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    Zu Hause in Paris
    Um das wahre Wesen der Metropole besser erfassen zu können, wurden in diesem Buch prominente Pariser und Pariserinnen zu ihrer Stadt befragt. Berühmte Männer und Frauen aus der Welt der Unterhaltung, Mode und Kultur, die entweder in Paris geboren sind oder hier leben, kamen mit Alessandra Mattanza über ihre einzigartige Heimat ins Gespräch. Größen wie der Koch Joël Robuchon, der Architekt und Urbanist Christian de Portzamparc und Model und Modedesignerin Inès de La Fressange berichten der Autorin aus erster Hand von ihren Erfahrungen mit Paris und ihrem ganz persönlichen Blick auf die Stadt der Liebe. Abgerundet wird dieses Werk mit hochwertigen Fotografien, die nicht nur die berühmten Sehenswürdigkeiten, sondern auch die alltägliche Stimmung in den verschiedenen Vierteln dieser Weltmetropole einfangen.
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    Zweifellos
    Ton Matton - Stadtplaner, Indie-Urbanist, bekennender Fan des performativen Urbanimus, Zweifelnder, Briefeschreiber. Zu Beginn seiner Karriere als Stadtplaner schrieb Matton Briefe, in denen er sich mit nachhaltiger Stadtplanung befasste (damals für Stadtplanerinnen ein noch ganz neues Arbeitsfeld): an einen Minister, um ihm klarzumachen, dass eine Siedlung nur ein Kompromiss ist und kein Ersatz für ein Leben in der Stadt oder auf dem Land. An eine Bundeskanzlerin, um sie daran zu erinnern, dass man aus Wind- und Sonnenenergie gewonnenen Strom in elektrischen Zahnbürsten und Handyakkus speichern sollte. Seitdem sind viele weitere Briefe entstanden - an Politikerinnen, Projektentwicklerinnen und andere mehr oder weniger prominente Personen. Was in ihnen zum Ausdruck kommt, ist Mattons leidenschaftlicher Spaß am Zweifeln. Mit viel Humor und gewohnt provokativ fordert er seine Adressatinnen zum Umdenken auf und lädt damit wieder einmal auch die Leserinnen dazu ein, Eigeninitiative zu ergreifen.
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    Was war Bielefeld?
    Mit Bielefeld, diesem beschaulichen Ort in Ostwestfalen, verbinden sich seit Herbst 1969 große geisteswissenschaftliche Unternehmungen.Hier stellte Hans-Ulrich Wehler die deutsche Nationalgeschichte auf kritische sozialhistorische 'Achsen'. Nebenan spürte Reinhart Koselleck in seinem monumentalen Lexikon 'Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe' dem semantischen Umbau der alteuropäischen Welt in der Moderne nach. Niklas Luhmann baute in Bielefeld an seiner Theoriekathedrale 'sozialer Systeme', Hartmut von Hentig reformierte die alte Bildung zur Pädagogik. Dagegen hielt der intellektuelle Urbanist Karl Heinz Bohrer ausgerechnet in der Provinz Bielefeld seine Ästhetik von aller Moral und Pädagogik frei.Inhalt:Hermann Lübbe: Die Idee einer Elite-UniversitätWolfgang Braungart: Das Gebäude der Universität BielefeldClemens Albrecht: Helmut Schelsky, Bielefeld und die geistige Physiognomie politischer Konversion Hartmut von Hentig: Zum Vortrag von Clemens AlbrechtFrank Becker: Mit dem Fahrstuhl indie Sattelzeit? Wehler und KoselleckJürgen Oelkers: Die Reform der Pädagogik: Hartmut von HentigMarkus Krajewski: Papier als Passion. Zur Intimität von CodierungJürgen Kaube: Luhmanns ZettelkastenGustav Seibt: Bielefeld im Raketenwinter 1983/84Valentin Groebner: Theoriegesättigt. Ankommen in Bielefeld am Beginn der 1990er
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    Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Ivention of Toronto , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here. Some Great Idea includes behind-the-scenes tales from the Miller and Ford campaigns, and explores recent turning points like the city's core service review and the mayor's conflict-of-interest trial. Through personal history, keen reportage and revelatory analysis, it shows how the fundamental principles of diversity and democracy that have made Toronto such a vibrant, dynamic 21st-century city can produce an unlikely politician like Ford. And how those same principles have vividly and repeatedly insisted that such politicians are only part of a larger, messier and more productive urban politics. This is a story about both Toronto's past and present, how the city has relentlessly and collaboratively reinvented itself. But it's also a story about Toronto's future, and what that future might mean for all global cities. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Paul. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015557/bk_adbl_015557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
    When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region. In this sweeping account of life within the United States-Mexican border zone, acclaimed urbanist and geographer Michael Dear traces the border's long history of cultural interaction, from exchanges between the region's numerous Mesoamerican tribes onwards. Once Mexican and American settlers met at the Rio Grande and the southwest in the nineteenth century, new forms of interaction evolved. But as Dear warns in his bracing study, this vibrant zone of cultural and social amalgamation is in danger of fading away because of highly restrictive American policies and the violence along Mexico's side of the border. As he explains through analyses of the U.S. border security complex and the emerging Mexican narco-state, the very existence of the "third nation" occupied by both Americans and Mexicans is under serious threat. But through a series of evocative portraits of contemporary border communities, he shows that the potential for revitalizing this in-between nation still remains. Combining a broad historical perspective and a commanding overview of present-day problems, Why Walls Won't Work represents a major intellectual foray into one of the most hotly contested political issues of our era. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Pollins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015545/bk_adbl_015545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 703min
    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside. In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial cities of the nineteenth century to the present. A century ago, the telegraph and the mechanical tabulator were used to tame cities of millions. Today, cellular networks and cloud computing tie together the complex choreography of mega-regions of tens of millions of people. In response, cities worldwide are deploying technology to address both the timeless challenges of government and the mounting problems posed by human settlements of previously unimaginable size and complexity. In Chicago, GPS sensors on snow plows feed a real-time "plow tracker" map that everyone can access. In Zaragoza, Spain, a "citizen card" can get you on the free city-wide Wi-Fi network, unlock a bike share, check a book out of the library, and pay for your bus ride home. In New York, a guerrilla group of citizen-scientists installed sensors in local sewers to alert you when storm water runoff overwhelms the system, dumping waste into local waterways. As technology barons, entrepreneurs, mayors, and an emerging vanguard of civic hackers are trying to shape this new frontier, Smart Cities considers the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of them all while offering a new civics to guide our efforts as we build the future together, one click at a time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Arthur. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014999/bk_adbl_014999_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min
    Remember when an unattended package was just that, an unattended package? Remember when the airport was a place that evoked magical possibilities, not the anxiety of a full-body scan? In the post-9/11 world, we have become focused on heightened security measures, but do you feel safer? Are you safer? Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive. Taking listeners through varied ambiguously dangerous sites, the prominent urbanist and leading sociologist of the everyday, Harvey Molotch, argues that we can use our existing social relationships to make life safer and more humane. He begins by addressing the misguided strategy of eliminating public restrooms, which deprives us all of a basic resource and denies human dignity to those with no place else to go. Subway security instills fear through programs like "See Something, Say Something" and intrusive searches that have yielded nothing of value. At the airport, the security gate causes crowding and confusion, exhausting the valuable focus of TSA staff. Finally, Molotch shows how defensive sentiments have translated into the vacuous Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site and massive error in New Orleans, both before and after Hurricane Katrina. Throughout, Molotch offers thoughtful ways of maintaining security that are not only strategic but improve the quality of life for everyone. Against Security argues that with changed policies and attitudes, redesigned equipment, and an increased reliance on our human capacity to help one another, we can be safer and maintain the pleasure and dignity of our daily lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clinton Wade. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007323/bk_adbl_007323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 987min
    It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, and rejected the role of government in American life in favor of a return to the pioneer virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this provocative and sweeping audiobook, Conn explores the anti-urban impulse across the 20th century, examining how the ideas born of it have shaped both the places in which Americans live and work, and the anti-government politics so strong today. Beginning in the booming industrial cities of the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th century, where debate surrounding these questions first arose, Conn examines the progression of anti-urban movements. He describes the decentralist movement of the 1930s, the attempt to revive the American small town in the mid-century, the anti-urban basis of urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s, and the Nixon administration's program of building new towns as a response to the urban crisis, illustrating how, by the middle of the 20th century, anti-urbanism was at the center of the politics of the New Right. Concluding with an exploration of the New Urbanist experiments at the turn of the 21st century, Conn demonstrates the full breadth of the anti-urban impulse, from its inception to the present day. Engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and forcefully argued, Americans Against the City is important for anyone who cares not just about the history of our cities, but about their future as well. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019798/bk_adbl_019798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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