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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253356603321

Titolo

Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities / / edited by Jean-Claude Bolay, Jérôme Chenal, Yves Pedrazzini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-31794-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 247 p. 49 illus., 19 illus. in color.)

Collana

GeoJournal Library, , 0924-5499 ; ; 119

Disciplina

307.1216

Soggetti

Human geography

Urban geography

Economics - Sociological aspects

Human Geography

Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Slums; Jean-Claude Bolay -- Chapter 2: Chapter 2: The Slum, an Urban Theory; Yves Pedrazzini -- Chapter 3: Typology of the Slums; Jérôme Chenal -- Chapter 4: Financing Relocation of Households of Karyan Thomas and Douar Skouila within Essalam Operation in Casablanca; Olivier Toutain -- Chapter 5: Slums in Ouagadougou; Aude Nikiema -- Chapter 6: The Future of the Traditional Habitat in African Cities; Raphaël Chatelet -- Chapter 7: Case Study of Kibera/Nairobi, Kenya; Christoph Lüthi -- Chapter 8: Despised Territories of Ciudad Bolivar; Yafiza Zorro -- Chapter 9: Villa El Salvador: From Urban Self-management Projects to Territorial Marketing Strategies; Diana Burgos-Vigna -- Chapter 10: Rocinha, Favela beyond a Shelter Issue -- Fernanda Maria Lonardoni -- Chapter 11: Caught between Displacement and Permanence: Social Housing Project in Nova Luz; Simone Gatti -- Chapter 12: (Re)Urbanization of Villa 31 Carlos Mugica; Javier Fernández Castro -- Chapter 13: Detroit: Depopulation, Disinvestment and Blight Induce a Volatile Environment for Housing in a Former Metropolis; Margaret Dewar -- Chapter 14:



Environmental Circumstances of Informal Settlements in Port-au-Prince after January 12, 2010: Cité de l’Eternel Case Study; Anie Bras, Abigail Kern, Georges Eddy Lucien and Evens Emmanuel -- Chapter 15: Dharavi: Where the Urban Design Episteme is Falling Apart; Camillo Boano -- Chapter 16: Cambodian Informal Settlements - A Cradle of Competitions for Land, Forced Evictions and Resistance: Boenk Kak Case Study; Valérie Clerc -- Chapter 17: Slums in Shanghai; Anouk Matthey Dandrieu -- Chapter 18: “PLAN CAÑADA”, a Participative Urban Planning Project for a Slum Area in Madrid, Spain; Todo por la Praxis -- Chapter 18: Informal Settlements in Southeast Europe during the Post-Socialist Period; Alexander D. Slaev and Sonia A. Hirt -- Chapter 19: From Theory to the Field; Jérôme Chenal -- Chapter 6: Conclusion; Jean-Claude Bolay, Jérôme Chenal and Yves Pedrazzini.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning. It radically reverses the official version of the history of world cities as narrated during decades: slums are not at the margin of the contemporary process of urbanization; they are an integral part of it. Taking slums as its central focus and regarding them as symptomatic of the ongoing transformations of the city, the book moves to the very heart of the problem in urban planning. The book presents 16 case studies that form the basis for a theory of the slum and a concrete development manual for the slum. The interdisciplinary approach to analysing slums presented in this volume enables researchers to look at social and economic dimensions as well as at the constructive and spatial aspects of slums. Both at the scientific and the pedagogical level, it allows one to recognize the efforts of the slum’s residents, key players in the past, and present development of their neighborhoods, and to challenge public and private stakeholders on priorities decided in urban planning, and their mismatches when compared to the findings of experts and the demands of users. Whether one is a planner, an architect, a developer or simply an inhabitant of an emerging city, the presence of slums in one’s environment – at the same time central and nonetheless incongruous – makes a person ask questions. Today, it is out of the question to be satisfied with the assumption of the marginality of slums, or of the incongruous nature of their existence. Slums are now fully part of the urban landscape, contributing to the identity and the urbanism of cities and their stakeholders.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957961103321

Autore

Lotz Amanda D (1974- ).

Titolo

The television will be revolutionized / / Amanda D. Lotz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : New York University Press, , op. 2014

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©op. 2014

ISBN

9781479830077

1479830070

9781479890392

1479890391

Edizione

[2nd edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 pages)

Classificazione

PER010030TEC000000LAW096000

Disciplina

384.55/0973

Soggetti

Television broadcasting

Television broadcasting - United States

Television - Technological innovations

Television broadcasting - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Understanding television at the beginning of the post-network era -- 2. Television outside the box: the technological revolution of television -- 3. Making television: changes in the practices of creating television -- 4. Revolutionizing distribution: breaking open the network bottleneck -- 5. The new economics of television -- 6. Recounting the audience: measurement in the age of broadband -- 7. Television storytelling possibilities at the beginning of the post-network era: five cases -- Conclusion. Still watching television -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- About the author

Sommario/riassunto

Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. Many proclaimed the “end of television” in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this



revised, second edition of her definitive book, Amanda D. Lotz proves that rumors of the death of television were greatly exaggerated and explores how new distribution and viewing technologies have resurrected the medium. Shifts in the basic practices of making and distributing television have not been hastening its demise, but are redefining what we can do with television, what we expect from it, how we use it—in short, revolutionizing it. Television, as both a technology and a tool for cultural storytelling, remains as important today as ever, but it has changed in fundamental ways. The Television Will Be Revolutionized provides a sophisticated history of the present, examining television in what Lotz terms the “post-network” era while providing frameworks for understanding the continued change in the medium. The second edition addresses adjustments throughout the industry wrought by broadband delivered television such as Netflix, YouTube, and cross-platform initiatives like TV Everywhere, as well as how technologies such as tablets and smartphones have changed how and where we view. Lotz begins to deconstruct the future of different kinds of television—exploring how“ prized content,” live television sports and contests, and linear viewing may all be “television,” but very different types of television for both viewers and producers. Through interviews with those working in the industry, surveys of trade publications, and consideration of an extensive array of popular shows, Lotz takes us behind the screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matter.