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Coping with Urban Climates
While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to be included in planning and design. Based on empirical realities in Cairo, Chongqing, Geneva and Santiago de Chile, the book underlines that the materiality and social practices attached to room heating, compound greening, street alignment or climate policies together form the tissue for contemporary urban climates. It interweaves socio-cultural with meteorological data and pioneers the new concept of "thermal governance" by linking architectural and technological as well as legal and economic dimensions of climate control in urban environments.
City, Climate, and Architecture
Second and revised edition The publication rethinks climate control - a key concern of the discipline of architecture - through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce environmental and thermal loads in cities. Just as heating and cooling practices inside the buildings are affecting the (urban) climate outdoors, urban heat islands are influencing the energy requirements and thermal conditions inside the buildings. While the first part of the book focuses on the interwar period in Europe, the publication's second part considers examples from all over the globe, tracing the growing significance of ecological thinking for the design of urban environments. Main outcome of a six-years research project on architecture and urban climate funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation New and revised edition KLIMA POLIS: a series highlighting design-driven approaches to urban climates across the globe
Aesthetics of Weather
In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of weather from various angles becomes vital in shedding light on its importance to our experience of the changing world. In response, offering the first in-depth and nuanced examination of the aesthetics of weather, this book underlines the relevance the concept has for scientific communication, for fostering sustainable patterns of behaviour and for rejecting the environmentally-damaging “consumption” of landscapes and fine weather. In addition, it provides examples taken from global, contemporary popular culture whilst calling attention to the socioecon...
The Urban Microclimate as Artifact
Urban microclimates cannot be explained solely on the basis of scientific phenomena, but are also affected materially and spatially by the city’s local architecture. The layout, design, and facade construction of buildings have a major impact on wind and temperature conditions. For this reason, architecture and urban design that have an effect on microclimates must be investigated in their social and cultural contexts. The publication uses international case studies to explain these relationships. The focus is on manifestations of urban microclimates in an architectural and urban design context. The places investigated are located in France, Italy, the USA, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Burkina Faso.
Tausch.Beziehungen - Sozialanthropologische Perspektiven / Exchange.Relations - Perspectives from Social Anthropology
Tauschbeziehungen sind in ihren vielfältigen Formen zentral in der sozialanthropologischen Forschung. Die Autor:innen der 26 Buchbeiträge zeigen auf, wie (materielle) Transaktionen soziale Beziehungen und Institutionen (re)produzieren und transformieren, wie Austauschbeziehungen in Macht- und Schuldverhältnisse eingebettet sind, wie Reziprozität Feldforschungsbeziehungen und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit prägt und wo Tauschbeziehungen enden können. Der Akt des Gebens oder Empfangens einer Gabe ist dabei kein abgeschlossenes Ereignis, sondern Teil einer kontinuierlichen sozialen Beziehung. Exchange relationships in their many forms are central to social anthropological research. The authors of the 26 book contributions show how (material) transactions (re)produce and transform social relationships and institutions, how exchange relationships are embedded in power and debt relationships, how reciprocity shapes field research relationships and interdisciplinary collaboration, and where exchange relationships can end. The act of giving or receiving a gift is not a finished event, but part of a continuous social relationship.
Care and Ageing in North-West China
This book presents a pioneering ethnographic exploration of practices and ideologies of eldercare in the bingtuan - a paramilitary state organization composed largely of migrants (most of them very poor) to the north-western frontier province of Xinjiang since the 1949 Communist Revolution. In exploring the discourses and actions of the elderly, their relatives, and the state, the book uncovers the ways in which macro-level economic and social transformations are linked to the material and emotional realities of ordinary Chinese people. The light shed on gender and inter-generational relations within the modern urbanized bingtuan illuminates ageing, care and social support mechanisms in an era of rapid social change globally.
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban infrastructure. It draws on recent work across history, anthropology, science and technology studies, geography, resilience/sustainability, and other disciplines to explore the social effects of infrastructure. The volume rejects narrow conceptions of infrastructure history as only the history of public works, and instead expands the definition to all business enterprises and public bodies that provide the goods and services essential for the day-to-day lives of most people. Essays examine traditional artifacts such as roads, highways, and waterworks, as well as nontraditional topics like regimes of heating and cooling, the processing and distribution of food, and even the metaphysics of electromagnetic infrastructure. Contributors reveal both the material grounding of urban social relations and the social life of material infrastructure. In the end, they show that infrastructure profoundly reshapes urban life even as residents fight to reshape infrastructure to their own ends.
Inside Xinjiang
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of Han Chinese in Xinjiang have recently increased, occasionally breaking out into violence. At the same time as being a potential troublespot for China, the province is of increasing strategic significance as China’s gateway to Central Asia whose natural resources are of increasing importance to China. This book focuses in particular on what life is like in Xinjiang for the diverse population that lives there. It offers important insights into the social, economic and political terrains of Xinjiang, concentrating especially on how current trends in Xinjiang are likely to develop in the future. In doing so it provides a broader understanding of the region and its peoples.
Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change. This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently ...
Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2023/2024
Das Thema Gesundheit hat in den vergangenen Jahren immer mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen. Das vorliegende Jahrbuch behandelt den Zusammenhang zwischen Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung und Gesundheit aus verschiedenen disziplinären Perspektiven sowie anhand von Fallbeispielen aus unterschiedlichen Städten und Stadtregionen. Lebenswerte und gesundheitsfördernde Städte und Gemeinden gelten als zentrales Ziel einer nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung und damit gleichzeitig auch als wesentliche Zukunftsaufgabe. Die aktuellen Diskussionen zu Gesundheit im städtischen Raum knüpfen an Megatrends wie den demografischen und klimatischen Wandel an, thematisieren aber auch den Zusammenhang mit Migration, sozia...
