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Series Statement: Policy research working papers.

Content: Informal settlements are a permanent feature of South Africa's cities. Estimates from the General Household Survey by Statistics South Africa show that more than 26 percent of all households in the country's six metropolitan areas live in informal dwellings. The government's policy efforts have focused on provision of subsidized housing, first introduced as part of the Reconstruction and Development Program. Through the lens of new urbanism and coordination in planning this paper explores the possible impact of the program using data from the General Household Survey. The analysis of the program's beneficiaries relative to non-beneficiaries does not show that public housing provision has multiplier effects in terms of complementary private investments in housing maintenance or in upgrading. This is likely because Reconstruction and Development Program housing is often far from employment centers, with the houses built in the "old" apartheid locations that are disconnected from employment centers. In addition, households do not receive title deeds and are not allowed to rent out these dwelling. On the demand side, the authors carried out a small sample survey in Cape Town and find that, on a per hectare basis, shack dwellers are paying around the same for access to land as can be found in the up-scale market for undeveloped land. However, land zoning regulations and subdivision laws do not allow supply of small plots that are compatible with the affordability of poor households.

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Series Statement: Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Environment and Sustainable Development

Content: Expansion and development of urban areas require acquisition of land, which, in turn, often requires physical relocation of people who own or occupy this land. Land acquisition and resettlement may also be required to improve the lives of the more than 1 billion people who currently live in slums around the world, most of them in developing countries. Therefore, any effort to embark on significant, sustainable urban development needs to ensure that there are adequate processes for land acquisition and, so that resettlement does not become a constraint to much needed urban development. Planners, policy makers and social scientists can try to implement urban development programs in a way that make people who lose their land, houses or livelihoods become equal partners in the development process. The combination of the high price of urban land, presence of creative individuals in close proximity in urban areas, and the ability of urban space to generate innovative solutions, can help convert urban resettlement into a development opportunity for all. The report illustrates how urban resettlement can become a development opportunity. The Mumbai example shows how the private sector can play a key role, to unleash the potential created by high-value land to provide sustainable housing solutions to those adversely affected, at no cost to the government or the resettlers. Examples from Morocco and Pakistan show how well designed and implemented, citizen-driven resettlement can result in enhanced skills and livelihoods, and can promote overall sustainable urban development. The Mauritania example demonstrates how collective approaches with strong community participation can help address difficult challenges related to housing. The Brazil case shows how resettlement practices with demonstrated, strongly positive outcomes and contributions to urban development can influence governments to incorporate them into their own laws and regulations, helping millions of affected people to benefit from them.

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Edition: 3rd ed.

ISBN: 9781430261377

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction to TouchDevelop -- 1.1 Computers want to be programmed -- 1.2 What is TouchDevelop? -- 1.3 The TouchDevelop ecosystem -- 1.4 History and Future -- 1.5 Platforms -- 1.5.1 Installing TouchDevelop on a Windows phone -- 1.5.2 Running TouchDevelop on other platforms -- 1.6 The scripting language -- Chapter 2: The Scripting Language -- 2.1 Introduction - the language flavor -- 2.1.1 A sample program (/okzc) -- 2.2 Datatypes and variables -- 2.2.1 The Invalid value -- 2.2.2 met hodThe Nothing type or an operation which does not return a usable result, but which -- Value types -- Number -- String -- 2.2.3 Reference types -- Reference types provided by the API -- Collection types -- 2.2.4 Tables anxtnhe planatioo tT pacbollectioolses en. 2s-s5en.d T types bhye tseh thaveh oreete hb ceeero cn lleotaggedcllteio -- 2.2.5The Objects for types. -- 2.2.6 Decorators -- 2.2.7 -- Global persistent data -- 2.2.8 -- Art items -- 2.3 Expressions -- 2.3.1 Constants -- Explicit Constants -- Named constants -- The invalid value -- 2.3.2script cVariables -- Local variables -- Global data variables -- Action parameters Parameters bmore associated -- 2.3.3 Operators -- 2.3.4 -- Calling an action -- 2.3.5 Calling an API method -- 2.4 Statements -- 2.4.1 Expression -- 2.4.2 Declaration and assignment -- 2.4.3 -- If statement -- 2.4.4 While loop -- 2.4.5 -- For loop -- 2.4.6 For each loop -- 2.5 Actions -- 2.5.1 Defining an action -- Public versus private -- 2.5.2 Call and return -- 2.5.3 Input parameters -- 2.5.4 Result parameters -- 2.5.5 Calling a library action -- Rebinding libraries -- Visibility -- 2.6 Events -- 2.7 Pages -- 2.8 Creating library scripts -- Implementation restrictions on libraries -- Chapter 3: The Wall - using the screen. , 3.1 Output - the writing on the wall -- 3.1.1 Output of simple values -- 3.1.2de fault Direction of Outputdirection of output -- 3.1.3Dappropriateproduces produces ispla yio bnOutput of composite values ge -- 3.1.4 -- Output of media values -- 3.1.5 Output of social values -- 3.1.6 Output of web value -- s -- 3.2 Input of values from the touchscreen -- 3.3 Updating the wall's content -- 3.3.1 Updatable textbox -- 3.3.2 For Updating a board display -- 3.4 Events on the touchscreen -- 3.4.1 Tap wall events -- 3.4.2 Tap board events -- 3.5 Pushing and popping pages -- 3.6 Titles and subtitles -- 3.7 Wall buttons -- 3.8 On-demand creation of output -- Chapter 4: The Web -- 4.1 URLs and webpages -- 4.1.1 Working with URLs -- 4.1.2 Creating and using web-based links -- Using the wall with web-based links -- 4.1.3 Checking the internet connection -- 4.2 Downloading and uploading files -- 4.2.1 Downloading a text file or downloading HTML -- 4.2.2 Download a picture -- 4.2.3 Downloading sounds of music -- 4.2.4 Uploading strings and files -- 4.3 Downloading structured data -- 4.3.1 Downloading information in JSON format -- 4.3.2ML i s shDownloading information in XML format -- 4.4 REST guidelines and web requests -- Chapter 5: Audio -- 5.1 Music -- 5.1.1 Working with collections of songs -- 5.1.2 Obtaining an individual song, available on all devices -- 5.1.3 Playing an individual song -- 5.1.4 An ex ample script -- 5.2 Sounds -- 5.3 Microphone -- Chapter 6: Camera, Graphics and Video -- 6.1 Camera -- 6.1.1 A sample program -- 6.2 Working with pictures -- 6.2.1 Picture albums and picture collections (Windows Phoneand Android) -- 6.2.2 Access to pictures on other devices -- 6.2.3 Manipulating a picture -- 6.3 Static graphics drawing and display -- 6.4 Playing videos from the internet -- Chapter 7: Sensors -- 7.1 The sensors -- 7.2 Sensor-driven events. , 7.2.1 Example script: A pedometer (/jbpv) -- 7.3 Accelerometer -- 7.3.1 Direction of acceleration forces -- 7.3.2 Example script: a light show (/tbcb) -- 7.4 Compass -- 7.4.1 Example script: a magnetic compass -- 7.5 Gyroscope -- 7.6 Motion -- Chapter 8: Interactions -- 8.1 Social messages -- 8.1.1 Working with messages -- 8.1.2 Message collections -- 8.2 Locations, places, maps -- 8.3 Emails -- 8.4 Phone Calls -- 8.5 2D barcodes -- 8.6 SMS messages (WP8 only) -- 8.7 Calendar and appointments (WP8 only) -- 8.8 Contacts (WP8 and Android only) -- Chapter 9: Game Board -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.1.1 What is a sprite? -- 9.1.2 Coordinates and units -- 9.1.3 Game program structure -- 9.2 The Board datatype -- 9.2.1 Creating sprites -- 9.2.2 Obstacles and bounararies -- 9.2.3 Forces and animation -- Gravity and friction -- Springs and anchors -- 9.3 The Sprite datatype -- Visual attributes -- Position and motion -- Accelerations, forces and bounces -- 9.3.1 Managing sprites -- 9.4 The Sprite Collection datatype -- 9.5 Touching and board events -- 9.5.1 -- 9.5.1 Board touching actions -- 9.5.2 gameloop event -- 9.5.3 tap board event -- 9.5.4 swipe board event -- 9.5.5 tap sprite in XXX event -- 9.5.6 swipe sprite in XXX event -- 9.5.7 drag sprite in XXX event -- 9.5.8 tap sprite SSS, swipe sprite SSS, drag sprite SSS -- 9.6 Debugging games -- Chapter 10: UI with Boxes and Pages -- 10.1 Page Overview -- 10.2 Box Overview -- 10.3 Examples of Boxes and Pages -- 10.3.1 Page Example 1 -- 10.3.2 Page Example 2 -- 10.3.3 Page Example 3 -- 10.4 Working with Pages -- 10.4.1 Entering and Leaving a Page -- 10.4.2 Coding Restrictions -- 10.5 Live Editing of the User Interface -- 10.6 API Support for Boxes and Pages -- Chapter 11: Authenticating Web Services -- 11.1 Registering your app -- 11.2 Authenticating -- 11.3 Libraries -- 11.4 Advanced topics. , 11.4.1 Unique redirect URIs -- 11.4.2 State variable in redirect URI -- Chaper 12: Editing TouchDevelop Scripts -- A.1 The starting point -- A.2 The editing steps -- Getting started - providing an input parameter -- Adding the first statement to the action -- Adding the second and third statements -- Inserting the if statement -- Defining the Gameloop Event -- Trying out the script -- A.3 Additional steps -- Revising the script -- Publishing the script -- A.4 More advanced editing features -- A.4.1 Refactoring code into a new action -- A.4.2 I Copying and pasting code -- A.4.3 Surrounding code in a higher-level construct -- Chaper 13: TouchDevelop Services -- B.1 bazaar -- B.2 box -- B.3 collections -- B.4 colors -- B.5 contract -- B.6 invalid -- B.7 languages -- B.8 locations -- B.9 maps -- B.10 math -- B.11 media -- B.12 phone -- B.13 player -- B.14 senses -- B.15 social -- B.16 tags -- B.17 tile -- B.18 time -- B.19 wall -- B.20 web -- Chaper 14: TouchDevelop Datatypes -- C.1 Appointment -- C.2 Appointment Collection -- C.3 Board -- C.4 Boolean -- C.5 Camera -- C.6 Color -- C.7 Contact -- C.8 Contact Collection -- C.9 DateTime -- C.10 Form Builder -- C.11 Json Builder -- C.12 Json Object -- C.13 Link -- C.14 Link Collection -- C.15 Location -- C.16 Location Collection -- C.17 Map -- C.18 Matrix -- C.19 Message -- C.20 Message Collection -- C.21 Motion -- C.22 Number -- C.23 Number Collection -- C.24 Number Map -- C.25 OAuth Response -- C.26 Page -- C.27 Page Button -- C.28 Page Collection -- C.29 Picture -- C.30 Picture Album -- C.31 Picture Albums -- C.32 Pictures -- C.33 Place -- C.34 Place Collection -- C.35 Playlist -- C.36 Playlists -- C.37 Song -- C.38 Songs -- C.39 Song Album -- C.40 Song Albums -- C.41 Songs -- C.42 Sound -- C.43 Sprite -- C.44 Sprite Set -- C.45 String -- C.46 String Collection -- C.47 String Map -- C.48 TextBox. , C.49 Vector3 -- C.50 Web Request -- C.51 Web Response -- C.52 Xml Object -- Chaper 15: Platform Capabilities -- D.1 Supported Browsers -- D.2 General Features -- D.3 Supported Sensors and Devices -- D.4 Support for Services/Resources -- D.5 Support for Created Apps -- D.5.1 Apps for Windows Phone Store -- D.5.2 Apps for Windows Store -- Chaper 16: TouchDevelop Editor on a Windows Phone -- E.1 The sample program -- E.2 The back button, undo and mistakes -- E.3 The editing example -- E.4 Additional steps -- E.5 Refactoring code into a new action -- Index.

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Series Statement: Foreign Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Capital Flows Study

Content: International trade can promote efficiency, knowledge diffusion, technological progress, and-what ultimately matters most-inclusive growth and poverty reduction. Boosting export competitiveness is inextricably linked with rebuilding the productive sectors of Somalia's economy, generating jobs and incomes, and reducing the country's large structural trade deficits, which have averaged over 80 percent of GDP since 2015. Somalia supplies a limited number of exports to a relatively small set of markets. Its top five export products in 2018 accounted for more than 83 percent of total goods exports. Dominated by live animals, these exports are primarily unprocessed primary commodities that do not generate spillovers to other sectors of the economy and are vulnerable to weather and other shocks. Somalia also exports to a small set of countries: 82 percent of its exports were sold to just five destinations in 2018, mainly the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.

Content: Somalia's annual goods export revenues could be increased significantly by expanding sales of current exports to new markets and markets where potential remains untapped. Export growth opportunities are greatest for sesame seed and fish. There is also some potential to increase livestock exports by seeking new markets, although econometric analysis suggest that some markets in the Gulf may be saturated. Gums and resins (frankincense and myrrh), fruit, and meat also show potential for increased sales. Countries in East and South Asia present the greatest opportunities for growth. These export opportunities could be prioritized in Somalia's national trade strategy. Limited or unreliable domestic supply constrains many of Somalia's exporters. The World Bank's 2018 Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) presents recommendations for sustainably increasing output of fish, sesame seed, animals, and other commodities that Somalia already exports.

Content: To break into new markets, Somali exporters must also invest in gathering information about consumer preferences and policies in unfamiliar markets and establish business relationships with new buyers, shippers, and other partners. The 2018 CEM identifies important roles for public and private sectors in strengthening systems to ensure animal and plant health and developing logistical arrangements to support increased trade flows, which could be reflected in the national trade strategy

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Note: Intro -- The Real Case for Driverless Mobility: Putting Driverless Vehicles to Use for Those Who Really Need a Ride -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Why we have become dependent on cars -- Introduction: The historical context for our proposal -- Principles: Understanding initial conditions -- Cars are essential to mobility, but not everyone has one -- All those Roman roads and no place to go -- Serfs, indentured servants, and slaves -- The renaissance got things moving in different directions -- The first industrial revolution exploited rivers, but not for transport -- Then it started to exploit what was under the ground -- Where did workers in the European factories and mines come from? -- The New Worlds first industrial revolution -- Skies grew darker as the cities grew larger -- Current conditions: Private cars were the last straw for sprawl, not the first -- The process of suburbanization begins -- Cities finally cease to be the principal place where jobs are found -- Businesses finally fled the cities, and services followed -- Future predictions: Once jobs, services, and people are everywhere, transit cannot help -- But is not there an urban renaissance happening? -- The United States is a nation of small cities -- Those who live in poor communities suffer most -- Why not just give a car to everyone who needs one but cannot afford to buy it? -- Summary: How we will go about showing driverless rides can work -- Chapter 2: Mobility is not affordable for everyone -- Introduction: Current transport options are not good enough -- Why people take trips -- Principles: Public transit must be redefined -- It is time to start thinking outside of the bus -- Maybe TfL is on to something -- Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond -- If buses disappeared from cities, would we miss them?. , Can on-demand buses solve the place-time utility equation? -- Current conditions: Externalities of a car-based mobility solution -- Future Predictions: Creating a greater good -- Summary: Match the price with the cost -- Chapter 3: Is driverless technology ready for the challenge? -- Introduction: If we are counting on them for a ride, they have to work -- Principles: Investments keep pouring in -- Argo AI: Peter, Bryan, and the argonauts -- Enter Volkswagen -- Aurora innovation: The dawn of a new age -- A rather rocky start -- One door closes while another one opens -- Cruise automation: Do you believe in magic -- What did GM think it was buying? -- Waymo has way more, or so they say -- Oxbotica -- Navya -- Current applications: Top-down or bottom-up -- Computers and humans need to partner, not compete -- Driverless driving starts with safe driving -- ADAS has contributed to the significant fall in motor vehicle-related deaths -- Collision warning systems -- Collision intervention systems -- Driving control assistance systems -- ADAS architecture -- The effectiveness of advanced driver assistance systems -- The evolution of cruise control -- Automatic lane keeping systems (ALKS) -- Fuel optimization -- Speed adapted to rules of the road, road geometry, and dynamic conditions -- Where was the PCC data supposed to come from? -- Future predictions: From safe to driverless driving -- Operational design domain -- Driving is a full-time 360o task -- Proprioception, kinesthesia, and multisensory integration -- The importance of exact location -- Reactive localization -- Will robots roam everywhere or just somewhere? -- Is connectivity necessary for safe operation? -- Remote support -- Human-machine interface -- A first HMI standard for driverless functionality -- Object and event detection and response -- Data storage system for automated driving (DSSAD). , Cybersecurity and software updates -- Summary: Were not there yet, but getting closer -- Chapter 4: Where driverless cars can roam -- Introduction: The operational design domain concept -- Safety should drive engineering -- Principles: Is there a taxonomy for grouping ODDs, or are they unique? -- Current conditions: Deep-, surface-, temporal- and infra-structure -- Future predictions: What is really safe enough? -- Summary: Consult the genius of the place -- Chapter 5: The role of automotive artificial intelligence -- Introduction: AI has a role, but it must be limited -- Cars did not hop from the analog cave to the digital penthouse -- Principles: But first, what AI is, and what AI is not -- Current conditions: How automotive AI is being used today -- Driver monitoring systems (DMS) -- Predictive maintenance of manufacturing systems -- Automotive testing -- Speech recognition -- Automotive AI that interacts with humans -- Humans and AI sharing the driving task on board the vehicle -- Remote vehicle assistance -- Driver assistance with and without automotive AI -- Future predictions: Putting the wrappings on the automotive AI package -- Automotive AI and issues of data privacy -- Automotive AI and issues of liability -- Ensuring that automotive AI follows the laws -- What is standing in the way of Automotive AI? -- Summary: Where we are with Automotive AI -- We are already in the age of AI -- Chapter 6: The business proposition of affordable mobility -- Introduction: Producing vehicles that can deliver an affordable ride -- Principles: The first market for driverless cars -- Creative destruction or disruptive innovation -- More than just another car -- We havent been asking the right questions -- Fast forward to the beginning of the BEV era -- Current conditions: Context, requirements and user trajectories -- Applying Christensens lessons learned. , Driverless car trajectories -- Future predictions: Mobility for those who are underserved by current options is a totally new market -- Summary: Putting driverless cars into the market -- Disruptive innovations should not require tech breakthroughs -- Chapter 7: The making and operating of driverless vehicles -- Introduction: A sea change or an evolution of the automotive status quo -- Principles: A new product or a new industry -- Making and building the vehicles -- Outsourcing and creating the instant company -- Current conditions: Selling and servicing driverless vehicles -- Selling vehicles to driverless fleets -- Servicing driverless vehicles -- Future predictions: Operating driverless cars services -- Summary: All thats missing is the will -- Chapter 8: Powering driverless vehicles -- Introduction: BEVs are the only option-For now -- Principles: Energy sources are the critical factors -- Increased electricity use is increasing marginal CO2 emissions -- We have to explore all options -- Current conditions: From solid ICE proponents to unabashed BEV supporters -- Perception is reality -- Future predictions: Geopolitical ramifications of picking a winner -- Summary: Its not over until its over -- Chapter 9: The role of policymaking -- Introduction: Individualist or collectivist -- Principles: Predicting the future or enabling innovation -- Protecting public safety while encouraging new solutions -- Current conditions -- Regulations: Lets not forget the laws we already have -- Mercedes-Benz uses the framework to advantage -- Germanys government prepares the way -- Insurance: Existing regulations are ready for driverless -- Insurers use the Goldilocks rule of determining rates -- Precertification is a preferred approach -- Accurate data from the vehicle is essential -- What are the costs of crashes and who bears them. , There are hidden costs with improved safety -- Perhaps the insurance revolution starts with buses -- Mercedes-Benz and Germany: A case study in liability -- German law provides further clarification -- How liability is apportioned in Germany -- What the insurers say about liability for driverless cars -- Future predictions: Its time to standardize the standards -- Stars and crash dummies -- From an information program to a new standard -- Who sets the standards for ADAS tests and driverless technology -- How they do NCAP in Europe -- The inventors no longer like their invention -- Summary: Making policies for affordable mobility -- Chapter 10: Making it happen -- Introduction: Design and analysis of deployment scenarios -- Principles: Modeling the demand side -- Step 1: Creation of the Princeton Nationwide person file -- Step 2: Creation of the Princeton Nationwide PersonTrip file -- Journey to school -- Journey to work -- Journey to other places -- Current conditions: Modeling the supply side -- The scope of the supply side -- Walking -- Conventional bus transit trips -- Conventional rail transit trips -- Trips involving airlines that serve long trips -- Trips within the operational design domain (ODD) of the demand-responsive system -- The MOVES-style operational design concept -- MOVES-style design and data visualization -- MOVES mode split process -- MOVES operational simulation and animation -- MOVES basic economic analysis -- MOVES kiosk design concepts -- MOVES community involvement concepts -- Future predictions: Trenton MOVES -- A preliminary analysis of an interesting MOVES-style proof-of-market deployment -- So, what are the real opportunities quantitatively? -- Principles: Initial service design -- Considerations -- Budget estimation -- Summary: Expect the unexpected -- Trenton MOVES: By, for and in the community. , Choosing a location for the summit.

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Content: The fascinating, untold story of the history of undressing: over fifty years of taking it off. Striptease combined sexual display and parody, cool eros and wisecracking Bacchanalian humor. Striptease could be savage, patriotic, irreverent, vulgar, sophisticated, sentimental, and subversive--sometimes, all at once. In this vital cultural history, Rachel Shteir traces the ribald art from its nineteenth century vaudeville roots, through its long and controversial career, to its decline during the liberated 1960s. The book argues that striptease is an American form of popular entertainment--maybe the most American form of popular entertainment. Based on exhaustive research and filled with rare photographs and period illustrations, Striptease recreates the combustible mixture of license, independence, and sexual curiosity that allowed strippers to thrive for nearly a century. Shteir brings to life striptease's Golden Age, the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers performed around the country, in burlesque theatres, nightclubs, vaudeville houses, carnivals, fairs, and even in glorious palaces on the Great White Way. Taking us behind the scenes, Rachel Shteir introduces us to a diverse cast of characters that collided on the burlesque stage, from tight-laced political reformers and flamboyant impresarios, to drag queens, shimmy girls, cootch dancers, tit serenaders, and even girls next door, lured into the profession by big-city aspirations

Content: Throughout the book, readers will find essential profiles of famed performers, including Gypsy Rose Lee, "the Literary Stripper"; Lili St. Cyr, the 1950s mistress of exotic striptease; and Blaze Starr, the "human heat wave," who literally set the stage on fire. Striptease is an insightful and entertaining portrait of an art form at once reviled and embraced by the American public. Blending careful research and vivid narration, Rachel Shteir captures striptease's combination ofsham and seduction while illuminating its surprisingly persistent hold on the American imagination. -- from publisher description

Note: "A startled fawn upon the stage" -- A baazar of legs -- Yvette goes to bed: the first undressing acts -- From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of burlesque -- After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway -- The first strippers and teasers -- Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease -- A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of -- The burlesque soul of striptease -- "Minskyville" -- "I never made any money until I took my pants off" -- "Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts" -- Gypsy -- From literary strippers to queens of burlesque -- "Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": the world's fair -- Wartime -- The private lives of strippers -- Stripty-second streets -- The seamy sides of striptease -- Striptease confidential -- You've gotta have a gimmick -- Topless -- Who killed striptease?

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Content: This important book engages critically with Lefebvre's spatial theories and challenges recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Research in three iconic post-industrial cities in the UK and North America explains how urban public spaces, including differential space, are socially produced.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022). , EXPLORING THE PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Introduction: Cities and public space; Conceptualising public and quasi-public space; Neoliberal contradictions; Lefebvre's spatial triad: explication and interpretation; Exploring how to explore the production of urban space; Comparative urban research; City profiles: Vancouver, Lowell and Manchester; Structure of the book; 2. Vancouver: (Re)presenting urban space; Introduction; Pre-1972 and a disparate coalition , Gastown meets Chinatown and Downtown EastsideGastown: a mayoral walking tour; Reinventing Alhambra: producing new public space; A pre-1972 seminal moment: the Restoration Report 1969; More than a city affair; Conclusions; 3. Vancouver: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Introduction; Two hotels, a scandal and a contested mortgage; Blood in the alley; Vancouver's spaces of representation; Smoke-in, riot, love-in; Post-riot beautification and the Teamsters; Fake kitsch versus authentic heritage; Gas and more civic generosity , Carrall Street Greenway: two contradictory initiativesConclusions; 4. Lowell: (Re)presenting urban space; Introduction; Cultural innovations: welcome Model Cities; The Acre and Western Canal; Ecumenical Plaza; Model Cities: demonstration impacts; The city reacts: a civic historic commission; Lowell Regatta: ludic waterscape; A working mill and museum; Show us you're serious: Lowell Heritage State Park; Teamsters, tax and delinquency; Lowell's spaces of representation; Origin of an idea: development of a concept; Conclusions; 5. Lowell: Producing urban public space and city transformation , IntroductionA presidential pen slips; An 11th hour act; Brown Book and the DEM; National park and plan amendment; Kerouac Park: contested public space; Producing linear public space: Lowell Canalway; Canalway blue dye and sun; Don't mention sport: Merrimack Riverwalk; Soul of Lowell: Boarding House Park; Conclusions; 6. Manchester: (Re)presenting urban space; Introduction; Castlefield: a very lived upon place; Contested spatial meanings; A Greater Manchester proposition; A 150th birthday party; A financial impediment; From Granada to Castlefield; Visual representations of Castlefield , The Britons Protection incidentHistoric Castlefield: unexpected circularity; Contested conservation: a minister's wife intervenes; Conclusions; 7. Manchester: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Introduction; UDC context and precursors; Clutching at straws: the 'private sector'; Representations of the urban problematic; CMDC: a production of space investigation; Representations of CMDC space; Bridges to multiple spaces; Ludic space: Castlefield Arena; Rational and imagined success; Castlefield's spaces of representation; Conclusions , 8. Venturing beyond Lefebvre: Producing differential space , English

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ISBN: 1-921364-60-2 , 1-921364-62-9

Content: Smoke Signals gathers 71 of Professor Simon Chapman’s authoritative, acerbic and often heretical essays from across his 40-year career. They cover major developments and debates in tobacco control, public health ethics, cancer screening, gun control, and panics about low risk agents such as wi-fi, mobile phone towers and wind turbines. This collection is an essential guide to many key debates in contemporary public health. It will be invaluable to public health students and practitioners, and provides compelling, entertaining reading for anyone interested in health policy.

Note: Introduction -- 1 Never say die? -- 2 The paradox of prevention -- 3 The commodification of prevention -- 4 A testing time for prostate -- 5 Prostate screening not worth it -- 6 Why do doctors keep silent about their own prostate cancer decisions? -- 7 How famous faces muddle the message on cancer -- 8 Patient consent in spectator surgery not the only consideration -- 9 Does celebrity involvement in public health campaigns deliver long-term benefit? Yes -- 10 A nation of flashers should show some modesty -- 11 A long, winding road to end the carnage -- 12 Drink and drive? Not the publican’s problem -- 13 The AIDS myth that will not die -- 14 A shattering of glass in Tasmania -- 15 Gun lobby on shaky ground -- 6 Now, about those guns . . . -- 17 150 ways (and counting) that the nanny state is good for us -- 18 Tardis travelling into David Leyonhjelm’s post-nanny state dystopia -- 19 Torture by omission -- 20 It’s the government’s call over phone tower debate -- 21 No, we’re not all being pickled in deadly radiation from smartphones and wi-fi -- 22 Wind turbine sickness prevented by the money drug -- 23 Wind turbine syndrome: a classic “communicated” disease -- 24 Questions a prominent wind farm critic needs to answer -- 25 Chilean earthquakes in Australia and other wacky myths from wind farm opponents -- 26 Let’s appoint a judge to investigate bizarre wind farm health claims -- 27 Tragedy puts values at threat -- 28 Charities to be seen but no longer heard? -- 29 Reflections on a 38-year career in public health advocacy: ten pieces of advice to early-career researchers and advocates -- 30 Unravelling gossamer with boxing gloves: problems in explaining the decline in smoking -- 31 The banality of tobacco deaths -- 32 Smokers spend, then pay with their lives -- 33 Death of a Fat Lady -- 34 Stop-smoking clinics: a case for their abandonment -- 35 The inverse impact law of smoking cessation -- 36 Quitting unassisted: the 50-year neglect of a major health phenomenon -- 37 Is it time to stop subsidising nicotine replacement therapies? -- 38 The ethics of the cash register: taking tobacco industry research dollars -- 39 Smoke screen -- 40 It’s smokers, better still those trying to quit, who should benefit -- 41 Corporate responsibility is fast becoming a smoke-free zone -- 42 The problem with selling a lethal product: you just can’t get the staff -- 43 International tobacco control should repudiate Jekyll and Hyde health philanthropy -- 44 When will the tobacco industry apologise for its galactic harms? -- 45 Smoking bastions set to crumble -- 46 Why even “wowsers” argue about smoke bans -- 47 How Santa and the Tooth Fairy collaborated to allow smoking at casino -- 48 Is a smoking ban in UK parks and outdoor spaces a good idea? -- 49 Are today’s smokers really more “hardened”? -- 50 Light cigarettes – deadly despite the name -- 51 Matter of smoke and hire -- 52 Butt clean-up campaigns: wolves in sheep’s clothing? -- 53 Silver screen lights up with a deadly hidden message -- 54 What should be done about smoking in movies? -- 55 Four arguments against the adult-rating of movies with smoking scenes -- 56 Factoids and legal bollocks in the war against plain packaging -- 57 The slow-burn, devastating impact of tobacco plain packaging -- 58 Pleased as Punch: interview with the tobacco industry -- 59 The case for a smoker’s licence -- 60 E-cigarettes: the best and the worst case scenarios for public health -- 61 Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes -- 62 Ten myths about smoking that will not die -- 63 Ten more myths about smoking that will not die -- 64 Letters to editors -- 65 Bertrand Russell’s Why I am not a Christian: a book that changed me -- 66 Why do researchers donate their time and money to help private conference organisers make big bucks? -- 67 Why I block trolls on Twitter -- 68 Publishing horror stories: time to euthanase paper-based journals? -- 69 My mother’s death -- 70 Dying with dignity with dementia -- 71 Can academics ever retire?

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-921364-59-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.30722/sup.9781921364594

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Format: 1 online resource (225 pages)

ISBN: 0-12-805096-9 , 0-12-805095-0

Content: The Five Technological Forces Disrupting Security: How Cloud, Social, Mobile, Big Data and IoT are Transforming Physical Security in the Digital Age explores the major technological forces currently driving digital disruption in the security industry, and what they foretell for the future. The book provides a high-level perspective on how the industry is changing as a whole, as well as practical guidance on how to incorporate these new technologies to create better security solutions. Explores the five major technological forces driving digital change in commercial security; Shows practitioners how to align security strategies with these inevitable changes; Examines how the consumerization of security will change the vendor playing field; Illustrates how security professionals can leverage these changes in their own careers; Provides an adoption scorecard that ranks trends and timeline for impact.

Note: Includes index. , Front Cover -- The Five Technological Forces Disrupting Security: How Cloud, Social, Mobile, Big Data and IoT are Transforming Physical S... -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: From Packages to People -- The Consumerization of Security -- Early Clouds, Sunny Skies -- An IoT Story -- From Premobile to Mobile First -- Big Data in Its Infancy -- Social Spaces -- Dot-Com Redux in Physical Security -- Technology Adoption in Physical Security -- Section 1: The Cloud -- Chapter 2: The Run-Up to Cloud -- Cloud Meets an Industry of Late Adopters -- Skating to Where the Puck Has Been -- SaaS by Any Other Name -- Marketers Run With It -- Internet Protocol Blazes the Trail -- Before We Called It -- Five Essential Characteristics and Why They Matter -- Service Models: Applications vs Infrastructure -- Deployment Models: Public Clouds vs Private Clouds -- Chapter 3: The Tipping Point -- The Drivers of Adoption -- A Balanced View of Cyber Risks -- Beyond Stack-a-Box -- Are We More Conservative Than Our Customers? -- A Foothold for Cloud -- Leading Indicators -- The Barriers Are Down -- Easier for New Entrants -- Start-Ups Show Up to the Game -- The Innovator's Dilemma -- Disruption -- What Is My Cloud Strategy? -- Section 2: Mobile -- Chapter 4: Going Mobile -- The Desk in Our Pockets -- Mobile First -- The Interactive Paradigm -- The Toothbrush Test -- Retention Matters -- Adoption -- Chapter 5: Security Ecosystems -- The Desktop Reincarnated -- Apps Have a Field Day -- Mobile Credentials -- Interactive Security -- Middleware for the Real World -- One Key to Rule Them All -- ApplePay for Spaces -- Don't We Get Any Standards Out of This? -- Chapter 6: Altered Presence -- Presence -- Passive Surveillance -- Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns -- Anthrometrics: Web Metrics IRL. , A Jewelry Case in Point -- Breathing the Data Exhaust -- Chapter 7: What Can Mobile Do for Me? -- What's in It for Me? -- Real-Time Situational Awareness -- Small Business -- Multilocation Businesses -- Property Management -- What About Residential? -- Biometrics & Multifactor Authentication -- Transformation -- What's My Mobile Strategy? -- Mobile Starts With Cloud -- Mobile Administration as a Workforce Multiplier -- Mobile Credentials as an Engagement Accelerator -- Leveraging Work-Life Integration -- Section 3: The Internet of Things (IoT) -- Chapter 8: Why IoT Matters in Security -- Security: Already an IoT Business -- Ground Zero -- What Is IoT, Anyway? -- A Projection -- It's All About the Data -- Cheaper, Smaller, and More Discreet -- Big Wave or The Biggest Wave? -- IoT Will Become Part of Everything -- The Industrial Internet of Things -- Chapter 9: All Security Is Now Cybersecurity -- Life Imitating Art -- A Global, Residential, Commercial, and Even Universal Risk -- Cloud Security ReduxBut Worse -- Device Authentication: Do I Know You? -- Orphans Without Governance -- The Update Treadmill -- A Path Forward -- Chapter 10: IoT Technology and Standards -- The Need for Standards -- Architecture Matters -- Building Blocks -- Gateways to the Future -- Wireless Whirlwind -- The Standards Battlefield -- Current State of Play -- Standards Organizations and Consortia -- Security Industry Association Standards Committee -- Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) -- Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) -- Related Organizations -- Proprietary Frameworks -- Google Weave -- Thread Group -- Apple HomeKit -- Chapter 11: The New Playing Field -- What's Old Is New-At Least for Startups -- Large Tech Security-Again -- Consumerization and IoT -- Will IoT be Disruptive? -- Adoption -- Strategy. , Coda: Is IoT Really a Category? -- Section 4: Data: Bigger, Smarter, Faster -- Chapter 12: Bigger -- Can Big Data Save Your Life? -- Big Data Defined: The Four Vs -- The Case of the Missing Data -- The Road to Volume -- How Not to Think About Big Data -- Chapter 13: Smarter -- What Do We Want to Know? -- Not One Size Fits All -- From Variety to Video and Back -- Big Security Data and ROI -- Methods to Cut Through the Madness -- Anomaly Detection -- Statistics -- Segmentation, Clustering, and Association -- Time and Frequency Analysis -- Chapter 14: Faster -- Data Velocity -- Lessons From Cyber Security -- Artificial Intelligence -- Machine Learning -- Real Time Analytics -- Chapter 15: Data-Driven Security -- The Emergence of Data Analytics in Security -- Where Are the Solutions? -- Big Data, Now Arriving in the Cloud -- Data Priorities -- The Lack of Standards for Security Events -- Adoption, Transformation, and Strategy -- Section 5: Social+Identity -- Chapter 16: Who Are You? -- What's in a Token? -- Social Me Is the New Me -- The Holy Grail of Universal Identity -- Identity Is the New Perimeter -- Chapter 17: Social Saves Lives -- Virtual Social Media Working Group -- The United Nations -- Social Media for Emergency Management (#SMEM) -- Power Shift -- Not Your Kid's Social Media -- Chapter 18: On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Dog -- Identity as a Service -- What Is an Identity Standard? -- Authentication vs Authorization -- Authentication Standards -- Chapter 19: Social Spaces -- What Does it Mean to be a Social Space? -- It's All About Identity -- Communication and Crowdsourcing -- Security as a Customer Experience -- Disruption -- Strategy -- Secion 6: The Future -- Chapter 20: The Secrets of the Universe -- Adoption Scorecard -- My Generation -- A New Mission for Security -- What Goes Around Comes Around -- Index -- Back Cover.

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xxvi, 329 pages) : , 94 illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: First edition 2016.

ISBN: 1-349-94929-9

Content: Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their enterprises, employ more workers in better jobs, and produce quality goods. Governments must save to build the infrastructure required by a productive economy, provide quality services to their citizens, and assure their senior citizens a dignified, worry-free retirement. In short, countries must save not for the proverbial rainy day, but for a sunny day - a time when everyone can bask in the benefits of growth, prosperity, and well-being.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Saving for a Sunny Day -- Savings: The Sum of its Parts -- Why Care about National Saving? -- Sharing the Blame for Low Saving -- How to Promote Saving for Development -- Tackle the pension problem -- Focus on infrastructure and capital spending -- Target tax policy better -- Promote household saving and create a savings culture -- Improve productivity growth -- Fix the financial system -- The Many Faces of Saving -- A Policy Agenda for the Future -- Notes -- 2 The State of Saving in Latin America and the Caribbean -- National Saving Rates: Comparatively Low -- The Private Sector: Taking the Lead -- Foreign Savings: A Secondary Actor -- Businesses: The Biggest Savers-Worldwide -- Farewell to the Demographic Dividend -- Too Old to Save? -- Higher Income, Greater Saving -- Lower-Income Savers: Little to Show for their Efforts -- The Bottom Line -- Notes -- 3 Financial Systems to Make Savings Count -- In Financial Systems, Small Is Not Beautiful -- Formal vs. Informal Saving: Quality Counts -- Accounting for the Unbanked -- The Link between Financial Access and Savings: The Case of Mexico -- The Missing Link -- Notes -- 4 More and Better Saving for Productive Investment -- Investment and National Saving: Low, Lower, Lowest -- Financing Investment: No Place Like Home -- For Policy, Which Comes First: Saving or Investment? -- Investment in Infrastructure: First among Equals? -- A Catalyst for Productivity and Growth -- Public or Private Investment: Both Is Best -- The Other Half -- Understanding the Infrastructure Financing Market -- Debt Stands Out -- Infrastructure as an Asset Class -- Institutional Investors: An Untapped Source of Financing -- Building a Better Investment Strategy -- Notes -- 5 Saving for Stability. , Foreign Financing: A Different Animal -- Risky Business: Absorbing Foreign Saving -- Not All Foreign Saving Is Created Equal -- Different Risks for Different Financial Flows -- Financial Integration Is No Cure -- Safety First -- Notes -- 6 Running Out of Time: The Demographics of Saving -- More Elderly with More Needs -- Facing the Challenge: More and Better Savings -- Fulfilling Promises -- Saving for the Future -- More-and Better-Savings to Enhance Growth -- How Is the Region Preparing for the Future? -- Pension Systems: Not an Option Today -- Plan B: Household Savings in Other Assets -- The Last Resort: Taking Care of Grandma -- Act Today, for a Better Tomorrow -- Notes -- 7 Saving for the Future: Pension Systems -- Newer Systems for Older Populations -- PAYG/Defined-Benefit Systems: Promises, Promises -- Sustainability -- Adequacy and Redistribution -- Institutional Arrangements -- Recommendations -- Defined Contribution Systems: A Work in Progress -- Transition Costs -- Investments, Returns, and Costs -- Retirement Products and Insurance Arrangements -- Financial Literacy, Legitimacy, and Confidence -- Appropriate Regulation and Supervision -- Recommendations -- When All Else Fails: Noncontributory Pensions -- Recommendations -- Pensions Count -- Notes -- 8 A Better Way for Government to Save -- Current vs. Capital Expenditures: Fix the Mix -- Efficiency: A Path to Saving -- Energy -- Social Programs -- Tax Expenditures -- Education and Health -- Education -- Health -- It All Adds Up -- Saving, from the Top Down -- Notes -- 9 Saving Begins at Home -- Constraints to Saving -- Too Hard to Save Formally? -- In the Hearts and Minds of Savers -- Family and Friends First -- A Behavioral Economics Tale -- The Penchant for Instant Gratification -- Inertia and Limited Attention: Not All Bad -- Policy Recommendations: What Really Counts. , Product Innovation -- Keep It Simple -- Tackle Behavioral Biases -- Incorporate Technology -- Keep Testing -- Bridging the Gap between Informal and Formal Mechanisms -- Getting an Early Start -- Redefining Financial Inclusion -- Notes -- 10 Firm Productivity as an Engine of Saving -- From Japan to the World: The Empirical Link between TFP and Savings -- Incentives to Save -- Quantifying the Link from Productivity to Saving -- The Fine Print -- Zooming in on Firms' Saving Decisions -- Firm Saving: A Way Out for Productive Firms -- A Productive Approach to Policy -- Notes -- 11 Breaking the Vicious Circle: Financial Policies for High-Quality Saving -- Toward a Well-Oiled Financial Machine -- Broadening the Base -- Reducing Service Costs -- Keeping it Simple -- Fostering a Culture of Saving -- Banking-The Old Fashioned Way -- More than Brick-and-Mortar Banking -- Dialing up Technology -- Financial Saving beyond Banking -- Creating a Virtuous Circle -- Notes -- References -- Index. , Also available in print form. , English

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781349949281

Language: English

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-94929-8