The Urban Mystique

Author : STEPHENS. JOSH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716036437

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The Urban Mystique by STEPHENS. JOSH Pdf

Josh Stephens grew up in Los Angeles knowing that it was a perfectly pleasant place, with enviable weather, an impressive natural environment, and Hollywood glamour. But, still, he wondered whether a great city shouldn't be something ... more. With a title inspired by Betty Friedan's account of life in the suburbs, The Urban Mystique is equal part lamentation and celebration. It collects some of Josh's work from the California Planning & Development Report and elsewhere, covering everything from the minutiae of setbacks, the regional impacts of transit investments, the promise of smart growth and sustainability, the precariousness of urban politics in the 21st century, and the ineffable complexities that make all cities, be they in California or anywhere else, wondrous, maddening, and fascinating.

Author : Ken Mellor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Mystics
ISBN : 0646530062

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Urban Mystic by Ken Mellor Pdf

A Personal Narration of a Man's Journey Toward Self-DiscoveryKen Mellor's Urban Mystic: Discovering the Transcendent through Everyday Life is the fascinating story of the author's life path that led him to become a spiritual mentor and master.He had a life-changing experience at the age of 13, something he describes as "a few seconds of inner beauty, that began it all".Little did he realise that those few seconds carved out his destiny and took him to places he never dreamed he would go, and in those places were people who helped shape the person he was to become. His journey takes him to Australia, India, England, Switzerland, Germany and the United States where he learns life lessons from many different teachers, including gaining spiritual guidance from a Siddha Master, Tantric Master, Vedic Master, and a Divine Mother. He would learn from many of life's events, including his work as a social worker with immigrants, as a psychotherapist and his work with schizophrenic people, as a meditation teacher and, eventually, a spiritual mentor to people in an international network keen to learn the many developments he and his wife, Elizabeth, made for making life easier and spiritually fulfilling.Mellor's first-person narrative reads like an intimate journal, filled with anecdotes that present the daily wonder of embracing life fully. He describes how every event in one's life can clearly show the next step on the path of spiritual awakening. His encouraging and entertaining prose is meant to educate readers, subtly and lovingly, towards expanded understanding and awakening, and to their own unique destiny.

Author : Linda Peake,Martina Rieker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136743443

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Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban by Linda Peake,Martina Rieker Pdf

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in which the majority of the population now live in urban centres, they take as their starting point the need to examine the production of knowledge about the city through the problematic divide of the global north and south, asking what might a feminist intervention, a position itself fraught with possibilities and problems, into this dominant geographical imaginary look like. Providing a meaningful discussion of the ways in which feminism, gender and women have been understood in relation to the city and urban studies, they ask probing and insightful questions that indicate new directions for theory and research, illustrating the necessity of a re-formulation of the north-south divide as a critical and urgent project for feminist urban studies. Working through platforms as diverse as policy formulations and telling stories, the contributors to the book come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographic locations ranging through the Caribbean, North America, Western Europe, South, East and South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. They identify a range of issues (such as care, work, violence, the household, mobility, intimacy and poverty) that they analytically address to make sense of and reanimate resistance to the contemporary urban through articulations of new grammars of gendered geographies of justice.

Author : Christopher DeSanti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732148406

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Urban Mystic by Christopher DeSanti Pdf

In our fast-paced world of concrete and computers, Urban Mystic arises as a fresh voice of ancient wisdom. Christopher Desanti's observations, which are simple and yet profound, can be a powerful catalyst for awakening in your life.Join Christopher as he takes you on a journey as seen through his eyes that links mystical teachings from different times with the simple words of a modern-day seeker.

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393322576

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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Pdf

The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.

Author : Jeffrey L. Kidder
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801462917

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Urban Flow by Jeffrey L. Kidder Pdf

In Urban Flow, Jeffrey L. Kidder introduces readers to the fascinating subculture of bike messengers, exploring its appeal as well as its uncertainties and dangers.

Author : Nancy N. Chen,Constance D. Clark,Suzanne Z. Gottschang,Lyn Jeffery
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822381334

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China Urban by Nancy N. Chen,Constance D. Clark,Suzanne Z. Gottschang,Lyn Jeffery Pdf

China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in order to fully comprehend the urban. Individual essays note the impact of legal barriers to geographic mobility in China, the proliferation of different urban centers, the different distribution of resources among various regions, and the pervasive appeal of the urban, both in terms of living in cities and in acquiring products and conventions signaling urbanity. Others focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and the transformations in access to healthcare. China Urban will interest anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and those studying urban planning, China, East Asia, and globalization. Contributors. Tad Ballew, Susan Brownell, Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Robert Efird, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, Ellen Hertz, Lisa Hoffman, Sandra Hyde, Lyn Jeffery, Lida Junghans, Louisa Schein, Li Zhang

Author : Charles Rearick
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804777513

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Paris Dreams, Paris Memories by Charles Rearick Pdf

“A rich and entertaining history of the French capital’s predominant myths and ‘image-making’ from the nineteenth century to the present.” —Roxanne Panchasi, H-France Review How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long been at once a cosmopolitan City of Light and of modernity, a patchwork of time-resistant villages, a treasured heirloom, a hell for the disinherited, and a legendary pleasure dome. Focusing on the last century and a half, Paris Dreams, Paris Memories makes contemporary Paris understandable. It tells of renewal projects radically transforming neighborhoods and of counter-measures taken to perpetuate the city’s historic character and soul. It provides a historically grounded look at the troubled suburbs. Further, it tests long-standing characterizations of Paris’s uniqueness through comparisons with such rivals as London and Berlin. Paris Dreams, Paris Memories shows that in myriad forms—buildings, monuments, festivities, and artistic portrayals—contemporary Paris gives new life to visions of the city long etched in Parisian imaginations. “A pleasure to read.” —Catherine Clark, H-Urban “Fascinating.” —Nicoleta Bazgan, Contemporary French Civilization “Rearick is an expert guide.” —Jeffrey H. Jackson, Rhodes College “Like a pleasant stroll through the city, one finds much that one has already seen, but also plenty that one has not.” —Stephen Sawyer, French History “Rearick has written not so much a history of Paris, but a history of the history of Paris.” —William Irvine, York University

Author : Angela L. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0936316446

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Arthur Osver by Angela L. Miller Pdf

The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver (1912-2006), this publication explores Osver's entire oeuvre, from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicago to New York to Europe and back, interweaving with the art of his time, and his paintings have been collected and exhibited all over the world. Nevertheless, he remained firmly rooted in the American Midwest, settling in St. Louis to teach and paint from 1960 until his death in 2006. Beautifully designed and printed, this book includes more than one hundred full-color illustrations of Osver's work throughout his life as well as an illustrated biography and selections from an interview with the artist from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

Author : David J. Puglia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498551106

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Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon" by David J. Puglia Pdf

Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture. Each time, controversy followed leading to consequences ranging from protests and boycotts to formal legislative action. “Hon” brought into focus Baltimore’s past and future by symbolizing lingering divisions of race, class, gender, and belonging in the midst of campaigns to unify and modernize the city. While some decried “hon” and “the Hon” as embarrassing, others hailed the word and the related image of a down-to-earth, blue-collar woman as emblematic of the authentic Baltimorean. This book tells the story of the battles that flared over the attempts to use “hon” to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.

Author : Tendance Floue,David Chandler,Muriel Enjalran
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9782369832843

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Cities on Earth by Tendance Floue,David Chandler,Muriel Enjalran Pdf

Cities on earth brings together the photographers of the Tendance Floue collective for a very special album inspired by the Louis Vuitton city guides. Since 2012, fourteen photographers have explored the length and breadth of thirty great cities, through fifty-five trips, capturing nearly four thousand images that profile these archetypal metropolises in all their contemporary variety and complexity.

Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345803337

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Eyes on the Street by Robert Kanigel Pdf

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day. Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates—all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.

Author : James H. Mills
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843311676

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Subaltern Sports by James H. Mills Pdf

This unique volume explores sports stories that contain elements of colonialism and show the rise of nationalism and the emergence of communalism; other examples show how the establishment of nationhood in a post-colonial world, the challenge of the regions to the political centre and the impacts of globalization and economic liberalization have all left their mark on the development of sport in South Asia. Quite simply, South Asian history and society have transformed sports in the region while at the same time such games and activities have often shaped the development of South Asia.

Author : David Taft Terry
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820355085

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The Struggle and the Urban South by David Taft Terry Pdf

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in the South’s largest cities. Terry also adds to our understanding of the underexplored historical period of the civil rights movement, prior to the 1960s. Baltimore, one of the South largest cities, was a crucible of segregationist laws and practices. In response, from the 1890s through the 1950s, African Americans there (like those in the South’s other major cities) shaped an evolving resistance to segregation across three themes. The first theme involved black southerners’ development of a counter-narrative to Jim Crow’s demeaning doctrines about them. Second, through participation in a national antisegregation agenda, urban South blacks nurtured a dynamic tension between their local branches of social justice organizations and national offices, so that southern blacks retained self-determination while expanding local resources for resistance. Third, with the rise of new antisegregation orthodoxies in the immediate post-World War II years, the urban South’s black leaders, citizens, and students and their allies worked ceaselessly to instigate confrontations between southern white transgressors and federal white enforcers. Along the way, African Americans worked to define equality for themselves and to gain the required power to demand it. They forged the protest traditions of an enduring black struggle for equality in the urban South. By 1960 that struggle had inspired a national civil rights movement.

Author : American Society of Planning Officials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Health planning
ISBN : UIUC:30112052149082

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The Urban Planner in Health Planning by American Society of Planning Officials Pdf