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Author |
: Peter J.M. Nas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2013-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136221286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113622128X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hyper City by : Peter J.M. Nas
First published in 2006. Cities are sites of multiple meanings and symbols, ranging from statues and street names to festivals and architecture. Some times the symbolic side of urbanism is so strong that it outshines reality - then we speak of hypercity. Urban symbolic ecology and hypercity studies are relatively new fields that deal with the production, distribution and consumption of symbols and meanings in urban space, timely concerns in an era of increasing globalization and competition between mega-urban regions. This volume presents a detailed introduction to the new fields, followed by case studies of the cultural layer of symbolism in Brussels (Belgium), Cape Town (South Africa), Cuenca (Ecuador), Delft (The Netherlands), Kingston (Jamaica), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Paris (France) and cities in Italy and Indonesia. It amply demonstrates that the time has come for urban symbolic ecology and hypercity studies to be included in regular urban studies training in the fields of anthropology, sociology, social geography and architecture.
Author |
: Suhaylā Shahshahānī |
Publisher |
: LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783825816186 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3825816184 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities of Pilgrimage by : Suhaylā Shahshahānī
Pilgrimage places anthropological works on a privileged platform for religious studies. The origin of built environment sets apart a platform for worship. It contains the dichotomy of life and death, striving towards the spirit of a dead that may or may not be religious. It is a soul searching process, a coming to terms with hopes and disillusions. Human situations in the flow of globalised urban areas draw together primal human search and economic considerations. The sacred and the profane, the belief in miracles and the management of both, necessitate fresh search of urban pilgrimage.
Author |
: Benedict Anderson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2020-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000093551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000093557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The City in Transgression by : Benedict Anderson
The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged. The book draws on urban and spatial theory, socio-economic factors, public space, and architecture to offer an intimate look at how urban sites and infrastructure are transformed into spaces for occupation. Anderson proposes that the varied innovations and adaptations of urban spaces enacted by such marginalized figures – for whom there are no other options – herald a radical new spatial programming of cities. The book explores cities and sites such as Mexico City and London, the Mexican/US border, the Calais Jungle, and Palestinian camps in Beirut and utilizes concepts associated with ‘mobility’ – such as anarchy, vagrancy, and transgression – alongside photography, 3D modelling, and 2D imagery. From this constellation of materials and analysis, a radical spatial picture of the city in transgression emerges. By focusing on the ‘underside of urbanism’, The City in Transgression reveals the potential for new spatial networks that can cultivate the potential for self-organization so as to counter the existing dominant urban models of capital and property and to confront some of the major issues facing cities amid an age of global human mobility. This book is valuable reading for those interested in architectural theory, modern history, human geography and mobility, climate change, urban design, and transformation.
Author |
: Nienke Schachtschabel |
Publisher |
: Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9053567895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789053567890 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities & eyes by : Nienke Schachtschabel
This collection of images and essays originated at the acclaimed Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Cities and Eyes Sourcebook presents the diverse work of the Academy’s artists, philosophers, scholars, architects, and photographers as they explore the world’s cities, including Amsterdam, London, New York, Paris, and São Paulo. Presented in both English and Dutch, and accompanied by an index that includes suggestions for further reading, Cities and Eyes Sourcebook will illuminate the world’s greatest cities for a new audience of art lovers and urbanites alike.
Author |
: Helena Esser |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2024-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350433915 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350433918 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Steampunk London by : Helena Esser
Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay between past and present and its anachronistic retro-speculation, Neo-Victorian-infused Steampunk remixes modern collective memory to produce a re-imagined vision of Victorian London. Investigating how Steampunk's re-calibrated Londons both source from and subvert Victorian discourse about the city, Steampunk London offers a deeper understanding of how a popular cultural memory of the Victorian past is shaped and transmitted in light of present-day identity politics. Covering key themes including retrofuturism, gender and sexuality, colonialism and postcolonialism, it considers such ideas as how early Steampunk synthesizes Victorian urban ethnography; how Victorian urban Gothic shapes shared transmedia memory to challenge reactionary, nostalgic meta-narratives; how Steampunk video games mobilize urban space as an immersive storytelling device with cities open to play; and how Steampunk interprets the modern metropolis as an opportunity for feminist and queer agency. Through examination of Victorian-era writers from Charles Dickens to Arthur Conan Doyle, the book digs into works of fiction and media alike, looking at The Difference Engine, Soulless, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, cyberpunk classic Blade Runner, and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and The Order 1886. An important intervention in the study of steampunk, Helena Esser demonstrates how the works explored invite participatory consumption and considers the genre's potential- and failures- to interrogate and challenge our relationship with the Victorian past.
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: S. Chand Publishing |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Author |
: C.B. Gupta |
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: S. Chand Publishing |
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ISBN-10 |
: 9789355013637 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9355013639 |
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: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis S. Chand's ISC Commerce Volume 1 XI by : C.B. Gupta
S Chand's ISC Commerce (Vol. I & II for Classes XI & XII) has become the most popular textbook on the subject. The series has now been thoroughly revised and updated to fully meet the requirement of the new syllabus.
Author |
: Glenn R. Storey |
Publisher |
: Eliot Werner Publications |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2020-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781734281804 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1734281804 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Archaeology of Ancient Cities by : Glenn R. Storey
Cities are the largest "artifacts" investigated by archaeologists--entities that have been under academic scrutiny for a long time. Urban places are both physical and social agglomerations, fostering the most intense interaction of any human settlement. Archaeological evidence illustrates how ancient cities worldwide were similar in origin, development, and maturation, showing considerable isomorphism with modern cities. This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offers a new heuristic typology of cities, and reviews case studies of six ancient cities (Copan, Great Zimbabwe, Gyeongju, Hierakonpolis, Rome, and Teotihuacan) with illustrative exercises at the end of each chapter. Cities have been characterized as "social reactors" working much like a star in creating an explosive increase in human connectivity. Urban planning, both ancient and modern, helps us understand the essence of this--the most exciting and vibrant product of the human tendency to nucleate.
Author |
: Kin Yuen Wong |
Publisher |
: Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2005-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789622097216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9622097219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis World Weavers by : Kin Yuen Wong
World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future. Science fiction has long been both literally and metaphorically linked to the emerging global village. It now takes on the task of exploring how the cybernetic revolution might transform the world and keep it one step ahead of the real world, despite ever-accelerating developments. As residents of a world that is undeniably globalized, science-fictional and virtual, it is incumbent on us to fully understand just how we came to live in such a world, and to envisage where this world may be heading next. World Weavers represents one small but significant step toward achieving such knowledge.
Author |
: T. M. Vinod Kumar |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2021-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811620195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9811620199 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Smart Global Megacities by : T. M. Vinod Kumar
This book, the first volume, highlights 8 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants. The cities/chapters presented in this book are based on recent advance such as the wide use of ICT, IOT, e-Governance, e-Democracy, smart economy and flattening and acceleration of the world that is taking place in recent times as reported by 3 times Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Friedman. It therefor departs from other ideologies where only a certain megacity qualifies for the title of smart global megacities while in reality every megacity can, and presents how smart global megacities can be created.