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Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssrc-cdn1/crmuploads/new_publication_3/%7BBA021F89-2446-DE11-AFAC-001CC477EC70%7D.pdf
Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World
a novel covering history of philosophy from Socrates to Sartre on a background of a story of a 14 year old girl.
Philosophy for general public kind of book.
Vunka said I must read.
Philosophy for general public kind of book.
Vunka said I must read.
Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico Urbanization by Stealth
Peter Ward:
Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico Urbanization by Stealth
This book is about the phenomenon of colonias in Texas and in northern Mexican border states. While the focus is upon the Texas-Mexico border, the findings will bear scrutiny in all of the border states, given that throughout the border region colonias are important low-income housing areas, the principal characteristics of which are cheaply acquired land, inadequate infrastructure, and self-help dwelling construction. But despite the enormous social costs associated with living and raising a family under these conditions, colonias are home for a large number of people—indeed, in Mexico, for the majority of the population in many cities. Fortunately, the physical conditions in colonias improve over time. They are, in the words of one author, "Slums of hope" (Lloyd 1979), such that between fifteen and twenty years after their establishment they have often become integrated working-class districts with paved roads, services installed, and consolidated dwellings, many with two stories. They are, then, both a problem and a solution—at least if one takes a long-term perspective (Mangin 1967).
http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/warcol
Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico Urbanization by Stealth
This book is about the phenomenon of colonias in Texas and in northern Mexican border states. While the focus is upon the Texas-Mexico border, the findings will bear scrutiny in all of the border states, given that throughout the border region colonias are important low-income housing areas, the principal characteristics of which are cheaply acquired land, inadequate infrastructure, and self-help dwelling construction. But despite the enormous social costs associated with living and raising a family under these conditions, colonias are home for a large number of people—indeed, in Mexico, for the majority of the population in many cities. Fortunately, the physical conditions in colonias improve over time. They are, in the words of one author, "Slums of hope" (Lloyd 1979), such that between fifteen and twenty years after their establishment they have often become integrated working-class districts with paved roads, services installed, and consolidated dwellings, many with two stories. They are, then, both a problem and a solution—at least if one takes a long-term perspective (Mangin 1967).
http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/warcol
Steven A. Moore: Technology and Place - Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm
In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/mootec
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
http://www.valorebooks.com/textbooks/business-model-generation-a-handbook-for-visionaries-game-changers-and-challengers/9780470876411#default=buy&utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Froogle&date=10/24/13
Critique of Appropriate Technology Movement
Kelvin W. Willoughby: Technology Choice: A Critique of the Appropriate Technology Movement
http://www.amazon.com/Technology-Choice-Critique-Appropriate-Movement/dp/1853390577?tag=ecosia-20The Colonias Reader: Economy, Housing, and Public Health in U.S.-Mexico Border Colonias.
The book I used for searching the history of colonias, the Bracero program, policies, etc.
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=nGMKjPUR_cgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA4&dq=The+Colonias+Reader:+Economy,+Housing,+and+Public+Health+in+U.S.-Mexico+Border+Colonias.&ots=td6dFoVNgI&sig=zMuK3djhMy4ZwLRKpoqXHb25s5c#v=onepage&q=The%20Colonias%20Reader%3A%20Economy%2C%20Housing%2C%20and%20Public%20Health%20in%20U.S.-Mexico%20Border%20Colonias.&f=false
Mitchel, D. : The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
Mitchel, D. : The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications. Yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions. Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States. Presented are a series of linked cases that explore the judicial response to public demonstrations by early twentieth-century workers, and comparable legal issues surrounding anti-abortion protests today; the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley; and the plight of homeless people facing new laws against their presence in urban streets. The central focus is how political dissent gains meaning and momentum--and is regulated and policed--in the real, physical spaces of the city.
Harvey, D. C., Hawkins, H., & Thomas, N. J. (2012). Thinking creative clusters beyond the city: people, places and networks.
Harvey, D. C., Hawkins, H., & Thomas, N. J. (2012). Thinking creative clusters beyond the city: people, places and networks. Geoforum, 43(3), 529-539. doi:http://dx.doi.org.lib-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.11.010
Abstract
This paper develops an ethnographic study of a small rural based ‘creative cluster’, called Krowji, situated in the town of Redruth in West Cornwall, UK. The dominant geographies of creative industries research and policy in recent years have an acknowledged urban bias together with a focus on narratives of agglomeration. This paper sits alongside research that brings to the fore ‘other’ geographies of cultural production, and reflects an increasing interest in work on creativity in rural areas. Following work by Storper and Pratt, we explore Krowji’s complex interdependencies, investigating ‘the relations within, without and across the cluster’. We focus on the relationships between Krowji and its surrounding area together with the spatialities and temporalities of the relations that occur across and beyond the cluster. We address the dynamics and durability of relations formed within the cluster also paying attention to their disconnections. In offering this analysis we develop a valuable counterpoint to the urban bias of much work on creative clusters and we contribute to work that is looking more closely at the temporalities and spatialities of cultural production. Further, we point towards the value of ethnographical research on the creative industries.
Harvey, D. (2012). Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution.
Harvey, D. (2012). Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution Verso. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.lib-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/docview/1095629252?accountid=7082
The End Of Suburbs
Leigh Gallagner: The End Of Suburbs
"While the baby boomers helped fortify the notion of the suburban single-family house as the American dream, the millennials are headed in another direction, according to Fortune writer Gallagher. The recession, rising fuel prices, and demographic shifts that mean smaller families and fewer and later marriages are contributing to a decline in the appeal of the suburbs. Gallagher talked to homebuilders, developers, planners, transportation engineers, architects, psychologists, and home buyers and sellers in cities and suburbs to offer a fascinating portrait of housing and lifestyle trends. She examines how the American dream came to be tied to the suburbs even as they are lambasted in popular culture and by social scientists and, lately, planners and engineers. New Urbanists argue that the suburb is an unsustainable model because the low-density population doesn’t generate enough tax base to support it, unless it sprawls. Gallagher points to research and analysis showing rising populations in urban areas and suburbs who adapt the ideals of green living and walkable communities. Fascinating reading on changing trends in how and where we live". --Vanessa Bush
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Suburbs-American-Moving/dp/1591845254
"While the baby boomers helped fortify the notion of the suburban single-family house as the American dream, the millennials are headed in another direction, according to Fortune writer Gallagher. The recession, rising fuel prices, and demographic shifts that mean smaller families and fewer and later marriages are contributing to a decline in the appeal of the suburbs. Gallagher talked to homebuilders, developers, planners, transportation engineers, architects, psychologists, and home buyers and sellers in cities and suburbs to offer a fascinating portrait of housing and lifestyle trends. She examines how the American dream came to be tied to the suburbs even as they are lambasted in popular culture and by social scientists and, lately, planners and engineers. New Urbanists argue that the suburb is an unsustainable model because the low-density population doesn’t generate enough tax base to support it, unless it sprawls. Gallagher points to research and analysis showing rising populations in urban areas and suburbs who adapt the ideals of green living and walkable communities. Fascinating reading on changing trends in how and where we live". --Vanessa Bush
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Suburbs-American-Moving/dp/1591845254
Texas A&M Colonias factbooks
Texas Department of Human Services, The Colonias Factbook (Austin, Texas, June 1988), p. 1-3.
Texas Water Development Board, Water and Wastewater Needs of Texas Colonias: 1995 Update (Austin, Texas, February 1995), p. 3.
Proposal to U.S. Housing and Urban Development from Texas A&M University, Center for Housing and Urban Development, Community Outreach Partnership between Residents of Ten Colonias Along Highway 359 East of Laredo, Texas and The Government of Webb County, Texas and Texas A&M University's Colonias Program (College Station, Texas, April 1994). (Booklet.)
Texas Department of Human Services, The Colonias Factbook, pp. 6-4, 6-5.
Texas A&M University, Colonias Program Performance Appraisal and Opportunities for the State of Texas to Improve Colonia Conditions (College Station, Texas, July 23, 1996), p. 7.
Chris Butler: Henri Lefebvre Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City
Chris Butler: Henri Lefebvre Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City
http://books.google.com/books?id=TaQJawakHPYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+right+to+the+city+lefebvre&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zHkyUv6dH4W52wWAt4DYDA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20right%20to%20the%20city%20lefebvre&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=TaQJawakHPYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+right+to+the+city+lefebvre&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zHkyUv6dH4W52wWAt4DYDA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20right%20to%20the%20city%20lefebvre&f=false
Henri Lefebvre: The Right to the City
Lefebvre, H. (1968). The Right to the City. In E. Kofman & E. Lebas (Eds.), Writings on
Cities. (147 159). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Sep 11
Synopsis
Lefebvre argues that cities are no longer what their historical purpose was: to provide
‘ouvre’ anthropological needs for information, symbolism, the imaginary and play.
Cities in his opinion became empty theatres of consumer goods for tourists.
He argues that only working class has the power to take action and power into their
hands. Lefebvre suggests a program of urban renewal to be put forward and presented
preferentially to the ‘left’ parties or political formations who would be willing to represent
the working class.
Hamdi, Nabeel. The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community
Hamdi, Nabeel. The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community. London: Earthscan, 2010.
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