Regional Planning and Land Use Localism: Can They Coexist?

The potential effectiveness and citizen acceptance of emerging regional and state land use planning programs in New England is examined. To be successful, these programs must find acceptance within a system of historically home-rule, town-based land use governance. This article investigates the interplay between regionalism and parochialism, discusses emerging strategies, and reports on a telephone survey of over three hundred Cape Cod residents that examined local opinion regarding the proposed creation of a regional land use regulatory commission. These citizens were queried about the perceived consequences of greater-than-local land use planning. Although local parochialism was found to be a strongly held attitude, regionalism support was substantial (76 percent in favor), because two perceptions overshadowed local biases — awareness of the regional impact of development and perceived utility of regional land use management. The negative image of a regional government preempting local control was largely overshadowed by the anticipated tangible benefits of regionalism. The transferability of Cape Cod regionalism to other New England areas is discussed

Book Reviews: Sales Taxation: State and Local Structure and Administration; the American Planner: Biographies and Recollections

Book review of the following: SALES TAXATION: STATE AND LOCAL STRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION: During the 1983 Legislative session, the North Carolina General Assembly passed an additional one-half cent local sales tax for all the counties in the state. The majority of the expected revenue from the sales tax is earmarked for the capital costs of education and water facilities. The General Assembly's authorization of this new tax highlights the increasing importance of sales tax revenue in state and local government budgets. Since the sales tax revenue is becoming more necessary to local governments, planners and government officials need to be better informed about the effect and uses of sales taxes. John F. Due and John L. Mikesell's new book. Sales Taxation: State and Local Structure and Administration , is an excellent source of information because it is a detailed survey and analysis of the structure and operation of state and local sales taxes. THE AMERICAN PLANNER: BIOGRAPHIES AND RECOLLECTIONS: In his introduction to this historical compilation, Kreuckeberg states that his book is not a sentimental regret about a lost world, but rather an opportunity for planners to review their commitments, and extend their sense of company. The old adage about "learning from the past" is resurrected, as often is the case in planning history books. The view here is that within current decreased planning activity there is a search for new direction, and that this search for how and why planners proceed is more important than where they go from here. Today's planners, so often lost in day-to-day responsibilities, can benefit by turning to history because it reminds them that the past was often very different from today: not routine. Although Kreuckeberg is guilty of glorifying the achievements of the past and downgrading the current ability of planners to affect contemporary society, this descriptive journey through the lives of famous planners is a valuable contribution to a profession which has searched endlessly for its identity

Ya Quds! Academic Cultural News Letter, Issue No. 2

Greetings and a warm welcome to the second issue of Ya Quds!. Ya Quds! received many good words of encouragement following the first issue. We thank all those who have expressed their views and shared their suggestions. After all, it is you, our readers, whom we care about, so your comments and suggestions are very important to us. We hope that Ya Quds! will continue to offer valuable information and stimulate productive discussion about the city of Jerusalem. In this issue, as in the first, we did not seek to focus on a particular theme but have rather left it to the individual authors to select themes of interest and importance to them. All the articles are different, yet all are united by the word “Al-Quds.” Ya Quds! is written about and for Jerusalem and its inhabitants, the stories and articles help to deconstruct the complex mystery and charm of this city. What you will find in the following pages is a collection of ten articles, five in Arabic and five in English, written by academics and researchers whose contributions we are honoured to have in Ya Quds! . The five articles in English reflect various perspectives: historical ( The Fatimids in Jerusalem ), social ( The Gypsies of Jerusalem ), political ( Mussala al-Marwani: An unrecognised Palestinian triumph? ; and On the 16th Anniversary of the Camp David Negotiations ), and urban planning ( Urban Spatial Changes during Political Uncertainty ). There are so many topics about Jerusalem on which we have yet to hear, so take hold of your pens and add your voices. We hereby send out a call for articles for the third issue of Ya Quds! . Articles may be in Arabic or English and should not exceed 1200 words. The deadline for submission is December 12, 2016. We look forward to your contributions. The Centre for Jerusalem Studies team is also working hard to prepare for the upcoming conference on Production of Inequalities: Realities and Prospects for Change in Jerusalem, to be held on December 3–5 in Jerusalem and Abu Dis. We take this opportunity to invite all those interested in the topic to join us for this event

Managing contested spaces: Public managers, obscured mechanisms and the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland

Societies emerging from ethno-political and inter-communal conflict face a range of complex problems that stem directly from the recent lived experience of bloodshed and injury, militarisation, securitisation and segregation. As institutional agents in such an environment, public managers perform the dual role of both interpreting public policy and implementing it within a politically contested space and place. In this article we address how managers cope with the outworking of ethno-nationalist conflict and peace building within government processes and policy implementation and contend this is a subject of emerging concern within the wider public administration, urban studies and conflict literature. Using data from a witness seminar initiative on the Northern Ireland conflict transformation experience, we explain how public sector managers make sense of their role in post-agreement public management and highlight the importance of three identified mechanisms; ‘bricolage’, ‘diffusion’ and ‘translation’ in the management of public sector organisations and urban spaces in a context of entrenched conflict and an uncertain path to peace

Effects of turbulence on the feeding rate of a pelagic predator : the planktonic hydroid Clytia gracilis

Author Posting. © The Authors, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 333 (2006): 159-165, doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2005.12.006.Relatively little is known about the role of turbulence in a predator - prey system where the predator is a passive, pelagic forager. The Campanulariid hydroid Clytia gracilis (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) is unusual because it occurs as planktonic colonies and is reported to forage passively in the water column on Georges Bank, Massachusetts, USA. In this study we investigated the role of various turbulence conditions on the feeding rate of C. gracilis colonies in laboratory experiments. We found a positive relationship between turbulence velocities and feeding rates up to a turbulent energy dissipation rate of ca 1 cm2 s-3. Beyond this threshold feeding rate decreased slightly, indicating a dome-shaped relationship. Additionally, a negative relationship was found between feeding efficiency and hydroid colony size under lower turbulent velocities, but this trend was not significant under higher turbulence regimes.P. Adamík received support from the WHOI Academic Programs Office via the 2002 Summer Student Fellowship and while writing this paper from the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (MSM 6198959212 and MSM 153100012)

Catalonia rescaling Spain : is it feasible to accommodate its "stateless citizenship"?

The Spanish nation-state is gradually being rescaled by Catalonia's “secession crisis.” Recently and dramatically, in the aftermath of the “illegal” and “constitutive referendum” that took place on 1 October 2017, 2,286,217 Catalan citizens attempted to exercise the “right to decide” to ultimately become “stateless citizens.” This paper examines this rescaling process that has been forming in Barcelona since 10 July 2010 when 1 million Catalan citizens marched to claim their “right to decide” on secession. This paper concludes that, at present, it is not feasible for the Spanish nation-state to accommodate Catalonia's “stateless citizenship.”