This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns of urban behaviour are thrown into crisis.
In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special occasions, such as the 1860 visit of the Prince of Wales and the return in 1885 of the local Volunteers who helped to suppress the Riel resistance in the North-West.
This book examines the "e;ethics in relation to city and urbanism"e; by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative East-West perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different classes, different groups within the present generation, present vs future generations, human vs animals, human vs plants and nature), thereby facilitating urban policy-making and good urban governance.
This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor Cory Booker's rise to power and prominence both in the city and in American political consciousness.
On the basis of a national research project undertaken in England, this volume explores how and why young people's engagement is so important globally in education and society, and looks at what teachers and students think about citizenship and community.
Die Bedeutung Henri Lefebvre verdankte sich einer spezifischen historischen Konstellation: In den sechziger Jahren galt der französische Philosoph im deutschsprachigen Raum zunächst als Kritiker eines rigiden Parteikommunismus.
The steep rise in neighborhood associations in post-Katrina New Orleans is commonly presented in starkly positive or negative terms - either romanticized narratives of community influence or dismissals of false consciousness and powerlessness to elite interests.
The steep rise in neighborhood associations in post-Katrina New Orleans is commonly presented in starkly positive or negative terms - either romanticized narratives of community influence or dismissals of false consciousness and powerlessness to elite interests.
In The Art of the City Raffaele Milani reflects on the ways in which inhabitants of the cityscape have interacted on a spiritual, psychological, and philosophical level with the architecture that surrounds them.
Redirecting examinations of the culture of the city away from its customs, art, and amenities to focus on the mental life of modern society, Alan Blum explores the methods cities and their subjects use to find meaning in the context of urban life, in particular the city's relationships to social change and what has traditionally been identified as justice.
Apres avoir cofonde la premiere revue homosexuelle canadienne, la poete Elsa Gidlow, 21 ans, decide de quitter Montreal en 1920, decue par le manque de possibilites amoureuses que lui offre alors la ville.
Lavapies - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid's most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing.
Lavapies - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid's most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing.
Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city's English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal's Lachine Canal, once an artery around which work and industry in Montreal were clustered and by which these two communities were formed and divided.
Redirecting examinations of the culture of the city away from its customs, art, and amenities to focus on the mental life of modern society, Alan Blum explores the methods cities and their subjects use to find meaning in the context of urban life, in particular the city's relationships to social change and what has traditionally been identified as justice.
Ob der Wiener Würfeluhr, der Litfaßsäule oder der Schriftart, die auf Straßenschildern zu sehen ist; ob der Straßenbeleuchtung, Papierkörben oder Kanalgittern: Wolfgang Freitag geht in »Nur in Wien« dem Urbanen auf den Grund.
This book explores, situates, and discusses the contours of urban inclusivity amidst and beyond the well-researched neoliberal turn in urban governance.
This study presents new evidence for the development of commerce and inter-regional trade through survey and analysis of urban layout and architecture.
The outbreak of plague in Surat in September 1994 brought to the fore the lopsided urban growth, inefficiency of the delivery system for basic services and incompetence of civic administration in urban India.
This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region.
This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region.
This book takes the small rural town of La Calera, in the outskirts of the Colombian capital of Bogota, as a case study to analyze how residents from different social classes - wealthier ex-urban newcomers arriving to traditionally peasant and rural areas - interact to decide how nature will be used in the face of further urban expansion.
This new book discusses the physiological factors that contribute to metabolic syndrome within the human body and spotlights the beneficial effects on the body of nutraceuticals and functional ingredients, botanicals and natural dietary supplements, structurally numerous antioxidants, B-vitamins, and diverse amino acids and vital nutrients.
This new book discusses the physiological factors that contribute to metabolic syndrome within the human body and spotlights the beneficial effects on the body of nutraceuticals and functional ingredients, botanicals and natural dietary supplements, structurally numerous antioxidants, B-vitamins, and diverse amino acids and vital nutrients.
An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysisdrawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular cultureof the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy.
During the 1990s, Naples left-wing administration sought to tackle the city s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city s cultural and architectural heritage.
This indispensable one-volume narrative examines the history, culture, environment, economy, politics, future, and more of the city of Tokyo, Japan's political and cultural capital.
In the southern German city of Stuttgart lives a pious Muslim population that has merged with the local population to create a meaningful shared existence.
Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place.
San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years.
Cultural diversity the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization.
Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization.
