21st Century Geography

21st Century Geography
Author: Joseph P. Stoltman
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 911
Release: 2012
Genre: Science
ISBN: 141297464X

This is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Designing for the 21st Century

Designing for the 21st Century
Author: Tom Inns
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780566087370

An exploration of emergent roles for design and the 21st century designer explored through the work of 21 research teams. Over a twelve-month period each of these groups held a series of workshops and events to examine different facets of future design activity. Each of the contributions describes the context of enquiry, the journey taken by the research team and key insights generated through discourse. Editor and Initiative Director, Tom Inns, provides an introductory chapter that suggests ways that the reader might navigate these different viewpoints.

Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities

Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities
Author: Kris Bezdecny
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784712280

The majority of the world's population now live in cities, nearly a quarter of which boast populations of one million or more. The rise of globalisation has granted cities unprecedented significance, both politically and economically, leading to benefits and problems at national and international levels. The Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities explores the changes that are occurring in cities, and the impacts that they are having, at the local, national and global scale.

The 21st Century Office

The 21st Century Office
Author: Jeremy Myerson
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture, Modern
ISBN: 9781856693943

This first comprehensive survey of workplace design for the new century, this book captures emerging themes and ideas in office architecture and interiors around the world. Written and researched by the authors of The Creative Office, it advances the concept of increasing creativity in planning and design by exploring the new workplace models that are developing in response to rapid organisational, social and technological change. In the introduction the authors discuss how the new workplace of the 21st century is already exhibiting different spatial, organizational and material characteristics from the scientifically managed, process-driven, mechanistic model of the 20th century modern office. This is followed by four thematic chapters that illustrate the key new trends through 45 international case studies.

Business School Libraries in the 21st Century

Business School Libraries in the 21st Century
Author: Tim Wales
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317170504

In a period of change, consolidation and cut-backs as well as rapid technological developments, the business school library is often at the forefront of new initiatives and innovative approaches to delivering and managing information in the most responsive yet cost-effective manner possible. In this unique book a respected group of business library directors from prestigious institutions around the world come together to reflect on the key challenges facing their libraries today, from change management to technology and communications to space. They document the state of the sector during a time of fundamental change, draw on their own local contexts to explore topics and concepts and share their insights into what the future might bring. This book will be essential reading not only for librarians working in business, management or social sciences disciplines but for all professionals managing library and information services.

Keys to the 21st Century

Keys to the 21st Century
Author: Jérôme Bindé
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789231036460

As we enter the 21st century, the third industrial revolution and the new forms of globalisation that accompany it are radically reshaping our societies, and posing many new challenges. The world appears richer, more complex and interdependent, but also more uncertain than ever. This volume presents a compilation of the contributions made to an international conference organised by UNESCO in 1998 to discuss the issues which are likely to pose the greatest challenges in the new millennium.

Architecture of Threshold Spaces

Architecture of Threshold Spaces
Author: Laurence Kimmel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000515486

This book explores the relationship between architecture and philosophy through a discussion on threshold spaces linking public space with publicly accessible buildings. It explores the connection between exterior and interior and how this creates and affects interactions between people and the social dynamics of the city. Building on an existing body of literature, the book engages with critical philosophy and discusses how it can be applied to architecture. In a similar vein to Walter Benjamin’s descriptions of the Parisian Arcades in the nineteenth century, the book identifies the conditions under which thresholds reveal and impact social life. It utilises a wide range of illustrated international case studies from architects in Japan, Norway, Finland, France, Portugal, Italy, the USA, Australia, Mexico, and Brazil. Within the examples, thresholds become enhancers of social interactions and highlight broader socio-political contexts in public and private space. Architecture of Threshold Spaces is an enlightening contribution to knowledge on contemporary architecture, politics and philosophy for students, academics, and architects.

Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century

Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century
Author: Ram A. Cnaan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319774166

This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities. It explores the history and conceptualizations of community, theoretical concepts in community organizations, social movements ranging from health to crime, and community practice methods. Further it provides authoritative statements of major theory areas, gives examples of different sub areas of the field, provides guidance to people working as practitioners in the field, and nicely coincides with the increasing interest in clinical sociology. This handbook is of great interest to academics, students and practitioners with an interdisciplinary resource to understand and collaborate in work with contemporary communities.