Implementing City Sustainability examines the structures and processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. As American cities adopt sustainability objectives, they are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination, and collective action challenges to achieve successful implementation.
Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning, public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply it to local sustainability to explain how cities can—and in some cases do—organize to successfully administer changes to achieve complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations. Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research design and original data to provide a national overview of cities’ sustainability arrangements, as well as eight city case studies highlighting different means of organizing to achieve functional collective action.
By focusing not just on what cities are doing to further sustainability, but also on how they are doing it, the authors show how administrative structure enables—or inhibits—cities to overcome functional divides and achieve successful outcomes.
Implementing City Sustainability examines the structures and processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. As American cities adopt sustainability objectives, they are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination, and collective action challenges to achieve successful implementation.
Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning, public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply it to local sustainability to explain how cities can—and in some cases do—organize to successfully administer changes to achieve complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations. Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research design and original data to provide a national overview of cities’ sustainability arrangements, as well as eight city case studies highlighting different means of organizing to achieve functional collective action.
By focusing not just on what cities are doing to further sustainability, but also on how they are doing it, the authors show how administrative structure enables—or inhibits—cities to overcome functional divides and achieve successful outcomes.
This book is an empirical study of a central European city focused on the political process. The authors use the example of the city of Wroclaw to present a condition of the urban public sphere in the context of local governance. Contemporary specificity of the public sphere is a result of a long process of system transformation in this part of Europe as well as of the impact new global challenges have had on the political process in self-governmental institutions. The book presents the practice of governance as a form of the political in both institutional and civic spheres of the city. The cases provided (related to politics of memory, the symbolic, sports, subcultures and urban movements) show how circulations of governance practices are created and how they influence the institutional borders of the political.
Автор: Lukasz Skoczylas, Elzbieta Smolarkiewicz Название: Internal Migrations in Poland ISBN: 3631782845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631782842 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 7259.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The aim of this book is to highlight the issue of internal migrations and emphasise the need to conduct research on their course and consequences, including those stemming from historical processes. The complexity of this topic is illustrated by the fact that the chapters contained in the book have been written by representatives of different disciplines: sociology, psychology, geography and economics, which may suggest the need for interdisciplinary research to be conducted in the future.
Автор: Hohmann Rene Peter Название: Regenerating Deprived Urban Areas ISBN: 1447310780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447310785 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 17026.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book compares the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. It applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the field of urban regeneration and planning.
Автор: Uwe Soergel Название: Radar Remote Sensing of Urban Areas ISBN: 9048137500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048137503 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 17097.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text focuses on state-of-the-art methodologies to extract information about urban areas from Synthetic Aperture Radar data. It includes case studies that are sorted into two groups-the mapping of the current urban state and the monitoring of change.
Автор: David G. Zeitoun; Eliyahu Wakshal Название: Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas ISBN: 9400797346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400797345 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book`s engineering approach to identifying causes of land subsidence in delta cities is based on the Biot system of equations. These advanced computational methods, used in Bangkok, will aid the compensation process in subsidence-derived damages claims.
Автор: Gert-Jan Hospers; Nol Reverda Название: Managing Population Decline in Europe`s Urban and Rural Areas ISBN: 3319124110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319124117 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6097.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chapter 1: Introduction: Population Decline.- Chapter 2: Demographic Changes.- Chapter 3: Growth and Decline.- Chapter 4: The Geography of Population Decline.- Chapter 5: Policy Reactions on Population Decline.- Chapter 6: Population Decline and Society.- Chapter 7: Population Decline and Quality.- Chapter 8: Creative with Population Decline.- Chapter 9: Managing Population Decline well.
This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and innovatively about the situations they are addressing.
The book consists of original contributions from academics working in the fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and international sustainable development. Drawing on case study research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an original, interdisciplinary approach to both theory and practice, illustrating the challenges and opportunities facing policy-makers and practitioners attempting to develop, manage and maintain sustainable communities. The authors argue that the dominant approach of 'how to do' small scale social sustainability fails to locate it within broader social processes. Ignoring the context not only sustains, but also actively reproduces wider inequalities.
The book presents a new, more coherent and more complete approach to issues of social sustainability in urban areas. The book approaches current urban policy discourses in three different ways, represented by three sections: firstly focusing on small places within the urban fabric, secondly addressing the whole urban fabric by examining whether changing urban living and working patterns. The third section explores some of the ways that funding can be secured to achieve the aims of social sustainability and the social planning associated with it.
Автор: D. Varady Название: Ethnic minorities in urban areas ISBN: 9400992475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400992474 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10976.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Uwe Soergel Название: Radar Remote Sensing of Urban Areas ISBN: 9400731728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400731721 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12196.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text focuses on state-of-the-art methodologies to extract information about urban areas from Synthetic Aperture Radar data. It includes case studies that are sorted into two groups-the mapping of the current urban state and the monitoring of change.
Описание: Bringing together contributions from internationally renown authors, such as Sir Peter Hall and Johann Jessen, this book addresses the parallel phenomena of growth and decline, focussing in particular, on urban fringe and rural areas.
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