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David Harvey propõe retomada de espaços públicos nas cidades Em entrevista ao programa Democracy Now, o geógrafo David Harvey fala sobre os desafios colocados para os trabalhadores neste 1º de maio e para os novos movimentos sociais nos Estados Unidos, na Europa, no Oriente Médio, África e outras regiões. Harvey destaca a eclosão do direitos das cidades, a mobilização das comunidades em defesa da reocupação de espaços públicos que já foram seus. Em Nova York, exemplifica, o espaço público não é verdadeiramento aberto ao público. Amy Goodman - Democracy Now (*) O teor da entrevista de Harvey está transcrito (editado) abaixo em português. AMY GOODMAN: Terça-feira é 1º de maio, também conhecido como Dia Internacional dos Trabalhadores, um feriado em que se celebra os direitos e as conquistas dos trabalhadores organizados, como a jornada de oito horas. Este ano, a campanha do Ocupe Wall Street espera mobilizar dezenas de milhares de pessoas ao redor do país com o slogan "Greve Geral. Sem Trabalho. Sem compras. Ocupe em toda parte". São planejados eventos em 125 cidades. A campanha Ocupe planeja protestar em 99 alvos só em Manhattan, inclusive nos escritórios do JP Morgan Chase e Bank of America. Na última quinta os ativistas se reuniram no Parque Union na cidade de Nova York para anunciar os planos dos protestos massivos para o Primeiro de Maio, incluindo grupos de imigrantes, trabalhadores sindicalizados, membros do Ocupe Wall Street. Bem, para falar mais a respeito do Primeiro de Maio e da campanha Ocupe, estamos hoje com o professor de antropologia David Harvey, do Graduate Center da Universidade da Universidade da Cidade de Nova York. Ele vem dando aulas sobre O Capital, de Karl Marx, há quase 40 anos, é autor de uma série de livros, incluindo Os Limites do Capital e Uma Breve História do Neoliberalismo. Seu livro mais recente se chama Cidades Rebelde: do direito às cidades à Revolução Urbana. Explique, David Harvey.

The Policy Press, 15/02/2012 - 261 páginas This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of urban planning, including housing, transport, and the environment, and map out core areas for future research.

he Global Urban Competitiveness Report - 2011 Pengfei Ni Pengfei Ni, Director, Center for City and Competitiveness, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China April 2012 416 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 421 5 Hardback c$175.00 on-line price c$157.50 Qty This book is also available as an ebook  978 1 78100 892 8 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description 'This Report - 2011 gives an overwhelming amount of comprehensive information for city managers trying to cope with the ever-increasing competition between cities in attracting investments, talent, firms, knowledge, events etc. Apart from an update of the ranking of 500 cities this new publication offers a lot of additional information, such as a selection of the best examples of competitive cities. The book is recommended for everybody interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the major cities in the world.' - Leo van den Berg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Contents Contents: 1. Annual Ranking 2. Conceptual Framework and Analytical Methods 3. Global Scale Urban Competitiveness Analyses 4. Urban Competitiveness Analyses of Sub-regions and Key Countries 5. Urban Competitiveness Analyses of Several Group of Cities 6. Econometric Findings 7. Best Cases on Competitive Cities 8. Global Urban Competitiveness Indices Bibliography Further information 'This Report - 2011 gives an overwhelming amount of comprehensive information for city managers trying to cope with the ever-increasing competition between cities in attracting investments, talent, firms, knowledge, events etc. Apart from an update of the ranking of 500 cities this new publication offers a lot of additional information, such as a selection of the best examples of competitive cities. The book is recommended for everybody interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the major citi

Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space & Cultural Diversity Setha M. Low, Dana Taplin, Suzanne Scheld 0 Resenhas University of Texas Press, 01/11/2005 - 226 páginas Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people.This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area, as well as New York's Ellis Island Bridge Proposal and Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park "restorations" that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.

Making Policy Public is the Center for Urban Pedagogy's (CUP) series of foldout posters that use graphic design to explore and explain public policy. Making Policy Public is published four times a year. Each poster is the product of a collaboration of a designer, an advocate, and CUP.

The Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN™) is a worldwide research consortium of scholars and experts from various institutions pursuing research on shrinking cities in a global context. SCiRN's mission is to advance international understanding and promote scholarship about population decrease in urban regions and urban decline, causes, manifestations, spatial variations, and effectiveness of policies and planning interventions to stave off decline. SCiRN™ was founded 2004 under the aegis of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at the University of California, Berkeley. Here, scholars from various countries realised that although the decline of cities and urban regions was a common issue for urban planners in different local contexts, there was little comparative research on this topic. Today SCiRN™ comprises 30 members from 14 countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, UK, and the USA) and a PhD Academy constituted of 14 young researchers (from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, UK and Taiwan).

Les politiques de la ville Claude Chaline 0 Resenhas Presses universitaires de France, 1997 - 127 páginas

Low-Density Suburbs Are Not Free-Market Capitalism Jonathan RothwellApril 10, 2012 | 10:55 am 1 comment Share on redditShare on twitterShare on stumbleupon|More Sharing ServicesMore Print inShare 21 MORE FROM THIS AUTHOR Why Regions Fail: Zoning as an Extractive Institution Global Innovation: The Metropolitan Edition The Outsized Benefits of U.S. Manufacturing Recently in the Wall Street Journal, transportation consultant Wendell Cox published an op-ed entitled: "California Declares War on Suburbia." Cox argues that "planners" in California are attacking what he calls "the most popular housing choice," the single-family detached home, and if they get their way, they will weaken California's economy, drive up housing prices, and increase traffic congestion. Actually, the homogenous prevalence of low-density single-family suburban housing is the outcome of the very government "planning" process that Cox decries, as economist Ed Glaeser has noted (see "Triumph of the City"). Local zoning policies greatly distort housing markets across the country. A recent national survey of land regulations found that 84 percent of jurisdictions forbid the construction of housing units that are smaller than some standard set by the local zoning authority. The average jurisdiction with zoning power has a minimum lot size requirement of 0.4 acres, which is larger than most single-family homes. As a consequence, thousands of jurisdictions-mostly in the suburbs of big cities-effectively prohibit the construction of inexpensive or moderately dense housing, and many neighborhoods within big cities impose similar restrictions. As I've found in previous research (using data from a survey by Rolf Pendall and my colleague Robert Puentes), metropolitan areas with the most anti-density restrictions tend to see the largest increase in housing prices, controlling for other factors. While California's local governments are not as anti-density as their counterparts

CROSS COUNTRY Updated April 9, 2012, 6:38 p.m. ET California Declares War on Suburbia Planners want to herd millions into densely packed urban corridors. It won't save the planet but will make traffic even worse. By WENDELL COX It's no secret that California's regulatory and tax climate is driving business investment to other states. California's high cost of living also is driving people away. Since 2000 more than 1.6 million people have fled, and my own research as well as that of others points to high housing prices as the principal factor. The exodus is likely to accelerate. California has declared war on the most popular housing choice, the single family, detached home-all in the name of saving the planet. Metropolitan area governments are adopting plans that would require most new housing to be built at 20 or more to the acre, which is at least five times the traditional quarter acre per house. State and regional planners also seek to radically restructure urban areas, forcing much of the new hyperdensity development into narrowly confined corridors. Related Video Transportation consultant Wendell Cox on why California pols want to force people into denser urban housing. In San Francisco and San Jose, for example, the Association of Bay Area Governments has proposed that only 3% of new housing built by 2035 would be allowed on or beyond the "urban fringe"-where current housing ends and the countryside begins. Over two-thirds of the housing for the projected two million new residents in these metro areas would be multifamily-that is, apartments and condo complexes-and concentrated along major thoroughfares such as Telegraph Avenue in the East Bay and El Camino Real on the Peninsula. For its part, the Southern California Association of Governments wants to require more than one-half of the new housing in Los Angeles County and five other Southern California counties to be concentrated in dense, so-called transit villages, with much of it at an e

American Cities are Revitalizing Their Downtowns and Recreating Their Profiles Mar 28, 2012 12:26 PM, By Susan Piperato, Managing Editor The push toward downtown revitalization that began in the 1990s has survived the Great Recession. ARTICLE TOOLS Email Save Print Reprint LATEST NEWS Lenders Eager to Take Back Trophy Assets CMBS Delinquencies Spike, But Outlook for the Year Remains Stable A Coming Deluge of Apartment Construction Cornerstone Raises $315M for Debt Investment Club, Closes Mortgage Fund The Early Phase of Real Estate Recovery MORE LATEST NEWS advertisement But in this gradually improving economy, attracting development isn't easy. It means carrying "a Swiss Army knife" of creative tools, says West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority Director Raphael Clemente. For 10 years, West Palm Beach's downtown has lost retail to an urbanist infill project on the CBD's outskirts. Clemente's shoestring-budgeted campaign to recruit retailer Trader Joe's, including a YouTube video in which residents give humorous answers to the question, "What would you trade for Trader Joe's?" has already succeeded in differentiating the city from "the other 50 cities in Florida that are trying to get a Trader Joe's" and starting a dialogue. "We know we're fighting for tenants and investor dollars and consumer dollars with other areas, malls and midsize cities in our region," Clemente says. "So when we go out there to recruit, we do the best job we can with limited resources to set ourselves apart." Philadelphia's population has grown for the first time in 50 years. Clemente's experience is typical of American cities, regardless of size or location. Yes, the movement to reinvigorate Main Street is back, but it's very different than it was 20 years ago. For today's urban downtowns, development means redevelopment, and attracting redevelopment dollars means reinventing a city's identity. A city's individuation is crucial

Creative Knowledge Cities Myths, Visions and Realities Marina van Geenhuizen , Peter Nijkamp Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, Professor of Innovation and Innovation Policy in the Urban Economy, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands and Peter Nijkamp, Professor of Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2012 488 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 284 6 Hardback $205.00 on-line price $184.50 Qty Series: New Horizons in Regional Science series This book is also available as an ebook  978 0 85793 285 3 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.myilibrary www.ebooks.com www.ebookscorporation.com www.dawsonera.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. Contents Contributors: V. Araujo, A. Caragliu, Y. Chen, M. de Jong, H. de Jonge, J. de Vries, C. Del Bo, A. den Heijer, J. Edelenbos, K. Erdos, A.M. Fernández-Maldonado, M. Fromhold-Eisebith, R. Garcia, D.-S. Lee, S. Lüthi, P. Nijkamp, B. Ó hUallacháin, R. Rocco, A. Romein, V. Scholten, D.P. Soetanto, M. Taheri, A. Thierstein, J.J. Trip, M. Trippl, M. van der Land, M. van Geenhuizen, A. Varga Further information This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical reflection on the reality of city concepts including university-city alignment for campus planning, labour market conditions, social capital and proximity, triple helix based transformation, and learning by city governments. Original examples from both the EU and US are complemented by detailed ca

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism by Stephen Graham A powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life. Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a conflict zone inhabited by lurking shadow enemies. Urban inhabitants have become targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned and controlled. Graham examines the transformation of Western armies into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces. He looks at the militarization and surveillance of international borders, the use of 'security' concerns to suppress democratic dissent, and the enacting of legislation to suspend civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism permeates the entire fabric of urban life, from subway and transport networks hardwired with high-tech 'command and control' systems to the insidious militarization of a popular culture corrupted by the all-pervasive discourse of 'terrorism.'

Existing policies and planning models fail to provide communities and their leaders with sufficient guidance in how to transform mounting inventories of vacant properties and surplus infrastructure into new livable neighborhoods.  Our operating premise is that a new set of sustainability strategies can serve as the catalyst for the regeneration of shrinking cities. We launched the shrinking city studio so that students and communities can together explore first‐hand the dimensions of smart decline and translate their experiences into action

REJOIGNEZ LA FABRIQUE DU MOUVEMENT SUR TWITTER ! CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE - 26 et 27 mars 2012- PARIS, À LA BELLEVILLOISE ▪ Depuis Daegu, Paris, Shanghai ou Bogotá..., suivez les temps forts de la conférence, retrouvez les photos, vidéos et propos des orateurs sur Twitter, réagissez en direct @Move_Making. ▪ « Qu'est-ce qui fait courir l'action publique en matière de mobilité urbaine ? » : pour offrir un éclairage original sur la question, des chercheurs et des experts venus d'Amérique latine, d'Asie et d'Europe s'appuieront sur une trentaine d'études de cas, des controverses locales, des témoignages... ▪ Des produits multimédias et des films, présentés pour la première fois à l'occasion du colloque, vous raconteront autrement les dynamiques des politiques de mobilité et rendront compte de leur complexité. ▪ Ce rendez-vous sera aussi l'occasion de d'explorer les rêves de 700 étudiants du monde pour la ville et la mobilité de demain. Le Prix Jeune Chercheur « Retracer l'histoire d'une controverse urbaine » clôturera l'événement. RETROUVEZ L'ENSEMBLE DES TRAVAUX DE LA FABRIQUE DU MOUVEMENT SUR WWW.MOVEMAKING.COM La recherche internationale et le colloque sont pilotés par l'Institut pour la ville en mouvement / PSA Peugeot Citroën (IVM) avec ses chaires Chine et Amérique latine, et par La Fabrique de la Cité, en partenariat avec l'Université Paris-Est, avec le soutien de l'Institut d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme d'Île-de-France et l'Institut Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations pour la Recherche, avec la participation de la FNAU (Fédération nationale des agences d'urbanisme). Action financée par la Région Ile-de-France (0 810 18 18 18). FOLLOW THE MAKING OF MOVEMENT ON TWITTER ! INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, March 26-27, 2012 - PARIS, AT LA BELLEVILLOISE ▪ From Daegu, Paris, Shanghai or Bogotá..., follow the highlights of the conference, check out photos, videos and what the s

WalkSanDiego is a regional, grassroots organization formed in 1998 and dedicated to making our neighborhoods more walkable. Through our educational events, training, advocacy, and work with local governments and SANDAG, WalkSanDiego is working to reclaim our streets and blocks through improved streetscape designs, accessible walking paths, and traffic calming measures.