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This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make
the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and
sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors
argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot,
is the only feasible principle for suburban renewal. They depart
from the anti-suburban sentiment of much environmentalism to show
that existing suburbia can be the centre-ground of transition to a
new social dispensation based on the principle of self-limitation.
The book offers a radical new urban imaginary, that of degrowth
suburbia, which can arise Phoenix like from the increasingly
stressed cities of the affluent Global North and guide urbanisation
in a world at risk. This means dispensing with much contemporary
green thinking, including blind faith in electric vehicles and
high-density urbanism, and accepting the inevitability and the
benefits of planned energy descent. A radical but necessary vision
for the times.
A child with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) faces a childhood
and adolescence with a disability that develops gradually. This
book intends to expose the problems of children with DMD. The
authors discuss situations related to the disease in an attempt to
provide some quality and improvement of life for those affected
since DMD is a degenerative disease which affects muscle. This book
offers a historical study of muscular dystrophy. It also shows some
profiles of excellent clinicians and scientists that have
contributed to this book with a description of muscular dystrophy
from the clinical picture, to the latest techniques in genetics.
Also included in the chapters are resolutions of several approaches
to DMD, like scales, in order to anticipate how to manage the
disease. This book relates some techniques of moderate exercise,
like Yoga and water exercises, that are compliable with some
advantages in mobility. The book concludes with some current trends
and what can be done in the future. This book can be a good read to
everyone that is interested in DMD, and also for the ones who know
or provide care for those with this terrible disease.
As the crises of capitalism continue to intensify, radical thinkers
must conjure realistic and inspirational alternative futures beyond
this failing social order. This book presents a stimulating array
of essays exploring such post-capitalist futures. With
contributions and perspectives from the Global North and Global
South, central topics include ecosocialism, ecofeminism, degrowth,
community economies, and the Green New Deal. There are also
chapters offering analyses of land, energy, technology, universal
basic services, and (re)localisation of economies. The book is in
three parts. The first presents various alternative paradigms for
thinking about - and working toward - post-capitalist futures. The
second section offers perspectives on alternative governance
strategies and approaches for post-capitalist futures. The closing
section gathers various analyses of post-capitalist geographies and
resistance. Going beyond critique and instead envisioning
alternative imaginaries, this collection should challenge and
inspire readers to think and act upon the range of possibilities
immanent in our crisis-ridden present.
This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in
the metropolis of Melbourne. It is based on the idea that
'enchantment' as an affective state is important to ethical and
political engagement. Alexander and Gleeson argue that a sense of
enchantment can give people the impulse to care and engage in an
increasingly troubled world, whereas disenchantment can lead to
resignation. Applying and extending this theory to the urban
landscape, the authors walk their home city with eyes open to the
possibility of seeing and experiencing the industrial city in
different ways. This unique methodology, described as 'urban
tramping', positions the authors as freethinking freewalkers of the
city, encumbered only with the duty to look through the delusions
of industrial capitalism towards its troubled, contradictory soul.
These urban investigations were disrupted midway by COVID-19, a
plague that ended up confirming the book's central thesis of a
fractured modernity vulnerable to various internal contradictions.
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Locke (Hardcover)
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