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James Larson Jacobs interview, November 9, 1985 (audio)
No full textJames Larson Jacobs interview, November 9, 1985 (audio
James Larson Jacobs interview, November 9, 1985 (transcript)
No full textJames Larson Jacobs interview, November 9, 1985 (transcript
Why were Western retailers blamed for the building collapse in Bangladesh?
No full textAssigning direct responsibility to retailers lets factory owners and governments off the hook, write Brian Jacobs and Vinod Singha
Author Interview with Brian D. Anderson
No full textBrian D. Anderson was our feature artist of the week, October 19th - 23rd, 2020.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1010/thumbnail.jp
Current Practice:A questionnaire survey of in-patient child psychiatry in the United Kingdom
No full textChild psychiatry in-patient units in the UK are widely distributed geographically. In the past there has been little co-ordination of their efforts. Some have been concerned about idiosyncratic diversity in their practice (Wrate and Wolkind 1991). The aim of this study was to investigate current practice. We wished to test whether previous impressions of idiosyncratic practice and standards were justified, and to examine the current state of this treatment in the context of recent reports (The Children Act 1989; NHS Executive 1994; Kurtz, Thornes and Wolkind 1994; NHS Health Advisory Service 1995).</p
Team dynamics in different phases of admission
No full textThe multiprofessional teams described in the last chapter come together in their working lives to confront complex tasks and difficult psychological realities in their patients. This chapter aims to explore some of the ways that teams organise around the demands of these tasks at different phases of the admission process - since much of the success or failure of their work will rely on the effectiveness of team functioning. Naturally, teams differ in composition and outlook: the approach in this chapter is taken primarily from systems and group dynamic theory; good references to the background of the approach can be found in Obholzer and Roberts (1994) and Hirschhorn (1990).</p
Summary and conclusions:Implications for the future
No full textThe text reflects a general systemic change in the structure and orientation of inpatient child psychiatry: from units that are relatively closed systems to ones that are relatively open. A sign of this is the time now devoted to communication with external structures and the emphasis on collaborative therapeutic work with family and referring agencies. Such developments are essential although they put extra demands on staff organisation (there has rarely been any increase in staff provision to accommodate such increased roles). But taken to the extreme, the move towards open boundaries can end up threatening a basic raison d’être of in-patient units: the provision of a boundaried residential treatment milieu. In the USA for instance, some units have become no more than holding environments pending triage or crisis resolution. Such developments raise urgent questions; firstly about the nature and effectiveness of the internal treatment environment that units should be providing-and for whom? Secondly there is the question of the relationship of this treatment environment to the external world-whether family, referrer or purchaser. These two broad areas will be addressed in turn.</p
Current challenges
No full textThis book is written in the context of a number of challenges to the appropriateness and effectiveness of residential psychiatry treatment of children. The challenges come from many directions: from economic and political developments in many countries; from shifts in the social attitudes towards children and family life; from within the profession and from other professional groups. Let us begin by identifying some of the most salient.</p
Methodological issues and future directions for in-patient research
No full textThe problems in trying to carry out research in child psychiatry in-patient units are significant. Because there is a very low incidence of major psychiatric disorder within this age range the strategies used for the most part in adult services do not apply. This is compounded by the length of stay of children in in-patient units, again rather longer than adult services, leading to a low throughput and the slow accumulation of any series of patients.</p
Jane Jacobs is still here: Proceedings of the Conference Jane Jacobs 100: her legacy and relevance in the 21st century
No full textOn the occasion of Jane Jacobs’ 100 anniversary, the chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy of the Delft University of Technology, together with the OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment and the Rotterdam Erasmus University College organised a two-day conference on Jane Jacob’s legacy at TU Delft on 24-25 May 2016. This event was complemented one year later by a ‘Jane Jacobs Year’ closing event. We wished to celebrate the life and accomplishments of one of the most important urban thinkers of our time, someone who has influenced generations of designers and planners and others concerned with the built environment: the great Jane Jacobs.Jacobs’ theories and ideas are seminal to many different academic fields: urban design, planning, architecture, sociology, human geography, environmental psychology, economic geography and many more. Her writings have been influential for more than five decades. This alone tells us of her importance for urban studies and for understanding the complex relationship between urban space and society. This is reflected, among other things, in the immense popularity of Jane’s ideas among young planners and designers today. Among a number of male planners who influenced urban theory in the 20th century, Jane Jacobs distinguishes herself not only as one of the few women able to break the ceilings of this male-dominated profession, but simply as the most influential of them all. This is ironic, since Jane Jacobs would hardly see herself as a planner.Maybe, like Roberta Gratz (who was a friend of Jacobs’), she was an ‘anti-planner’, someone with a keen eye for careful empirical observation, for whom cities ought to be understood from the careful exploration of how the built environment influences and is influenced by human life. Jacobs was an astute observer of the life of cities and the processes that produce both cities and citizenship.In their contributions, the authors of the texts included in this book demonstrate how Jacobs is still relevant as a theorist in the realms of politics, economics and design, and how she can also help us understand how urban form yields meaning. But they also criticise and review her ideas in light of the experiences accumulated in more than 50 years since her main works were published, and the perspectives of places that have little similarity to New York or Toronto. This is relevant, because indeed Jane Jacobs’ ideas are being reviewed reinterpreted and reinvented, and occasionally refuted, in contexts as diverse as Cairo, São Paulo or Addis Ababa. And it’s high time this happens. The conference aimed to explore those new insights on Jacobs’ legacy and to take her ideas forward in the context of globalisation, internationalisation and accelerated urbanisation in places like China, India and Brazil. The intensity and scale of current urbanization is unprecedented and new challenges have emerged since she published her texts. How are the ideas of Jane Jacobs still relevant for the understanding of the interplay between urban space and society? Or do we need new theories? To what extent have Jacobs’ ideas inspired today’s urban leaders and thinkers? How are they tackling urban issues such as growing inequality, spatial fragmentation, street life, safety in the public space and environmental decline?We discussed Jacobs’ ideas critically and to take stock of how those ideas have been used, misused and hopefully updated. We invited abstract submissions for six different tracks, exploring essential aspects of Jacobs’ ideas:Track 1: Jane Jacobs, ethics, and the just cityTrack 2: Jane Jacobs and Street Spaces – Streets as public placesTrack 3: Jane Jacobs and the dynamics of neighbourhoodsTrack 4: Jane Jacobs and the Reshaping old urban fabrics in Chinese citiesTrack 5: Jane Jacobs and organised complexityTrack 6: Jane Jacobs and safety in public space The conference was organised by Roberto Rocco (TU Delft Urbanism), Brian Doucet (University of Waterloo, Canada, then Erasmus University College in Rotterdam) and Andre Ouwehand (TU Delft OTB).For more information, please visit the website https://janejacobs100.coSpatial Planning and Strateg
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