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How Cities Matter
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Author : Richard Harris
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-12
How Cities Matter written by Richard Harris and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with History categories.
Most historians and social scientists treat cities as mere settings. In fact, urban places shape our experience. There, daily life has a faster, artificial rhythm and, for good and ill, people and agencies affect each other through externalities (uncompensated effects) whose impact is inherently geographical. In economic terms, urban concentration enables efficiency and promotes innovation while raising the costs of land, housing, and labour. Socially, it can alienate or provide anonymity, while fostering new forms of community. It creates congestion and pollution, posing challenges for governance. Some effects extend beyond urban borders, creating cultural change. The character of cities varies by country and world region, but it has generic qualities, a claim best tested by comparing places that are most different. These qualities intertwine, creating built environments that endure. To fully comprehend such path dependency, we need to develop a synthetic vision that is historically and geographically informed.
Why Cities Matter
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Author : Stephen T. Um
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Christian Books
Release Date : 2013
Why Cities Matter written by Stephen T. Um and has been published by Hodder Christian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Cities and towns categories.
Using sociological research and data, urban pastors Um and Buzzard lay out the vision and rationale for church planting, cultural engagement, and missionary impulses in our world's cities as they provide a solid theological foundation for making the city our home.
Cities Matter
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Author : Charles Albert Ramsay
language : en
Publisher: Baraka Nonfiction
Release Date : 2022-10
Cities Matter written by Charles Albert Ramsay and has been published by Baraka Nonfiction this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Cities, as Jane Jacobs showed, are at the heart economic development and, despite pandemics, they will continue to prosper and grow.
The Wealth And Poverty Of Regions
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Author : Mario Polèse
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15
The Wealth And Poverty Of Regions written by Mario Polèse and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with Business & Economics categories.
As the world becomes more interconnected through travel and electronic communication, many believe that physical places will become less important. But as Mario Polèse argues in The Wealth and Poverty of Regions, geography will matter more than ever before in a world where distance is allegedly dead. This provocative book surveys the globe, from London and Cape Town to New York and Beijing, contending that regions rise—or fall—due to their location, not only within nations but also on the world map. Polèse reveals how concentrations of industries and populations in specific locales often result in minor advantages that accumulate over time, resulting in reduced prices, improved transportation networks, increased diversity, and not least of all, “buzz”—the excitement and vitality that attracts ambitious people. The Wealth and Poverty of Regions maps out how a heady mix of size, infrastructure, proximity, and cost will determine which urban centers become the thriving metropolises of the future, and which become the deserted cities of the past. Engagingly written, the book provides insight to the past, present, and future of regions.
Why Do Cities Matter
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Author : Chang-Tai Hsieh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Why Do Cities Matter written by Chang-Tai Hsieh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Cities and towns categories.
We study how growth of cities determines the growth of nations. Using a spatial equilibrium model and data on 220 US metropolitan areas from 1964 to 2009, we first estimate the contribution of each U.S. city to national GDP growth. We show that the contribution of a city to aggregate growth can differ significantly from what one might naively infer from the growth of the city's GDP. Despite some of the strongest rate of local growth, New York, San Francisco and San Jose were only responsible for a small fraction of U.S. growth in this period. By contrast, almost half of aggregate US growth was driven by growth of cities in the South. We then provide a normative analysis of potential growth. We show that the dispersion of the conditional average nominal wage across US cities doubled, indicating that worker productivity is increasingly different across cities. We calculate that this increased wage dispersion lowered aggregate U.S. GDP by 13.5%. Most of the loss was likely caused by increased constraints to housing supply in high productivity cities like New York, San Francisco and San Jose. Lowering regulatory constraints in these cities to the level of the median city would expand their work force and increase U.S. GDP by 9.5%. We conclude that the aggregate gains in output and welfare from spatial reallocation of labor are likely to be substantial in the U.S., and that a major impediment to a more efficient spatial allocation of labor are housing supply constraints. These constraints limit the number of US workers who have access to the most productive of American cities. In general equilibrium, this lowers income and welfare of all US workers.
Why Cities Matter Pentingnya Kota
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Author : Stephen T. Um
language : id
Publisher: Katalis Media & Literature - Yayasan Pelayanan Gloria
Release Date : 2023-09-20
Why Cities Matter Pentingnya Kota written by Stephen T. Um and has been published by Katalis Media & Literature - Yayasan Pelayanan Gloria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Religion categories.
Kita hidup di suatu masa yang unik dalam sejarah. Saat ini, orang lebih banyak tinggal di pusat-pusat perkotaan daripada sebelumnya. Artinya, dibandingkan dulu, kini kita punya kesempatan untuk memberikan pengaruh kepada banyak orang di dunia lewat gereja yang ada di kota! Membantu kita untuk memanfaatkan momen ini secara maksimal, pendeta Justin Buzzard dan Stephen Um yang melayani di daerah perkotaan memberikan suatu visi tentang bagaimana kita bisa terlibat dalam budaya sekaligus membangun gereja di perkotaan. Jika Anda membutuhkan motivasi untuk mempertahankan komitmen pelayanan di kota atau panduan untuk melakukan pelayanan secara total, buku ini menawarkan analisis yang komprehensif tentang kehidupan di perkotaan sehingga kita mendapatkan informasi, instruksi, inspirasi, serta jawaban pertanyaan seperti: * Mengapa kota begitu penting * Apa yang dikatakan Alkitab tentang kota * Bagaimana mengatasi masalah-masalah umum dan mengembangkan rencana untuk hidup dengan misi di kota Alih-alih meninggalkan kota, kita justru dipanggil untuk menjadikan kota sebagai tempat tinggal kita dan merawatnya. Kita pun diajak untuk berpartisipasi dalam membangun kerajaan Allah di pusat-pusat perkotaan dunia.
The Wealth And Poverty Of Cities
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Author : Mario Polèse
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-02
The Wealth And Poverty Of Cities written by Mario Polèse and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-02 with Business & Economics categories.
That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent. In The Wealth and Poverty of Cities, Mario Polèse argues that focusing on city attributes is too narrow. Cities do not control the basic conditions that determine their success or failure as sources of economic growth and well-being. Nations matter because successful metropolitan economies do not spring forth spontaneously. The values, norms, and institutions that shape social relationships are national attributes. The preconditions for the creation of wealth-the rule of law, public education, and sound macroeconomic management among the most fundamental-are the responsibility of the state. By considering national fiscal and monetary policies and state policies governing the organization of cities, this book disentangles two processes: the mechanics of creating wealth and the mechanics of agglomeration or capturing wealth. Polèse explains the two-stage process in which the proper conditions must first be in place for the benefits of agglomeration to fully flower. Polèse interweaves evocative descriptions of various cities, contrasting cities that have been helped or hurt by local and national policies wise or ill-advised. From New York to Vienna, Buenos Aires to Port au Prince, the cities come to life. Throughout the book Polèse highlights four factors that help explain strengths and weaknesses of cities as foci of economic opportunity and social cohesion: institutions, people, centrality, and chance. The result is a nuanced and accessible introduction to the economy of cities and an original perspective on what needs to improve. Cities that have managed to produce livable urban environments for the majority of their citizens mirror the societies that spawned them. Similarly, cities that have failed are almost always signs of more deep-rooted failures. If the nation does not work, neither will its cities.
Cities Matter
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Author : Charles Albert Ramsay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Cities Matter written by Charles Albert Ramsay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Cities and towns categories.
Why Cities Matter
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Author : Neil Bradford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Why Cities Matter written by Neil Bradford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Canada categories.
Cities In The Urban Age
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Author : Robert A. Beauregard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Cities In The Urban Age written by Robert A. Beauregard and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Social Science categories.
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic—it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn’t necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.