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This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide. The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the centre and calls for new theories to address new conditions. 'This outstanding volume by Anthony King is empirically rich and sends deep theoretical tremors as well; an invaluable read.' - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, author of Globalization or Empire, Routledge 2004 'The book is very interdisciplinary—and inherently geographical ... It is sensitive to political and cultural context and highlights the various hegemonies at play in architecture.' - Environment and Planning A 'King's importance in shaping the way we understand globalization as an unequal and uneven system not only of economic but of material and cultural processes cannot be understated.' 'The empirical material in this book is excellent.' 'This is architectural history at its best.' - Rob Shields, Building Research and Information, 2005 'King provides an accessible and significant contribution to the literature on how transnational and global identities play out within the built environment ... it will be of considerable interest to a range of courses, from architecture and planning history to the sociology and geography of consumption.' - Journal of Consumer Culture '...an excellent book that maps the multifaceted ways in which the built environment is influenced by transnational processes in general and a good overview of the research of one of its most important students in particular' - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Anthony D. King is Bartle Professor of Art History and of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton. He has been Visiting Professor in Architecture, University of Califonia Berkeley and, for five years, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Introduction. Part I: Theories 1. Worlds in the City: Wonders of Modern Design to Weapons of Mass Destruction 2. Interrogating Global Culture(s) 3. Cultures and Spaces of Postcolonial Knowledges 4. The Times and Spaces of Modernities 5. Writing Transnational Planning Histories: The Dialectics of Dual Development Part II: Histories 6. Suburb/Ethnoburb/Globurb: The Making of Contemporary Modernities 7. Villafication: The Transformation of Chinese Cities 8. Imagining the World at Home: The Distant Spaces of the Indian City 9. Transnational Delhi Revisited: The Spatial Language of Three Modernities 10. Imperialism, Colonialism and Architects of the Arts and Crafts in Britain Part III: Pasts/Presents/Futures 11. Ways of Seeing: Serendipity, Visuality, Experience

الصيغ الجديدة للعولمة، هي تلك الصيغ التي ينبغي أن تتفاعل مع الصيغ الجديدة للثقافة الجماهيرية العالمية، على الرغم من أنها تظل من زاوية التكنولوجيا ورأس المال والعمالة المتقدمة، متمركزة في الغرب علاوة على ذلك، فإن السمة الأخرى لهذه الثقافة الجماهيرية العالمية هي صيغتها الخاصة للتجانس، التي تتجسد في ذلك الامتصاص داخل الإطار الأكثر اتساعا ورئيسية لما يعد في جوهره تصورا أمريكيا للعالم وهو لا يحاول طمس الرأسماليات المحلية، لكن يسعى إلى التعامل من خلالها وهو لا يحاول طمس الرأسماليات المحلية لكن يسعى إلى التعامل من خلالها، حيث ينبغي وضع إطار العولمة في المكان الصحيح والملائم إذ يحكم ويراقب.

Few would disagree with the statement that what happened on September 11, 2001, particularly in New York City, was the most significant event in over half a century to affect the contemporary city. Whatever its meaning for global politics, it has also massively unsettled the way people like us – academics, community and regional planners, urban professionals of one kind and another – think about both the meaning and the future of the city. Nor has it escaped the notice of anyone among this particular community that this almost unthinkable erasure, from the mental image of what is probably the most globally

An iceberg risk analysis was performed for a network of 3 pipelines proposed by Petro-Canada (1983) to allow the transport of natural gas on the Makkovik Bank to a landfall at Cape Harrison on the Labrador Coast. In order to perform a risk analysis for the pipeline network, a model was developed to estimate iceberg grounding rates on the seabed. The model was tested using data from the Grand Banks, where iceberg parameters are fairly-well established. The model was verified using scour rates estimated at the Hibernia and White Rose sites from seabed surveys and was found to provide reasonable estimates of iceberg scour rates. Data for the Makkovik Bank was reviewed for use in the grounding model, to allow calculation of pipeline scour crossing rates and to determine the scour depth distribution. The failure rates depend on the criterion used to define pipeline failure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

As public issues stretch out to affect an ever expanding population, democratizing planning and governance becomes increasingly important. How localized communities embrace the progressive qualities of civil society is a critical topic in an era where diverse and divergent forces often counteract civil society formation and community initiatives. This collection explores the theoretical underpinnings of democratic planning and governance in relation to civil society formation and social learning. The contributors to this volume use multiple lenses to uncover the challenges of democratizing planning and governance, helping to create a better understanding of how civil societies learn from their experiences, and how these lessons might be applied in other contexts. Learning Civil Societies provides insights for developing a critical methodology for studying civil societies and their formations and suggests that new organizational mechanisms within and outside civil societies must be created if more democratic forms of planning and governance are to emerge, be revitalized, and become institutionalized in the coming decades.

According to Bunnell, such journeys formed a significant portion of the shipping companies' income.With its rapid economic growth and expanding economy, the Malaysian government looked to educate its professional class outside the country so that, with an increased number of government scholarships available to study in Liverpool, university and other students increasingly took over the club, outnumbering the old seafarers.Bunnell has valuable comments to make on the subject of comparative studies, illustrated here with reference to the symbolic functions of buildings and comparing Liverpool's Manhattan-inspired Royal Liver Building- in 1911 the tallest building in Europe and known as \"the first British skyscraper\"-with the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur (1990s), the tallest twin towers building in the world.