The Public Infrastructure of Work and Play

Author:   Michael A. Pagano ,  Philip Ashton ,  Beverly S Bunch ,  Bill Burton
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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9780252083877


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   14 September 2018
Format:   Paperback
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The Public Infrastructure of Work and Play


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A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at all stages must work at an intersection of public policy, markets, and aesthetics--while also accounting for how a project will work in both the present and the future. The latest volume in the Urban Agenda series looks at pressing infrastructure issues discussed at the 2017 UIC Urban Forum. Topics include: competing notions of the infrastructure ideal; what previous large infrastructure programs can teach the Trump Administration; how infrastructure influences city design; the architecture of the cities of tomorrow; who benefits from infrastructure improvements; and evaluations of projects like the Chicago Riverwalk and grassroots efforts to reclaim neighborhood parks from gangs. Contributors: Philip Ashton, Beverly S. Bunch, Bill Burton, Charles Hoch, Sean Lally, and Sanjeev Vidyarthi

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Author:   Michael A. Pagano ,  Philip Ashton ,  Beverly S Bunch ,  Bill Burton
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9780252083877


ISBN 10:   0252083873
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   14 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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In today's urban environment the distinction between the infrastructure needed to support services; production, work, and the physical foundation devoted to tourism; entertainment; and leisure has all but vanished. The essays in this volume explain the far-reaching consequences of this development. --Dennis Judd, coauthor of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy When a word such as 'infrastructure' means everything to everyone's hopes for jobs, urban progress, and quality of life it is time to be very careful, to dig deeper. That is exactly what this book does. It leads us to soberly reflect upon real meanings and true potentials. --Henry Cisneros, cofounder and chairman, CityView


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Michael A. Pagano is Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and a professor of public administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, faculty fellow of UIC's Great Cities Institute, and editor of Remaking the Urban Social Contract, The Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy, Metropolitan Resistance in a Time of Economic Turmoil, and Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow.

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