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Author : Robert Broesi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Euroscapes Forum 2003 written by Robert Broesi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriele Dolff-Bonekämper
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Dividing Lines, Connecting Lines written by Gabriele Dolff-Bonekämper and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is part of a series produced in relation to the integrated project "Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society", and explores the concepts of cultural heritage and European identities. It contains a number of papers which consider links between cultural heritage and frontiers, both natural frontiers and imagined ones. The book points the way to deeper research into European identity and the history of relations between the cultural communities which are Europe's greatest asset. In doing so, it challenges us to rethink our concepts of heritage, territory and identity in new regional, transnational and European terms.
Author : Johan Schimanski
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789200539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Border Aesthetics written by Johan Schimanski and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.
Author : Prem Kumar Rajaram
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913234
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Borderscapes written by Prem Kumar Rajaram and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich with panic, danger, and patriotism. Conceptualizing such places as immigration detention camps and refugee camps as areas of political contestation, this work forcefully argues that borders and migration are, ultimately, inextricable from questions of justice and its limits. Contributors: Didier Bigo, Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris; Karin Dean; Elspeth Guild, U of Nijmegen; Emma Haddad; Alexander Horstmann, U of Münster; Alice M. Nah, National U of Singapore; Suvendrini Perera, Curtin U of Technology, Australia; James D. Sidaway, U of Plymouth, UK; Nevzat Soguk, U of Hawai‘i; Decha Tangseefa, Thammasat U, Bangkok; Mika Toyota, National U of Singapore. Prem Kumar Rajaram is assistant professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Carl Grundy-Warr is senior lecturer of geography at the National University of Singapore.
Author : Stewart Woods
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786467975
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Eurogames written by Stewart Woods and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While board games can appear almost primitive in the digital age, eurogames--also known as German-style board games--have increased in popularity nearly concurrently with the rise of video games. Eurogames have simple rules and short playing times and emphasize strategy over luck and conflict. This book examines the form of eurogames, the hobbyist culture that surrounds them, and the way that hobbyists experience the play of such games. It chronicles the evolution of tabletop hobby gaming and explores why hobbyists play them, how players balance competitive play with the demands of an intimate social gathering, and to what extent the social context of the game encounter shapes the playing experience. Combining history, cultural studies, leisure studies, ludology, and play theory, this innovative work highlights a popular alternative trend in the gaming community.
Author : Beatrice Moretti
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868596137
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Port City written by Beatrice Moretti and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portuality is a concept that has long been rooted in several urban centers. It denotes a territorial quality specific to those cities and developed through strong relationships with their own port. Beyond the Port City recognizes portuality as a specific condition and suggests that the city-port threshold could emerge as one major symbolic field of exploration. This unique threshold materializes along the margin between the two authorities, namely in that space where the city and the port are side by side. It is marked by an administrative boundary that becomes an accumulator of transit: a fragmented space where the juxtapositions take sufficient shape to acquire a dimension and to be recognizable. This book updates the old city-port dichotomy and outlines a new vision in which the port city is a forma urbis affected by the speed of changing processes and influenced by the factors that are embodied in its territorial palimpsest.
Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250082730
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book It's All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] timely book . . . a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history.” —The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us even longer than the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, Tristan Donovan, British journalist and author of Replay: The History of Video Games, opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games—from chess to Monopoly to Risk and more—have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations. “Splendid . . . A quick and breezy read, it doesn’t just tell the fascinating stories of the (often struggling) individuals who created our favorite games. It also manages to convey the entire sweep of board game history, from the earliest forms of checkers to modern-day surprise hits like Settlers of Catan.” —Mashable “Artfully weaves together culture, business, and ways games impact society.” —Booklist “A fascinating and insightful discussion not only of games past, but the socioeconomic and historical factors that contributed to their popularity.” —Chicago Review of Books
Author : Brian Tinsman
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1600377904
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Game Inventor's Guidebook written by Brian Tinsman and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to developing and selling your game idea from a game design manager at Wizards of the Coast, the world’s largest tabletop hobby game company. Do you have an idea for a board game, card game, role-playing game or tabletop game? Have you ever wondered how to get it published? For many years Brian Tinsman reviewed new game submissions for Hasbro, the largest game company in the US. With The Game Inventor’s Guidebook: How to Invent and Sell Board Games, Card Games, Role-playing Games & Everything in Between! Tinsman presents the only book that lays out step-by-step advice, guidelines and instructions for getting a new game from idea to retail shelf.
Author : Aldo Rossi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262680431
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of the City written by Aldo Rossi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1984-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.
Author : Nathaniel Coleman
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034301206
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Imagining and Making the World written by Nathaniel Coleman and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the association between architecture and utopia (the relationship between imagining a new world and exploring how its new conditions can best be organized) might appear obvious from within the domain of utopian studies, architects have long attempted to dissociate themselves from utopia. Concentrating on the difficulties writers from both perspectives experience with the topic, this collection interrogates the meta-theoretical problematic for ongoing intellectual work on architecture and utopia. The essays explore divergent manifestations of the play of utopia on architectural imagination, situated within specific historical moments, from the early Renaissance to the present day. The volume closes with an exchange between Nathaniel Coleman, Ruth Levitas, and Lyman Tower Sargent, reflecting on the contributions the essays make to situating architecture and utopia historically and theoretically within utopian studies, and to articulating utopia as a method for inventing and producing better places. Intriguing to architects, planners, urban designers, and others who study and make the built environment, this collection will also be of interest to utopian studies scholars, students, and general readers with a concern for the interrelationships between the built environment and social dreaming.
Author : Anke Strüver
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825888909
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Stories of the "Boring Border" written by Anke Strüver and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the 'open' Dutch-German border and people's everyday practices in relation to this border within the context of Dutch-German relations and the process of European integration. It concentrates on people's perceptions of the 'open' Dutch-German border and people's practices of crossing it - or not. The work also introduces new methodologies and forms of border research, e.g. on borders in people's minds, which are concerned with the construction of bordered spaces and the performed manners of nationalised daily routines. In this context, borders are framed as constructed by narratives and images, but also as representations themselves - as part of popular imaginations.
Author : Shelley Egoz
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786438348
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Defining Landscape Democracy written by Shelley Egoz and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating book explores theories, conceptual frameworks, and cultural approaches with the purpose of uncovering a cross-cultural understanding of landscape democracy, a concept at the intersection of landscape, democracy and spatial justice. The authors of Defining Landscape Democracy address a number of questions that are critical to the contemporary discourse on the right to landscape: Why is democracy relevant to landscape? How do we democratise landscape? How might we achieve landscape and spatial justice?
Author : Jonathan Kay
Publisher : Sutherland House Books
ISBN 13 : 9781999439545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Your Move written by Jonathan Kay and published by Sutherland House Books. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great board game revolution is here-- What do these games tell us about our society, our relationships, and ourselves? "Games, Jonathan Kay and Joan Moriarity show in this lively and insightful book, are not just fun and games: they allow us to explore the complexities of the world, from evolution to war to climate." - STEVEN PINKER, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress "Kay and Moriarity are both skilled writers and elucidators, and their voices are distinct enough to provide the book with a pleasing yin and yang. It's a far more perceptive and intriguing book than it appears at first blush, particularly for those readers who have never thought of games as an artistic medium - at least not one that comments on society." - KIRKUS REVIEWS Board games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, they fell from prominence for a decade or two but today they are in a new golden age. They're ingeniously designed, beautiful to look at, and exhilarating to play. Games are reclaiming their place in our culture, as entertainment, social activity, and intellectual workout equipment. Alone among all art forms, games require their audience (called "players") to participate. If nobody's playing, there is no game. As a result, games can tell far more about us than our TV shows, movies or music ever could. How does The Game of Life illustrate our changing attitudes about virtue? How does a World War II conflict simulation game explain the shortcomings of a failed novelist? Each chapter of Your Move examines one game, and what it reveals about our culture, history, society, and relationships. The book's two co-authors bring the perspectives of a writer who plays, and a player who writes. Before Jonathan Kay began his distinguished career as an author and commentator, he had a passion for games, and in recent years he has rediscovered them. Meanwhile, Joan Moriarity's career has been spent designing, developing, distributing, art directing, recommending and teaching board games and, recently, writing about them for a wider audience. With its short, punchy essays, and beautiful photographs of the games themselves, every chapter will be a worthwhile read in itself, and the book overall will leave you inspired to discover the truths of your own inner and outer world through play -- whether you're a seasoned veteran or a total newcomer.
Author : Dennis Rumley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317598792
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Geography of Border Landscapes written by Dennis Rumley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is about border landscapes, with emphasis on the varying impact that political decision-making and ideological differences can have on the environment at border locations, for example. This volume by political-geography experts from across the globe provides important insights specficially into border landscapes and so serves to further our understanding of aspects of cultural landscapes.
Author : Birgitta Höijer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ideological Horizons in Media and Citizen Discourses written by Birgitta Höijer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meghna Chhabra
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000455696
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Big Data written by Meghna Chhabra and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital age has transformed business opportunities and strategies in a resolutely practical and data-driven project universe. This book is a comprehensive and analytical source on entrepreneurship and Big Data that prospective entrepreneurs must know before embarking upon an entrepreneurial journey in this present age of digital transformation. This book provides an overview of the various aspects of entrepreneurship, function, and contemporary forms. It covers a real-world understanding of how the entrepreneurial world works and the required new analytics thinking and computational skills. It also encompasses the essential elements needed when starting an entrepreneurial journey and offers inspirational case studies from key industry leaders. Ideal reading for aspiring entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship and Big Data: The Digital Revolution is also useful to students, academicians, researchers, and practitioners.
Author : Tridib Banerjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136920080
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Companion to Urban Design written by Tridib Banerjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental justice, economic development, climate change, energy conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable development, community liveability, and the like. The field now comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications, enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and social and natural sciences. Companion to Urban Design includes more than fifty original contributions from internationally recognized authorities in the field. These contributions address the following questions: What are the important ideas that have shaped the field and the current practice of urban design? What are the major methods and processes that have influenced the practice of urban design at various scales? What are the current innovations relevant to the pedagogy of urban design? What are the lingering debates, conflicts ad contradictions in the theory and practice of urban design? How could urban design respond to the contemporary challenges of climate change, sustainability, active living initiatives, globalization, and the like? What are the significant disciplinary influences on the theory, research and practice of urban design in recent times? There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, but also in urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and related fields.
