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The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the
developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of
urbanization processes…

I clearly remember the moment everything began. It was a hot day in November 2006 in Porto Alegre,
Brazil. When my business partner and great friend, Fabiano Meneghetti, and I got back to work after lunch,
we saw the door of our office broken in,…

No
person can have devoted
much time
and pains to the
in-
vestigation of Christian
architecture, as it
was practised in
this country
during
the Middle Ages, without feeling
the im-
portance of acquiring an
accurate
knowledge of…

I fi rst met Dr. Evelin Lindner in December 2001 when she was the speaker
at a Colloquium of the Peace Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. I was attracted to the colloquium by the title of her talk,
“Humiliation and the…

The classroom accounts and activities show how using visual approaches – and audio-visual and drama – can build on children’s knowledge of a range of multimodal texts. There are examples of teaching sequences using film, drama, real-life…

If the challenge of the past has been to ‘get organised’, the challenge of the future is to find ways in which we can remain open to continuous self-organisation: so that we can adapt and evolve as we go along.

Purpose. Language acquisition is associated with or influenced by a number offactors which can be called sociolinguistic, social/sociological or demographic.Among other things, children cannot avoid being influenced linguistically by theirpeers and…

This chapter focuses on giving you the ability to dimension and annotate
a model. After the novelty of having a really cool model in 3D wears off, you
need to buckle down and produce some bid documents. This is where the
Autodesk
®
Revit
…

Before I even pondered writing a technical book such as this one, I was the
guy who bought them and studied them from the front to the back. This specific
page, however, I always thought was somewhat superfluous…bordering on self-
indulgent. As…

Why do you need a big, thick technical book? Well, it’s true that the best way
to learn is to just do it. But do you ever just doit and not fully getit? Books can
serve either as the basis for learning or as supplements for your learning. No…