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| 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 1997the year of Hong Kongs return to Chinato 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 citys space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kongs population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ngs insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music and other media and the actual spaces of the citysuch as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spacesprovide 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
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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 --
| 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
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : Harry W. Richardson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2014-03-14 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136162097 |
This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards. The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale – from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed in this volume is the question of whether urban shrinkage policies are necessary or effective. The book comprises four parts: world or regional issues (with reference to the European Union and Latin America); national case studies (the United States, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Estonia); city case studies (Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Naples, Belfast and Halle); and broad issues such as the environmental consequences of shrinking cities. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the fields of urban studies, economic geography and public policy.
