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America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars-both public and private-fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment tested, and leaves raked. Bringing this often-invisible work into view, however, raises profound questions for citizens of cities. In Who Cleans the Park? John Krinsky and Maud Simonet explain that the work of maintaining parks has intersected with broader trends in welfare reform, civic engagement, criminal justice, and the rise of public-private partnerships. Welfare-to-work trainees, volunteers, unionized city workers (sometimes working outside their official job descriptions), staff of nonprofit park "conservancies," and people sentenced to community service are just a few of the groups who routinely maintain parks. With public services no longer being provided primarily by public workers, Krinsky and Simonet argue, the nature of public work must be reevaluated. Based on four years of fieldwork in New York City, Who Cleans the Park? looks at the transformation of public parks from the ground up. Beginning with studying changes in the workplace, progressing through the public-private partnerships that help maintain the parks, and culminating in an investigation of a park's contribution to urban real-estate values, the book unearths a new urban order based on nonprofit partnerships and a rhetoric of responsible citizenship, which at the same time promotes unpaid work, reinforces workers' domination at the workplace, and increases the value of park-side property. Who Cleans the Park? asks difficult questions about who benefits from public work, ultimately forcing us to think anew about the way we govern ourselves, with implications well beyond the five boroughs.

Environmental planning --- cleaning --- museum administration --- maintenance --- administration --- parks [public recreation areas] --- urban management --- public spaces --- New York City --- New York City [New York] --- Parks --- Employees. --- Maintenance and repair

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Identität und Gemeinschaft als Leitbilder für öffentliche Freiräume There are infinite ways to build a community, yet the defining feature of any community is characteristically the landscape. Whether it is a park, a river corridor, community gardens, a plaza or a streetscape, the public spaces where people interact provide a shared sense of ownership, and the qualities of these spaces influence how the communities evolve. In a systematic overview, following the workflow sequence of open space projects, the book explores the various types and levels of intervention: from master planning to guerilla gardening and from land reclamation to building in existing fabric. Case studies mostly from North America, Europe and Asia accompany the introductory essays. The emphasis is on strategies of interaction between landscape projects, building development and urban planning, resulting in neighborhoods and city quarters that offer a higher quality of life. Beyond trendy theories on landscape urbanism or landscape infrastructure, this book offers an unideological view on the pragmatic potentials of landscape design for enhancing the built environment.

Urban landscape architecture. --- Public spaces. --- Architecture, Modern --- Community development. --- Architecture --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Landscape architecture --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- History --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Art --- art [fine art] --- ecology --- community development --- urban management --- public spaces --- landscape architects --- Landschapsarchitectuur --- Openbare ruimte --- art [discipline] --- 2000 - 2099

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De laatste 25 jaar hebben de Brusselse wijken met de meeste moeilijkheden belangrijke overheidssteun gekregen met het oog op hun renovatie en herstel: 550 bouwprojecten, 1730 gecreëerde woningen, 130 nieuwe buurtvoorzieningen, 850 sociaal-economische acties en een groot aantal opgewaardeerde wegen en pleinen. Het ‘wijkcontract’ ontstond in 1993 en werd al snel een emblematisch instrument in het Brusselse overheidsoptreden als structureel en structurerend beleid. Naast de vele gerealiseerde projecten en acties an sich, is er gaandeweg een hele wereld rond ontstaan met een politieke administratie, experten, verenigingen en burgers. Dit boek geeft inzicht in het groeiproces van de Brusselse wijkcontracten over de afgelopen 25 jaar. Het dompelt de lezer onder in het discours, de verbeelding, de start, de uitvoering en de administratie van een stadsbeleid met lange termijn en dit op verschillende momenten in haar geschiedenis. De veertien gekozen situaties tonen de sociologische kroniek van dat stadsbeleid, van bij haar geboorte tot in haar huidige ontwikkelingsfase, die een aantal belangrijke vragen oproept. De conclusietekst van het boek vormt voor de auteur de gelegenheid om dieper in te gaan op de ‘tijdelijke perspectieven’ van zowel de verdedigers als de critici van de wijkcontracten. Het levert zo ook een bijdrage aan het publieke debat over de voortzetting of transformatie van het stedelijk beleid in Brussel.

71.039(493) --- 71.038(493) --- 711.13 --- Stadsontwikkeling Brussel --- Brussel --- 71.036 --- 711.4 --- Geschiedenis van de stedenbouw ; 2000 - 2050 --- Geschiedenis van de stedenbouw ; 1950 - 2000 --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; sociale geografie ; socio-economische aspecten ; stadsgeografie --- 20ste eeuw (stedenbouw) --- Twintigste eeuw (stedenbouw) --- Stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw (kritiek) --- Urbanism --- Urban policy --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Environmental planning --- urban renewal --- urban design --- urban management --- Brussels

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The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location.Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Suburbs --- Outskirts of cities --- Suburban areas --- Suburbia --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Metropolitan areas --- History --- Growth --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of environment --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- social history --- urbanization --- urban management --- anno 1800-1999 --- United Kingdom --- Canada --- United States --- Australia --- United States of America

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Describes and pictures buildings and places throughout the United States deemed worthy of preservation, and explains ways in which architecturally valuable structures and cities have been saved.

Aménagement urbain --- Cities and towns--Planning --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Désign urbain --- Développement urbain --- Land use [Urban ]--Management --- Land use [Urban ]--Planning --- Model cities --- Planification urbaine --- Planning [Stads] --- Redevelopment [Urban ] --- Slum clearance --- Stadsplanning --- Stedelijke planning --- Stedelijke vormgeving --- Steden--Planning --- Stedenbouw --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Urbanisme --- Villes modèles --- Villes--Aménagement --- Villes--Planification --- -Historic buildings --- -#TCON:CCHTB --- Historic houses, etc. --- Historical buildings --- Architecture --- Buildings --- Monuments --- Historic sites --- Cities and towns --- Land use, Urban --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Conservation and restoration --- Government policy --- Management --- Historic buildings --- Cities and towns -- Planning --- City planning -- Government policy --- Land use [Urban ] -- Management --- Land use [Urban ] -- Planning --- Steden -- Planning --- Villes -- Aménagement --- Villes -- Planification --- United States --- CDL --- 72.03 AM-vsa --- -Conservation and restoration