Author: Ondjaki
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD A VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018 A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018 In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki, indisputably, among the continent’s most accomplished writers.
Transparent City
Author: Ondjaki
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD A VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018 A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018 In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki, indisputably, among the continent’s most accomplished writers.
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD A VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018 A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018 In a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic Odonato, nostalgic for the country of his youth and searching for his lost son. As his hope drains away and as the city outside his doors changes beyond all recognition, Odonato’s flesh becomes transparent and his body increasingly weightless. A captivating blend of magical realism, scathing political satire, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Transparent City offers a gripping and joyful portrait of urban Africa quite unlike any before yet published in English, and places Ondjaki, indisputably, among the continent’s most accomplished writers.
Urban Transformational Landscapes in the City-Hinterlands of Asia
Author: Debnath Mookherjee
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811987262
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
In the context of mounting challenges stemming from a rapid transformation of the urban-regional landscapes in many Asian countries, this book highlights a multifaceted array of issues that increasingly engage the academic and planning communities in search of viable solutions to complex problems facing us. Even though cities continue to dominate development studies, urbanization of Asia is evolving toward a hybrid urban-rural nexus beyond the cities. This volume considers these shifting dynamics of Asian urbanization, including urban spatial transformations and their ramifications in the context of sustainability and planning. Through the lens of a set of empirical studies across diverse disciplines, geographies and methodologies. yet with an overarching concern for sustainability in varied (but interconnected) areas such as climate change, land use planning, infrastructure and urban mobility, and quality of life, these studies examine a range of important topics (e.g., flooding, transportation, housing, open space/ green space, urban garden and such) in city/regional settings. Together, they add insights into varied transformational processes or patterns at work on the urban-regional landscapes in a number of Asian countries while offering innovative approaches or alternatives. The proposed volume fills a gap in urban/regional studies in context of South and Southeast Asia that will be of interest to all stakeholders (e.g., planners, administrators, academicians and the citizenry), particularly those interested in sustainability and planning paradigms. It should be a timely and valuable addition to the Asian urbanization literature.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811987262
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
In the context of mounting challenges stemming from a rapid transformation of the urban-regional landscapes in many Asian countries, this book highlights a multifaceted array of issues that increasingly engage the academic and planning communities in search of viable solutions to complex problems facing us. Even though cities continue to dominate development studies, urbanization of Asia is evolving toward a hybrid urban-rural nexus beyond the cities. This volume considers these shifting dynamics of Asian urbanization, including urban spatial transformations and their ramifications in the context of sustainability and planning. Through the lens of a set of empirical studies across diverse disciplines, geographies and methodologies. yet with an overarching concern for sustainability in varied (but interconnected) areas such as climate change, land use planning, infrastructure and urban mobility, and quality of life, these studies examine a range of important topics (e.g., flooding, transportation, housing, open space/ green space, urban garden and such) in city/regional settings. Together, they add insights into varied transformational processes or patterns at work on the urban-regional landscapes in a number of Asian countries while offering innovative approaches or alternatives. The proposed volume fills a gap in urban/regional studies in context of South and Southeast Asia that will be of interest to all stakeholders (e.g., planners, administrators, academicians and the citizenry), particularly those interested in sustainability and planning paradigms. It should be a timely and valuable addition to the Asian urbanization literature.
Transparent Urban Development
Author: Benjamin W. Stanley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319589105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local property ownership and land speculation negatively impacted a concerted public-private effort to encourage infill construction on vacant land. The book elaborates urban sustainability not only as a set of ecological and design prescriptions, but as a field needing increased engagement with the growth-based impetus, structural economic forces, and political details behind American urban land policy. Demonstrating how land use policies evolved in relation to Phoenix’s historical dependence on outside investment, and are now interwoven across jurisdictional scales, the book concludes by identifying policy intervention points to increase the sustainability of Phoenix’s development trajectory.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319589105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local property ownership and land speculation negatively impacted a concerted public-private effort to encourage infill construction on vacant land. The book elaborates urban sustainability not only as a set of ecological and design prescriptions, but as a field needing increased engagement with the growth-based impetus, structural economic forces, and political details behind American urban land policy. Demonstrating how land use policies evolved in relation to Phoenix’s historical dependence on outside investment, and are now interwoven across jurisdictional scales, the book concludes by identifying policy intervention points to increase the sustainability of Phoenix’s development trajectory.
The Transparent City
Author: Michael Wolf
Publisher: Aperture Direct
ISBN: 9781597110761
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Photographs of the Chicago cityscape--digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses--focus specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
Publisher: Aperture Direct
ISBN: 9781597110761
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Photographs of the Chicago cityscape--digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses--focus specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
The State of Open Data
Author: Davies, Tim
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN: 1928331955
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? The State of Open Data brings together over 60 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come.
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN: 1928331955
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? The State of Open Data brings together over 60 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come.
The Transparent State
Author: Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415700184
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415700184
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.
OECD Public Governance Reviews Transparent and Inclusive Stakeholder Participation through Public Councils in Kazakhstan
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926444257X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This report analyses the legal and policy framework for stakeholder participation in Kazakhstan, and compares public councils' current practices against the requirements set out in regulations.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926444257X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This report analyses the legal and policy framework for stakeholder participation in Kazakhstan, and compares public councils' current practices against the requirements set out in regulations.
The Transparent Society
Author: David Brin
Publisher: Perseus (for Hbg)
ISBN: 0738201448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Argues that the privacy of individuals actually hampers accountability, which is the foundation of any civilized society and that openness is far more liberating than secrecy
Publisher: Perseus (for Hbg)
ISBN: 0738201448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Argues that the privacy of individuals actually hampers accountability, which is the foundation of any civilized society and that openness is far more liberating than secrecy
Transparent Art
Author:
Publisher: Stampington & Company
ISBN: 9780971729650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Stampington & Company
ISBN: 9780971729650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Transparent Market
Author: Mats Larsson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349270180
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book looks at how electronic commerce and the WWW will affect the market in the future. A new breed of information-rich consumers are emerging. They have easy access to competitors and are making companies less able to exploit traditional sources of competitive advantage. This is producing a new 'Transparent Market'. This book examines how this transparent market is developing, how companies can be successful in this new era and how individuals can survive in the future job market. The Transparent Market is a guide to the new market and how this potential threat can be turned into a key competitive tool for companies and for individuals.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349270180
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book looks at how electronic commerce and the WWW will affect the market in the future. A new breed of information-rich consumers are emerging. They have easy access to competitors and are making companies less able to exploit traditional sources of competitive advantage. This is producing a new 'Transparent Market'. This book examines how this transparent market is developing, how companies can be successful in this new era and how individuals can survive in the future job market. The Transparent Market is a guide to the new market and how this potential threat can be turned into a key competitive tool for companies and for individuals.