This report responds to pressing questions for policymakers in
Eurasian cities and national governments. Faced with changing
economic circumstances and a reorientation of trade toward Europe
and Asia, will Eurasia's cities be able to adjust? Will some cities
be granted the flexible regulations and supportive policies
necessary for growth? And will some be permitted to shrink and
their people assisted in finding prosperity elsewhere in the
region? Even as Eurasian cities diverge, they face shared
challenges. Policymakers have a key role in assisting spatial
restructuring, particularly in addressing imperfect information and
coordination failures. They can do so by rethinking cities, better
planning them, better connecting them, greening them and finding
new ways to finance these changes. Eurasian cities will also have
to find the right balance between markets and institutions to
become sustainable. As the World Development Report 2009: Reshaping
Economic Geography illustrates, Eurasia (excluding Russia) is a 3D
region- a region with low density, long distance, and many
divisions. Securing accessibility to leading regional markets such
as China, India, and Russia is thus critical. This will require key
institutions to be developed to unite the countries, key connective
infrastructures to be established between domestic and regional
markets, and targeted interventions to be undertaken to compensate
countries for short-term losses from this deepened economic
integration. Policymakers at the highest levels in these countries
should put accessibility at the top of their agendas.| Irving
Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the
1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and
scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after
his death his intellectual staying power remains undiminished. On
Literature, Culture, and Religion is an ideal introduction to this
seminal American thinker. Babbitt's opinions were uncompromising,
and his vocal allies and opponents included almost every name in
American literature and scholarship: T. S. Eliot, Edmund Wilson,
Paul Elmer More, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis. A founder of
New Humanism, Babbitt was best known for his indictment of
Romanticism and his insistence that the modern age had gone wrong.
Babbitt argued for a renewal of humanistic values and
standards--which he found best articulated in classical Greece,
Hinduism, and Buddhism. The selections cover topics central to
Babbitt: criticism, Romanti-cism, classical literature, French
literature, education, democracy, and Buddhism. They typify
Babbitt's method: recondite allusion, penetrating insight and
analysis, impeccable scholarship, and unrelenting pursuit of the
furthest ramification and the profoundest implication. The original
annotation is retained. Brief introductions to the essays place
them in the Babbitt canon. A major introductory essay by George A.
Panichas surveys Babbitt's career and critical reception and
summarizes the concepts that inform Babbitt's writing. Panichas
raises again controversial issues that were not really resolved in
Babbitt's time. The essay will challenge those long familiar with
Babbitt and New Humanism and those newly introduced thereto. George
A. Panichas is professor emeritus of English at the University of
Maryland and editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. He is the
author of Adventure in Consciousness: The Meaning of D. H.
Lawrence's Religious Quest, Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art: The Burden
of Vision (available from Transaction), The Reverent Discipline:
Essays in Literary Criticism and Culture, and The Courage of
Judgment: Essays in Criticism, Culture, and Society.
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