Transparent City

Author : Ondjaki
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771961449
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transparent City written by Ondjaki and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD A VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018 A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018 In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki, indisputably, among the continent’s most accomplished writers.

Author : Debnath Mookherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811987262
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Transformational Landscapes in the City-Hinterlands of Asia written by Debnath Mookherjee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of mounting challenges stemming from a rapid transformation of the urban-regional landscapes in many Asian countries, this book highlights a multifaceted array of issues that increasingly engage the academic and planning communities in search of viable solutions to complex problems facing us. Even though cities continue to dominate development studies, urbanization of Asia is evolving toward a hybrid urban-rural nexus beyond the cities. This volume considers these shifting dynamics of Asian urbanization, including urban spatial transformations and their ramifications in the context of sustainability and planning. Through the lens of a set of empirical studies across diverse disciplines, geographies and methodologies. yet with an overarching concern for sustainability in varied (but interconnected) areas such as climate change, land use planning, infrastructure and urban mobility, and quality of life, these studies examine a range of important topics (e.g., flooding, transportation, housing, open space/ green space, urban garden and such) in city/regional settings. Together, they add insights into varied transformational processes or patterns at work on the urban-regional landscapes in a number of Asian countries while offering innovative approaches or alternatives. The proposed volume fills a gap in urban/regional studies in context of South and Southeast Asia that will be of interest to all stakeholders (e.g., planners, administrators, academicians and the citizenry), particularly those interested in sustainability and planning paradigms. It should be a timely and valuable addition to the Asian urbanization literature.

Author : Benjamin W. Stanley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319589105
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transparent Urban Development written by Benjamin W. Stanley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local property ownership and land speculation negatively impacted a concerted public-private effort to encourage infill construction on vacant land. The book elaborates urban sustainability not only as a set of ecological and design prescriptions, but as a field needing increased engagement with the growth-based impetus, structural economic forces, and political details behind American urban land policy. Demonstrating how land use policies evolved in relation to Phoenix’s historical dependence on outside investment, and are now interwoven across jurisdictional scales, the book concludes by identifying policy intervention points to increase the sustainability of Phoenix’s development trajectory.

Author : Michael Wolf
Publisher : Aperture Direct
ISBN 13 : 9781597110761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transparent City written by Michael Wolf and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of the Chicago cityscape--digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses--focus specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.

Author : Davies, Tim
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 1928331955
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Open Data written by Davies, Tim and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? The State of Open Data brings together over 60 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come.

Author : Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415700184
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transparent State written by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 926444257X
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Transparent and Inclusive Stakeholder Participation through Public Councils in Kazakhstan written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyses the legal and policy framework for stakeholder participation in Kazakhstan, and compares public councils' current practices against the requirements set out in regulations.

Author : David Brin
Publisher : Perseus (for Hbg)
ISBN 13 : 0738201448
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transparent Society written by David Brin and published by Perseus (for Hbg). This book was released on 1999-05-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the privacy of individuals actually hampers accountability, which is the foundation of any civilized society and that openness is far more liberating than secrecy

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Publisher : Stampington & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780971729650
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transparent Art written by and published by Stampington & Company. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mats Larsson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349270180
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transparent Market written by Mats Larsson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-01-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how electronic commerce and the WWW will affect the market in the future. A new breed of information-rich consumers are emerging. They have easy access to competitors and are making companies less able to exploit traditional sources of competitive advantage. This is producing a new 'Transparent Market'. This book examines how this transparent market is developing, how companies can be successful in this new era and how individuals can survive in the future job market. The Transparent Market is a guide to the new market and how this potential threat can be turned into a key competitive tool for companies and for individuals.