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Where do we draw the line?
Graffiti is a controversial subject and fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. However, the recent global success of artists such as Banksy, Melbourne’s booming graffiti tourism, and the rise of the ‘creative city’ discourse, have blurred the lines between what some regard as vandalism and some as public art. As such, graffiti has increasingly become part of mainstream culture and in some countries has been promoted as a contributor to the urban environment. Thus, as practices and perceptions of graffiti shift, so does our need to better understand the role of graffiti in our urban environments. Through a case study of the Maboneng precinct, this GCRO Occasional Paper investigate...
Heaven
New York Times bestselling author Bobbi Smith creates unforgettably compelling heroes and women bold enough to claim them. In this sweeping, sensual novel, a man of privilege risks everything for an adventuressand a passion that promises to be nothing short of heaven. . . For archeologist's daughter Alexandra Parker, the Crown of Desire isn't just a priceless and mysterious artifactit could mean the difference between life and death. And to find it, she must embark on a dangerous journey in the company of a man she hardly trusts. Wealthy Englishman Winn Bradford is seductive, charismatic, and the last person she should fall in love with. But Alex, too, has a secretone that puts Winn's safety at risk, and will force her to choose between loyalty and an extraordinary love. . . "Spectacular storytelling, romance and adventure. . .Bobbi Smith at her very best!" –Romantic Times
The Seduction of Alex Parker
Emerson James finds California billionaire Alex Parker to be arrogant and a control freak, while Alex cannot stop thinking about how to get Emerson to stay in his life forever.
Volume 2: Housing and Home
This book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism and inequality, and offers crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises.
Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience
Disaster research has been studied from many angles, seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Africa. Entities most subject to the effects of climate change are often undeveloped and located in disadvantaged regions. Post-disaster communities need to scrutinize the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that stagnate sustainable growth. Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs cannot coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment. This book proposes the creation of knowledge economies, whereby empowered communities may produce innovative knowledge translatable across the African diaspora.
The Infrastructures of Security
The shift from dependence upon human decision-making in security services to Artificial Intelligence
Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities
Contributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a broad discussion of infrastructure as social phenomena. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current ‘infrastructural turn’ and assess policy and research challenges relating to contemporary forms of infrastructural development.
Rights on Trial
Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves supposedly did. He had an unusually strong case, with copious documentation and coworkers’ support, and he settled for $50,000, even winning back his job. But victory came at a high cost. Legal fees cut into Mr. Handley’s winnings, and tensions surrounding the lawsuit poisoned the workplace. A year later, he lost his job due to downsizing by his company. Mr. Handley exemplifies the burden plaintiffs bear in contemporary civil rights litigat...
South African urban imaginaries: cases from Johannesburg
How do government officials, elected politicians, powerful economic actors and ordinary people think and talk about the urban geography of South Africa? How do they describe and represent change that is happening in cities, towns and villages? Do they consider these changes to be good or bad? How do they think such places should change? What do they do to try to bring about the changes they desire? Competing answers to these questions have been at the centre of South Africa’s urban development. Through the 19th and 20th centuries, white minority governments straddled quite contradictory imaginaries about who could build lives for themselves in urban areas and on what terms. Ordinary peo...
Year Of The Cheetah
At thirty-eight and against all odds, Djambo Diallo has successfully established himself in the galaxy of global finance. Brilliant and ferociously driven by the American Dream, he has left his native Ivory Coast and married the phenomenal Felicia Katz, sole heiress of a Wisconsin beer fortune.Down to earth yet extraordinarily seductive, young Felicia has faithfully waited for fifteen years to build a family with her beloved African husband and secure her dynasty. But world events of the early 21st century are about to change the destiny of the ambitious Chicago couple forever.Late in the summer of 2015, Djambo and Felicia are far from suspecting the harrowing descent into adversity their marriage is about to face. Unfolding on three continents, Year of the Cheetah is an erotic thriller of international love and faith in the age of globalization. It is reserved for mature readers.
