Paradigm City

Paradigm City
Author: Janet Ng
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791476669

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city.” Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic “global city,” epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997—the year of Hong Kong’s return to China—to focus on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the city’s space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kong’s population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ng’s insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music and other media and the actual spaces of the city—such as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spaces—provide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today. “ Paradigm City is pleasant reading and conveys quite comprehensively the complex socio-political dynamics of a city that has yet to find a clear identity in the midst of a seemingly never-ending transition.” — China Journal “ covers much in a quite interesting way.” — CHOICE

The Millennial City

The Millennial City
Author: Myron Magnet
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

A penetrating collection of articles drawn from the pages of City Journal, the quarterly magazine that has established a reputation for groundbreaking analytical reports on the urban scene.

The Fluid City Paradigm

The Fluid City Paradigm
Author: Maurizio Carta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 331928004X

This book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action with respect to urban waterfronts and the “fluid city paradigm,” explaining its methodological framework and describing an integrated and creative planning approach in which waterfront regeneration is pursued as a key urban-renewal strategy. It focuses especially on the WATERFRONT project (“Water And Territorial policiEs for integRation oF multisectoRial develOpmeNT”), which was funded jointly by Italy and Malta with the goal of developing common guidelines, strategies, and operational tools for the planning of coastal areas, based on cross-border exchange of experiences. In the described approach, the waterfront is recognized as having a broad identity, acknowledging the complexity of the relationship between seaport and town and taking into account the physical and environmental components of human settlement, infrastructure, and productive and recreational activities. It highlights details of the process of renewal in the port city of Trapani, with discussion of the implemented actions, plans, and programs. The book also examines the practices adopted to transform city–port relationships across Europe in pursuit of innovative and sustainable development.

Architectural, Construction, Environmental and Digital Technologies for Future Cities

Architectural, Construction, Environmental and Digital Technologies for Future Cities
Author: Natalia Potienko
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2022-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 303094770X

This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation. The concept of future cities is associated with several important trends. The first trend is the sustainable development of the urban environment and the implementation of eco-friendly technologies and materials in civil construction, industrial and power plants. The harmonious coexistence of the citizens with all forms of nature in the urban habitat becomes a great value. The second trend is the individualization of the aesthetical and architectural image of the future cities. The city's unique flavor based on the blending of the historical legacy and architectural traditions is now as important as the utility of the environment. The third trend is the digitalization of the urban environment with the use of state-of-the-art sensors, information and communication technologies, and data science. The efficiency of operations and services achieved by the extensive use of complex IoT networks becomes a value as well. The last trend is the adaptation of the urban and social environment for individual demands of a community and a person. Individual comfort and safety are now more important than ever before. By addressing these trends, the volume discusses local and international plans, practices, and technologies aimed at the development and implementation of future cities.

Survival Governance

Survival Governance
Author: Peter Drahos
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0197534759

Preface -- The argument in summary -- Choosing among implausible leaders -- Technology choices -- The geo-energy trilemma and its mis-management -- 'Winners' and 'losers' in hotter worlds -- China's limits to growth -- Backing the bio-digital energy paradigm? -- City pathways to the bio-digital energy paradigm -- India, the Janus energy sovereign -- Survival Governance.

Developing Living Cities

Developing Living Cities
Author:
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9814313300

"This is an important and timely book. With half of humanity living in cities, our future will depend on how well we manage our cities. This book poses six inter-generational challenges to cities. If a city deals successfully with them, it will become a living, thriving, prosperous and delightful place to live, work and visit." Prof Tommy Koh Chairman, Governing Council, Asia Pacific Water Forum --

Think global certify local

Think global certify local
Author: Anke Jurleit
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3734773962

global comparability and regional adaptation for community certification systems ----- exemplified by the water infrastructural components in the community

Mass-Customised Cities

Mass-Customised Cities
Author: Tom Verebes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2015-12-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1118915690

What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke and custom-designed systems? The introduction of standardisation and mass production processes in the 20th century saw the industrial city take on a repetitious and homogeneous quality through the duplication of component parts. Today non-standard, bespoke systems hold out the promise of realising a distinctive urbanism; characterized by the differentiation of serial production and the variation of simple parts that should lead to a more complex and compelling whole. Given the current pace and rate of urbanisation in Asia, the mass customization of the city is set to have imminent and far-reaching practical consequences for the rest of the developing and developed world.

Paradigm Islands

Paradigm Islands
Author: Teresa Stoppani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 041556185X

A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing the dynamic redefinition and making of space today. The book concerns architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, but, importantly, considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product.

Leadership and Politics

Leadership and Politics
Author: Bryan D. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1989
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In twelve essays, influential scholars in political science explore the meaning of political leadership from the kaleidoscopic perspectives of the leaders, institutions, goals, procedures, problems, and traditions involved. The approaches, as varied as the subject itself, coalesce around the central question of how leaders interact with, transform, or are controlled by the organizations they lead.