[PDF] Beyond The City Limits eBook

Author : John R. Logan
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439901632

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Challenging the notion that there is a single, global process of economic restructuring to which cities must submit.

Author : Paul E. Peterson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226922642

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This award-winning book “skillfully blends economic and political analysis” to assess the challenges of urban governments (Emmett H. Buell, Jr., American Political Science Review). Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs Many simply presume that a city’s politics are like a nation’s politics, just on a smaller scale. But the nature of the city is different in many respects—it can’t issue currency, or choose who crosses its borders, make war or make peace. Because of these and other limits, one must view cities in their larger socioeconomic and political contexts. Its place in the nation fundamentally affects the policies a city makes. Rather than focusing exclusively on power structures or competition among diverse groups or urban elites, this book assesses the strengths and shortcomings of how we have previously thought about city politics—and shines new light on how agendas are set, decisions are made, resources are allocated, and power is exercised within cities, as they exist within a federal framework. “Professor Peterson's analysis is imaginatively conceived and skillfully carried through. [City Limits] will lastingly alter our understanding of urban affairs in America.”—from the citation by the selection committee for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award

Author : John Logan
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877229449

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"The studies in this volume compare urban development in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, demonstrating that there is significant variety in urban economic restructuring. The authors emphasize that the economic forces transforming cities from industrial concentrations to postindustrial service centers do not exist apart from politics: all nation-states are heavily involved in the restructuring process."--Back cover.

Author : Keith Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135311587

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City Limits contributes to a growing body of work under the umbrella of 'cultural criminology', which attempts to bring an appreciation of cultural change to an understanding of crime in late modernity (Hayward and Young 2004). Hayward presents an ambitious theoretical analysis that attempts to inspire a 'cultural approach' to understanding the 'crime-city nexus' and, in particular, to re-address 'strain' and the concept of 'relative deprivation' in the context of a culture of consumption. The book incorporates an impressive array of literature from beyond the boundaries of traditional criminology - including urban studies, social theory and, most strikingly, from art and architectural criticism - illustrating a multidisciplinary approach. This provides for a challenging and enlightening read, with a particularly important emphasis on the impact of consumer culture on the lived urban experience and spatial dynamics of the city and, in turn, for an understanding of transgression and criminality. Runner-up for the British Society of Criminology Book Prize (2004).

Author : Josh Sides
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2004-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520939868

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In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 039333905X

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Introduction : "A camera is a tool for learning how to see ...".

Author : Laura Griffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451689381

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An FBI agent and a Navy SEAL race against time to stop a terrorist threat in this romantic suspense from a New York Times–bestselling author. FBI agent Elizabeth LeBlanc is still caught in the aftermath of her last big case when she runs into the one man from her past who is sure to rock her equilibrium even more. Navy SEAL Derek Vaughn is back home from a harrowing rescue mission in which he found evidence of a secret terror cell on US soil. Elizabeth knows he’ll do anything to unravel the plot—including seducing her for information. And despite the risks involved, she’s tempted to let him. Together with the forensics experts at the Delphi Center, Derek and Elizabeth are closing in on the truth, but it may not be fast enough to avert a devastating attack . . . Following in the bestselling tradition of the Tracers series, including Exposed, Scorched, and Twisted, Beyond Limits pulls out all the stops with Griffin’s most gripping thriller yet. Praise for the Tracers series by Laura Griffin: “A perfect combination of forensic science, mystery, romance, and action make this series one to watch.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Top-notch romantic suspense.” —Allison Brennan, New York Times–bestselling author of the Quinn and Costa and Angelhart series “Gritty, imaginative, sexy!—you MUST read Laura Griffin.” —Cindy Gerard, New York Times–bestselling author of the Black Ops, Inc. series