Cities Real And Ideal

Author : David Weissman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110321968

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Cities, Real and Ideal by David Weissman Pdf

Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a version of social justice appropriate to this structure, thereby updating Marx’s claim that justice is realizable without the intervention of factors additional to society’s material conditions.

Author : Robert Klanten,gestalten,Elli Stuhler,SPACE10
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3899558626

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The Ideal City by Robert Klanten,gestalten,Elli Stuhler,SPACE10 Pdf

"Urban life is humankind’s biggest experiment to date, our cities are constantly evolving and adapting to climate and economy. The cities we have today are not necessarily the ones we need, but big and small innovation is rethinking visions of urbanization. Together with pioneering research and design lab SPACE10, we present future-orientated design which enhances quality of life and makes our urban spaces more vibrant. As technology and urban life edge ever closer, The Ideal City explores the ambitious actions and initiatives being brought to life across the globe to meet tomorrow’s demand in clever, forwarding-thinking ways. From pedestrian infrastructure to housing, the book uncovers what is being discussed at the forefront of urbanism through expert essays and profiles."--

Author : John Fahy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789206104

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Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City by John Fahy Pdf

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.

Author : James H. Bater
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008289244

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The Soviet City by James H. Bater Pdf

Author : Adi Ophir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134959747

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Plato's Invisible Cities by Adi Ophir Pdf

This book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's Republic, one of the most influential philosophical works in the emergence of Western philosophy. The author discusses the Republic in terms of discursive events and political acts. Plato's act is placed in the context of a politico-discursive crisis in Athens at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B.C that gave rise to the dialogue's primary question, that of justice. The originality of Dr. Ophir lies in the way he reconstructs the Republic's different spatial settings - utopian, mythical, dramatic and discursive - using them as the main thread of his interpretation. Against the background of Plato's critique of the organisation of civic-space in the Greek polis, the author relates the spatial settings in the Plato text to each other. This provides a basis for a re-examination of the relationship between philosophy and politics, which Plato's work advocates, and which it actually enacted.

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781365807145

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My American Harp by Surazeus Astarius Pdf

"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.

Author : C.A.O. van Nieuwenhuijze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112312025

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The Nation and the Ideal City by C.A.O. van Nieuwenhuijze Pdf

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Author : Sonia Maria Vanzella Castellar,Marcelo Garrido-Pereira,Nubia Moreno Lache
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030798475

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Geographical Reasoning and Learning by Sonia Maria Vanzella Castellar,Marcelo Garrido-Pereira,Nubia Moreno Lache Pdf

This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. It highlights cartography and maps as essential tools and provides a meaningful approach to learning in geographical education, thereby giving children and young people the opportunity to better understand their situations, contexts and social conditions. The book describes how South American countries organize their scholar curriculum and the ways in which they deal with geography vocabulary and developing fundamental concepts, methodologies, epistemological comprehension on categories, keywords and themes in geography. It also describes its use in teachers’ practices and learning progressions, the use of spatial representations as a potent mean to visualize and solve questions, and harnesses spatial thinking and geographical reasoning development. The book helps to improve teaching and learning practices in primary and secondary education and as such it provides an interesting read for researchers, students, and teachers of geography and social studies.

Author : David A. Westbrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135943264

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City of Gold by David A. Westbrook Pdf

David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.

Author : Stephen Rowley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137493286

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Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs by Stephen Rowley Pdf

Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places.

Author : Fred Dallmayr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793634542

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Political Life in Dark Times by Fred Dallmayr Pdf

Against the background of the present political and cultural disarray, this book asks: What can be learned from past historical examples of such decay? How can political life be restored now to its original purpose: the promotion of the "good life" or the "common good?" Taking up these key questions, the volume performs a deep dive into the historical and literary record, tracing out the collision of institutions and society, and the development of philosophical and ethical accounts of what constitutes politics, the state, the public, and individuals. Throughout history, there have been a multiple trajectories for understanding the basic relationship between the state, power, society, and the ethical: the multivalent theories, unsurprisingly, have clashed and created rifts. At the same time, despite conflict and tumult, from ancient Athens and Tudor England, to the rise of fascism and authoritarianism in the previous and current centuries, a riptide of hope and praxes has endured that grounds the possibility of a society founded on solidarity. Towards this end, Fred Dallmayr pleads for the renewal of politics through the legacy of the "cardinal virtues" acting as chief remedy for the present disarray.

Author : Helen Rosenau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135676391

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The Ideal City by Helen Rosenau Pdf

The concept of the 'ideal city' is, perhaps, more important today - when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment - than ever before. Yet it is a concept which has profoundly influenced the western world throughout history, both as a regulative model and as an inspiration. Rosenau traces the progress of the concept from biblical sources through the hellenistic and Roman empires to the Renaissance and the later Age of Enlightenment, when the emphasis shifted from religious to social considerations. She goes on to discuss the resultant nineteenth-century ideal planning, when the idea of social betterment was approached with a specific and conscious effort. This book was first published in 1983.

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : Raymond L Bryant
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857936172

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The International Handbook of Political Ecology by Raymond L Bryant Pdf

The International Handbook of Political Ecology features chapters by leading scholars from around the world in a unique collection exploring the multi-disciplinary field of political ecology. This landmark volume canvasses key developments, topics, iss

Author : Tanja Staehler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135214005

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Plato and Levinas by Tanja Staehler Pdf

In the second half of the twentieth century, ethics has gained considerable prominence within philosophy. In contrast to other scholars, Levinas proposed that it be not one philosophical discipline among many, but the most fundamental and essential one. Before philosophy became divided into disciplines, Plato also treated the question of the Good as the most important philosophical question. Levinas's approach to ethics begins in the encounter with the other as the most basic experience of responsibility. He acknowledges the necessity to move beyond this initial, dyadic encounter, but has problems extending his approach to a larger dimension, such as community. To shed light on this dilemma, Tanja Staehler examines broader dimensions which are linked to the political realm, and the problems they pose for ethics. Staehler demonstrates that both Plato and Levinas come to identify three realms as ambiguous: the erotic, the artistic, and the political. In each case, there is a precarious position in relation to ethics. However, neither Plato nor Levinas explores ambiguity in itself. Staehler argues that these ambiguous dimensions can contribute to revealing the Other’s vulnerability without diminishing the fundamental role of unambiguous ethical responsibility.