The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design, materiality, alterity, technologies, cityscapes, and practice.

The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe. As the space of representative civic authority it aimed to set the terms of public space and engagement with the citizenry. In subsequent centuries, as the idea and built form travelled beyond Europe to become an established institution across the globe, the parameters of civic representation changed and the town hall was forced to negotiate new notions of urbanism and public space. City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space utilizes the town hall in its global historical incarnations as bases to probe these changing ideas of urban public space. The essays in this volume provide an analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts, in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas, as the relation between citizens and civic authority had to be revisited with the universal franchise, under fascism, after the devastation of the world wars, decolonization, and most recently, with the neo-liberal restructuring of cities. As a global phenomenon, the town hall challenges the idea that nationalism, imperialism, democracy, the idea of citizenship - concepts that frame the relation between the individual and the body politic -- travel the globe in modular forms, or in predictable trajectories from the West to East, North to South. Collectively the essays argue that if the town hall has historically been connected with the articulation of bourgeois civil society, then the town hall as a global spatial type -- architectural space, urban monument, and space of governance -- holds a mirror to the promise and limits of civil society.

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global architecture of the twenty-first century. New chapters by 36 contributors illustrated with over 140 black-and-white images are assembled in six parts concerning both real and virtual spaces: design, materiality, alterity, technologies, cityscapes, and practice.

The Customs and Excise Duties Handbook 2020 combines the content from both the Customs Duties Handbook and the Excise Duties Handbook. Now published as a seven-volume work, the 2020-21 edition covers all the up-to-date legislation on the key areas for customs and excise practitioners. The seven volumes are arranged as follows: 1. General 2a. Union Customs Code 2b. Customs 3. Product Duties 4. Environmental Taxes 5. Betting and Gaming Duties 6. Vehicle Excise Duty Volume 1 is an essential 'quick reference guide' to the most commonly used legislation, ideal for taking to court or client meetings. Volumes 2a and 2b provide the essential UK and EU legislation relating to customs duties, including the new Union Customs Code, the UCC Delegated Act, the UCC Implementing Act and the UCC Transitional Delegated Act in full. Volumes 3 to 6 cover the specific duties. This title could have major Brexit implications, so it will very much depend on what decision is made. Volumes 1, 2a & 2b will be the most heavily affected. Volumes 3 to 6 cover the specific duties.

Venturing into "impossible" territory once again with Christian Satanism, this book provides its reader with the option to be both as only real wisdom could allow.

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