Author: Norbert Kling
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839451140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.
The Redundant City
Author: Norbert Kling
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839451140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839451140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.
Redundancy, Community and Heritage in the Modern Church of England, 1945–2000
Author: Denise Bonnette
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031175972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book is a reappraisal of Anglican Church redundancy from a cultural perspective. It challenges long-held perceptions about the rationale for church redundancy, particularly secularisation. It argues that redundancy brought to the surface far-reaching social and cultural tensions that remain unresolved to this day, and which the pandemic closure of buildings has reignited.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031175972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book is a reappraisal of Anglican Church redundancy from a cultural perspective. It challenges long-held perceptions about the rationale for church redundancy, particularly secularisation. It argues that redundancy brought to the surface far-reaching social and cultural tensions that remain unresolved to this day, and which the pandemic closure of buildings has reignited.
Consuming the Entrepreneurial City
Author: Anne Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135917159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the practices through which we know them - from advertising and the selling of real estate, to youth cultural consumption practices and forms of entrepreneurship, to the regeneration of urban areas under the guise of the heritage industry and the development of a WiFi landscape. Using examples of cities such as New York, Sydney, Atlantic City, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Douala, Liverpool, San Juan, Berlin and Harbin this book illustrates how image and practice have become entangled in the performance of the symbolic economy. It also argues that it is not just how the urban present is being shaped in this way that is significant to the development of cities but also that a prominent feature of their development has been the spectacular imagining of the past as heritage and through regeneration. Yet the ghosts that this conjures up in practice offer us a possible form of political unsettlement and alternative ways of viewing cities that is only just beginning to be explored. Through this important collection by some of the leading analysts of consumption, cities and space Consuming the Entrepreneurial City offers a cutting edge analysis of the ways in which cities are developing and the implications this has for their future. It is essential reading for students of Urban Studies, Geography, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Heritage Studies and Anthropology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135917159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the practices through which we know them - from advertising and the selling of real estate, to youth cultural consumption practices and forms of entrepreneurship, to the regeneration of urban areas under the guise of the heritage industry and the development of a WiFi landscape. Using examples of cities such as New York, Sydney, Atlantic City, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Douala, Liverpool, San Juan, Berlin and Harbin this book illustrates how image and practice have become entangled in the performance of the symbolic economy. It also argues that it is not just how the urban present is being shaped in this way that is significant to the development of cities but also that a prominent feature of their development has been the spectacular imagining of the past as heritage and through regeneration. Yet the ghosts that this conjures up in practice offer us a possible form of political unsettlement and alternative ways of viewing cities that is only just beginning to be explored. Through this important collection by some of the leading analysts of consumption, cities and space Consuming the Entrepreneurial City offers a cutting edge analysis of the ways in which cities are developing and the implications this has for their future. It is essential reading for students of Urban Studies, Geography, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Heritage Studies and Anthropology.
Evaluation of Urban Ecological Security and Measurement of Urban Ecological Resilience
Author: Xueru Zhang
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832549748
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Since the middle of the last century, rapid population growth and urbanization have led to the encroachment of a large number of natural spaces, resulting in a series of ecological security issues such as environmental pollution, resource depletion and habitat destruction, which have severely challenged global sustainable development. Urban ecological security is an important barrier to urban residents' production and life, the foundation and core of national or regional ecological security, and it is of great significance to promote green development and harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. With global warming, frequent natural disasters and other multifactorial threats, the issue of ecological security in cities as centers of the settlement have become a focus of international attention. However, cities are complex systems with social, economic and natural conditions coupled with each other. Under the overlapping of many factors, the basic problems such as the mechanism of urban development on ecological security have not been fully explained, and there is also a lack of quantitative assessment methods corresponding to urban ecological conditions, let alone simulation and prediction.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832549748
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Since the middle of the last century, rapid population growth and urbanization have led to the encroachment of a large number of natural spaces, resulting in a series of ecological security issues such as environmental pollution, resource depletion and habitat destruction, which have severely challenged global sustainable development. Urban ecological security is an important barrier to urban residents' production and life, the foundation and core of national or regional ecological security, and it is of great significance to promote green development and harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. With global warming, frequent natural disasters and other multifactorial threats, the issue of ecological security in cities as centers of the settlement have become a focus of international attention. However, cities are complex systems with social, economic and natural conditions coupled with each other. Under the overlapping of many factors, the basic problems such as the mechanism of urban development on ecological security have not been fully explained, and there is also a lack of quantitative assessment methods corresponding to urban ecological conditions, let alone simulation and prediction.
China's Growth
Author: Linda Yueh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019165521X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
China's economic growth has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world to its second largest economy. Understanding the drivers of growth remains elusive as the country is affected by both its transition from central planning and the challenges of a developing country. This book examines the main themes of growth, offering micro level evidence to shed light on the macro drivers of the economy. It also focuses on law and informal institutions of the economy to highlight the importance of entrepreneurship and the development of the private sector.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019165521X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
China's economic growth has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world to its second largest economy. Understanding the drivers of growth remains elusive as the country is affected by both its transition from central planning and the challenges of a developing country. This book examines the main themes of growth, offering micro level evidence to shed light on the macro drivers of the economy. It also focuses on law and informal institutions of the economy to highlight the importance of entrepreneurship and the development of the private sector.
Staying in the City
Author: Church of England. Bishops' Advisory Group on Urban Priority Areas
Publisher: Church House Publishing
ISBN: 9780715137802
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This report from the Bishops' Advisory Group on Urban Priority Areas reviews what has been done since "Faith in the City" and looks forward to the challenges which the Church must face if it wants to maintain its presence in the city.
Publisher: Church House Publishing
ISBN: 9780715137802
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This report from the Bishops' Advisory Group on Urban Priority Areas reviews what has been done since "Faith in the City" and looks forward to the challenges which the Church must face if it wants to maintain its presence in the city.
Resilience and Urban Risk Management
Author: Damien Serre
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203072820
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Resilience and Urban Risk Management presents the latest progress made in designing resilient towns, and identifies leads to be explored for attaining the objective of systematically integrating risks into urban environments The aim of the book is to provide guidance in designing and planning future cities, and to create a new form of risk manageme
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203072820
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Resilience and Urban Risk Management presents the latest progress made in designing resilient towns, and identifies leads to be explored for attaining the objective of systematically integrating risks into urban environments The aim of the book is to provide guidance in designing and planning future cities, and to create a new form of risk manageme
From County Hospital to NHS Trust
Author: Katherine A. Webb
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
ISBN: 9780903857994
Category : National health services
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
ISBN: 9780903857994
Category : National health services
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Cities for a Small Continent
Author: Power, Anne
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447327551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities, with their contrasting conditions, history and performance generating contrasting reactions. The book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities, over the past ten years. Across the continent social cohesion, community investment and social enterprise have gained momentum as Europe’s crowded, resource-constrained cities face up to environmental and social limits faster than other less densely urban countries, such as the US. The author presents a compelling framework to show that Europe’s cities are creating a new industrial economy to combat environmental and social unravelling.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447327551
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities, with their contrasting conditions, history and performance generating contrasting reactions. The book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities, over the past ten years. Across the continent social cohesion, community investment and social enterprise have gained momentum as Europe’s crowded, resource-constrained cities face up to environmental and social limits faster than other less densely urban countries, such as the US. The author presents a compelling framework to show that Europe’s cities are creating a new industrial economy to combat environmental and social unravelling.
Management Information And Optoelectronic Engineering - Proceedings Of The 2015 International Conference On Management, Information And Communication And The 2015 International Conference On Optics And Electronics Engineering
Author: Yongsheng Gao
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814759309
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book, Management Information and Optoelectronic Engineering, is a collection of papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Management, Information and Communication and the 2015 International Conference on Optics and Electronics Engineering which was held on October 24-25, 2015 in Xia Men, China. The book provides state-of-the-art research results and development activities in Optics and Electronics Engineering, Management, Information and Communication and will benefit researchers and practitioners in the field.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814759309
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This book, Management Information and Optoelectronic Engineering, is a collection of papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Management, Information and Communication and the 2015 International Conference on Optics and Electronics Engineering which was held on October 24-25, 2015 in Xia Men, China. The book provides state-of-the-art research results and development activities in Optics and Electronics Engineering, Management, Information and Communication and will benefit researchers and practitioners in the field.