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Book After the Shock City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Hulme
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0861933494
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book After the Shock City written by Tom Hulme and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century

Book Shock Cities

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  • Author : Harold L. Platt
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2005-05-22
  • ISBN : 0226670767
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book Shock Cities written by Harold L. Platt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Root Shock

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  • Author : Mindy Thompson Fullilove
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2016-10-24
  • ISBN : 1613320205
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Root Shock written by Mindy Thompson Fullilove and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist, exposes the devastating outcome of decades of urban renewal projects to our nation’s marginalized communities. Examining the traumatic stress of “root shock” in three African American communities and similar widespread damage in other cities, she makes an impassioned and powerful argument against the continued invasive and unjust development practices of displacing poor neighborhoods.

Book World City

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  • Author : Doreen Massey
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-04-23
  • ISBN : 0745654827
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book World City written by Doreen Massey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities around the world are striving to be 'global'. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions of identity, place and political responsibility that are essential for all cities. World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation - the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life - that is resulting in an evermore unequal world. World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for? Following the implosion within the financial sector, such issues are even more vital. In a new Preface, Doreen Massey addresses these changed times. She argues that, whatever happens, the evidence of this book is that we must not go back to 'business as usual', and she asks whether the financial crisis might open up a space for a deeper rethinking of both our economy and our society.

Book The Shock Doctrine

Download or read book The Shock Doctrine written by Naomi Klein and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

Book Nature s Metropolis  Chicago and the Great West

Download or read book Nature s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West written by William Cronon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe

Book Cities by Design

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  • Author : Fran Tonkiss
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2014-01-21
  • ISBN : 0745680291
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Cities by Design written by Fran Tonkiss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic inequality and environmental challenges. Current processes of urbanization too often contribute to intensifying these problems; cities, likewise, will be central to the solutions to such problems. Focusing on a range of cities in developed and developing contexts, Cities by Design highlights major aspects of contemporary urbanization: urban growth, density and sustainability; inequality, segregation and diversity; informality, environment and infrastructure. Offering keen insights into how the shaping of our cities is shaping our lives, Cities by Design provides a critical exploration of key issues and debates that will be invaluable to students and scholars in sociology and geography, environmental and urban studies, architecture, urban design and planning.

Book Present Shock

Download or read book Present Shock written by Douglas Rushkoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.

Book Fitzgerald  My Lost City

Download or read book Fitzgerald My Lost City written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime." "This edition of All the Sad Young Men is the first of the short-fiction collections in the Cambridge edition to be based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendixes."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Shock Exchange

Download or read book Shock Exchange written by Ralph W. Baker (Jr.) and published by Self Publisher. This book was released on 2012 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shock Exchange explains the stock market and U.S. economy through the eyes of the New York Shock Exchange, a financial literacy program Ralph Baker started in 2006 to share his passion for investing and basketball with his 11 year old son and other boys his age. For those interested in learning about "the pain ahead" for the U.S. economy and/or the cut-throat world of New York City grassroots basketball, Shock Exchange is a must read." --from book description, Amazon.com.

Book After Shock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ray Kurzweil
  • Publisher : Abundant World Institute
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780999736449
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book After Shock written by Ray Kurzweil and published by Abundant World Institute. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler's, Future Shock . The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents compelling and surprising views of the future--through the very unique lenses of more than 100 of the world's foremost futurists, including David Brin, Po Bronson, Sanjiv Chopra, George Gilder, Newt Gingrich, Alan Kay, Ray Kurzweil, Jane McGonigal, Lord Martin Rees, Byron Reese, and many other luminaries.

Book After Shock

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  • Author : Kent Annan
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2011-03-21
  • ISBN : 145961593X
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book After Shock written by Kent Annan and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of a historic earthquake in the fragile country of Haiti, Kent Annan considers suffering--from the epic to the everyday--as a problem for faith. Less than two weeks after the release of Kent's book about his work with Haiti Partners, he heard the news. Friends trapped under the rubble of buildings. Friends sprinting across the city looking for family. Churches--including one Kent often attended--turned to rubble. Suddenly Kent and his friends were part of an uncomfortable fellowship: people whose faith is shaken by crisis. Taking courage from the psalmists of old and the company of his grieving neighbors, Kent has found that there is solidarity in suffering. Others have followed life to the edge of meaning and have heard God even there, calling for honest faith. Are there questions or realities your faith can't handle? Kent wrote: After Shock; to help you find out.

Book Tom Hulme  After the Shock City  Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship  Woodbridge  Boydell   Brewer 2019  263 S    Rezension

Download or read book Tom Hulme After the Shock City Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship Woodbridge Boydell Brewer 2019 263 S Rezension written by Phillip Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Rezension von: Tom Hulme: After the Shock City. Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2019 (263 S.; ISBN 978-0861933495; 57,95 EUR)

Book Mission Field

Download or read book Mission Field written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication

Download or read book Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Year Book

Download or read book The American Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge written by American Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: