{"id":17133,"date":"2014-01-17T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=17133"},"modified":"2014-01-17T03:12:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T09:12:27","slug":"apsus-becky-starnes-writes-book-about-city-of-clarksville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/17\/apsus-becky-starnes-writes-book-about-city-of-clarksville\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU’s Becky Starnes writes book about City of Clarksville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – \u201cIt\u2019s all about soul,\u201d Dr. Becky Starnes, Austin Peay State University professor of public management, said, referring to her recently published book, \u201cChallenges in City Management: A Case Study Approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that people often lose touch with their cities,\u201d she said. \u201cWe may grow complacent and take the cities we live in for granted. For example, we drive on our city roads almost every day. Yet, have we ever stopped to think about the history of that road? When was it built, why was it built, what\u2019s the story behind its name or how does it contribute to the quality of life in our community?\u201d<\/p>\n

\""Challenges<\/a>

“Challenges in City Management: A Case Study Approach” by APSU professor Dr. Becky Starnes.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since 2007, Starnes has studied the City of Clarksville, applying the perspective that a city is a dynamic, living, breathing entity. \u201cOur city reflects what we, the citizenry, value \u2013 the ways we want to be governed, the quality of life we want and our belief systems,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChallenges in City Management\u201d is a compilation of case studies linking academic principles with practice. The cases consist of real issues that confront Clarksville\u2019s city administrators, politicians and citizens. Topics include attempts to upgrade the city\u2019s charter, city policy regarding synthetic drugs, the organization structure of the city electric utility, housing and homeless issues, traffic congestion and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hope is that this book encourages the citizens of Clarksville to look at our city from a new perspective and identify ways we can continue to improve,\u201d Starnes said. \u201cI encourage them to take the advice of John Macionis and Vincent Parrillo who write, \u2018In studying the city, we must not ask merely, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d We must, as Eliot suggests in his poem, \u201cGo and make our visit.\u201d We must probe beyond the descriptions and the statics to the broader and deeper reality of urban life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Starnes\u2019 book, published by CRC Press, is a valuable addition to the history and study of Clarksville\u2019s city governance, and is available at the CRC Press web site or www.amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Starnes at starnesb@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – \u201cIt\u2019s all about soul,\u201d Dr. Becky Starnes, Austin Peay State University professor of public management, said, referring to her recently published book, \u201cChallenges in City Management: A Case Study Approach.\u201d \u201cI believe that people often lose touch with their cities,\u201d she said. \u201cWe may grow complacent and take the cities we live […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[4020,23,262,3350,21825,250,512,825,21828,21826,7872,21827],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17134,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133\/revisions\/17134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}