To Transform A City

Author : Eric Swanson
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310576350
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Transform a City written by Eric Swanson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Transform a City is a timely, compelling book that helps readers understand how to think about cities, their own city, and the broad strategies needed for kingdom impact. The book begins with an overview of the importance of cities in the new day in which we live. The authors address the process of transformation along with examples of where and how communities have been transformed throughout history. After writing a persuasive chapter on kingdom thinking the authors unfold the meaning of the whole church, the whole gospel, and the whole city. The book ends with the need for people of good faith to work together in the city with people of good will for the welfare of the city.

Author : William W. Goldsmith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706586
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Our Cities written by William W. Goldsmith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane. Goldsmith argues that America has been in the habit of abusing its cities and their poorest suburbs, which are always the first to be blamed for society's ills and the last to be helped. As federal and state budgets, regulations, and programs line up with the interests of giant corporations and privileged citizens, they impose austerity on cities, shortchange public schools, make it hard to get nutritious food, and inflict the drug war on unlucky neighborhoods.Frustration with inequality is spreading. Parents and teachers call persistently for improvements in public schooling, and education experiments abound. Nutrition indicators have begun to improve, as rising health costs and epidemic obesity have led to widespread attention to food. The futility of the drug war and the high costs of unwarranted, unprecedented prison growth have become clear. Goldsmith documents a positive development: progressive politicians in many cities and some states are proposing far-reaching improvements, supported by advocacy groups that form powerful voting blocs, ensuring that Congress takes notice. When more cities forcefully demand enlightened federal and state action on these four interrelated problems—inequality, schools, food, and the drug war—positive movement will occur in traditional urban planning as well, so as to meet the needs of most residents for improved housing, better transportation, and enhanced public spaces.

Author : Eric Swanson
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310325862
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Transform a City written by Eric Swanson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Transform a City is a valuable guide for those who dream big about the spiritual and social changes possible for the cities and towns that surround their churches. Two visionary leaders examine the foundations, history, theology, and practical methods of community transformation.

Author : Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 180008546X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities written by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are even progressive local authorities with the ‘will to improve’ seldom able to change cities? Why does it seem almost impossible to redress spatial inequalities, deliver and maintain basic services, elevate impoverished areas and protect the marginalised communities? Why do municipalities in the Global South refuse to work with prevailing social informalities, and resort instead to interventions that are known to displace and aggravate the very issues they aim to address? Local Officials and the Struggle to Transform Cities analyses these challenges in South African cities, where the brief post-apartheid moment opened a window for progressive city government and made research into state practices both possible and necessary. In debate with other ‘progressive moments’ in large cities in Brazil, the USA and India, the book interrogates City officials’ practices. It considers the instruments they invent and negotiate to implement urban policies, the agency they develop and the constraints they navigate in governing unequal cities. This focus on actual officials’ practices is captured through first-hand experience, state ethnographies and engaged research. These reveal day-to-day practice that question generalised explanations of state failure in complex urban societies as essential malevolence, contextual weakness, corruption and inefficiency. It is hoped that opening the black box of the workings of state opens paths for the construction of progressive policies in contemporary cities.

Author : Eiichi Taniguchi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119527732
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Logistics 1 written by Eiichi Taniguchi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems). It highlights modelling the behaviour of stakeholders who are involved in city logistics as well as planning and managing policy measures of city logistics including cooperative freight transport systems in public-private partnerships. Case studies of implementing and evaluating city logistics measures in terms of economic, social and environmental benefits from major cities around the world are also given.

Author : Kelly Malone
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523634743
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Church written by Kelly Malone and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world's cities, the church must not only give people hope for eternal life. We must also help them realize their most basic hopes for physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being in the present world. An individual Christ-follower can feed a hungry child, and a single congregation can provide food for the hungry families in their neighborhood. But it will take all God's people working together to stamp out the problem of hunger in a city. And hunger is only one small piece of the puzzle of human suffering that plagues our world's cities. The Christian community, moved by Christ's compassion, can bring lasting change to a city. The world's cities are not only large concentrations of people. Cities form nuclei through which people, money, materials, information, and ideas flow to energize our globalized world. A businessman in a village in India can sit in a coffee shop reading the Wall Street Journal online before making his investments in the London and Tokyo markets. This is only possible because of the kind of interchange taking place between cities like New York, Paris, Delhi, Nairobi, and Sao Paulo. The results of globalization ripple out from these great hubs to engulf the smaller cities, villages, and rural areas of the surrounding hinterlands.

Author : Sophie Oldfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Restructuring and Urban Transformation in South Africa written by Sophie Oldfield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Bernard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800793760
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Impact written by Daniel Bernard and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many communities have overwhelming needs that God's church can meet, but only if local churches, businesses, and ministries combine their resources. Citing scores of practical examples and easily implemented ideas, Daniel Bernard illustrates how pervasive city problems can be solved and how the city can actually be transformed through unified efforts. His organization, Somebody Cares, Tampa Bay, is a role model for trans-denominational unity. By bringing ministry leaders together with pastors and businesspeople, this organization takes God's love and the necessities of life to needy individuals and families. Success stories and startling ideas from ministry leaders around the world provide pastors and laypeople with the tools they need. This book is a call to action for people everywhere who care about evangelism, racial reconciliation, and community transformation.

Author : Glenn A Barth (Jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780939320202
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good City written by Glenn A Barth (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis and applications of what it means to transform a city into a vibrant community, just as God intended. Biblical teachings and comprehensive research and provide ample guidance for those looking to live as metropolitan-area missionaries in the postmodern world. Whether you are just beginning your journey as a city reacher, or an established leader in community building, this book is an indispensable resource.

Author : Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134667973
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving the City written by Malcolm Schofield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what extent the Greeks and Romans deal with the same issues as modern political thinkers.