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Book East End Riverfront Community Development Plan and Guidelines

Download or read book East End Riverfront Community Development Plan and Guidelines written by Cincinnati (Ohio). Department of City Planning and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Practicing Community

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  • Author : Rhoda H. Halperin
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2015-01-28
  • ISBN : 029278645X
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Practicing Community written by Rhoda H. Halperin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati's East End river community has been home to generations of working-class people. This racially mixed community has roots that reach back as far as seven generations. But the community is vulnerable. Developers bulldoze "raggedy" but affordable housing to build upscale condos, even as East Enders fight to preserve the community by participating in urban development planning controlled by powerful outsiders. This book portrays how East Enders practice the preservation of community. Drawing on more than six years of anthropological research and advocacy in the East End, Rhoda Halperin argues for redefining community not merely as a place, but as a set of culturally embedded and class-marked practices that give priority to caring for children and the elderly, procuring livelihood, and providing support for family, friends, and neighbors. These practices create the structures of community within the larger urban power structure. Halperin uses different genres to weave the voices of East Enders throughout the book. Poems and narratives offer poignant insights into the daily struggles against impersonal market forces that work against the struggle for livelihood. This firsthand account questions commonly held assumptions about working-class people. In a fresh way, it reveals the cultural construction of marginality, from the viewpoints of both "real East Enders" and the urban power structure.

Book Selling Cities

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  • Author : David P. Varady
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1995-08-10
  • ISBN : 9780791425589
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Selling Cities written by David P. Varady and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-08-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that cities can be revitalized by attracting and retaining the middle class through schools and housing programs.

Book East End Community Report

Download or read book East End Community Report written by Michael Maloney and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whose School Is It

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  • Author : Rhoda H. Halperin
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0292779259
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Whose School Is It written by Rhoda H. Halperin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose School Is It?: Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City is a success story with roadblocks, crashes, and detours. Rhoda Halperin uses feminist theorist and activist Gloria Anzaldúa's ideas about borderlands created by colliding cultures to deconstruct the creation and advancement of a public community charter school in a diverse, long-lived urban neighborhood on the Ohio River. Class, race, and gender mix with age, local knowledge, and place authenticity to create a page-turning story of grit, humor, and sheer stubbornness. The school has grown and flourished in the face of daunting market forces, class discrimination, and an increasingly unfavorable national climate for charter schools. Borderlands are tense spaces. The school is a microcosm of the global city. Many theoretical strands converge in this book—feminist theory, ideas about globalization, class analysis, and accessible narrative writing—to present some new approaches in urban anthropology. The book is multi-voiced and nuanced in ways that provide authenticity and texture to the real circumstances of urban lives. At the same time, identities are threatened as community practices clash with rules and regulations imposed by outsiders. Since it is based on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in the community and the city, Whose School Is It? brings unique long-term perspectives on continuities and disjunctures in cities. Halperin's work as researcher and advocate also provides insider perspectives that are rare in the literature of urban anthropology.

Book East End Neighborhood Development Plan

Download or read book East End Neighborhood Development Plan written by Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (Ky.). Department of Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joint Report with Comprehensive Plan and Recommendations

Download or read book Joint Report with Comprehensive Plan and Recommendations written by New York, New Jersey Port and Harbor Development Commission and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Partnership Agencies British

Download or read book Partnership Agencies British written by Nicholas Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Transportation  Land Use  and Environmental Planning

Download or read book Transportation Land Use and Environmental Planning written by Elizabeth Deakin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning examines the practices and policies linking transportation, land use and environmental planning needed to achieve a healthy environment, thriving economy, and more equitable and inclusive society. It assesses best practices for improving the performance of city and regional transportation systems, looking at such issues as public transit and non-motorized travel investments, mixed use and higher density urban development, radically transformed vehicles, and transportation systems. The book lays out the growing need for greater integration of transportation, land use, and environmental planning, looking closely at changing demographic needs, public health concerns, housing affordability, equity, and livability. In addition, strategies for achieving these desired outcomes are presented, including urban design and land use planning, regional and corridor-level transit plans, bike and pedestrian improvements, demand management strategies, and emerging technologies and services. The final part of the book examines implementation challenges, considering lessons from the US and around the globe at both local and regional levels. Introduces never-before-published research Offers best practices for transit, cycling, urban design and housing provision Assesses emerging developments, such as smart cities, new vehicle technologies, automated highways and transportation sharing Examines the institutional and political dimensions of sustainability planning at the urban and regional levels Utilizes case studies from around the world that show alternative ways forward

Book Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project in Kings  Queens  Richmond Counties  New York  and Hudson  Union  Middlesex  Essex Counties  New Jersey

Download or read book Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project in Kings Queens Richmond Counties New York and Hudson Union Middlesex Essex Counties New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insiders Guide North Carolinas s Central Coast

Download or read book Insiders Guide North Carolinas s Central Coast written by Tabbie Merrill and published by Insiders' Guide. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annually updated Insiders Guide. to North Carolinas Central Coast and New Bern is this areas most complete source of travel and newcomer information

Book I 95 Completion Program  Philadelphia Central Waterfront

Download or read book I 95 Completion Program Philadelphia Central Waterfront written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Riverfront Development Plan

Download or read book Riverfront Development Plan written by Stanley Consultants and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of Regional Economic Research and Planning on New England

Download or read book Review of Regional Economic Research and Planning on New England written by New England Economic Research Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Neighborhoods   Addressing Sustainable City Principles

Download or read book New York Neighborhoods Addressing Sustainable City Principles written by Raymond Charles Rauscher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs). Part I looks at the background to planning urban areas in the face of global urban changes. These changes (i.e. population movements and densification of cities) are placing pressures on cities worldwide. Chapter 1 provides a background to these global pressures (i.e. population growth) and their implications. Chapter 2 looks closer at New York planning and introduces Sustainable City Principles (SCPs). Part II introduces nine selected neighborhoods within Manhattan and examines to what extent planning of these neighborhoods addresses the SCPs. For each chapter a neighborhood background is provided and results of the author’s field survey are reviewed. Part III examines the selected neighborhoods within Brooklyn to determine to what extent planning of those neighborhoods addresses the SCPs. Part IV examines the last three neighborhoods (in Queens) and addresses the SCPs. Part V examines conclusions reached from examining the nine neighborhoods. These conclusions are used to determine the extent that the City Council (and the community) are addressing SCPs in planning neighborhoods. Finally, lessons learned from these conclusions are assessed for their relevance to planning neighborhoods anywhere in the world.

Book Inventing the Charles River

Download or read book Inventing the Charles River written by Karl Haglund and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-11-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of the creation of the Charles River Basin, focusing on the precarious balance between transportation planning and the stewardship of the public realm. The Charles River Basin, extending nine miles upstream from the harbor, has been called Boston's "Central Park." Yet few realize that this apparently natural landscape is a totally fabricated public space. Two hundred years ago the Charles was a tidal river, edged by hundreds of acres of salt marshes and mudflats. Inventing the Charles River describes how, before the creation of the basin could begin, the river first had to be imagined as a single public space. The new esplanades along the river changed the way Bostonians perceived their city; and the basin, with its expansive views of Boston and Cambridge, became an iconic image of the metropolis. The book focuses on the precarious balance between transportation planning and stewardship of the public realm. Long before the esplanades were realized, great swaths of the river were given over to industrial enterprises and transportation—millponds, bridges, landfills, and a complex network of road and railway bridges. In 1929, Boston's first major highway controversy erupted when a four-lane road was proposed as part of a new esplanade. At twenty-year intervals, three riverfront road disputes followed, successively more complex and disputatious, culminating in the lawsuits over "Scheme Z," the Big Dig's plan for eighteen lanes of highway ramps and bridges over the river. More than four hundred photographs, maps, and drawings illustrate past and future visions for the Charles and document the river's place in Boston's history.

Book Concurrent Urbanities

Download or read book Concurrent Urbanities written by Miodrag Mitrasinovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design has been employed as an agent of social and political change, and a catalyst for spatial and urban transformations in cities across the world. Concurrent Urbanities argues for the centrality of designing in the conceptualization and production of inclusive and participatory urban space, by bringing together civic and urban activists, urbanists, designers and architects committed to exploring designing as a socio-spatial praxis concerned with the reorganization of urban socio-economic systems and relations of power. The blend of first-hand experiences and reflections of the urban practitioners featured reframes design practice beyond the design of physical objects and public amenities, to the design of social protocols, processes, and infrastructures for radically reframing practices of socio-spatial inclusion ‘on the ground.’ Through illustrated examples, this book features the work of Stalker and Stealth who employ design to negotiate new social contracts; Teddy Cruz's design of urban political and economic processes; models of urban pedagogy by the Center for Urban Pedagogy; Cohabitation Strategies’ work on designing urban social cooperatives; and others. Concurrent Urbanities presents a compendium of the emerging models of design-driven urban practice that offers important new insights to professional urban practitioners as well as to students of urbanism, architecture, urban design, and urban and spatial planning.