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Book Norms and Space  Understanding Public Space Regulation in the Tourist City

Download or read book Norms and Space Understanding Public Space Regulation in the Tourist City written by Lucas Pizzolatto Konzen and published by Lucas Konzen. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anthropology of Los Angeles

Download or read book Anthropology of Los Angeles written by Jenny Banh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, race studies, gender studies, food studies, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.

Book L espace urbain europ  en  ou   Que faire du centre ville

Download or read book L espace urbain europ en ou Que faire du centre ville written by and published by Presses Univ. Franche-Comté. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captured by the City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Blagovesta Momchedjikova
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2013-12-05
  • ISBN : 1443854638
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Captured by the City written by Blagovesta Momchedjikova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines-Sociology, Anthropology, Performance Studies, Architectural History, Linguistics, Media Studies, Documentary Poetics, to name just a few-intersect here to help shape a unique field of inquiry-that of Urban Culture Studies. This multi-perspectival approach grants us a more wholesome understanding of how we inscribe cities and how cities inscribe us in return: as we plan, inhabit, remember them-in reality or in dreams.

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 2811100539
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book written by and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AI

Download or read book AI written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Role of Place Identity in the Perception  Understanding  and Design of Built Environments

Download or read book The Role of Place Identity in the Perception Understanding and Design of Built Environments written by Hernan Casakin and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an era of globalization, where the progressive deterioration of local values is a dominating characteristic, identity is seen as a fundamental need that encompasses all aspects of human life. One of these identities relates to place and the physical en"

Book Urban Encounters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Radice
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2017-05-17
  • ISBN : 0773550089
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Urban Encounters written by Martha Radice and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public art is on the urban agenda. Given recent claims about the importance of creativity to urban prosperity, opportunities for installing or performing art in the city have multiplied. As cities strive to appear culturally dynamic, the stakes of artistic production rise higher than ever. Exploring the interaction between art and the public in Canadian cities, Urban Encounters features writing by artists, architects, curators, anthropologists, geographers, and urban studies specialists. They show how people and places affect the structure and content of public artworks, what kinds of urban spaces and socialities are generated through art, and how to investigate and interpret encounters between art and its viewers in the city. Discussing a variety of art forms, including mobile cinemas, street improvisation, audiovisual investigations, and assembled objects, the contributors treat public artworks not just as aesthetic installations, but as agents that participate in the social and cultural evolution of cities. Using original, hands-on approaches, Urban Encounters reveals how art in the urban public space generates encounters that can transform both the city itself and the ways that people relate to it. Contributors include Alison Bain (York University), Robert Bean (NSCAD University), Lawrence Bird (architect, artist), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria), Brenden Harvey (Dalhousie University), Wes Johnston (artist, curator), Léola Le Blanc (media artist), Brian Lilley (Dalhousie University), Barbara Lounder (NSCAD University), Mary Elizabeth Luka (York University), Sebastian Matthias (HafenCityUniversity), Christof Migone (Western University), Ellen Moffat (media artist), Kim Morgan (NSCAD University), Solomon Nagler (NSCAD University), Martha Radice (Dalhousie University), Nicole Rallis (McMaster University), Susanne Shawyer (Elon University), Shannon Turner (Aarhus University), Laurent Vernet (INRS Urbanisation Culture Société), and Nick Wees (University of Victoria).

Book Wagadu Volume 7  Today s Global Fl  neuse

Download or read book Wagadu Volume 7 Today s Global Fl neuse written by Kathryn Kramer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todays Global Flneuse offers a fresh analysis of the flneuse on the 21st-century global stage, drawn from the perspectives of art history, mobility studies, sociology, and urban geography. The essays and artwork in this volume offer histories of Eurocentric 19th-century flnerie that still resonate in 21st-century transnational terms. This special issue also reveals the decisive impact of the flneuses practices beyond the strictly urban, extending into rural environs via the mega- and ex-urban, thus contributing to the continuing debate regarding the ever-narrowing urban/rural divide.

Book The West African City

Download or read book The West African City written by Jérôme Chenal and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis, macrocephali... The cities of west Africa are no longer ‘plannable’ – at least not using traditional urban development tools. Without negating the importance of participatory processes in city creation, it nonetheless seems crucial to return to city plans and models, to what cities convey, and how they are built. But to understand the city in all its depth and richness, we must also hit the streets. The West African City proposes a dual perspective. At the urban scale, it analyses historical trajectories, spatial development, and urban planning documents to highlight the major trends beyond the plans. At the second level – that of public space – the street is discussed as the city’s lifeblood. By innovating approaches and testing new methods, The West African City offers an unconventional look at Nouakchott, Dakar and Abidjan, the three study sites for this investigation. The city of today, in Africa or elsewhere, must re-examine its many social, economic, cultural, political, and spatial dimensions; for this, urban research has begun challenging its own methods. This book is also the companion of Chenal's MOOC African cities.

Book The Governance of Daily Life in Africa

Download or read book The Governance of Daily Life in Africa written by Giorgio Blundo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anchored in an empirically-grounded anthropology, this book explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. It describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision of public and collective goods or services. The book draws on case studies from Anglophone and Francophone Africa, crossing anthropological traditions that have too often evolved in parallel directions and dealing with a range of topics such as health, water supply, sanitation and waste management, security, humanitarian aid, land issues and decentralisation. Beyond African boundaries, it contributes to current debates about governmentality, public policy, subject making, public/private boundaries, and the role of the state.

Book Research Tracks in Urbanism  Dynamics  Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories

Download or read book Research Tracks in Urbanism Dynamics Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories written by Alessia Allegri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.

Book Aparition D une Identit   Urbaine Dans L Europe Du Bas Moyen   ge

Download or read book Aparition D une Identit Urbaine Dans L Europe Du Bas Moyen ge written by Marc Boone and published by Garant. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Schutzian Social Science

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lester Embree
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-09
  • ISBN : 9401729441
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Schutzian Social Science written by Lester Embree and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timed for the centennial of Alfred Schutz (1899-1999), this set of original essays documents the continuing relevance of his thought in economics, geography, sociology, philosophy, and political science, and indicates the continuing interest in his thought in East Asia, Western Europe, and North America. The authors of these essays are leading authorities in their countries and disciplines. Schutz is the pre-eminent phenomenological philosopher of the social sciences. New materials from his Nachlaß concerning barriers to equality of opportunity, including a report co-authored with the political scientist Harold Lasswell are also included.

Book Universal Singular

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  • Author : Sonia Curnier
  • Publisher : Birkhäuser
  • Release : 2022-11-21
  • ISBN : 3035621004
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Universal Singular written by Sonia Curnier and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical introduction to the design of public spaces The way public spaces are designed reflects the period in which they were created. However, in our globalized world of experience and images the desire for uniqueness tends to achieve the opposite: increasingly, designers of open spaces resort to the same devices and thereby distance themselves from the urban context. The author analyzes ten outstanding contemporary designs of public spaces in Europe in terms of their function in the urban context and what materials are used for their implementation. In interviews with the designers she retraces the changes of the concepts during the design stage of the projects, underpinning her findings with numerous sketches. In addition, her research focuses on how the projects were received in the community. Learning from designers of outstanding public spaces in Europe Numerous unpublished design sketches A clear guide to urban design Also available in a French edition

Book European Yearbook   Annuaire Europeen  1979

Download or read book European Yearbook Annuaire Europeen 1979 written by Council of Europe/Conseil de L'Europe and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France

Download or read book Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France written by Philip Booth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France, this book draws on the outcomes of the Franco-British Planning Study Group. It features detailed analysis and case studies.