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Writing the City Square On the History and the Histories of City Squares

Writing the City Square On the History and the Histories of City Squares

The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora the forum the piazza the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square as literature is the topic of this book. This is an encyclopedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with a plethora of analytical examples of its reflection in literature: Literature uses the city square as a frame; city squares serve as frames for drama; novels and other kinds of literature comment on city squares; city squares are sources of inspiration for all sorts of literary activities. Socrates in the agora Cicero in the Forum Calderón in the Plaza Mayor Corneille in the Place Royale Richardson in Grosvenor Square James in Washington Square Woolf in Bloomsbury Square Döblin and Gröschner in Alexanderplatz Rodoreda in Diamond Square in Barcelona DeLillo in Times Square Al Aswany in Tahrir Square the Maidanistas in the Maidan of Kyiv: These are just some of the examples presented and analyzed in this book. The book is of direct interest for researchers students and professionals such as architects and urban planners but it is written in a way that makes it accessible for all readers with an interest in urban culture architecture history literature and cultural studies. | Writing the City Square On the History and the Histories of City Squares

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Culture and Politics in ChinaAn Anatomy of Tiananmen Square

Culture and Politics in ChinaAn Anatomy of Tiananmen Square

As the world watched the crumbling away of communist regimes in Eastern Europe the pro-democracy movement in China was dealt a severe blow in June of 1989. Also referred to as the June 4th Incident the Tiananmen Square protest included students intellectuals and workers demanding democratic reforms and social change. To break up the escalating protest armed soldiers stormed the square killing close to two hundred demonstrators and injuring thousands more. Culture and Politics in China explores the events trends and tendencies that led to the student demonstrations. This volume objectively presents a wide range of information permitting readers a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances that culminated on the events of June 4 1989. Documents include eyewitness accounts by student leaders Chai Ling and Wu'er Kaixi the speeches of Deng Xiaoping and Yang Shangkun justifying the use of force analysis of the events by the Marxist theorist Su Shaozhi the writings of young intellectuals Yan Jiaqi Liu Xiaobo and others. Selections include essays on the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the television documentary the "Yellow River Elegy" which question the Chinese cultural tradition. Leading political scientists contribute to this volume. Lee presents an analysis of the role of Deng Xiaoping in the events at Tiananmen Square and his views on the Chinese Communist party-state and the pro-democracy movement King Tsao who was at the square views the demonstrations as a form of civil disobedience and dissent against the party-state. He gives an eyewitness account and a contextual analysis of some of the events and underlying themes. Steven Mark a journalist presents an analysis of the various roles of both the Chinese and Western press beginning with their role in shaping public opinion before the demonstrations and continuing as the media scrambled to cover China's biggest news story since the communist takeover in 1949. Those who

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Urban Design: Street and Square

Urban Design: Street and Square

This book part of a series of four offers a detailed analysis of urban design covering the streets squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It outlines the theory of the principal features of urban design from which method is developed and provides a better understanding of the main elements of urban design. This includes the arrangement design and details of the streets and squares and the roles they play in city planning.This third edition includes chapters on "Sustainable Urban Design" and "Visual Analysis" introducing the latest theories and influences in the field and bringing greater practical significance to the book. Cliff Moughtin explores the street and square in terms of function structure and symbolism and examines fine examples in their historical context. These are set against the background of the laws of urban design composition culled from Renaissance and modern writers.

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The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1976 this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants’ groups community associations students squatters intellectuals political parties and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London. The author describes how property developers interested only in maximising profits attempted to redevelop the Tolmers area for offices while the local authority pressurised by local tenants and faced with a housing shortage tried to redevelop for housing. This book is about the politics of central city redevelopment. Although this text focuses on one particular case study the same processes operate in all cities where land is used as a commodity for financial speculation. By tracing the Tolmers case in detail this text demonstrates the forces which operate in city redevelopment and shows the affect which various forms of opposition can have.

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From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

How successful have the Nordic Agrarian-Centre Parties been in transforming themselves from class parties to catchall parties drawing significant support from voters engaged in the non-primary sectors of the economy? Using case studies from five comparable countries David Arter provides an insightful account of an historic group of parties who still wield distinctive strength in the Nordic region. This detailed profile the first ever in English makes a unique contribution to the topical issues of party adaptation and institutional modernization. | From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

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Personal Decisions in the Public Square

Personal Decisions in the Public Square

This work looks into how why and when people pursue things in life that they desire those that make their existence attractive and worth living. Robert A. Stebbins calls this "Positive Sociology " the study of what people do to organize their lives such that they become substantially rewarding satisfying and fulfilling. Western society has many challenges: crime drug addiction urban pollution daily stress domestic violence and overpopulation. Significant levels of success in avoiding these problems brings a noticeable measure of tranquility but it does not necessarily generate a positive life.Personal Decisions in the Public Square draws upon in large part the sociology of leisure a "happy science." Among the basic concepts in the sociology of leisure are activity and human agency. The centrality of positive activity is one of its hallmarks and separates it from other social science specialties. Stebbins's positive sociology centers on conceptual roots found in the "serious leisure" perspective. This theoretical framework synthesizes three main forms of leisure (serious casual and project-based) while showing their distinctive features similarities and interrelationships. Positive sociology also considers two other domains of life: work and non-work obligations.This new approach focuses on the pursuit of "that which makes life worth living." Stebbins explores goals that are important to all people such as negotiating the right work/family or obligation/leisure balance and the tricky relationship between money and happiness. Research scientists or the general public may find the ideas presented in this volume help them better understand and negotiate situations by showing how to approach them in a positive way rather than as "problems" that need to be solved.

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Personal Decisions in the Public Square

Personal Decisions in the Public Square

This work looks into how why and when people pursue things in life that they desire those that make their existence attractive and worth living. Robert A. Stebbins calls this "Positive Sociology " the study of what people do to organize their lives such that they become substantially rewarding satisfying and fulfilling. Western society has many challenges: crime drug addiction urban pollution daily stress domestic violence and overpopulation. Significant levels of success in avoiding these problems brings a noticeable measure of tranquility but it does not necessarily generate a positive life.Personal Decisions in the Public Square draws upon in large part the sociology of leisure a "happy science." Among the basic concepts in the sociology of leisure are activity and human agency. The centrality of positive activity is one of its hallmarks and separates it from other social science specialties. Stebbins's positive sociology centers on conceptual roots found in the "serious leisure" perspective. This theoretical framework synthesizes three main forms of leisure (serious casual and project-based) while showing their distinctive features similarities and interrelationships. Positive sociology also considers two other domains of life: work and non-work obligations.This new approach focuses on the pursuit of "that which makes life worth living." Stebbins explores goals that are important to all people such as negotiating the right work/family or obligation/leisure balance and the tricky relationship between money and happiness. Research scientists or the general public may find the ideas presented in this volume help them better understand and negotiate situations by showing how to approach them in a positive way rather than as "problems" that need to be solved.

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Fear and Self-Loathing in the City A Guide to Keeping Sane in the Square Mile

Fear and Self-Loathing in the City A Guide to Keeping Sane in the Square Mile

Fear and Self-Loathing in the City is a practical guide to both managing the pressures of the workplace and coping with the struggles we may have in our personal lives. It incorporates simple techniques and quick solutions to many stressful work-related issues that exist in most working cultures. This book is crucial for today's workpla | Fear and Self-Loathing in the City A Guide to Keeping Sane in the Square Mile

GBP 130.00
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Holding Your Square

Holding Your Square

This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the social networks of the streets of an American city (St Louis Missouri) and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides a rich description of life on the streets contextualizing criminal violence within this deviant subculture and with a specific focus on issues of gender. The book provides one of the most detailed descriptions yet of the forms masculinity takes in disadvantages communities in the United States. It establishes how street based gender identity motivated and guided men through violent encounters exploring how men's relationships with women and their families instigated violence. One key issue addressed is why men resorted to violence in certain situations and not in others exploring the range of choices open to them and how these opportunities were interpreted. The book makes a major contribution to the study of the relationship between masculinities and violence making use of a much larger sample than elsewhere.

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Square Pegs and Round Holes Alternative Approaches to Diverse College Student Development Theory

Square Pegs and Round Holes Alternative Approaches to Diverse College Student Development Theory

Developing alternative student development frameworks and models this groundbreaking book provides student affairs practitioners as well as faculty with illuminating perspectives and viable approaches for understanding the development of today’s diverse student populations and for building the foundation for their academic success and self-authorship. With the increasing number of adult working students minoritized multiracial LGTBQ and first-generation students this book offers readers vital insights into –and ways to interrogate– existing practice and develop relevant responses to the needs of these populations. Building on and critiquing the past frameworks and integrating the insights of contemporary scholarship on student development the contributors collectively put forward a robust theoretical and methodological foundation for this work using Critical Race Theory as their central frame. CRT allows chapter authors to situate race related encounters at the center of their proposed alternative framework or model and deconstruct and challenge commonly held assumptions about diverse college student development. In the tradition of CRT each author offers an alternative model or framework that can be applied to the diverse population upon which the chapter is framed prompting readers to address such questions as:• Who are our college students?• What set of experiences do our students bring to the higher education context? • What role have their environments/contexts (i. e. home p-12 community family peer groups mentors) played in our student’s lives? • What impact have intervening variables (i. e. race oppression power) hadon their experiences?• What strategies do they use to overcome developmental obstacles?• How do they define success and how they know they have achieved it ?By laying bare the experiences of these diverse college students that inform this volume’s “alternative” frameworks this book contests that notion that they constitute square pegs that must fit into the round holes of traditional frameworks. | Square Pegs and Round Holes Alternative Approaches to Diverse College Student Development Theory

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Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle?

Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle?

The world water problems are a due to bad governance not to physical water scarcity. This book is inspired by this statement and explores whether it holds in a specific country Spain where climatic conditions – Spain is one of the most arid countries of the European Union - would fully justify saying that water problems are due to physical water scarcity. The metrification of water uses and their monetary value is a first important step in understanding how reallocation of water among users could help mitigating many of current water problems in Spain. However water reallocation among users or from users to nature is far from simple. Initiatives portrayed as the solution to the water governance ‘jigsaw’ – e. g. water trade improved water use efficiency users collective action public participation – are not free of difficulties and shortcomings. The book explores the growing need for maintaining Spain’s natural capital and the human component of water governance – people’s needs wishes (vested) interests aspirations – that often determine the result of decisions and sometimes lead water management to a deadlock. This book takes a step forward in showing a more complex - and also closer to reality - picture of water governance in Spain. | Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle?

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Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric DramasA Puppet Show The King on the Square and the Unknown Woman

Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric DramasA Puppet Show The King on the Square and the Unknown Woman

Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas gathers together for the first time in English translation the first three plays by Aleksandr Blok the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. The three plays that constitute the trilogy - A Puppet Show The King on the Square and The Unknown Woman - are pivotal documents in the development of modernist drama. In his productions of A Puppet Show; and The Unknown Woman Meyerhold first began to work the basic tenets of his approach to grotesque and constructivist theatre. Moreover A Puppet Show provided the inspiration and much of the foundation for Meyerhold's theoretical writings. As a result these plays are indispensable to any student of Meyerhold or modernist theatre. The plays are presented in the context of the poetry from which they issued in order to suggest how Blok developed the themes and motifs of the plays in other genres.

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Education in Movement SpacesStanding Rock to Chicago Freedom Square

Education in Movement SpacesStanding Rock to Chicago Freedom Square

This book amplifies the distinct intersecting and coalitional possibilities of education in the spaces of ongoing movements for Native and Black liberation. Contributors highlight the importance of activist-oriented teaching and learning in community encampments and other movement spaces for the preservation and expansion of resistance education. With chapters from scholars educators and organizers this volume offers lessons taken from these experiences for nation-state schools classrooms and spaces of teaching and learning that are most commonly experienced by Native and Black children and educators. Through attention to recent social movements across the United States—from Standing Rock to Black Lives Matter—this book demonstrates the vital connections between Native and Black communities’ educational futures.

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Human Dignity in BioethicsFrom Worldviews to the Public Square

Human Dignity in BioethicsFrom Worldviews to the Public Square

Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical controversies. The volume falls into three parts beginning with meta-level perspectives and moving to concrete applications. Part 1 analyzes human dignity through a worldview lens exploring the source and meaning of human dignity from naturalist postmodernist Protestant and Catholic vantages respectively letting each side explain and defend its own conception. Part 2 moves from metaphysical moorings to key areas of macro-level influence: international politics American law and biological science. These chapters examine the legitimacy of the concept of dignity in documents by international political bodies the role of dignity in American jurisprudence and the implications—and challenges—for dignity posed by Darwinism. Part 3 shifts from macro-level topics to concrete applications by examining the rhetoric of human dignity in specific controversies: embryonic stem cell research abortion human-animal chimeras euthanasia and palliative care psychotropic drugs and assisted reproductive technologies. Each chapter analyzes the rhetorical use of ‘human dignity’ by opposing camps assessing the utility of the concept and whether a different concept or approach can be a more productive means of framing or guiding the debate.

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The Politics of the PiazzaThe History and Meaning of the Italian Square

The Politics of the PiazzaThe History and Meaning of the Italian Square

Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. Illustrated by contemporary photographs and analytical drawings it examines significant piazzas and situates these examples in their social and political contexts highlighting the urban evidence of shifts between autocratic and democratic forms of government through history. The ideological role of political architecture is analyzed through the work of various theorists including ancient sources Renaissance thinkers and modern critics. The complex evolution of individual spaces over time is represented by their physical layering from ancient times to the present day. Other examples connect the development of different characteristic types of Italian urban form in chronological sequence categorized by art historical and political periods.

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The Development of Jury Service in JapanA square block in a round hole?

The Development of Jury Service in JapanA square block in a round hole?

This book presents a comprehensive account of past and present efforts to introduce the jury system in Japan. Four legal reforms are documented and assessed: the implementation of the bureaucratic and all-judge special jury systems in the 1870s the introduction of the all-layperson jury in the late 1920s the transplantation of the Anglo-American-style jury system to Okinawa under the U.S. Occupation and the implementation of the mixed-court lay judge (saiban’in) system in 2009. While being primarily interested in the related case studies the book also discusses the instances when the idea of introducing trial by jury was rejected at different times in Japan’s history. Why does legal reform happen? What are the determinants of success and failure of a reform effort? What are the prospects of the saiban’in system to function effectively in Japan? This book offers important insights on the questions that lie at the core of the law and society debate and are highly relevant for understanding contemporary Japan and its recent and distant past.

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Origami Polyhedra Design

Origami Polyhedra Design

This book unravels the mystery of Geometry in Origami with a unique approach: 64 Polyhedra designs each made from a single square sheet of paper no cuts no glue; each polyhedron the largest possible from the starting size of square and each having an ingenious locking mechanism to hold its shape. The author covers the five Platonic solids (cube tetrahedron octahedron icosahedron and dodecahedron). There are ample variations with different color patterns and sunken sides. Dipyramids and Dimpled Dipyramids unexplored before this in Origami are also covered. There are a total of 64 models in the book. All the designs have an interesting look and a pleasing folding sequence and are based on unique mathematical equations. | Origami Polyhedra Design

GBP 180.00
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