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The authors present the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of visualization as related to problems in urban and regional planning. The significance and timeliness of this volume consist in its reflection of several developments in literature and the challenges cities are facing. First, the unsustainability of many of our current paradigms of development has become evidently clear. We are entering an era in which communities across the globe are strengthening their connections to the global flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies and values while facing at the same time serious dislocations in their traditional socioeconomic structures. While the impending scenarios of climate change impacts remind us about the integrated ecological system that we are part of, the current discussions about global recession in the media alert us and make us aware of the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated and hyper-complex socioeconomic-ecological system is difficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build resilience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visualization research emerging from other domains of inquiry.… (mehr)
The first British shots of the First World War were fired in west Africa and the war's final battle took place in Northern Rhodesia the day after the armistice. In between is some of the most fascinating and obscure military history. Often written off as an inconsequential sideshow, The Great War in Africa it is a riveting story brilliantly told by Byron Farwell. ( )
Il libro analizza le campagne combattute dalle potenze alleate in Africa al fine di annientare gli avamposti tedeschi. Non si tratta di certo di uno studio approfondito, bensì si presenta come un'ottima introduzione di quei teatri di guerra relativamente sconosciuti ai più.
INDICE Capitolo I - War in Togoland; Capitolo II - The Cameroons: A Bad Beginning; Capitolo III - The Capture of Douala; Capitolo IV - The C.E.F. Moves Inland; Capitolo V - All But Mora; Capitolo VI - A Campaign Aborted by a Revolution; Capitolo VII - The Conquest of German South-West Africa; Capitolo VIII - The Victorious South Africans; Capitolo IX - War Comes to German East Africa; Capitolo X - War Comes to British East Africa; Capitolo XI - The Saga of the Konigsberg; Capitolo XII - The Severn and the Mersey; Capitolo XIII - Longido and Tanga; Capitolo XIV - Tanga's Aftermath; Capitolo XV - 1915: The Lull Before the Storm; Capitolo XVI - 1915: Alarums and Excursions; Capitolo XVII - The True African Queens; Capitolo XVIII - The Battle for Lake Tanganyika; Capitolo XIX - Smuts Takes Command; Capitolo XX - On the Road to Morogoro; Capitolo XXI - The Capture of Tabora; Capitolo XXII - The True Enemy; Capitolo XXIII - The Pursuit of Lettow-Vorbeck; Capitolo XXIV - New Leaders and a New Phase; Capitolo XXV - War Comes to Portuguese East Africa; Capitolo XXVI - The End of the Schutztruppe. ( )
Straightforward history of military operations in Africa, chiefly from a British viewpoint. Interesting for including campaigns in Togoland, Cameroons, Namibia much less well-known that von Lettow-Vorbeck's epic stand in East Africa. ( )
An interesting look into the now-obscure campaigns in Africa during World War I. A special bonus is the bizarre but true tale that inspired C.S. Forester's "African Queen." ( )
While many readers are familiar with actions on the Western Front in World War 1, far fewer are aware of the fighting that took place across the continent of Africa. In this very readable book, Farwell presents an overview of the campaigns fought by the Allied Powers to seize German colonies and outposts and destroy their forces. Many, such as the invasions of German Namibia, Togoland, and Kamerun, occurred quickly and efficiently, but the campaign for German East Africa lasted throughout the war as Allied forces chased an elusive German guerrilla army.
As is typical of Farwell's books, the narrative is well paced and filled with interesting stories and characters. It is not an in-depth study but with the centenary of WW1 approaching this is an excellent introduction into these relatively unknown but fascinating theaters of war. ( )
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For my grandchildren, Cameron Farwell Lewis and Jenna Rae Farwell.
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When the War of 1914-1918 -- called the Great War until a greater erupted in 1939 -- broke out in Europe, all of sub-Sahara Africa, with the exception of Ethiopia and Liberia, was in European hands, parcelled out as colonies or so-called protectorates.
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The authors present the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of visualization as related to problems in urban and regional planning. The significance and timeliness of this volume consist in its reflection of several developments in literature and the challenges cities are facing. First, the unsustainability of many of our current paradigms of development has become evidently clear. We are entering an era in which communities across the globe are strengthening their connections to the global flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies and values while facing at the same time serious dislocations in their traditional socioeconomic structures. While the impending scenarios of climate change impacts remind us about the integrated ecological system that we are part of, the current discussions about global recession in the media alert us and make us aware of the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated and hyper-complex socioeconomic-ecological system is difficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build resilience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visualization research emerging from other domains of inquiry.
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