Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Urban Experience: An Interdisciplinary Policy Perspective

Autor Barry Bluestone, Mary Huff Stevenson, Russell E. Williams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2022
The Urban Experience provides a fresh approach to the study of metropolitan areas by combining economic principles, social insight, and political realities with an appreciation of public policy to understand how U.S. cities and suburbs function in the 21st century. The new edition will feature a new cohesive framework called the Metropolitan Area Dynamic introduced in the first chapter of the book, then incorporated into every chapter, to demonstrate the demographic, economic, political, social, and public policy forces that impact metropolitan areas. The narrative of the book is grounded in the real life experiences of students and their families on the premise that there is a fascination about one's own surroundings to engage the students in their study. It uses a great deal of historical and comparative data to explore the wide variation in how we experience urban and suburban communities and will include greater discussion of cities worldwide to engage with large scale global issues like climate change, immigration/migration, and inequality. It addresses the changing role and function of U.S. metropolitan areas in an age of growing global competition and focuses on key contemporary problems facing cities and suburbs. Providing an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, the book introduces analyses from economics, sociology, and political science, urban studies, and public policy as useful tools to understand the evolution and current status of the nation's urban areas.The book will be a valuable text for urban scholars, public officials, and all those interested in understanding urban dynamics.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 78497 lei

Preț vechi: 107529 lei
-27% Nou

Puncte Express: 1177

Preț estimativ în valută:
15022 15588$ 12556£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 24 februarie-10 martie

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197527313
ISBN-10: 0197527310
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 256 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 1.05 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

[This book] is the best real-world interdisciplinary book out there [on the topic]. [It offers] strong theoretical and applied coverage of: (1) expected effects of climate change to urban areas, (2) how wealth inequality is generated by urban areas and solutions to mitigate [this], (3) housing affordability in the urban areas that individuals want to live in, (4) transportation/mobility upheavals and how the city deals with them, [and] (5) public safety and K-12 education concerns that keep people out of cities.
This book is a good fit for students majoring in political science, urban studies, or public policy. The distinct advantage of this book is that it is comprehensive and covers a lot of urban issues using simple tools.
The revised text is organized appropriately by historical development and role of the metropolitan dynamics. Then, the authors creatively integrate topical issues of cities and suburbs. This is a real strength because it helps frame policy problems and policy solutions. [In addition] the text reflects current debates in the literature on the factors shaping uneven development and inequality in cities and suburbs. These are central areas of scholarly inquiry, and the authors appropriately engage these debates and apply them to current patterns.
This second edition of The Urban Experience is a revised, expanded and updated version of a textbook introducing readers to some of the major ways of understanding the policy dynamics of metropolitan areas, those located in the United States in particular...The book clearly targets advanced undergraduates with a general social-scientific background.

Notă biografică

Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Founding Director of the Dukakis Center; Founding Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. Mary Huff Stevenson is a Professor of Economics Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Russell E. Williams is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wheaton College.