Saskia Sassen: Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (1998–) [EN, CR]
Filed under book | Tags: · city, economy, global city, globalisation, immigration, migration, mobility
“Saskia Sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. Now available in paperback, Globalization and Its Discontents is a collection of Sassen’s essays dealing with topics such as the “global city,” gender and migration (reconceived as the globalization of labor), information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. Sassen brings together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology, and political science, showing how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and low-income inner cities has become. Incisive and original, she takes on common political, cultural, and economic misconceptions of globalization and offers a thoughtful, provocative new look at our increasingly global society.”
Publisher New Press, 1998
ISBN 1565845188, 9781565845183
xxxvi+253 pages
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Globalization and Its Discontents (English, 1998, DJVU, updated on 2015-7-8)
Protugeografije globalizacije (Croatian, trans. Danijela Sestrić, Jakov Vilović and Tomislav Medak, 2003)
David Harvey: Paris, Capital of Modernity (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1800s, city, culture, france, history, labour, literature, modernity, paris, politics
Collecting David Harvey’s finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.
Publisher Routledge, 2003
ISBN 041594421X, 9780415944212
372 pages
PDF (updated on 2014-9-5)
Comment (0)William W Braham, Jonathan A Hale (eds.): Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, city, design, technology, theory
“This book contains over fifty selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. This mapping out of a century of architectural technology reveals the discipline’s long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies, and provides a broad picture of the shift from the ‘age of tools’ to the ‘age of systems’.
Chronological arrangement and cross-referencing of the articles enable both a thematic and historically contextual understanding of the topic and highlight important thematic connections across time.”
Publisher Routledge, 2006
ISBN 0415346541, 9780415346542
488 pages
PDF, PDF (updated on 2018-5-31)
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