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Digital Conquest
In an era of exponential digital growth, the physical impact of data flows is reshaping our cities and energy infrastructures. This book uncovers the hidden world of data centres, from vast complexes in Virginia to digital suburbs in Paris and innovative facilities in Sweden. Through twenty insightful case studies from Europe and the US, it reveals how these often overlooked infrastructures influence urban change and energy consumption. Written for readers interested in urban planning, sustainability and technology, this book sparks a vital dialogue on sustainable futures and provides crucial insights to help shape policies concerning digital and energy landscapes.
Envisioning the Futures - Designing and Building for People and the Environment
This book gathers the proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Ar.Tec. (Scientific Society of Architectural Engineering), Colloqui.AT.e, which was held in Trento, Italy on June 11–14, 2025, and brought together scholars in the fields of construction and conservation history, building construction and performance, building design, and technologies. Digital transition and design of 4.0 buildings, digital twins for the management of historical building heritage, building-human-environment relationships, and mitigation of vulnerabilities for the preservation of the built environment are also explored. The contributions demonstrate that architectural engineering enables the construction of sustainable, resilient, adaptive, and high-performance buildings, and as such is instrumental in fighting against climate change.
The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives
This book examines two civic initiatives in Europe and analyses their evolution through the institutionalisation of their practices, local public effects, and established models for action at broader scales. Drawing from the concepts of civic action, problematic situations, public problems, and experience, this book coins the concept of direct civic action to explore civic initiatives beyond sectorial categories. It draws from the histories, everyday activities, and encounters with new problematic situations of a Slovak and a French initiative. It analyses the institutionalisation of their internal practices, their public cultural services, the models for action they establish in broader net...
Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms
Cities are typically thought of as permanent. Structures, streets, infrastructure, and other features of the built environment, even if they are periodically replaced, are intended to endure. But temporary, flexible spaces and uses are essential to how cities function and the ways urban dwellers inhabit them. Such adaptability, moreover, is fundamental if cities are to meet the challenges of the future. This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice. It brings together many distinct forms and facets of temporariness and adaptability—from sites of consumption by privileged r...
L'image des femmes dans la publicité
Un groupe de travail a été constitué en mars 2001 sous l'égide du secrétariat d'Etat aux Droits des femmes, dans le cadre de la réflexion qu'il mène en matière de lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes et contre les discriminations entre les femmes et les hommes. Dans une démarche volontairement participative, le groupe d'experts, animé par le Service des droits des femmes et de l'égalité, a procédé à l'analyse de l'image des femmes dans la publicité en s'appuyant sur des auditions menées auprès de professionnels concernés par le sujet, d'associations de consommateurs et de défense des droits des femmes et de personnalités qualifiées. Ce rapport de synthèse permet de dresser un premier bilan sur les publicités qui portent atteinte à l'image des femmes, du point de vue d'une éventuelle incitation à la violence ou à la discrimination sexiste. Le groupe de travail a élaboré des propositions visant à responsabiliser les professionnels, à actualiser l'encadrement juridique en vigueur et à renforcer la capacité de parole et d'action du corps social.
Modernist Disguise
Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary cultureLooks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel references to theatricality and performativity in visual arts and visual cultureComments upon masquerade's foundation in popular performance throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, frequently alluding to significant images from the history of photographyTheorises masquerade within the context of European theatre and drama scholarship, as well as British and European conservatory arts and performance trainingEmploys critical thinking influenced by phe...
Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia
The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, fro...
