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Download or read book The Age of Great Cities: written by Robert Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Religion in the Age of Great Cities written by Hugh McLeod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe in the nineteenth century saw spectacular growth in the size and number of cities and in the proportion of the population living in urban areas. Many contemporaries thought that this social revolution would bring about an equally dramatic change in religious life. This book, written by an international team of specialists, provides an authoritative account of religious change, both at the institutional and popular level, in Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox cities, in seven European countries.
Download or read book Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access written by Harvey J. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are on the verge of what many are calling the "second information revolution," based on ubiquitous access to both computing and information. The technologies of instant access have potential to transform dramatically our lives. This book contains chapters by leading international experts. They discuss issues surrounding the impact of instant access on cities, daily lives, transportation, privacy, social and economic networks, community and education.
Download or read book The Age of Great Cities ; Or Modern Civilization Viewed in Its Relation to Intelligence, Morals, and Religion written by Robert Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization written by Carol Bailey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.
Download or read book The Right to an Age-Friendly City written by Meghan Joy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly. The Age-Friendly City program, developed by the World Health Organization, aims to improve local environments for all population groups, promote a positive aging identity, and empower local policy actors to support senior citizens. Despite growing enthusiasm and policy work by local governments worldwide, considerable gaps remain. These lacunae have led scholars and activists alike to align age-friendly city work with the concept of the right to the city. In The Right to an Age-Friendly City Meghan Joy zeroes in on the intricacies of developing an environment that promotes social and spatial justice for the elderly in Toronto. Weaving together the stories, struggles, and victories of local activists, government staff, and frontline service providers, Joy maps this complex policy area and examines the ways in which age-friendly work successfully enhances senior citizens' access to services and support in the local environment, recognizes the diverse needs of senior citizens in the city, and empowers policy actors from local government and the non-profit sector to support senior citizens. A detailed and timely examination, The Right to an Age-Friendly City offers both broad and tangible insights into the intermingled political, economic, cultural, and administrative changes needed to protect the rights of senior citizens to access urban space in Toronto and beyond.
Download or read book City and Empire in the Age of the Successors written by Ryan Boehm and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their control, they increasingly developed new cities by merging smaller settlements into large urban agglomerations. This practice of synoikism gave rise to many of the most important cities of the age, initiated major shifts in patterns of settlement, and consolidated numerous previously independent polities. The result was the increasing transformation of the fragmented world of the small Greek polis into an urbanized network of cities. Drawing on a wide array of archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and argues for the agency of local actors in the formation of these new imperial cities.
Download or read book Feature Papers ”Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives” written by Joost van Hoof and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: States of the Art and Future Perspectives" publication presents contemporary, innovative, and insightful narratives, debates, and frameworks based on an international collection of papers from scholars spanning the fields of gerontology, social sciences, architecture, computer science, and gerontechnology. This extensive collection of papers aims to move the narrative and debates forward in this interdisciplinary field of age-friendly cities and communities.
Download or read book City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate written by Tony Fry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes beyond current ways that the impact of climate change upon the city are understood. In doing so it addresses climate in a variety of its connotations. It looks to the nomadic behaviour patterns of the past for lessons for today’s population unsettlement, and argues that as human survival will increasingly be linked directly to movement, the city can no longer be defined as a constrained space. The impacts of climate change must be understood as a combination of the actual and the expected, and have to be addressed both practically and culturally. City Futures in an Age of Changing Climate looks at how cities can adapt and respond to the unsustainable conditions they are now facing. The book considers possible post-urban futures, exposing a range of very different urban forms, and addresses the concept of fragmentation; the breaking up of any coherent economic or cultural nucleic urban spaces. Urban planners, designers, development practitioners, and anyone seeking to understand what the future is likely to look like for our cities, and how to prepare for it, will find this an essential read.
Download or read book Global Age-friendly Cities written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2007 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guide is aimed primarily at urban planners, but older citizens can use it to monitor progress towards more age-friendly cities. At its heart is a checklist of age-friendly features. For example, an age-friendly city has sufficient public benches that are well-situated, well-maintained and safe, as well as sufficient public toilets that are clean, secure, accessible by people with disabilities and well-indicated. Other key features of an age-friendly city include: well-maintained and well-lit sidewalks; public buildings that are fully accessible to people with disabilities; city bus drivers who wait until older people are seated before starting off and priority seating on buses; enough reserved parking spots for people with disabilities; housing integrated in the community that accommodates changing needs and abilities as people grow older; friendly, personalized service and information instead of automated answering services; easy-to-read written information in plain language; public and commercial services and stores in neighbourhoods close to where people live, rather than concentrated outside the city; and a civic culture that respects and includes older persons.
Download or read book Age-Friendly Cities and Communities written by Tine Buffel and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas. In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The book considers the different ways in which cities are responding to population ageing, the different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices. The book includes a manifesto for the age-friendly movement, focused around tackling social inequality and promoting community empowerment.
Download or read book Components of Change for the Adult Populations of Cities by Age, Sex, and Color written by P. Neal Ritchey and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Components of Change for the Adult Populations of Cities by Age, Sex and Color: Pacific written by P. Neal Ritchey and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lest the Ages Forget : Kansas City's Liberty Memorial written by Derek Donovan and published by Kansas City Star Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century written by Adna Ferrin Weber and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. version of the author's thesis, Columbia University, first published in 1899. "Bibliography of Adna Ferrin Weber": p.xiii-xv. Bibliographical footnotes.
Download or read book History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages written by Ferdinand Gregorovius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern study of the history of medieval Rome, translated between 1894 and 1902 from the fourth German edition.
Download or read book City Through the Ages written by Philip Steele and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of a fictitious city in Western Europe from the Stone Age through the present and future.
