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Haar, Sharon
The Ecological City:
Metaphor versus Metabolism
Sharon Haar
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
University of Illinois at Chicago
February 2007
GCP-07-05
In this study – a textual and visual analysis – I look at
the ways the term “ecology” has been used to motivate western-style
modernism in a global context and to prescribe and advance design decisions
based largely in formal, compositional, and stylistic assumptions. Among
the questions I am interested in is how new frameworks – sustainability,
sustainable communities, and sustainable design – extend earlier
ecological metaphors and the extent to which they have sublimated stylistic
and formal design ideas without truly resolving the impact of modernization
on the landscape.
Hagedorn, John
Before all
the Boys are Dead: Variation in Urban Violence
John Hagedorn
Professor of Criminal Justice,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Faculty Fellow
October 2004
GCP-04-03
Homicide in Chicago has not dropped drastically as it has in New York
City. To understand why it is necessary to look at the reasons for variations
in violence globally: social exclusion, societal disruption, repression
of ethno-religous groups, and the institutionalization of groups of
armed young men.
Hauser, Elizabeth
Improving Health Care
Efficiency: Strategic Approaches to Managing Care for Asthma, Sickle
Cell Disease and Tuberculosis; Conference Proceedings
Elizabeth S. Hauser, Richard B. Warnecke, Susan Kerby, and Charles
Bright
April 1996
GCP-96-5
This report details the proceedings of a conference of local policy
makers, researchers, health care providers, and others to discuss the
effective and efficient health care management of sickle cell disease
(SCD), asthma and tuberculosis. The report is a summary of the panel
presentations, and the recommendations for policy development.
Hellwig, Maureen
The Chicago Response to Urban
Problems: Building University/Community Collaborations
Loomis Mayfield, Maureen Hellwig, and Brian Banks
April 1998
GCP-98-5
Modern university/community relationships are sometimes marked by division
and hostility. Key problems in the relationship include the assumed
objectivity of the academy; the real estate interests of universities;
and the alliance of real estate interests and political figures in opposition
to community concerns. The history and description of these relationships
in Chicago indicates there are other historical trends which have led
to fruitful partnerships, including: the influence of the settlement
house movement; the strength and diversity of community groups; change
and diversity in the university; and the influence of the civil rights
movement. This article uses the examples of the Neighborhoods Initiative
at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Policy Research Action
Group, a consortium of four universities Loyola, DePaul, Chicago State
University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago and community
partners, to show how strong, viable collaborations can occur.
Hendrick, Rebecca
Does Form of Fiscal
Governance Matter: Fiscal Practices and Outcomes
in Chicago Suburbs
Rebecca Hendrick
Associate Professor of Public Administration
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
University of Illinois at Chicago
January 2007
GCP-07-01
This paper explores the extent to which government performance varies
between traditional council-mayor structures and reformed council-manager
structures. Little research exists on the linkage between type of government
and financial management practices outside of budgeting or performance
measurement. The research presented here uses both qualitative and quantitative
data on suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan region and a relatively
unique, three-stage research design to address these analytical problems
and provide more detailed inferences about the linkages between fiscal
governance, financial management practices, and financial conditions
in these local governments. The findings demonstrate interesting and
complex relationships between fiscal governance (and form of government),
financial management practices, financial conditions, and other factors
important to these conditions.
Hoch, Charles
Sheltering the Homeless:
Social Mobility Along the Continuum of Care
Charles Hoch and Lynette Bowden
November 1998
GCP-98-3
The homeless problem now enjoys a settled if marginal place in U.S.
domestic policy. Programs to treat and remedy the homeless problem have
also found acceptance integrated within a "continuum of care".
In this essay we argue that current ideas about the problem and its
solution emphasize social mobility for the poor - a mobility that existing
empirical research does not support. The overemphasis on versions of
social dependence as the problem has encouraged the use of shelters
and social programs to change individual households rather than the
kind and amounts of low rent housing. We review current evidence on
shelter use to illustrate the limits on mobility. Providing supportive
housing to remedy the privations of the poor does make good sense, but
mainly if organized to strengthen social reciprocity among households
in affordable residential communities. This not only requires social
investment, but innovative design and use of affordable housing alternatives.
A brief case study provides an example.
Hoffman, Lily
Prague, Tourism and the Post-Industrial City
Lily M. Hoffman and Jiri Musil
May 2009
GCP-09-05
Although urban tourism has been one of the important forces shaping cities during the past few decades, most studies on the transition from the industrial to the post-industrial city focus on the shift to financial and professional services. There are still few studies of the role of tourism in the transformation of urban political economy, social structure and culture (Hoffman, Fainstein, Judd, Cities and Visitors, Blackwell 2003). In an earlier article on post-communist Prague, we examined the emergence of tourism as a byproduct of democratization and marketization (Hoffman and Musil in The Tourist City, Judd & Fainstein (eds) Yale U Press 1999). This present article takes a broader more contextual view of the role of tourism in the development of contemporary Prague. Looking beyond tourism per se, we argue that the exponential growth of tourism in post 1989 Prague helps explain its relatively smooth (and rapid) transition from industrial to post-industrial or service center city. The specifics of this case address some of the lacunae in the discussion of transition from industrialization. First, much of the “de-industrialization” literature refers primarily to industrial cities. Many cities however, are mixed. Second, there is little or no discussion of the role of tourism in the transition. Third, where tourism is discussed, it is usually, as an urban development stratagem; here it has emerged spontaneously. Fourth, by taking a developmental perspective, we hope to provide a more analytic account of tourism’s impact on social and spatial structure--both regulatory and representational aspects.
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