Leonard Nevarez: 2 books
New Money, Nice Town
How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new economic space in which service and high tech firms are at the forefront of innovation. One of the features of the new economy is what pop geographer Joel Kotkin calls "nerdistans," or smaller cities with a substantial...
Pursuing Quality of Life
From the Affluent Society to the Consumer Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
From anxieties over work-life balance and entangling technologies, to celebrations of cool jobs and great places to live, quality of life frames the ways we enhance our lives and legitimate social change today. But how does the idea of quality of life envision the greater good, and what gets lost...