Pseudo City
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Pseudo City
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Author : D. Harlan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press
Release Date : 2005
Pseudo City written by D. Harlan Wilson and has been published by Raw Dog Screaming Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
In Pseudofoliculitis City nothing is as it seems and everything is as it should be. Today's forecast calls for extreme confrontation, with sandwich flurries and the threat of handlebar mustaches to the west. By turns absurd and surreal, dark and challenging, Pseudo-City exposes what waits in the bathroom stall, under the manhole cover and in the corporate boardroom, all in a way that can only be described as mind-bogglingly irreal.
Cities In The Urban Age
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Author : Robert A. Beauregard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Cities In The Urban Age written by Robert A. Beauregard and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Social Science categories.
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic—it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn’t necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
Morality Politics In American Cities
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Author : Elaine B. Sharp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Morality Politics In American Cities written by Elaine B. Sharp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
Topless bars, casino gambling, needle exchange programs for drug addicts—there's no question, morality issues remain front and center in urban politics. Presenting a systematic analysis of culture-war issues at the local level, Elaine Sharp shows how American cities deal with these ongoing concerns. Drawing on a sample of ten strategically chosen cities, she explains differences in how municipalities respond to controversies surrounding sex business, abortion clinics, legalized gambling, gay rights, and drug use. By analyzing the relative importance of subculture, economics, and institutional arrangements in the disputes, she points the way toward richer and more complete understanding of how different cities respond differently to these hot-button issues. Far more than a statistical study, Morality Politics in American Cities is a collection of fascinating stories of real people grappling with down-to-earth issues and real-life drama—richly informative case studies that will captivate students and interested citizens alike. Mayors, public health directors, activists, and others speak their minds about the pros and cons of these controversies. Here are officials in one city confronting the Vatican over funding for abortion services, those in another battling a local university over its refusal to provide health benefits to gay partners of faculty members, and still others mounting a massive, community-sponsored attack on topless clubs. These stories provide detailed evidence to support classifications needed for comparing cities' experience with each of the five morality issues. They also corroborate inferences drawn from the comparisons by showing what considerations were in play as local officials grappled with these issues. Overall, the study shows that cultural factors usually dominate policymaking in local politics—except when specific economic interests are at stake—and also observes that county-level governments are more important than previously thought in terms of morality-issue decisions. As provocative as it is informative, Morality Politics in American Cities demonstrates that such issues—same-sex marriage, for example—are multidimensional and often difficult to resolve. Its conclusions, however contingent, mark an important step in the ongoing process of understanding important differences in approaches to these issues and clearly show how moral conflicts continue to define American politics.
The Death And Life Of Great American Cities
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Author : Jane Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-11-17
The Death And Life Of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-17 with History categories.
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid 'scientific' plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. 'Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning... Jacobs has a powerful sense of narrative, a lively wit, a talent for surprise and the ability to touch the emotions as well as the mind' New York Times Book Review
The Barcelona Reader
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Author : Enric Bou
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-24
The Barcelona Reader written by Enric Bou and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first comprehensive Reader to accompany the remarkable city of Barcelona
Pseudo Public Spaces In Chinese Shopping Malls
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Author : Yiming Wang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-07
Pseudo Public Spaces In Chinese Shopping Malls written by Yiming Wang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Architecture categories.
Shopping malls in China create a new pseudo-public urban space which is under the control of private or quasi-public power structure. As they are open for public use, mediated by the co-mingling of private property rights and public meanings of urban space, the rise, publicness and consequences of the boom in the construction of shopping malls raises major questions in spatial political economy and magnifies existing theoretical debates between the natural and conventional schools of property rights. In examining these issues this book develops a theoretical framework starting with a critique of the socio-spatial debate between two influential bodies of work represented by the work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. Drawing on the framework, the book examines why pseudo-public spaces have been growing so rapidly in China since the 1980s; assesses to what degree pseudo-public spaces are public, and how they affect the publicness of Chinese cities; and explores the consequences of their rise. Findings of this book provide insights that can help to better understand Chinese urbanism and also have the potential to inform urban policy in China. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers in both Chinese studies and urban studies.
Information Technology For Travel And Tourism
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Author : Gary Inkpen
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1998
Information Technology For Travel And Tourism written by Gary Inkpen and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
This text provides an analysis of how technology is being applied within the travel and tourism industry. It covers systems used in Europe, the Far East and other English-speaking countries (except the US) and discusses the impact of the Internet and TV broadcast networks.
Over The Hill Without A Paddle
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Author : Richard Cutler
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-08
Over The Hill Without A Paddle written by Richard Cutler and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with Fiction categories.
In this wonderful collection of short, funny pieces, Richard Cutler covers the gamut from nostalgia to conjecture on such topics as clowns, cholesterol and calling in sick to the supervisory voice mail. Along the way he sharpens his wit on exercise, politicians, road rage, souvenir shopping while traveling light and women's attraction to hand-held power tools. He reports on place and people names, profanity-free TV, holiday traditions, guy things and old fashioned etiquette. And he offers his experiences with gene pool backup, old wives' tales, women's fashions (and the storage thereof), following RV's and flying steerage class. The careful reader will discover such incidental insights as his theory of why Eskimos gave up kissing for rubbing noses and what the young Marquis de Sade's nanny said that may have suggested all those weird ideas. But the casual reader will learn something too. And not just that the author has entirely too much time on his hands. Interspersed among these views of the passing scene are subtle indications that--paddles or not--we may all of us be headed up the creek. So to speak.
The Atlantic Monthly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
The Atlantic Monthly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with American literature categories.
The Outlook
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Outlook written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with United States categories.