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Street Photography Creative Vision Behind the Lens

Street Photography Creative Vision Behind the Lens

With both training and preparation a street photographer needs to make rapid decisions; there may only be a fraction of a second to immortalize a moment in time that has never happened before and will never happen again. This is where Street Photography: Creative Vision Behind the Lens comes in. Follow Valérie Jardin on an inspiring photo walk around the world. After an overview of the practical and technical aspects of street photography Valérie takes you along on a personal photographic journey as she hits the streets of her favorite urban haunts. She shows you the art of storytelling through her photographs from envisioning the image to actually capturing it in the camera. Learn about the technical and compositional choices she makes and the thought process that spurred the click of the shutter. Perfect for both the new photographer excited to capture the world around them and for the experienced street photographer wishing to improve their techniques and images Street Photography requires no special equipment just a passion for seeing and capturing the extraordinary in the ordinary. | Street Photography Creative Vision Behind the Lens

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The Politics of Street Trees

The Politics of Street Trees

This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions actors and processes that govern their planning planting and maintenance. This is an innovative approach which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges and reveals a huge amount about the nature of modern life social change and political conflict. The work first provides different historical perspectives on street trees and politics celebrating diversity in different cultures. A second section discusses street tree values policy and management addressing more contemporary issues of their significance and contribution to our environment both physically and philosophically. It explores cultural idiosyncrasies and those from the point of view of political economy particularly challenging the neo-liberal perspectives that continue to dominate political narratives. The final section provides case studies of community engagement civil action and governance. International case studies bring together contrasting approaches in areas with diverging political directions or intentions the constraints of laws and the importance of people power. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach this book produces an information base for academics practitioners politicians and activists alike thus contributing to a fairer political debate that helps to promote more democratic environments that are sustainable equitable comfortable and healthier.

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Graffiti and Street Art Reading Writing and Representing the City

Graffiti and Street Art Reading Writing and Representing the City

Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature. Sometimes enigmatic in meaning often stylistically crude and aesthetically aggressive yet always visually arresting they fill our field of vision with texts and images that no one can escape. As they take place on surfaces and travel through various channels they provide viewers an entry point to the subtext of the cities we live in while questioning how we read write and represent them. This book is structured around these three distinct albeit by definition interwoven key frames. The contributors of this volume critically investigate underexplored urban contexts in which graffiti and street art appear shed light on previously unexamined aspects of these practices and introduce innovative methodologies regarding the treatment of these images. Throughout the focus is on the relationship of graffiti and street art with urban space and the various manifestations of these idiosyncratic meetings. In this book the emphasis is shifted from what the physical texts say to what these practices and their produced images do in different contexts. All chapters are original and come from experts in various fields such as Architecture Urban Studies Sociology Criminology Anthropology and Visual Cultures as well as scholars that transcend traditional disciplinary frameworks. This exciting new collection is essential reading for advanced undergraduates as well as postgraduates and academics interested in the subject matter. It is also accessible to a non-academic audience such as art practitioners and policymakers alike or anyone keen on deepening their knowledge on how graffiti and street art affect the ways urban environments are experienced understood and envisioned. | Graffiti and Street Art Reading Writing and Representing the City

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Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art

Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art

The Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art integrates and reviews current scholarship in the field of graffiti and street art. Thirty-seven original contributions are organized around four sections: History Types and Writers/Artists of Graffiti and Street Art; Theoretical Explanations of Graffiti and Street Art/Causes of Graffiti and Street Art; Regional/Municipal Variations/Differences of Graffiti and Street Art; and Effects of Graffiti and Street Art. Chapters are written by experts from different countries throughout the world and their expertise spans the fields of American Studies Art Theory Criminology Criminal justice Ethnography Photography Political Science Psychology Sociology and Visual Communication. The Handbook will be of interest to researchers instructors advanced students libraries and art gallery and museum curators. This book is also accessible to practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice law enforcement art history museum studies tourism studies and urban studies as well as members of the news media. The Handbook includes 70 images a glossary a chronology and the electronic edition will be widely hyperlinked.

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Informal Urban Street Markets International Perspectives

Informal Urban Street Markets International Perspectives

Through an international range of research this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies. In many places street markets and their populace have been marginalized and devalued. At times there are clear governance procedures that aim to prevent them yet they continue to emerge in even in the most institutionalized societies. This book gives serious consideration to what these markets reveal about urban life in a time of globalized rapid urbanization and flows of people knowledge and goods. | Informal Urban Street Markets International Perspectives

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High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse characterful independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future. | High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

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Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environments in Baguio City designed by American architect and planner Daniel Burnham in the early twentieth century and established by the American imperial government as a place for healing and well-being. Based on a transdisciplinary multi-method study of street vendors the author offers a unique perspective as a researcher of the place to ultimately ask how marginalized women authenticate and democratize prime urban spaces for their livelihoods. This book provides a portal to another way of seeing and understanding streets and people covering spatial units at multiple scales design imperialism and its impact on health and resilience strategies for challenging realities. Blending subjects of architecture planning and health this book is an ideal read for those interested in fields of urban planning and design public health landscape architecture geography and social sciences. | Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces

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Street Cop Policing in Context

Street Cop Policing in Context

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today’s law enforcement officers. Author George C. Klein sociologist and former police officer explores the characteristics of policing in a suburb outside of large Midwestern city in the United States. As a participant-observation fieldworker he functioned as an ethnographic researcher recording with a sociological eye the real world tasks of policing including the ordinary as well as the more remarkable aspects of day-to-day law enforcement. He approaches the data with three levels of analysis looking at embedded issues in policing such as discretion danger corruption cynicism race and class; a mid-range analysis that examines police work as an example of street-level bureaucracy; and a global analysis assessing the entrenched roles of race class and demography in police work as well as society in the U. S. This book focuses on the need for police officers to solve social problems that other institutions in society are unwilling or unable to solve. It examines a myriad of issues such as police socialization the use of force by police officers stress levels and suicide risk factors disparate styles of policing police militarization de-escalation and more. With compelling detail the author helps the reader understand the turmoil regarding policing in the United States today. It is ideal for police professionals as well as students and scholars of criminal justice criminology sociology psychology history political science and journalism. | Street Cop Policing in Context

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Political Street Art Communication culture and resistance in Latin America

Political Street Art Communication culture and resistance in Latin America

Recent global events including the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings Occupy movements and anti-austerity protests across Europe have renewed scholarly and public interest in collective action protest strategies and activist subcultures. We know that social movements do not just contest and politicise culture they create it too. However scholars working within international politics and social movement studies have been relatively inattentive to the manifold political mediations of graffiti muralism street performance and other street art forms. Against this backdrop this book explores the evolving political role of street art in Latin America during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It examines the use appropriation and reconfiguration of public spaces and political opportunities through street art forms drawing on empirical work undertaken in Brazil Bolivia and Argentina. Bringing together a range of insights from social movement studies aesthetics and anthropology the book highlights some of the difficulties in theorising and understanding the complex interplay between art and political practice. It seeks to explore 'what art can do' in protest and in so doing aims to provide a useful point of reference for students and scholars interested in political communication culture and resistance. It will be of interest to students and scholars working in politics international relations political and cultural geography Latin American studies art sociology and anthropology. | Political Street Art Communication culture and resistance in Latin America

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Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel Power Strategies and Place-Making Practices

Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel Power Strategies and Place-Making Practices

This book is focused on the street-naming politics policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel. Its chapters expand on prominent issues such as the importance of extra-formal processes naming reception and unofficial toponymies naming decolonisation place attachment place-making and the materiality of street signage. By this the book directly contributes to the mainstreaming of Africa’s toponymic cultures in recent critical place-names studies. Unconventionally and experimentally comparative glimpses are made throughout between toponymic experiences of African and Israeli cities exploring pioneering issues in the overwhelmingly Eurocentric research tradition. The latter tends to be concentrated on Europe and North America to focus on nationalistic ideologies and regime change and to over-rely on top-down ‘mere’ mapping and street indexing. This volume is also unique in incorporating a rich and stimulating variety of visual evidence from a wide range of African and Israeli cities. The materiality of street signage signifies the profound and powerful connections between structured politics current mundane practices historical traditions and subaltern cultures. Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel is an important contribution to urban studies toponymic research and African studies for scholars and students. Chapters 1 and 2 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9781003173762 | Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel Power Strategies and Place-Making Practices

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Food Hawkers Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present

Food Hawkers Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present

Street vendors are ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. They are part of almost any distribution chain and play an important role in the marketing of consumer goods particularly to poorer customers. Focusing on the food trades this multi-disciplinary volume explores the dynamics of street selling and its impact on society. Through an investigation of food hawking the volume both showcases the latest results from a subject that has seen the emergence of a significant body of innovative and adventurous scholarship and advances the understanding of street vending and its impact on society by stimulating interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary discussions. Covering a time span of approximately two millennia from antiquity to the present the book includes chapters on Europe and Asia and covers a diverse range of themes such as the identity of food sellers (in terms of gender ethnicity and social status); the role of the street seller in the distribution of food; the marketing of food; food traders and the establishment; the representation of food hawkers; and street traders and economic development. By taking a dynamic approach the collection has enabled its contributors to cross disciplinary boundaries and engage in discussions which extend beyond the limits of their own academic fields and thus provide a fresh appreciation of this ancient phenomenon. | Food Hawkers Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present

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Street-Level Public Servants Case Studies for a New Generation of Public Administration

Street-Level Public Servants Case Studies for a New Generation of Public Administration

This cutting-edge new casebook challenges the dominant White-centric narrative of public administration offering a fresh array of perspectives with the lofty aim of ending the marginalization of communities in public policy implementation. Contributors adopt a liberatory framework to examine street-level public administrators (e. g. teachers security officers policy analysts and human resource experts) most responsible for implementing public policy in the United States including and amplifying previously unrecognized narratives on the front lines of public administration. Case studies explore real-life public servants not traditionally heard of offering counter-narratives. Each chapter concludes with an empowerment exercise and assignment for faculty to adopt in their classroom. This edited volume a first of its kind is written by experts in public policy and administration bringing together top and emerging scholars in one volume to amplify underrepresented voices in public administration and policy. Chapters are rooted in qualitative approaches and center the narratives of marginalized communities including women People of Color and LGBTQIA+ public servants. Street-Level Public Servants offers a much-needed casebook for public administration and public policy courses in the twenty-first century. | Street-Level Public Servants Case Studies for a New Generation of Public Administration

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An Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

An Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Burton Malkiel’s 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since Malkiel’s text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of investment strategy – one that continues to cause controversy among investment professionals today. At the book’s heart lies a simple question of evaluation: just how successful are investment experts? The financial world was and is full of people who claim to have the knowledge and expertise to outperform the markets and produce larger gains for investors as a result of their knowledge. But how successful Malkiel asked are they really? Via careful evaluations of performance – looking at those who invested via ‘technical analysis’ and ‘fundamental analysis’ – he was able to challenge the adequacy of many of the claims made for analysts’ success. Malkiel found the major active investment strategies to be significantly flawed. Where actively managed funds posted big gains one year they seemingly inevitably posted below average gains in succeeding years. By evaluating the figures over the medium and long term indeed Malkiel discovered that actively-managed funds did far worse on average than those that passively followed the general market index. Though many investment professionals still argue against Malkiel’s influential findings his exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of the argument for believing investors’ claims provides strong evidence that his own passive strategy wins out overall. | An Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

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Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport. This book considers the underlying political conditions that enabled cycling to appeal to such a wide range of citizens in Copenhagen and asks how this can be replicated elsewhere. Despite Copenhagen’s global reputation its success has been a result of a long political struggle and is far from completely secure. Car use in Denmark is increasing including in Copenhagen's suburbs and new developments in Copenhagen include more parking for cars. There is a political tension in Copenhagen over the spaces for cycling the car and public transit. In considering examples of backlashes and conflicts over street space in Copenhagen this book argues that the kinds of debates happening in Copenhagen are very similar to the debates regularly occurring in cities throughout the world. This makes Copenhagen more not less comparable to many cities around the world including cities in the United States. This book will appeal to upper-level undergraduates and graduates in urban geography city planning transportation environmental studies as well as transportation advocates urban policy-makers and anyone concerned about climate change and looking to identify paths forward in their own cities and localities. | Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

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Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas) problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error) and entrepreneurs (people who transform ideas into realities). Put them altogether they spell innovator. Most innovative books today focus on ways to create new and unique ideas; some of them also address problem-solving but this is less than 10% of the methodologies that the innovator needs to master. The approaches used in this book transform an idea into reality or to put it another way deliver innovative products to make a profit for the organization and instill pride in its employees. This means that every step in the process needs to have innovation applied to it in order to meet the expectations and demands of today's sophisticated customer. This book is designed to help the reader and their organization complete the complex process of bringing a new product to market by presenting what is expected at each step in the cycle and providing step-by-step instructions on what to do at each specific step. In large to mid-sized organizations this book is designed to help each individual understand how they fit into the innovative cycle and explains why they should be more creative related to the work they do and more conscious of the contributions they can make. It emphasizes the importance of every individual contributing to the organization's innovative process. The book is designed to help the organization understand its Innovation Systems Cycle. In the early part of the cycle it focuses on weeding out projects that do not have the potential to produce value-added results to the stakeholders. By using the guidelines outlined in this book an organization can reduce its new project failure rate by as much as 50% which should result in almost doubling the organization’s new product output thereby increasing profits by as much as 15%. | Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

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The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy

The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy

Trust is pervasive in our lives. Both our simplest actions – like buying a coffee or crossing the street – as well as the functions of large collective institutions – like those of corporations and nation states – would not be possible without it. Yet only in the last several decades has trust started to receive focused attention from philosophers as a specific topic of investigation. The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy brings together 31 never-before published chapters accessible for both students and researchers created to cover the most salient topics in the various theories of trust. The Handbook is broken up into three sections:I. What is Trust?II. Whom to Trust?III. Trust in Knowledge Science and TechnologyThe Handbook is preceded by a foreword by Maria Baghramian an introduction by volume editor Judith Simon and each chapter includes a bibliography and cross-references to other entries in the volume.

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Urban Surfaces Graffiti and the Right to the City

Urban Surfaces Graffiti and the Right to the City

This landmark book focuses on urban surfaces on exploring their authorship and management and on their role in struggles for the right to the city. Graffiti pristine walls advertising posters and municipal signage all compete on city surfaces to establish and imprint their values on our environments. It is the first time that the surfacescapes of our cities are granted the entire attention of a book as material visual and legal territories. The book includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface discourses and argues for surfaces as sites of resistance against private property neoliberal creativity and the imposition of urban order. It also proposes a seven-point manual for a semiotics of urban surfaces laying the ground for a new discipline: surface studies. Page after page and layer after layer surfaces become porous and political and emerge as key spatial conditions for rethinking and re-practicing urban dwelling and spatial justice. They become what the author terms the surface commons. The book will appeal to a wide readership across the disciplines of urban studies architectural theory and design graffiti street art and public art criminology semiotics visual culture and urban and legal geography. It will also serve as a tool for city scholars policy makers artists and vandals to disrupt existing imaginaries of order justice and visibility in cities. | Urban Surfaces Graffiti and the Right to the City

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Parking and the City

Parking and the City

Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining the book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars encourage sprawl degrade urban design prohibit walkability damage the economy raise housing costs and penalize people who cannot afford or choose not to own a car. Using careful analysis and creative thinking Shoup recommended three parking reforms: (1) remove off-street parking requirements (2) charge the right prices for on-street parking and (3) spend the meter revenue to improve public services on the metered streets. Parking and the City reports on the progress that cities have made in adopting these three reforms. The successful outcomes provide convincing evidence that Shoup’s policy proposals are not theoretical and idealistic but instead are practical and realistic. The good news about our decades of bad planning for parking is that the damage we have done will be far cheaper to repair than to ignore. The 51 chapters by 46 authors in Parking and the City show how reforming our misguided and wrongheaded parking policies can do a world of good. Read more about parking benefit districts with a free download of Chapter 51 by copying the link below into your browser. https://www. routledge. com/posts/13972

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The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

Originally published in 1956 this book brings together from the canonical writings of Buddhism Islam and Christianity the most important of the passages in which the view of the Founder is reflected. It aims to let each of the sacred traditions tell its own story and only such comments have been added as seem necessary to bring out the full significance of the passage quoted. The final chapter summarizes some of the difficult questions which arise from a comparison of the extracts from the 3 traditions. | The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

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The Jews of the Yemen 1800-1914

The Jews of the Yemen 1800-1914

In the nineteenth century the political independence and stability of the Yemen were undermined by outside forces. The Wahabite movement British naval imperialism and the expansion of the Ottoman Empire all contributed to the decline of the country. The upheavals of the period are the framework of this study of the Jewish community its leaders and institutions. Messianic fervour and emigration to Palestine were characteristic responses to the difficulties faced by the Jewish community and while the messiahs and their followers were immediately rejected by the rationalists and authorities the close links between the Jews of the Yemen and Palestine were only broken as a result of the First World War. This book first published in 1991 is not only an important contribution to scholarly work on the history of Muslim/Jewish relations but also a vivid description of a Sephardi community which is now gone. | The Jews of the Yemen 1800-1914

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