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Greening the Black Urban Regime

The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit

By: Alesia Montgomery

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Greening the Black Urban Regime

The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit

By: Alesia Montgomery

Describes the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Alesia Montgomery's Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit tells the story of the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Cultural workers, envisioning a green city crafted by direct democracy, had begun to draw idealistic young newcomers to Detroit's street art and gardens. Then a billionaire developer and private foundations hired international consultants to redesign downtown and to devise a city plan. Using the justice-speak of cultural workers, these consultants did innovative outreach, but they did not enable democratic deliberation. The Detroit Future City plan won awards, and the new green venues in the gentrified downtown have gotten good press. However, low-income black Detroiters have little ability to shape "greening" as uneven development unfolds and poverty persists. Based on years of fieldwork, Montgomery takes us into the city council chambers, nonprofit offices, gardens, churches, cafés, street parties, and public protests where the future of Detroit was imagined, debated, and dictated. She begins by using statistical data and oral histories to trace the impacts of capital flight, and then she draws on interviews and observations to show how these impacts influence city planning. Hostility between blacks and whites shape the main narrative, yet indigenous, Asian, Arab, and Latinx peoples in Detroit add to the conflict. Montgomery compares Detroit to other historical black urban regimes (HBURs)—U.S. cities that elected their first black mayors soon after the 1960s civil rights movement. Critiques of ecological urbanism in HBURs typically focus on gentrification. In contrast, Montgomery identifies the danger as minoritization: the imposition of "beneficent" governance across gentrified and non-gentrified neighborhoods that treats the black urban poor as children of nature who lack the (mental, material) capacities to decide their future. Scholars and students in the social sciences, as well as general readers with social and environmental justice concerns, will find great value in this research.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814346529

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9780814346525

Greening the Black Urban Regime

The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit

By: Alesia Montgomery

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Dating! 10 Helpful Tips for a Successful Relationship

By: Laura Buddenberg, M.S.,Alesia Montgomery

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Dating! 10 Helpful Tips for a Successful Relationship

By: Laura Buddenberg, M.S.,Alesia Montgomery

Dating relationships can make you happy or bring you down. Healthy, happy relationships aren't random. It all comes down to skills, knowledge and choinces. This book helps you think about your own experiences and answer important questions about how to recognize a good relationship and if you're in the relationship for the right reasons.

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139

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Boys Town Press

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1545721432

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9781545721438

Asian versus Western Management Thinking

Its Culture-Bound Nature

By: Kimio Kase,Alesia Slocum,Yingying Zhang

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Asian versus Western Management Thinking

Its Culture-Bound Nature

By: Kimio Kase,Alesia Slocum,Yingying Zhang

Navigating paradigm changes is a critical element of business leadership: analog to digital; brand to retailer to consumer; reason to emotion; West to East. Anything that illuminates these powershifts is valuable for the fast-moving decision-maker, and in this respect Asian versus Western Management Thinking is a first-rate inquiry into cultural business behaviors. Insular frameworks of thinking and action matter less by the second. I'm an And/And practitioner and my experience of bridging business between East and West, and vice versa, suggests we need to know the human distinctions that matter and the harmonies that will matter even more. Between the covers of this book by Kimio Kase and colleagues, business moves forward.' Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi, Lovemarks Company 'Having lived and worked my entire life in various countries around the world, I agree with the authors' premise that Asians and Westerners often approach business problems from different angles. Rather than focusing on differences, I welcome the strength that comes from diversity. As my experience at Renault and Nissan has demonstrated, the richest solutions come when ideas are challenged or questioned by people who have a different perspective. This book illustrates the value of accepting diverging ideas as a fact of life that can be used to enhance the world in which we all live and work.' Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault-Nissan Alliance 'A most welcome addition to the unbalanced management literature about the 'analytical' West and the 'synthetic' East. For too long the field has been dominated by comparisons of cultural value systems which paradoxically tell us precious little about how habits of mind influence management thinking and practice in different parts of the world over time. At a time when the world's economic centre of gravity is visibly shifting to Asia, this really is a most timely book.' Nigel Holden, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds, UK

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Springer

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0230306977

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9780230306974

Friend Me

10 Awesome Steps to Fun and Friendship

By: Laura J. Buddenberg,Alesia K. Montgomery

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10 Awesome Steps to Fun and Friendship

By: Laura J. Buddenberg,Alesia K. Montgomery

Finding true friendship is hard. Inside these pages are ten simple steps that, if you follow them, will help you make friends and be a better friend to others.--Publisher.

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Boys Town Press

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1934490385

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9781934490389

Friend Me

10 Awesome Steps to Fun and Friendship

By: Laura J. Buddenberg,Alesia K. Montgomery

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10 Awesome Steps to Fun and Friendship

By: Laura J. Buddenberg,Alesia K. Montgomery

Finding true friendship is hard. Inside these pages are ten simple steps that, if you follow them, will help you make friends and be a better friend to others.--Publisher.

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Greening the Black Urban Regime

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Dating! 10 Helpful Tips for a Successful Relationship

Dating! 10 Helpful Tips for a Successful Relationship

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