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Stouten uses rather rough indicators e. In my opinion, this type of information is insufficient to assess whether urban renewal has been sustainable. Specifically, building for the neigh- borhood has contributed to the continued concentration of low-income households in the Oude Noorden neighborhood. Overall, the book did not meet my expectations. The study would have profited from a more focused approach, one which dealt with the functioning of different policy contexts, differential power distribution, and how these have affected spatial development.
While the book gives interesting information about urban regeneration between and , and is therefore of interest to scholars in the field of urban renewal, it lacks a thorough discussion of policy strategies after that.
Unfortunately, the recent severe political changes in Rotterdam are hardly discussed. The only exception is on page where we stumble on the name of Pim Fortuyn, the leader of the populist Liveable Rotterdam political party, who was assassinated on May 6, His party defeated the Social Democrats the founders of the urban renewal , and although the latter regained the offices of mayor and aldermen, populism has had an enormous effect on recent policy strategies.
An example is the Rotterdam Act, in operation since , which excludes households on social assistance from distressed neighborhoods. Despite the above criticisms, I believe that the book will be of interest to American and European urban scholars because of the description of Dutch urban renewal strategies.
Regrettably, I see no point in recommending the book to my neighbors in Oude Noorden. Doff tudelft. Now they are shaping a high-rise New Roppongi in its place and tout it as the future for Tokyo p. In the process, he vividly details the morality play that is in Roppongi and Tokyo, a daily balancing act pitting individualism versus groupism, defiance versus conformity, and internationalization versus Japaneseness.
Moreover, according to this position, the state has acted as if it has been charged by the masses to carry out this mission in the name of the public interest, irrespective of the cost. He does more than just describe the scene, however, but also lives in it, as a participant observer. As a result, he allows the reader to become privy to the underbelly of Roppongi, including its human element. This produces a nuanced multifaceted description of the district that leaves even Cybriwsky himself unsure what is right and who is being wronged.
Others have come not for deviance, but to experience some non-Japanese international culture. Then, there are the native Japanese, some who frequent the area to escape societal conformity, others just for a night of song.
Then, there is Cybriwsky himself, who thrusts himself into the middle of various interesting situations and people, some he never intended to encounter and that he is uncomfortable with, and others he eventually comes to cherish.
Erving Goffman could not have described the scene any better. Most foreign observers, drawing upon their ethnocentric Western sensibilities, seek out and find the atypical in Tokyo and mis- takenly characterize it as the norm. Not Cybriwsky, whose experiences enable him to adroitly describe the many sides of Roppongi, even those he is most uncomfortable with, occurring within a city region he has come to deeply connect with. In doing so, he accurately reveals how his characters act and his stories unfold within a place that is very different from any other in Tokyo.
Overall, he provides the urban scholarship with a refreshing take on Roppongi, one that is filled with uncertainty and complexity. In the end, he shows that nothing is black and white in Tokyo, or in Japan, no matter how badly Western scholars, Japanese citizens, or the Government want it to be.
In this way, he captures the very essence of contemporary Roppongi, Tokyo, and Japan, all caught between their past, present, and future, affected by embedded and global forces.
As such, he is successful in pushing his readers to think even more deeply about these complex issues. Although his second chapter attempts to introduce this relationship, it falls short in guiding the reader through his case study. In this effort to make Tokyo more attractive to foreign investors and young professionals, less prestigious parts of the region have been seriously neglected.
The net result has been a significant widening in spatial income inequality among the 23 Ku and in the Tokyo Region. Jacobs East Carolina University jacobsa ecu. Birch and Susan M. Wachter Eds. The book, four years in the making, grew out of a Bellagio conference hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation whose current president, Judith Rodin, is a former Penn president.
I Book Reviews I The first section, which looks at changing urban demographics, is largely descriptive. Interestingly, he ignores colonialism and imperialism, processes that many noneconomists use to understand development.
Section 2 focuses on spatial growth and development with an emphasis on remote sensing. He argues that while UGMs are alluring, they are not particularly useful and that what is needed are better data and tools for linking remote sensing data with survey data. Section 3, urban governance and finance, starts with an essay by Paul Smoke on fiscal de- centralization. This begs the question: do the assumptions of neoliberal ideology limit the definition of what is possible?
While the individual chapters are interesting, they not only vary in quality but also have little to link them. And this lack of unity, in my view, is one of the main weaknesses of the book. Here, it is useful to reflect on what other edited volumes are able to do. Edited undergraduate texts can serve to structure a field of study. The pieces fit together and the editors have worked to place each selection in the context of the intellectual development of a field.
Global Urbanization does neither. While the articles are largely competent, the chapters do a better job in highlighting gaps in existing research than in filling them. The strength of the individual articles does not compensate for lackluster editorial work. The summary provided in The Century of the City, which came out three years ago, is available online for free and may be more accessible for undergraduate students.
The organization of the volume does not suggest that it is targeted for reference use either. It is illustrated with over forty photographs and is essential reading for anyone interested in the city. The City Reader book. Read 17 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The fifth edition of the highly successful City Reader juxtaposes t. The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.
The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. This edition has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as compact cities, urban history, place making, sustainable urban development, globalization, cities and climate change, the world city network, the impact of technology on cities, resilient cities, cities in Africa and the Middle East, and urban theory.
The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, globalization and the global city system of the future.
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