Children, youth and the city

Children, youth and the city
Hörschelmann, Kathrin
Van Blerk, Lorraine
2012
London ; New York : Routledge.   xii, 240 p.
Resumen :  Share More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social inequalities in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, ability and geographical location, this book discusses specific issues such as poverty, homelessness and work. Each chapter draws on examples from both the developed and developing world, and throughout the chapters, the book: * contrasts experiences of growing up in the city * discusses how social inequalities, together with societal perceptions of childhood and youth, shape experiences of growing up in cities for different young people * examines how young people appropriate the city through social and cultural practices * considers contemporary movements towards the role of children and youths in planning processes. Children, Youth and the City argues that young people must be recognized as urban social agents in their own right. This informative book deals with complex theoretical arguments and relates key ideas to this topical subject in a clear and coherent manner. The text is enlivened throughout with global case studies, photographs, discussion questions, suggested reading and websites. It is an excellent resource for students of Human Geography, Urban Studies and Childhood Studies.
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Globalization and its discontents

Globalization and its discontents
Sassen, Saskia
1998
New York : The New Press.   xxxvi, 254 p.
Resumen :  Groundbreaking essays on the new global economy from an "expert observer" (Forecast). Saskia Sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. Now available in paperback, Globalization and Its Discontents is a collection of Sassen's essays dealing with topics such as the "global city," gender and migration (reconceived as the globalization of labor), information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. Sassen brings together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology, and political science, showing how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and low-income inner cities has become. Incisive and original, she takes on common political, cultural, and economic misconceptions of globalization and offers a thoughtful, provocative new look at our increasingly global society.
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Democracy and public space

Democracy and public space : the physical sites of democratic performance
Parkinson, John
2012
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.  xiii, 246 p.
Resumen :  In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks to their handheld devices, politicians are increasingly working online, and the traditional sites of democracy--assemblies, public galleries, and plazas--are becoming less and less relevant with every new technology. And yet, Democracy and Public Space argues, such views are leading us to confuse the medium with the message, focusing on electronic transmission when often what cyber citizens transmit is pictures and narratives of real democratic action in physical space. Democratic citizens are embodied, take up space, battle over access to physical resources, and perform democracy on physical stages at least as much as they engage with ideas in virtual space. Combining conceptual analysis with interviews and observation in capital cities on every continent, John Parkinson argues that democracy requires physical public space, that some kinds of space are better for performing some democratic roles than others, and that some of the most valuable kinds of space are under attack in developed democracies. He argues that accidental publics like shoppers and lunchtime crowds are increasingly valued over purposive, active publics, over citizens with a point to make or an argument to listen to. This can be seen not just in the way that traditional protest is regulated, but in the ways that ordinary city streets and parks are managed, even in the design of such quintessentially democratic spaces as legislative assemblies. Democracy and Public Space offers an alternative vision for democratic public space, and evaluates 11 cities--from London to Tokyo--against that ideal.
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Cities and climate change

Cities and climate change
Bulkeley, Harriet
2013
London ; New York : Routledge.   vii, 266 p.
Resumen : Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
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Animal architecture

Animal architecture
Hansell, Michael H. (Michael Henry)
2005
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.   xii, 322 p.
Resumen :  This monograph on the biology of animal building embraces all groups, from simple invertebrates to primate toolmakers. It looks at the behavioral and anatomical equipment animals have in order to build, as well as the materials available to them. It examines how architects are able, singly or collectively, to produce complex structures often much larger than themselves. It also looks at the costs of building, the properties of completed structures, the ecological impact of them ,and their effects on the evolution of animal builders.
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A pattern language

A pattern language : towns, buildings, construcción
Alexander, Christopher
1977
New York : Oxford University Press.   xliv, 1171 p.
Resumen : A Pattern Language offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own. Extraordinarily thorough, coherent, and accessible, this book has become a bible for homebuilders, contractors, and developers who care about creating healthy, high-level design.
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Transforming cities

Transforming cities : revival in the square
Corbett, Nick
2004
London : RIBA Enterprises.   167 p.
Resumen :  This book will give confidence to those who want to challenge the status quo in the design and management of public space and provides an insight into how design strategies for new public spaces can transform our cities. Illustrated throughout with international examples of best practice, 'Revival in the Square' provides practical advice and guidance on how to build public spaces that will bring people together for a positive, shared experience of urban living.
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El espectador emancipado

El espectador emancipado
Rancière, Jacques
2010
Buenos Aires : Manantial.   130 p.
Resumen :  «El que ve no sabe ver»: esta presuposición atraviesa toda nuestra historia, desde la caverna platónica hasta la denuncia de la sociedad del espectáculo. La encontramos tanto en el filósofo que quiere que cada uno se quede en su lugar como en los revolucionarios que quieren arrancar a los dominados de las ilusiones que los someten. Algunos emplean sutiles explicaciones o instalaciones espectaculares para mostrar a los ciegos lo que no ven. Otros quieren cortar el mal de raíz transformando el espectáculo en acción y al espectador, en hombre activo.
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La conquista del pan

La conquista del pan
Kropotkin, Piotr Aleksieevich, Príncipe
2008
Madrid : La Malatesta ; Islas Canarias : Tierra de fuego ; Buenos Aires : Libros Anarres.   217 p.
Resumen :   "El bienestar para todos no es un sueño. Es posible, realizable, después de lo que han hecho nuestros antepasados para hacer fecunda nuestra fuerza de trabajo. Mas para que el bienestar llegue a ser una realidad, es preciso que el inmenso capital deje de ser considerado como una propiedad privada, del que el acaparador disponga a su antojo. Es menester que el rico instrumento de la producción sea propiedad común, a fin de que el espíritu colectivo saque de él los mayores beneficios para todos". La conquista del pan es, posiblemente, el título más conocido y celebrado de los publicados por Piotr Kropotkin, el "Príncipe anarquista", traducido y divulgado por todo el mundo desde su primera aparición, en París, en 1892. En el se sientan las bases del comunismo libertario que habría de imponerse, con el tiempo, como la fórmula a desarrollar por los anarquistas de todo el mundo, superando las propuestas colectivistas no solo de Bakunin sino también de muchos "socialistas autoritarios". Kropotkin analiza aquí las revoluciones habidas hasta entonces, concluye que es el pan -la viabilidad material- lo imprescindible para el éxito revolucionario y para instalar definitivamente el verdadero comunismo,y que solo una revolución total, apoyada en el ciencia y la ayuda mutua, logrará ese ideal que sabe perfectamente posible aquí y ahora.
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Guerrilla metaphysics

Guerrilla metaphysics : phenomenology and the carpentry of things
Harman, Graham
2005
Chicago and La Salle, Illinois : Open Court.   vii, 283 p.
Resumen :   In Guerrilla Metaphysics, Graham Harman develops further the object-oriented philosophy first proposed in Tool-Being. Today's fashionable philosophies often treat metaphysics as a petrified relic of the past, and hold that future progress requires an ever further abandonment of all claims to discuss reality in itself. Guerrilla Metaphysics makes the opposite assertion, challenging the dominant "philosophy of access" (both continental and analytic) that remains quarantined in discussions of language, perception, or literary texts. Philosophy needs a fresh resurgence of the things themselves--not merely the words or appearances themselves. Once these themes are adapted to the needs of an object-oriented philosophy, what emerges is a brand new type of metaphysics-a "guerrilla metaphysics."
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