Mapping Possibility

Author : Leonie Sandercock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000825435

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Mapping Possibility by Leonie Sandercock Pdf

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating her life to pursuing social, cultural, and environmental justice through her work. In this book, Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films, which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions, both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section, and four new essays, two discussing Sandercock’s most recent work on a feature-film project with Indigenous partners. Innovative, visionary, and audacious, Leonie’s community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable issues of our time – inequality, discrimination, and racism. Through award-winning books and films, she has influenced the planning field to become more culturally fluent, addressing diversity and difference through structural change. This book draws a map of hope for emerging planners dedicated to equity, justice, and sustainability. It will inspire the next generation of community planners, as well as current practitioners and students in planning, cultural studies, urban studies, architecture, and community development.

Author : Kim Dovey,Elek Pafka,Mirjana Ristic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315309163

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Mapping Urbanities by Kim Dovey,Elek Pafka,Mirjana Ristic Pdf

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space? How can mapping extend the urban imagination and therefore the possibilities for urban transformation? With a focus on urban scales, Mapping Urbanities explores the potency of mapping as a research method that opens new horizons in our exploration of complex urban environments. A primary focus is on investigating urban morphologies and flows within a framework of assemblage thinking – an understanding of cities that is focused on relations between places rather than on places in themselves; on transformations more than fixed forms; and on multi-scale relations from 10m to 100km. With cases drawn from 30 cities across the global north and south, Mapping Urbanities analyses the mapping of place identities, political conflict, transport flows, streetlife, functional mix and informal settlements. Mapping is presented as a production of spatial knowledge embodying a diagrammatic logic that cannot be reduced to words and numbers. Urban mapping constructs interconnections between the ways the city is perceived, conceived and lived, revealing capacities for urban transformation – the city as a space of possibility.

Author : Nancy Duxbury,W.F. Garrett-Petts,David MacLennan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317588009

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Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry by Nancy Duxbury,W.F. Garrett-Petts,David MacLennan Pdf

This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relationships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The chapters address themes, processes, approaches, and research methodologies drawn from examples in Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Ukraine. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning, community development, artistic intervention, and public participation in cultural mapping—recognizing that public involvement and artistic practices introduce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process, from the gathering of data, to interpreting data, to presenting "findings" to a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situate the practice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Author : Maimbo M. Malesu
Publisher : World Agroforestry Centre
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789290592112

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Mapping the Potential of Rainwater Harvesting Technologies in Africa by Maimbo M. Malesu Pdf

Author : Jeremy W. Crampton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0226117456

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The Political Mapping of Cyberspace by Jeremy W. Crampton Pdf

This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations. Using concepts and methods derived from the work of Michel Foucault, Jeremy Crampton explores the construction of digital subjectivity, web identity and authenticity, as well as the nature and consequences of the digital divide between the connected and those abandoned in limbo. He demonstrates that it is by processes of mapping that we understand cyberspace and in doing so delineates the critical role maps play in constructing cyberspace as an object of knowledge. Maps, he argues, shape political thinking about cyberspace, and he deploys in-depth case studies of crime mapping, security and geo-surveillance to show how we map ourselves onto cyberspace, inexorably and indelibly. Clearly argued and vigorously written this book offers a powerful reinterpretation of cyberspace, politics, and contemporary life.

Author : Jeremy Crampton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : COMPUTERS
ISBN : 9781474465922

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Political Mapping of Cyberspace by Jeremy Crampton Pdf

This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations. Using concepts and methods derived from the work of Michel Foucault, Jeremy Crampton explores the construction of digital subjectivity, web identity and authenticity, as well as the nature and consequences of the digital divide between the connected and those abandoned in limbo. He demonstrates that it is by processes of mapping that we understand cyberspace and in doing so delineates the critical role maps play in constructing cyberspace as an object of knowledge. Maps, he argues, shape political thinking about cyberspace, and he deploys in-depth case studies of crime mapping, security and geo-surveillance to show how we map ourselves onto cyberspace, inexorably and indelibly. Clearly argued and vigorously written, this book offers a powerful reinterpretation of cyberspace, politics and contemporary life.

Author : Keith D. Harries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UOM:39015047569994

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Mapping Crime by Keith D. Harries Pdf

Author : Kim Dovey,Elek Pafka,Mirjana Ristic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315309156

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Mapping Urbanities by Kim Dovey,Elek Pafka,Mirjana Ristic Pdf

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space? How can mapping extend the urban imagination and therefore the possibilities for urban transformation? With a focus on urban scales, Mapping Urbanities explores the potency of mapping as a research method that opens new horizons in our exploration of complex urban environments. A primary focus is on investigating urban morphologies and flows within a framework of assemblage thinking – an understanding of cities that is focused on relations between places rather than on places in themselves; on transformations more than fixed forms; and on multi-scale relations from 10m to 100km. With cases drawn from 30 cities across the global north and south, Mapping Urbanities analyses the mapping of place identities, political conflict, transport flows, streetlife, functional mix and informal settlements. Mapping is presented as a production of spatial knowledge embodying a diagrammatic logic that cannot be reduced to words and numbers. Urban mapping constructs interconnections between the ways the city is perceived, conceived and lived, revealing capacities for urban transformation – the city as a space of possibility.

Author : J. Denègre
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483101538

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Thematic Mapping From Satellite Imagery: A Guidebook by J. Denègre Pdf

Thematic Mapping from Satellite Imagery: A Guidebook discusses methods in producing maps using satellite images. The book is comprised of five chapters; each chapter covers one stage of the process. Chapter 1 tackles the satellite remote sensing imaging and its cartographic significance. Chapter 2 discusses the production processes for extracting information from satellite data. The next chapter covers the methods for combining satellite-derived information with that obtained from conventional sources. Chapter 4 deals with design and semiology for cartographic representation, and Chapter 5 presents examples of applications. The book will be of great use to cartographers who want to utilize satellite imaging in generating a map.

Author : Vladimir Egorov
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323859837

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Biomechanical Mapping of the Female Pelvic Floor by Vladimir Egorov Pdf

Biomechanical Mapping of the Female Pelvic Floor explores new technological advances in women’s healthcare intended to improve pelvic floor characterization, diagnosis and prediction of treatment outcomes. The book describes biomechanical approaches and clinical examples to demonstrate how one can evaluate the changes in the pelvic floor to gain a better understanding of an individual patient’s pelvic floor dysfunctions, such as prolapse, incontinence, chronic pelvic pain, and even conditions leading to spontaneous preterm delivery and predicting maternal birth trauma. This book is a valuable resource for researchers focused on gynecology, urogynecology or obstetrics, clinicians, graduate students and biomedical scientists and bioengineers who need to better understand the technological advances in biomechanical characterization and how they can be used not only for diagnosis but also for monitoring several OBGYN-related conditions. Discusses the most recent advances in the field of biomechanical characterization of soft tissues, pelvic support and function, including different applications of tactile imaging, ultrasound and magnetic resonance elastography Explores new diagnostic devices and techniques, mathematical models and simulations to address preoperative assessment and prediction of pelvic surgery outcomes and delivery Presents reviews of the results of multiple clinical studies with the biomechanical mapping of human tissues and organs to provide comprehensive information on the subject and determine future directions in the field

Author : Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439897195

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Machine Translation by Pushpak Bhattacharyya Pdf

This book compares and contrasts the principles and practices of rule-based machine translation (RBMT), statistical machine translation (SMT), and example-based machine translation (EBMT). Presenting numerous examples, the text introduces language divergence as the fundamental challenge to machine translation, emphasizes and works out word alignment, explores IBM models of machine translation, covers the mathematics of phrase-based SMT, provides complete walk-throughs of the working of interlingua-based and transfer-based RBMT, and analyzes EBMT, showing how translation parts can be extracted and recombined to automatically translate a new input.

Author : Helen M. Buss
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773563766

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Mapping Our Selves by Helen M. Buss Pdf

Buss supplies a framework for her study by reviewing male-centred theories of identity and some of the ways in which theorists working with women's autobiographical accounts are changing these models. The texts selected by Buss include those by Elizabeth Simcoe, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily Carr, Laura Salverson, Margaret Laurence, Dorothy Livesay, Daphne Marlatt, Mary Meigs, Maria Campbell, Kristjana Gunnars, and Aritha van Herk. Each section of the book opens with a short autobiographical introduction by Buss, allowing the reader to place the author's critical practice within the context of her sense of her own identity as critic, writer, and woman.

Author : Caroline Jarebrant
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789289345729

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Ergonomic Value Stream Mapping by Caroline Jarebrant Pdf

Author : Dori Griffin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816509324

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Mapping Wonderlands by Dori Griffin Pdf

Mapping Wonderlands explores popular, illustrated maps of Arizona as a tourism destination, investigating the relationship between landscapes, visual culture, and narratives of place. These aesthetically appealing maps offer tourists an Arizona landscape at once historical and imaginary – just as their makers intended.

Author : Simonetta Moro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429576744

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Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art by Simonetta Moro Pdf

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the "spatial turn" of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of "mapping" as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.