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	Secession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.
		According to some secession theorists, the American Revolution, in which Thirteen Colonies successfully fought for independence from the British Crown was a secession, as opposed to a revolution.
		Secession movements have surfaced several times in Western Australia, where a 1933 referendum for secession from the Federation of Australia passed with a two-thirds majority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secession (2047 words)

	Carol Moore
		Carol Moore is an ethicist and systems theorist best known for her theories of secession and her analysis of Gandhi's methods as an "intuitive systems theorist".
		She is considered an influential critic of globalization; Although not widely read or followed in the protest-oriented wing of the anti-globalization movement, she is extremely influential in movements for separatism[?], urban secession and rural secession[?].
		Her followers prefer to focus on building a comprehensive "not quite a state" capacity for governance in smaller political units, and tend to ignore protest or treaties as strategies.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Carol_Moore.html (231 words)

	Columbia News ::: Architect Joseph Urban's "Theatrical Vision" opens in Wallach Gallery, Oct.11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Born in Vienna at a time of great artistic ferment, Joseph Urban trained as an architect and was influenced by the artists of the Secession (Gustav Klimt, Josef Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann), as well as by the architect Adolf Loos.
		Urban advanced American stage design through the introduction of the latest European developments, as well as his own experiments with lighting and painterly effects, which often paralleled developments in modernist literature, painting and dance.
		Urban's work in diverse fields ranged from the design of residential and commercial buildings (including New York's New School for Social Research and the 1926 Palm Beach mansion Mar-a-Lago) to book illustration (including Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales) and set and costume design.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/10/urbanExhibit.html (712 words)

	Urban Collection: New York Series: Set Models
		He was trained as an architect and influenced by the artists of the Vienna Secession (Gustav Klimt, Josef Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann), as well as by the architect Adolf Loos.
		Urban was a central figure in the cultural life of Vienna for more than a decade before immigrating to the United States in 1912 to become the art director of the Boston Opera.
		The Joseph Urban Stage Design Models and Documents Stabilization and Access Project (2002-2004) was funded by a grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban (195 words)

	Sample Chapter for Sonenshein, R.J.: The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles.
		The reexamination of urban reform is facilitated by a renewed interest in urban institutions.
		The triumph of minority incorporation was simultaneously the triumph of urban liberalism, white and nonwhite (Sonenshein 1993).
		In his study of progressive coalitions in the first part of the twentieth century, Finegold (1995a, b) showed that in those cities where immigrant and working-class communities formed alliances with reformers, their chances of political success were greater than in cities where they lacked a reform agenda.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7878.html (4455 words)

	Civics
		When applied to cities, it is often difficult to distinguish from theories of urban planning.
		Modern human development theory attempts to unify ethics and small-scale politics with urban and rural economics of sustainable development.
		Notable theorists including Jane Jacobs and Carol Moore argue that political secession of either cities or distinct bioregions and cultures is an essential pre-requisite to applying any widely shared ethics, as the ethical views of urban and rural people, different cultures or those engaged in different types of agriculture, are irreconcilably different.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ci/Civics.html (799 words)

	New Page 1
		For secession to be justified, proponents must demonstrate that this most serious of remedies will radically alter the status quo by significantly improving the lives of residents in the new City while not adversely affecting those left behind.
		Secession proposals from the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, and the Harbor have grown out of an experience that the City of Los Angeles is too big, too bureaucratic, and too unresponsive to satisfactorily meet the needs of all of its residents.
		Secession advocates have failed to provide convincing evidence that secession-- the creation of large new urban areas out of the present mega-urban center--will correct the problems and challenges that currently exist in the City of Los Angeles.
	ladiocese.org /episcopalnews/secession.htm (1816 words)

	Green politics - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		urban secession by major cities to permit them to shake off control of the suburbs and renew their economies in ways that they cannot do if they require the permission of their surrounding regions, e.g.
		bioregional democracy reflecting ecological boundaries in politics directly - a scale which tends to be smaller than existing nation-states, and thus is a de facto secession movement, favored more by left than right in modern times, although historically the right wing was often defined by ethnic and tribal identities.
		Because it lacks clear identification with powerful interest groups, and tends to appeal more to a world-view or mindset, Green politics tends to grow slowly but also not to easily lose ground to other views or parties over time.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /gr/Green_politics.html (859 words)

	abstracts
		Since urban trees positively affect quality of life, the spatially inequitable distribution of urban trees in relation to race/ethnicity is yet another instance of urban environmental inequality that deserves greater consideration in light of contemporary and dynamic property relations within capitalist societies.
		Comparative urban political research offers scholars the opportunity to develop theory and to compare practice, yet there is a need for more conscious attention to the comparative method and the special opportunities and challenges involved in its application to local political phenomena.
		Urban regime theory does not travel very well, partly because it is an undertheorized framework and partly because it is in many ways an abstraction of U.S. urban political economy.
	www.uic.edu /cuppa/gci/uar/abstracts.htm (18376 words)

	Joseph Urban
		Joseph Urban was born in Vienna in 1872 and died in New York in July of 1933 at the age of 61.
		Besides Urban and his wife, it was also occupied by 6 or 7 large sheep dogs that lived in kennels in a lower garden where flower beds were sown to cover the droppings.
		Joseph Urban’s training in architecture was during the turn of the century in Vienna, and his colleagues included Otto Wagner, Adolph Loos and Josef Hoffman among others.
	www.yonkershistory.org /urban.html (543 words)

	Secession Watch
		On secession, however, the book and the author are in the middle.
		For more on the origins of secession, the book has a chapter on Valley politics.
		Secession was put on the ballot by a state board, the Local Agency Formation Commission.
	www.americassuburb.com /secede.html (673 words)

	H-Net Review: Patricia E. Gower on The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
		Using the three largest cities in the South, he draws a rich and complex picture of the roles played by a growing urban population, skilled workers and municipal politics in separating these urban areas from the rest of the South.
		As secession loomed, southerners viewed Baltimore, St. Louis, and New Orleans with suspicion and also used the raucous political scenes in these cities as examples of the dangers of free labor, partisan politics, and mob rule.
		But by 1856, southern urban workers became disenchanted with the continuing elite control of politics that sought their support but granted them little actual power in return.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=145161153161924 (1728 words)

	SECESSION
		To this end, he feeds the computer with topographical, urban planning related, thermic, etc. data of a specific site and lets it compute the flow movement of all these factors on the basis of parameters.
		Greg Lynn developed the project at the Secession primarily on the basis of the architectural givens of the building.
		Proceeding from the dome - the most conspicuous sign of the building which is symbolic of the Secession movement - the architect developed a flowing, amorphous structure without corners and edges.
	www.secession.at /art/1999_lynn-maracaccio_e.html (704 words)

	The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
		The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South’s urban centers.
		An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War sheds light on the dynamics of secession by concentrating on pivotal sociopolitical shifts in the South’s three largest cities—Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis.
		Although they were pro-slavery, urban voters favored workers’ rights and stronger municipal government, both of which threatened the landowning society, particularly in light of prospective urban alliances with Washington.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /books/towers.html (343 words)

	proposal.doc
		Finally, because the gated communities are leading to a privatization of public space, the study of those enclaves must be done within the broader reflection regarding the contemporary evolution of cities, especially the transformation of social patterns and urban patterns (polycentrism) produced by a generalized urban sprawl.
		Urban secession as a trend ; protection of the investment as a goal.
		Actually, those discrepancies are to be explained first by the added value of the enclosure and also by the externalities that gated communities are producing on their surrounding areas, such as tax inequities and redistribution of crime.
	perso.orange.fr /renaud.legoix/proposal.html (2188 words)

	Could the blue states secede? - By Sam Schechner - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Before the Civil War, the legality of secession was an open question, and Southerners would frequently threaten that their states might ditch the fledgling nation.
		Elsewhere in the world, however, secession is a live issue, and many democracies are at least somewhat open to it.
		Québec has long flirted with secession from Canada, for example, and the European Union's draft constitution provides a mechanism for states to leave it.
	slate.msn.com /id/2109317 (934 words)

	Secession Watch 2002 Archive: Aug. 11-20
		The ballot argument for secession is signed by secession leader Richard Katz, candidate Carlos Ferreyra, county Supervisor Mike D. Antonovich, Laurette Healey of the SFV Independence Committee and Andrew Mardesich, president of San Pedro Peninsula Home Owners United.
		The rhetoric of secession all along, however, has demonized city workers as over-paid and over-pensioned, so of course they are suspicious.
		He also points out that Scott's support for secession was well known when he was last appointed, and that it's time for someone else to have a chance to serve.
	www.americassuburb.com /sw811.html (5569 words)

	Urbanfutures.org Abstract: Urban Secession and the Politics of Growth: The Case of Los Angeles
		The author argues that the existing literature on urban fragmentation, which tends to "[depict] business and homeowner associations as land use rivals and downplays their potential for collective action," fails to provide an adequate theoretical explanation of the Valley VOTE coalition.
		The Valley secession movement can be traced back as far as the 1920's, but widespread support for the idea began to coalesce between 1940 and the late 1950's due to "the city's failure to increase Valley political representation and respond to complaints over zoning, parking, traffic, and services." (788)
		Local control of land use was also a major issue, as VBGC leaders resented the area's haphazard growth and the influence of downtown political groups and developers.
	www.urbanfutures.org /abstract.cfm?ID=49 (1121 words)

	Valley Secession Fever
		The city admits that the Valley business organization is leaning for secession but it would like to mitigate the damage by having it out of the campaign.
		The LA Times understanding of comprehensive secession coverage is to hone in on the sideshows and the carnies of the independence campaign.
		On the other hand, Berman said secession will not be "that big of a change." That the Valley shares common "regional interests" unaffected by secession.
	arletan.blogspot.com /2002_08_25_arletan_archive.html (2997 words)

	Urban Renaissance Institute
		The Urban Renaissance Institute is dedicated to helping cities and their regions flourish by removing the many impediments to their proper functioning.
		To demonstrate why sound urban policies are indispensable to wilderness and farmland protection.
		Urban Renaissance Institute is a project of the Energy Probe Research Foundation which is a federally registered charitable organization, No. 10730 5146 RR0001.
	www.urban-renaissance.org (211 words)

	Conceptual metaphor - SourceWatch
		ecological wisdom useful to rural culture, or social justice principles on which urban culture is built, is thought by some theorists, notably Jacobs, to be a basis for secession, e.g.
		urban secession, of one group politically from another.
		Other theorists, Carol Moore for instance, see these metaphors as inherently diverging, thus secession is a right.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Conceptual_metaphor (251 words)

	What Empire Does to a Culture - Mises Institute
		Critics of secession point to the Confederacy's practice of slavery and other political vices; but of course the Confederacy was itself a huge sprawling centralized empire.
		The true defender of secession was Lysander Spooner, who defended not only the secession of Confederate states from the Union but also the secession of slaves, with their homesteaded plantation property, from the authority of their masters.
		Once secession finally came and the Confederacy was established, suppression of white freedoms grew even greater, as the central government, in the name of military necessity, extended its controls over every aspect of life.
	www.mises.org /story/2374 (3963 words)

	H-Net Review: Jonathan M. Atkins on The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Such contentious and class-ridden urban democracies brought to the South free labor assumptions that threatened slavery and hierarchy, while workers' political action would "inevitably lead to tyranny by a majoritarian mob that would use the state to redress the inequalities of property and status" (pp.
		In the Southern mountains, secession became intertwined with the class-based rift between rural traditionalists and commercially oriented modernists to produce a brutal guerrilla.
		The idea that secession involved a rejection of a socialist "red republicanism" associated with European radicalism is a theme that has received relatively little attention from scholars.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=245061126286479 (2347 words)

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		In the end, secession poses a direct threat to the power of the city’s established political class, and particularly the City Council, whose member are often accused of operating 15 separate ‘fiefdoms’ over which they exercise almost authoritarian control.
		Although secession offers some potential for improved representation and participation, local empowerment will depend on the structure of government in the Valley, and in particular, the extent to which power is decentralized to city council offices, neighborhood councils, or other decentralized bodies.
		Third, it was shown that opposition to secession is spearheaded by a classic growth machine alliance of downtown/regional business, government officials, and city unions, intent upon protecting their positions of power in the city’s land development hierarchy.
	www.haynesfoundation.org /WordDocs/hogen-esch.doc (9564 words)

	Common-place: Review: Listening to Nineteenth-Century America
		Southerners were horrified by the noises of the city, especially those of manufacturing and urban disorder, and celebrated the bucolic quiet of the plantation.
		Smith does a great job showing the way in which sound and hearing contributed to sectional ideology, but it is questionable whether any given individual had an especially sectionalized understanding of his or her soundscape.
		True, the North was becoming increasingly urban and industrialized in the nineteenth century, but only a small percentage of Northerners lived in cities or near mills during the period.
	www.common-place.org /vol-03/no-02/reviews/greenberg.shtml (1314 words)

	490ravenna
		One recent review and extension of urban growth politics is M. Purcell’s theory of “growth politics.” Growth politics is expressed particularly vitriolically in urban secession and annexation processes.
		school took the politics out of urban growth by focusing on the “natural processes” of the urban “metabolism, contemporary urban theorists examine and theorize the interests and ambitions of the formal urban political institution, as well as grass-roots citizen participation.
		remains the center of power in the urban hierarchy of the region, its gravitational pull is weakening.
	faculty.washington.edu /dmercer/490bellevue.htm (2726 words)

	State & Local Government Law Prof Blog: Secession and Home Rule: LA and NYC
		Urban Affairs Review is published by Sage Publications: http://uar.sagepub.com/
		The Raphael Sonenshein and Tom Hogen-Esch article notes: "In Los Angeles, political reform became the city’s solution to the challenge of secession.
		Two charter commissions, made up largely of opponents of secession, crafted a new city charter that addressed some of the concerns
	lawprofessors.typepad.com /statelocal/2006/01/secession_and_h.html (378 words)

	UCLA News
		Lieser is available to comment on economic issues and the impact of secession on the economies of Los Angeles and a new Valley city.
		Edward W. Soja: Soja, a UCLA professor of urban planning, focuses his research on urban and regional studies; interpretations of urban restructuring in Los Angeles; comparative studies of regional restructuring in industrial societies; and spatiality and planning theory.
		Brian D. Taylor: Taylor, associate professor of urban planning and director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, is available to speak about secession with respect to government organization size and service delivery.
	newsroom.ucla.edu /page.asp?Id=3361 (499 words)

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