My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / / Edward W. Soja

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821963103321
• Autore: Soja Edward W
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-95763-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/2160979494
• Soggetti: City planning - California - Los Angeles; Sociology, Urban - California - Los Angeles; Regional planning - California - Los Angeles
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. When It First Came Together in Los Angeles -- 2. Taking Los Angeles Apart -- 3. Inside Exopolis: Views of Orange County -- 4. Comparing Los Angeles -- 5. On the Postmetropolitan Transition -- 6. A Look Beyond Los Angeles -- 7. Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era -- 8. Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles -- 9. Occupy Los Angeles: A Very Contemporary Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Source Texts by the Author -- Appendix 2: Complementary Video Sources -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country's densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the world. Soja takes us through this urban metamorphosis, analyzing urban restructuring, deindustrialization and reindustrialization, the globalization of capital and labor, and the formation of an information-intensive New Economy. By examining his own evolving interpretations of Los Angeles and the debates on the so-called Los Angeles School of urban studies, ; Soja argues that a radical shift is taking place in the nature of the urbanization process, from the familiar metropolitan model to regional urbanization. By looking at such concepts as new regionalism, the spatial turn, the end of the metropolis era, the urbanization of suburbia, the global spread of industrial urbanism, and the transformative urban-industrialization of China, Soja offers a unique and remarkable perspective on critical urban and regional studies.

Bensley's Practical anatomy of the rabbit : an elementary laboratory text-book in mammalian anatomy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910149430503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadephia, : Blakiston, 1948
• ISBN: 9781442653221; 1442653221; 9781442637764; 1442637765
• Edizione: [Eight edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations; 1 online resource
• Collana: Heritage
• Altri autori (Persone): CraigieEdward
• Disciplina: 599.322
• Soggetti: Rabbits - Anatomy; Mammals - Anatomy; Dissection
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface to the Fifth Edition -- Preface to the Eighth Edition -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. A General Consideration of the Structure of the Rabbit -- PART II. Osteology of the Rabbit -- PART III. Dissection of the Rabbit -- APPENDIX. The Preservation of Material1 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The anatomical study of an animal is chiefly a matter of applying a certain practical method of exposition, the student's attention being concentrated on those facts which can be made out by direct ; observation. This method is educative in the technical sense because it involves accurate discernment of detail, and because, as a means of obtaining first-hand information, it is the foundation of laboratory practice.This being the case, it is a very pertinent question what is the best procedure. So far, as the present book is concerned, it is expected that the study of the type will begin with at least a preliminary survey of the prepared skeleton (Part II). This will be followed by dissection (Part III), in which the order by sections will be found of less importance than that of details in any particular region and in which portions of the skeleton related to the part under examination may be included.The regional method of approach is indicated rather than the more complete study of single systems, partly for the sake of economy of material and partly in belief that this aids understanding of the topographical and other interrelations between systems, encouraging the building up of a conception of the individual organism as an integrated unit.The general matter of Part I is purely accessory and, though necessarily incomplete in many ways, is designed to afford a comprehensive view of the various factors upon which mammalian structure depends. It will be found that only the first few chapters are introductory in most respects, the remainder being rather explanatory and hence most valuable if used to supplement the directions for dissection as this is carried out.In preparation of the eighth edition of the Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit use has been made of extensive notes recorded in the laboratory during successive years of employment of the previous edition. All relevant questions raised by students or other instructors for which an adequate answer was found not to be readily available in the text have been noted and an attempt has been made to provide answers for them in the revisions. The whole text has been searchingly surveyed with the result that many small changes have been made, parts have been expanded, and a few have been entirely rewritten.