Cultures and Globalization: Cities, Cultural Policy and by Helmut K Anheier,Yudhishthir Raj Isar

Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago

In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected innovative mayors with deep roots between neighborhood activists. Taking workplace because the Reagan management used to be retreating federal reduction from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington applied significant rules that may out live them. greater than reforming governments, they replaced the substance of what the govt. used to be attempting to do: especially, to impression a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' negative and dealing periods and clear of hole pursuits of "growth" as measured via the buildup of skyscrapers.

Publics and the City (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Publics and the town investigates struggles over the making of city publics, contemplating how the construction, administration and rules of ‘public areas’ has emerged as an issue for either city politics and concrete conception. Advances a brand new framework for contemplating the varied spatialities of publicness when it comes to town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the supply of locations for public collecting Examines a chain of exact case stories appears to be like on the courting among urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)

Some time past 20 years monetary bubbles inflated and architectural spending worldwide reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious construction initiatives sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore mainly linked to American capitalism, appeared as though it will possibly close up and relocate to Dubai and Shanghai.

Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance)

Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - used to be part of Canada's city luck tale. After years of overlook and plenty of demands cheap houses and strategies to homelessness, housing is once more a major factor. In nonetheless Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the tale of the increase and fall of Canadian social housing coverage.