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Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in others are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits and attitudes play in determining the degree of success? The issues are examined in this text.

Cities and countries around the globe are starting to incorporate a well-being approach by reorienting policies and budgets to benefit people and long-term sustainability. With insights from an international group of scientists, practitioners, and innovators, Well-Being considers the measurement focus of conversations surrounding well-being, then moves beyond to action: shifts in policy, narratives, and power, and alignment with other movements across sectors.

Introduction: an embarrassment of Eiffel Towers -- Souvenirs in the age of pilgrimage -- Souvenirs in the age of Enlightenment -- Interlude: museums of the personal -- Souvenirs in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Souvenirs and human suffering -- Souvenirs and (the complicated notion of) authenticity -- Souvenirs, memory, and the shortness of life.

FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: Transglobal Sounds Joäao Sardinha and Ricardo Campos; Part One Music, mobilities and processes of being; 1 Afro-mandinga in Lisbon: Griots and the (en)chantment of the past Carolina Carret Höfs; 2 From Coimbra to London: To live the punk dream 'and meet my tribe' Paula Guerra and Pedro Quintela; Part Two Hybridism and aesthetic creativity; 3 'More than pets of multiculturalism': Diasporic hybridity in Icelandic popular music -- the case of Retro Stefson Gestur Gumundsson and Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen.

Introduction: Body Dressing / Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wilson -- One Theoretical Approaches: Dress Needs: Reflections on the Clothed Body, Selfhood and Consumption / Kate Soper ; The Dressed Body / Joanne Entwistle ; Shop-Window Dummies? Fashion, the Body, and Emergent Socialities / Paul Sweetman ; Minding Appearances: Style, Truth, and Subjectivity / Susan Kaiser ; From Fashion to Masquerade: Towards an Ungendered Paradigm / Efrat Tseëlon -- Two Historical Case Studies: When they are veyl'd on purpose to be seene: The Metamorphosis of the Mask in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London / Christoph Heyl ; Performing Selfhood: The Costumed Body as a Site of Mediation Between Life, Art and the Theatre in the English Renaissance / Ronnie Mirkin ; Manliness, Modernity and the Shaping of Male Clothing / Christopher Breward ; Embodying the Single Girl in the 1960s / Hilary Radner -- Three Contemporary Case Studies: Desire and Dread: Alexander McQueen and the Contemporary Femme Fatale / Caroline Evans ; Fashioning the Queer Self / Ruth Holliday ; Dress, Gender and the Public Display of Skin / Joanne B. Eicher -- Index.

Practical judgment & planning -- Emotional intelligence in planning judgment -- Integrating the planning field, movement and discipline -- Anticipating complex spatial change -- Planning imagination : utopia, scenario & plan -- Crafting plans -- Evaluating plans -- How planning theory informs planning practice -- Planning spatial community in a complex society -- Ethical planning judgment.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The study's theoretical background -- 2 The enlightenment and disability -- 3 Two worlds of disability -- 4 Inclusive capital and human value -- Part II Cases of ageing and disability in cultural heritage -- 5 Younger children and cultural heritage -- 6 Diego and Phoebe at California School for the Blind, San Francisco Bay -- 7 Ruth in New York and Pierre in southern England -- 8 Experiences of late disability - Tallulah and Don in western England -- Part III Cases of access and inclusion at cultural institutions -- 9 Yosemite National Park, California -- 10 The Statue of Liberty, New York, US -- 11 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts -- 12 The original two questions -- Index.