Download or read book Newcomers to Old Towns written by Sonya Salamon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America. Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities.
Download or read book Newcomers to Old Towns written by Sonya Salamon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America. Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities.
Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Download or read book New Town versus Old Town written by Falahat, Somaiyeh and published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of creating New Towns, in its modern form, was emerged in Iran for the first time in the early 20th century, when the process of industrialisation and modernisation began in the country and the urban population increased dramatically. Nowadays the New Towns are being considered as important strategic responses to the emerging Megacities with various urban problems such as pollution, poverty and traffic by the government. The developments in the new towns are in fact building the city from the very first step, so it gives a proper opportunity whereas make it decisive that the concept of sustainability in all its terms and dimensions—social, physical and economical—is followed in the designs and planning strategies in the city. The few researches on the sustainability of built environment in the Hashtgerd New Town mainly focus on either the scale and dimension of architecture or the scale of the city. Although in achieving energy efficiency, the architecture of the complex plays an important role, the urban configurations at the lower resolutions of scale impact the efficiency of architectural designs by filtering the synoptic climates too. So, this text emphasises on the role of the urban geometry as a parameter which influences the sustainability in the city and tries to figure out how efficiently the conventional urban pattern in Hashtgerd New Town act in comparison to the other patterns. The dimension of sustainability which has been focused is the building energy consumption.
Download or read book New Plans for Old Towns written by John William Reps and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Towns and New Needs and The Town Extension Plan written by Paul Waterhouse and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author argues that while the expression "town planning" is widely recognized, in practice the phrase is meaningless since most towns are not planned organically as a whole, but rather, grow haphazardly. Unlike a house, no town is created from a complete design. This leads to towns that are unsuccessful as organisms.
Download or read book Old Town New World written by Jason Broadwater and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet, cowork, urban renewal, the creative class, collaboration, and the punk rock economy comprise tomorrow's Main Streets of small town USA. Old Town New World is a glimpse into a new cultural era in our nation, called by author Jason Broadwater The Connectivity Age. Written through personal stories, experiences, and musings on both broad shifts and specific tactics for economic development success in small cities, Old Town New World is part treatise, part memoir, and part case study of Rock Hill, SC.
Download or read book New Towns for Old written by John Nolen and published by Boston : M. Jones Company. This book was released on 1927 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rd Riccoboni From Old Town to New Town San Diego Paintings written by Rd Riccoboni and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RD Riccoboni, From Old Town - New Town - The San Diego Paintings, is your invitation to take a visual tour with one of America's favorite artists. Inside this book of over sixty painting's the painter of love, joy and happiness, shares selections from the Beacon Artworks Collection and Gallery in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. Riccoboni's brightly painted canvas' takes a journey of creative expression bringing San Diego California's splendor into focus. City and landscape scenes rendered in his signature powerful and energetic palette that lifts one spirit and brings a sense of place and community that is soaked with sunshine and contrast. Scenes include Mission San Diego de Alcala, Old Town, the historic Gaslamp, Hillcrest, North Park, Bankers Hill, La Jolla and Coronado
Download or read book A Neighborhood That Never Changes written by Japonica Brown-Saracino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as A Neighborhood That Never Changes demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities—the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden—Japonica Brown-Saracino paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification. The new breed of gentrifiers, Brown-Saracino finds, exhibits an acute self-consciousness about their role in the process and works to minimize gentrification’s risks for certain longtime residents. In an era of rapid change, they cherish the unique and fragile, whether a dilapidated house, a two-hundred-year-old landscape, or the presence of people deeply rooted in the place they live. Contesting many long-standing assumptions about gentrification, Brown-Saracino’s absorbing study reveals the unexpected ways beliefs about authenticity, place, and change play out in the social, political, and economic lives of very different neighborhoods.
Download or read book The Stories Old Towns Tell written by Marek Kohn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. These old towns and their turbulent histories have been key sites in Europe’s ongoing theater of politics and war. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, the acclaimed writer Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history. Uncovering hidden stories behind these old and old-seeming façades, Kohn offers us a new understanding of the politics of European history-making—showing how our visits to old towns could promote belonging over exclusion, and empathy over indifference.
Download or read book New Wine in Old Wineskins written by R. Stephen Warner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-04-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the roots of resurgent evangelicalism in the United States, Stephen Warner tells the story of one small-town church from 1959 to 1982, the Presbyterian Church of Mendocino, California. This book chronicles the actions of the men and women who struggled with and against one another to shape their church.
Download or read book Historic Towns of New England written by Lyman Pierson Powell and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Real Democracy written by Frank M. Bryan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on an astounding collection of more than three decades of firsthand research, Frank M. Bryan examines one of the purest forms of American democracy, the New England town meeting. At these meetings, usually held once a year, all eligible citizens of the town may become legislators; they meet in face-to-face assemblies, debate the issues on the agenda, and vote on them. And although these meetings are natural laboratories for democracy, very few scholars have systematically investigated them. A nationally recognized expert on this topic, Bryan has now done just that. Studying 1,500 town meetings in his home state of Vermont, he and his students recorded a staggering amount of data about them—238,603 acts of participation by 63,140 citizens in 210 different towns. Drawing on this evidence as well as on evocative "witness" accounts—from casual observers to no lesser a light than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Bryan paints a vivid picture of how real democracy works. Among the many fascinating questions he explores: why attendance varies sharply with town size, how citizens resolve conflicts in open forums, and how men and women behave differently in town meetings. In the end, Bryan interprets this brand of local government to find evidence for its considerable staying power as the most authentic and meaningful form of direct democracy. Giving us a rare glimpse into how democracy works in the real world, Bryan presents here an unorthodox and definitive book on this most cherished of American institutions.
Download or read book The Picayune s Guide to New Orleans written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Americanized Encyclopd ia Britannica written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonial and Old Houses of Greenwich New Jersey written by Bessie Ayars Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
