Deeper City
Title | Deeper City PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Ravetz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 509 |
Release | 2020-05-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 131765871X |
Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on ‘deeper complexity’, applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality. The author provides a new framework for the collective intelligence – the capacity for learning and synergy – in many-layered cities, technologies, economies, ecologies and political systems. The key is in synergistic mapping and design, which can move beyond smart ‘winner-takes-all’ competition, towards wiser human systems of cooperation where ‘winners-are-all’. Forty distinct pathways ‘from smart to wise’ are mapped in Deeper City and presented for strategic action, ranging from local neighbourhoods to global finance. As an atlas of the future, and resource library of pathway mappings, this book expands on the author’s previous work, City-Region 2020. From a decade of development and testing, Deeper City combines visual thinking with a narrative style and practical guidance. This book will be indispensable for those seeking a sustainable future – students, politicians, planners, systems designers, activists, engineers and researchers. A new postscript looks at how these methods can work with respect to the 2020 pandemic, and asks, ‘How can we turn crisis towards transformation?'
Bulletin of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
Title | Bulletin of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Inland navigation |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York
Title | Proceedings of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York PDF eBook |
Author | Municipal Engineers of the City of New York |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 538 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Municipal engineering |
ISBN |
Vol. 1 includes the Constitution, by-laws, list of members and annual report.
The Underground and Surface Water Supplies of Wisconsin
Title | The Underground and Surface Water Supplies of Wisconsin PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Weidman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 770 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Water-supply |
ISBN |
Annual Convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
Title | Annual Convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association PDF eBook |
Author | Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Inland navigation |
ISBN |
Why Cities Lose
Title | Why Cities Lose PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan A. Rodden |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019-06-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1541644255 |
A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Many place exclusive blame on partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression. But as political scientist Jonathan A. Rodden demonstrates in Why Cities Lose, the left's electoral challenges have deeper roots in economic and political geography. In the late nineteenth century, support for the left began to cluster in cities among the industrial working class. Today, left-wing parties have become coalitions of diverse urban interest groups, from racial minorities to the creative class. These parties win big in urban districts but struggle to capture the suburban and rural seats necessary for legislative majorities. A bold new interpretation of today's urban-rural political conflict, Why Cities Lose also points to electoral reforms that could address the left's under-representation while reducing urban-rural polarization.
In Search of Deeper Learning
Title | In Search of Deeper Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Jal Mehta |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 465 |
Release | 2019-04-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0674239962 |
Winner of the Grawemeyer Award “In their brave search for depth in American high schools, scholars Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine suffered many disappointments...Undeterred, they spent 750 hours observing classes, interviewed more than 300 people, and produced the best book on high school dynamics I have ever read.” —Jay Mathews, Washington Post “A hopeful, easy-to-read narrative on what the best teachers do and what deep, engaging learning looks like for students. Grab this text if you’re looking for a celebration of what’s possible in American schools.” —Edutopia “This is the first and only book to depict not just the constraints on good teaching, but also how good teachers transcend them. A superb book in every way: timely, lively, and entertaining.” —Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania What would it take to transform our high schools into places capable of supporting deep learning for students across a wide range of aptitudes and interests? To find out, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine spent hundreds of hours observing and talking to teachers and students in and out of the classroom at thirty of the country’s most innovative schools. To their dismay, they discovered that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they found pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in extracurriculars but also in a few mold-breaking academic courses. So what must schools do to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity? In Search of Deeper Learning takes a deep dive into the state of our schools and lays out an inspiring new vision for American education.