The Transparent City

The Transparent City
Author: Michael Wolf
Publisher: Aperture Direct
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781597110761

Photographs of the Chicago cityscape--digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses--focus specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.

Transparent City

Transparent City
Author: Ondjaki
Publisher: Biblioasis
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1771961449

NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD A VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018 A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018 In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki, indisputably, among the continent’s most accomplished writers.

Transparent Urban Development

Transparent Urban Development
Author: Benjamin W. Stanley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-07-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319589105

This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local property ownership and land speculation negatively impacted a concerted public-private effort to encourage infill construction on vacant land. The book elaborates urban sustainability not only as a set of ecological and design prescriptions, but as a field needing increased engagement with the growth-based impetus, structural economic forces, and political details behind American urban land policy. Demonstrating how land use policies evolved in relation to Phoenix’s historical dependence on outside investment, and are now interwoven across jurisdictional scales, the book concludes by identifying policy intervention points to increase the sustainability of Phoenix’s development trajectory.

The Transparent State

The Transparent State
Author: Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780415700184

Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.

X-Urbanism

X-Urbanism
Author: Mario Gandelsonas
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1999
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 1568981511

Examines configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground.

Architectural Anxiety

Architectural Anxiety
Author: Kristin Maurer
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2010-05-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0557358981

In this thesis I will investigate the possibilities of restoring freedom. I describe situations where I suffer from architectural anxiety, analyse these situations and sometimes find practical solutions for architectural safety. These solutions are based on my own fear experiences but also intended to help others to overcome their (similar) fears, get relaxed and comfortable. The different solutions can serve as inspiration for a design of the perfect safe space.

The Transparent Market

The Transparent Market
Author: Mats Larsson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 1999-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349270180

This book looks at how electronic commerce and the WWW will affect the market in the future. A new breed of information-rich consumers are emerging. They have easy access to competitors and are making companies less able to exploit traditional sources of competitive advantage. This is producing a new 'Transparent Market'. This book examines how this transparent market is developing, how companies can be successful in this new era and how individuals can survive in the future job market. The Transparent Market is a guide to the new market and how this potential threat can be turned into a key competitive tool for companies and for individuals.

Home in A Hybrid World

Home in A Hybrid World
Author: Martin Pot
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000796949

Whilst our outside world is modifying into a more complex and hybrid networked world, our most intimate dwelling, our home, is at risk of falling behind as for many it seems to have remained the same as it has been for many decades. This book explores what it means to have a home in such a networked world. It describes what architecture can, or perhaps should, contribute to enable a more participatory role for inhabitants. This forward-thinking book will try to answer the question - What is the role and position of technology in our most intimate locations both now and what could it be like in the future?

The foundation for an open source city

The foundation for an open source city
Author: Jason Hibbets
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1300923172

Explore the five elements of an open source city using Raleigh, North Carolina as a case study. See how the open source characteristics of collaboration, transparency, and participation are shaping the open government and open data movements. This book showcases the open source culture, government policies, and economic development happening in Raleigh and acts as a guide for other cities to pursue their open source city brand.

Urban Transformational Landscapes in the City-Hinterlands of Asia

Urban Transformational Landscapes in the City-Hinterlands of Asia
Author: Debnath Mookherjee
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2023-05-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811987262

In the context of mounting challenges stemming from a rapid transformation of the urban-regional landscapes in many Asian countries, this book highlights a multifaceted array of issues that increasingly engage the academic and planning communities in search of viable solutions to complex problems facing us. Even though cities continue to dominate development studies, urbanization of Asia is evolving toward a hybrid urban-rural nexus beyond the cities. This volume considers these shifting dynamics of Asian urbanization, including urban spatial transformations and their ramifications in the context of sustainability and planning. Through the lens of a set of empirical studies across diverse disciplines, geographies and methodologies. yet with an overarching concern for sustainability in varied (but interconnected) areas such as climate change, land use planning, infrastructure and urban mobility, and quality of life, these studies examine a range of important topics (e.g., flooding, transportation, housing, open space/ green space, urban garden and such) in city/regional settings. Together, they add insights into varied transformational processes or patterns at work on the urban-regional landscapes in a number of Asian countries while offering innovative approaches or alternatives. The proposed volume fills a gap in urban/regional studies in context of South and Southeast Asia that will be of interest to all stakeholders (e.g., planners, administrators, academicians and the citizenry), particularly those interested in sustainability and planning paradigms. It should be a timely and valuable addition to the Asian urbanization literature.