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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evaluating British Urban Policy Ideology Conflict
Book SynopsisSince the Conservative government of the late 70s introduced its stringent spending policy, a ''value for money'' ideology has dictated most new approaches to policy management. As a result, monitoring and evaluation have become an integral part in the policy process. Focusing on the experience of British Urban Policy, this book examines the theoretical and practical issues in the monitoring or evaluation of public policy. It argues that as a result of the ''value for money'' ideology influencing urban policy in Britain, various conflicts have arisen in both policy and implementation, and compromises have had to be made. By exploring the experiences of monitoring and evaluating urban policy, the book examines key issues such as changing approaches, the interface between monitoring and evaluation, and the utilization of monitoring information and evaluation studies. It concludes that a long-term evaluation strategy is required in order to improve the utility value of evaluation studTrade Review'It draws on evidence from the City Challenge programme to make valuable wider suggestions about the nature of monitoring and evaluation. It has important messages both for policy makers in central government and for local partnerships involved in regeneration on the ground. Given the government's renewed aim to regenerate cities that was spelled out in the Urban White Paper, this is a book that will prove both timely and important.' Professor Brian Robson, Manchester University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I: Monitoring and Evaluation: A Review of Three Decades: Evaluation of urban policy; The development of output and performance monitoring. Part II: Monitoring and Evaluation in Practice: Monitoring and evaluation - government approach; Monitoring and evaluation - local practice; Local experience - Bradford City challenge; Local experience - Hulme City challenge; Perceptions and reality - a comparison of views between partnerships and the government; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geography and Economy in South Africa and its Neighbours
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Taylor & Francis Psychological Theories for Environmental Issues Ethnoscapes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women in Agriculture in the Middle East
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Taking Space Seriously Law Space and Society in
Book SynopsisThis perceptive study investigates the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space. By means of case studies involving three social groups within Israel''s multicultural society - the Sephardim, the Bedouin-Arab minority and the ultra-Orthodox community of Jerusalem - the different roles played by political space in legal analysis are revealed and analyzed. Issachar Rosen-Zvi then unearths the unifying logic underlying the disparate legal treatment of political space, brought to light by the case studies. The law treats political space differently depending on the social group involved, an attitude that, the author argues, can be traced back to early Zionist thinking. He concludes that a reform of local government law is required, to correct the segregated system of political space and the separate and unequal distribution of political power and economic resources that accompany it.Trade Review'This is an insightful and original study of the way in which politics, culture, and tradition, have molded the legal and political definitions of space within Israeli society. It's techniques and methods are rich in implications, that go far beyond the confines of the case-studies which form the body of the book. The book will be of great value to scholars who are interested in the politics of Israel, and also to those who are concerned more generally with the relationship between a legal system and the society in which it is located.' Professor Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford University, Stanford California, USA 'This is a subtle, thoughtful and original treatment of how Israeli law has dealt with social group conflicts and hierarchies in the context of land use and political jurisdiction - an impressive study in the new interdisciplinary field of law and geography.' Professor Thomas C. Grey, Stanford Law School, USA '...highly original, penetrating and stimulating analysis of Israeli experience.' The Law and Politics Book Review '...illustrates how the space concept is used by different social groups to increase or consolidate their political and economic power.' International Journal of Environment and PollutionTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Invisible spaces: the case of the Arab-Jews; The re-emergence of space: the case of the Bedouin; Spaces of ambivalence: the case of the ultra-orthodox; Spaces of identity: Zionist ideology and the social production of political space; Toward a reform of local government law; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and the Historical Imagination
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Planning in Contemporary Africa The State Town Planning and Society in Cameroon Kings SOAS Studies in Development Geography
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Taylor & Francis Passion and Control Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century
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Taylor & Francis New Forms of Urbanization
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Soil and Stone Impressionism Urbanism Environment Visual Arts Research Institute Edinburgh
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Taylor & Francis Articulating British Classicism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A World Environment Organization
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Taylor & Francis The Courtyard House
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Urban Transport After Modernism
Book SynopsisFor the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific âsilosâ. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of movement in a more integrated approach to urban settlement, and how thinking, policies and actions need to change. South Africa is used as a particularly good case study, since patterns of sprawl, fragmentation and separation have been exacerbated by apartheid, while recent legislation has demanded a reversal of these tendencies.Trade Review’This is an interesting case study from South Africa...the book emphasises an integrated approach to urban management incorporating mobility with interesting illustrations, data.’ Built Environment ’This book presents a comprehensive overview of the planning and policy issues in South African settlements...clearly written...The book is to be recommended as an interesting case study. It would be of interest to all professionals, as well as to undergraduate and post-graduate academics, in the field of urban, land-use and transportation planning, ranging from design to policy-making.’ Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: Defining the problem: the objectives of this book; Setting the scene; Approaches to settlement-making: locating the concepts of structure and space; Movement as an element of urban structure and urban space; Movement in urban structure: the case of South Africa; Movement as an element of urban space; Movement in space: the case of South Africa; Conclusion; References; Appendix A: excerpt from the Transport Planning Act; Appendix B: further readings consulted.
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Taylor & Francis City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Planning in the Caribbean
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Housing and the New Welfare State
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Design Against Crime A HumanCentred Approach to Designing for Safety and Security Design for Social Responsibility
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Domestic Mandala
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Doing Things with Things
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Taylor & Francis Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mixed Towns Trapped Communities Historical Narratives Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in PalestinianIsraeli Towns ReMaterialising Cultural Geography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila Urban and Regional Planning and Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Utopia The Israeli Experiment Design and the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contentious Geographies Environmental Knowledge Meaning Scale Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
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Taylor & Francis Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art On PortugueseEthiopian Contacts in the 16th17th Centuries
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Taylor & Francis The Art of the Sublime Principles of Christian Art And Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt A New Critical Edition and Color Facsimile Paris Bibliothque nationale de France MS Fr 19093 with a the History of Medieval Technology Scienc
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Art and Architecture in Northern Italy
Book SynopsisExpanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A. McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering domestic art - the decoration of the domestic interior - as opposed to patronage of the fine arts (painting, sculpture and architecture). Taking a multidimensional approach, McIver looks at women as collectors of precious material goods, as organizers of the early modern home, and as decorators of its interior. By analyzing the inventories of women's possessions, McIver considers the wide range of domestic objects that women owned, such as painted and inlaid chests, painted wall panels, tapestries, fine fabrics for wall and bed hangings, and elaborate jewelry (pendant earrings, brooches, garlands for the hair, necklaces and rings) as well as personal devotional objects. Considering all forms of patronage opportunities open to women, she evaluates their role in commissioning and utilizing works of art and architecture as a means of negotiating power in the court setting, in the process offering fresh insights into their lives, limitations, and the possibilities open to them as patrons. Using her subjects' financial records to track their sources of income and the circumstances under which it was spent, McIver thereby also provides insights into issues of Renaissance women's economic rights and responsibilities. The primary focus on the lives and patronage patterns of three relatively unknown women, Laura Pallavicina-Sanvitale, Giacoma Pallavicina and Camilla Pallavicina, provides a new model for understanding what women bought, displayed, collected and commissioned. By moving beyond the traditional artistic centers of Florence, Venice and Rome, analyzing instead women's artistic patronage in the feudal courts around Parma and Piacenza during the sixteenth century, McIver nuances our understanding of women's position and power both in and out of the home. Carefully integrating extensive archivalTrade ReviewPrize: Co-winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award for a work published in 2006 '... a fine and welcome study ... provides a new model for understanding what women bought, displayed, collected, and commissioned. Carefully integrating extensive archival research with a set of important critical inquiries, McIver offers up a well-balanced picture of domestic space, subject and object in and against what might be called the unbalanced field of Italian Renaissance art history.' Allison Levy, Wheaton College, USA ’Through the use of newly discovered archival evidence, Katherine McIver offers an innovative and illuminating analysis of female patronage in Northern Italy during the sixteenth century... she present revealing new insights about how early modern women exercised political agency and economic power within a patriarchal society... The detailed appendix of documents will be of note both for those with a particular interest in material culture of the Early Modern period as well as a wider audience... this is a valuable study with a strong methodological framework combining the close reading of original documents with well-balanced critical analysis of a variety of visual material.’ The Art Book ’The book cleverly fills in some of the lack of sources in English and aptly testifies to the depth and liveliness of the cultural debate about women in Renaissance Italy between the 14th and 17th centuries... The superb peculiarity of McIver's work consists in giving a new historical perspective on women's power, displayed in different manners and strategies in order to maintain and increase family properties, or even to advance their social status.’ Women's History Magazine ’The publisher, Ashgate, is to be thanked and congratulated for allowing the author to include almost fifty pages of transcribed inventories and a glossary... This ensures that the book will become an invaluable resource for work on women as patrons and consumeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The women: the cast of characters; The Renaissance palazzo as a public voice for women; The Renaissance palazzo interior as a private voice for women; Domestic consumption: listening to women's private voice; Women, the church, and religious foundations; Glossary; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Iconoclasm Contested Objects Contested Terms SubjectObject New Studies in Sculpture
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Taylor & Francis The European City and Green Space London Stockholm Helsinki and St Petersburg 18502000 Historical Urban Studies Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Hybrid Church in the City Third Space Thinking
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Taylor & Francis The Four Modes of Seeing
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Taylor & Francis The Renaissance Palace in Florence
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Taylor & Francis The Religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma 1598â1621
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Taylor & Francis The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour
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Taylor & Francis Louis H. Sullivan and a 19thCentury Poetics of Naturalized Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe
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Taylor & Francis Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in
Book SynopsisTracing the history of St. Antoninus' cult and burial from the time of his death in 1459 until his remains were moved to their final resting place in 1589, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates that the saint's relic cult was a key element of Florence's sacred cityscape. The works of art created in his honor, as well as the rituals practiced at his fifteenth- and sixteenth-century places of burial, advertised Antoninus' saintly power and persona to the people who depended upon his intercessory abilities to negotiate life's challenges. Drawing on a rich variety of contemporary visual, literary, and archival sources, this volume explores the ways in which shifting political, familial, and ecclesiastical aims and agendas shaped the ways in which St. Antoninus' holiness was broadcast to those who visited his burial church. Author Sally Cornelison foregrounds the visual splendor of the St. Antoninus Chapel, which was designed, built, and decorated by Medici court artist Giambologna anTrade Review'In this finely produced, eloquent, and meticulously researched volume Sally J. Cornelison draws together a wealth of archival and rare materials to trace the development of Antoninus’s relic cult from his death to the completion of the St. Antoninus chapel in San Marco in 1591, designed by Giambologna and financed by the Salviati family, clients of the Medici.' Catholic Historical Review 'Overall, this is an admirably detailed and clearly-written account of a Florentine cult and monument that have long deserved monographic treatment; it will be a standard art-historical reference for anyone wanting to understand the saint's history and that of his legacy.' Meredith J. Gill, Associate Professor, Italian Renaissance, Art Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park 'Cornelison’s study admirably achieves its proposed objective of placing the commission of the Salviati chapel in the larger context of Renaissance devotion to Antoninus. In doing so, Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence brings new light to a deeply underestimated artistic complex and its interlaced figurative program.' Caa.Reviews 'One of the goals of the book was to rehabilitate the significance of St. Antoninus’ cult. In this it succeeds. Moreover, it gives us the most comprehensive and substantial description of the sixteenth century chapel until now. Even though Cornelison approaches the subject from the perspective of the Antoninus’ cult, she delivers a balanced story, considering all aspects, from the saint’s life and cult, to the patrons and the artists.' Journal für Kunstgeschichte 'The successful integration of the artistic, religious, and political components of the Antoninus cult and its display make this a most illuminating and satisfying work-it is recommended reading.' Sixteenth Century Journal '...excellent volume... The author achieves her objective through the perspicacious reading and interpretation of a wide variety of visual and textual sources, presented in the numerous illustrations and listed in the ample bibliography.' Burlington Magazine '... stunning book... a fine addition to Ashgate's Visual Culture in Early Modernity Series, and it will be an equally fine addition to the bookshelf of any serious art lover or anyone interested in exploring the power of myth and memory.' Jung Journal: Culture & PsycheTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I: The humblest of men; Miracles, images , and St. Antoninus' first tomb; Nurturing the cult, c.1512-1579. Part II: Opus Iohannis Bolognae Belgae; A very rare thing; Sculpting the image of Antoninus; Ritual piety and Medici pomp; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Designing UNESCO
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Taylor & Francis Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Landscapes of PostSocialist Cities
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Taylor & Francis Reshaping Planning with Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Olympic Cities 2012 and the Remaking of London Design and the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Homes Cities and Neighbourhoods Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Mass Tourism Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities New Directions in Tourism Analysis
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