Writing the Global City, King, Anthony

Автор: Jessica Williams
Название: Acad Encounters 2Ed: American Studies SB Read & Writing
ISBN: 1107647916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107647916
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
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Описание: Academic Encounters Level 2 Class Audio CDs (3) Listening and Speaking: American Studies contains the listening materials for Academic Encounters Level 2 Student`s Book Listening and Speaking: American Studies. The materials include warm-up listening activities, informal interviews, and formal academic lectures. Videos of the lectures are also available on DVD, which comes with the Student`s Book.

Автор: Hamilton Grant
Название: The London Object: Writing London at the End of Capitalism
ISBN: 036771468X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367714680
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book argues that certain works by Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G. Ballard constitute the coordinates of an altermodernity that might bring to an end the most deleterious effects and affects of today`s hyper-aggressive strain of capitalism.

Автор: Krier, Lion
Название: Drawing for architecture
ISBN: 0262512939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262512930
Издательство: MIT Press
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Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.

Architect Leon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. Thus he shows us a building bearing a suspicious resemblance to Norman Foster's famous London "gherkin" as an example of "priapus hubris" (threatened by detumescence and "priapus nemesis"); he charts "Random Uniformity" ("fake simplicity") and "Uniform Randomness" ("fake complexity"); he draws bloated "bulimic" and disproportionately scrawny "anorexic" columns flanking a graceful "classical" one; and he compares "private virtue" (modernist architects' homes and offices) to "public vice" (modernist architects' "creations"). Krier wants these witty images to be tools for re-founding traditional urbanism and architecture. He argues for mixed-use cities, of "architectural speech" rather than "architectural stutter," and pointedly plots the man-vehicle-landneed ratio of "sub-urban man" versus that of a city dweller. In an age of energy crisis, he writes (and his drawings show), we "build in the wrong places, in the wrong patterns, materials, densities, and heights, and for the wrong number of dwellers"; a return to traditional architectures and building and settlement techniques can be the means of ecological reconstruction. Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.

Автор: Singh, Jaspal K. Chetty, Rajendra
Название: Narrating the new nation
ISBN: 1433130122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433130120
Издательство: Peter Lang
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The purpose of Narrating the New Nation is to engage with South African Indian writings through a critical examination of the oeuvre of key writers within a postcolonial theoretical framework. With the advent of democracy, South Africa has witnessed new writings which either reflected on apartheid with elements of restoration for past atrocities and centered around reflective nostalgia, or looked ahead with optimism and foregrounded new beginnings. The end of the interregnum in 1994 drove people to narrate the relationship between past, present and future, which revealed an exciting diversity and rituals of bourgeois lives or reflected upon disadvantaged and marginalized homes in townships, casbahs and ghettos. These innovative narratives attempt to conquer and spatialize different histories, while at the same time finding creative ways to assemble shattered fragments of memory. A critical question this study asks is whether South African literature continues to address themes of journey, exile, migration and identity within the major concern of place and displacement in apartheid and post-apartheid South African Indian writing, or whether the new writings foreground critical self-awareness as citizens of a democratic and neo-colonial nation-state. What analytical questions and concerns do new writings from the Global South address? This book of critical essays hopes to endorse social and cultural—race, class, gender, sexuality—analysis, problematize them, expand them, and in the end enrich South African literature. In so doing, the authors attempt to encourage a critical, creative and empowering space for a plurality of voices, minds and stories and hope to reveal how literature involves itself in the unfinished business of the collective in South African history and literature.

Автор: Cresswell Tim
Название: Maxwell Street
ISBN: 022660411X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226604114
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place, approaching the study of place as an "assemblage" of things, meanings, and practices.

Автор: Grosz, Elizabeth
Название: Archit From Outside
ISBN: 0262571498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262571494
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: Essays at the intersection of philosophy and architecture explore how we understand and inhabit space.

Автор: Cache, Bernard
Название: Earth Moves
ISBN: 0262531305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262531306
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: Earth Moves, Bernard Cache`s first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments.

Автор: Mazany
Название: Here for Good: Community Foundations and the Challenges of the 21st Century
ISBN: 0765642557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765642554
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Community foundations bring together the resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support effective nonprofits in their communities.

Автор: L. Michelle Baker
Название: Writing in the Environmental Sciences: A Seven-Step Guide
ISBN: 1107193141 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107193147
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Some of the most prominent figures in the Beat Movement were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would be racially equal, sexually free, and politically enfranchised. Todd Tietchen clearly documents the multiple ways in which the Beats engaged with the scene in Havana. He also demonstrates that even in these early years the Beat movement expounded a diverse but identifiable politics.

Автор: Ricchi, Daria
Название: Writing Architecture in Modern Italy
ISBN: 0367559978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367559977
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Macris, Natalie
Название: Planning in Plain English
ISBN: 0367092700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367092702
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable planning documents.

Автор: Bailey, Carol
Название: Writing the black diasporic city in the age of globalization
ISBN: 1978829663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978829664
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos-that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.