1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456207403321

Titolo

On the case : explorations in social history / / edited by Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

0-8020-8129-0

9786612028373

1-282-02837-5

1-4426-7807-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

Cultural Spaces

Classificazione

ZH 9300

Disciplina

301.0722

Soggetti

Historical sociology - Canada - Methodology

Records - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Social conditions Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Good City -- 2. Making Yonge-Dundas Good -- 3. The Secure City -- 4. The Consumer City -- 5. The Aesthetic City -- 6. The Governable City -- 7. Making the Good City -- 8. Yonge-Dundas Made Good? -- Appendix A: List of Exhibits -- Appendix B -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In The Moral Economy of Cities, Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the vision of the 'good city' embraced by professionals in the business of city making recognizes the interests of a dominant public, namely middle class consumers, office workers, tourists, and families. This vision stigmatizes certain members of the public like street youth, panhandlers, discount- and low-income shoppers, and the language used to extol the virtues of the good city inherently moralizes social



conduct in the city.Using the redevelopment of the Yonge-Dundas intersection in downtown Toronto in the mid-1990s as a case study, Ruppert examines the language of planners, urban designers, architects, and marketing analysts to reveal the extent to which moralization legitimizes these professions in the public eye and buttresses the very projects they produce. Ruppert's conclusion that economic practices are not free from moral investment encourages the considerable task of re-examining the implications of city planning and development worldwide. The Moral Economy of Cities is mandatory reading for urban studies scholars and practitioners, and their critics. Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392949503316

Autore

J. C

Titolo

Magna charta [[electronic resource] ] : containing that which is very much the sence and agreement of the good people of these nations, notwithstanding their differences relating to worship. Humbly tendered to those that are in eminent place, both in a civil and in a military capacity, and earnestly desired that it may be by them also (in this juncture of affaires) speedily concurred with, resolved upon, and vigorously prosecuted, for the escaping of the sadest, and for the enjoying of the joyfullest dayes and station, that England hath seen. By an unfeined lover of his countrys welfare, and a sincere promoter of the Common-wealth and just concernments of all men. As some further essay in order to a well grounded vnity, peace and settlement, of the poor shaken and shattered nations, upon that sure and durable foundation of righteousness, which will without doubt, according to the wise mans experience, not only establish, but exalt a nation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Francis Smith, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Elephant and Castle near Temple-Barre, 1659

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Soggetti

Great Britain Politics and government 1649-1660 Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signed: J.C.



Not in fact the Magna carta, but a demand that the liberties enjoyed under the Commonwealth be maintained.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "xber [i.e. December] 7".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018