URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS

The goal of Cityscape is to bring high-quality original research on housing and community development issues to scholars, government officials, and practitioners. Cityscape is open to all relevant disciplines, including architecture, consumer research, demography, economics, engineering, ethnography, finance, geography, law, planning, political science, public policy, regional science, sociology, statistics, and urban studies. Cityscape is published three times a year by the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. PD&R welcomes submissions to the Refereed Papers section of the journal. Our referee process is double blind and timely, and our referees are highly qualified. The managing editor will also respond to authors who submit outlines of proposed papers regarding the suitability of those proposals for inclusion in Cityscape. Send manuscripts or outlines to Cityscape@hud.gov.

The Urban and Regional Planning Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate the planning of cities and metropolitan areas. Forty-seven generous selections include contributions from Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Ian McHarg, Paul Davidoff, Charles Harr, Susan Fainstein and Charles J. Hoch through to Timothy Beatley; Jonathan Barnett, Alex Garvin, Tom Daniels, Andres Duany and Barbara Faga.The variety and wide selection of readings offers one of the most innovative amalgamations of planning research and practice. The Reader lays out the context, range of concerns, history, methods and key topics for 21st century urban and regional planning. Sections on the world of planning, history and theory, classic readings, practice and current issues include writings with a focus on the distribution of space and place, essays on housing, transportation design, environment, community development, the effects of cultural diversity and information technology on land use and other topics. It displays the techniques used to direct and control growth, including zoning, master planning, public budgeting and citizen participation. It explores different types of plans distinguished by their scale and reference type. It references analytical and presentation techniques and outlines ethical issues confronting planners. This Urban and Regional Planning Reader provides an essential resource, for students of planning, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings and the associated bibliography is a resource which enables deeper investigations. The synthesis is also valuable for lecturers and researches in the area and the pertinent editorial commentaries preceding each entry not only demonstrate its significance, but also outline the issue surrounding the topic.

a) Just as a starting point, I tend to recommend Guide to California Planning, by Bill Fulton and Paul Shigley (any edition though they'd prefer you buy the latest and biggest).  It sounds state-centric and can be, unless planning in other states also deals with negotiating growth profiles, environmental review, and politics.  Bill and Paul write as well as anyone in planning, as journalists on the side; another strength is going beyond the legalese to comment on how decisions involve local political economy in various forms. They makes planning sound hard enough that you should feel good to be good at it, and prepared for intrigue.

An established reference source, Social Trends draws together the most up-to-date social and economic data from a wide range of government departments and other organisations. Data is presented clearly in a combination of tables, figures and text providing the ideal tool for researching life and lifestyles in the UK. Each chapter focuses on a different social policy area: population, households and families, education and training, labour market, income and wealth, expenditure, health, social protection, crime and justice, housing, environment, transport, lifestyles and social participation.

'The Ideas of Ronald H. Coase' Description This book is the first work dedicated to the key ideas of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on pollution and public goods with sustainable development in mind from the perspective of an economist-town planner. The seminal contributions of Ronald Coase, foretold in the form of the Coase Theorem by another Nobel laureate, George Stigler, have been much analyzed and often misinterpreted by friends and foes alike. In this book, Lawrence Lai attempts to revisit Coase's seminal works and bring to the fore their importance in economic and urban planning policy analysis. Coase's comparative institutional approach offers an important vehicle for the analysis of pressing social issues such as sustainable development, and all those interested in the creation of new platforms for performing policy analysis will welcome this important work.

This is a book about a distinctive methodological approach inspired by Dorothy Smith- one of Canada's most respected scholars. Institutional ethnography aims to answer questions about how everyday life is organized. What is conventionally understood as the relationship of micro to macro processes is conceptualized and explored in terms of ruling relations. The authors suggest that institutional ethnographers must adopt a particular research stance, one that recognizes that people's own knowledge and ways of knowing are crucial elements of social action and thus of social analysis

This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a long-awaited treasure by one of the world's foremost social thinkers. In it, Smith turns her wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, philosophy, and popular culture, at the same time developing her own sociological and feminist practice in unexpected and remarkable directions. Shedding the idiom of the sociologist, Smith inquires directly into the actualities of peoples' lives. Her critical investigations of postmodernism, political correctness, university politics, and SNAF (the Standard North American Family) draw on metaphors and examples from a stimulating range of autobiographical, theoretical, historical, political, and humorous resources. Out of an abstract encounter with Bakhtin, for example, comes an analysis of a child learning to name a bird, and a new way of seeing the story of Helen Keller. In introducing a radically innovative approach to the sociology of discourse, even the most difficult points are addressed through ordinary scenes of mothers, cats, and birds, as well as scientists, pulsars, and cell microscopes. Smith's engaged, rebel sociology throws light on a remarkable range of issues and authors, forever changing the way the reader experiences the world. This, her signature work, will delight a wide and varied audience, and enliven university courses for years to come.

Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This sociology from women's standpoints reveals the present but largely unseen social relations of everyday life. This will be a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies

In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal how institutional relations and regimes are organized. As a whole, the books aims to provide readers with an accurate overview of what it is like to practice institutional ethnography, as well as the main varieties of approaches involved in the research.

Session for AAG annual conference: Toward an Engaged Geographic Analysis of Food Deserts and its Contestation through Community Gardening in Inner-City Urban Areas  Co-organizers: Timothy L. Hawthorne, Columbus State University Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  Description: Food security has emerged as a major global problem exacerbated by volatility in market prices. Creation of food deserts in the inner-city neighborhoods of urban America has been a particularly significant problem. With increasing outward expansion, communities and neighborhoods in and near the central city are suffering from a loss of population, incomes, and resources. The loss of grocery stores that sell fresh produce, in particular, is problematic for these communities given the significant drop in health outcomes tied to food inaccessibility. To make matters worse, a lack of access to affordable and conveniently located produce and grocery stores disproportionately affects lower income (and in many cases minority) population groups that still live in or near central city neighborhoods. Food deserts, or areas where fresh produce and grocery stores are scarce, are becoming a reality in the nation's lower income, central city communities. Some central city community residents and activists have sought to mitigate this lack of access through the grass-roots creation of community urban gardens in vacant lots. This movement is particularly gaining momentum as the effects of deindustrialization and disinvestment become more apparent, as many inner-cities contain empty lots from the loss of industries as well as from the housing crisis. The geographic analysis of urban gardening in inner-city as a response to local food insecurity, through engaged scholarship and partnerships with local residents, offers an interesting avenue of research related to urban quality-of-life. In this session, we offer a variety of theoretical approaches, research methodologies and empirical findings fo

This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a long-awaited treasure by one of the world's foremost social thinkers. In it, Smith turns her wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, philosophy, and popular culture, at the same time developing her own sociological and feminist practice in unexpected and remarkable directions. Shedding the idiom of the sociologist, Smith inquires directly into the actualities of peoples' lives. Her critical investigations of postmodernism, political correctness, university politics, and SNAF (the Standard North American Family) draw on metaphors and examples from a stimulating range of autobiographical, theoretical, historical, political, and humorous resources. Out of an abstract encounter with Bakhtin, for example, comes an analysis of a child learning to name a bird, and a new way of seeing the story of Helen Keller. In introducing a radically innovative approach to the sociology of discourse, even the most difficult points are addressed through ordinary scenes of mothers, cats, and birds, as well as scientists, pulsars, and cell microscopes. Smith's engaged, rebel sociology throws light on a remarkable range of issues and authors, forever changing the way the reader experiences the world. This, her signature work, will delight a wide and varied audience, and enliven university courses for years to come.

Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This sociology from women's standpoints reveals the present but largely unseen social relations of everyday life. This will be a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies.

This paper describes the work of an alliance formed by three civic organizations in Mumbai to address poverty - the NGO SPARC, the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan, a cooperative representing women's savings groups. It highlights key features of their work which include: putting the knowledge and capacity of the poor and the savings groups that they form at the core of all their work (with NGOs in a supporting role); keeping politically neutral and negotiating with whoever is in power; driving change through setting precedents (for example, a community-designed and managed toilet, a house design developed collectively by the urban poor that they can build far cheaper than public or private agencies) and using these to negotiate support and changed policies (a strategy that develops new "legal" solutions on the poor's own terms); a horizontal structure as the Alliance is underpinned by, accountable to and serves thousands of small savings groups formed mostly by poor women; community-to-community exchange visits that root innovation and learning in what urban poor groups do; and urban poor groups undertaking surveys and censuses to produce their own data about "slums" (which official policies lack and need) to help build partnerships with official agencies in ways that strengthen and support their own organizations. The paper notes that these are features shared with urban poor federations and alliances in other countries and it describes the international community exchanges and other links between them. These groups are internationalizing themselves, creating networks of globalization from below. Individually and collectively, they seek to demonstrate to governments (local, regional, national) and international agencies that urban poor groups are more capable than they in poverty reduction, and they also provide these agencies with strong community-based partners through which to do so. They are, or can be, instruments of deep democrac

The handbook of social policy Por James Midgley,Martin Tracy,Michelle Livermore

The Rouse Lecture is dedicated to the memory of James W. Rouse, a man of vision who led urban revitalization efforts in cities nationwide. It was established to bring world-renowned speakers to an audience of leaders in the field of community development who share a commitment to exploring creative ideas on how to bring social stability, economic growth, and a fresh sense of community to cities across the country.   This year's featured speaker was Richard D. Baron, chairman and CEO of McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc., in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Baron, who is one of the nation's leading urban developers, spoke about the importance of linking housing development with investment in schools and other neighborhood assets in order to transform distressed neighborhoods into revitalized communities of choice. Mr. Rouse was an optimist, a builder, and a believer in our cities. He converted his beliefs into tangible urban advances such as Baltimore's Harbor Place, Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, and the City of Columbia, Maryland, to name just a few examples. A remarkable leader and a man of both ideas and action, Mr. Rouse cared about affordable housing and commercial revitalization as the means to strengthen our nation's cities and enrich the lives of the people living in them. With his wife, Patty, Jim Rouse launched The Enterprise Foundation in 1982 to see that all low-income people in the United States have the opportunity for fit and affordable housing and to move up and out of poverty into the mainstream of American life.

Urban Machinery investigates the technological dimension of modern European cities, vividly describing the most dramatic changes in the urban environment over the last century and a half. Written by leading scholars from the history of technology, urban history, and the sociology of science and technology, the book views the European city as a complex construct entangled with technology. The chapters examine the increasing similarity of modern cities and their technical infrastructures (including communication, energy, industrial, and transportation systems) and the resulting tension between homogenization and cultural differentiation. The contributors emphasize the concept of circulation-the process by which architectural ideas, urban planning principles, engineering concepts, and societal models spread across Europe as well as from the United States to Europe. They also examine the parallel process of appropriation-how these systems and practices have been adapted to prevailing institutional structures and cultural preferences. Urban Machinery, with contributions by scholars from eight countries and more than thirty illustrations (many of them rare photographs never published before), includes studies from northern and southern and from eastern and western Europe, and also discusses how European cities were viewed from the periphery (modernizing Turkey) and from the United States. Contributors Hans Buiter, Paolo Capuzzo, Noyan Dinckal, Cornelis Disco, Pal Germuska, Mikael Hard, Martina Hessler, Dagmara Jaje?niak-Quast, Andrew Jamison, Per Lundin, Thomas J. Misa, Dieter Schott, and Marcus Stippak