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Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs.
"City Limits radically reinterprets urban politics by deriving its dominant forces from the logic of the American federal structure. It is thereby able to explain some pervasive tendencies of urban political outcomes that are puzzling or scarcely noticed at all when cities are viewed as autonomous units, outside the federal framework. Professor Peterson's analysis is imaginatively conceived and skillfully carried through. His beautifully finished volume will lastingly alter our understanding of urban affairs in America."—from the citation by the selection committee for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award
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Yeah it's dry.......2004-04-07
Paul Peterson makes an obvious point: there are limits to the service obligations cities can safely take on. However, it is substantially more complex than that commonsensical point.
Cities face a dilemma, they must balance the requirements they have to provide services with the tax loads they can adequately impose on their citizens. Provide too little in the way of services and the quality of life in the city suffers. Provide too many or too varied a service mix and the taxing requirements to fund these services will drive the productive population beyond the physical limits of the city.
Cities must provide services to the poor. If they do not, the social pathologies of the poor then drive down the attractiveness of the city as a place for entrepreneurial activity. So cities must spend and tax productive populations (those consuming services in a negative ratio to the taxes they contribute) in order to fund these services. However, tax too much and provide too many services and the productive populations will exit the city to more tax friendly areas. Due to the spatial limits of cities, cities cannot extend their taxing reach. Thus cities must provide the bare essentials and encourage economic growth.
The solution to the dilemma is to allow the federal government to provide the majority of redistributive (aid to the poor) services and focus, as a city, on the provision of distributive (road repair, police) and regulatory services (health, sanitation).
Not a ringing cry to help your fellow man, but a cogent analysis of the fiscal demands and limitations facing urban America.
Urbanists, planners and public administration scholars will encounter this book somewhere in their professional training.
John C. McKee
Quite possibly the worst "academic" book in history.......2003-07-19
I read this book while an undergraduate when I took a course in urban politics. Without doubt, it is the worst "academic" book I have ever read. Prof. Peterson's writing is brutally hard to follow. Granted, the topic is quite dry, but the author's writing makes it even worse. When I was finished, I had learned absolutely nothing, having wasted many hours of my life I shall never get back. Prof. Peterson would do well to learn from colleagues Lowi and Shefter how to write on dry topics with some panache.
Great Book.......1996-05-26
Exceptional analysis of city limits
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Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods: Achievements, Opportunities, and Limits (Cities and Planning)
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Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods presents a timely look at some of the most troubled neighborhoods in eight American cities: Atlanta, Camden, Chicago, Cleveland, East Saint Louis, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City. The authors, W. Dennis Keating and Norman Krumholz, review past federal policies and early assessments of the latest federal initiative, the Empowerment Zone. They find some signs of revival even in the most distressed urban neighborhoods, but often as an overlay to persistent poverty and social problems. The case studies emphasize the important roles played by Community Development Corporations, and the book concludes with an analysis of the future prospects for distressed urban neighborhoods.
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The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America
Christine Meisner Rosen
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Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately built cities. This book examines these rebuildings, using each to examine in close detail the process of city growth. The massive population growth and economic expansion of the nineteenth century necessitated that every aspect of the urban environment be redeveloped. Yet, at virtually every stage of city growth, the achievement of environmental adaptation lagged significantly behind the need for change. The innovative features of this book will make it useful to all readers interested in city growth. By drawing on several fields of the social sciences, the author develops a conceptual framework for explaining the barriers to environmental improvement; and through the historical narrative, the usefulness of this framework is demonstrated.
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"Finally a book that contextualizes community and neighborhood development and planning in a progressive but realist fashion. Peterman provides community and neighborhood planners with preassessment criteria and a methodological tool-kit to help ensure future success. This book is invaluable to neighborhood and community development planning courses and will provide a useful adjunct to social planning and social work courses."
--Mickey Lauria, University of New Orleans
"Bill Peterman has written a passionate treatise on neighborhood planning tempered by more than 20 years of front line experience. The result is a powerful praxis that can guide planners, community activists, and theoreticians who are concerned with making community-building a reality."
--Barbara Ferman, Professor of Political Science, Temple University
"Bill Peterman’s critical analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of America’s expanding community development movement should be required reading for all community activists, urban planners, policy analysts and municipal officials! Peterman’s rich insights and thoughtful recommendations regarding how community-based planning and development can lead to a broader popular movement for greater social equality deserve the immediate attention of all those concerned about the future of U. S. cities."
--Kenneth M. Reardon, Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
" Bill Peterman offers important insights from his long experience in Chicago on neighborhood planning and community-based development. His case studies offer very useful lessons on success and failure. This is a valuable addition to the literature on urban neighborhoods."
--W. Dennis Keating Professor and Associate Dean College of Urban Affairs,
Cleveland State University
This book explores the promise and limits of bottom-up, grass-roots strategies of community organizing, development, and planning as blueprints for successful revitalization and maintenance of urban neighborhoods. Peterman proposes conditions that need to be met for bottom-up strategies to succeed. Successful neighborhood development depends not only on local actions, but also on the ability of local groups to marshal resources and political will at levels above that of the neighborhood itself. While he supports community-based initiatives, he argues that there are limits to what can be accomplished exclusively at the grass-roots level, where most efforts fail.
Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based Development should be of special interest to individuals who are directly involved in neighborhood planning and development activities. With case studies that include the issues of gentrification, public housing, government-sponsored development of sports facilities, housing management control and racial diversity, the book takes a look at accomplishing successful neighborhood-based planning and development.
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Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music
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Big Blues Extravaganza : The Best Of Austin City Limits
ASIN: 0823083039 |
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The longest-running music showcase on television today commemorates a quarter-century of the best of America's music-from country, blues, and folk, to rock, bluegrass, tejano, and more--with an informative and highly entertaining illustrated book for Austin City Limits and music fans everywhere. Drawing on the huge archives of "American roots music" presented on the PBS series, the book documents in words and pictures, anecdotes and behind-the-scenes images, the performances of the more than five hundred stellar recording artists who have appeared on the show. This book features a foreword by Lyle Lovett and over 200 color illustrations.
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Texas Roots in American Music.......2006-09-11
This book has great text, but is also highly pictorial history of the development of the television series that made the "Austin Sound" in music known worldwide. John Newton, the photographer for the television Austin City Limits (ACL), has documented the history of ACL and performances of some of America's best musicians in his 200 or so colour plates throughout this book.
Willy Nelson was a primary mover in the development of Austin, Texas, as an alternative to Nashville, Tennessee. The book includes details of that liaison, and other background personalities and relationship I had not known before. Out of Austin in the last three decades has come some of the most talented and creative music acts in almost every form of contemporary music.
Notable for blues, and country sounds, as well as certain modern jazz, the city of Austin has produced some creative new styles which have given outlet to some of the new ideas in music in the last quarter of the 20th century. A weekly television program named "Austin City Limits" began broadcasting in 1976.
This book discusses the personalities that have participated in the weekly musical presentations of the program Austin City Limits over the first 25 years of its life. I noticed that the publication date on the edition I bought gives a publication date of 2000, which would mean it would be available for the actual 25th year in 2001. Amazon.com however, reports a date of 1999.
The program is produced weekly in the studios of KLRU-TV, on its own sound stage, in Austin, Texas. ACL gives an amazing benefit to performers in editing the mixes of the programs of their appearances on ACL. Many have released live albums from those performances. The technical quality and love of the music as an art are unique in this approach to a television program.
This prestigious program is now a hallmark of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) network in the US. Those outside the US may not be aware that this network and its local stations are totally funded by private funds. Local PBS stations have annual fund-raisers and receive grants for operational and programming funds from various indivuduals, foundations and commercial companies.
This means that commercial considerations are not present in the focus of program production. This has enabled ACL to become an innovative and creative nationaide program of contemporary and classic American musical styles. ACL runs a full hour of nothing but music, with a mix of artists across genres that makes for a unique experience every week. This book documents the ofundaiotns and much of the character of the program as an artistic endeavour.
ACL is now syndicated worldwide, nurturing a worldwide fan base for the "Austin Sound" and the individuals and bands responsible for this creative world of musical expression. Includes a foreword by Lyle Lovett, an adept of almost every form of music in his versatile career, with hits and a strong following in - among other areas - Country and Western and Jazz, both big band and contemporary.
I learned very much about some individuals and groups. I also read about many artists and songwriters I had never heard of. ACL has been the start of national recognition for many young artists. I was especially glad to learn details about the Austin Blues community, which is more extensive and dates earlier than I had known.)
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In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass--embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South--is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis.
Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities--and limits--quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
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Should be required reading for every Californian.......2007-07-15
This book is clear, well-written and very readable. For the first time, I understand the hope my parents must have had when they migrated to Los Angeles in 1957.
Recently, I was speaking to 20-somethings about my mom's yearning to attend high school since here Louisiana hometown did not have a school for her. Slack-jawed, they marveled that someone still alive would have experienced these acts that they thought were in the distant past.
This should be required reading for all Californians.
Excellent text.......2004-04-30
Well researched, written, accessible, and informative.
Useful to anyone interested in LA history, African-American history, and urban studies. A good book for undergrads, too.
historical intelligence in social storytelling.......2004-04-29
This is a great book. A special book. Here's why:
Josh Sides has given Los Angeles the kind of racial history that Mike Davis brought to bear on our popular image of the city and the kind of countervailing narrative that Chester Himes might have appreciated. This book's detailed look at Los Angeles shows us how the city's racial texture has changed, but it is also concerned to challenge how lazy we have all become in habitually characterizing racial LA as a city that can be reduced to the Watts Riots, OJ, gang violence, and Rodney King. As Sides tells the story, Los Angeles presents with a genuinely American paradox. Its racial story is a narrative of strife and difficulty, but it is also one of success and hope that rivals any other city's in the United States.
This book is perfectly readable, and it leaves you wondering how we can all think more carefully about what is actually happening in America, beneath easy stereotypes and lazy, stock media representations of race.
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In this distinguished contribution to Latin American colonial history, Douglas Cope draws upon a wide variety of sources—including Inquisition and court cases, notarial records and parish registers—to challenge the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as rootless, alienated, and dominated by a desire to improve their racial status. On the contrary, the castas, Cope shows, were neither passive nor ruled by feelings of racial inferiority; indeed, they often modified or even rejected elite racial ideology. Castas also sought ways to manipulate their social "superiors" through astute use of the legal system. Cope shows that social control by the Spaniards rested less on institutions than on patron-client networks linking individual patricians and plebeians, which enabled the elite class to co-opt the more successful castas.
The book concludes with the most thorough account yet published of the Mexico City riot of 1692. This account illuminates both the shortcomings and strengths of the patron-client system. Spurred by a corn shortage and subsequent famine, a plebeian mob laid waste much of the central city. Cope demonstrates that the political situation was not substantially altered, however; the patronage system continued to control employment and plebeians were largely left to bargain and adapt, as before.
A revealing look at the economic lives of the urban poor in the colonial era, The Limits of Racial Domination examines a period in which critical social changes were occurring. The book should interest historians and ethnohistorians alike.
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Thorough account of a troubling aspect of Mexican history.......2003-02-11
Cope provides a meticulous and empirically well-founded exploration of the physical and social conditions in late colonial Mexico. His study considers both the efficacies and inefficacies of a caste system that required an exact distribution of rights, privileges and obligations along racial lines. The result is an account that not only establishes the ways in which race constrained the life opportunities of individuals in colonial society, but also the ways in which the characteristics of this system were manipulated by those in power and by those seeking upward mobility. While the European elites used phenotypic qualities to separate themselves from the rest of the Mexican masses, those with aspirations of moving up the social ladder could do so through intermarriage, economic success or other status-enhancing methods. Particularly important is Cope's investigation of the patron-client relationship. In effect, because the most disadvantaged portions of society relied on the elites (their employers and landlords) for survival, it was impossible for these lower castes to rebel against the system and sustain themselves at the same time. Such a circumstance kept the masses in check and elite power secure. In many ways the patron-client dynamic, and the caste system on the whole, still characterize Mexican society today.
Thorough account of a troubling aspect of Mexican history.......2003-02-11
Cope provides a meticulous and empirically well-founded exploration of the physical and social conditions in late colonial Mexico. His study considers both the efficacies and inefficacies of a caste system that required an exact distribution of rights, privileges and obligations along racial lines. The result is an account that not only establishes the ways in which race constrained the life opportunities of individuals in colonial society, but also the ways in which the characteristics of this system were manipulated by those in power and by those seeking upward mobility. While the European elites used phenotypic qualities to separate themselves from the rest of the Mexican masses, those with aspirations of moving up the social ladder could do so through intermarriage, economic success or other status-enhancing methods. Particularly important is Cope's investigation of the patron-client relationship. In effect, because the most disadvantaged portions of society relied on the elites (their employers and landlords) for survival, it was impossible for these lower castes to rebel against the system and sustain themselves at the same time. Such a circumstance kept the masses in check and elite power secure. In many ways the patron-client dynamic, and the caste system on the whole, still characterize Mexican society today.
Well executed and much necessary study.......1998-10-19
Well executed and much necessary study
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Watchmen
ASIN: 0978501608
Release Date: 2006-05-18 |
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Ever heard that anything can happen in the big city? Caught the rumors; good and bad? Seen the pictures, heard about it in some history class in high school? Port du Ciel is that kind of place. A living breathing melting pot of society that's got the good, the bad, and everything in between. Over a million people already call it home, and there are newcomers every day. In a bustling metropolis where every individual has their own worries, desires, and lives, we've tasked the contributors to ask the question: What's your story? Featuring Contributions by:
Brian Carroll
Justin Eger
Ryan Estrada
Bob Gandy
Garth Graham
Mohammad Haque
Shannon Hommerbocker
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Interesting concept, interesting stories.......2007-07-13
The idea behind this book was that 12 different comic writers would each write a different story about someone, or something, or some event that occurs, while the only recurring theme would be the city that they take place in.
The stories and artwork are all very different from one another ranging from realistic comedey, to fantasy, to the very abstract and thought provoking.
Fans of any of the artists involved in this project should definately pick up a copy, as its well worth it, and its a great way to get exposed to some other webcomic artists.
It was my pleasure........2006-12-12
As one of the editors for this book, I can only say how proud I am to have been able to work with a few of the most talented people on the web. The art is all stellar, and the stories are fun and throught provoking. Even if I hadn't got to work on this book, I'd buy it anyway. In fact, my comps are used up and I do need some more for the family...
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City Limits: A Social History of Queens
Janet E. Lieberman
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ASIN: 0840331509 |
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City Limits presents the work of the best of a new generation of architects, as selected by the jury of the Architectural League's annual Young Architects competition. This year's winners were asked: In what ways do current modes of architectural production address cities as artifacts and cities as visions? The responses are varied and accomplished, from Petra Kempf's hand drawn series of diagrams of urban movement, transportation, and form, to Teddy Cruz's ongoing involvement in the development of the US/Latin American border, through SERVO's series of product lines, Thaddeus Briner's design for a football stadium, Manifold's RANT project, a design for Manhattan's east side, and nARCHITECTS's Hotel Pro Forma. Together these exciting new designers explore the possibilities for urban development in adroit texts and dazzling graphics.
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