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Features case studies of blockchain applications at the University
of Nicosia, Cyprus, which is the world’s leading university in
blockchain teaching and educational applications. Provides
comprehensive coverage of feasibility and challenge, opportunities
and threats, inherent to this disruptive technology. Concludes with
a critical evaluation of the current blockchain-in-education
landscape along with a discussion of prospects for the future.
Features case studies of blockchain applications at the University
of Nicosia, Cyprus, which is the world’s leading university in
blockchain teaching and educational applications. Provides
comprehensive coverage of feasibility and challenge, opportunities
and threats, inherent to this disruptive technology. Concludes with
a critical evaluation of the current blockchain-in-education
landscape along with a discussion of prospects for the future.
This completes Ed Sojaa s trilogy on urban studies, which began
with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is
the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban
studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that
have emerged world--wide over the last half of the
twentieth--century.
Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a
significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of
the most important intellectual and political developments in the
late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space and
the embracing spatiality of human life with the same critical
insight and emphasis that has traditionally been given to time and
history on the one hand, and social relations and society on the
other. "Thirdspace" is both an enquiry into the origins and impact
of the spatial turn and an attempt to expand the scope and
practical relevance of how we think about space and such related
concepts as place, location, landscape, architecture, environment,
home, city, region, territory, and geography.
The book's central argument is that spatial thinking, or what
has been called the geographical or spatial imagination, has tended
to be bicameral, or confined to two approaches. Spatiality is
either seen as concrete material forms to be mapped, analyzed, and
explained; or as mental constructs, ideas about and representations
of space and its social significance. Edward Soja critically
re-evaluates this dualism to create an alternative approach, one
that comprehends both the material and mental dimensions of
spatiality but also extends beyond them to new and different modes
of spatial thinking.
"Thirdspace" is composed as a sequence of intellectual and
empirical journeys, beginning with a spatial biography of Henri
Lefebvre and his adventurous conceptualization of social space as
simultaneously perceived, conceived, and lived. The author draws on
Lefebvre to describe a trialectics of spatiality that threads
though all subsequent journeys, reappearing in many new forms in
bell hooks evocative exploration of the margins as a space of
radical openness; in post-modern spatial feminist interpretations
of the interplay of race, class, and gender; in the postcolonial
critique and the new cultural politics of difference and identity;
in Michel Foucault's heterotopologies and trialectics of space,
knowledge, and power; and in interpretative tours of the Citadel of
downtown Los Angeles, the Exopolis of Orange County, and the
Centrum of Amsterdam.
Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a
significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of
the most important intellectual and political developments in the
late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space and
the embracing spatiality of human life with the same critical
insight and emphasis that has traditionally been given to time and
history on the one hand, and social relations and society on the
other. "Thirdspace" is both an enquiry into the origins and impact
of the spatial turn and an attempt to expand the scope and
practical relevance of how we think about space and such related
concepts as place, location, landscape, architecture, environment,
home, city, region, territory, and geography.
The book's central argument is that spatial thinking, or what
has been called the geographical or spatial imagination, has tended
to be bicameral, or confined to two approaches. Spatiality is
either seen as concrete material forms to be mapped, analyzed, and
explained; or as mental constructs, ideas about and representations
of space and its social significance. Edward Soja critically
re-evaluates this dualism to create an alternative approach, one
that comprehends both the material and mental dimensions of
spatiality but also extends beyond them to new and different modes
of spatial thinking.
"Thirdspace" is composed as a sequence of intellectual and
empirical journeys, beginning with a spatial biography of Henri
Lefebvre and his adventurous conceptualization of social space as
simultaneously perceived, conceived, and lived. The author draws on
Lefebvre to describe a trialectics of spatiality that threads
though all subsequent journeys, reappearing in many new forms in
bell hooks evocative exploration of the margins as a space of
radical openness; in post-modern spatial feminist interpretations
of the interplay of race, class, and gender; in the postcolonial
critique and the new cultural politics of difference and identity;
in Michel Foucault's heterotopologies and trialectics of space,
knowledge, and power; and in interpretative tours of the Citadel of
downtown Los Angeles, the Exopolis of Orange County, and the
Centrum of Amsterdam.
Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence
of theory's "spatial turn." From the suppression of space in modern
social science and the disciplinary aloofness of geography to the
spatial returns of Foucault and Lefebvre and the construction of
Marxist geographies alert to urbanization and global development,
renowned geographer Edward W. Soja details the trajectory of this
turn and lays out its key debates. An expanded critique of
historicism and a refined grasp of materialist dialectics bolster
Soja's attempt to introduce geography to postmodernity, animating a
series of engagements with Heidegger, Giddens, Castells, and
others. Two exploratory essays on the postfordist landscapes of Los
Angeles complete the book, offering a glimpse of Soja's new
geography carried into its highest register.
Fighting the distorted imagery attached to Los Angeles, Edward Soja
uses LA to rekindle our urban imagination about major issues
affecting the world today. Here is a Los Angeles worthy to be
learned from, an exemplary city region consisting of a network of
at least forty cities with populations greater than 100,000. This
polycentric regional city, once the least dense American
metropolis, is now the country's densest urbanized area.
Traditionally seen as one of the most business-centered
environments, Los Angeles has become a major focus for the American
labor movement and generator of some of the most innovative urban
social movements in the country. A model in the past of unrooted
"placeless" urbanism, it has become a hive of neighborhood
organizations practicing sophisticated forms of location-based
politics. Once the most WASP metropolis in the country, LA is now
among the most culturally heterogeneous cities the world has ever
seen. Soja takes us through his evolving interpretations of this
urban metamorphosis, combining varying doses of radical political
economy, critical postmodernism, comparative urban studies, and the
new regionalism. He reaches the confident conclusion that over the
past thirty years Los Angeles has been experiencing a profound
deconstruction and reconstitution, a breakdown of the familiar
model of metropolitan growth and the formation of a new mode of
regional urbanization that is spreading to many other megacity
regions in the world. Soja's highly personal and assertively
spatial look at Los Angeles inspires, informs, challenges, and
entertains.
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy
organization, won a historic legal victory against the city's
Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced
the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass
transit system to better serve the city's poorest residents. A
stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban
America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this
decision is also, for renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a
concrete example of spatial justice in action. In Seeking Spatial
Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the
equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a
basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical
geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves
theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and
changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the
evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the
right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David
Harvey, and others, he demonstrates how these ideas are now being
applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city
at the forefront of this movement. Soja focuses on such innovative
labor-community coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles
Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on
struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the
role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban
Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial
justice and putting it into practice. Effectively locating spatial
justice as a theoretical concept, a mode of empirical analysis, and
a strategy for social and political action, this book makes a
significant contribution to the contemporary debates about justice,
space, and the city.
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Amara never thought her life could get worse when she transfers to
a new high school. She meets new friends, new enemies, and her
heart is torn between the cute black haired boy in her Biology
class and the hot blonde she met in the hall. One day when Amara is
walking home from school, she witnesses an accident like no other,
an accident that may have an impact to change her life forever.
When Amara's life tumbles into chaos, it's up to her and her
'guardian angel' to defeat the darkness hunting Amara down. Follow
Amara in her tale of love, lust, and life.
Fighting the distorted imagery attached to Los Angeles, Edward Soja
uses LA to rekindle our urban imagination about major issues
affecting the world today. Here is a Los Angeles worthy to be
learned from, an exemplary city region consisting of a network of
at least forty cities with populations greater than 100,000. This
polycentric regional city, once the least dense American
metropolis, is now the country's densest urbanized area.
Traditionally seen as one of the most business-centered
environments, Los Angeles has become a major focus for the American
labor movement and generator of some of the most innovative urban
social movements in the country. A model in the past of unrooted
"placeless" urbanism, it has become a hive of neighborhood
organizations practicing sophisticated forms of location-based
politics. Once the most WASP metropolis in the country, LA is now
among the most culturally heterogeneous cities the world has ever
seen. Soja takes us through his evolving interpretations of this
urban metamorphosis, combining varying doses of radical political
economy, critical postmodernism, comparative urban studies, and the
new regionalism. He reaches the confident conclusion that over the
past thirty years Los Angeles has been experiencing a profound
deconstruction and reconstitution, a breakdown of the familiar
model of metropolitan growth and the formation of a new mode of
regional urbanization that is spreading to many other megacity
regions in the world. Soja's highly personal and assertively
spatial look at Los Angeles inspires, informs, challenges, and
entertains.
Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and
villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the
process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as
well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather
than consensus, the editors of The City have assembled a variety of
essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this
extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that
have occurred since 1960. Together the essays--by experts in urban
planning, architecture, geography, and sociology--create a new kind
of urban analysis, one that is open to diversity but strongly
committed to collective theoretical and practical understanding.
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