Changing Urban Trends: Cultures of Decency and Well-being from the Premodern to the Postmodern

While many urban politics books cover economic, government, and housing issues throughout history, this book digs deeper, to investigate changes in urban settlements, political systems, work organizations, educational policies, views of human nature, and religious practices from the premodern to the postmodern. Those paradigmatic changes are then examined to ask important questions such as: What can local governments learn from premodernity in order to promote desirable developments and progressive trends? The reader is guided through progressive and regressive strategies as well as mainstream and critical social theory in order to find possible answers to these important questions.

Author: Siegrun Fox Freyss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781138049321

About the Author

Siegrun Fox Freyss is Professor Emerita of political science and public administration at the California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Her research interests include local government politics and management, as well as public policies at the community level and organization theory in general. She is the co-author of Personnel Management in Government, 7th ed.; as well as the editor and co-author of Human Research Management in Local Government, 3rd ed., published by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). She also is the author of numerous articles published in academic journals and as book chapters. In 2014, she wrote a monthly column in PA Times on "Paradigm Shifts in Public Administration - Towards New Benchmarks and Best Practices." Dr. Freyss received her doctoral degree in Government from the Claremont Graduate University and her master's degree (Diplom) in Applied Geography from the Technical University Munich, Germany.