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Visible Cities
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Author : Leonard Blussé
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-31
Visible Cities written by Leonard Blussé and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-31 with History categories.
"On the near horizon was a new kind of multicultural port city, more attuned to the shifting global trading network. With the establishment of the free port of Singapore and the rise of the treaty ports - Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama - the nature of the China seas trade changed forever."--BOOK JACKET.
In The Nature Of Cities
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Author : Nik Heynen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-03-23
In The Nature Of Cities written by Nik Heynen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-23 with Science categories.
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social, political, and economic processes, or from the cultural construction of what constitutes the ‘urban’ or the ‘natural’. Through both theoretical and empirical analysis, this groundbreaking collection offers an integrated and relational approach to untangling the interconnected processes involved in forming urban landscapes. The essays in this book attest that the re-entry of the ecological agenda into urban theory is vital both in terms of understanding contemporary urbanization processes, and of engaging in a meaningful environmental politics. They debate the central themes of whose nature is, or becomes, urbanized, and the uneven power relations through which this socio-metabolic transformation takes place. Including urban case studies, international research and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this volume will enable students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies to better understand how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments.
Visibilities And Invisibilities In Smart Cities Emerging Research And Opportunities
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Author : McKenna, H. Patricia
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2021-06-11
Visibilities And Invisibilities In Smart Cities Emerging Research And Opportunities written by McKenna, H. Patricia and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-11 with Political Science categories.
Throughout history, humanity has sought the betterment of its communities. In the 21st century, humanity has technology on its side in the process of improving its cities. Smart cities make their improvements by gathering real-world data in real time. Still, there are many complexities that many do not catch—they are invisible. It is important to understand how people make sense at the urban level and in extra-urban spaces of the combined complexities of invisibilities and visibilities in their environments, interactions, and infrastructures enabled through their own enhanced awareness together with aware technologies that are often embedded, pervasive, and ambient. This book probes the visible and invisible dimensions of emerging understandings of smart cities and regions in the context of more aware people interacting with each other and through more aware and pervasive technologies. Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities: Emerging Research and Opportunities contributes to the research literature for urban theoretical spaces, methodologies, and applications for smart and responsive cities; the evolving of urban theory and methods for 21st century cities and urbanities; and the formulation of a conceptual framework for associated methodologies and theoretical spaces. This work explores the relationships between variables using a case study approach combined with an explanatory correlational design. It is based on an urban research study conducted from mid-2015 to mid-2020 that spanned multiple countries across three continents. The book is split into four sections: introduction to the concepts of visible and invisible, frameworks for understanding the interplay of the two concepts, associated and evolving theory and methods, and extending current research as opportunities in smart city environments and regions. Covering topics including human geography, smart cities, and urban planning, this book is essential for urban planners, designers, city officials, community agencies, business managers and owners, academicians, researchers, and students, including those who work across multiple domains such as architecture, environmental design, human-computer interaction, human geography, information technology, sociology, and affective computing.
Mapping Modern Beijing
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Author : Weijie Song
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Mapping Modern Beijing written by Weijie Song and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Mapping Modern Beijing investigates the five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultural perspective, and a displaced city on the Sinophone and diasporic postmemory-by authors travelling across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Sinophone and non-Chinese communities. The metamorphosis of Beijing's everyday spaces and the structural transformation of private and public emotions unfold Manchu writer Lao She's Beijing complex about a warped native city. Zhang Henshui's popular snapshots of fleeting shocks and everlasting sorrows illustrate his affective mapping of urban transition and human manners in Republican Beijing. Female poet and architect Lin Huiyin captures an aesthetic and picturesque city vis- -vis the political and ideological urban planning. The imagined imperial capital constructed in bilingual, transcultural, and comparative works by Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, and Victor Segalen highlights the pleasures and pitfalls of collecting local knowledge and presenting Orientalist and Cosmopolitan visions. In the shadow of World Wars and Cold War, a multilayered displaced Beijing appears in the Sinophone postmemory by diasporic Beijing native Liang Shiqiu, Taiwan sojourners Zhong Lihe and Lin Haiyin, and migr martial arts novelist Jin Yong in Hong Kong. Weijie Song situates Beijing in a larger context of modern Chinese-language urban imaginations, and charts the emotional topography of the city against the backdrop of the downfall of the Manchu Empire, the rise of modern nation-state, the 1949 great divide, and the formation of Cold War and globalizing world. Drawing from literary canons to exotic narratives, from modernist poetry to chivalric fantasy, from popular culture to urban planning, Song explores the complex nexus of urban spaces, archives of emotions, and literary topography of Beijing in its long journey from imperial capital to Republican city and to socialist metropolis.
Augustine S City Of God
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Author : James Wetzel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-04
Augustine S City Of God written by James Wetzel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Philosophy categories.
Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising attention to female bodies, his moral psychology, his valorisation of love, his critique of empire and his conception of a Christian philosophy. Together the essays advance our understanding of Augustine's most influential work and provide a rich overview of Augustinian political theology and its philosophical implications.
Visible Cities Global Comics
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Author : Benjamin Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2019-09-25
Visible Cities Global Comics written by Benjamin Fraser and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 More and more people are noticing links between urban geography and the spaces within the layout of panels on the comics page. Benjamin Fraser explores the representation of the city in a range of comics from across the globe. Comics address the city as an idea, a historical fact, a social construction, a material-built environment, a shared space forged from the collective imagination, or as a social arena navigated according to personal desire. Accordingly, Fraser brings insights from urban theory to bear on specific comics. The works selected comprise a variety of international, alternative, and independent small-press comics artists, from engravings and early comics to single-panel work, graphic novels, manga, and trading cards, by artists such as Will Eisner, Tsutomu Nihei, Hariton Pushwagner, Julie Doucet, Frans Masereel, and Chris Ware. In the first monograph on this subject, Fraser touches on many themes of modern urban life: activism, alienation, consumerism, flânerie, gentrification, the mystery story, science fiction, sexual orientation, and working-class labor. He leads readers to images of such cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, London, Lyon, Madrid, Montevideo, Montreal, New York, Oslo, Paris, São Paolo, and Tokyo. Through close readings, each chapter introduces readers to specific comics artists and works and investigates a range of topics related to the medium’s spatial form, stylistic variation, and cultural prominence. Mainly, Fraser mixes interest in urbanism and architecture with the creative strategies that comics artists employ to bring their urban images to life.
In Visible Cities
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Author : Diana Artus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
In Visible Cities written by Diana Artus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Cities and towns categories.
"Paying a tribute to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, photographer Diana Artus takes us on a journey into today's 'Visible cities'. Keeping the original text very dimmed in the background and the title plain and clear on each page, Artus superimposes a photograph she took in a city somewhere around the globe-- from Mexico City, to NY, Toronto, London, or Istanbul, to name a few-- creating a contemporary visual journey through urbanity." --Publisher description.
Visible Cities
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Author : Kathleen Wall
language : en
Publisher: Brave & Brilliant
Release Date : 2018
Visible Cities written by Kathleen Wall and has been published by Brave & Brilliant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Poetry categories.
Brave & Brilliant Series: No.1 The Book of Sensations / Sheri-D WIlson; No.2 Throwing the Diamond Hitch / Emily Ursuliak; No.3 Fail Safe / Nikki Sheppy; No.4 Quarry / Tanis Franco; No.5 Visible Cities / Kathleen Wall & Veronica Geminder.
Satan S Invisible World Displayed
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Author : William Thomas Stead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Satan S Invisible World Displayed written by William Thomas Stead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Political Science categories.
Nutritional Care Of The Patient With Gastrointestinal Disease
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Author : Alan L Buchman
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2015-08-06
Nutritional Care Of The Patient With Gastrointestinal Disease written by Alan L Buchman and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Medical categories.
This evidence-based book serves as a clinical manual as well as a reference guide for the diagnosis and management of common nutritional issues in relation to gastrointestinal disease. Chapters cover nutrition assessment; macro- and micronutrient absorption; malabsorption; food allergies; prebiotics and dietary fiber; probiotics and intestinal microflora; nutrition and GI cancer; nutritional management of reflux; nutrition in IBS and IBD; nutrition in acute and chronic pancreatitis; enteral nutrition; parenteral nutrition; medical and endoscopic therapy of obesity; surgical therapy of obesity; pharmacologic nutrition, and nutritional counseling.