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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467155403321

Titolo

[Applied] foreign affairs : investigating spatial phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa / / edited by Baerbel Mueller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : Birkhäuser, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-0356-0870-9

3-0356-0878-4

Descrizione fisica

449 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; ; 24 cm

Collana

Edition Angewandte

Disciplina

307.760941443

Soggetti

Community development - Ghana

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Guabuliga — Well by the thorn tree, Northern Region, Ghana. On other planning -- Staging Apam, Central Region, Ghana. On other architecture -- Lubungamode/Kisangani, DR Congo. On other artistic research. Une autre approche artistique

Sommario/riassunto

[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach.This publication documents three projects that were carried out between 2011 and 2015. GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING in northern Ghana, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE at Ghana’s Atlantic coast, and LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR of Congo. The book illustrates the projects’ creative processes and contexts, embedded in contemporary discourses – well-known experts from architecture, art, theory, and urban sociology take a stand.

[a]FA ist ein Lab des Instituts für Architektur an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, in dem räumliche, infrastrukturelle, ökologische und kulturelle Phänomene der Sub-Sahara untersucht werden. Jedes Projekt ist transdisziplinär und transkulturell konzipiert.



Das Buch dokumentiert drei Projekte, die in den Jahren 2011-2015 durchgeführt wurden: GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING (( kursiv)) im Norden Ghanas, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE an der Atlantikküste Ghanas, und LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR Kongo. Es zeigt die Projekte in ihrem Entstehungsprozess und Kontext und bettet sie in aktuelle Diskurse ein: renommierte Experten aus Architektur, Kunst, Theorie und Stadtsoziologie nehmen Stellung.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459891803321

Titolo

The best American magazine writing 2014 / / compiled by Sid Holt ; introduction by Mark Jannot ; contributors, Steven Brill [and seventeen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53951-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (525 p.)

Disciplina

810.9352664

Soggetti

American prose literature - 21st century

Journalism - Awards - United States

American prose literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Jannot, Mark -- Acknowledgments -- The Second Biggest Star in a Remote Little Burg Somewhere in Germany / Junod, Tom -- Apple Breaks the Mold / Chafkin, Max -- The Dream Boat / Mogelson, Luke -- Orders of Grief / Miller, Lisa -- Jahar's World / Reitman, Janet -- Thanksgiving in Mongolia / Levy, Ariel -- Shark Week and Difficult Women and Private Practice / Nussbaum, Emily -- Overexposed and Radical Revival and Behind the Façade / Rybczynski, Witold -- Sliver of Sky / Lopez, Barry



-- Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us / Brill, Steven -- How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? / Twenge, Jean M. -- Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building / Thompson, Wright -- Bret, Unbroken / Friedman, Steve -- Dangerous / Davis, Joshua -- The Sinking of the Bounty / Shaer, Matthew -- Nineteen: The Yarnell Hill Fire / Dickman, Kyle -- Elegies / Ossip, Kathleen -- The Embassy of Cambodia / Smith, Zadie -- Permissions -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin's oral history of Apple from Fast Company, Joshua Davis's intimate portrait of tech pioneer John McAfee's personal and public breakdown from Wired; Kyle Dickman's haunting investigation into the preventable death of nineteen firemen battling an Arizona wildfire; and Ariel Levy's emotional account of extreme travel to a remote land-while pregnant-from The New Yorker. Other essays include Wright Thompson's bittersweet profile of Michael Jordan's fifty-something second act (ESPN the Magazine); Jean M. Twenge's revealing look at fertility myths and baby politics (The Atlantic); Janet Reitman's controversial study of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Rolling Stone); Luke Mogelson's harrowing experience accompanying asylum seekers on a potentially deadly sea voyage to Australia (New York Times Magazine); Lisa Miller's poignant report from Newtown, Connecticut, as the town tries to cope with the aftermath of one of the nation's worst mass shootings (New York); Emily Nussbaum's critiques of gender and politics on television (The New Yorker); and Witold Rybczynski's poetic engagement with modern architecture (Architect). The collection concludes with the award-winning poem "Elegies" by Kathleen Ossip (Poetry) and "The Embassy of Cambodia," a short story by Zadie Smith (The New Yorker).