The authors discuss how educational alienation is created and fostered by factors in the school, the community and the world. They attack some contemporary school reforms for addressing the wrong problems and propose their own solutions to minimizing alienation. Links between student dropout and teacher burnout are made in this volume. The authors consider them not as separate phenomena, but as stemming from the same process of alienation. The book is intended for professionals and researchers in education, the sociology of education, educational psychology and urban studies.
This volume focusses on the profound impact of defence spending on those local and regional economies that have become dependent upon defence contracts. Contributors discuss the historic role of defence expenditure, patterns of regional change, retructuring the military-industrial complex, the impact and transformation of regional economies and the question of defence spending as urban policy.
This volume examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990. Each chapter traces demographic and economic changes over this vital, and at times turbulent, thirty year period explaining what those changes mean for politics, policies and the general quality of life. Analytic and comparative chapters extract patterns and variations which emerge from the city profiles. Each profile addresses common issues in socio-economic, coalitional, institutional, process, values and policy changes in the following American cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
In many countries, the recent history of public policymaking, particularly planning, shows a distinct move away from supposedly "rational" approaches towards a reliance upon more pragmatic procedures. The move is partly a result of similar changing attitudes amongst academics. Despite this new conventional wisdom, some policy analysts warn against ......
This book elaborates on the distinctive qualities of a global city and focuses on the future of the traditional city, the challenges and opportunities facing the industrial cities and the development of "livable" winter cities in the 20th century. The editors and contributing authors argue that managing rapid urbanization must become a significant professional preoccupation, and that professionals must develop a criteria for assessing "world class" status of particular cities, urban environments, institutions, innovations and even buildings.
Now in paperback, the two volume "The Metropolis Era" focuses on the social, economic, political and technological determinants of growth and change in the great cities of the world. The two volumes describe the consequences of rapid change for the cities and the people who live in them. The contributors look not only at the pathological consequences, but also at the advantages which giant and mega cities offer their residents. They present case studies which focus on new challenges to the world's great cities, and discuss the various forms of urban decline in the giant metropolises of developed nations.
Now in paperback, the two volume "The Metropolis Era" focuses on the social, economic, political and technological determinants of growth and change in the great cities of the world. The two volumes describe the consequences of rapid change for the cities and the people who live in them. The contributors look not only at the pathological consequences, but also at the advantages which giant and mega cities offer their residents. They present case studies which focus on new challenges to the world's great cities, and discuss the various forms of urban decline in the giant metropolises of developed nations.
