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City of Flows

Modernity, Nature, and the City

By: Maria Kaika

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City of Flows

Modernity, Nature, and the City

By: Maria Kaika

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415947154

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9780415947152

Class Meets Land

The Embodied History of Land Financialization

By: DR. MARIA. RUGGIERO KAIKA (LUCA.),Maria Kaika,Luca Ruggiero

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Class Meets Land

The Embodied History of Land Financialization

By: DR. MARIA. RUGGIERO KAIKA (LUCA.),Maria Kaika,Luca Ruggiero

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Narrating the closely knit stories of Milan's working class, industrial elites, and industrial land, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground the tenacious role of class struggle over land in choreographing capitalist transitions. They assert that land assetization and financialization are not recent phenomena but rather historical practices sculpted into the present configuration through long-term rituals and struggles, rooted in the everyday lives and histories of both capital and labor. Exploring land assetization from the outset of capitalism's early history, Kaika and Ruggiero offer a novel understanding of land financialization as a 'lived' process: the outcome of a relentless and socially embodied historical unfolding, within which land performs a multiplicity of ever-changing symbolic and material roles for both capital and labor as it becomes enrolled simultaneously in local class struggle cycles and the circuits of global (financial) capital"--

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217

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Univ of California Press

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0520410084

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9780520410084

River Contracts and Integrated Water Management in Europe

By: Maria Laura Scaduto

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River Contracts and Integrated Water Management in Europe

By: Maria Laura Scaduto

This book aims to stimulate new thinking on the roles of river contracts in the protection and management of hydrographic resources and ecosystems and in the sustainable development of dependent territories and communities. Up-to-date information is provided on a range of topics relating to river contracts, including their relevance to implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive on integrated river basin management. The importance of river contracts for innovation in territorial planning and governance is explored with the aid of comparative analysis between France and Italy that encompasses water management policies, legislative frameworks, contents and procedures, and stakeholder rules and participation. This analysis is supported by enlightening case studies in urbanized and rural contexts within the two countries. The book will be of high interest for all who wish to understand the potential of river contracts to create innovative forums for dialogue and knowledge sharing between public/private stakeholders and local communities and to prompt a new form of governance of river ecosystems and territories that is compliant with the subsidiarity principle.

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137

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Springer

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3319426281

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9783319426280

City of Flows

Modernity, Nature, and the City

By: Maria Kaika

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Modernity, Nature, and the City

By: Maria Kaika

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Re-interpreting the Relationship Between Water and Urban Planning

The Case of Dar es Salaam

By: Maria Chiara Pastore

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Re-interpreting the Relationship Between Water and Urban Planning

The Case of Dar es Salaam

By: Maria Chiara Pastore

Africa is one of the most dynamic continents. It will play a key role in the coming decades in relation to the growth of cities, and environmental conditions will be of primary importance. The structural lack of water and sanitation infrastructure affects the development of Africa's growing urban environments. This book questions the relation between the wide-ranging fields of water and the urban discipline in the Sub-Saharan African context. In particular, it focuses on Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), a city where rapid urbanisation and high annual growth have led to increasing water demand and strained the water and sanitation systems. It examines the spaces water produces, the actors promoting various choices and solutions, the impact of different applied technologies, and the diverse sanitary conditions, focusing on their significance in the shape of the built environment and the urban planning practices and theory. As water occupies and creates spaces, this work tries to establish a relation among the spaces and the structure of the city itself, using infrastructure in the shape of networks that cross the city and on-site systems such as boreholes and latrines, to be considered a hybrid and potentially resilient system.

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171

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Routledge

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131722941X

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9781317229414

A Sense of the City

Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879-1959)

By: Gala Maria Follaco

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A Sense of the City

Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879-1959)

By: Gala Maria Follaco

In A Sense of the City, Gala Maria Follaco examines Nagai Kafū’s (1879-1959) literary construction of urban spatialities from late Meiji through the early Shōwa period. She argues that Kafū’s urban critique was based on his awareness of the cultural sedimentation of the cityscape and of the complex relationship that it bore with the historical framework of modern Japan. With the overall aim to define Kafū’s position within pre-war Japanese literature, Follaco touches upon key issues such as memory, class difference, and language ideologies; draws connections between his sojourn abroad and strategies of “mapping” the city of Tokyo in his literature; and takes into account works previously understudied, including his biography of Washizu Kidō and his photographs.

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263

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BRILL

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9004345388

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9789004345386

Floating Worlds

A Short History of Japanese Animation

By: Maria Roberta Novielli

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Floating Worlds

A Short History of Japanese Animation

By: Maria Roberta Novielli

Through the analysis of the work of the main Japanese animators starting from the pioneers of 1917, the book will overview the whole history of Japanese animated film, including the latest tendencies and the experimental movies. In addition to some of the most acclaimed directors Miyazaki Hayao, Takahata Isao, Shinkai Makoto, Tezuka Osamu and Kon Satoshi, the works of masters of animation such as Kawamoto Kihachirō, Kuri Yōji, Ōfuji Noburō and Yamamura Kōji will be analysed in their cultural and historical context. Moreover, their themes and styles will be the linking thread to overview the Japanese producing system and the social and political events which have often influenced their works. Key Features Insight into both mainstream and independent cinema Scientific reliability Easy readability Social and cultural context

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128

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CRC Press

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1351334816

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9781351334815

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation

The Adaptation of Children’s Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series

By: Maria Chiara Oltolini

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Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation

The Adaptation of Children’s Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series

By: Maria Chiara Oltolini

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation is the first academic work to examine World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009), which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli. World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009) is a TV staple created by the Japanese studio Nippon Animation, which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series. Once generally dismissed by critics, the series is now frequently investigated as a key early work of legendary animators Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. In the first book-length examination of the series, Maria Chiara Oltolini analyzes cultural significance of World Masterpiece Theater, and the ways in which the series pioneered the importance of children's fiction for Japanese animation studios and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli. Adapting a novel for animation also means decoding (and re-coding) socio-cultural patterns embedded in a narrative. World Masterpiece Theater stands as a unique example of this linguistic, medial, and cultural hybridisation. Popular children's classics such as Little Women, Peter Pan, and Anne of Green Gables became the starting point of a full-fledged negotiation process in which Japanese animators retold a whole range of narratives that have one basic formula in common: archetypal stories with an educational purpose. In particular, the series played a role in shaping the pop culture image of a young girl (shôjo). Examining the series through the lens of animation studies as well as adaptation studies, Oltolini sheds new light on this long-neglected staple of Japanese animation history.

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211

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501389890

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9781501389894

Class Meets Land

The Embodied History of Land Financialization

By: Dr. Maria Kaika,Luca Ruggiero

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The Embodied History of Land Financialization

By: Dr. Maria Kaika,Luca Ruggiero

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in the transition to twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Challenging our understanding of land financialization as a recent phenomenon propelled by high finance, Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero foreground 150 years of class struggle over land as a catalyst for assembling the global financial constellation. Narrating the close-knit histories of industrial land, industrial elites, and the working class, the authors offer a novel understanding of land financialization as a “lived” process: the outcome of a relentless, socially embodied historical unfolding, in which shifts in land’s material, economic, and symbolic roles impact both local everyday lives and global capital flows.

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Univ of California Press

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0520410092

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9780520410091

Class Meets Land

The Embodied History of Land Financialization

By: DR. MARIA. RUGGIERO KAIKA (LUCA.),Maria Kaika,Luca Ruggiero

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The Embodied History of Land Financialization

By: DR. MARIA. RUGGIERO KAIKA (LUCA.),Maria Kaika,Luca Ruggiero

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Book's by Maria Kaika

City of Flows

City of Flows

Class Meets Land

Class Meets Land

River Contracts and Integrated Water Management in Europe

River Contracts and Integrated Water Management in Europe

City of Flows

City of Flows

Re-interpreting the Relationship Between Water and Urban Planning

Re-interpreting the Relationship Between Water and Urban Planning

A Sense of the City

A Sense of the City

Floating Worlds

Floating Worlds

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation

Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation

Class Meets Land

Class Meets Land

Class Meets Land

Class Meets Land

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