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Remaking the Urban Social Contract: Health, Energy, and the Environment
Michael A. Pagano
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Description for Remaking the Urban Social Contract: Health, Energy, and the Environment
Hardback. "Published for the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (Cuppa), University of Illinois at Chicago, by the University of Illinois Press." Editor(s): Pagano, Michael A. Series: The Urban Agenda. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JPQB; MBN; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
This new volume draws from provocative discussions on the urban social contract among policy makers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2015 UIC Urban Forum. Michael A. Pagano presents papers that emphasize political agreements, disagreements, challenges, and controversies on health, energy, and environmental policies. Authors explore the substantive and philosophical changes in the urban social contract and offer proposals for remaking it in the new century. Topics range from big-picture analyses to specifics covering areas like public services, the smart cities movement, and greening strategies.
This new volume draws from provocative discussions on the urban social contract among policy makers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2015 UIC Urban Forum. Michael A. Pagano presents papers that emphasize political agreements, disagreements, challenges, and controversies on health, energy, and environmental policies. Authors explore the substantive and philosophical changes in the urban social contract and offer proposals for remaking it in the new century. Topics range from big-picture analyses to specifics covering areas like public services, the smart cities movement, and greening strategies.
Contributors: Alba Alexander, Megan Houston, Dennis R. Judd, Cynthia Klein-Banai, William C. Kling, Howard ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
The Urban Agenda
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040696
SKU
V9780252040696
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About Michael A. Pagano
Michael A. Pagano is Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and 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 The Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy, Metropolitan Resistance in ... Read more
Reviews for Remaking the Urban Social Contract: Health, Energy, and the Environment
"A provocative and enlightening vision of our rapidly changing societal expectations for energy, environment, and health, the foundations of the social contract we implicitly make with government, corporate, and entrepreneurial leaders."
George W. Crabtree, Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
George W. Crabtree, Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research