Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China. Drawing on fieldwork in Nanjing, Roberta Zavoretti argues that many rural-born urban-dwellers are--contrary to state policy and media portrayals--heterogeneous in their employment, lifestyle, and aspirations. Working and living in the cities, rural-born workers change China's urban landscape, becoming part of an increasingly diversified and stratified society. Zavoretti finds that, over thirty years after the Open Door Reform, class formation, not residence status, is key to understanding inequality in contemporary China.
Why are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to European cities, those in the United States are characterized by lower densities and greater distances; neat, geometric layouts; an abundance of green space; a greater level of social segregation reflected in space; and—perhaps most noticeably—a greater share of individual, single-family detached housing. In Zoned in the USA, Sonia A. Hirt argues that zoning laws are among the important but understudied reasons for the cross-continental differences.Hirt shows that rather than being imported from Europe, U.S. municipal zoning law was in fact an institution that quickly developed its own, distinctly American profile. A distinct spatial culture of individualism—founded on an ideal of separate, single-family residences apart from the dirt and turmoil of industrial and agricultural production—has driven much of municipal regulation, defined land-use, and, ultimately, shaped American life. Hirt explores municipal zoning from a comparative and international perspective, drawing on archival resources and contemporary land-use laws from England, Germany, France, Australia, Russia, Canada, and Japan to challenge assumptions about American cities and the laws that guide them.
Автор: Liazos Ariane Название: Reforming the City: The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890a 1930 ISBN: 0231191391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231191395 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy.
Автор: Liazos Ariane Название: Reforming the City: The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890a 1930 ISBN: 0231191383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231191388 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 92930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy.
Автор: Dean Minix Название: From Revolution to a City on a Hill: Readings on the Origins of the American Political System ISBN: 1516514890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516514892 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 89410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The anthology From Revolution to a City on a Hill: Readings on the Origins of the American Political System introduces students to fundamentals of the American political system and addresses both historical and contemporary issues. Readers become familiar with standard documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and the Articles of Confederation, but also benefit from exposure to outstanding writing from scholarly works on issues such as voting behavior, the Fourth Estate, and American political behavior.The book opens with an examination of the founding of the country and the Constitution. Subsequent chapters examine Federalism, civil liberties and civil rights, the impact of public opinion, and the media and politics. The text also addresses political parties and interest groups, campaigns and elections, Congress, the federal bureaucracy, federal courts, and the Supreme Court.Developed to help students not only fully understand the national government, but learn to evaluate its proper role and scope, From Revolution to a City on a Hill is well suited to survey courses in political science, American government, and United States history.
Название: Portrait of a City. New York ISBN: 3836556049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836556040 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 26570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Celebrate all the energy, beauty, and grit of New York with this evocative city portrait, featuring hundreds of pictures from the mid-19th century to the present day alongside an extensive appendix showcasing some 100 books, movies, and records inspired by the city that never sleeps. Featured photographers include Weegee, Margaret Bourke-White...
Автор: Rast Joel Название: The Origins of the Dual City: Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago ISBN: 022666158X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226661582 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 32730.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city," a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel Rast reveals that today's tacit acceptance of rising urban inequality is a marked departure from the past. For much of the twentieth century, a key goal for civic leaders was the total elimination of slums and blight. Yet over time, as anti-slum efforts faltered, leaders shifted the focus of their initiatives away from low-income areas and toward the upgrading of neighborhoods with greater economic promise. As misguided as postwar public housing and urban renewal programs were, they were born of a long-standing reformist impulse aimed at improving living conditions for people of all classes and colors across the city--something that can't be said to be a true priority for many policymakers today. The Origins of the Dual City illuminates how we normalized and became resigned to living amid stark racial and economic divides.
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