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Insurgent Play: Social Worlds of Urban Disruption

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Report copyright infringementby Duncan McDuie-Ra (Author)Explores play as a transgressive expression that disrupts the modern city Insurgent Play: Social worlds of urban disruption explores play as a transgressive expression that counters the existing urban order (neoliberal, authoritarian, militarised). Insurgent play is disruptive, yet through disruption it brings social worlds into being, undergirds global subcultures and overcomes hostile urban environments characterised by ever-diminishi...

The Housing Of The Working Classes And Of The Poor (1907)

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Report copyright infringementby Moritz Kaufman (Author)The Housing Of The Working Classes And Of The Poor is a book written by Moritz Kaufman in 1907. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the housing conditions of the working classes and the poor in the early 20th century. Kaufman examines the various factors that contribute to poor housing conditions, including overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and lack of ventilation. He also explores the impact of these conditions on the health...

Creating Community in the City: Cooperatives and Community Gardens in Washington, D.C.

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth H. Landman (Author)Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Through ethnographic field work she learned that cooperation, sociability, and self management overcame the common urban challenges posed by isolation and largely impersonal, single purpose contact with others. The settings were a cooperative food store, a cooperative bakery, community gardens, and a cooperatively owned low-cost housing project. Landman ...

Exchange and Production Systems in Californian Prehistory: The Results of Hydration Dating and Chemical Characterization of Obsidian Sources

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathon E. Ericson (Author) Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 0.7 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1981

Practicing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies

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Report copyright infringementby Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez (Editor), Ulla Stackmann (Editor)The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challen...

Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey A. Kroessler (Author)Once wetlands, Queens today is a crowded cityscape of dense urban neighborhoods and suburban sprawl. The largest of New York City's five boroughs by area, it has a larger population than every American city except Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City itself. It possesses the most culturally, ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse population in the United States and possibly the world. This is the story of Queens, "th...

Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Author), David Carter (Translator)Modern English translations of several of the most important essays of Winckelmann, one of the fathers of art history and archaeology and a strong influence on Goethe and Schiller and Weimar Classicism. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the development of archaeology and the study of ancient Greek architectu...

The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology and Society

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Report copyright infringementby Wolfram Grajetzki (Author)For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local gods, and were made famous by classical Greek authors. Yet Egyptologists tend not to look beyond the extraordinary royal sculpture and literary masterpieces of the time. Although the pic...

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Report copyright infringementby Cara Courage (Editor), Tom Borrup (Editor), Maria Rosario Jackson (Editor)This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the placemaking sector. Placemaking has seen a par...

The Ludic City: Exploring the Potential of Public Spaces

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Report copyright infringementby Quentin Stevens (Author)This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition - competition, chance, simulation and vertigo. Stevens explores and analyzes these case...

Growing Livelihoods: Local Food Systems and Community Development

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Report copyright infringementby Rhonda Phillips (Author), Chris Wharton (Author)Community planning is starting to include a broader food systems focus, spanning topics such as nutrition and health outcomes, sustainable farming practices, economic and social implications of local food production, distribution, and consumption. Together, these issues are a driving force for the passions of those seeking positive change in their communities through healthy food. The purpose of this book is to ex...

Making a New World: Architecture & Communities in Interwar Europe

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Report copyright infringementby Rajesh Heynickx (Editor), Tom Avermaete (Editor)In the changing world of interwar Europe a longing for stability rose to the surface of social life. Newly developed neighbourhoods and buildings were designed to create the healing community that many people were dreaming of. Various social groups with nationalist, ideological, or religious agendas made this concept of community a cornerstone in their framework and appropriated it to prescribe the relations betwe...

Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C.

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey F. Meyer (Author)Washington, D.C., is a city of powerful symbols-from the dominance of the Capitol dome and Washington Monument to the authority of the Smithsonian. This book takes us on a fascinating and informative tour of the nation's capital as Jeffrey F. Meyer unravels the complex symbolism of the city and explores its meaning for our national consciousness. Meyer finds that mythic and religious themes pervade the capital-in its original planning, ...

Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu

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Report copyright infringementby Enno Maessen (Author)Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish republic. Since the 1950s it has undergone a metamorphosis from a mid-sized city to a megapolis. Beyoglu, historically represented as its most 'cosmopolitan' district and home to European embassies and cultural institutions, is a microcosm of these changes. This book explores the urban history of Bey...

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Report copyright infringementby Tokie Laotan-Brown (Editor)The Moving African Landscapes Volume 1 examines a broad spectrum of natural and cultural concepts, sensory responses, and innate perceptions experienced, learned, and recalled by Africans within their environment. Photographers, Architects, Lecturers, and Visual Artists are all interestedin articulating their ideas of what Moving African Landscapes means to them. The authors capture their intuitive understanding of how they observed t...

Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners

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Report copyright infringementby Reid Ewing (Editor), Keunhyun Park (Editor)In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stories and narratives that explain various planning issues. Particularly, in the era of big data and data mining, there is a stronger demand in planning practice and research to increase capacity for data-driven storytelling. Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planne...

A Territory in Conflict: Eras of Development and Urban Architecture in Gaza

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Report copyright infringementby Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (Author)A Territory in Conflict explores Israeli and Palestinian projects of modernization and development in the Gaza Strip, from the outset of Israel's military occupation in 1967 to the Oslo Accords of 1993. Rather than reduce the Gaza Strip to an arena of war and violence, Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat resurrects the urban and architectural history of Gaza's cities and the varied perspectives and identities of the people who shaped them. Thr...

Urban Movements and Their Impact on Spatial Transformation

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Report copyright infringementby Cumhur Olcar (Author)Migration is no longer a movement from the rural to the urban, but rather from city to city or from the city to the metropolis in our swiftly urbanising world. Urban Movements and Their Impact on Spatial Transformation uses new paradigms to explain why urban movements rise from the development of cities and are gradually increasing. It urges Urban Studies to recognise that the rate of urbanisation occurring in developing regions is higher t...

Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside: Treasure and Ghosts in the London Clay

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Shepherd (Author)A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers - the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. 'What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of Indiana Jones.' Lucy Worsley June 1912. A pair of workmen deposit a heavy ball of clay in the antiques shop of George Fabian Lawrence, or 'Stony Jack' as he's better known. As Lawrence picks through the mud,...

The City and the Coin in the Ancient and Early Medieval Worlds

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Report copyright infringementby Fernando López Sánchez (Editor)Cities have tended throughout history to be the preferred location for the minting and circulation of coins and coinage has in turn generally reflected the importance of many of these cities. This work, a collection of eleven contributions, explores the relationship between cities and coinage during the extended period beginning in the third century BC and continuing up to the tenth century AD. Number of Pages: 176 ...

Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age - Hardcover

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by Vincent P. Pecora (Author)European culture after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was no stranger to ancient beliefs in an organic, religiously sanctioned, and aesthetically pleasing relationship to the land. The many resonances of this relationship form a more or less coherent whole, in which the supposed cosmopolitanism of the modern age is belied by a deep commitment to regional, nationalist, and civilizational attachments, including a justifying theological armature, much of which is...

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - Paperback

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by Heather McGhee (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone--not just for people of color. WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal...

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Paperback

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by Clint Smith (Author)This "important and timely" (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America--and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the past and those that are not--that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our na...

The Audacity of Inclusion: Fighting for the Equality of Persons Labelled Intellectually Disabled - Hardcover

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by Dulcie McCallum (Author)One beautiful, surprisingly warm spring morning on the isolated islands of Haida Gwaii, an insight smacked Dulcie McCallum in the face with the force of an unexpected tsunami: at the heart of it all, the law was the culprit. Rather than promoting rights, the law was itself the taproot of injustice.For people with an intellectual disability, the law is what defines their disadvantage, not their disability.For every child diagnosed with the label of intellectual disab...

The Audacity of Inclusion: Fighting for the Equality of Persons Labelled Intellectually Disabled - Paperback

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by Jesmyn Ward (Author)*WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION *A TIME MAGAZINE BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 OF 2017 *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize *Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal *Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize *Publishers Weekly Top 10 of 2017 *Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and ...

A History of the Hmong: From Ancient Times to the Modern Diaspora - Hardcover

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by Thomas Vang (Author)This is the first completely up-to-date Hmong history book ever written by a member of the Hmong people. It describes the earliest civilizations of the Hmong and Miao in China, and why some of the Hmong migrated into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century, particularly to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand; and how the Hmong of Laos were involved with the Lao civil war, especially the secret war from 1962 to 1975 that caused almost a hundred thousand Hmong to flee to Thailand...

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by August Wilson (Author)From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit t...

Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Zarafshon Moore (Author)An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three major crises in US society at the turn of the twenty-first century: the AIDS epidemic, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ongoing c...

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Report copyright infringementby Zach Blas (Editor), Melody Jue (Editor), Jennifer Rhee (Editor)Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway's canonical 1985 essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs." Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power a...

Women in Ancient America: Second Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Karen O. Bruhns (Author), Karen E. Stothert (Author)This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America. Women-and women's work-have been crucial to the survival and success of American peoples since ancient times. And as hunting and foraging societies developed farming techniques ...