Urban Planning and Cultural Identity (RTPI Library Series)

Urban Planning and Cultural Identity reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but touch on the raw sensibilities of who people define themselves to be. Berlin as the reborn German capital has put 'coming to terms with' the Holocaust and the memory of the GDR full square at the centre of urban planning. Detroit raises questions about the impotence and complicity of planners in the face of the most extreme metropolitan spatial apartheid in the United States and where African-American identity now seems set on a separatist course. In Belfast, in the clash of Irish nationalist and Ulster unionist traditions, place can take on intense emotional meanings in relation to which planners as 'mediators of space' can seem ill equipped. The book, drawing on extensive interview sources in the case study cities, poses a question of broad relevance. Can planners fashion a role in using environmental concerns such as Local Agenda 21 as a vehicle of building a sense of common citizenship in which cultural difference can embed itself?

Politics & Social Sciences

Neill, William

Social Sciences

Routledge

Yosemite Photographs ( Book & 15 Postcards )

History

Americas

Chronicle Books+

View the awesome Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Postbox: Grand Canyon

Wiliam Neill - whose photographs have illustrated numerous publications including Sierra, Conde Nast Traveler, and Outside - is a longtime resident of Yosemite National Park and has his own Web Site at www.williamneill.com.Pat Murphy - senior writer and editor of the Exploratorium Quarterly for over a decade - is also an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author. She lives in San Francisco.Diane Ackerman is the author of A Natural History of the Senses and A Natural History of Love as well as a host of her own televsions series.

Acadia National Park Postbox Collection: A Book to Keep and 15 Different Cards to Send

Examines symmetry and patterns in nature, and theorizes, mathematically and geometrically, about each design pictured

By Nature's Design (An Exploratorium Book)

Arts & Photography

Murphy, Pat

Photography & Video

Straight Lines

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Blackstaff Pr

Gorgeous and unique, Where the World Does Not Follow captures an almost-hidden China. Acclaimed translator Mike O'Connor and photographer Steven Johnson uncover a world rarely seen by outsiders--even as they capture it in its everyday beauty. O'Connor's translations of poems from China's Tang Dynasty sing in the present day, while Johnson's photographs reveal a modern-day China that seems almost unchanged by the passing of centuries. Chinese authorities are only now allowing access to ancient Buddhist sites and many writings and devotional objects are being made available for the first time in decades. These poems written by Zen and Taoist hermit-sages, together with the crisp yet almost dreamlike images capture the aesthetic, literary, and spiritual roots of Buddhist China. Where the World Does Not Follow provides insight into a world that very few have been able to visit--and a time difficult even to imagine. O'Connor and Johnson's book is a hymn to nature, to the art of photography, and to the common beauty of humanity that extends to us like a silk thread from another time and place.

Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem

O'Connor, Mike

Johnson, Steven R.

Wisdom Publications

Selected Poems: 1969-1992

Canongate Books Ltd.

Making Tracks: Poems in Scots, English and Gaelic with Translation

Hyperion Books

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