Author: Benna, Umar G.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522576266
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic prosperity. Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels is a pivotal reference source that examines current and evolving conditions of industrial and urban policies and their relationships around the world, especially between developed and developing economies. While highlighting topics such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, urban policy, and global common good, this publication seeks to deepen and broaden the understanding of transformation in industrial development and responses to emerging urbanization processes. This book is ideally designed for industrial planners, entrepreneurs, urban development authorities, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.
Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels
Author: Benna, Umar G.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522576266
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic prosperity. Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels is a pivotal reference source that examines current and evolving conditions of industrial and urban policies and their relationships around the world, especially between developed and developing economies. While highlighting topics such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, urban policy, and global common good, this publication seeks to deepen and broaden the understanding of transformation in industrial development and responses to emerging urbanization processes. This book is ideally designed for industrial planners, entrepreneurs, urban development authorities, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522576266
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic prosperity. Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels is a pivotal reference source that examines current and evolving conditions of industrial and urban policies and their relationships around the world, especially between developed and developing economies. While highlighting topics such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, urban policy, and global common good, this publication seeks to deepen and broaden the understanding of transformation in industrial development and responses to emerging urbanization processes. This book is ideally designed for industrial planners, entrepreneurs, urban development authorities, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.
Chaos in the Liberal Order
Author: Robert Jervis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231547781
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Donald Trump’s election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists, historians, and international-relations scholars, Chaos in the Liberal Order explores the global trends that led to Trump’s stunning victory and the impact his presidency will have on the international political landscape. Contributors situate Trump among past foreign policy upheavals and enduring models for global governance, seeking to understand how and why he departs from precedents and norms. The book considers key issues, such as what Trump means for America’s role in the world; the relationship between domestic and international politics; and Trump’s place in the rise of the far right worldwide. It poses challenging questions, including: Does Trump’s election signal the downfall of the liberal order or unveil its resilience? What is the importance of individual leaders for the international system, and to what extent is Trump an outlier? Is there a Trump doctrine, or is America’s president fundamentally impulsive and scattershot? The book considers the effects of Trump’s presidency on trends in human rights, international alliances, and regional conflicts. With provocative contributions from prominent figures such as Stephen M. Walt, Andrew J. Bacevich, and Samuel Moyn, this timely collection brings much-needed expert perspectives on our tumultuous era.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231547781
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Donald Trump’s election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists, historians, and international-relations scholars, Chaos in the Liberal Order explores the global trends that led to Trump’s stunning victory and the impact his presidency will have on the international political landscape. Contributors situate Trump among past foreign policy upheavals and enduring models for global governance, seeking to understand how and why he departs from precedents and norms. The book considers key issues, such as what Trump means for America’s role in the world; the relationship between domestic and international politics; and Trump’s place in the rise of the far right worldwide. It poses challenging questions, including: Does Trump’s election signal the downfall of the liberal order or unveil its resilience? What is the importance of individual leaders for the international system, and to what extent is Trump an outlier? Is there a Trump doctrine, or is America’s president fundamentally impulsive and scattershot? The book considers the effects of Trump’s presidency on trends in human rights, international alliances, and regional conflicts. With provocative contributions from prominent figures such as Stephen M. Walt, Andrew J. Bacevich, and Samuel Moyn, this timely collection brings much-needed expert perspectives on our tumultuous era.
City of Chaos and Mayhem
Author: Elizabeth Foutch
Publisher: Alpha Book Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The City of Chaos and Mayhem is set in St. Louis, Missouri, and features Kitty a 71-year-old feisty widow of a mobster named Vinny, Kitty is wild and free, rides a motorcycle, carries a stun gun, pepper spray, and her .45 caliber, and won’t hesitate to shoot you in the knee caps if you get in her way. The city is turned upside down looking for a key that Kitty is not aware of and can bring down the mob and drug lord. Everyone thinks Kitty has this key and there is a race against time to find it or her best friend Ginger who has been kidnapped will die. Kitty’s daughter Shiloh hires an ex-con to help get to the bottom of it all. Her son comes home from the war with a letter from his deceased father explaining everything. In the meantime, things start to heat up between the detective on the case and a jealous ex from the past.
Publisher: Alpha Book Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The City of Chaos and Mayhem is set in St. Louis, Missouri, and features Kitty a 71-year-old feisty widow of a mobster named Vinny, Kitty is wild and free, rides a motorcycle, carries a stun gun, pepper spray, and her .45 caliber, and won’t hesitate to shoot you in the knee caps if you get in her way. The city is turned upside down looking for a key that Kitty is not aware of and can bring down the mob and drug lord. Everyone thinks Kitty has this key and there is a race against time to find it or her best friend Ginger who has been kidnapped will die. Kitty’s daughter Shiloh hires an ex-con to help get to the bottom of it all. Her son comes home from the war with a letter from his deceased father explaining everything. In the meantime, things start to heat up between the detective on the case and a jealous ex from the past.
The Order of Chaos
Author: Ben J Henry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
How can a dream be dangerous?Alicia's younger brother has been missing for two years. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she finds a book in her parents' bedroom containing a list of names, including a boy who drowned at her school. How far is her mother prepared to go to return David to the family?While lucid dreaming, Alicia enters a realm where survival depends on the strength of your will. A young man named Ryan leads her through a series of tests to determine whether she is ready to face those responsible for David's disappearance.The Order of Chaos is the first in a speculative trilogy for young adults and adults young at heart. Fans of The Hunger Games and His Dark Materials are invited to follow Alicia beyond the waking world, where thoughts and insecurities are laid bare. What are we but a collection of memories, real and false?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
How can a dream be dangerous?Alicia's younger brother has been missing for two years. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she finds a book in her parents' bedroom containing a list of names, including a boy who drowned at her school. How far is her mother prepared to go to return David to the family?While lucid dreaming, Alicia enters a realm where survival depends on the strength of your will. A young man named Ryan leads her through a series of tests to determine whether she is ready to face those responsible for David's disappearance.The Order of Chaos is the first in a speculative trilogy for young adults and adults young at heart. Fans of The Hunger Games and His Dark Materials are invited to follow Alicia beyond the waking world, where thoughts and insecurities are laid bare. What are we but a collection of memories, real and false?
The Order of Chaos
Author: Lyra Wolf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944912413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944912413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Designing Urban Transformation
Author: Aseem Inam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135006393
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135006393
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes.
From Order to Chaos II
Author: Leo P. Kadanoff
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789810234348
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
This book is a compilation of the review papers, expositions and some of the technical works of Leo Kadanoff, a theoretical physicist. The objective is to put together a group of not-too-technical writing in which he discusses some issues in condensed matter physics, hydrodynamics, applied mathematics and national policy.This expanded edition is divided into five sections. The first section contains review papers on hydrodynamics, condensed matter physics and field theory. Next is a selection of papers on scaling and universality, particularly as applied to phase changes. A change of pace is provided by a series of papers on the critical analysis of simulation models of urban economic and social development. The book concludes with a series of recent papers on complex patterns. Each major section has an introduction designed to tie the work together and to provide perspective on the subject matter.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789810234348
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
This book is a compilation of the review papers, expositions and some of the technical works of Leo Kadanoff, a theoretical physicist. The objective is to put together a group of not-too-technical writing in which he discusses some issues in condensed matter physics, hydrodynamics, applied mathematics and national policy.This expanded edition is divided into five sections. The first section contains review papers on hydrodynamics, condensed matter physics and field theory. Next is a selection of papers on scaling and universality, particularly as applied to phase changes. A change of pace is provided by a series of papers on the critical analysis of simulation models of urban economic and social development. The book concludes with a series of recent papers on complex patterns. Each major section has an introduction designed to tie the work together and to provide perspective on the subject matter.
The Lost Garden
Author: Helen Humphreys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393051834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Great Britain, Women, Army, WWII 1939 - 1945.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393051834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Great Britain, Women, Army, WWII 1939 - 1945.
Still, in the City
Author: Angela Dews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510732349
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Still, in the City is a collection of stories about the practice of urban Buddhism—when a New York City subway becomes a mobile temple, when Los Angeles traffic becomes a vehicle for awakening, when a Fifth Avenue sidewalk offers a spiritual path through craving, generosity, and sorrow. The instructions offered here for exploring mindfulness in and around our cities are written to be accessible, whether you’ve practiced a lot or a little. Perhaps you’ve returned home from a retreat and want to hold the attention and intention gained from pausing and experiencing the silence. Or perhaps you practice mindfulness and don’t call it Buddhism, or you are just curious about what mindfulness is all about. Still, in the City will speak to you. Practicing in the city comes with its own set of challenges and opportunities, and this book is attuned to both, offering guidance by teachers who see mindfulness not only as an intention for self-acceptance and relief of stress, but also as awareness that leads to dissatisfaction and that inspires our desire for deeper understanding and change. Dedicated to using their practice to make a difference not only in their own lives but also those of others, the authors speak of their involvement with their cities’ diverse communities, and their experience belies the notion that western Buddhists are of an age and race and class. There is amazing clarity in stillness, and the opportunity for a skillful response rather than a reaction, even to injustice. And there is the possibility of equanimity and of freedom, everywhere and for all.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510732349
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Still, in the City is a collection of stories about the practice of urban Buddhism—when a New York City subway becomes a mobile temple, when Los Angeles traffic becomes a vehicle for awakening, when a Fifth Avenue sidewalk offers a spiritual path through craving, generosity, and sorrow. The instructions offered here for exploring mindfulness in and around our cities are written to be accessible, whether you’ve practiced a lot or a little. Perhaps you’ve returned home from a retreat and want to hold the attention and intention gained from pausing and experiencing the silence. Or perhaps you practice mindfulness and don’t call it Buddhism, or you are just curious about what mindfulness is all about. Still, in the City will speak to you. Practicing in the city comes with its own set of challenges and opportunities, and this book is attuned to both, offering guidance by teachers who see mindfulness not only as an intention for self-acceptance and relief of stress, but also as awareness that leads to dissatisfaction and that inspires our desire for deeper understanding and change. Dedicated to using their practice to make a difference not only in their own lives but also those of others, the authors speak of their involvement with their cities’ diverse communities, and their experience belies the notion that western Buddhists are of an age and race and class. There is amazing clarity in stillness, and the opportunity for a skillful response rather than a reaction, even to injustice. And there is the possibility of equanimity and of freedom, everywhere and for all.
Karachi
Author: Laurent Gayer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199354448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Argues that within the seemingly chaotic malaise of Karachi's politics, a form of "manageable violence" exists, on which the functioning of the city is based.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199354448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Argues that within the seemingly chaotic malaise of Karachi's politics, a form of "manageable violence" exists, on which the functioning of the city is based.