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Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sust…
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Supported by a wide-…
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- 9783030842482
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- xxxi, 559 p.
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- 338.927072 COC A
Mapping society : the spatial dimensions of social cartography
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated b…
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- 25
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- 9781787353053
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- xix, 268p.; ill.
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- 526 MAP v
Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory
Text Monospace and Multiverse : Exploring Space with Actor-Network-Theory Hansmann, Sabine - Personal Name; In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential …
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- 9783839455029
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- 245 p.
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- 720 MON S
Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Ba…
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…
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- 9783030191863
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- xiv, 366 p.
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- 636.208945420941 VER A
Imagining the Future City : London 2062
London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. …
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- 9781909188198
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- vi, 194 p.
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- 303.49421 IMA S
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries : The Legacy of Central Planning in E…
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was…
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- 9783030233921
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- xviii, 383 p.
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- 307.76809479 HOU D
Frontier Tibet : Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating…
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- 9789048544905
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- 555 p.
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- 951.5 FRO S
Platformisation of Urban Life : Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of …
The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban s…
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- 1
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- 9783837659641
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- 304p.
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- 300 PLA s
Greening the greyfields
This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale.
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- 1st
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- 9789811662386
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- xxi, 192 p ; ill
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- 220.91 GRE g
Universities and regional engagement : from the exceptional to the everyday
The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualision which embraces its underlying complexity, and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agen…
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- 9781003150299
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- xiv, 246 p. : ill.
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- 378.103 IAK u
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