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Book City Intelligible

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Perlin
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-03-02
  • ISBN : 9004414924
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book City Intelligible written by Frank Perlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perlin conjoins philosophical and socio-cultural anthropologies to derive universal foundations of human reason in terms of which cultural difference may both logically and historically be understood. Global commodification before industrialisation offers abundant evidence for the translatability of all cultures.

Book The Intelligible Metropolis

Download or read book The Intelligible Metropolis written by Nora Pleßke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.

Book Writing the Materialities of the Past

Download or read book Writing the Materialities of the Past written by Sam Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thinking since the 1950s. Author Sam Griffiths argues that the social theory of cities in this period was characterised by the dominance of socio-economic and linguistic-cultural models, which served to impede our understanding of time-space relationality towards historical events and their narration. The book engages with studies of historical writing to discuss materiality in the built environment as a form of literary practice to express marginalised dimensions of social experience in a range of historical contexts. It then moves on to reflect on England’s nineteenth-century industrialization from an architectural topographical perspective, challenging theories of space and architecture to examine the complex role of industrial cities in mediating social changes in the practice of everyday life. By demonstrating how the authenticity of historical accounts rests on materially emplaced narratives, Griffiths makes the case for the emancipatory possibilities of historical writing. He calls for a re-evaluation of historical epistemology as a primarily socio-scientific or literary enquiry and instead proposes a specifically architectural time-space figuration of historical events to rethink and refresh the relationship of the urban past to its present and future. Written for postgraduate students, researchers and academics in architectural theory and urban studies, Griffiths draws on the space syntax tradition of research to explore how contingencies of movement and encounter construct the historical imagination.

Book Philo Judaeus

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Drummond
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Philo Judaeus written by James Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City written by Suzanne Hall and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and expanding on contributions to policy and design. The handbook is organised around nine key themes, through which familiar analytic categories of race, gender and class, as well as binaries such as the urban/rural, are readdressed. These thematic sections together capture the volatile processes and intricacies of urbanisation that reveal the turbulent nature of our early twenty-first century: Hierarchy: Elites and Evictions Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment Authority: Governance and Mobilisations Volatility: Disruption and Adaptation Conflict: Vulnerability and Insurgency Provisionality: Infrastructure and Incrementalism Mobility: Re-bordering and De-bordering Civility: Contestation and Encounter Design: Speculation and Imagination This is a provocative, inter-disciplinary handbook for all academics and researchers interested in contemporary urban studies.

Book Marrying Market Timing with Human Centered Urban Design  How Investors and Municipalities Can Better Realize Transit Oriented Development

Download or read book Marrying Market Timing with Human Centered Urban Design How Investors and Municipalities Can Better Realize Transit Oriented Development written by Jared Katseff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Intelligible Cities

Download or read book Intelligible Cities written by David Groves and published by goWare. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exactly fifty years after the conversations recorded by Italo Calvino in Le città invisibili, Marco Polo and the Emperor Kublai Khan meet once again, this time to discuss the weird and wacky ways in which the inhabitants of 26 cities communicate with strangers who arrive at their gates speaking an unknown language. With a few sad exceptions, each city has devised an almost perfect method for language sharing, using translation buckets or hypnosis, game theory or computation, sexual intercourse or divine inspiration, magic rivers or reflections, drawing on the arts of music, dance and painting, and on the wisdom of plants, birds and fish. It is for the reader to decide if this is a fabulous travelogue up and down the Silk Road from Xanadu to Venice, a treatise on translation in the form of a comic novel, an allegory of friendship between people and peoples, or a series of bedtime stories in which the cities themselves are like female characters out of The Arabian Nights. In any case, Intelligible Cities is a distant tribute to Italo Calvino from a writer resident in Aotearoa New Zealand, a linguist and a traveller, deeply versed in things Italian.

Book California Tax Digest

Download or read book California Tax Digest written by John Lathorp and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Intelligible Guide and Manual for St  Andrews  Historical and Descriptive

Download or read book The Intelligible Guide and Manual for St Andrews Historical and Descriptive written by James Howie (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Artscapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Manila Castoro
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2018-07-06
  • ISBN : 1476631115
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Urban Artscapes written by Manila Castoro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, artists, architects, activists and curators, as well as corporations and local governments have addressed the urban space. They challenge its use and destination, and dispute current notions of space, legality, trade and artistry. Emerging art practices challenge old ideas about where art belongs, what forms it can take and what political discourses it fosters. Selected from papers presented at the 2013 Artscapes conference in Canterbury, this collection of new essays explores the dynamic relationship between art and the city. Contributors discuss the everyday artistic use of public space around the world, from sculpture to graffiti to street photography.

Book The Pacific Reporter

Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oklahoma Reports

Download or read book Oklahoma Reports written by Oklahoma. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Question of  eclecticism

Download or read book The Question of eclecticism written by John M. Dillon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context of ancient philosophy. The book casts fresh light on the methodology of such central figures as Cicero, Philo, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, and Ptolemy, and also illuminates many of the conceptual issues discussed most creatively in this period. This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context of ancient philosophy. The book casts fresh light on the methodology of such central figures as Cicero, Philo, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, and Ptolemy, and also illuminates many of the conceptual issues discussed most creatively in this period.

Book Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma

Download or read book Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma written by Oklahoma. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blackwood s Edinburgh magazine

Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Encyclopedia of Linguistics

Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Linguistics written by William Frawley and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 2198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition contains over 900 articles, which provide a detailed overview of theory and research in all branches of linguistics. Every known language is covered and each article is followed by a detailed bibliography.

Book The Government of American Cities

Download or read book The Government of American Cities written by William Bennett Munro and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: