Category: Human Geography

The worldwide south is coming into an ‘Urban Age’ the place, for the 1st time in heritage, extra humans may be residing in towns than within the nation-state. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - quick urbanization, out of control migration, source depletion, serious gas shortages and the breakdown of legislation and order. we're instructed that we has to be ready. the answer is easy, they are saying. Mega-urbanization is a chance for monetary development and prosperity. as a result we needs to construct great, construct new and construct speedy.

With contributions from a world diversity of validated and rising students drawing upon real-world examples, Mega-Urbanization within the international South is the 1st to exploit the lens of velocity to envision the postcolonial ‘urban revolution’. From the mega-urbanization of Lusaka, to the construction of satellite tv for pc towns in Jakarta, to new towns equipped from scratch in Masdar, Songdo and Rajarhat, this ebook argues that pace is now the chronic characteristic of a number utopian visions that search to expedite the construction of recent towns. those ‘fast towns’ are the iconic photos of postcolonial urbanism, which skip really present urbanisms via new power-knowledge coalitions of manufacturing, realizing and governing the town.

The e-book explores 3 major subject matters. half I examines quickly towns as new city utopias which propagate the appearance that they're ‘quick repair’ sustainable recommendations to insulate us from destiny crises. half II discusses the function of the entrepreneurial country that regardless of its neoliberalisation is enjoying a key position in shaping mega-urbanization via legislation, regulations and brute strength. half III finally delves into how quick towns outfitted through entrepreneurial states really materialise on the scale of neighborhood urbanization instead of as metropolitan development. This booklet explores the contradictions among meant and unintentional results of speedy towns and issues to their fault traces among nation sovereignty, capital accumulation and citizenship. It concludes with a imaginative and prescient and manifesto for ‘slow’ and decelerated urbanism.

This well timed and unique booklet offers city students with the theoretical, empirical and methodological demanding situations of mega-urbanization within the worldwide south, in addition to highlighting new theoretical agendas and empirical analyses that those new different types of city-making convey to the fore.

This ebook illustrates the measure of variability in balloting behaviour inside of social teams and indicates purposes for that variability. It reports and evaluations traditional analyses and offers statistical analyses of the geography of vote casting in England. The booklet finds that mammoth geographical adaptations exist within the widely-held generalisations, similar to that white-collar owner-occupiers favour the Conservatives or that blue-collar council tenants desire Labour.

This quantity contains revised types of lots of the displays made on the overseas convention «Understanding the Earth Sys­ tem: booths, procedures and Interactions" hung on November 24-26, 1999 in Bonn. The convention used to be prepared via the German nationwide Committee on international swap study as a part of the Bonn technological know-how pageant 1999-2000. The Bonn technology competition (Wissen­ schaftsfestival quarter Bonn) was once prepared and funded by means of sfg Strukturforderungsgesellschaft Bonn/Rhein-Siegl Ahrweiler mbH. The beneficiant help for organizing the convention and printing this quantity by means of sfg is gratefully said. extra monetary and organizational aid for separate workshop periods and publica­ tions have additionally been supplied by means of the German Federal Ministry for technology and examine, BMBF and Germany's significant study investment company, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The editors desire to gratefully recognize the assistance, recommendation and particularly endurance of a lot of persons who've contributed to this quantity. The contributions are meant to record the talk on an important problems with the rising inspiration of earth approach technological know-how and to stimulate the mandatory medical dialogue. whereas each attempt has been made at the a part of the editors to make sure consistency in termi­ nology, kind and techniques of citation, the range of participants has unavoidably ended in yes discrepancies. E. EHLERS Bonn, February 2001 T. KRAFFT Contents half I landscape: The Earth process: research from technological know-how and the arts bankruptcy 1 knowing the Earth approach - From international switch examine to Earth procedure technology . . . . . . . three E. EHLERS and T. KRAFFT bankruptcy 2 Earth approach research and administration. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 17 . . .

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, word: 1,0, Universität Augsburg (Institut für Geographie), Veranstaltung: Technologien und Ressourcen für erneuerbare Energien, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: In folgender Arbeit soll zu Beginn das Projekt Masdar urban anhand entscheidender Aspekte erläutert werden. Auch Zielvorgaben der Planer bezüglich Wasser- Müll- und Energieverbrauch fließen hierbei mit ein. Im zweiten Teil wird die imaginative and prescient der Stadt durch öffentlich vorherrschende Fragestellungen aus einer kritischen Sichtweise bewertet.
An dieser Stelle sei erwähnt, dass bei der genannten Recherche es sich als schwierig herausgestellt hat, geeignete objektive Berichterstattungen zu erhalten. Während die Beschreibungen von Masdar urban vor allem anhand der unternehmenseigenen Veröffentlichungen stattfinden, da Presseberichte meist nur die Informationen neu aufbereiten, sind die kritischen Darstellungen oft rein hypothetischer Natur. Da sich der bisher Baufortschritt noch in Grenzen hält, ist es derzeit für Experten schwierig die Machbarkeit der Stadt anhand fester Grundlagen zu bewerten.

The modern city event is outlined via move and based by way of circulating humans, items, and effort. Geographers have lengthy supplied key insights into transportation structures. yet at the present time, matters for social justice and sustainability encourage new, serious techniques to mobilities. Reimagining the town activates a massive query: How most sensible to reconsider city geographies of delivery and mobility? This unique ebook explores connections – in thought and perform – among delivery geographies and "new mobilities" within the creation of city house. It presents a extensive creation to intersecting views of city geography, delivery geography, and mobilities experiences on city "places of flows." diversified, overseas, and modern contributions reinterpret daily intersections as nodes, city corridors as hyperlinks, towns and areas as networks, and the discourses and imaginaries that body the politics and studies of mobility. The chapters remove darkness from approximately all elements of city delivery, from highway law and roadway making plans, meant and "subversive" practices of vehicle and truck drivers, making plans and merchandising of mass transit investments, and the restructuring of freight and logistics networks. jointly those provide a distinct and critical contribution for social scientists, planners, and others attracted to the politics of town at the move.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, word: 2,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Lehrstuhl für Raumentwicklung), Veranstaltung: Grundlagen der Raumentwicklung, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Der Regionalplan ist ein formales software der Raumordnung, welches allerdings nicht bundesweit zur Anwendung kommt. Er koordiniert die übergeordnete Planung und Ordnung des Raumes auf Regionsebene. Im Saarland etwa und den Stadtstaaten Bremen, Berlin und Hamburg übernimmt der Flächennutzungsplan diese gesetzliche Aufgabe (vgl. § eight Abs. 1 S. three ROG).
Trotz der gesetzlichen Verpflichtung zur Aufstellung von Regionalplänen (§ eight Abs. 1 ROG), muss über die Sinnhaftigkeit und Organisationsstruktur der Regionalplanung nachgedacht werden. Können nicht auch in den anderen Bundesländern die Aufgaben des Regionalplans durch andere Pläne wahrgenommen werden? Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt hierbei auf dem „Regionalen Flächennutzungsplan“. Dabei handelt es sich um ein innovatives Planwerk, welches die vorbereitende kommunale Bauleitplanung mit der Regionalplanung verknüpfen soll. Derzeit arbeiten zwei Regionen in Deutschland an einem solchen Planwerk.
Nachfolgend wird die historische Entwicklung hin zur heutigen Regionalplanung dargestellt; anschließend erfolgt eine Erläuterung des platforms der Raumordnung in Deutschland und der developments einer zukünftigen regionalen Planung. Dabei werden die verschiedenen Handhabungen der Regionalplanung verglichen, zusätzliche (informelle) Instrumente aufgezeigt und Alternativen vorgestellt.

Tourism has develop into more and more ‘exotic’, a procedure made attainable by means of reasonably cheap constitution tourism and less expensive air tickets. far off and evermore ‘exotic’ vacations have gotten frequent and nearby as locations make their access into the mass tourism industry. Strolls in the course of the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises at the Nile are packaged into the ocean, sand and sunlight tradition of conventional types of equipped mass tourism. while new applied sciences weave the cloth of tourism and lifestyle even nearer, circulating photos, info, and items among them. setting out from this statement, Tourism, functionality and the Everyday invitations readers to persist with the flow’s of vacationer wishes, gadgets, meanings, images, fears, desires and thoughts weaving jointly the areas of and among Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt.

Tourism, functionality and the Everyday conscientiously analyzes the cultural and social affects of mass-tourist studies of ‘exotic’ areas at the wider features of daily life. It treats mass-tourism as a cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of peoples’ daily lives instead of as an remoted, trivial or ‘exotic’ occasion. It strains how those affects are mediated by means of numerous mobilities among domestic and away via innovate cellular and ethnographic examine tools at vacationer locations and the house of holiday makers. The publication comprises research of diaries, photos, blogs and picture internet sharing websites, player remark of acting travelers and ‘home ethnographies’ of the afterlife vacationer pictures, souvenirs and thoughts.

In doing this, the ebook lines out the a number of interconnections and mobilities among daily areas and rest areas in addition to the a number of ways that the Orient is ate up on vacation and at domestic. The booklet appeals to a large viewers between scholars, researchers and educators in the social and cultural sciences learning, gaining knowledge of and instructing theories and strategies of tourism, Orientalism and cultural encounters in addition to broader problems with relaxation, intake and daily life.

Intimacy, expressed in the course of the emotions and sensations of the researcher, is sure up within the paintings of a feminist geographer. Tapping into this intimacy and together with it in educational writing facilitates?a?grasping of the consequences of energy specifically locations and initiates a dialogue approximately the best way to entry and tease out what constitutes the intimate?both ethically and politically in the course of the learn technique.

This collection?provides useful reflections approximately intimacy within the study strategy -?from encounters?in the?field,?through info analysis,?to a number of the pieces?of written work.?A?global and heterogeneous pool of students and?researchers?introduce?personal?ways of?writing intimacy into feminist geography. ??As authors?expand?existing?conceptualizations of intimacy?and?include?their?own?stories, chapters?explore the methodological demanding situations of utilizing intimacy in examine as an strategy, a subject matter and a website of interaction.?

The publication is effective analyzing for college students and researchers of Geography, in addition to somebody attracted to the ethics and practicalities of feminist, critical?and emotional examine methodologies.

Les professeurs d'histoire et de géographie qui ont participé à los angeles rédaction de ce livre ne regrettent pas d'avoir continué à enseigner en classe de 3e et de 1re "La crise de 1929" pourtant rayée des programmes. Ce livre aborde de nombreuses questions d'histoire ou de géographie et l. a. façon dont nos gouvernants voudraient les faire enseigner ou les effacer des programmes. Le nouveau projet de réforme des lycées pourrait faire de l'enseignement de l'histoire-géographie une self-discipline optionnelle en 1re et terminale.