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Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United
States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and
decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and
numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader
policy frameworks that have been under consideration to address
shrinkage in U.S. cities. A range of methods are employed to answer
theoretically-grounded questions about patterns of shrinkage and
decline, the relationships between the two, and the empirical
associations among shrinkage, decline, and several socio-economic
variables. In doing so, the book examines new spaces of shrinkage
in the United States. The book also explores pro-growth and
decline-centered governance, which has important implications for
questions of sustainability and resilience in U.S. cities. Finally,
the book draws attention to U.S.-wide demographic shifts and argues
for further research on socio-economic pathways of various groups
of population, contextualized within population trends at various
geographic scales. This timely contribution contends that an
understanding of what the city has become, as it faces shrinkage,
is essential toward a critical analysis of development both within
and beyond city boundaries. The book will appeal to urban and
regional studies scholars from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds, as well as practitioners and policymakers.
Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United
States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and
decline in the United States. The book juxtaposes the complex and
numerous processes that contribute to these patterns with broader
policy frameworks that have been under consideration to address
shrinkage in U.S. cities. A range of methods are employed to answer
theoretically-grounded questions about patterns of shrinkage and
decline, the relationships between the two, and the empirical
associations among shrinkage, decline, and several socio-economic
variables. In doing so, the book examines new spaces of shrinkage
in the United States. The book also explores pro-growth and
decline-centered governance, which has important implications for
questions of sustainability and resilience in U.S. cities. Finally,
the book draws attention to U.S.-wide demographic shifts and argues
for further research on socio-economic pathways of various groups
of population, contextualized within population trends at various
geographic scales. This timely contribution contends that an
understanding of what the city has become, as it faces shrinkage,
is essential toward a critical analysis of development both within
and beyond city boundaries. The book will appeal to urban and
regional studies scholars from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds, as well as practitioners and policymakers.
This popular casebook has a unique approach to focusing on real
problems and real administrative practice. The latest Supreme Court
cases and the hottest issues are discussed. The new edition retains
its distinctive characteristics of using problems as the primary
pedagogical tool, including problems that do not involve courts;
raising the ethical issues peculiar to government lawyers; and
orienting the course around administrative law practice, rather
than theory. While theory is not ignored, it arises out of the
crucible of reality-based problems, providing a basis for students
to appreciate the theory.
The Free Speech Discussion Forum is an annual event that is
designed to bring together prominent scholars from all over the
world to discuss cutting-edge free speech issues. The 2021 meeting
was hosted by the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Two major
topics were discussed at the 2021 forum: "Robotic Speech" and
"Contemporary Threats to Speech." The "Robotic Speech" topic
included examination of such things as "chatbots," data-driven
speech, "deep fakes," and the potential for internet speech to
interfere with democratic elections. The "Contemporary Threats to
Speech" focused on a variety of topics, including the growth and
power of social media platforms. This compendium includes selected
articles that were discussed at the Forum. It also honors the
long-standing faculty exchange of the University of Mainz's School
of Law and die Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of
Louisville, Kentucky.
This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry,
and drama in the classroom provides students with the best
opportunity to learn about thinking, writing, and life at their
deepest levels. Several of the contributors have worked or studied
at Ridgeview Classical School in Fort Collins, Colorado. E. D.
Hirsch, in The Making of Americans, has said of this school that
its success "stands as a sharp rebuke to the anti-intellectual
pedagogy of most American schools". Within this volume, readers
will also encounter essays by teachers who have not worked at
Ridgeview but utilize the same approach to teaching, illustrating
that these methods can be used with students at all levels of
education, from rural schools to major universities. Included in
the appendices are course descriptions, syllabi, and study
questions to provide examples of how these teaching concepts can be
applied in the classroom. Ultimately, these authors provide readers
with new insight, in this era of supposed practicality, by
illuminating literature as a down-to-earth vehicle whereby students
can learn to read, write, think, and feel in ways that empower them
both as learners and as human beings.
The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to
choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of
resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique
Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to experience the
difficulty of making decisions in the world. The first part is
devoted to an intensive examination of the evolution of the two
testaments, including analyses of the three book-length studies of
the novel, climaxing with Wenke's argument that the Genetic Text
shows the novel's active pursuit of ambiguity. The second part
analyzes the three major characters, showing how the text almost
programmatically complicates each judgment of them. This dynamic is
especially true of its judgments of Captain Vere, the character at
the center of the critical debate. The critical focus here is on
the numerous dichotomies the text uses to present Vere's character,
showing how an analysis of these terms leads to a more complicated
view of him than previously seen. The Moral World of Billy Budd
specifically argues that these oppositions are not intended to be
resolved but dissolved, to be seen, that is, as needing to be
overcome and approached rather as a means of engaging in a
reflection on the nature of moral judgment itself. At the same
time, despite the difficulties of deciding, it is clear from the
text's perspective that, like Captain Vere, the reader too must
decide between the possible alternatives even though any decision
reached will be overshadowed by the larger dilemma of operating in
a theater beyond our grasp.
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