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UNINA9910798994103321 |
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Ignatieff George |
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The making of a peacemonger : the memoirs of George Ignatieff / / prepared in association with Sonja Sinclair |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1985 |
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©1985 |
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1-4426-5410-4 |
1-4426-3859-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations |
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Diplomats - Canada |
Biographies. |
Electronic books. |
Canada Foreign relations 1945- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- One. In the service of the tsars -- Two. Luck on our side -- Three. Down on the farm -- Four. The Canadianization of the Ignatieffs -- Five. Diplomatic apprenticeship -- Six. Junior planner -- Seven. At the UN with McNaughton -- Eight. Golden age of Canadian diplomacy -- Nine. Russia revisited -- Ten. Ambassador to Yugoslavia -- Eleven. In London with the Drews -- Twelve. Ottawa under Diefenbaker -- Thirteen. Ambassador to NATO -- Fourteen. The hot seat in New York -- Fifteen. The cool seat in Geneva -- Index |
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Standing on the roof of Canada House following one of the worst wartime air raids on London and surveying the devastation around them, two men resolved to devote their lives to the cause of peace. One of them was Mike Pearson, soon to become minister of external affairs and eventually prime minister of Canada. The other was a junior foreign service official by the name of George Ignatieff. The London blitz was not Ignatieff's first exposure to the horrors of war. As the Russian-born son of a famous aristocratic family, he was barely five years old when |
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the revolution and civil war put an end to his sheltered childhood. His father was arrested and jailed by the Bolsheviks, then miraculously released in time for the family to escape to England and eventually settle in Canada. For the last event, he has never ceased to be grateful. With warmth, charm and unfailing humour, Ignatieff takes the reader through a remarkable life. The early years - from the elegance of his childhood home to the comic struggles of émigré neophytes operating a dairy farm, from the pain of isolation at an exclusive Montreal boys' school and the challenges of railroad construction life in western Canada to the heady days as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford - developed in the young man the flexibility and adaptability required of a diplomat. His close-up observation of troops massed to parade before Hitler, his shock at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Magasaki, the nuclear arms race, and the Cuban missile crisis all reinforced his commitment to peace. Ignatieff served his adopted country as Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia and to the North Atlantic Council. He represented Canada on the United Nations Security Council and at the Geneva Disarmament Conference. He participated in tense negotiations over most of the world's hot spots of the 1950s and 60s: the Middle east, Suez, Korea, Czechoslovakia, Cyprus. He accompanied Pearson on his historic visit to the Soviet Union, and spent a memorable evening with Khrushchev and Bulganin. He discussed multiculturalism with Tito, the Suez crisis with U Thant, and disarmament with anyone who would listen. His colourful recollections offer a rare glimpse into the workings of international relations, of policy-making at the highest levels, and of people whose decisions affect the stability of the world. They are also the intensely personal account of an immigrant who rose to distinguished heights in service to his country and to humanity. |
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UNINA9910647498503321 |
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Just urban design : the struggle for a public city / / edited by Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija ; foreword by Lawrence J. Vale |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022] |
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9780262371070 |
0262371073 |
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0262371081 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (331 pages) |
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Urban and industrial environments |
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City planning - Social aspects |
Communication in city planning |
Social policy |
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Just urban design scholarship? examining urban design theories through a justice lens / Chritsopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Anastastia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija -- The search for social justice and public space framework: the case of older adults in New York City during COVID-19 / Setha Low -- Urban design praxis: a responsibility for justice / Michael Rios -- Rethinking urban politics through the lens of sovereignty: material assemblages for inclusive urbanism / Diane E. Davis -- Opening up the private city: remaking single-family zoning neighborhoods / Vinit Mukhija -- Reinstating landscapes of urban resistance / Allison B. Hirsch -- Air and artifice: bureaucrat urban designers in Harlem, 1967 / Rebecca Choi -- Building community capacity as just urban design: learning from Seattle's Chinatown International District / Jeffery Hou -- Making "public space" truly public: identifying and overcoming barriers to truly inclusive and equitable spaces / Chelina Odbert -- Whose city? innovations and imaginaries and the Nehemiah Initiative's example for Seattle / Rachel Berney -- Designing just resilience? innovation and |
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discontent in post-Hurricane Sandy New York / Kian Goh -- Urban rights: top down/bottom up / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- Empowering difference: just urban design for the immigrant street vendors of Rome / Francesca Piazzoni and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris -- Building a Black public realm and a public culture: learning from Leimert Park Village / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta -- The right to walk in the neighborhood: designing inclusive sidewalks for older adults / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris -- Conclusion: The struggle for a public city / Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Vinit Mukhija. |
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"A critical examination of the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities"-- |
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