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Slow Cities
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Author : Nora Franklin
language : en
Publisher: Publifye AS
Release Date : 2025-01-05
Slow Cities written by Nora Franklin and has been published by Publifye AS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-05 with Social Science categories.
""Slow Cities"" explores a revolutionary approach to urban development through the lens of the Cittaslow movement, which champions quality of life over rapid growth in smaller cities worldwide. This thoughtful examination reveals how communities with populations under 50,000 are successfully implementing principles of deliberate deceleration and sustainable living, creating more livable environments while preserving local culture and identity. The movement, born from Italy's Slow Food initiative in 1999, has spread globally, offering a compelling alternative to conventional urban development patterns. The book masterfully weaves together theoretical frameworks and practical applications, presenting case studies from certified Cittaslow communities across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Through extensive research combining demographic data, quality-of-life metrics, and economic indicators, it demonstrates how slower, more mindful urban development strengthens community bonds and enhances environmental sustainability. Readers gain insights into specific criteria these cities must meet, including environmental conservation policies, infrastructure requirements, and cultural preservation strategies. Structured in three comprehensive sections, the work progresses from fundamental principles to real-world implementation and broader implications for urban planning. It provides concrete guidelines for communities interested in joining the movement while honestly addressing challenges such as economic pressures and stakeholder resistance. This balanced approach, supported by detailed maps and diagrams, makes the book an invaluable resource for urban planners, community leaders, and anyone interested in creating more sustainable, culturally rich urban environments.
Slow Cities
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Author : Paul Tranter
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2020-06-18
Slow Cities written by Paul Tranter and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-18 with Law categories.
Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy environments. This book examines the ways individuals and societies became dependent on transport modes that required investment in speed. Using research from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the book demonstrates ways in which human, economic and environmental health are improved with a slowing of city transport. It identifies effective methods, strategies and policies for decreasing the speed of motorised traffic and encouraging a modal shift to walking, cycling and public transport. This book also offers a holistic assessment of the impact of speed on daily behaviours and life choices, and shows how a move to slow down will - perhaps surprisingly - increase accessibility to the city services and activities that support healthy, sustainable lives and cities. - Includes cases from cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia - Uses evidence-based research to support arguments about the benefits of slowing city transport - Adopts a broad view of health, including the health of individuals, neighbourhoods and communities as well as economic health and environmental health - Includes text boxes, diagrams and photos illustrating the slowing of transport in cities throughout the world, and a list of references including both academic sources and valuable websites
Slow Tourism Food And Cities
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Author : Michael Clancy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-23
Slow Tourism Food And Cities written by Michael Clancy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Slow Food began in the late 1980s as a response to the spread of fast food establishments and as a larger statement against globalization and the perceived deterioration of modern life. Since then, slow practices have permeated into other areas, including cities and territories and travel and tourism. This book provides an in-depth examination of slow food, tourism and cities, demonstrating how these elements are intertwined with one other as part of the modern search for "the good life." Part 1 locates the slow concept within the larger social setting of modernity and investigates claims made by the slow movement, examining aesthetic and instrumental values inherent to it. Part 2 explores the practices and places of slow, containing both conceptual and empirical chapters in Italy, the birthplace of the movement. Part 3 provides a comparative perspective by examining the practices in Spain, the UK, Germany and Canada. Slow Tourism, Food and Cities offers key theoretical insights and alternative perspectives on the varying practices and meanings of slow from a cultural, sociological and ethical perspective. It is a valuable text for students and scholars of sociology, geography, urban studies, social movements, travel and tourism, and food studies.
New Slow City
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Author : William Powers
language : en
Publisher: New World Library
Release Date : 2014-10-27
New Slow City written by William Powers and has been published by New World Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot “micro-apartment” in Greenwich Village. Downshifting to a two-day workweek, Powers explores the viability of Slow Food and Slow Money, technology fasts and urban sanctuaries. Discovering a colorful cast of New Yorkers attempting to resist the culture of Total Work, Powers offers an inspiring exploration for anyone trying to make urban life more people- and planet-friendly.
Slow Living
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Author : Wendy Parkins
language : en
Publisher: Berg
Release Date : 2006-02
Slow Living written by Wendy Parkins and has been published by Berg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02 with Social Science categories.
Originating in Italy, "slow food" is not only committed to the preservation of traditional cuisines and sustainable agriculture but also the pleasures of the table and a slower approach to life in general. Craig and Parkins argue that slow living is a complex response to processes of globalization. It connects ethics and pleasure, the global and the local, as part of a new emphasis on everyday life in contemporary culture and politics.
Community Quality Of Life Indicators Best Cases Iii
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Author : M. Joseph Sirgy
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-08-21
Community Quality Of Life Indicators Best Cases Iii written by M. Joseph Sirgy and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-21 with Social Science categories.
Community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators continue to gain attention and interest in their use as many communities and regions design and apply them. Evolving from early use as data systems, indicators are increasingly being integrated into overall planning and other public policy activities. Their use is found not only in monitoring and evaluation applications, but also in the context of increasing citizen partici- tion in guiding communities towards achieving desired goals. Indeed, the emphasis in many indicator applications now includes linking actions to outcomes – making sure that the indicators are integrated, useful and effective in helping communities address QOL issues. The use of QOL indicators to consider a full spectrum of c- munity and regional well-being is exciting and the focus on integration is certain to bring new and innovative applications to the forefront. This is the third book in a series covering best practices in community QOL indicators. Each volume presents individual cases (chapters) of communities at the local or regional levels that have designed and implemented community indicators programs. In Volume I, we present eight chapters from a variety of contexts – from the county level in the U. S. , to the large megalopolis of Sao Paulo, to looking at a cross section of communities throughout Europe. Also included are three chapters from Canada, a leader in applying community indicator systems.
Slow Culture And The American Dream
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Author : Mary Caputi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2022-06-01
Slow Culture And The American Dream written by Mary Caputi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-01 with Political Science categories.
Is the USA hospitable to the slow movement? The land of fast food, get-rich-quick schemes, and 24/7 news feeds? In Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, Mary Caputi argues that the slow movement has much to teach the United States at this moment in time. Although slow philosophy is in many ways opposite to the prevalent American Dream, the current cultural setting demands that we heed its teachings. The climate crisis should make us rethink our fast-paced, ever-accelerating lifestyle so that we can lighten our carbon footprint and decelerate--if not reverse-- the damage done to the planet. Equally important, however, is the movement’s mandate that we slow down and savor life, focusing on quality, beauty, and calm rather than quantity and speed. Slow Food, Cittaslow (slow cities), slow fashion, slow travel, and slow parenting are examples of a philosophy that seeks to shift our focus away from “progress” as currently understood and revalue quality-of-life issues. Drawing deeply on her involvement with Slow Food and Cittaslow, the author advocates mainstreaming the philosophy of slow and thus reprioritizing the American Dream in ways that sustain the planet and teach Americans to develop a more refined aesthetic principle.
Value Proposition To Tourism Coopetition
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Author : Adriana Fumi Chim-Miki
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2024-12-04
Value Proposition To Tourism Coopetition written by Adriana Fumi Chim-Miki and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This book contains an Open Access chapter. Discover the transformative power of ‘coopetition’ in the dynamic world of tourist organisations, where inclusive development takes centre stage. Drawing on the work of a range of global contributors, the editors examine how dyadic behaviour is transforming the tourism sector.
Research Themes For Tourism
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Author : Peter Robinson
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2011
Research Themes For Tourism written by Peter Robinson and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Business & Economics categories.
This book introduces a broad range of themes within tourism research. As such, it seeks to provide some explanation and contextualization of each topic, supported by applied case studies (where appropriate), international examples and detailed discourse around some of the current contemporary debates in tourism management. The book consists of 20 major chapters on the different types of tourism.
Slow Burn City
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Author : Rowan Moore
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Slow Burn City written by Rowan Moore and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Architecture categories.
With a new introduction for the paperback. London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril. London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can build a city, a fantastical wealth machine that denies too many of its citizens a decent home or living. In this thought-provoking, fearless, funny and subversive book, Rowan Moore shows how London’s strength depends on the creative and mutual interplay of three forces: people, business and state. To find responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century, London must rediscover its genius for popular action and bold public intervention. The global city above all others, London is the best place to understand the way the world’s cities are changing. It could also be, in the shape of a living, churning city of more than eight million people, the most powerful counter-argument to the extremist politics of the present.