Place Makers

Author : Simon Unwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351695411

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Children as Place-Makers by Simon Unwin Pdf

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. As children we make places spontaneously: on the beach, in woodland, around our homes... Those places are evidence of a natural language of architecture we all share. Beginning with the child as seed and agent of the places it makes, initial sections of Children as Place-makers illustrate the key ‘verbs’ that drive that natural language of architecture. Later sections look at the core importance of the circle of place, how as children we are drawn to inhabit boxes, and the narrative possibilities that arise when place is linked with imagination. The principal messages of this Notebook are that it is by place-making we make sense of the space of the world in which we live, and that the first step in becoming a professional architect is to re-awaken the innate architect inside each of us.

Author : Ronald Lee Fleming,Renata Von Tscharner
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033743140

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Place Makers by Ronald Lee Fleming,Renata Von Tscharner Pdf

Author : Amanda M. Olejarski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780739178584

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Administrative Discretion in Action by Amanda M. Olejarski Pdf

Given that this book is written for scholars, practitioners, students, and community members, it emphasizes praxis, the critical interface between public administration theory and the practice of eminent domain. This book is the most comprehensive analysis on eminent domain in...

Author : Ewan Ferlie,Kathleen Montgomery,Anne Reff Pedersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191015205

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The Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management by Ewan Ferlie,Kathleen Montgomery,Anne Reff Pedersen Pdf

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management. It contains over twenty chapters from well-known and eminent academic authors, who were carefully selected for their expertise and asked to provide a broad and critical overview of developments in their particular topic area. The development of an international perspective and body of knowledge is a key feature of the book. The Handbook secondly makes a case for bringing back a social science perspective into the study of the field of health care management. It therefore contains a number of contrasting and theoretically orientated chapters (e.g. on institutionalism; critical management studies). This social science based approach is a refreshing alternative to much existing work in this domain and offers a good way into current academic debates in this field. The Handbook thirdly explores a variety of important policy and organizational developments apparent within the current health care field (e.g. new organizational forms; growth of management consulting in health care organizations). It therefore explores and comments on major contemporary trends apparent in the practice field.

Author : Keith H. Basso
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0826317243

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Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith H. Basso Pdf

Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.

Author : Shivanand Balram,James Boxall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030060589

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GIScience Teaching and Learning Perspectives by Shivanand Balram,James Boxall Pdf

This volume uniquely links educational theories and the practice of GIScience in higher education contexts to guide classroom practice, present effective practical implementations from peers, and provide resources and strategies for effective teaching methods. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of GIScience education, including current trends and future educational needs in GIScience, and will act as a resource to prepare learners for a world that demands more intensive investment in present-day education and technological literacy. Additionally, the indirect benefit of merging the fragmented literature on GIScience literacy will provide a basis to examine common techniques and enable a new wave of research more rooted in learning theories. In ten chapters, the book is designed to attract an audience from geographic information systems science, geomatics, spatial information science, cartography, information technology, and educational technology as focus disciplines.

Author : Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931855

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The Lost Land of Lemuria by Sumathi Ramaswamy Pdf

During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria’s incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery—and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day.

Author : Herb Auerbach,Ira Nadel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1927958792

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Placemakers by Herb Auerbach,Ira Nadel Pdf

What do Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Cardinal Richelieu, defender of Quebec, and Napoleon III of the Second French Empire have in common? Besides wielding political power and securing their own survival, all three played a leading role in real estate development. Placemakers examines their contributions to "place" along with those of other, sometimes unlikely candidates. From Augustus, emperor of ancient Rome, responsible for shaping the world's largest city into an imperial capital, to Joseph Smith of frontier America, who preached about the "Promised Land" while practicing land speculation, this illustrated volume focuses on the visionaries and profiteers who put their stamp on history--and on the land. Meanwhile, it examines their motives, which range from slum clearing to utopian dreams to social engineering. What these developers built was sometimes monumental; examples include the ziggurat of Ur, a truncated pyramid, and the Pharos of Alexandria, the world's first lighthouse and tallest structure of the ancient world. At other times their vision changed society--think shopping malls and skyscrapers. Placemakers celebrates their legacy around the globe, from the Middle East to Europe and North America, making side trips to China and even outer space. It will appeal to architects, planners and all others who are curious about the history of real estate development.

Author : Margaret Somerville,Bronwyn Davies,Kerith Power,Susanne Gannon,Phoenix de Carteret
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460916151

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Place Pedagogy Change by Margaret Somerville,Bronwyn Davies,Kerith Power,Susanne Gannon,Phoenix de Carteret Pdf

Place pedagogy change is a work of creative experimentation in which we explore the ways in which pedagogies of place can enable the relational learning of connections between people, places and communities. In adding the element of place to the dynamic relations between teacher, learner, and knowledge, we articulate a pedagogy of ethical uncertainty. Ethical refers to our mutual responsibilities to others and to the more-than-human world, and uncertainty to the unpredictability inherent in our relationship with this world. In Place pedagogy change, we examine the nature of such innovative pedagogies as they emerged across the curriculum from early childhood to school and community education, and in teacher education. The book will provide a useful text for teachers and teacher eductors wishing to address questions of place and sustainability in educational research and practice.

Author : Ricard Zapata-Barrero
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784715328

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Interculturalism in Cities by Ricard Zapata-Barrero Pdf

Cities are increasingly recognized as new players in diversity studies, and many of them are showing evidence of an intercultural shift. As an emerging concept and policy, interculturalism is becoming the most pragmatic answer to concrete concerns in c

Author : Lucrezia Lopez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031322099

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Geography of World Pilgrimages by Lucrezia Lopez Pdf

This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors. The volume gathers interdisciplinary contributions revealing different approaches and academic interests when researching pilgrimage. Finally, the proposal introduces a comparative international breath to reflect upon such complex phenomenon that since Antiquity still impregnates the history of human being across the world. As pilgrimage studies are closely related to mobility issues, how the contemporary mobile world is altering and re-signifying pilgrimage dynamics and meanings will also be discussed in detail. The term “pilgrimage” evokes key concepts deriving from different fields, all of them collected in the final glossary. The primary audience of this work are academics and researchers from different fields involved in pilgrimage studies. The work may also be useful in teaching (advanced) university courses.

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789287178183

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The intercultural city step by step - Practical guide for applying the urban model of intercultural integration by Council of Europe Pdf

Most countries in Europe and indeed around the world are facing the challenges of international migration and integration of minorities. It falls primarily upon cities to design and implement policies that foster community cohesion and turn cultural diversity into a factor of development rather than a threat.This guide is designed for city leaders and practitioners wishing to learn from the Intercultural Cities pilot project run by the Council of Europe and the European Commission in developing an intercultural approach to diversity management and integration. This approach has been built on the basis of experience in dozens of real-life cities in redesigning their policies and reshaping their governance to ensure equal opportunities and realise a diversity advantage.The guide recommends steps and measures to help develop an intercultural strategy and monitor its implementation. It illustrates the elements of such a strategy with analytical questions, suggestions and examples of practice in various European cities.It is expected that any city embarking on the Intercultural Cities agenda is a confident and competent entity that is able to creatively adapt the general concepts and actions contained in this guide to local circumstances.This guide is therefore not an instruction manual but rather an aide-memoire to support cities as they create their own trajectory.

Author : William Henry Pinkney Phyfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015041873079

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5000 Facts and Fancies by William Henry Pinkney Phyfe Pdf

Author : Margery Wolf
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781457564307

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Coyote's Land by Margery Wolf Pdf

Via time travel, Charlotte Makee, a 21st century anthropologist, meets an elderly Coast Miwok curer named Sekiak in the hills near Olompali in Marin County, California. Charlotte wishes to learn about Coast Miwok life before their society was disrupted and then destroyed by Catholic priests, Spanish soldiers, settlers, and other foreigners over less than 100 years. Once Sekiak decides to work with Charlotte, she administers a potion that renders her visitor invisible to all but Sekiak and one or two others. That potion also allows Charlotte to comprehend Miwok speech, and she embarks on ethnographic fieldwork, listening and observing in the nearby settlements with Sekiak as her primary teacher of local customs and history. As the two women move back and forth through time, Charlotte fills dozens of notebooks with data about Coast Miwok life that she intends to draw upon to tell the story of what happened to the people of Coyote’s Land. But as Margery Wolf’s “novel ethnography” unfolds, an ominous air settles over the research enterprise, comparable to the ominous air of death and devastation that demolish a once-thriving society. This experimental ethnography joins fiction to historical and cultural data, helping us to feel and see what happened as the Coast Miwok world turned upside down and then was altered beyond recognition.

Author : Tim G. Townshend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000374933

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Urban Design and Human Flourishing by Tim G. Townshend Pdf

The built environment influences health and well-being in a myriad of ways. Some neighbourhoods are plagued by busy roads that are a constant source of danger, noise, and air pollution. In some cities there is inadequate green space for children to play and socialise safely. Yet, this book argues, it does not have to be this way. With focus on human health, well-being, and flourishing, this book explores the ways in which people’s lives are impacted by the built environment and how we can create, adapt, and design healthy and inclusive places. The volume explores the relationship between urban design and human flourishing and initiates broad discussions around relevant questions such as ‘What is a healthy place?’, ‘What influences our perceptions of built environment more? Is it our age or our cultural background?’. The book includes six chapters from internationally renowned authors who attempt to unpack some of the key aspects that urban designers need to consider in order to create places that enable – rather than constrain – individuals and communities to live rich fulfilling lives. This book will be of great value to students, scholars, and researchers interested in urban design, planning, and in exploring how built environment impacts health and happiness. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Design.