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"How do you create inviting and authentic urban environments where people feel at home? Countless community engagement workshops, studies by consulting firms, and downtown revitalization campaigns have attempted to answer this age-old question. In Urbanism Without Effort, Chuck Wolfe argues that 'unplanned' places can often teach us more about great placemaking than planned ones. From impromptu movie nights in a Seattle alley to the adapted reuse of Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia, Wolfe searches for the 'first principles' of what makes humans feel happy and safe amid the hustle and bustle of urban life. He highlights the common elements of cities around the world that spontaneously bring people together: being inherently walkable, factors that contribute to safety at night, the importance of intersections and corners, and more. In this age of skyrocketing metropolitan growth, he argues, looking to the past might be our best approach to creating the urban future we dream about. A whirlwind global tour, Urbanism Without Effort offers readers inspiration, historical context, and a better understanding of how an inviting urban environment is created."--

Research methodology -- Spain and Texas : founders of public water policies -- Diplomatic and due process social control : supra-legal authority in water and limitations on sovereignty -- Due process social control and the timeliness of jurisprudence -- Deceptive and destructive social control : water policy used as the ultimate weapon -- The consequences of the SOS ordinance as a model for public water policy analysis everywhere -- Fair market valuation of a water right -- Conclusion

This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the start of the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War years are commonly remembered as a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends that they also created a formative and productive juncture in which South Koreans reworked pre-1945 constructions of national identity to meet the political and cultural needs of postcolonial nation-building. He explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation's youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea. By designating students and young men and women as the hope and exemplars of the new nation-state, the discursive stage was set for the remarkable outburst of the April Revolution in 1960.Kim's interpretation of this seminal event underscores student participants' recasting of anticolonial resistance memories into South Korea's postcolonial politics. This pivotal innovation enabled protestors to circumvent the state's official anticommunism and, in doing so, brought about the formation of a culture of protest that lay at the heart of the country's democracy movement from the 1960s to the 1980s. The positioning of women as subordinates in the nation-building enterprise is also shown to be a direct translation of postwar and Cold War exigencies into the sphere of culture; this cultural conservatism went on to shape the terrain of gender relations in subsequent decades.A meticulously researched cultural history, Youth for Nation illuminates the historical significance of the postwar period through a rigorous analysis of magazines, films, textbooks, archival documents, and personal testimonies. In addition to scholars and students of twentieth-century Korea, the book will be welcomed by those interested in Cold War cultures, social movements, and democratization in East Asia.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Student, Teacher, Editor (1702-1733) -- Chapter Two. Gridley's Law Practice: The First Ten Years (1732-1742) -- Chapter Three. The Land Bank Crisis (1740-1742) -- Chapter Four. The American Magazine (1743-1746) -- Chapter Five. Iron and Land -- Chapter Six. Fletcher v. Vassall (1752) -- Chapter Seven. The House of Representatives: War, Influence, and Opportunity Lost (1755-1757) -- Chapter Eight. Gridley's Law Practice in the 1750s and 1760s -- Chapter Nine. The Writs of Assistance (1760-1761) -- Chapter Ten. Sugar and Stamps (1762-1766) -- Chapter Eleven. Death and Legacy -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity and Crisis -- CHAPTER ONE. German Philosophy between Scientism and Historicism -- CHAPTER TWO. Wilhelm Windelband's Taxonomy of the Sciences -- CHAPTER THREE. Heinrich Rickert's Epistemology of Historical Science -- CHAPTER FOUR. Wilhelm Dilthey's Critique of Historical Reason -- CHAPTER FIVE. "The Time Is Out of Joint": The Young Heidegger's Destruktion of Historicism -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index

"The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing civil war is so brutal and protracted has only compounded the situation, as have developments in Iraq and Lebanon. Ranging across the battlefields and international borders have been dozens of jihadi Islamist fighting groups, some of which coalesced into significant factions such as Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State. This book assesses and explains the emergence since 2011 of Sunni jihadist organisations in Syria's fledgling insurgency, charts their evolution and situates them within the global Islamist project. Unprecedented numbers of foreign fighters have joined such groups, who will almost certainly continue to host them. External factors are scrutinised, including the strategic and tactical lessons learned from other jihadist conflict zones, the complex interplay between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and how it has influenced the jihadist sphere in Syria. Tensions between and conflict within such groups also feature in this indispensable volume." (Publisher's description)

Introduction -- A populist issue -- A venerable practice -- The states attack -- The Crash as a credit event -- The Great Depression -- Postscript

Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Urban Observation Matters: Seeing the Better City -- 01. How to See City Basics and Universal Patterns -- 02. Observational Approaches -- 03. Seeing the City through Urban Diaries -- 04. Documenting Our Personal Cities -- 05. From Urban Diaries to Policies, Plans, and Politics -- Conclusion: What the Better City Can Be -- Notes -- Index -- IP Board of Directors

This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Charles Kim explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation's youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea.

Introduction: More than a Terrorist Organization 1. - 1 "Lasting and Expanding" 5. - 2 The Emerging Islamic State 25. - 3 Degrading and Destroying the Islamic State 51