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Urbane Globalisierung: Bedeutung und Wandel der Stadt im Globalisierungsprozess
by Hauke Jan RolfHauke Jan Rolf stützt sich auf eine stadtspezifische Betrachtungsweise und untersucht im Rahmen seiner Globalisierungskritik, inwieweit ökonomistische Ansätze im Globalisierungsdiskurs vorherrschen und sich auch in stadtbezogenen Analysen wie der Global City-Konzeption widerspiegeln. Er präsentiert eine tiefgreifende Studie der stadtspezifischen Globalisierungskonfiguration, die historische und kulturelle Bezüge herstellt, sozioökonomische Entwicklungsdivergenzen verschieden gearteter Städte berücksichtigt und politische Handlungsalternativen anbietet.
Urbane Mixturen: Städtebau und Stadtplanung als relationales Handlungsfeld (Urban Studies)
by Christian Peer Angelika PsennerZeitgemäße Stadtplanungskonzepte setzen die städtebauliche Mischung als Grundprinzip voraus und erkennen darin eine zwar herausfordernde, aber notwendige Praxis. In der Umsetzung ist sie jedoch umstritten und bleibt oft unerreicht oder im Ergebnis überraschend andersartig. Die Beiträger*innen setzen sich kritisch mit Aspekten der urbanen Mischung und der damit verknüpften Rolle von Architektur und Planung auseinander. Sie beleuchten Widersprüche und Herausforderungen und nennen Beispiele für neuartige Perspektiven und Qualitäten des Urbanen, für deren Sinnhaftigkeit, Erfolg oder Scheitern. Ihre Analysen liefern Grundlagen für das gegenwärtige und zukünftige kollaborative Planen und Bauen.
Urbane Mobilität im Umbruch: Normen, Leitbilder und familiäre Aushandlungsprozesse zu Autos und Elektroautos (Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung)
by Uta SchneiderUta Schneider untersucht Normen und Leitbilder zur Automobilität bei Familien aus drei süddeutschen Großstädten mittels einer Kombination von Mobilitätstagebüchern und Paar- und Familieninterviews. Das Leitbild-Konzept aus der sozialwissenschaftlichen Technikforschung dient als theoretischer Rahmen. Mittels einer Typenbildung wird der Zusammenhang zwischen alltäglicher Mobilitätspraxis, mobilitätsbezogenen Normen und intrafamilialen Aushandlungsprozessen herausgearbeitet. Die Ergebnisse zu automobilen Leitbildern werden ergänzt durch die Darstellung der Leitbilder zu Elektrofahrzeugen.
Urbane Sicherheit und Partizipation: Stellenwert und Funktion bürgerschaftlicher Beteiligung an kommunaler Kriminalprävention (Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft)
by Jens WurtzbacherSeit Beginn der 1990er Jahre wurde bürgerschaftliche Partizipation im Zuge von Community Policing in den USA und von kommunaler Kriminalprävention in Deutschland als wichtige Ressource für urbane Sicherheitspolitiken dargestellt. Die Arbeit beantwortet empirisch die Frage, ob sich im Feld der Sicherheitspolitik partizipative Projektformen dauerhaft etablieren konnten und ob diese einen Effekt auf das öffentliche Leben der Städte nach sich zogen. Dabei wird empirisch die Situation der kriminalpräventiven Gremienarbeit in zwölf bundesdeutschen Großstädten unter die Lupe genommen und anhand zweier Fallstudien zu Berlin und Stuttgart vertieft. Die Situation in den USA wird anhand einer Fallstudie zu Chicago näher analysiert.
Urbane Ungleichheiten: Neue Entwicklungen zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie (Sozialstrukturanalyse)
by Peter A. Berger Carsten Keller Andreas Klärner Rainer NeefModerne, funktional differenzierte, gleichzeitig aber vertikal stratifizierte Gesellschaften sind urban geprägt. Ihre Ungleichheitsstrukturen haben nicht nur soziale, sondern auch räumliche Dimensionen, die sich in Differenzen innerhalb von Städten, zwischen verschiedenen Städten, aber auch im Verhältnis zwischen Städten und dem ländlich geprägten Raum bzw. zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie ausdrücken. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes bringen zwei Bereiche der Soziologie, die Sozialstrukturanalyse und die Stadt-und Regionalsoziologie, die empirisch oft kooperierten, aber sich seltener über hierfür relevante Konzepte verständigten, in einen Dialog. Die Beiträge beschreiben und analysieren soziale und räumliche Ungleichheiten in städtischen oder ländlichen Lebenswelten und werfen gleichzeitig die Frage auf, wie die aktuelle Gestalt räumlicher Ungleichheiten konturiert und produziert wird.
Urbane Zukünfte im Science-Fiction-Film: Was wir vom Kino für die Stadt von morgen lernen können
by Ferdinando TerelleDieses Buch bietet eine außergewöhnliche Perspektive auf die nachhaltige, lebenswerte und humane Gestaltung urbaner Zukünfte, indem es sich dieser Herausforderung mit Blick auf das Science-Fiction-Kino sowie mit Bezügen zu Literatur, Architektur und Design nähert.Schon im Jahr 2050 sollen mehr als zwei Drittel aller Menschen in Ballungsräumen leben. Doch Großstädte laufen bereits heute Gefahr, an ihre Leistungsgrenzen zu stoßen: In den Megacities drohen Überbevölkerung, Verkehrschaos, Luftverschmutzung und Vereinsamung. Auf welche Weise werden solche zukünftig immer drängenderen Probleme in den fiktionalen Welten von Genreklassikern und aktuellen Blockbustern gelöst? Was lässt sich aus den fantastischen Zukunftsentwürfen zur Bewältigung urbaner Herausforderungen lernen?mediale und nachhaltige Großstadt-Architekturen New-Work-Designs und -KonzepteStrategien gegen gesellschaftliche SpaltungZu diesen und anderen Themen zeigen die Autoren eine Vielzahl von Ideen für die Stadtplanung der Zukunft auf und plädieren für das Nutzbarmachen kreativer Potenziale bei der Gestaltung lebenswerter Umgebungen.
Urbanes Zusammenleben: Zum Umgang mit Migration und Mobilität in europäischen Stadtgesellschaften (Interkulturelle Studien)
by Wolf-Dietrich BukowSeit der letzten Globalisierungswelle hat sich die (grenzüberschreitende) Mobilität noch einmal erheblich verstärkt. Die Reaktionen hierauf sind unterschiedlich. Während europäische Stadtgesellschaften auf der Alltagsebene auf die Jahrhunderte lang erworbenen Kompetenzen im Umgang mit Vielfalt zurückgreifen können und so mit der zunehmenden Diversität überwiegend erfolgreich umzugehen vermögen, orientiert sich die öffentliche Debatte weiter an nationalen Vorstellungen, die dem entgegenstehen. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, wie dringend es geboten ist, sich der bewährten urbanen Kompetenz im Umgang mit Vielfalt zu vergewissern und die Gesellschaft von dort aus neu zu entwerfen.
Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria
by Adegbola Ojo Oluwole OjewaleThis book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations. In Africa’s largest democracy, rapid unmanaged growth in its cities combined with decaying public infrastructure mean that risk factors accumulate and deepen the potential for urban crime. This book includes a thorough explanation of key concepts alongside an examination of the contemporary configuration, dynamics, dimensions, drivers and potential responses to urban crime challenges. The authors also discuss a range of methodological techniques and applications that can be used, including spatial technologies to generate new data for analysis. It brings together history, theory, trends, patterns, drivers, repercussions and responses to provide a deep analysis of the challenges that confront urban dwellers. Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria offers academics, researchers, governments, civil society organisations, citizens, and international partners a tool with which to engage in a serious dialogue about crime within cities, based on evidence and good practices from inside and outside sub-Saharan Africa.
Urbanisation in Bengal: Ideas, Institutions and Policies
by Pallavi ChakravartyThis volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of urban space, examines the institutions which constitute the ‘urban’, and explores the crises brought about by the Partition.The book highlights the key features of urbanization in colonial Bengal––the print culture, institutions of Western education and Western medicine, and the census as a ‘modern form of knowledge’. It also looks at the refugee movement and discusses the contribution of Partition refugees in urbanizing Bengal.Rich in archival sources, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of urban history, urban studies, Indian history, colonial history, postcolonial studies, partition studies, and South Asian history, particularly those interested in Bengal.
Urbanisation in Bengal: Ideas, Institutions and Policies
This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of urban space, examines the institutions which constitute the ‘urban’, and explores the crises brought about by the Partition.The book highlights the key features of urbanization in colonial Bengal––the print culture, institutions of Western education and Western medicine, and the census as a ‘modern form of knowledge’. It also looks at the refugee movement and discusses the contribution of Partition refugees in urbanizing Bengal.Rich in archival sources, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of urban history, urban studies, Indian history, colonial history, postcolonial studies, partition studies, and South Asian history, particularly those interested in Bengal.
Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis
by Korkut OnaranUrbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change. The book offers strong, straightforward measures for creating a landscape of resilience via pockets of self-sufficiencies. It demonstrates how to secure systems that sustain life (energy, water, food, waste, and production of essential goods) as well as political and social protocols enabling agile decision-making in managing these systems effectively at local levels. It also provides the design principles for creating a built environment that will enable the kind of localization we need for adaptation. The book explores how it is possible to create a life that does not depend on large-scale regional sustenance systems which are likely to be disrupted or fail. This book uncovers how to enable people to be creative, productive, and supportive at local levels, so that we can achieve strong and diverse local economies that can sustain life. It will appeal to students, planners, and policy makers working in environmental studies, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.
Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis
by Korkut OnaranUrbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change. The book offers strong, straightforward measures for creating a landscape of resilience via pockets of self-sufficiencies. It demonstrates how to secure systems that sustain life (energy, water, food, waste, and production of essential goods) as well as political and social protocols enabling agile decision-making in managing these systems effectively at local levels. It also provides the design principles for creating a built environment that will enable the kind of localization we need for adaptation. The book explores how it is possible to create a life that does not depend on large-scale regional sustenance systems which are likely to be disrupted or fail. This book uncovers how to enable people to be creative, productive, and supportive at local levels, so that we can achieve strong and diverse local economies that can sustain life. It will appeal to students, planners, and policy makers working in environmental studies, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.
Urbanität: Ein Mythos und sein Potential
by Thomas WüstGegenstand des Buches ist die Auseinandersetzung mit dem im Jargon von Stadtplanung und Stadtforschung fest verankerten Begriff der Urbanität. Auf diese Weise wird eine innovative Perspektive auf Stadtentwicklungspolitik entfaltet.
Urbanität und Egonetzwerke in der Stadt: Eine relationale Perspektive auf die Heidelberger Bahnstadt
by Christina HerrmannUrbanität haftet Individuen weder einfach als Habitus an, noch ist sie in einer Stadt per se gegeben. Vielmehr muss auf die Wechselwirkungen von Stadtraum – sozialen Beziehungen – und Einstellungen rekurriert werden, um zu verstehen, wie die sozialen Netzwerke in der Stadt Offenheit für Urbanität hervorbringen. Christina Herrmann betrachtet den geplanten, neu gebauten Heidelberger Stadtteil Bahnstadt als soziales Labor und untersucht lokale soziale Beziehungen, sowie deren Einfluss auf die Offenheit gegenüber Urbanität qualitativ, quantitativ und netzwerkanalytisch. Dabei thematisiert dieses Buch neben klassischen relationalen Ansätzen auch die Diskussion um die nachhaltige Stadt in der Wissensgesellschaft und die Situationen von jungen Familien in der Stadt.
Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)
by Meiqin WangThis book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wang provides a detailed analysis of artworks and methodologies of art-making from eight contemporary artists who employ a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and performance. She also sheds light on the relationship between these artists and their sociocultural origins, investigating their provocative responses to various processes and problems brought about by Chinese urbanization. With this urbanization comes a fundamental shift of the philosophical and aesthetic foundations in the practice of Chinese art: from a strong affiliation with nature and countryside to one that is complexly associated with the city and the urban world.
Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)
by Meiqin WangThis book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wang provides a detailed analysis of artworks and methodologies of art-making from eight contemporary artists who employ a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and performance. She also sheds light on the relationship between these artists and their sociocultural origins, investigating their provocative responses to various processes and problems brought about by Chinese urbanization. With this urbanization comes a fundamental shift of the philosophical and aesthetic foundations in the practice of Chinese art: from a strong affiliation with nature and countryside to one that is complexly associated with the city and the urban world.
Urbanization and Its Impact in Contemporary China (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path)
by Peilin LiThis book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China’s economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor; and social integration. All chapters are based on updated nation-wide sampling survey data. Taken together, they provide a lens for understanding various aspects of urbanization and its impacts on China’s economy and society.
Urbanization and Regional Sustainability in South Asia: Socio-economic Drivers, Environmental Pressures and Policy Responses (Contemporary South Asian Studies)
by Sumana Bandyopadhyay Chitta Ranjan Pathak Tomaz Ponce DentinhoThis book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia. By analyzing the socio-economic impacts and infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of different conurbations, it highlights conflicts over agricultural land as well as the effects on health, education, poverty and the welfare of children, women and old people. The authors also explore issues of mobility; connectivity and accessibility of public services, and discuss the effective use of new urban-management tools, such as the concept of smart cities and urban spatial monitoring.
Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge African Studies #16)
by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa Abebe Shimeles Nadège Désirée YaméogoThe main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa’s development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve living conditions for the majority, help in the expansion of the middle class, and create conditions for economic transformation. However, many African cities have developed haphazardly, resulting in the decline of public services, in slum proliferation, and increases in poverty. African cities thrive on activities characterized by easy entry and low productivity, generally referred to as the "informal sector". Indeed, today some urban dwellers are poorer than their cousins in the countryside. In spite of reform attempts, many governments have not been able to create an enabling environment, with adequate infrastructure and institutions to sustain markets for easy exchange and production. This study argues that with careful policies and planning, the situation can be changed. If the recent natural resource-led economic boom that we have seen in many African countries is used for structural reforms and urban renewal, African cities could become centers of economic opportunity. The challenge for African policymakers is to ensure that urban development is orderly and that the process is inclusive and emphasizes the protection of the environment, hence green growth.
Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge African Studies)
by Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa Abebe Shimeles Nadège Désirée YaméogoThe main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa’s development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve living conditions for the majority, help in the expansion of the middle class, and create conditions for economic transformation. However, many African cities have developed haphazardly, resulting in the decline of public services, in slum proliferation, and increases in poverty. African cities thrive on activities characterized by easy entry and low productivity, generally referred to as the "informal sector". Indeed, today some urban dwellers are poorer than their cousins in the countryside. In spite of reform attempts, many governments have not been able to create an enabling environment, with adequate infrastructure and institutions to sustain markets for easy exchange and production. This study argues that with careful policies and planning, the situation can be changed. If the recent natural resource-led economic boom that we have seen in many African countries is used for structural reforms and urban renewal, African cities could become centers of economic opportunity. The challenge for African policymakers is to ensure that urban development is orderly and that the process is inclusive and emphasizes the protection of the environment, hence green growth.
Urbanization and Urban Governance in China: Issues, Challenges, and Development (Governing China in the 21st Century)
by Lin YeThis book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom and participation in the governing process has asked for a change of the traditional top-down control system. The vertical devolution between the central and local states and horizontal competition among local governments produced an uneasy political dynamics in Chinese cities. Many existing publications analyze the urban transformation in China but few focuses on the governance challenges. It is critical to investigate China’s urbanization, paying special attention to its challenges to urban governance. This edited volume fills this gap by organizing ten chapters of distinctive urban development and governance issues.
Urbanization And Urban Policies In Pacific Asia
by Roland J FuchsThis book is the outcome of the Conference on Population Growth, Urbanization, and Urban Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Honolulu during 8-12 April 1985. It provides wide attention among development planners, urban managers, and scholars in the field of urban and development planning.
Urbanization And Urban Policies In Pacific Asia
by Roland J FuchsThis book is the outcome of the Conference on Population Growth, Urbanization, and Urban Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Honolulu during 8-12 April 1985. It provides wide attention among development planners, urban managers, and scholars in the field of urban and development planning.
Urbanization in a Federalist Context
by Roscoe MartinThe emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere has its effects been greater than in the domain of government. The growth of the city and its evolution into the metro-city has led to problems more complex and intense than any previously known. These problems command the concern and resources of all governments, federal as well as state and local; for as they have gained general attention they have emerged as national problems.Coincident with national involvement in problems once held to be local has come a rise in federal government relations with the cities. Such relations, though in fact of long standing, have increased greatly in number and intensity since 1933. The result is a significant expansion in the practice of federalism, one marked by the emergence of the cities as partners in the federal system. Urbanization in a Federalist Context treats the expanded federal partnership in urban growth and argues that it is not a fact to be welcomed.Martin traces the expansion of federal authority in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. He shows how local issues become national issues, and also how national authority expands, affecting all aspects of location government. The developments he explores reflect a federal system in the process of constant but evolutionary growth. Martin reveals why the relationship between the federal system and metro-cities is a flexible arrangement, capable of adjusting to new demands-but not without its own risks. This classic will be of continuing interest to those concerned about the consequences of the expansion of government authority in the United States.
Urbanization in a Federalist Context
by Roscoe MartinThe emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere has its effects been greater than in the domain of government. The growth of the city and its evolution into the metro-city has led to problems more complex and intense than any previously known. These problems command the concern and resources of all governments, federal as well as state and local; for as they have gained general attention they have emerged as national problems.Coincident with national involvement in problems once held to be local has come a rise in federal government relations with the cities. Such relations, though in fact of long standing, have increased greatly in number and intensity since 1933. The result is a significant expansion in the practice of federalism, one marked by the emergence of the cities as partners in the federal system. Urbanization in a Federalist Context treats the expanded federal partnership in urban growth and argues that it is not a fact to be welcomed.Martin traces the expansion of federal authority in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. He shows how local issues become national issues, and also how national authority expands, affecting all aspects of location government. The developments he explores reflect a federal system in the process of constant but evolutionary growth. Martin reveals why the relationship between the federal system and metro-cities is a flexible arrangement, capable of adjusting to new demands-but not without its own risks. This classic will be of continuing interest to those concerned about the consequences of the expansion of government authority in the United States.