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	Urban planning - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the world's largest cities.
		Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which deals with the physical, social, and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipalities and neighborhoods.
		An urban planner is likely to use a number of Quantitative tools to forecast impacts of development on a variety of environmental concerns including roadway air dispersion models to predict air quality impacts of urban highways and roadway noise models to predict noise pollution effects of urban highways.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Urban_planning (2857 words)

	Urban planning
		Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective.
		The successful practice of urban planning might imply notions of character, of "home" and "sense of place", local identity, respect for natural, artistic and heritage features, an understanding of the "urban grain" or "townscape", and concern for the permeability of an area by pedestrians.
		On city planning and criminality[?], it may be observed that theories generally included in the so-called socio-architecture[?], like environmental determinism, stress that the specific urban environment has a capacity to influence individuals' behaviour and their acceptance of social rules.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ci/City_planning.html (1170 words)

	Nikos Salingaros - Design Methods, Emergence and Collective Intelligence
		Instead of providing a useful design basis, architectural theorists are alleged to be clinging stubbornly to narrow and outdated ideas of the 1920s, exerting thought and energy to create a corpus of work that is irrelevant to human needs.
		The greatest buildings and urban complexes of mankind are just made of bricks, wood, stones, tiles, etc. Yet they transcend their materials so as to induce feelings of profound emotional intensity in observers.
		Architectural and urban components on all scales are the physical substrate on which information is encoded, and the organization of this information produces meaning.
	www.katarxis3.com /Salingaros-Collective_Intelligence.htm (5842 words)

	"Towards a New Urban Philosophy: The Case of Athens", by Nikos Salingaros
		Urban components should follow the universal distribution of sizes: many small buildings, structures, streets, sidewalks, and parks; a medium number of intermediate size; and only a few of large size (Figure 1).
		Since the smallest urban components commensurate to the size of a human being are the most vulnerable, they must be rigorously protected from encroachment by the larger urban elements (Figure 2).
		Athens's urban collapse, coupled with the complementary collapse of villages that emptied their population into the capital city, generated social and political forces that are still unresolved today, and gave rise to a strongly ideological -- and utopian -- "solutions" divorced from reality.
	www.math.utsa.edu /sphere/salingar/newurban.html (6392 words)

	Race, Poverty and Urban Sprawl
		Urban residents were left behind with a declining tax base, shrinking employment opportunities, a failing educational system, and a shortage of decent, affordable housing.
		However, some theorists have failed to address concerns over disempowerment by suggesting that, although minority communities may currently have political control over their communities, in reality, due to the lack of resources in their community or re-isolation within the political system, this control is ineffectual.
		Another explanation for many urban civil rights advocates’ failure to enter the sprawl discourse is their suspicion and skepticism of urban revitalization as a policy for bringing in or maintaining the number of middle class households in the urban core.
	www1.umn.edu /irp/publications/racepovertyandurbansprawl.html (7662 words)

	Urban Informality
		The first round of path-breaking research on urban informality was conducted in Latin America in the 1970s and early 1980s and involved a wonderful diversity of political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists (Collier, 1976; Perlman, 1976; Eckstein, 1977; Portes and Walton, 1981; Castells, 1983; Gilbert and Ward, 1985; de Soto, 1989).
		In both cases, the rapid retreat of the state from long-standing agrarian reformism is shaping the dynamics of urban informality and reconfiguring the structure of political and social entitlements.
		Urban informality in the context of wartime Lebanon points to the crucial role of ethnic politics (Nasr and Hanf, 1987).
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /NewGeog/urban.html (2469 words)

	Everest
		Urban warrior is the Marines effort to overcome these difficulties through new strategies and tactics coupled with new technologies, which they hope will enable the Marines to invade and "pacify" major cities.
		Urban Warrior documents admit that the vast majority of non-lethal technologies now in use were developed for local police to handle the anti-war and civil rights protests of the 1960s" ("One Nation Under Guard," SF Bay Guardian, 3/10/99).
		Urban Warrior in The U.S. During Urban Warrior Marine spokespeople emphasized that the exercises were strictly for overseas interventions.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/everest.htm (2756 words)

	[A-List] Petras: Centrality of Peasant Movements in Latin America
		Paradoxically this occurs at a time when the urban population is increasing, but the level of class organization and internal cohesion of the industrial working class has been substantially weakened.
		Unlike the older urban trade unions and their leaders who have been bureaucratized and become embedded in 'tri-partite' commissions, the new peasant movements have emerged on the basis of independent class and ethnic struggles which challenge trade agreements between the local ruling classes and the imperial state.
		Equally important peasant movements have initiated movements which have 'detonated' larger urban activities such as the uprising in Bolivia in October 2003, the Zapatistas in January 1994, the seizure of Congress in Ecuador in 2000 and the land occupation movements in Brazil during the new millennium.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2005-June/057095.html (4546 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities.
		In the 20th century, part of the task of urban planning became urban renewal, and re-invigorating inner cities by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities, some with much long-term infrastructural decay.
		Areas devastated by war or invasion represent a unique challenge to urban planners: the area of development is not one for simple modification, nor is it a "blank slate".
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=urban_planning (3475 words)

	Introduction to Urban History
		Urban buildings, streets and open areas provide for a variety of types and intensity of land uses and possess different degrees of permanence.
		Urban planning may be defined as: “The deliberate application of principles relating to the desirable form and nature of urban settlements.
		As a distinctive component of the overall process of urban development, it is typically achieved through the use of regulatory policies and coordinating institutions.” [The Dictionary of Art] “The principles guiding urban planning are grounded in cultural values, in power and the structure of authority, in economic and social interests, and in dominant technologies.
	www.uncp.edu /home/rwb/eur_city.htm (1446 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Urban Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lexington Herald-Leader - When goals and objectives were established by the Urban County Council to guide updating the comprehensive land use plan, now under review by the Planning Commission, Gorton said she voted against the goal of expanding the urban service area.
		Urban, city, or town planning, deals with the physical, social and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipalities and neighborhoods.
		Successful urban planning can bring benefits to a much larger hinterland or city region and help to reduce both congestion along transport routes and the wastage of energy implied by excessive commuting.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/urban_planning (3109 words)

	Urban planner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Urban planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning.
		He or she would analyse statistics and projections like the floor-space needed, where the customers are to be drawn from, location of competitors and so forth.
		The urban designer will come in and suggest principles that make the neighbourhood centre 'liveable', including how to ensure safety in design, design guidelines for developers, and so forth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urban_planner (395 words)

	The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space\|2
		Skateboarding was invented in the 1950s in Southern Californian beach towns when surfers tore the T-handlebars off of their scooters and skated on the asphalt banks of the local schoolyards as though they were surfing waves.
		Thus street skating quickly became the most urban and populist version of the sport: it didn't cost anything except the price of the board itself, and it could be done anywhere there was pavement.
		Absent from this list are not only the usual suspects—homeless, drug dealers, and prostitutes—but also children, students, old people, or anyone else who does not directly contribute to a corporation's profitability and marketability (Loukaitou 1998, 181-188).
	bss.sfsu.edu /urbanaction/ua2001/ps3.html (1725 words)

	Measuring Local Institutions and Organizations: The Role of Community Institutional Capacity in Social Capital
		There are varying definitions of social capital provided by theorists (Coleman 1990; Bourdieu, 1986; Putnam, 1993), but generally, social capital refers to the activation of actual or potential resources embodied in communities stemming from a durable network of relationships or structures of social organization.
		Data were also obtained from PhoneDisc 2002, a comprehensive list of all businesses, organizations, and institutions that have their phone numbers listed in public telephone directories.
		Once we had a comprehensive list of organizations and businesses, we geocoded the data using ArcView GIS 3.2 to determine which organizations were located within the target area for the study.
	www.urban.org /url.cfm?ID=410998 (3272 words)

	Urban planning Summary
		Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which deals with the physical, social, and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipalities and neighbourhoods.
		Extreme weather, flood, or other emergencies can often be greatly mitigated with secure evacuation routes and emergency operations centres.
		There is a clear link between urban densities and car use.
	www.bookrags.com /Urban_planning (4012 words)

	PSY 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The terms that are listed in italicized fl on the borders of the text must be understood in order for you to do well and you must thoroughly read the text.
		Interview a parent and list the advantages/disadvantages of parenthood from their perspective.
		List the agencies and the services that are available.
	www.ivcc.edu /jurban/psy_2001syltele.htm (4118 words)

	Urban Studies and Urbanism
		Don't miss their list of the top planning books of all time and the top planning issues of the year.
		The Cyberhood-- A place where urban studies students, urban scholars, planning practitioners, and activists from across the racial and class divide can find one another and build meaningful relationships.
		Sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) and the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo.
	stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu /urban_studies_and_urbanism.htm (1122 words)

	Pope, Hollow Spaces
		It is painfully clear that the forces of development do not want, and cannot afford, traditional urbanism unless it is economically simulated, confined to commodity centers such as malls and amusement parks, or purchased as ``surplus'' in exclusive enclaves by the wealthiest members of the population.
		If architects and theorists are unable or unwilling to abandon their pretensions in order to be reconciled with contemporary economic and political reality, then others will see a way to help.
		Frampton's reference to Burolandschaft suggests that the transformation of active mixed-use urban cores into an innocuous zoned ``officescape'' is the realization of the Modern City as it was conceived in the 1920s: a ``Universal Space'' empowered with technical rationality which (like the capital it served) knew no political, historical, religious, or class boundaries.
	www.rice.edu /~lda/Sprawl_Net/List/Reviews/POPEhollows93.html (1222 words)

	[URBANTH-L]REV: Burk on Mitchell, _The Right to the City_
		Mitchell takes as a point of departure Henri Lefebvre's "right to the city as a cry and demand;" that is, a right not only to inhabit urban spaces but also to participate in a city as an ongoing work of creation, production, and negotiation.
		Particularly helpful is the admirable integration of dissents within case law and scholarship by an impressive array of geographers, sociologists, cultural theorists, legal scholars, activists, and politicians.
		He details a distressingly large list of the discourses, policies, bylaws and legal decisions that disenfranchise the homeless in whatever ways serve local political circumstances.
	lists.ysu.edu /pipermail/urbanth-l/2005-March/000354.html (1260 words)

	Sociology Course Offerings - Fall 06
		This seminar in Urban Studies introduces students to many of the social issues confronting our nation’s cities by focusing specifically on the problem of urban homelessness.
		The purpose of this ABCS course is to examine the development of art, culture and media in cities, with an emphasis on the role that local organizations play in neighborhood communities and art publics.
		Of great importance, the course will evaluate competing knowledge systems and their respective implications in terms of the question of what can be known about urban poverty in the contexts of policy circles, academic literature, and the broader social imaginary.
	www.soc.upenn.edu /Courses/fall2006courselistings.htm (7104 words)

	The Urban Institute \| Author: Reid, Elizabeth
		This report describes the capacity of U.S. nonprofits to mobilize in international development and assistance, promotion of international understanding, and international affairs.
		It is the first systematic national study of international nonprofits using descriptive statistics and data on charitable nonprofits obtained from the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) at the Urban Institute.
		In this volume, authors discuss the relationship between tax-exempt status and First Amendment rights, whether limitations on political speech constitute unconstitutional burdens on fundamental rights, and how the ideas of early democratic theorists influence our views of groups in democracy and civil society.
	www.urban.org /expert.cfm?ID=ElizabethReid (601 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellions (The Clinton Body Count)
		Dannemeyer's list of "suspicious deaths" was largely taken from one compiled by Linda Thompson, an Indianapolis lawyer who in 1993 quit her year-old general practice to run her American Justice Federation, a
		This laundry list of deaths always refers to someone taking his life as "ruled a suicide," thus implying another conclusion of equal likelihood was capriciously dismissed by someone who had the power to do so.
		To describe any of the plane crash deaths on this list as "suspicious" is to suggest the NTSB was part of a coverup.
	www.snopes.com /inboxer/outrage/clinton.htm (6814 words)

	Theory exam
		The category of "folklore" as defined disciplinarily, has been unstable since its conception, largely because of the problems inherent in either separating, or failing to differentiate, oral from printed text, and serves as in ideal entrance point to a discussion of the two.
		This list points to this problem within the discipline of Folklore by focusing on the fairytale, a folkloric genre that straddles orality and print.
		E-mailed "cyberlore," in particular, has provided a new medium for old genres, such as jokes and urban legends, and unique forms such as ASCII art and the virus hoax; in so doing it challenges a separation between written text and folklore.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~kabbey/exams/theory_list.htm (410 words)

	The Department of Political Science at Temple University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This core seminar in urban politics will introduce the student to the major schools of thought that have structured urban inquiry including: power elite, pluralist, Marxist, and political economy.
		The readings cover some of the major theories of race and urban poverty going from the "declining significance of race" proponents on the one hand to the "increasing significance of race" theorists on the other end of the spectrum.
		The course also examines how race and class play out in the drama of urban politics by focusing on some of the political battles that have characterized key urban policy areas such as housing, education, and community development.
	www.temple.edu /polsci/graduate/ListOfCourses.asp (1692 words)

	Boston University Undergraduate Courses
		Course listings are subject to change, so please confirm with the Department of Sociology for the active listings for a given academic year.
		An analysis of cities and urban phenomena in preindustrial, industrial, and postindustrial societies with an emphasis on European and U.S. urbanization.
		Examines the historical evolution of racial economic disparities; social and cultural issues raised by "underclass" debate; ethics and efficacy of affirmative action; and the role of race in present-day politics.
	www.bu.edu /sociology/ug-courses-completelist.html (3354 words)

	Wilf Family Department of Politics" + titlesec + "
		If a student wishes to enroll in a closed class after the wait list is dropped, students must have permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
		Among the theorists included are Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx.
		Conceptions of effective leadership in urban politics and the role of the police, the press, and "good government" groups in local political life.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/politics/undergrad/undergrad_list.shtml (5400 words)

	Steve Macek's Home Page
		My intellectual interests are eclectic and wide-ranging: news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics, the list could go on and on.
		My book on the subject, Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right and the Moral Panic over the City, was published by University of Minnesota Press in May, 2006.
		My current research efforts include a study of mainstream news coverage of the current right-wing attack on the academy, an analysis of the sorts of advocacy journalism produced by the urban poor, and a theoretical essay on social class and communication.
	stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu (470 words)

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