Winning to Learn, Learning to Win: Evaluative Frames and Practices in Urban Debate

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad L. Asad ◽  
Monica C. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Urban Debate

scholarly journals Wilson Cano, interpreter of regional and urban issues in Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Carlos Antônio Brandão ◽  
Fábio Lucas Pimentel de Oliveira ◽  
Leonardo Guimarães Neto ◽  
Valdeci Monteiro dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
National Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
Spatial Concentration ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Academic Trajectory ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Urban Debate

This article is a tribute by representatives from four generations of researchers, who were taught and supervised by Professor Wilson Cano (1937-2020). The text follows an academic trajectory that bequeathed a fundamental contribution towards the understanding of regional and urban issues in Brazil. The aim is to highlight the most distinctive aspects of his studies, based on a dynamic-historical and contradictory conception of capitalist development and the regional and urban repercussions that have resulted from such a process. Under the aegis of the historical-structural method, we identify, within his analyses, a rigorous investigation into the formation of regional complexes, of the movements of spatial concentration and deconcentration driven by industrialization, and of the determinations of the land issue for urbanization. He sought to situate the regional and urban debate within the context of the need to push forward a national development project, without which, the regions and cities of Brazil would become subjugated to the determinants of neoliberalism and to the loss of the nation’s sovereignty.

scholarly journals O paradigma das global cities nas estratégias de desenvolvimento local

1999 ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Compans
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
New Development ◽  
Urban Debate ◽  
International Experts

Este artigo trata das novas estratégias de desenvolvimento econômico para as cidades no contexto da reestruturação produtiva. Ele enfoca o papel atribuído às cidades como centros de gestão dos fluxos de capitais, o qual permite uma articulação entre o local e o global sem a intermediação das esferas regional e nacional. Primeiramente, apresenta as contribuições teóricas no Terceiro Mundo que mais têm influenciado o debate urbano sobre a emergência de uma economia de fluxos, cuja organização em rede impõe as cidades como nós de conexão. Em seguida, analisa a construção paradigmática das global cities, com base na generalização de alguns pressupostos teóricos e de tendências empiricamente observadas. Finalmente, examina as estratégias que estão sendo difundidas por consultores internacionais e relacionadas à vocação inexorável das cidades para o terciário avançado.Palavras-chave: desenvolvimento local; gestão urbana; globalização; cidades mundiais. " The Paradigm of 'Global Cities' in Local Development Strategies" Abstract: This article discusses the new development economic strategies for cities in the productive restructuration context. It focuses the role of the great cities like management centers of the capital fluxes which allows an articulation between the local and the global spaces without the mediation of the regional and national spheres. At first it introduces some theoretical contributions about the emergence of an flux economy, which net organization format requires that the cities turn themselves connection points, as a strong influence in Third World urban debate. Afterwards it analyses the paradigmathical arrangement of the "global cities" with the support of general concepts and empirical dates. At last but not least, the paper also argues the supposed natural vocation of the cities nowadays for the advanced Tertiary, as show the several strategies diffused and recommended by international experts. Keywords: local development; urban management; globalization; global cities.

The Built Environment and the Urban Question

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ball
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Analysis ◽  
Urban Debate ◽  
Adequate Analysis

Debates over the content of urban studies flowered in the early 1970s and died in the 1980s. The rise and fall was closely mirrored by the fashionable status of the urban theories of certain Marxists. This paper is a look at the reasons why this urban debate, like its predecessors, failed to incorporate an adequate analysis of the provision of the built environment, the physical framework of cities. The work of Castells, Lojkine, amd Harvey is examined in this respect and the concept of collective consumption questioned. An approach to studying the built environment is then suggested which hopefully will help to get Marxist urban analysis off its functionalist petard.

Passport to the future: Boosting academic outcomes and citizenship through urban debate

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Joseph N Patten ◽  
Stephen J Chapman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Sat Scores ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
9Th Grade ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Urban Debate ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the impact of a university-high school debate mentoring program on educational outcomes of high school graduates attending a racially segregated school in New Jersey, USA. Evidence shows that from 2011 to 2018, participants had stronger grade point average growth, higher cumulative grade point averages, and higher SAT scores relative to non-debating graduates. The sample ( N = 275) consists of 55 high school graduates who competed on the debate team and a control group of 220 non-debating graduates. Findings indicate debate graduates experienced a 0.81 GPA growth (2.5–3.31) from 9th grade to 12th grade while non-debate graduates exhibited a markedly lower 0.10 GPA growth (2.2–2.3). Debaters scored higher on particular sections of the SAT exam and overall SAT scores. The study provides evidence of the potential efficacy of debate team membership on student outcomes.

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