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Develops an understanding of Warwickshire's past for outsiders and those already engaged with the subject, and to explore questions which apply in other regions, including those outside the United Kingdom.

Historiography. --- Historians --- Dugdale, William, --- Warwickshire (England) --- History. --- Local history. --- antiquarianism. --- architectural history. --- aristocracy. --- capitalist origins. --- civil war. --- country houses. --- gentry. --- historical geography. --- historiography. --- landed estates. --- landscape history. --- literature. --- local identity. --- peasantry. --- reformation. --- rural society. --- social history. --- tourism. --- urban culture. --- urban economy. --- urban history. --- urban origins. --- women’s rights.

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Today, 370 million people live in cities in earthquake prone areas and 310 million in cities with high probability of tropical cyclones. By 2050, these numbers are likely to more than double. Mortality risk therefore is highly concentrated in many of the world's cities and economic risk even more so. This paper discusses what sets hazard risk in urban areas apart, provides estimates of valuation of hazard risk, and discusses implications for individual mitigation and public policy. The main conclusions are that urban agglomeration economies change the cost-benefit calculation of hazard mitigation, that good hazard management is first and foremost good general urban management, and that the public sector must perform better in generating and disseminating credible information on hazard risk in cities.

Banks & Banking Reform --- Economics --- Environment --- Environmental Economics & Policies --- Externalities --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Hazard Risk Management --- Housing --- Housing prices --- Insurance --- Labor markets --- Labor Policies --- Land prices --- Land use --- Large cities --- Migration --- Productivity --- Public policy --- Risk management --- Social Protections and Labor --- Transport --- Urban development --- Urban economy --- Urban growth --- Urban Housing --- Urban public services --- Urbanization --- Wages

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Nearly half of East Asia population lives in cities and the region is urbanizing so rapidly that built up areas are projected to increase faster here than in any other region in the next twenty years. Still, more than half of slum dwellers around the world live in East Asia. These are the people most vulnerable to disaster impacts. Given that Asia accounted for more than a third of the number of all reported disasters in 2010, and that natural disasters have quadrupled in the region during the past twenty years the fastest rate of increase of any region in the world managing urban growth for resilience is increasingly important. And yet, many cities do not have master plans to guide their projected growth, let alone tools for risk sensitive land use planning. The impetus for action will come from accessible tools that allow local policymakers to first minimize risk today and then think about addressing future risk. This methodology report describes the underlying risk components, including a description of the models required inputs related to metropolitan elements at risk, hazard sub-indices for thirteen hazard types and thirty parameters of physical, socioeconomic, and institutional vulnerability. In addition to this report, three city reports present results that can be used by a variety of users from those interested in the overall city wide risk from all natural hazards to those interested in more disaggregated information.

Adverse Effects --- Building Codes --- Collective Action --- Earthquakes --- Employment --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Fires --- Floods --- Food & Beverage Industry --- Hazard Risk Management --- Housing --- Industry --- Insurance --- Insurance & Risk Mitigation --- Insurance Industry --- Labor Policies --- Landslides --- Mortality --- Municipalities --- Natural Disasters --- Risk Assessment --- Risk Management --- Social Capital --- Social Protections and Labor --- Technical Assistance --- Transport --- Tsunamis --- Urban Development --- Urban Economy --- Water Supply

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Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) have been introduced in Romania as a prerequisite for accessing EU funds under the Regional Operational Program (ROP). The IDPs designed for growth poles represent a specific category of strategic planning documents as: 1) they need to be considered within the frame of the national policy to whose implementation they contribute; and 2) they represent a first endeavor to think of development across functional areas rather than confined to the administrative borders of the main cities. The objectives of this report are: i) to carry out a strategic evaluation of the seven IDPs and assess how the current plans compare with the diagnostic of the challenges identified in the work on urban development; and ii) to provide clear recommendations for the improvement of existing IDPs which will contribute to the elaboration of the future generation of plans implemented during the next programming period and will help improve the targeting of investments to enhance their economic impact.

Affordable Housing --- Capacity Building --- Cities --- City Development Strategies --- Climate Change --- Communities --- Conservation --- Cultural Heritage --- Development Policy --- Disabilities --- Diversity --- Economic Development --- Economies of Scale --- Employment --- Environment and Natural Resource Management --- Historic Buildings --- Hospitals --- Housing & Human Habitats --- Human Capital --- Legislation --- Municipalities --- National Urban Development Policies & Strategies --- Poverty Reduction --- Property Rights --- Public Buildings --- Roads --- Rural Development --- Rural Economy --- Schools --- Social Development --- Social Inclusion --- Strategic Planning --- Sustainability --- Technical Assistance --- Transparency --- Transport --- Urban Areas --- Urban Development --- Urban Economy --- Urban Planning --- Urban Poverty --- Urban Sprawl --- Waste --- Youth

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How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy-in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based-many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering.In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard Ocejo takes you into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into "cool" and highly specialized upscale occupational niches-and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. He shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of "cultural repertoires," which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. Ocejo describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers.Focusing on cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men's barbers, and whole-animal butcher shop workers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Masters of Craft provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Butchers (Persons) --- Barbers --- Distillers --- Bartenders --- Skilled labor --- Distilling industries --- Barkeepers --- Barkeeps --- Barmaids --- Food service employees --- Butchers --- Meat industry and trade --- Hair stylists --- Hairstylists --- Stylists, Hair --- Barbershops --- Barbering --- Employees --- E-books --- Sociologie urbaine --- Gentrification --- Profession --- artist. --- authenticity. --- barbering. --- barbers. --- barbershops. --- bars. --- bartenders. --- bartending. --- butcher shops. --- butchering. --- butchers. --- cashiers. --- classic cocktails. --- cocktail bartenders. --- cocktail world. --- common occupations. --- communication skills. --- confidence. --- confident behavior. --- confident performance. --- consumers. --- craft cocktails. --- craft distilleries. --- craftsmanship. --- cultural knowledge. --- cultural omnivorousness. --- cultural repertoires. --- customers. --- distilling. --- drinking public. --- everyday workplaces. --- foodie community. --- foodie movement. --- gentrification. --- gentrified neighborhoods. --- handmade products. --- hip tastes. --- ideal masculine image. --- industrial city. --- interpersonal communication. --- light manufacturing. --- local. --- low-status occupation. --- male behavior. --- manhood. --- manual labor. --- men. --- mental labor. --- new economy. --- nightlife industry. --- occupation. --- occupational aesthetic. --- postindustrial cities. --- retail workers. --- savvy consumers. --- self-made man. --- shopping experience. --- skilled peformance. --- small businesses. --- specialty food. --- taste. --- urban economy. --- urban luxuries. --- urbane alternatives. --- work ethic. --- young urbanites.