Where have all the houses (among other things) gone? Some critical reflections on urban agriculture

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura B. DeLind
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Rust Belt ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Us ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The City

AbstractUrbandale Farm (Lansing, MI) has much in common with other urban agricultural projects throughout the US and especially those in the rust-belt cities of the Midwest. It raises food for an economically challenged neighborhood. It offers opportunities for local participation, education and job creation, and it is supported by diverse public and private institutions. By all official accounts, Urbandale Farm is good at what it does. Its acreage, production, income and entrepreneurial activities are all increasing, and it has become a poster child for urban agriculture throughout the city. However, despite its good work (or possibly because of it), Urbandale Farm, and urban agriculture more generally, may unwittingly be helping to rationalize the displacement and continued social and political inequity of urban neighbors rather than reinforcing greater place-making, neighborhood empowerment and sustainability. Using Urbandale Farm as a case in point, this paper critically explores how urban agriculture is being used by some scholars, activists, governmental offices and agencies to transform fragile neighborhoods. It questions some of the movement's underlying assumptions as well as some of its actual benefits and beneficiaries. The paper also offers suggestions—for the purpose of initiating a more nuanced conversation—on how urban agriculture can be reconfigured philosophically and practically to shed its neoliberal tendencies and contribute to a more structurally based social and political transformation.

The Role of Professionals in Policy Reform: Cases from the City Level, São Paulo

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (03) ◽  
pp. 141-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Dowbor ◽  
Peter P. Houtzager
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Family Health Program ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The City

Abstract A new generation of social policies in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America are being read by scholars as first and foremost the result of top-down initiatives by state elites and technocrats. This article explores what role, if any, middle-class professionals have played and how this role might be framed in analytical terms. The article examines the trajectory of two of the most important new social programs that target the poor in the city of São Paulo, Brazil: the family health program PSF and Renda Mínima. It compares the city-level reform dynamics that have shaped the trajectory of the programs over 18 years. It finds that networks of reformist middle-class professionals that traverse public and private institutions played a substantial role in the creation and evolution of the new programs.

scholarly journals Sustainable Tourism and Residents’ Perception towards the Brand: The Case of Malaga (Spain)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Cruz Ruiz ◽  
Elena Ruiz Romero De la Cruz ◽  
Francisco J. Calderón Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

A brand can turn a geographical location into a landmark and influences the tourist planification of a city. Although the world tourist sector recognizes Malaga as The Coast of Sun, this analysis also reveals several more elements, which should be substantiated if a rebranding is carried out. If the brand is well managed, the residents’ perspective must be taken into account. Avoiding the seasonality and keeping the destination in the future will allow the sustainable development of the tourism in the city of Malaga. In order to achieve the goals set in this research, a descriptive methodology has been used. This study has been carried out using a questionnaire in which 1230 residents have participated. Indeed, the results show that Malaga brand is being built under the concept of culture and that some attributes are vital for the territory’s image. This encourages economic growth and hence employment. This paper offers important implications to both public and private institutions insofar as they promote tourism campaigns.

Shale Gas Implications for C2-C3 Olefin Production: Incumbent and Future Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 341-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric E. Stangland
Keyword(s):  
Shale Gas ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Shale Formations ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
The Us ◽  
Olefin Production ◽  
Major Industry

Substantial natural gas liquids recovery from tight shale formations has produced a significant boon for the US chemical industry. As fracking technology improves, shale liquids may represent the same for other geographies. As with any major industry disruption, the advent of shale resources permits both the chemical industry and the community an excellent opportunity to have open, foundational discussions on how both public and private institutions should research, develop, and utilize these resources most sustainably. This review summarizes current chemical industry processes that use ethane and propane from shale gas liquids to produce the two primary chemical olefins of the industry: ethylene and propylene. It also discusses simplified techno-economics related to olefins production from an industry perspective, attempting to provide a mutually beneficial context in which to discuss the next generation of sustainable olefin process development.

scholarly journals Dinâmica urbana e condomínios horizontais fechados na cidade de Natal

GeoTextos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Avelino Tavares ◽  
Ademir Araújo da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Urban Dynamic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

A partir de 1995, a cidade de Natal presencia a produção de uma nova forma de moradia, trata-se do condomínio horizontal fechado Green Village, que proporciona uma revolução no mercado imobiliário natalense, considerando que a partir de então uma série de outros empreendimentos passam a ser lançados. Desse modo, este trabalho objetiva analisar a expansão desses empreendimentos na cidade de Natal, com ênfase nas estratégias utilizadas pelos agentes imobiliários para sua comercialização e para as implicações socioespaciais que eles engendram. Para tanto, foram levantados dados a partir de fontes e procedimentos. Na etapa que diz respeito às fontes, realizamos uma pesquisa bibliográfica e documental sobre temas relacionados à problemática em questão em bibliotecas, instituições públicas e privadas; na etapa concernente aos procedimentos, ou à produção de informações, realizamos entrevistas e aplicação de questionários com os principais agentes sociais envolvidos com a expansão dos condomínios horizontais em Natal. A partir do estudo realizado, entendemos que os condomínios horizontais, ao se expandirem no espaço urbano de Natal, trazem em seu bojo uma série de mudanças para a cidade em sua totalidade. Abstract URBAN DYNAMIC AND CLOSED HORIZONTAL CONDOMINIUMS IN NATAL CITY Since 1995 Natal city observes the production of a new form of housing, they are the closed horizontal condominiums Green Village, which provides a revolution in the natalense real estate market, considering since then a number of other ventures are being launched. So, this study has the objective of analyze the expansion of these enterprises in Natal city, with emphasis on the strategies by real estate agents for marketing of these new ventures and the socio-spatial implications which they cause. Thus data were collected from sources and procedures. In the level which concern the sources, realized a documental bibliographic research about topics related to the issue in question in the libraries, public and private institutions; in the level concerning the procedures, or the production of information, we did interviews and questionnaire applications with the main social agents in the subject of the closed horizontal condominiums in Natal city. From the study performed, we understand that the closed horizontal condominiums to expand in the Natal’s urban space bring in its soul a series of changes to the city in its totality.

scholarly journals La Génesis de un Museo del Guadalquivir del siglo XXI. Anastylosis virtual del valle del Guadalquivir en el siglo II d. C: La Baetica de Adriano.

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Grande León
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cultural Diffusion ◽  
New Space ◽  
Guadalquivir River ◽  
The City ◽  
New Framework

<p>We present an ambitious design in order to a new space and a cultural center in the surrounding area of the city of Seville devoted to Guadalquivir River and its Memory. This project depicts a new framework for multifunctional cultural infrastructures aimed to perpetuate and strengthen the knowledge of our rich cultural heritage, adding new didactic value to it by means of XXI century museology and the latest 3D virtual technologies, thus creating valuable resources for cultural diffusion according to present-day possibilities. This initiative started in year 2005 and shall be concluded in year 2012, as result of the cooperation between several public and private institutions, all of them interested in the cultural, touristical, technological and economic revaluation of Guadalquivir River</p>

Auditing, Attestation, and Financial Reporting for an Early American Charity

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Michael Braswell ◽  
Roger B. Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Agency Costs ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Early American ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Our study examines assurance and attestation practices of the Charleston Orphan House from 1790 to 1825 and represents a response to Alchian and Demsetz's (1972) call for research into the nature of stewardship and agency costs among nonprofits by providing evidence of the largely unexplored early American practices (Moussalli 2008; Sargiacomo and Gomes 2011). We document the origins of the assurance and attestation techniques used to legitimize the Charleston Orphan House and to minimize the agency costs faced by its public and private funders. We find that assurance and attestation practices were reflected in the routine publication of the Committee on Accounts reports that served as vital elements of a governance structure that enabled the municipality and philanthropists to monitor the financial condition of the institution. These oversight efforts helped minimize agency costs that naturally arose between the Orphan House and resource providers, making it possible for the City of Charleston and private funders to efficiently allocate limited resources to mitigate social costs of managing the post-revolutionary orphan problem. Our findings provide new insights into early assurance and attestation practices and support Alchian and Demsetz's (1972) conjecture that nonprofits face similar economic motivations for utilizing financial reporting, auditing, and attestation as monitoring mechanisms as do their profit-seeking counterparts.

Public-sector Contracting for Investment Services

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon L. Clark ◽  
Ashby H. B. Monk ◽  
Gordon L. Clark ◽  
Ashby H. B. Monk
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Pension Fund ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
The Us ◽  
Public Pension Fund ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Administration And Supervision ◽  
Institutional Ecology ◽  
The City

In Chapter 7, the focus shifts to public agents and the process of contracting financial services and local pension funds in the US states. The costs of governing and managing this sector are addressed and an idealized model of the institutional design, administration, and supervision of the investment management process is introduced, laying out the forms and functions of pensions in relation to their beneficial purpose. In a brief overview of the US state and local PERS sector, its economic significance and distinctive institutional ecology are noted. The authors’ research demonstrates the extent to which the market for financial services in the US public pension-fund sector is Balkanized, implying significant transaction costs for both the buy and sell sides of the market, more often found at the city or metropolitan level than among funds within states or between funds of adjacent states.

scholarly journals Urban Policies and Large Projects in Central City Areas: The Example of Madrid (Spain)

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Dolores Brandis García
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Central City ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Since the late 20th century major, European cities have exhibited large projects driven by neoliberal urban planning policies whose aim is to enhance their position on the global market. By locating these projects in central city areas, they also heighten and reinforce their privileged situation within the city as a whole, thus contributing to deepening the centre–periphery rift. The starting point for this study is the significance and scope of large projects in metropolitan cities’ urban planning agendas since the final decade of the 20th century. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the correlation between the various opposing conservative and progressive urban policies, and the projects put forward, for the city of Madrid. A study of documentary sources and the strategies deployed by public and private agents are interpreted in the light of a process during which the city has had a succession of alternating governments defending opposing urban development models. This analysis allows us to conclude that the predominant large-scale projects proposed under conservative policies have contributed to deepening the centre–periphery rift appreciated in the city.

scholarly journals Rethinking “Disinvestment”: Historical geographies of predatory property relations on Chicago’s South Side

2021 ◽  
pp. 026377582110130
Author(s):  
Rea Zaimi
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Rust Belt ◽  
South Side ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
And Function ◽  
South Side Chicago

As vacancy in Rust Belt cities becomes a focal point of planning and policy efforts, Chicago planners and private institutions attribute it to “disinvestment” and seek to remove barriers to real estate investment in order to unlock the market’s purported ability to bring land to “productive use.” Drawing on findings from an analysis of nearly 10,000 postwar property records in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, this article demonstrates that vacancy stems not from disinvestment but from predatory and hyperextractive investments in housing that derive economic feasibility and legal sanction from property’s historical articulation with race. I argue that racial regimes of ownership are endemic to the operation of real estate markets and function as central modalities for the appropriation of ground rent. As an analytical lens into the political economy of land, racial regimes of ownership expand urban geographers’ capacity to address the mechanisms that mobilize difference to accommodate capital’s circulation and, more broadly, to account for the racial logics that configure the terrain of contemporary land struggles.

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