Author: Karan Anand Shandilya
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482872420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Plagued nightly by vivid, frightening dreams where a voice constantly antagonizes him, Aryan is certain someone is waiting for him in another dimension he has yet to discover. Soon, his inability to differentiate between reality and illusion causes him to question the fundamentals of the fragmented universe he is now dwelling in. Much to his discomfort, Aryan begins a journey where he precariously treads through various surreal paradigms within his already chaotic thoughts. As echoes of his past and future mingle, Aryan encounters various characters plotting to overthrow the control of his mind. Guided through his journey by the dreamy voice of Milathe one he is meant to be withAryan battles negative ideologies and thoughts. But what Aryan does not know is that when dreams become reality, no one really knows who is master and who is slave. The Inverted City shares the tale of one mans quest to find his destiny as he walks a fine line between reality and illusion within a shadowy and disjointed universe.
Author: Christopher Priest
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590177053
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Featured in Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels Winner of the British Science Fiction Award Nominated for the Hugo Award The “devilishly entertaining” masterpiece of hard science fiction, set in a city moving through a strange, dystopian world—from the multi-award-winning author of The Prestige (Time Out New York) The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the “optimum” into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in crèches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. And yet the city is in crisis. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum. Helward Mann is a member of the city’s elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city’s continued existence. But the world—he is about to discover—is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.
Author: Arthur Hastings Grant
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Author: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135602980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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First Published in 1996. Part of a series that brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The physical development of cities and their infrastructure is considered in Volume 2, which focuses on city planning and its origins in the Rural Cemetery Movement, the City Beautiful Movement, and the role of business in advocating more rational and efficient urban places. Volume 2 also contains articles about essential aspects of the urban infra structure and the provision of basic services essential for urban survival—water, sewer, and transportation systems.
Author: Jerry Herron
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320709
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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AfterCulture is a book of essays about the making and un-making of middle-class culture, a phenomenon which has occurred nowhere more decisively than in America's most representative city, Detroit. In this insightful book, Jerry Herron analyzes what has happened since the decline of middle-class culture in Detroit, a city he labels the first postmodern city, because it exemplifies the failure of traditional history to make sense of contemporary urban experience. By looking at media coverage of the city, violence, urban rehabilitation projects, and the proliferation of suburban shopping malls, the book traces the divestiture of Detroit and helps make sense of the plight of America's cities.
Author: Boston (Mass.). Finance Commission
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Author: Ana M. Manzanas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136824898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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This book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja’s writings on the postmetropolis, Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place, Manuel Castells’ space of flows, and Michel de Certeau’s theories of walking as a practice, the volume extends previous theorizations by examining how spatial uses, appropriations, strictures, ruptures, and reconfigurations function in literary texts and films that represent inhabitants of racial-ethnic borderlands and migrational U.S. cities. The authors argue for the necessity of an alternative poetics of place that makes room for those who move beyond the spaces of traditional visibility—displaced and homeless people, undocumented workers, hybrid and/or marginalized populations rendered invisible by the cultural elite, yet often disciplined by agents of surveillance. Building upon Doreen Massey’s conceptualization of liminal space as a sphere in which narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate, this study recasts spatial paradigms to insert an array of emergent geographies of invisibility that the volume traverses via the analysis of works by Chuck Palahniuk, Helena Viramontes, Karen Tei Yamashita, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alejandro Morales, and Li-Young Lee, among others, and films such as Thomas McCarthy’s The Visitor, Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, and Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Babel.
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Beginning in 1925, the March issue contins the association's proceedings.
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Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349588024
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 7493
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The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition is now available as a dynamic online resource. Consisting of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists. Regularly updated! This product is a subscription based product.
