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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 A Historic Perspective -- 1.2 A Glimpse of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Sustainability and Development: Challenges, Implications and Actor Constellations -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Urban Sustainability in Context -- 2.2.1 Setting the Scene -- 2.2.2 Challenges of the Sustainable City -- 2.2.3 Eco-City: A Newly Emerged Global Phenomenon -- 2.3 Dimensions and Spatial Levels of Urban Sustainability -- 2.3.1 Understanding the Built Environment -- 2.3.2 Dimensions of Urban Sustainability -- 2.3.3 Spatial Levels of Urban Sustainability -- 2.3.3.1 Spatial Levels of the Built Environment -- 2.3.3.2 Building Performance and Technologies -- 2.3.3.3 Neighbourhood Pattern and Community Cohesion -- 2.3.3.4 Cities and Urban Planning -- 2.3.4 Integrated Thinking of Urban Sustainability -- 2.4 Actor Constellations of Sustainability -- 2.4.1 Urban Sustainability: Actor Constellations -- 2.4.2 Eco-Development: Actors and Barriers -- References -- 2.4.3 Websites -- Chapter 3: Eco-Development in the Global Context -- 3.1 Common Threads from the Global Examples -- 3.2 Global Examples at City Level -- 3.2.1 Freiburg, Germany -- 3.2.2 Curitiba, Brazil -- 3.3 Global Examples at the Neighbourhood Level -- 3.3.1 Beddington Zero Energy Development, London, UK -- 3.3.2 Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Sweden -- 3.4 Global Examples at the Building Level -- 3.4.1 The Crystal, London, the UK -- 3.4.2 Passive House in Germany -- 3.5 Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of the Built Environment -- 3.5.1 Green Building Evaluation -- 3.5.1.1 A Brief of Green Building Rating Systems -- 3.5.1.2 A Further Discussion -- 3.5.2 Neighbourhood Sustainability Rating Systems -- 3.5.2.1 Scaling up from Individual Buildings.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series page -- Including Families and Communities in Urban Education -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Understanding Family and Community Inclusion and Engagement -- Part I: Structure -- Chapter 2: Metaphor as Insight into Parents' Conceptualizations of their Role in School Improvement -- Chapter 3: The Role of Leadership in Forging Family-School-Community Relationships -- Chapter 4: Parent Empowerment through Organizing for Collective Action -- Part II: Culture -- Chapter 5: Listening to Parent Voices -- Chapter 6: Fostering Inclusive Educational Environments for American Indian Parents and Families in Urban Schools and Communities -- Chapter 7: Learning to Organize for Educational Change -- Chapter 8: Pioneer Parents and Creating Pathways for Involvement -- Part III: Agency -- Chapter 9: The Math/Science Equity Project -- Chapter 10: Shaping Youth's Identity through Student-Driven Research -- Part IV: Strategies for Inclusion and Program Assessment -- Chapter 11: From Mistrust to Collaboration -- Chapter 12: Mapping Family-School Partnership Programs Through Theories of Action and Logic Models -- Part V: Conclusion: Themes from Initiatives Including Families and Community Members in Education -- Culminating Remarks on Family and Community Inclusion in Urban Education -- About the Contributors -- Editors -- Authors.

If we assume recession as being the starting point for policy challenges, then we can interpret these economic downturns as opportunities for change and the reshaping of society, landscapes and the latent mechanisms of growth. This book illustrates different aspects of local strategic development introducing a novel interpretation of the intimate relationship between demographic and economic aspects in complex socio-environmental systems. A specific approach investigating the mechanisms of local development, cultural and environmental values within a strategic territorial vision, is proposed. Coming from and appealing to diverse academic backgrounds, our book address paradigmatic visions about regional and urban dynamics, focusing on landscape transformations and socioeconomic disparities. Technical topics discussed in the book include: Urban management; Metropolitan governance; Landscape; Spatial planning; Applied economics; Regional demography.

This article examines the mechanisms of conflict resolution by public deliberation in Chinese urban residential communities. The analysis focuses on the interactions between three key actors of community life: Residents' Committees (as the agent of the state), residents, and their representative organizations. Based on empirical data from three types of urban communities, the article finds that deliberation is more effective in communities where the power of Residents' Committees over residents is weak, and deliberation also works better in communities with strong resident representatives who are able to mobilize information flows and to shape public reasoning. The findings suggest that, on the one hand, the governance structure of Chinese urban residential communities provides space for informal, unstructured public deliberation; on the other hand, deliberation also meets obstacles and dilemmas associated with representation, coordination and fostering understanding across social and economic divisions. (China J/GIGA)

In the past 35 years, St. Louis, Missouri, has built all of the components of a complete infrastructure of urban tourism: three sports facilities, a convention center and its renovation, an urban entertainment districts and two downtown malls. This sequence of large projects was undertaken even though St. Louis has an extremely fragmented government, and despite the gradual withdrawal of the business elite from the city's affairs. In this article, it is suggested that the city was able to undertake a significant agenda of construction because of the presence of policy communities that linked policy entrepreneurs within the city to external groups. If St. Louis can be taken as a typical case, in many cities a constellation of policy communities may be appropriating decision making and fiscal authority from the democratic institutions of city government.

Detailed information about the Tenth of Ramadan City, the first of the new cities to be constructed by the Urban Communities Authority. (DÜI-Mat)

The role of urban communities and localities in the development of citizenship and civil society in Spain is examined. The periods before and after democracy are compared. The focus is on the importance of community-based solidarity for the development of urban social movements before the 1979 local democratic elections and the rise of voluntary associations that followed. Democracy during the transitional period to democracy, which was based on consensus politics, has been translated into greater visibility for formal organizations, such as political parties and trade unions, rather than community-based organizations. During the last decade, civic associations centered on cultural, educational, and leisure activities have rapidly developed. On the one hand, the local expresses more heterogeneous interests of the citizens than of associations. On the other, regional and national politics have acquired prominence. Although local governments remain poorly financed, local politics and identities nevertheless continue to be a significant part of citizen life.

"Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks. This prevents students from acquiring a holistic understanding of the world and consequently, when it comes to development practice, most lack the skills to live and engage with people. It has become crucial to properly consider what it means to conceive and implement participatory development out in the field and not just in the boardroom. Building on the work of Robert Chambers and Arturo Escobar, Communicating Development with Communities is an empirically grounded critical reflection on how the development industry defines, imagines and constructs development at the implementation level. Unpacking the dominant syntax in the theory and practice of development, the book advocates a move towards relational and indigenous models of living that celebrate local ontologies, spirituality, economies of solidarity and community-ness. It investigates how subaltern voices are produced and appropriated, and how well-meaning experts can easily become oppressors. The book propounds a pedagogy of listening as a pathway that offers a space for interest groups to collaboratively curate meaningful development with and alongside communities. This is a valuable resource for academics and practitioners in the fields of Development Studies, Communication for Development, Communication for Social Change, Social Anthropology, Economic Development and Public Policy. Foreword by Robin Mansell."--Provided by publisher.