Acknowledgements -- What is a market? -- Markets as metonyms of urban transformation : East London -- Markets and place-image : Rio de Janeiro -- Markets as unremarkable and remarkable places : Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Beijing -- Dis/placing markets through urban renewal : Sydney -- The...

Too much gas -- What we've done when our cities have blown up -- King of the hill -- Playing 1 on 1 with kobe bryant -- Will Manhattan flood? -- Will China's cities go green? -- Bono's anxieties -- Seize the day : opportunities from our hotter future -- The future of cities

Klappentext: Unsere Arbeitskultur gleicht sich immer schneller der der Entwicklungsländer an, so der bekannte Soziologe Ulrich Beck. Ein neues Gesellschaftsmodell - das einer engagierten Bürgergesellschaft - ist für ihn die einzige Chance, Sozialstaat und Demokratie auch im nächsten...

"Today, tourism is an important component of development, in terms of economics, knowledge and welfare. The 9th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism aimed to find ways to protect the natural and cultural landscape through the development of solutions which minimise the adverse effects...