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Urban America reconsidered : alternatives for governance and policy
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ISBN: 9780801475658 0801475651 Year: 2010 Publisher: Ithaca London Cornell University Press

Citoyenneté, planification et gouvernement urbains aux Etats-Unis : des communautés dans la ville
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ISBN: 2738485715 9782738485717 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
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ISBN: 2870094639 9782870094631 Year: 1991 Volume: 34 Publisher: Liège : P. Mardaga,

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Les idées exprimées dans cet ouvrage revêtent une consonnance familière dans les contexte français actuel: similitude des enjeux de développement social et économique? Filiation des approches urbaines dans le sillage de park et Burgess? Quoiqu'il en soit, le livre de Jane Jacobs contient une somme de référence indispensables pour comp^rendre les démaches contemporaines en urbanisme, et propose à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la ville une méthode dialectique entre théorie et terrain pour élaborer une statégie urbaine.

Fractured cities : capitalism, community, and empowerment in Britain and America
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ISBN: 0415078539 0415078520 9780415078535 Year: 1992 Publisher: London : Routledge,


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Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
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ISSN: 12797650 ISBN: 9782863646625 2863646621 Year: 2012 Publisher: Marseille : Editions Parenthèses,

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Les villes forment un immense laboratoire pour faire des expériences, commettre des erreurs, échouer ou réussir en matière d’architecture et d’aménagement urbain. C’est dans ce laboratoire que l’urbanisme aurait dû étudier, concevoir et expérimenter des théories. Au lieu de cela, les hommes de l’art et les enseignants de cette discipline (si l’on peut dire) ont fait abstraction du succès ou de l’échec des opérations réalisées et ne se sont nullement préoccupés de rechercher les raisons des réussites inattendues. Ils se sont laissés guider par des principes inspirés du fonctionnement et de l’aspect de localités de moindre importance, de banlieues, de sanatoriums, de foires-expositions, de cités de rêve, en bref de tout sauf de villes véritables. Il n’est donc pas étonnant, dans ces conditions, de constater que les secteurs rénovés des villes ainsi que les constructions neuves qui s’étendent interminablement au-delà de leurs limites sont en train de transformer la ville et la campagne en un même brouet insipide. Jane Jacobs, remarquable observatrice de la ville contemporaine, passe au crible les grandes questions urbaines (rue et sécurité, espaces verts, grands ensembles…) en analysant la façon dont les habitants ressentent leur quotidien. Vibrant plaidoyer pour la diversité et la vitalité urbaines, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, paru en 1961, continue de rencontrer un accueil exceptionnel auprès du grand public et d’alimenter les controverses autour des visions parfois opposées entre usagers de la ville et professionnels.

Judges and the cities : interpreting local autonomy.
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ISBN: 0226107531 9780226107530 Year: 1985 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,


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The death and life of great American cities.
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ISBN: 0140206817 9780140206814 Year: 1974 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books


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Meaningful Inefficiencies
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ISBN: 0190870176 0190870168 9780190870133 0190870141 9780190870140 0190870133 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Public trust in civic organizations is low. And many public serving organizations (government, news, civil society) assume that greater efficiency will build trust. As a result, they are quick to adopt new technologies to enhance what they do. However, efficiency, in the sense of charting a path to a goal with the least amount of friction, can sometimes be at odds with the goal of building trust. This book is about those practices that challenge the normative applications of "smart technologies" in order to build or repair trust with publics. Based on over sixty interviews with changemakers in public serving organizations throughout the United States, as well as detailed case studies, this book provides a practical and deeply philosophical picture of civic life in transition. It is a book about design, but not necessarily about designers. Without coordinating, these civic designers embedded within organizations have adopted an approach to public engagement we call "meaningful inefficiencies," or the deliberate design of less efficient over more efficient means of achieving some ends. This book illustrates how civic designers are creating meaningful inefficiencies in less than ideal conditions and encourages a rethinking of how innovation within public serving organizations is understood, applied, and sought after. Different than market innovation, civic innovation is not just about invention and novelty, it is concerned with building communities around novelty, and cultivating deep and persistent trust. It involves a plurality of publics (not just a single public good); it creates the conditions for those publics to play; and it results in people caring for the world. Meaningful Inefficiencies describes an emergent approach to creating civic life at a moment when smart and efficient are the dominant force in social and organizational change.


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The urban experience : an interdisciplinary policy perspective
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ISBN: 9780197527313 0197527310 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press,

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"The Urban Experience provides a fresh approach to the study of metropolitan areas by combining economic principles, social insight, and political realities with an appreciation of public policy to understand how U.S. cities and suburbs function in the 21st century. The new edition will feature a new cohesive framework called the Metropolitan Area Dynamic introduced in the first chapter of the book, then incorporated into every chapter, to demonstrate the demographic, economic, political, social, and public policy forces that impact metropolitan areas. The narrative of the book is grounded in the real life experiences of students and their families on the premise that there is a fascination about one's own surroundings to engage the students in their study. It uses a great deal of historical and comparative data to explore the wide variation in how we experience urban and suburban communities and will include greater discussion of cities worldwide to engage with large scale global issues like climate change, immigration/migration, and inequality. It addresses the changing role and function of U.S. metropolitan areas in an age of growing global competition and focuses on key contemporary problems facing cities and suburbs. Providing an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, the book introduces analyses from economics, sociology, and political science, urban studies, and public policy as useful tools to understand the evolution and current status of the nation's urban areas. The book will be a valuable text for urban scholars, public officials, and all those interested in understanding urban dynamics"--

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