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Light Zone City

Author : Christa van Santen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764375221
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Light Zone City written by Christa van Santen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face of the nocturnal metropolis is marked decisively by light, and the number and variety of the light sources is increasing to the point of "light terror." A well-lit urban space can be very inviting, giving residents and visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful lighting design can also give the city at night an identity of its own and accentuate architectural qualities. In this book, the author embodies her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting design. In preparation, she visited ten European cities -- including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam -- with different urban situations. This has enabled her to present different planning and design tasks systematically and to illustrate specific solutions. In addition to articulating basic planning rules for the outdoor lighting of buildings, traffic routes, and squares, she presents and elucidates new artificial lighting systems and outdoor lamps with the help of examples.

Proceedings of the ... National Conference on City Planning

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... National Conference on City Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cuban City, Segregated

Author : Bonnie A. Lucero
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320032
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book A Cuban City, Segregated written by Bonnie A. Lucero and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city Founded as a white colony in 1819, Cienfuegos, Cuba, quickly became home to people of African descent, both free and enslaved, and later a small community of Chinese and other immigrants. Despite the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity that defined the city’s population, the urban landscape was characterized by distinctive racial boundaries, separating the white city center from the heterogeneous peripheries. A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century explores how the de facto racial segregation was constructed and perpetuated in a society devoid of explicitly racial laws. Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie A. Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba is recognizing the often unspoken ways specifically classed notions and practices of gender shaped the historical production of race and racial inequality. In the context of nineteenth-century Cienfuegos, gender, race, and class converged in the concept of urban order, a complex and historically contingent nexus of ideas about the appropriate and desired social hierarchy among urban residents, often embodied spatially in particular relationships to the urban landscape. As Cienfuegos evolved subtly over time, the internal logic of urban order was driven by the construction and defense of a legible, developed, aesthetically pleasing, and, most importantly, white city center. Local authorities produced policies that reduced access to the city center along class and gendered lines, for example, by imposing expensive building codes on centric lands, criminalizing poor peoples’ leisure activities, regulating prostitution, and quashing organized labor. Although none of these policies mentioned race outright, this new scholarship demonstrates that the policies were instrumental in producing and perpetuating the geographic marginality and discursive erasure of people of color from the historic center of Cienfuegos during its first century of existence.

Introduction to Cities

Author : Xiangming Chen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111916771X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Cities written by Xiangming Chen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they shape our everyday lives. Written in engaging and accessible terms, Introduction to Cities examines the study of cities through two central concepts: that cities are places, where people live, form communities, and establish their own identities, and that they are spaces, such as the inner city and the suburb, that offer a way to configure and shape the material world and natural environment. Introduction to Cities covers the theory of cities from an historical perspective right through to the most recent theoretical developments. The authors offer a balanced account of life in cities and explore both positive and negative themes. In addition, the text takes a global approach, with examples ranging from Berlin and Chicago to Shanghai and Mumbai. The book is extensively illustrated with updated maps, charts, tables, and photographs. This new edition also includes a new section on urban planning as well as new chapters on cities as contested spaces, exploring power and politics in an urban context. It contains; information on the status of poor and marginalized groups and the impact of neoliberal policies; material on gender and sexuality; and presents a greater range of geographies with more attention to European, Latin American, and African cities. Revised and updated, Introduction to Cities provides a complete introduction to the history, evolution, and future of our modern cities.

Queering Kansas City Jazz

Author : Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496210328
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Queering Kansas City Jazz written by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City's music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city's history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space. Cabarets, gender impressionism clubs, and sites of sex tourism in Kansas City served as world-making spaces for those whose performance of identity transgressed hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical deconstruction of how the jazz scene offered a space for nonnormative gender practice and performance and acted as a site of contested identity and spatial territory. Few books examine the changing ideas about gender in the turn-of-the-century Great Plains, under the false assumption that people in middle-American places experienced cultural shifts only as an aftershock of events on the coasts. This approach overlooks the region's contested territories, identities, and memories and fails to adequately explain the social and cultural disruptions experienced on the plains. Clifford-Napoleone rectifies this oversight and shows how Kansas City represents the complexity of the jazz scene in America as a microcosm of all the other people who made the culture, clubs, music, and cabarets of the age possible.

Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Conference of Mayors and Other Municipal Officials of the State of New York

Author : Conference of Mayors and Other Municipal Officials of the State of New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Conference of Mayors and Other Municipal Officials of the State of New York written by Conference of Mayors and Other Municipal Officials of the State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

US 97 Bend North Corridor Project, Deschutes County

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book US 97 Bend North Corridor Project, Deschutes County written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colour Design

Author : Janet Best
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0081018894
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Colour Design written by Janet Best and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colour Design: Theories and Applications, Second Edition, provides information on a broad spectrum of colour subjects written by seasoned industry professionals and academics. It is a multidisciplinary book that addresses the use of colour across a range of industries, with a particular focus on textile colouration. Part One deals with the human visual system, colour perception and colour psychology, while Part Two focuses on the practical application of colour in design, including specifically in textiles and fashion. Part Three covers cultural and historical aspects of colour, as well as recent developments, addressing areas such as dyes and pigments, architecture, colour theory, virtual reality games, colour printing, website development, and sustainability. This revised, expanded, and updated edition reflects recent technological developments, and new industry priorities. Bringing together the science of colouration and the more artistic elements of design, this book supports students, academics, and industry professionals in developing a deep knowledge of colour use. It will also be an important reference for those involved in textile dyeing, design and manufacture. - Provides a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the use of color in textiles - Discusses the application of color across a wide range of industries, supporting interdisciplinary knowledge and research - Offers a revised, expanded, and updated look that reflects the rise of new technology and industry priorities

Electrical News

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Electrical News written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legalizing Prostitution

Author : Ronald Weitzer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814794637
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Legalizing Prostitution written by Ronald Weitzer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution. Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain. Using America as a backdrop, Weitzer draws on extensive field research in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany to illustrate alternatives to American-style criminalization of sex workers. These cases are then used to develop a roster of “best practices” that can serve as a model for other nations considering legalization. Legalizing Prostitution provides a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of political dynamics, policy outcomes, and red-light landscapes in nations where prostitution has been legalized and regulated by the government, presenting a rich and novel portrait of the multifaceted world of legal sex for sale.

Legalized Prostitution in Germany

Author : Annegret Staiger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058953
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Legalized Prostitution in Germany written by Annegret Staiger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany has been infamously dubbed the "Brothel of Europe," but how does legalized prostitution actually work? Is it empowering or victimizing, realistic or dangerous? In Legalized Prostitution in Germany, Annegret D. Staiger's ethnography engages historical, cultural, and legal contexts to reframe the brothel as a place of longing and belonging, of affective entanglements between unlikely partners, and of new beginnings across borders, while also acknowledging the increasingly exploitative labor practices. By sharing the stories of sex workers, clients, and managers within the larger legal system—meant to provide dignity and safety through regulation—Staiger skillfully frames the economic aspects of commercial sex work and addresses important questions about sexual labor, intimacy, and relationships. Weaving insightful scholarship with beautiful storytelling, Legalized Prostitution in Germany provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complexities of legalized prostitution.

The Sexual Economy of War

Author : Andrew Byers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501736469
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Sexual Economy of War written by Andrew Byers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to the military experience during a time of two global conflicts and numerous other army deployments. In this revealing study, Byers shows that none of the issues related to current debates about gender, sex, and the military—the inclusion of LGBTQ soldiers, sexual harassment and violence, the integration of women—is new at all. Framing the American story within an international context, he looks at case studies from the continental United States, Hawaii, the Philippines, France, and Germany. Drawing on internal army policy documents, soldiers' personal papers, and disciplinary records used in criminal investigations, The Sexual Economy of War illuminates how the US Army used official policy, legal enforcement, indoctrination, and military culture to govern wayward sexual behaviors. Such regulation, and its active opposition, leads Byers to conclude that the tension between organizational control and individual agency has deep and tangled historical roots.

Oil Cities

Author : Henry Alexander Wiencek
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147732917X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Oil Cities written by Henry Alexander Wiencek and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this manuscript, Henry Alexander Wiencek takes a local approach to early twentieth-century domestic American energy production, what he calls "a gathering historical force" that was dramatically altering the economic, political, and social fabric of the United States. At this time, firms like Standard Oil were becoming some of the most influential actors on earth, wielding enormous power over the American economy and government--and leading some historians to tell the story of oil as a simple one of triumph and transformation. But, as Wiencek argues, a close look at the industry's venture into North Louisiana reveals a more varied and contested story of interaction, one in which global forces of industrial capitalism collided with--and often had to accommodate--local economic, social, political, and ecological dynamics. Despite its well-documented financial and technological prowess, the oil industry had to adapt its labor, tools, and investments to those circumstances--an international engine of economic power assuming a local form. Wiencek's chapters cover a lot of territory, from the history of oil boomtowns and "illicit" behavior to environmental impacts and political legacies. Not surprisingly, a key part of the story has to do with race. The new oil economy, he shows, collided with long-standing racial ideologies, which delineated sharp economic, social, and legal boundaries within the new industry. Prior to the boom, nearly three-quarters of the area's population was Black, with many rural tenant farmers working the same areas as their enslaved ancestors. But as oil created a lucrative new source of wages, racial violence became a way of ensuring the oil rigs--and the jobs they generated--would remain all white. On the other hand, oil did not naturally adhere to racial boundaries and at times was discovered under Black-owned lands, with complicated legal and social consequences that Wiencek explores via compelling case studies"--

Financial Statistics of Cities Having a Population of Over 30,000

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Financial Statistics of Cities Having a Population of Over 30,000 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A City Divided

Author : Sherry Lamb Schirmer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263631
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book A City Divided written by Sherry Lamb Schirmer and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A City Divided traces the development of white Kansas Citians’ perceptions of race and examines the ways in which those perceptions shaped both the physical landscape of the city and the manner in which Kansas City was policed and governed. Because of rapid changes in land use and difficulties in suppressing crime and vice in Kansas City, the control of urban spaces became an acute concern, particularly for the white middle class, before race became a problematic issue in Kansas City. As the African American population grew in size and assertiveness, whites increasingly identified blacks with those factors that most deprived a given space of its middle-class character. Consequently, African Americans came to represent the antithesis of middle-class values, and the white middle class established its identity by excluding blacks from the urban spaces it occupied. By 1930, racial discrimination rested firmly on gender and family values as well as class. Inequitable law enforcement in the ghetto increased criminal activity, both real and perceived, within the African American community. White Kansas Citians maintained this system of racial exclusion and denigration in part by “misdirection,” either by denying that exclusion existed or by claiming that segregation was necessary to prevent racial violence. Consequently, African American organizations sought to counter misdirection tactics. The most effective of these efforts followed World War II, when local black activists devised demonstration strategies that targeted misdirection specifically. At the same time, a new perception emerged among white liberals about the role of race in shaping society. Whites in the local civil rights movement acted upon the belief that integration would produce a better society by transforming human character. Successful in laying the foundation for desegregating public accommodations in Kansas City, black and white activists nonetheless failed to dismantle the systems of spatial exclusion and inequitable law enforcement or to eradicate the racial ideologies that underlay those systems. These racial perceptions continue to shape race relations in Kansas City and elsewhere. This study demystifies these perceptions by exploring their historical context. While there have been many studies of the emergence of ghettos in northern and border cities, and others of race, gender, segregation, and the origins of white ideologies, A City Divided is the first to address these topics in the context of a dynamic, urban society in the Midwest.

Sex and the City

Author : Philip Hubbard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351791303
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Sex and the City written by Philip Hubbard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: Prostitution has always played a crucial symbolic role in the definition of moral and sexual standards and, as such, the figure of the prostitute has been paradigmatic in the history of the sex and the city. Focusing on the geographies of female prostitution in Western societies, this book explores the nature of sites of sex work and the ways they shape the lives of prostitutes (and their clients). In so doing, the book aims not simply to present a static "mapping" of sex work, but seeks to highlight how these public and private ssites are struggled over, with prostitutes often resisting the strategies of social and legal control designed to regulate their working practices. The book consequently engages with a number of contemporary debates in social, cultural and gender geography surrounding the importance of public and private spaces in producing (and reproducing) gender, sex and bodily identities.

ICACE 2019

Author : Mokhtar Awang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811511934
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book ICACE 2019 written by Mokhtar Awang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents selected articles from the 3rd International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering 2019, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Written by leading researchers and industry professionals, the papers highlight recent advances and addresses current issues in the fields of civil engineering and architecture.