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PUBLIC SPACES -- 711 --- CHILD-FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOODS -- 711 --- OUTDOOR PLAY -- 159.920.1 --- PUBLIC SPACES -- 159.920.1 --- CHILD-FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOODS -- 159.920.1 --- OUTDOOR PLAY -- 711

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Child abuse --- Neighborhoods --- Communities --- Prevention. --- Social aspects. --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Community --- Social groups

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Neighborhoods --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Community development --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Case studies. --- Community development [Urban ] --- United States --- Case studies

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For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by rejecting the importance of place they are both deeply flawed. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Great American City argues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped by where you live. To demonstrate the powerfully enduring impact of place, Robert J. Sampson presents here the fruits of over a decade’s research in Chicago combined with his own unique personal observations about life in the city, from Cabrini Green to Trump Tower and Millennium Park to the Robert Taylor Homes. He discovers that neighborhoods influence a remarkably wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen births, altruism, leadership networks, and immigration. Even national crises cannot halt the impact of place, Sampson finds, as he analyzes the consequences of the Great Recession and its aftermath, bringing his magisterial study up to the fall of 2010. Following in the influential tradition of the Chicago School of urban studies but updated for the twenty-first century, Great American City is at once a landmark research project, a commanding argument for a new theory of social life, and the story of an iconic city.

Neighborhoods --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Social conditions. --- #KVHA:Politiek; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:Sociologie; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:Chicago --- 844 Sociale structuur --- #KVHA:American Studies --- Social conditions --- Illinois (Etat)

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The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries' economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation's culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural concerns, and in the process also impact the neighbourhoods of the city. Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city. A multi-sited comparative approach is taken in studying local action in five important cities (Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei) in Pacific Asia. With site selection in these five cities guided by local experts, neighbourhood issues associated with the fieldsites are explored through interviews with a variety of stakeholders involved in neighourhood building and change. The book enables comparisons across a number of key issues confronting the city: heritage (Bangkok and Taipei), local community involved provisioning of amenities (Seoul and Singapore), placemaking versus place marketing (Bangkok and Hong Kong). Cities are becoming increasingly important as centers for politics, citizen engagement and governance. The collaborative efforts city governments establish with local communities become an important way to address the liveability of cities.

Cities and towns --- Neighborhoods --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- East Asia, neighbourhood action, city government, sociable amenities.