Citizenship and new urban realities

Social Citizenship and Urban Poverty

The increased visibility of concentrated urban poverty has posed a variety of intellectual and policy challenges in the past decade. The spread of joblessness and economic disinvestment has left many urban neighborhoods in ruins. Fears about the culture and family life of the poor have motivated a variety of responses, including the recent “welfare reform” effort that ended the federal governme...

Neoliberal Utopia and Urban Realities in Delhi

Since 1991, the city of Delhi in India has become a focal point of economic liberalization. Economic liberalization has been accompanied by local government efforts to attract both foreign and domestic investment, particularly in the service sectors of the economy. The attraction of investment has been achieved by spatial reconfiguration, pitting the interest of global and domestic capital agai...

Urban Sketcher: Mixing Urban Realities using Mixed Reality Technology

Urban planning and design needs to explore a wide range of aspects concerning the built and social environment. Hence, city-development projects are vastly complex; they affect investors, technical specialists and citizens, and they play an increasing role in community politics. It is desirable to involve the stakeholders from an early stage in the planning process, to enable their different vi...

Organizational Effectiveness: New Realities

Trust and Distrust: New Relationships and Realities

We propose a new theoretical framework for understanding simultaneous trust and distrust within relationships. grounded in assumptions of multidimensionality and the inherent tensions of relationships. and we separate this research from prior work grounded in assumptions of unidimensionality and balance. Drawing foundational support for this new framework from recent research on simultaneous po...