Electronic catalog

DDC 307.1/2160951
J 25
Jaros, Kyle A. ,
    China's urban champions : : the politics of spatial development / / Kyle A. Jaros. - Princeton : : Princeton University Press,, [2019]. - 1 online resource (xv, 340 pages). : il, карты. - (Princeton studies in contemporary China). - Includes bibliographical references and index. - URL: https://library.dvfu.ru/lib/document/SK_ELIB/CC827C83-BE1E-4ADE-95DB-624BABC027C9. - ISBN 9780691192604 (electronic book). - ISBN 069119260X (electronic book)
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 29, 2019).

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Рубрики: City planning--China.

   Urbanization--China.

   SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.

   City planning.

   Urbanization.

   China.
Аннотация: The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions. Wary of these dangers, China's national leaders have tried to forestall top-heavy urbanization. However, urban and regional development policies at the subnational level have not always followed suit. China's Urban Champions explores the development paths of different provinces and asks why policymakers in many cases favor big cities in a way that reinforces spatial inequalities rather than reducing them.Kyle Jaros combines in-depth case studies of Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Jiangsu provinces with quantitative analysis to shed light on the political drivers of uneven development. Drawing on numerous Chinese-language written sources, including government documents and media reports, as well as a wealth of field interviews with officials, policy experts, urban planners, academics, and businesspeople, Jaros shows how provincial development strategies are shaped by both the horizontal relations of competition among different provinces and the vertical relations among different tiers of government. Metropolitan-oriented development strategies advance when lagging economic performance leads provincial leaders to fixate on boosting regional competitiveness, and when provincial governments have the political strength to impose their policy priorities over the objections of other actors.Rethinking the politics of spatial policy in an era of booming growth, China's Urban Champions highlights the key role of provincial units in determining the nation's metropolitan and regional development trajectory.

DDC 307.3/360979493
L 67
Lichterman, Paul,.
    How civic action works : : fighting for housing in Los Angeles / / Paul Lichterman. - Princeton : : Princeton University Press,, ©2021. - 1 online resource. - (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; ; v.9). - URL: https://library.dvfu.ru/lib/document/SK_ELIB/3A091A13-75D5-43F5-BEC3-3B5583CFDBDF. - ISBN 9780691200040 (electronic bk.). - ISBN 0691200041 (electronic bk.)
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Параллельные издания: Print version: : Lichterman, Paul How Civic Action Works : Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles. - Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2020. - ISBN 9780691212333

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Рубрики: Housing--California--Los Angeles.

   Housing--Prices--California--Los Angeles.

   Homelessness--California--Los Angeles.

   SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.

   Homelessness.

   Housing.

   Housing--Prices.

   California--Los Angeles.
Аннотация: The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grassroots activists, nonprofit organization staff, and community service volunteers in three coalitions and twelve organizations in Los Angeles as they campaign for affordable housing, develop new housing, or address homelessness. Lichterman shows that to understand how social advocates build their campaigns, craft claims, and choose goals, we need to move beyond well-established thinking about what is strategic.Lichterman presents a pragmatist-inspired sociological framework that illuminates core tasks of social problem solving, both contentious and noncontentious, by grassroots and professional advocates alike. He reveals that advocates' distinct styles of collective action produce different understandings of what is strategic, and generate different dilemmas for advocates because each style accommodates varying social and institutional pressures. We see, too, how patterns of interaction create a cultural filter that welcomes some claims about housing problems while subordinating or delegitimating others. These cultural patterns help solve conceptual and practical puzzles, such as why coalitions fragment when members agree on many things, and what makes advocacy campaigns separate housing from homelessness or affordability from environmental sustainability. Lichterman concludes by turning this action-centered framework toward improving dialogue between social advocates and researchers.Using extensive ethnography enriched by archival evidence, How Civic Action Works explains how advocates meet the relational and rhetorical challenges of collective action.