Writing the Global City, King, Anthony

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.

Автор: Preston, Peter
Название: Writing the City
ISBN: 0415106672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415106672
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Автор: Edwards, Sarah
Название: Writing the Modern City
ISBN: 0415591503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415591508
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Автор: Edwards, Sarah
Название: Writing the Modern City
ISBN: 0415591511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415591515
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Автор: Carol Bailey
Название: Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization
ISBN: 1978829671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978829671
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.

Автор: Zerlang, Martin
Название: Writing the City Square
ISBN: 1032372001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032372006
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Автор: Preston, Peter
Название: Writing the City
ISBN: 0415756375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415756372
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Murail Estelle, Thornton Sara
Название: Dickens and the Virtual City: Urban Perception and the Production of Social Space
ISBN: 3319817205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319817200
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities.

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
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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.