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Preservation Politics

Keeping Historic Districts Vital

by William E. Schmickle
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

You’ve established a historic district in your town! Now what? Preservation Politics picks up where The Politics of Historic Districts leaves off, advising the established HPC on how to maintain momentum in their communities once the initial political campaign to win historic preservation designation...
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Winning the Cost War

Applying Battlefield Management Doctrine to the Management of Government

by Dale R. Geiger
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2000

Dr. Geigers research proposes innovative and practical responses to the cost war fought by government organizations struggling with lower budget levels. His sustained research contributions into the measurement and management of cost in government organizations promise to improve governments mission...
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Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations

(De)fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives

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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016

Time transforms the way we see world politics and insinuates itself into the ways we act. In this groundbreaking volume, Agathangelou and Killian bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to tackle time and temporality in international relations. The authors – critical theorists, artists,...
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Beyond Biopolitics

Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics

by Francois Debrix, Alexander D Barder
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013

'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' Guy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL 12, 93. Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror...
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The Design of Frontier Spaces

Control and Ambiguity

by Carolyn Loeb, Andreas Luescher
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and other design elements are deployed to signal...
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The Nature of Design : Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention

Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention

by David W. Orr
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002

The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood,...
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Waste of a Nation

Garbage and Growth in India

by Assa Doron
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017

This book consists of two parts. The first part describes the context in which the Prefectures of Minamisoma and Kesennuma need to operate and what the meaning is of the multiple disasters that occurred in the area. The second part illuminates the design process and content of the Minamisoma and Kesennuma...
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by John A. Flannery, Karen M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The effects of drought, melting polar ice and...
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Environmental Problem Solving

Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change

by Alan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions...
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Image, Text, Architecture

The Utopics of the Architectural Media

by Robin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The...
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The Renaissance of Takefu

How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town

by Guven Peter Witteveen
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004

This book tells the story of a citizen group through the example and results of their participation in local civic life. The book draws attention to the complicated conditions under which civic participation may succeed. The story is about the individuals and organizations in the regional Japanese...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

In today’s world, citizenship is increasingly defined in normative terms. Political belonging comes to be equated with specific norms, values and appropriate behaviour, with distinctions made between virtuous, desirable citizens and deviant, undesirable ones. In this book, we analyze the formulation,...
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Deleuze & Fascism

Security: War: Aesthetics

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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013

This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides a theoretically distinct approach to the problem of fascism and its relations...
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