Mecklermedia's Official Internet World

Mecklermedia's Official Internet World
Author: Marshall Breeding
Publisher: Wiley Publishing
Total Pages: 918
Release: 1995-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781568843445

A comprehensive guide to more than 5,000 World Wide Web sites. More than a tour guide, this book contains complete descriptions of more than 500 Web sites in more than 30 major subject areas. Compiled by the experts at Mecklemedia, publisher of Internet World. The CD includes a hypertext version of the book. Simply click your way to finding out more about WWW sites.

Preserving the Built Heritage

Preserving the Built Heritage
Author: J. Mark Davidson Schuster
Publisher: Salzburg
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

A pragmatic approach that examines architectural preservation policies and offers new models for action.

Water & Heritage

Water & Heritage
Author: Willem Willems
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2017-01-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789088903861

Water is vital for life, and its availability has been a concern for mankind throughout the ages. Its presence has always been ascertained in a variety of ways and the development of human society everywhere is connected with various forms of water management. Man also needed to manage water to find protection from its dangers and the need for that is increasing. In the coming decades, the impact of climate change is expected to intensify floods and droughts, affect groundwater resources, raise sea levels, increase pollution and enhance the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Societies around the world are challenged to adapt to these threats to ensure water security, economic prosperity and environmental and cultural sustainability. This book deals with the heritage of water management and the use that was made of water, as well as the impact of water management on heritage. An example of the former may be an ancient irrigation system in the Filipines or in the Middle East that still functions today, while the latter may reflect the importance of maintaining groundwater levels for the preservation of organic remains on archaeological sites or of wooden piles underneath standing buildings. In either case the papers in this book reflect the dynamic nature of water, and hence the equally dynamic relation between water management and heritage. This publication follows up on a Heritage and Water conference in Amsterdam, the first of its kind. Its main purpose is to credibly present the importance and value of heritage and historical experience for water and sustainable development, and vice versa, present the importance of water management for the protection of heritage. It presents evolving insights and concepts about Water and about Heritage from a variety of disciplines, policy and public perspectives illustrated with cases studies and aims to connect decision makers with experts such as engineers, archaeologists, historians, geographers, ecologist and landscape architects

Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry

Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry
Author: Nancy Duxbury
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2015-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317588010

This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relationships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The chapters address themes, processes, approaches, and research methodologies drawn from examples in Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Ukraine. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning, community development, artistic intervention, and public participation in cultural mapping—recognizing that public involvement and artistic practices introduce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process, from the gathering of data, to interpreting data, to presenting "findings" to a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situate the practice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Constitutions and By-laws

Constitutions and By-laws
Author: Inter-collegiate cross-country association of amateur athletes of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1907
Genre:
ISBN:

The Just City

The Just City
Author: Susan S. Fainstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0801462185

For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy. Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level. In the first half of The Just City, Fainstein draws on the work of John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Fraser, and others to develop an approach to justice relevant to twenty-first-century cities, one that incorporates three central concepts: diversity, democracy, and equity. In the book's second half, Fainstein tests her ideas through case studies of New York, London, and Amsterdam by evaluating their postwar programs for housing and development in relation to the three norms. She concludes by identifying a set of specific criteria for urban planners and policymakers to consider when developing programs to assure greater justice in both the process of their formulation and their effects.

The Built Environment

The Built Environment
Author: Wendy R. McClure
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2011-09-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1118174151

This book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make—from products, buildings, and cities—are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections.

The Good Metropolis

The Good Metropolis
Author: Alexander Eisenschmidt
Publisher: Birkhaüser
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture, Modern
ISBN: 9783035616323

The publication presents the first historical analysis of the tension between the city and architectural form. It introduces 20th century theories to construct a historical context from which a new architecture-city relationship emerged. The book provides a conceptual framework to understand this relationship and comes to the conclusion that urbanization may be filled with potential, i.e. be a Good Metropolis.

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication
Author: Tracy Bridgeford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Programs in technical writing, technical communication, and/or professional communication have recently grown in enrollment as the demand among employers for formally prepared technical writers and editors has grown. In response, scholarly treatments of the subject and the teaching of technical writing are also burgeoning, and the body of research and theory being published in this field is many times larger and more accessible than it was even a decade ago. Although many theoretical and disciplinary perspectives can potentially inform technical communication teaching, administration, and curriculum development, the actual influences on the field's canonical texts have traditionally come from a rather limited range of disciplines. Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication brings together a wide range of scholars/teachers to expand the existing canon.