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This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre’s concepts in social research and architecture by focusing on urban conjunctures in Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. With contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural scientists, this book reveals the multiplicity of processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and actors around the globe.
Not all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeated meningitis -- not through flawless scientific research, but often through a series of serendipitous events, misplaced assumptions, and flawed conclusions. The result is a story of not just a vanquished disease, but how scientific accomplishment sometimes occurs where it's least expected. Although symptoms of meningitis were recorded as early as Hippocrates and the ancient Greeks, our understanding of the disease's origins and mechanisms remained obscure for most of human history. That changed in 1892, when German physician Richard Pfeiffer obser...
Content: New information and communication techniques have significant influences on urban life. In this book, international and interdisciplinary research, projects and considerations about the emerging 'Mediacity' are presented. Contributions from scientists, artists, and architects from 14 different countries are analyzing, researching and creatively approaching the cultural, social, political, and economical phenomena of the encounter between media and urban space. The Editor: Frank Eckardt is professor for 'Sociology of Globalization' at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. He holds a PhD in Political Science. His main field of research is urban studies. Since 2004, he ist the coordinator of the research project 'Mediacity'.
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Nowa Huta, choć oficjalnie liczy zaledwie nieco ponad 60 lat, należy do najbardziej wyrazistych i bogatych semantycznie przestrzeni Krakowa. Obecnie, gdy minęły już ponad dwie dekady od oficjalnego końca PRL, jest wciąż intrygującym tematem dyskursu publicznego w jego wielu różnych wymiarach, podobnie jak wówczas, gdy powoływano ją do życia jako modelowe miasto socjalizmu i miejsce akcji wielkiej opowieści o budowie Nowego Jutra. Kategoria wyobraźni społecznej, wybrana tu jako podstawowy punkt odniesienia, nie tylko pozwala rozpoznać zestaw najważniejszych znaków, symboli i mitów, za pomocą których był (i jest) konstruowany obraz dzielnicy, ale także zwraca uwagę na sposób i skutek ich użycia, nie unikając równocześnie fundamentalnego, choć często niewygodnego pytania o przyczyny ich akceptacji, modyfikacji bądź też odrzucenia.
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Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist ...
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Splendida ex capitale della Polonia, Cracovia è la maggiore attrazione turistica del Paese. Un centro storico protetto dall’UNESCO, uno straordinario patrimonio ebraico e un passato complesso e sanguinario fanno dell'antica sede Reale una destinazione da esplorare. Nel corso dei secoli ha attratto personaggi storici estremamente eterogenei e offre una miscela irresistibile di attrazioni e sensazioni nuove e antiche... Le Guide Low Cost sono dedicate a una nuova specie di viaggiatori: tutti coloro che, a una domenica sul divano di fronte alla tv, preferiscono un weekend alla scoperta delle destinazioni europee e internazionali, grazie alla possibilità di volare al costo di un cinema o di una pizza. Con una veste ricca di immagini e di facile consultazione, queste guide forniscono tutte le indicazioni utili per un viaggio a un prezzo davvero low cost. Propongono una ricchissima serie di consigli per organizzare la visita, informazioni e indirizzi utili: alberghi per tutte le tasche, ristoranti tipici, locali, consigli per lo shopping, escursioni, cosa fare in caso di pioggia, luoghi gratuiti, numeri per le emergenze e frasi utili. Scaricate l’eBook e... buon viaggio!