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Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions

Author : Michael A. Pagano
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097149
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions by : Michael A. Pagano

Download or read book Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions written by Michael A. Pagano and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can today's city govern well if its citizens lack modern technology? How important is access to computers for lowering unemployment? What infrastructure does a city have to build in order to attract new business? In this new collection, Michael A. Pagano curates engagement with such questions by public intellectuals, stakeholders, academics, policy analysts, and citizens. Each essay explores issues related to the impact and opportunities technology provides in government and citizenship, health care, workforce development, service delivery to citizens, and metropolitan growth. As the authors show, rapidly emerging technologies and access to such technologies shape the ways people and institutions interact in the public sphere and private marketplace. The direction of metropolitan growth and development, in turn, depends on access to appropriate technology scaled and informed by the individual, household, and community needs of the region. Contributors include Randy Blankenhorn, Bénédicte Callan, Jane Fountain, Sandee Kastrul, Karen Mossberger, Dan O'Neil, Michelle Russell, Alfred Tatum, Stephanie Truchan, Darrel West, and Howard Wial.

Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance

Author : Karsten Zimmermann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030256324
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance written by Karsten Zimmermann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to investigate contemporary processes of metropolitan change and approaches to planning and governing metropolitan regions. To do so, it focuses on four central tenets of metropolitan change in terms of planning and governance: institutional approaches, policy mobilities, spatial imaginaries, and planning styles. The book’s main contribution lies in providing readers with a new conceptual and analytical framework for researching contemporary dynamics in metropolitan regions. It will chiefly benefit researchers and students in planning, urban studies, policy and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions. The relentless pace of urban change in globalization poses fundamental questions about how to best plan and govern 21st-century metropolitan regions. The problem for metropolitan regions—especially for those with policy and decision-making responsibilities—is a growing recognition that these spaces are typically reliant on inadequate urban-economic infrastructure and fragmented planning and governance arrangements. Moreover, as the demand for more ‘appropriate’—i.e., more flexible, networked and smart—forms of planning and governance increases, new expressions of territorial cooperation and conflict are emerging around issues and agendas of (de-)growth, infrastructure expansion, and the collective provision of services.

The Metropolitan Revolution

Author : Bruce Katz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815721528
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Revolution written by Bruce Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders – mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists – are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their communities more prosperous, and they're investing in infrastructure, making manufacturing a priority, and equipping workers with the skills they need. In The Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley highlight success stories and the people behind them. · New York City: Efforts are under way to diversify the city's vast economy · Portland: Is selling the "sustainability" solutions it has perfected to other cities around the world · Northeast Ohio: Groups are using industrial-age skills to invent new twenty-first-century materials, tools, and processes · Houston: Modern settlement house helps immigrants climb the employment ladder · Miami: Innovators are forging strong ties with Brazil and other nations · Denver and Los Angeles: Leaders are breaking political barriers and building world-class metropolises · Boston and Detroit: Innovation districts are hatching ideas to power these economies for the next century The lessons in this book can help other cities meet their challenges. Change is happening, and every community in the country can benefit. Change happens where we live, and if leaders won't do it, citizens should demand it. The Metropolitan Revolution was the 2013 Foreword Reviews Bronze winner for Political Science.

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2020

Author : Deirdre A. Gaquin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1641434201
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)

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Book Synopsis State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2020 by : Deirdre A. Gaquin

Download or read book State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2020 written by Deirdre A. Gaquin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State and Metropolitan Area Data Book is the continuation of the U.S. Census Bureau’s discontinued publication. It is a convenient summary of statistics on the social and economic structure of the states, metropolitan areas, and micropolitan areas in the United States. It is designed to serve as a statistical reference and guide to other data publications and sources. This new edition features more than 1,500 data items from a variety of sources. It covers many key topical areas including population, birth and death rates, health coverage, school enrollment, crime rates, income and housing, employment, transportation, and government. The metropolitan area information is based on the latest set of definitions of metropolitan and micropolitan areas including: a complete listing and data for all states, metropolitan areas, including micropolitan areas, and their component counties 2010 census counts and more recent population estimates for all areas results of the 2016 national and state elections expanded vital statistics, communication, and criminal justice data data on migration and commuting habits American Community Survey 1- and 3-year estimates data on health insurance and housing and finance matters accurate and helpful citations to allow the user to directly consult the source source notes and explanations A guide to state statistical abstracts and state information Economic development officials, regional planners, urban researchers, college students, and data users can easily see the trends and changes affecting the nation today.

Just Growth

Author : Chris Benner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113658112X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Just Growth written by Chris Benner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader – and quite timely – set of conclusions about how to scale up these efforts to address a U.S. economy still seeking to recover from economic crisis and ameliorate distributional divisions.

Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning

Author : Anton Kreukels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134496060
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning written by Anton Kreukels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed. Cities are having to formulate their urban policies in a very complex and turbulent environment. They are faced with numerous new pressures and problems and these often create contradictory conditions. The book provides a theoretical framework for exploring these issues and links this to a detailed investigation of each city. In the context of globalisation, cities in the last twenty years have experienced new patterns of activity and these usually transcend political boundaries. The management of these changes therefore requires an effort of co-ordination and different cities have found different approaches. However the institutional setting itself has not remained static. The nation states in Europe have handed over many responsibilities to the European Union while also increasing devolution to regions and cities. Government has therefore become a more complex multi-level activity. There has also been the move from government to governance. Many different public, quasi-public and private bodies are now involved in making decisions that affect urban development. Metropolitan governance is therefore also a complex multi-actor process. In these conditions of fragmented governance and the widening spatial networking of urban development, the issue of policy co-ordination become ever more important. The exploration of the 20 cities shows that many face similar difficulties while some also provide interesting examples of innovative practice. The book concludes that the way forward is to find strategies to link the different spheres of metropolitan action through 'organising connectivity'.

Cities Ranked & Rated

Author : Bert Sperling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470068647
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cities Ranked & Rated written by Bert Sperling and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates more than four hundred metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada, rating such factors as job market, housing costs, crime rates, climate, health care, education, and quality of life.

Cities and Suburbs

Author : Bernadette Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134004095
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Cities and Suburbs written by Bernadette Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and finally the extent and nature of their decline and renewal. Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US offers a comprehensive examination of demographic and socioeconomic processes of US suburbanization by providing a succinct guide to understanding the dynamic relationship between metropolitan structure and processes of social change. A variety of case studies are used in the chapters to explore suburban successes and failures and the discourse concludes with reflections on metropolitan policy and planning for the twenty-first century. The topics of discussion include: Key ideas and concepts on the demographic and sociospatial aspects of metropolitan change The changing nature of city and suburban population migration and their relationships with changes at the local, metropolitan, national, and global levels Current metropolitan public policy issues of large cities and suburbs Links of suburbanization to metropolitan transformation and the growing dichotomy between suburban decline and suburban sprawl in metropolitan areas. Cities and Suburbs relies on theorized case studies, demographic analysis, maps, and photos from North America. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book addresses various fundamental questions about the socioeconomic role that suburbs and cities play in shaping metropolitan areas, their environmental impact, the political consequences, and the resulting policy debates. This is essential reading for scholars and students of Geography, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Urban Studies and Urban Planning.

Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions

Author : Peter C Bosselmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351375180
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions by : Peter C Bosselmann

Download or read book Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions written by Peter C Bosselmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades to come, climate change will affect cities everywhere, but nowhere have the effects of climate change already been felt as strongly as in low-lying coastal cities, cities located in large river deltas and near tidal estuaries. This book reflects on the contribution that spatial planning and urban design can make to a complex discussion about how city form and landscapes will need to adapt within metropolitan areas. The book’s focus is on the urban form of three delta regions: the Pearl River Delta in Southern China; the Rhine, Maas, and Scheldt Delta in the Netherlands; and the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. The three regions differ greatly, but despite their different political systems, history, culture and locations in three different climate zones, all three regions will be forced to respond to similar issues that will trigger transformations and adaptations to their urban form. Richly illustrated in color with detailed diagrams, models, photographs and sketches, the book is written for students, scholars and practitioners of environmental planning, and designers who need to respond to the future form of cities in light of climate change. For the professions shaping the physical world of cities and regions, the challenge is not only one of designing physical geometries but of social consequences.

Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century

Author : Don Phares
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765631571
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Governing Metropolitan Regions in the 21st Century written by Don Phares and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While government provides the structure of public leadership, governance is the art of public leadership. This timely book examines current trends in metropolitan governance issues. It analyzes specific cases from thirteen major metropolitan regions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, all woven together by an overall framework established in the first three chapters. The distinguished contributors address such governance issues as city-county consolidation, local-federal coordination, annexation and special districting, and private contracting, with special attention to lessons learned from both successes and failures. As urban governance innovations have clearly outpaced urban government structures in recent years, the topics covered here are especially relevant.

Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions

Author : Gebhard Wulfhorst
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658144289
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions written by Gebhard Wulfhorst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is focussing on the results of the mobil.LAB Doctoral Research Group “Sustainable mobility in the metropolitan region of Munich” for its first phase. It highlights the key findings of young scientists from diverse disciplines on selected issues of sustainable mobility, such as neighbourhood mobility, sustainable modes, regional governance and spatial aspects. This includes insights of methods used to assess sustainable mobility, the way how to study and how to conceptualize sustainable development in each of the contributions. Each chapter is built on case studies in cooperation with practice partners and based on empirical data in the metropolitan region of Munich. Moreover, a common understanding of sustainable mobility in metropolitan regions and future research perspectives on mobility cultures are developed. In consequence, the knowledge and experiences are shared in order to generate strategies and actions to address, promote and support sustainable mobility in metropolitan regions.

Metropolitan Area Definition

Author : Brian J. L. Berry
Publisher : [Washington] : U.S. Bureau of the Census
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Area Definition written by Brian J. L. Berry and published by [Washington] : U.S. Bureau of the Census. This book was released on 1969 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Future of Outdoor Recreation in Metropolitan Regions of the United States

Author : United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Outdoor Recreation in Metropolitan Regions of the United States written by United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of Cooperation

Author :
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754672418
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of Cooperation written by and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering Metropolitan Regions through New Forms of Cooperation analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in various European cities and regions. It provides insight into the factors of failure and success in relation to the coalition forming process by comparing various attempts at this in European regions. The comparative analysis of these attempts to establish cooperation between municipalities sheds light on the importanceof a regional approach to governance in dealing with challenges that cross the borders of cities.

Equity, Growth, and Community

Author : Chris Benner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520284410
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Equity, Growth, and Community written by Chris Benner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States. Addressing these new realities in America's metropolitan regions, this book argues that a few lessons are emerging: first, inequity is bad for economic growth; second, bringing together the concerns of equity and growth requires concerted local action; and third, the fundamental building block for doing this is the creation of diverse and dynamic epistemic (or knowledge) communities, which help to overcome political polarization and to address the challenges of economic restructuring and social divides. “As America bolts toward a more multiracial future in the face of skyrocketing inequality, local leaders are desperately seeking strategies to foster more inclusive growth. Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor's research uncovers a critical ingredient of success: diverse regional leaders coming together to build a foundation of shared knowledge and advance positive change.” -- ANGELA GLOVER BLACKWELL, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink CHRIS BENNER is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, Director of the Everett Program for Digital Tools for Social Innovation, and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent book, coauthored with Manuel Pastor, is Just Growth: Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Region. His other books include This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Transforming Metropolitan America and Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in the New Economy. MANUEL PASTOR is Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of USC's Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and Codirector of USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). He is the coauthor of Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future and This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Transforming Metropolitan America.

Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030917418X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-09-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's cities have symbolized the nation's prosperity, dynamism, and innovation. Even with the trend toward suburbanization, many central cities attract substantial new investment and employment. Within this profile of health, however, many urban areas are beset by problems of economic disparity, physical deterioration, and social distress. This volume addresses the condition of the city from the perspective of the larger metropolitan region. It offers important, thought-provoking perspectives on the structure of metropolitan-level decisionmaking, the disadvantages faced by cities and city residents, and expanding economic opportunity to all residents in a metropolitan area. The book provides data, real-world examples, and analyses in key areas: Distribution of metropolitan populations and what this means for city dwellers, suburbanites, whites, and minorities. How quality of life depends on the spatial structure of a community and how problems are based on inequalities in spatial opportunityâ€"with a focus on the relationship between taxes and services. The role of the central city today, the rationale for revitalizing central cities, and city-suburban interdependence. The book includes papers that provide in-depth examinations of zoning policy in relation to patterns of suburban development; regionalism in transportation and air quality; the geography of economic and social opportunity; social stratification in metropolitan areas; and fiscal and service disparities within metropolitan areas.

OECD Urban Studies Cities in the World A New Perspective on Urbanisation

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264376666
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book OECD Urban Studies Cities in the World A New Perspective on Urbanisation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are not only home to around half of the global population but also major centers of economic activity and innovation. Yet, so far there has been no consensus of what a city really is. Substantial differences in the way cities, metropolitan, urban, and rural areas are defined across countries hinder robust international comparisons and an accurate monitoring of SDGs. The report Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation addresses this void and provides new insights on urbanisation by applying for the first time two new definitions of human settlements to the entire globe: the Degree of Urbanisation and the Functional Urban Area.