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Author | : Philip Howard Wichern |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Annexation (Municipal government) |
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Author | : Rozann Rothman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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Download The Great Society at the Grass Roots Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
America's continuing frontier experience was characterized in the 1960s by numerous low density metropolitan areas whose development was based upon transportation and communication possibilities and the new technologies of the industrial revolution. The new metropolitan landscape bred new forms of social organization and behavior, which found their echo in the political process. This study represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the political process in the crucial decade of the 1960s and examines the consequences of the Great Society at a turning point in its fortunes. Using Champaign-Urbana as the basis for a medium-sized metropolitan area, this volume is one of a series of efforts to examine the long-term trends in American development. Co-published with the Center for the Study of Federalism.
Author | : Helga Leitner |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1593853203 |
Download Contesting Neoliberalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Neoliberalism's "market revolution"--realized through practices like privatization, deregulation, fiscal devolution, and workfare programs--has had a transformative effect on contemporary cities. The consequences of market-oriented politics for urban life have been widely studied, but less attention has been given to how grassroots groups, nongovernmental organizations, and progressive city administrations are fighting back. In case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives, this book examines how struggles around such issues as affordable housing, public services and space, neighborhood sustainability, living wages, workers' rights, fair trade, and democratic governance are reshaping urban political geographies in North America and around the world.
Author | : Michael Kaufman |
Publisher | : International Development Research Centre Books |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Download Community Power and Grassroots Democracy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of popular democracy in Central and South America. The first part contains studies from individual countries on organizations ranging from those supported by governments and integrated into the country's political structure to groups that were organized against the existing political system. The organizations studied included those focusing on a particular concern, such as housing, and those with wide responsibility for community affairs; but all were organizations based on common interests where people lived and, in some cases, where people worked. The second part offers theme studies on men, women and differential participation; problems and meanings associated with decentralization, especially in relation to devolution of power to the local level and the construction of popular alternatives; and the competing theoretical paradigms of new social movements and resource mobilization.
Author | : John Charles Daly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Tom Goodfellow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198853106 |
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This book offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics that underpin them. It offers a multi-scalar, historically-grounded, and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban transformations unfolding in the world's most dynamic crucible of urban change.
Author | : Neil Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2005-10-26 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134787464 |
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Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.
Author | : Rob Kling |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1995-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520201604 |
Download Postsuburban California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Preface to the paperback edition: Beyond the edge : the dynamism of postsuburban regions / Rob Kling, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster -- The emergence of postsuburbia : an introduction / Rob Kling, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster -- The multinucleated metropolitan region : a comparative analysis / M. Gottdiener and George Kephart -- Designing the model community : the Irvine Company and suburban development, 1950-88 / Martin J. Schiesl -- The information labor force / Rob Kling and Clark Turner -- Changing consumption patterns / Alladi Venkatesh -- Public ceremony in a private culture : Orange County celebrates the Fourth of July / Debra Gold Hansen and Mary P. Ryan -- Narcissism or liberation? : the affluent middle-class family / Mark Poster -- Intraclass conflict and the politics of a fragmented region / Spencer Olin -- Grass-roots protest and the politics of planning : Santa Ana, 1976-88 / Lisbeth Haas -- The taxpayers' revolt / William F. Gayk.
Author | : Denise D. Meringolo |
Publisher | : Amherst College Press |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1943208204 |
Download Radical Roots Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble of scholarly discourse, relying on social networks, political goals, practices, and habits of mind that differ from traditional historians. Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism theorizes and defines public history as future-focused, committed to the advancement of social justice, and engaged in creating a more inclusive public record. Edited by Denise D. Meringolo and with contributions from the field's leading figures, this groundbreaking collection addresses major topics such as museum practices, oral history, grassroots preservation, and community-based learning. It demonstrates the core practices that have shaped radical public history, how they have been mobilized to promote social justice, and how public historians can facilitate civic discourse in order to promote equality. "This is a much-needed recalibration, as professional organizations and practitioners across genres of public history struggle to diversify their own ranks and to bring contemporary activists into the fold." -- Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside. "Taken all together, the articles in this volume highlight the persistent threads of justice work that has characterized the multifaceted history of public history as well as the challenges faced in doing that work."--Patricia Mooney-Melvin, The Public Historian
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Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2003-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781412828574 |
Download The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American civilization has been shaped by four decisive forces: the frontier, migration, sectionalism, and federalism. The frontier has offered abundance to those who would/could take advantage of its opportunities, stimulated technological innovation, and been the source of continuous change in social structure and economic organization; migration has been responsible for relocating cultures from the Old world to the New; various sections of geographic territories have adjusted to the overall American culture without losing their individual distinctiveness; and federalism has shaped the United States' political and social organization. The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics was begun in the late 1950s under the auspices of the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs as a study of the eight "lesser" metropolitan areas in Illinois. What started out as a design for "community maps" of each area, with the intent to outline their particular political systems, led to a major study of metropolitan cities of the prairie--the "heartland" area between the Great Lakes and the Continental Divide--with an examination of the processes that have shaped American politics. The distinctive features of geographic areas that Elazar discovered can be understood as reflections of the differences in cultural backgrounds of their respective settlers. Understanding these communities requires an examination of their place in the federal system, the impact of frontier and section upon them, and a study of the cultures that inform them as civil communities. The volume is consequently divided into three parts: "Cities, Frontiers, and Sections," "Streams of Migration and Political Culture," and "Cities, States, and Nation," each of which explores Elazar's concerns in discovering the interrelationship between the cities of the frontier and American politics. A prequel to The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier (published by Transaction in 2002), The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics will be of great interest to students of politics, American history, and ethnography.