Planning In An Uncanny World

Author : Nicholas A. Phelps
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100081078X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning in an Uncanny World written by Nicholas A. Phelps and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance, climate change, transportation planning, regional development and migration planning. Australian urban conditions and their associated planning responses can and often have been seen as unique or exceptional. They are seldom discussed in the same breath as conditions and associated planning systems internationally. Yet, as well as being somewhat different from those elsewhere in the world, Australian urban conditions and planning responses are also somewhat similar. They are uncanny – strangely familiar yet unfamiliar. In this book, Australian urban conditions, and their planning policies and practices are informally compared and contrasted with those existing internationally. If Australian urban planning policy and practice have had limited influence internationally, the partial familiarity of challenges posed by its urban conditions ensure that Australia is a more important global reference point for scholarship and practice than commonly is appreciated. In this book the authors assert the potential and actual originality of urban planning scholarship arising from the Australian context. It will be useful for students and faculty, planners working in Australia, as well as anyone interested in international planning debates.

Author : Raffaele Pernice
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040024467
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization written by Raffaele Pernice and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium. The authors represent a broad selection of international experts, young scholars and established academics who discuss themes related to urban–rural destruction and economic and spatial regeneration techniques, the sustainable reconversion of natural landscapes and eco-urban design in the context of the current evolution of architectural and urbanism practice. The book aims to explain the conditions in which the contemporary debate about urban regeneration and rural revitalisation has developed in Australia and China, presented by different theoretical and methodological perspectives. It also provides a multifaceted and critical analysis of relevant case studies and urban experiences in Australia and China, focusing on environmental disruption, resized urban interventions and the need for more efficient and sustainable forms of regeneration and urban renewal practice in urban–rural contexts. This book will be an invaluable resource for architects, planners, architectural and urban historians, geographers, and scholars interested in modern Australian and Chinese architecture and urbanism.

Author : Julie T. Miao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003816029
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment written by Julie T. Miao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book crtitically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world in a debate on originating, learning, modifying, and plagiarizing creativities within the built environment. The Companion includes contributions from architecture, design, planning, construction, real estate, economics, urban studies, geography, sociology, and public policies. Contributors review the current field and proposes new conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and directions for research, policy, and practice. Chapters are organised into five sections, each drawing on cross-disciplinary insights and debates: Section I connects creativity, productivity, and economic growth and examines how our built environment stimulates or intimidates human imaginations. Section II addresses how hard environments are fabricated with social, cultural, and institutional meanings, and how these evolve in different times and settings. Section III discusses activities that directly and indirectly shape the material development of a built environment, its environmental sustainability, space utility, and place identity. Section IV illustrates how technologies and innovations are used in building and strengthening an intelligent, real-time, responsive urban agenda. Section V examines governance opportunities and challenges at the interface between creativity and built environment. An important resource for scholars and students in the fields of urban planning and development, urban studies, environmental sustainability, human geography, sociology, and public policy.

Author : Jim Leach
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814342256
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Laid Plans written by Jim Leach and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the significance of the heist film genre.

Author : Geert Lovink
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621878
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncanny Networks written by Geert Lovink and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that help create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online, over a period of weeks or months, allows the participants to compose documents of depth and breadth, rather than simply snapshots of timely references." "The interviews collected in this book are with artists, critics, and theorists who are intimately involved in building the content, interfaces, and architectures of new media. ... The topics discussed include digital aesthetics, sound art, navigating deep audio space, European media philosophy, the internet in Eastern Europe, the mixing of old and new in India, critical media studies in the Asia-Pacific, Japanese techno tribes, hybrid identities, the storage of social movements, theory of the virtual class, virtual and urban spaces, corporate takeover of the internet, and cyberspace and the rise of nongovernmental organizations."

Author : Harold Linton
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781876907990
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Reflections written by Harold Linton and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is filled with successful examples of urban spaces that retain the vitality for which they were designed. Architectural illustrations such as those included in this book captivate the imagination and become the embodiment of the dreams of the p

Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250082722
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible history and psychology of board games. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan reveals why board games have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.

Author : Francis D. K. Ching
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118981332
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Global History of Architecture written by Francis D. K. Ching and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE NOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.K. CHING! The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years of the built environment. Spanning from 3,500 BCE to the present, and organized along a global timeline, this unique guide was written by experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history and around the world. Fully updated and revised to reflect current scholarship, this Third Edition features expanded chapter introductions that set the stage for a global view, as well as: An expanded section on contemporary global architecture More coverage of non-Western cultures, particularly South Asia, South East Asia Pre-Columbian America, and Africa. New drawings and maps by the iconic Francis D.K. Ching, as well as more stunning photographs An updated companion website with digital learning tools and Google Earth™ mapping service coordinates that make it easier to find sites Art and architecture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in architectural history, will have 5,000 years of the built environment perpetually at their fingertips with A Global History of Architecture, Third Edition.

Author : Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350344427
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elias Canetti and Social Theory written by Andrea Mubi Brighenti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elias Canetti is a key thinker in the trend towards the renewal of social theory for the 21st century. He is increasingly being recognised in the social and political sciences for the seminal text, Crowds and Power (1960). While this work can sometimes be criticised for its alleged anti-historicity, anti-modernism, fixation on death, and a dark vision of humankind, Crowds and Power can, in fact, be interpreted as a study and a critique of the mono-dimensionality and the obsessiveness of power. In Canetti's own words, it is an attempt 'to find the weak spot of power' and, ultimately, an invitation to recognise and explore the endless richness of human transformations. Elias Canetti and Social Theory argues that the alleged anti-modernism of Canetti actually makes him more contemporary than many contemporary social-political thinkers. It deals with key concepts within socio-political theory including: commands, increase, resistance, and commonality. Each of these ideas is connected with real, lived social realities making this book a compelling argument for Canetti's crucial relevance today.

Author : Jeremy Hunsinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135753040
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds written by Jeremy Hunsinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual worlds are places where humans interact, and as such they can be environments for research and learning. However, they are complex and mutable in ways that more controlled and traditional environments are not. Although computer-mediated, virtual worlds are multifaceted social systems like the offline world, and choosing to study virtual world phenomena demands as much consideration for the participants, the environment and the researcher as offline. By exploring virtual worlds as places of research and learning, the international practitioners in this book demonstrate the power of these worlds to replicate and extend our arenas of research and learning. They focus on process and outcomes and consider questions that arise from engaging in teaching and research in these spaces, including new approaches to research ethics, internationalization, localization, and collaboration in virtual worlds. This book was originally published as a special issue of Learning, Media & Technology.