Work/Life City Limits: Comparative Household Perspectives by H. Jarvis

By H. Jarvis

This e-book demonstrates how neighborhood contexts of urbanization and cultures of labor are in detail meshed jointly. each one bankruptcy explores a discrete measurement of ways humans manage their operating lives in post-industrial towns, taking shut account of the social and environmental effect of this balancing act. The publication gains cross-national and inter-city comparative loved ones point learn, highlighting major contradictions underpinning the character of construction, patron expectation, work-life stability and concrete environmental caliber.

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By H. Jarvis

This e-book demonstrates how neighborhood contexts of urbanization and cultures of labor are in detail meshed jointly. each one bankruptcy explores a discrete measurement of ways humans manage their operating lives in post-industrial towns, taking shut account of the social and environmental effect of this balancing act. The publication gains cross-national and inter-city comparative loved ones point learn, highlighting major contradictions underpinning the character of construction, patron expectation, work-life stability and concrete environmental caliber.

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Moreover, the CNU has itself split along the lines of environmental awareness in recent years. This is described in terms of a latent schism between the original East-Coast faction and a breakaway West-Coast group emerging out of the environment movement. The East-Coast CNU proponents typically construct exclusive ‘common interest’ self-contained purpose-built small-towns on greenfield sites (Duany and Plater-Zyberk 1991). In contrast, West-coast CNU architect-planners such as Seattle based Douglas Kelbaugh and California based Peter Calthorpe, advocate the development of sustainable transit-oriented-development (TOD) within existing urban areas (Calthorpe 1993).

A shift toward neo-liberalism is recognisable across the English speaking advanced world where governments have engaged in a ‘rolling back’ of state control of industry (such as with the privatisation of transport and utilities) and the introduction of ‘quasi-markets’ in public services (such as healthcare and education) (Marvin and Graham 1994) (see Chapter Two for international comparisons of private spending on healthcare). In this process, Zygmunt Bauman (1997: 5) identifies a subtle shift in popular understanding from welfare as something ‘that is our right’ to something ‘we cannot afford’.

In many ways it represents the sort of creative project (with deadlines that can be moved only so many times) typical of the narratives of high-tech and creative industry workers featured in this book. The task of writing spilled over into any time of the day or night when my young daughter slept and I felt capable (with the aid of matchsticks and caffeine) to focus on the computer screen. While the lone parent is widely perceived as the antithesis of ‘having it all’, my own experience suggests a different reality.

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