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This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles,
and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city
design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of
the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the
planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC,
through the late-medieval Bastides, the Ideal Renaissance cities,
and Baroque new towns, to the urban planning strategies of the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti-urban
modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the
city. It concludes with late-twentieth-century efforts to recover
the city, a contemporary urban architecture, and urbanism's
potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis. The
book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be
read graphically, textually, or both. As such, it falls into the
long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded
in the projects, with only occasional assistance or clarification
from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts, not
verbal arts, and they are best understood from graphic
representations.
Since the advent of the internet, online communities have emerged
as a way for users to share their common interests and connect with
others with ease. As the possibilities of the online world grew and
the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the world, many organizations
recognized the utility in not only providing further services
online, but also in transitioning operations typically fulfilled
in-person to an online space. As society approaches a reality in
which most community practices have moved to online spaces, it is
essential that community leaders remain knowledgeable on the best
practices in cultivating engagement. Community Engagement in the
Online Space evaluates key issues and practices pertaining to
community engagement in remote settings. It analyzes various
community engagement efforts within remote education, online
groups, and remote work. This book further reviews the best
practices for community engagement and considerations for the
optimization of these practices for effective virtual delivery to
support emergency environmental challenges, such as pandemic
conditions. Covering topics such as community belonging, global
health virtual practicum, and social media engagement, this premier
reference source is an excellent resource for program directors,
faculty and administrators of both K-12 and higher education,
students of higher education, business leaders and executives, IT
professionals, online community moderators, librarians,
researchers, and academicians.
On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class
supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on
the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel's virulent
opposition to union recognition and collective bargaining. By the
end of the day, ten marchers had been mortally wounded and more
than one hundred badly injured, victims of a terrifying police
riot. Sam's Place, the headquarters for the steelworkers, was
transformed into a bloody and frantic triage unit for treating
heads split open by police batons, flesh torn by bullets, and limbs
mangled badly enough to require amputation.
While no one doubts the importance of the Memorial Day Massacre,
Michael Dennis identifies it as a focal point in the larger effort
to revitalize American equality during the New Deal. In "Blood on
Steel," Dennis shows how the incident--captured on film by
Paramount newsreels--validated the claims of labor activists and
catalyzed public opinion in their favor.
In the aftermath of the massacre, Senate hearings laid bare
patterns of anti-union aggression among management, ranging from
blacklists to harassment and vigilante violence. Companies were
determined to subvert the right to form a union, which Congress had
finally recognized in 1935. Only in the following year would
Congress pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a
minimum wage and a maximum work week, outlawed child labor, and
regulated hazardous work. Like the Wagner Act that protected
collective bargaining, this law aimed to protect workers who had
suffered the worst of what the Great Depression had inflicted.
Dennis's wide-angle perspective reveals the Memorial Day
Massacre as not simply another bloody incident in the long story of
labor-management tension in American history but as an illustration
of the broad-based movement for social democracy which developed in
the New Deal era.
Through moments of social protest, policy debate, and popular
mobilization, this book follows the campaign for economic democracy
and the fight for full employment in the United States. Starting in
the 1930s, Dennis explores its intellectual and philosophical
underpinnings, the class struggle that determined the fate of
legislation and the role of left-wing civil rights activists in its
revival. Demonstrating how the campaign for full employment
intersected with movements for women's liberation and civil rights,
it explores how social groups and oppressed minorities interpreted
and appropriated the promise of full employment. For many, full
employment provided an indispensable path to racial and gender
emancipation. In this book, Dennis uncovers the class dimensions
and the resistance to full employment in the US. He demonstrates
how the recurring debates over full employment consistently exposed
the contradictions inherent in a capitalist society and challenged
the assertion that an allegedly free enterprise system
automatically generated employment for all.
The neon waves crash over me, pummelling this body of mine into the
earth that has mocked me for the lifetime I have been begrudgingly
granted. Within this destructive water are stories that feature
people like me, lost, lonely and afraid of what lies ahead. "I was
27 when I first told the woman of my dreams that I loved her. It
was the one regret that has haunted me for so long..." The voice
the water channels is of someone much like me, love-struck. Love
broke me; leaving me to wonder why I can never be loved in the same
way that I loved. Does this change the feelings I hold for her?
No... It just makes me realise what I knew all along. As much as I
want to save them from ruin, I finally understand that's not my
purpose... They'll have to save themselves.
This book is designed to provide a new perspective on the role of
the expert witness, going beyond the legal definition and
requirements. For attorneys, it provides insight into finding the
right expert for specific cases and preparing an expert for
deposition and trial testimony. For consultants and others, it
provides a roadmap for serving as an expert witness. For the
judiciary, it provides a view to an expert's approach to an
assignment and the nature of the process, the reference materials
and personal experience that supports their testimony.
A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams. When
Oli arrives at now-forgotten sci-fi icon Marianne's door, he's
looking for an autograph – and maybe a friend. Marianne's hoping
for the phone to ring, for her best friend to see her differently,
for her turn at something more substantial than a half-remembered
role on a cult TV show. As they start to explore each other's
worlds, they begin to discover what every good relationship needs:
time and space. Exploring the complexities of connection,
especially in the LGBTQ+ community, and the contrast in lived
experiences across generations, Dark Sublime is a love-letter to
British sci-fi television – those that make it and those that
adore it. Michael Dennis's debut play premiered at Trafalgar
Studios in London's West End in 2019, directed by Andrew Keates and
starring Marina Sirtis, best known for appearing in Star Trek: The
Next Generation.
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