Unsettling Cities
Title | Unsettling Cities PDF eBook |
Author | John Allen |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN | 0415200725 |
This book is part of a series produced in association with the Open University and forms part of the Open University course DD304: Understanding cities.
Unsettling Cities
Title | Unsettling Cities PDF eBook |
Author | John Allen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2005-08-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1134636334 |
This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character. It explores cities as sites of movement, migration and settlement where different peoples, cultures and environments combine. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life. The contributors reveal the association between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks.
Unsettling the City
Title | Unsettling the City PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Blomley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2004-06-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1135954186 |
Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.
Splintering Urbanism
Title | Splintering Urbanism PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Graham |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780415189651 |
This text offers an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. Drawing on case studies and examples from across the globe, it offers a statement on the urban condition.
Linguistic Landscape in the City
Title | Linguistic Landscape in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Elana Shohamy |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2010-07-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847694810 |
This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in ‘ordered disorder’. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic landscape beyond its appearance as a jungle of jumbled and irregular items by focusing on the variations in linguistic landscape configurations and recognising that it is but one more field of the shaping of social reality under diverse, uncoordinated and possibly incongruent structuration principles.
Unsettling Cities
Title | Unsettling Cities PDF eBook |
Author | J. ALLEN |
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Release | 1999 |
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Invisible Cities
Title | Invisible Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2013-08-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 054413320X |
Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.