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New Slow City
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Author : William Powers
language : en
Publisher: New World Library
Release Date : 2014-10-27
New Slow City written by William Powers and has been published by New World Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot “micro-apartment” in Greenwich Village. Downshifting to a two-day workweek, Powers explores the viability of Slow Food and Slow Money, technology fasts and urban sanctuaries. Discovering a colorful cast of New Yorkers attempting to resist the culture of Total Work, Powers offers an inspiring exploration for anyone trying to make urban life more people- and planet-friendly.
Slow Cities
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Author : Nora Franklin
language : en
Publisher: Publifye AS
Release Date : 2025-01-05
Slow Cities written by Nora Franklin and has been published by Publifye AS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-05 with Social Science categories.
""Slow Cities"" explores a revolutionary approach to urban development through the lens of the Cittaslow movement, which champions quality of life over rapid growth in smaller cities worldwide. This thoughtful examination reveals how communities with populations under 50,000 are successfully implementing principles of deliberate deceleration and sustainable living, creating more livable environments while preserving local culture and identity. The movement, born from Italy's Slow Food initiative in 1999, has spread globally, offering a compelling alternative to conventional urban development patterns. The book masterfully weaves together theoretical frameworks and practical applications, presenting case studies from certified Cittaslow communities across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Through extensive research combining demographic data, quality-of-life metrics, and economic indicators, it demonstrates how slower, more mindful urban development strengthens community bonds and enhances environmental sustainability. Readers gain insights into specific criteria these cities must meet, including environmental conservation policies, infrastructure requirements, and cultural preservation strategies. Structured in three comprehensive sections, the work progresses from fundamental principles to real-world implementation and broader implications for urban planning. It provides concrete guidelines for communities interested in joining the movement while honestly addressing challenges such as economic pressures and stakeholder resistance. This balanced approach, supported by detailed maps and diagrams, makes the book an invaluable resource for urban planners, community leaders, and anyone interested in creating more sustainable, culturally rich urban environments.
Slow Cities
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Author : Paul Tranter
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2020-06-18
Slow Cities written by Paul Tranter and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-18 with Law categories.
Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy environments. This book examines the ways individuals and societies became dependent on transport modes that required investment in speed. Using research from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the book demonstrates ways in which human, economic and environmental health are improved with a slowing of city transport. It identifies effective methods, strategies and policies for decreasing the speed of motorised traffic and encouraging a modal shift to walking, cycling and public transport. This book also offers a holistic assessment of the impact of speed on daily behaviours and life choices, and shows how a move to slow down will - perhaps surprisingly - increase accessibility to the city services and activities that support healthy, sustainable lives and cities. - Includes cases from cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia - Uses evidence-based research to support arguments about the benefits of slowing city transport - Adopts a broad view of health, including the health of individuals, neighbourhoods and communities as well as economic health and environmental health - Includes text boxes, diagrams and photos illustrating the slowing of transport in cities throughout the world, and a list of references including both academic sources and valuable websites
Slow Burn City
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Author : Rowan Moore
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Slow Burn City written by Rowan Moore and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Architecture categories.
With a new introduction for the paperback. London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril. London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can build a city, a fantastical wealth machine that denies too many of its citizens a decent home or living. In this thought-provoking, fearless, funny and subversive book, Rowan Moore shows how London’s strength depends on the creative and mutual interplay of three forces: people, business and state. To find responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century, London must rediscover its genius for popular action and bold public intervention. The global city above all others, London is the best place to understand the way the world’s cities are changing. It could also be, in the shape of a living, churning city of more than eight million people, the most powerful counter-argument to the extremist politics of the present.
Twelve By Twelve
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Author : Bill Powers
language : en
Publisher: New World Library
Release Date : 2010
Twelve By Twelve written by Bill Powers and has been published by New World Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with House & Home categories.
Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Benton’s permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees’ wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers, just back from a decade of international aid work, then accepted Benton’s offer to stay at the cabin for a season while she traveled. There, he befriended her eclectic neighbors — organic farmers, biofuel brewers, eco-developers — and discovered a sustainable but imperiled way of life. In these pages, Powers not only explores this small patch of community but draws on his international experiences with other pockets of resistance. This engrossing tale of Powers’s struggle for a meaningful life with a smaller footprint proposes a paradigm shift to an elusive “Soft World” with clues to personal happiness and global healing.
Old Slow Town
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Author : Paul Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Old Slow Town written by Paul Taylor and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
Readers interested in American history, Civil War history, or the ethnic history of Detroit will appreciate the full picture of the time period Taylor presents in "Old Slow Town."
Love In A Fallen City
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Author : Eileen Chang
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-12-06
Love In A Fallen City written by Eileen Chang and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-06 with Fiction categories.
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. Love in a Fallen City, the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.
In Praise Of Slow
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Author : Carl Honore
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-11-25
In Praise Of Slow written by Carl Honore and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-25 with Self-Help categories.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 1/2 MILLION COPIES SOLD, NOW WITH NEW PREFACE Across the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better: better work, better productivity, better exercise, better sex, better food. DON'T HURRY, BE HAPPY. Almost everyone complains about the hectic pace of their lives. These days, our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the race to keep up, everything suffers - our work, diet and health, our relationships and sex lives. International bestselling author Carl Honoré uncovers a movement that challenges the cult of speed. In this entertaining and hands-on investigation, he takes us on a tour of the emerging Slow movement: from a Tantric sex workshop in London to a meditation room for Tokyo executives, from a SuperSlow exercise studio in New York, to Italy, the home of the Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements. There has never been a better time to embrace the healing power of living slow.
Slow Tourism Food And Cities
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Author : Michael Clancy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-23
Slow Tourism Food And Cities written by Michael Clancy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Slow Food began in the late 1980s as a response to the spread of fast food establishments and as a larger statement against globalization and the perceived deterioration of modern life. Since then, slow practices have permeated into other areas, including cities and territories and travel and tourism. This book provides an in-depth examination of slow food, tourism and cities, demonstrating how these elements are intertwined with one other as part of the modern search for "the good life." Part 1 locates the slow concept within the larger social setting of modernity and investigates claims made by the slow movement, examining aesthetic and instrumental values inherent to it. Part 2 explores the practices and places of slow, containing both conceptual and empirical chapters in Italy, the birthplace of the movement. Part 3 provides a comparative perspective by examining the practices in Spain, the UK, Germany and Canada. Slow Tourism, Food and Cities offers key theoretical insights and alternative perspectives on the varying practices and meanings of slow from a cultural, sociological and ethical perspective. It is a valuable text for students and scholars of sociology, geography, urban studies, social movements, travel and tourism, and food studies.
Small Town Tourism In South Africa
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Author : Ronnie Donaldson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-14
Small Town Tourism In South Africa written by Ronnie Donaldson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-14 with Science categories.
This book investigates small town tourism development in South Africa taking into account the most common strategies: branding, promotion, festivals and theming. The contents of the book resonate with the intersection of the power elite and their impacts on small town tourism. Because the book focuses on small town geographies in South Africa, the literature on small town tourism in the country is reviewed in Chapter 2 to provide a contextual background. Each subsequent chapter begins with an overview of international literature to give the conceptual context of the case studies each chapter explores. In Chapter 3 the concept of small town tourism branding is illustrated by an exploration of the Richmond book town. In Chapter 4 the branding theme is probed further in an investigation of two winners of the Kwêla Town of the Year competition namely Fouriesburg and De Rust. Chapter 5 documents the branding of Sedgefield through its proclamation as Africa’s first Cittaslow (slow town), a process driven by the local power elite to the exclusion of town’s poor who have no understanding of the intentions of the Cittaslow movement and its potential benefits for the town. Chapter 6 is a case study of Greyton’s tourism-led rural gentrification by which a small town has transformed in three decades to become a sought after place of residence for elite inmigrants so making the town a jewel tourism destination while reinforcing racial segregation. Because festivals and events - creations of the wealthy - have made significant financial contributions to small towns, Chapter 7 considers festivals and events as strategies to market and brand small towns in a particular way. Case studies of the economic impacts of festivals on small towns are assessed and the assessment methodologies used are critiqued. Chapter 8 provides a synthesis by drawing on the thesis of the urban growth machine by power elites.