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Fortællingerne om 100 af de mest interessante bygninger, monumenter, statuer og steder af særlig betydning for Frederiksbergs historie. Om Frederiksberg Have, Bakkehuset, K.B. Hallen, teatre, kirkegårde, gadebelysning, lindetræer, bænke og meget mere. Siden 2016 har forfatter og politiker Nikolaj Bøgh jævnligt skrevet historiske klummer for Lokalavisen Frederiksberg og Frederiksberg Bladet. I denne bog har han udvidet de første 100 historier, som der er taget helt nye billeder til af fotograf Thomas Howalt Andersen. Bogen indeholder også et kort over Frederiksberg med markering af de 100 steder .

Lokale fællesskaber kan løse komplekse problemer som klima, social arv og sundhed. I Rodskud kan man læse om en lang række eksempler på, at borgere, foreninger, virksomheder og kommuner samarbejder på kryds og tværs for at løse komplekse samfundsproblemer som fx at forebygge sundhed, bryde den sociale arv, forbedre klimaet eller at få flere tilflyttere til en ellers hensygnende landsdel. Løsningerne er flyttet ud af rådhusene – og især ud af centraladministrationen. Forfatterne fremhæver, at og hvordan de bedste kommuner evner at give plads til borgernes handlekraft og sætte sig i spidsen for forandringerne. Johannes Lundsfryd, Vibe Klarup og Jacob Bundsgaard argumenterer for, at vi får brug for politikere, der kan sætte retning og identificere, hvilke enkeltsager som kan skaleres op, og som især kan udvikle eller understøtte de lokale løsninger på længere sigt – med perspektiv til hele landet.

Bogen tager læseren med på en vandring på aarhusianske kirkegårde blandt udvalgte gravminder fra 2. verdenskrig. Den kan også læses som bidrag til historien om Aarhus under 2. Verdenskrig. Indimellem hører man vendingen “tavs som graven”. Men kan vi overhovedet få de døde i tale? Bogen sætter sig for at give stemme til danskere og mange andre, som mistede livet under 2. Verdenskrig 1939-1945 og blev begravet på kirkegårdene i Aarhus: modstandsmænd, tyske soldater, RAF-flyvere, flygtninge og krigsfanger. Tavs som graven fortæller en række personlige historier gennem nyt kildemateriale og hidtil ukendte fotografier. Om forfatterenKlaus Bertelsen har vist rundt på kirkegårde i Aarhus og Østjylland siden 2010 og er desuden rundviser på Besættelsesmuseet, Den Gamle By. Cand.mag. i dramaturgi og historie fra Aarhus Universitet.

A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space

Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write, Artless captures the media landscape lived and generated in New York during the past half decade. Since the 2016 publication of her debut novel Surveys, Stagg has positioned herself as an in-demand expert on--and critic of--the psychic experience of self-mythology within the cruelly optimistic metaverse of infinite branding. Part voyeur and part participant, Stagg continues her exploration of the branded identity and its elusive, bottomless desire for authenticity.

Smart Cities and Sustainable Manufacturing: Innovations for a Greener Future explores the intersection of these two essential disciplines, underscoring the transformative potential of their integration in sculpting sustainable urban landscapes. By providing cutting-edge research, case studies, success stories, and practical guidance, this book facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration and inspires stakeholders to implement sustainable and innovative solutions. Further, it illustrates how integrating smart cities and sustainable manufacturing can contribute to a greener future by investigating the role of emergent technologies, policy frameworks, business models, and more.This essential resource covers a range of topics related to smart cities and sustainable manufacturing, including technologies for smart cities, such as IoT, AI, big data analytics, and sensor networks; sustainable infrastructure design, such as green buildings, energy-efficient transportation systems, and renewable energy integration; circular economy and waste management strategies; sustainable transportation initiatives such as intelligent transportation systems, electric mobility solutions, and shared mobility services, and much more.

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment: urban governance in São Paulo and Johannesburg For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life--including adequate housing, accessible sanitation, and reliable transportation--are largely unavailable. Why are some cities more successful than others in reducing inequalities in the built environment? In Urban Power, Benjamin Bradlow explores this question, examining the effectiveness of urban governance in two "megacities" in young democracies: São Paulo, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Both cities came out of periods of authoritarian rule with similarly high inequalities and similar policy priorities to lower them. And yet São Paulo has been far more successful than Johannesburg in improving access to basic urban goods. Bradlow examines the relationships between local government bureaucracies and urban social movements that have shaped these outcomes. Drawing on sixteen months of fieldwork in both cities, including interviews with informants from government agencies, political leadership, social movements, private developers, bus companies, and water and sanitation companies, Bradlow details the political and professional conflicts between and within movements, governments, private corporations, and political parties. He proposes a bold theoretical approach for a new global urban sociology that focuses on variations in the coordination of local governing power, arguing that the concepts of "embeddedness" and "cohesion" explain processes of change that bridge external social mobilization and the internal coordinating capacity of local government to implement policy changes.

To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the awesome lifestyles of the great people on earth. I choked out a few words the first time I interacted with them. I immediately realized there is so much more to explore about their characteristics and to create a highly readable book about them to the world's profundity of their lifestyles.Reading this book will be more than ecstatic to add more time to your readings, and have you on the edge of your seat or bed, making you want to stay in one place to turn the last pages or finish the book. So sweet without honey.Ecstatically, a great way to spend your ample time due to any action they take is complex and interesting scenario characters that deliver good reading attention, and an impressive array of characteristics.Writing about New Yorkers' lifestyles is entertaining and blends them all beautifully together, never letting the book drop, keeping the reading flawlessly intact, and riveting. Reading about New Yorkers has no stopping, especially about their insatiable educational background that refutes the imbued from their respective parents.They are talented, expressive, sophisticated, sexy, beautiful, courageous, and controversial, tending to conform to societal norms when it comes to dress codes and celebrating their beauty with clothes that accentuate their style and look dreary and bereft and elegant.New Yorkers' food IQ refrain from binging nonstop on an appalling diet of fried potato chips, jumbo sausages, fried eggs, and heavily salted bacon. They fix the holiday period especially a scheduled period during which their activities in schools or other regular business are suspended.New Yorkers' lifestyles in sports are phenomenal especially when it comes to the Super Bowl, with a giant appetite that stands as a record breaker every year.Music first originated in Africa, but the transformation of its quality digital sound has long been transferred to New York and America as a whole in decades.

"In ten intimate essays, Daniel Saldaäna Parâis explores the cities he has lived in, each one home to a new iteration of himself. In Mexico City he's a young poet eager to prove himself. In Montreal -- an opioid addict desperate for relief. In Madrid -- a lonely student seeking pleasure in grotesque extremes. These now diverging, now coalescing selves raise questions: Where can we find authenticity? How do we construct the stories that define us? What if our formative memories are closer to fiction than truth?"--

Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining." —The Los Angeles TimesAn entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spotParking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a shocking number of Americans kill one another over parking spots, and we routinely do ri­diculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Since the advent of the car, we have deformed our cities in a Sisyphean quest for car storage, and as a result, much of the nation’s most valuable real estate is now devoted to empty vehicles. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, traffic patterns and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, and the overall quality of public space. Is this really the best use of our finite resources? Is parking really more important than everything else?   In a beguiling and absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage, Slate staff writer Henry Grabar brilliantly surveys the nation’s parking crisis, revealing how the compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problems— from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disaster—and, ultimately, how we can free our cities from park­ing’s cruel yoke.

In this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography, autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of practice is open to the various metaphors, atmospheres and visual discourses offered up by the street scenes. The result is a practice-led research project informed by both documentary and creative writing that seeks to articulate thinking via the process of art-making. As a research project on the affective mapping of places in the city, the book examines what Hong Kong is, as thought and felt by the person on the street. It explores the everyday experiences afforded by the city through the figure of the flâneur wandering in shopping districts and street markets. Through hisown street photographs and drawing from the writings of Byung-Chul Han, Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau, the author explores feelings, affects, and states of mind as he explores the city and its social life.

"Through photography and creative nonfiction, we see Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA through new eyes-alongside the critical importance of everyday places"--

Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urbanrural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urbanrural systems, Fulkerson walks through the central dynamics of environmental demography, political economy, culture, social interaction, the built environment, and community connections. His focus on urbanrural systems ensures that communities are understood as nodes within a network, overcoming the tendency to view them as self-contained. Each chapter in Community in UrbanRural Systems: Theory, Planning, and Development offers a blend of classical and contemporary theories and concludes with relevant planning considerations. An additional chapter on community development provides strategies for translating planning considerations into action. The conclusion offers insights into long-term principles of community sustainability and justice.

... Il y avait péril, en effet, à changer ainsi brusquement d'auditoire, à risquer sur le théâtre des tentatives confiées jusqu'ici seulement, au papier qui souffre tout ; le public des livres est bien différent du public des spectacles, et l'on pouvait craindre de voir le second repousser ce que le premier avait accepté. Il n'en a rien été. Le principe de la liberté littéraire, déjà compris par le monde qui lit et qui médite, n'a pas été moins complètement adopté par cette immense foule, avide des pures émotions de l'art, qui inonde chaque soir les théâtres de Paris. Cette voix haute et puissante du peuple, qui ressemble à celle de Dieu, veut désormais que la poésie ait la même devise que la politique : TOLÉRANCE ET LIBERTÉ...

Smart City Standardization: Smart City Standards Across the Globe contains numerous existing standards that have emerged for smart cities and helps readers understanding their complex processes. It presents the current state of smart city standards at both international and national levels, and it demonstrates how smart city innovation is clarified via standardization, as well as how competitive solutions compromise under international and national negotiations in standardization bodies. It helps practitioners and theorists understand the context and available solutions using a unique case study approach. The book starts with international and supranational levels and proceeds with the most important national approaches. It addresses the problem of smart city standardization and aims to provide answers to the crucial questions:1. What is the purpose of standardization in smart cities? 2. How is smart city standardization established, and by whom? 3. Which standards exist for smart cities? 4. How do national standards transform international recommendations into smaller scale norms? Moreover, the standardization ecosystem is depicted, and the existing international standards are briefly explained. Finally, the interrelation between international and national standardization helps readers understand how the standardization is brought from high-level policymaking to national practices. These standards both clarify the smart city domain, and more importantly aim to homogenize the emerging intelligent solutions that cover the broad smart city scope, ranging from transportation and buildings, to waste, water, and energy. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and other practitioners who need to understand how they can use smart city standards to support their communities to strengthen city resilience, as well as instructors of courses in urban studies, ICT, security, public health, engineering, public administration and business administration, and more, to understand the smart city context from practical examples and theoretical considerations.

Geo-Topology is an exploration of the depth and breadth of the relationships between Geography and Topology, with applications ranging from Landscape Geography to Social Geography and from Spatial Analysis to Geospatial Technologies. It shows how topics of geographical research (landscapes, borders, spatial social relationships etc) can be examined by using mathematical concepts and methods of Topology, exposing the realm of geo-topological modelling and visualization through Point-Set Topology, Knot Theory, Reeb graphs, Topological Surfaces (i.e. Möbius bands and Klein bottles), Differential Topology, Network Analysis, Combinatorial Topology, Braid Theory and Ultrametric Topology. Besides geographers, this book is a trove of new ideas for landscape ecologists, mathematicians, data scientists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and educators. Geo-Topology is a systematic introduction to topological thinking in Geography, also by highlighting the significance of Topology for Geographical Education, as well as for the Philosophy and Epistemology of Geography.

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences. It provides an in-depth exploration of how repair manifests itself through the different lenses of governance, grassroots activism, transformative design and community-led initiatives. Most importantly, the chapters demonstrate how place-based approaches can reveal blueprints for social impact in circumstances of growing environmental and social precariousness.

This edited collection brings together interventions on the geographies of tourism in pandemic times approached from a biopolitical perspective. Whilst the ¿management of bodies¿ has always been a constitutive part of tourism and its spatialities, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of entirely new ¿states of exception¿ and emergency regimes, geared towards tight restrictions and control over the mobility and embodied practices of millions of travelers and tourists. Debates in tourism over the ¿politics of life¿, now more than ever, ought to concern health and wellbeing for both individuals and selected populations, not in the least because tourism has provided in many instances the socio-spatial conditions for the virus to spread. This book intends to show how a biopolitical analytical framework may provide a set of insights and critical perspectives that are key to the understanding of contemporary tourism practices and regimes of mobility, security, and in/exclusion ¿ particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The relationship between anthropology departments and their surrounding urban communities has been traditional limited by a number of factors. The Potential for Anthropology and Urban Community Engagement pushes past these limitations, developing a firm foundation from which applied anthropology can support grassroots research and lasting community programs. Using two partnering Milwaukee organizations as examples, this volume explores the need in urban neighborhoods for practicing anthropologists, how a high volume of asset-building programs can be developed by practicing anthropologists, and the potential efficacy of anthropology departments in partnering with urban neighborhoods.

The Manuscript addresses the analytical dynamics of the lifestyle known as the Game. In addition to discussing the narrative storyline. Pimping is a Thinking Man's Game. The Sex Trade is global, as is Free Market Enterprise and the System of Capitol. Point of fact; the Sex Trade is a symptom of the disease known as Capital. Historically, regardless of ethnicity, people of oppressed populations gravitate towards the lifestyle known as the Game to become Pimps, Whores, Conmen, and Thieves. Globally, the Sex Trade garners 186 Billion Per annum. Sex has been a consistent and noteworthy commodity for sale in the Global Marketplace, from the Institution of Civilized Man at the Dawning of Time Memorial, until date. To date, there are roughly 13Million, 828 Hundred Thousand, 7 Hundred known whores in the world, which generate this $186 Billion per annum. The only way a real live pimp doesn't have at least one whore, is if he chooses not to have one and the only way a real live pimp doesn't have any money is if he chooses to be impoverished and has taken a vow of poverty. Don't be misinformed, the Sex Trade Industry is Big Business. $186 Billion is a figure is worthy of recognition, by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) the NASDAQ and thus the DOW. Pussy sells when cotton and corn won't. The IZM is a Thinking Man's Game.~Jimi Starr, G.O.A.T

Exquisitely detailed drawings offer a “field guide” to ubiquitous but overlooked elements of Vancouver’s urban landscape.Three series of intricate graphite drawings depict, with arresting realism, real-world examples of assembled, grown, and built objects common to distinct milieus of Vancouver: the shopping carts piled high with belongings that clatter along sidewalks in the downtown core; the long, high hedges that insulate single-family homes from the din of arterial traffic; and the sculptural lions placed for good luck atop fenceposts in front of many homes, especially on the city’s east side.In creating snapshots and then laborious drawings of these objects, Taizo Yamamoto, the principal of Yamamoto Architecture, was driven by a fascination with how the recurrence of these seemingly mundane objects speaks to omnipresent issues of housing unaffordability, densification, and the aspirations of diasporic communities—concerns that have an uneasy relationship to celebrated narratives of Vancouver but play a prominent role in residents’ everyday lives. To this work he brings not just sustained careful attention but an architect’s eye for details both structural and textural, resulting in immersive, richly nuanced drawings.New essays and fiction from three authors engages the work through prose: Aaron Peck, author of Jeff Wall: North & West (2015), interprets the shopping cart drawings as an appreciation of “ephemeral architecture” and sees affinities to work by Walker Evans and Hilda and Bernd Becher; a short story by Giller Prize–nominated author Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu, 2023) imagines the lives behind the hedges; and Jackie Wong, senior editor of The Tyee, reports on the origin, production, and symbolism of the many lions dotting the city.

Examines Dakar's transformation from a small colonial capital to a dynamic city, highlighting how its resourceful residents challenged French control by forging adaptive economic relationships.