This book is born from the will to undertake a joint research path on the general theme of transformation and renewal of urban contexts, deepening the case of historical Chinese and Italian cities. The research collected case studies and theoretical elaborations, focusing on the Chinese city of Shanghai and Chongqing and other Italian urban realities, filtering contents around thematic nodes such as memory, narration and reflection on new urban models. In particular, the initial idea emerged from shared reflections between Chinese and Italian scientific professors responsible for international agreements established between the Department of Architecture and the Design of Sapienza University of Rome and Chinese remarkable institutions. Indeed, the present research, promoted and directed by Dina Nencini, was joined by Anna Irene Del Monaco of Sapienza and Shaoming LU of Shanghai Jiaotong University. The book directly and indirectly draws on a series of questions about the “memory work” walking a theoretical path which has a relevant milestone in Lieu de memorie (Pierre Nora 1984) and the 1996 Trienniale di Milano entitled “Identità, differenze: Triennale di Milano, XIX Esposizione internazionale: integrazione e pluralità nelle forme del nostro tempo: le culture tra effimero e duraturo” (Identity, Differences: Triennale of Milan, XIX International Exposition: Integration and plurality in the forms of our time: cultures between ephemeral and enduring).

First Published in 1992. This book is about space of a colony and how it was produced. It began as a study of the literature of the German colony of South-West Africa between the years 1884 and 1915. The author’s aim is to demonstrate the active role which literature had played in structuring the experience of the colony. If it could be shown that literature not only describes, but also helps to structure the forms of experience, then it would follow that it also plays an important role in structuring the experience of colonization, and hence the form of the colony itself. From the outset, therefore, the study was concerned with a number of issues centering around colonization, representation, experience, and social form, where spatiality is the concept which allows us to understand how these various aspects of colonialism interrelate.

Caleb and his younger brother, Sceiro, are orphans who live alone in small cottage on the outskirts of a remote village. While they have remained safe to date, both boys know that a great many dangers lie in wait within the woods that surround their cottage. When Caleb, who is his village’s best hunter, volunteers to take his brother to the city to discover the meaning of the ancient symbols that have adorned Sceiro’s body since birth, their dangerous journey leads them on an adventure neither could have predicted. While on their search, the brothers become ensnared in a chain of events that include an abduction, assassins, and a tribal war influenced by elements of the paranormal and pseudosciences. Will they find a way to survive so that Sceiro can realize his true destiny? In this fantasy tale, two orphan brothers embark on a perilous journey from their remote village to the city to learn the meaning of the markings on the youngest boy’s body.

One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly "Red Sundays" where everyone works together to clean up the neighbourhood. In particular he tells the story of the village mayor, Sanchez Gordillo, who in 2012 became a household name in Spain after leading raids on local supermarkets to feed the Andalucian unemployed.

Ranges from the hackers at MIT in the 1960s to professional "cyberathletes," in an up-close and personal look at the egos, battles, and one-upmanship of the mavericks, geniuses, and geeks behind the videogame revolution. Reprint.

This remarkable, lyrical, poetic, richly imaginative fantasy novel tells the story of Fredric, a winged human warrior, in his struggles against the Dark Queen, the chief of a dark order that aspires to rule over life on earth. Fredric's battle against the Dark Queen's most sinister forces takes place against the background of his bid to save the life of his great love Isabel. The reader is catapulted through the universe on a journey of imagination, adventure and sheer wonder.