Resources
Welcome to the resource page. Our goal is to offer a research database for urban research, particularly as it pertains to Christian engagement of the city. The resources come from a variety of perspectives and disciplines and do not necessarily reflect the views/positions of Radius Global Cities Network. When a source is available freely online we make the PDF available to you. For other sources we offer a link for you to purchase the resource for yourself. If you have specific inquiries, you can contact us.
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“Barnabas: The Making of a Missionary Church” in Apostles to the City
More InfoAuthor: Roger S. Greenway
This book challenges the church to provide an effective, biblical urban apostolate. Vitally needed in our day, it conveys a sense of urgency, for never has it been more true that he who wins the city wins the world.
Chapter 4: Barnabas: The Making of a Missionary Church
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“Introduction” in Apostles to the City
More InfoAuthor: Roger S. Greenway
This book challenges the church to provide an effective, biblical urban apostolate. Vitally needed in our day, it conveys a sense of urgency, for never has it been more true that he who wins the city wins the world.
Foreward and Introduction to Apostles to the City
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“Jeremiah” in Apostles to the City
More InfoAuthor: Roger S. Greenway
This book challenges the church to provide an effective, biblical urban apostolate. Vitally needed in our day, it conveys a sense of urgency, for never has it been more true that he who wins the city wins the world.
Chapter 2: Jeremiah: How to Be a City Saint
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“Jonah: Hope for Doomed Cities” in Apostles to the City (Copy)
More InfoAuthor: Roger S. Greenway
This book challenges the church to provide an effective, biblical urban apostolate. Vitally needed in our day, it conveys a sense of urgency, for never has it been more true that he who wins the city wins the world.
Chapter 1: Jonah: Hope for Doomed Cities
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“Nehemiah: The Secret of Urban Renewal” in Apostles to the City (Copy) (Copy)
More InfoAuthor: Roger S. Greenway
This book challenges the church to provide an effective, biblical urban apostolate. Vitally needed in our day, it conveys a sense of urgency, for never has it been more true that he who wins the city wins the world.
Chapter 3: Nehemiah: The Secret of Urban Renewal
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“Paul: The Urban Strategist” in Apostles to the City
More InfoAuthor: Roger S. Greenway
This book challenges the church to provide an effective, biblical urban apostolate. Vitally needed in our day, it conveys a sense of urgency, for never has it been more true that he who wins the city wins the world.
Chapters 5 & 6: Paul: The Urban Strategist–His Message and Method
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“One of the most culturally diverse cities in the UK”: Saskia Sassen on Manchester
More InfoAuthors: Saskia Sassen and Shoba Arun
Manchester is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the UK and has a long history of migration from different parts of the nation, mainland Europe and the rest of world.
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A Focus on Cities Takes Us Beyond Existing Governance Frameworks
More InfoAuthor: Sakia Sassen
Incorporating the urban scale into global-level environmental governance framings can take us beyond the limitations and distortions of a carbon trading regime. This in turn takes us beyond the kinds of nationalisms that carbon trading brings into negotiations. Among the key properties that distinguish cities as a site for environmental policymaking, and thereby as a source of policy innovations, are their multiple scales and diverse socio- physical ecologies.
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An Uncomfortable Challenge: Lessons for Today’s Diasporas from the First Century Diaspora
More InfoAuthor: Michael D. Crane
The global trend of increasing population movement has significant implications for missions. Many of these diaspora communities have significant percentages of Christians who live among populations where Christianity is not thriving. This article looks at the first century Jewish diaspora as an example of a diaspora community that served as a conduit of the gospel to the surrounding majority population. The ways in which a diaspora community intentionally assimilates and acculturates can create opportunities for the diaspora Christians to be vessels of the gospel to large populations with little access to the gospel.
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Blueprints for a Just City: The Role of the Church in Urban Planning and Shaping the City’s Built Environment
More InfoAuthor: Sean Benesh
What role does the church play in shaping the built environment of the city? Or does it? Blueprints for a Just City is an exploratory journey looking at the ways in which God’s people have played a pivotal role in not only influencing life in the city, but in the actual built environment as well. Together we will delve into the parameters of the Gospel, the role of common grace in the city, and God’s involvement in shaping urban form. If God’s heartbeat is for justice and equity, as part of the Gospel story, how then does the church immerse itself into the city influencing and shaping the built environment? The outcome of Blueprints for a Just City is to collect and synthesize blueprints for what a just and equitable city can look like when marked by the Gospel.