The Emerging City

Author : Scott A. Greer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412836722
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging City written by Scott A. Greer and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerging City was written at a time when the great transformation from urban to suburban lifestyle was under way. It is a tribute to Scott Greer that his work understood the new contours of the city, and also well appreciated that far from spelling the end of urban life, the new developments in communication and transportation only served to change the social and political structure of modern societies. Greer established the principle that in urban affairs, public policy follows the market. The task of this fine work was to chart just how this flow took place. A careful researcher and writer, Scott Greer herein poses the largest questions of urban existence: What needs for fellowship and freedom are bedrock? What is gained and what is lost as urbanization unfolds? Can one speak of certain urban arrangements as good or bad for humans? The Emerging City attempts a theory of society within which the changing city could be interpreted at the social, political, and symbolic levels. The modern city is no longer an autonomous unit, but very much a part of, often at the center of, national and even international developments. As Janet Abu-Lughod points out in her sharp introduction most of the themes that are now in common usage owe their beginnings to Scott Greer. "What Greer has attempted to do is to attack the perennial problems of modern urban society: traffic, suburban sprawl, the atomization of social relations, political leadership, and the decline of the central city from a fresh point of view. He manages to make more sense out of the exasperating yet fascinating problems of modern urban life than any other book this reviewer has seen in some time."--E. Digby Baltzell, Administrative Science Quarterly "Greer first destroys images of the city as conceived by political scientists, urban sociologist and economists, and produces a new and more complete one which has far more relevance to reality."--The Humanist

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351304267
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging City written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerging City was written at a time when the great transformation from urban to suburban lifestyle was under way. It is a tribute to Scott Greer that his work understood the new contours of the city, and also well appreciated that far from spelling the end of urban life, the new developments in communication and transportation only served to change the social and political structure of modern societies. Greer established the principle that in urban affairs, public policy follows the market. The task of this fine work was to chart just how this flow took place. A careful researcher and writer, Scott Greer herein poses the largest questions of urban existence: What needs for fellowship and freedom are bedrock? What is gained and what is lost as urbanization unfolds? Can one speak of certain urban arrangements as good or bad for humans? The Emerging City attempts a theory of society within which the changing city could be interpreted at the social, political, and symbolic levels. The modern city is no longer an autonomous unit, but very much a part of, often at the center of, national and even international developments. As Janet Abu-Lughod points out in her sharp introduction most of the themes that are now in common usage owe their beginnings to Scott Greer.

Author : Scott A. Greer
Publisher : Transaction Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780765804327
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging City written by Scott A. Greer and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1962 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerging City was written at a time when the great transformation from urban to suburban lifestyle was under way. It is a tribute to Scott Greer that his work understood the new contours of the city, and also well appreciated that far from spelling the end of urban life, the new developments in communication and transportation only served to change the social and political structure of modern societies. Greer established the principle that in urban affairs, public policy follows the market. The task of this fine work was to chart just how this flow took place. A careful researcher and writer, Scott Greer herein poses the largest questions of urban existence: What needs for fellowship and freedom are bedrock? What is gained and what is lost as urbanization unfolds? Can one speak of certain urban arrangements as good or bad for humans? The Emerging City attempts a theory of society within which the changing city could be interpreted at the social, political, and symbolic levels. The modern city is no longer an autonomous unit, but very much a part of, often at the center of, national and even international developments. As Janet Abu-Lughod points out in her sharp introduction most of the themes that are now in common usage owe their beginnings to Scott Greer.

Author : Vinayak Bharne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415525977
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Asian City written by Vinayak Bharne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian cities create concomitant imagery - polarizations of poverty and wealth, blurry lines between formality and informality, and stark juxtapositions of ancient historic places with shimmering new skylines. With Asia's re-emergence on the global stage, there is an acute focus on its multifarious urban issues and identities: What are Asian cities going to become? Will they surpass the economic and environmental debacles of the West? This collection of twenty-four essays surveys the most dominant issues shaping the Asian urban landscape today. It offers scholarly reflections and positions on the forces shaping Asian cities, and the forces that they in turn are shaping.

Author : Jayant Nobis
Publisher : Walnut Publication
ISBN 13 : 9355740840
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In The Emerging City written by Jayant Nobis and published by Walnut Publication. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful collection of stories set against the backdrop of present-day Guwahati, the capital city of Assam and the gateway to northeastern India, the author has created entertaining themes that encompass a wide variety of situations and human behaviour. The reader will be drawn, through easy descriptive language, into a motley world of romance, crime, cuisines, cars, corporates, doctors, party-goers and ambitious youngsters, all intrinsically involved in the pursuit of life’s needs and pleasures. To play out these well-crafted, intriguing plots that illustrate human desires and frailties, the author has put in place an amazing array of characters, which, along with his recourse to detail, and construction of believable scenarios interspersed with moments of surprise, suspense, twists and turns, are bound to hold the reader’s unbroken interest. Across all age groups, this gathering of human interest stories promises many hours of reading pleasure.

Author : Philipp Horn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319578162
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Urban Spaces written by Philipp Horn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects – namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative ‘Southern’ post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its main objective is to combine different urban knowledge to support and inspire an integrative research approach and a conceptual vocabulary which allows understanding the complex characteristics of diverse emerging urban spaces. Drawing on in-depth case study material from across the world, the different chapters in this volume disentangle planetary urbanization and apply it as a research framework to the context-specific challenges faced by many `ordinary' urban settings. In addition, through their focus on both Northern- and Southern urban spaces, this edited collection creates a truly global perspective on crucial practice-relevant topics such as the co-production of urban spaces, the ‘right to diversity’ and the ‘right to the urban’ in particular local settings.

Author : Kris Bezdecny
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784712280
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities written by Kris Bezdecny and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the world's population now live in cities, nearly a quarter of which boast populations of one million or more. The rise of globalisation has granted cities unprecedented significance, both politically and economically, leading to benefits and problems at national and international levels. The Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities explores the changes that are occurring in cities, and the impacts that they are having, at the local, national and global scale.

Author : Fulong Wu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113411771X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Emerging Cities written by Fulong Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material and covers key topics on Chinese urban development.

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ISBN 13 : 9781351304283
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging City written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Emerging City was written at a time when the great transformation from urban to suburban lifestyle was under way. It is a tribute to Scott Greer that his work understood the new contours of the city, and also well appreciated that far from spelling the end of urban life, the new developments in communication and transportation only served to change the social and political structure of modern societies. Greer established the principle that in urban affairs, public policy follows the market. The task of this fine work was to chart just how this flow took place.A careful researcher and writer, Scott Greer herein poses the largest questions of urban existence: What needs for fellowship and freedom are bedrock? What is gained and what is lost as urbanization unfolds? Can one speak of certain urban arrangements as good or bad for humans? The Emerging City attempts a theory of society within which the changing city could be interpreted at the social, political, and symbolic levels. The modern city is no longer an autonomous unit, but very much a part of, often at the center of, national and even international developments. As Janet Abu-Lughod points out in her sharp introduction most of the themes that are now in common usage owe their beginnings to Scott Greer."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gordon McGranahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317965000
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Growth in Emerging Economies written by Gordon McGranahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the southward shift in economic power towards the newly emerging economies. As this book shows, however, these transitions have not been painless, and it is important for the rest of the urbanizing world to learn from the mistakes. It examines the role of urbanization and urban growth in the emerging economies, taking the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as case studies. Their different approaches towards urbanization have shaped their historical development paths and assisted or constrained their futures. Several of the BRICS bear heavy burdens from past failures to accommodate urban growth inclusively and efficiently, and many other urbanizing countries in Asia and Africa are in danger of replicating their mistakes. The overriding lesson of the book is that cities and nations must anticipate urbanization, and accommodate urban growth pro-actively, so as not to be left with an enduring legacy of inequalities and lost opportunities. This book is aimed at students and researchers in urban studies and development studies. It will also be of interest to policy advisors concerned with urbanization and the role of cities in a country’s development