David R Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reluctant Cities, Colonias and Municipal Underbounding in the US
Scholars typically study affluent neighbourhoods resisting annexation by poorer adjacent cities. This paper focuses on the mirror image of this problem: municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas. In the paper, such local governments are called reluctant cities and it is suggested that urban studies scholars need to reach a better understanding of the practice. Here, a seemingly counter-intuitive case fro…
Community-based Planning and Poverty Alleviation in Oaxaca, Mexico
In response to the growing critique of decentralized and participatory approaches to development, the article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship between community-based planning and poverty. Building on contributions from research on collective action, social capital, and social movements, the framework identifies a series of variables that are theorized to affect a community's capacity to alleviate poverty. Using thi…
Selfhood, Transcendence, and the Experience of God
Can God be Both Perfect and Free
The difficulty of ascribing metaphysical predicates such as absoluteness, necessity and perfection to God while simultaneously ascribing personal predicates such as compassion, freedom and agency has often been noted. Most efforts to resolve this dilemma have tended to fall into one of three categories: (I) a merely verbal solution such as that God is ‘compassionate in terms of our experience but...not so in terms of [God's] own’; (2) the univoca…
Can We Speculate on How God Acts
An Examination of "Worship" as a Key for Re-Examining the God Problem
Community-based Planning and Poverty Alleviation in Oaxaca, Mexico
In response to the growing critique of decentralized and participatory approaches to development, the article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship between community-based planning and poverty. Building on contributions from research on collective action, social capital, and social movements, the framework identifies a series of variables that are theorized to affect a community's capacity to alleviate poverty. Using thi…
Reluctant Cities, Colonias and Municipal Underbounding in the US
Scholars typically study affluent neighbourhoods resisting annexation by poorer adjacent cities. This paper focuses on the mirror image of this problem: municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas. In the paper, such local governments are called reluctant cities and it is suggested that urban studies scholars need to reach a better understanding of the practice. Here, a seemingly counter-intuitive case fro…
An Examination of "Worship" as a Key for Re-Examining the God Problem
Can We Speculate on How God Acts
Can God be Both Perfect and Free
The difficulty of ascribing metaphysical predicates such as absoluteness, necessity and perfection to God while simultaneously ascribing personal predicates such as compassion, freedom and agency has often been noted. Most efforts to resolve this dilemma have tended to fall into one of three categories: (I) a merely verbal solution such as that God is ‘compassionate in terms of our experience but...not so in terms of [God's] own’; (2) the univoca…
Selfhood, Transcendence, and the Experience of God
Community-based Planning and Poverty Alleviation in Oaxaca, Mexico
In response to the growing critique of decentralized and participatory approaches to development, the article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the relationship between community-based planning and poverty. Building on contributions from research on collective action, social capital, and social movements, the framework identifies a series of variables that are theorized to affect a community's capacity to alleviate poverty. Using thi…
Reluctant Cities, Colonias and Municipal Underbounding in the US
Scholars typically study affluent neighbourhoods resisting annexation by poorer adjacent cities. This paper focuses on the mirror image of this problem: municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas. In the paper, such local governments are called reluctant cities and it is suggested that urban studies scholars need to reach a better understanding of the practice. Here, a seemingly counter-intuitive case fro…
Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Download (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Political science (2 works)