such areas alongside examples in the US, Italy, and Switzerland. The study highlights the advantages of the concept and its relevance under economical, ecological, and social aspects. The concept reflects a vision of global urbanization that does no longer allow for “outside” areas and that will test the urban ecosystem to its limits.
Author | : Beverly Duncan |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1970-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |