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Book New Urban Professions

Download or read book New Urban Professions written by Michael Koch and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New urbanist fields of work?! Influencing urban development purposefully and positively can only be accomplished productively if one goes beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. What is required therefore is a rethinking within urbanist practice. New urban professions - a journey through practice and theory provides exploratory discussions of phenomena, reflections, and professionalization possibilities in these various fields of work.

Book Charter of the New Urbanism

Download or read book Charter of the New Urbanism written by Congress for the New Urbanism and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An agenda for thriving urban centers, the San Francisco-based Congress for the New Urbanism is a leading force for modern design that encourages viable neighborhoods, conserves natural environments, and preserves our architectural heritage. Charter of the New Urbanism introduces you to the work of the world-class planners, architects and other professionals who are making the new urbanism happen. Charter contributors, including Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and Liz Moule, explain strategies that range from large-scale, regional, to small-scale: blocks, streets and buildings. Revealing case studies help you understand the impact of geography, economics,development and urban patterns, public and private uses, transportation and pedestrian access, housing, building densities and land uses, codes, parks, shared use, safety, preservation and renewal, community identity and much more in this invaluable resource for design professionals.

Book The New Geography of Jobs

Download or read book The New Geography of Jobs written by Enrico Moretti and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.

Book A City of Professions

Download or read book A City of Professions written by Jordi Ludevid and published by Jordi Ludevid Anglada. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the recovery of the three key words: professionalism, professionals, professions, the narration is organised in the form of a voyage of reconnaissance in discovery, which attempts to recompose a puzzle that is today completely dispersed. A professional is a technician with civic values. Practical knowledge and civic-mindedness are its foundations. Part One (primarily aimed at the professional institutions or college environment) With the conviction that "he who loses his origins loses his identity", the first part recalls the history of the professional fact, from Hippocrates to the present day, passing through Cicero, the Middle Ages, the European University of the 19th century, Max Weber, to Richard Sennett, Victoria Camps and Donald Schön. This is followed by a recognition of the professional fact common to all professions, pointing out its seven non-expendable or structuring elements, among which the six public missions of the professions stand out in particular: health, habitability, legal security, education, communication and economic and environmental sustainability, as well as their link with civic ethics, human rights and global challenges. Next, an interval dedicated to Architecture is proposed, in which, together with Fine Arts and Technology, a plus of professionalism oriented towards people's habitability is postulated. Second part (aimed primarily at the municipal environment and schools) In Spain and in Europe today there are forty regulated professions, which only have six missions (health, education, habitability, legal security, communication and economic and environmental sustainability), which are substantiated in a single shared city. In other words: 40 professions, 6 missions, 1 city. The current interdisciplinary and cross-cutting nature of the professions is embodied in specific cities and neighbourhoods. And since cities and professions share missions, the relationship of professions and professionals with the urban fact is analysed in detail: with the urbs, the civitas and the polis. The description of this relationship reveals itself to be strategic and with an enormous potential for articulation and improvement: the public space is a professional space. In this way, the City of Professions appears

Book The Urban Professional s Cookbook

Download or read book The Urban Professional s Cookbook written by Christopher Mainor and published by christopher mainor. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: urban professional's cook book for cooking for that special someone

Book The Nature of Cities

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  • Author : Jennifer S. Light
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-14
  • ISBN : 9781421413846
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Nature of Cities written by Jennifer S. Light and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.

Book New Urban Worlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : AbdouMaliq Simone
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2018-03-15
  • ISBN : 0745691579
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book New Urban Worlds written by AbdouMaliq Simone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in profound societal and cultural shifts. In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people's lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously been understood. As the authors argue, we need adequate concepts and practices to grasp the composition and intricacy of these shifting efforts to make visible new political possibilities for action and social justice in cities across Asia and Africa.

Book Let s Open Up the Urban Profession

Download or read book Let s Open Up the Urban Profession written by Alan K. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Profession of City Planning  the

Download or read book Profession of City Planning the written by Lloyd Rodwin and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years. The book appraises what planners do and how well they do it, how and why their current activities differ from past practices, and how much and in what ways planners have or have not enhanced the quality of urban life and contributed to the intellectual capital of the field. How have the goals, values, and practices of planners changed? What do planners say about their roles and the problems they confront? What is the relevance of their skills, from design capabilities and environmental savvy to intermediate and long-term perspectives and the pragmatics of implementation? The contributors seeking to answer these questions include Anthony Downs, Nathan Glazer, Philip B. Herr, Judith E. Innes, Terry S. Szold, Lawrence J. Vale, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr. The Profession of City Planning contrasts with the main changes in the US over the second half of the twentieth century in city planning. Sector images of the practice and effects of planning on housing, transportation, and the environment, as well as the development of economic tools are also discussed.

Book Defining the Urban

Download or read book Defining the Urban written by Deljana Iossifova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading academics and professionals from a range of fields, this edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of and insights into what the term 'urban' means. It identifies and critically examines the most important theoretical perspectives, and practical dimensions for the study of cities.

Book Urban Professional s Cookbook

Download or read book Urban Professional s Cookbook written by Christopher Mainor and published by christopher mainor. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the urban professional's cookbook for entertaining

Book The Profession of City Planning

Download or read book The Profession of City Planning written by Lloyd Rodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years. The book appraises what planners do and how well they do it, how and why their current activities differ from past practices, and how much and in what ways planners have or have not enhanced the quality of urban life and contributed to the intellectual capital of the field.How have the goals, values, and practices of planners changed? What do planners say about their roles and the problems they confront? What is the relevance of their skills, from design capabilities and environmental savvy to intermediate and long-term perspectives and the pragmatics of implementation? The contributors seeking to answer these questions include Anthony Downs, Nathan Glazer, Philip B. Herr, Judith E. Innes, Terry S. Szold, Lawrence J. Vale, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr.The Profession of City Planning contrasts with the main changes in the US over the second half of the twentieth century in city planning. Sector images of the practice and effects of planning on housing, transportation, and the environment, as well as the development of economic tools are also discussed.

Book The Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zone Act of 1981

Download or read book The Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zone Act of 1981 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prioritizing Urban Children  Teachers  and Schools through Professional Development Schools

Download or read book Prioritizing Urban Children Teachers and Schools through Professional Development Schools written by Pia Lindquist Wong and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides insights into university partnerships with urban schools.

Book Professionals and Urban Form

Download or read book Professionals and Urban Form written by Judith R. Blau and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professionals and Urban Form departs from the usual way of studying the city to examine the chief professions responsible for designing urban places--planning and architecture. Not often treated together, they are here combined to highlight common problems and lines of convergence between the two. The architects, planners, and social scientists who contributed to this book concern themselves with the interconnection between knowledge and practice in planning and architecture, paying particular attention to the issues of whether design knowledge and theory can or should be distinct from social science knowledge, and the effects of professionalization and institutionalization on the structuring of inquiry and theory. The main sections of the book deal with the history of the design professions; epistemological foundations; professions and practice; and controversies in practice. Many issues of contemporary interest to planners are dealt with, including the debates over normative, advocacy, and communicative planning; Marxist perspectives; supply and demand in the job market for architects; and the overarching epistemological question of the relationship between social science research and design practice.

Book Neighborhood Jobs  Race  and Skills

Download or read book Neighborhood Jobs Race and Skills written by Daniel Immergluck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1998, Neighbourhood Jobs, Race, and Skills argues that race is a powerful and persistent barrier to employment. Analysing existing literature, this book outlines how racial discrimination in hiring against African Americans appears to remain a contributor to high unemployment rates in black neighbourhoods. The book also discusses how issues such as poor schools and physical and social isolation compound employment problems, as well as changes in policy on skill requirements and the location of jobs. The book argues that combined, this is a major contributor to concentrated urban employment and poverty.

Book Migrant Professionals in the City

Download or read book Migrant Professionals in the City written by Lars Meier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants—managers and scientists, for example—are partly defined by their lives’ mobility. But their everyday lives are based and take place in specific cities. The contributors of this book analyze the relevance of locality for a mobile group and provide a new perspective on migrant professionals by considering the relevance of social identities for local encounters in socially unequal cities. Contributors explore shifting identities, senses of belonging, and spatial and social inequalities and encounters between migrant professionals and ‘Others’ within the cities. These qualitative studies widen the understanding of the importance of local aspects for the social identities of those who are in many aspects more privileged than others.