“…the largest European metropolis with seventeen million ? prefabricated housing is an essential instrument for the provision of residential assistance, prefabrication methods in Germany and Switzerland, for example, are used to build exclusive properties. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.7 Hierarchical Linear Models -- 3.8 Data Augmentation and a Probit Example -- 3.9 Mixtures of Normals -- 3.9.1 Identification in Normal Mixtures -- 3.9.2 Performance of the Unconstrained Gibbs Sampler -- 3.10 Metropolis Algorithms -- 3.10.1 Independence Metropolis Chains -- 3.10.2 Random Walk Metropolis Chains -- 3.10.3 Scaling of the Random Walk Metropolis -- 3.11 Metropolis Algorithms Illustrated with the Multinomial Logit Model -- 3.12 Hybrid MCMC Methods -- 3.13 Diagnostics -- Chapter 4 Unit‐Level Models and Discrete Demand -- 4.1 Latent Variable Models -- 4.2 Multinomial Probit Model -- 4.2.1 Understanding the Autocorrelation Properties of the MNP Gibbs Sampler -- 4.2.2 The Likelihood for the MNP Model -- 4.3 Multivariate Probit Model -- 4.4 Demand Theory and Models Involving Discrete Choice -- 4.4.1 A Nonhomothetic Choice Model -- 4.4.2 Demand for Discrete Quantities -- 4.4.3 Demand for Variety -- Chapter 5 Hierarchical Models for Heterogeneous Units -- 5.1 Heterogeneity and Priors -- 5.2 Hierarchical Models -- 5.3 Inference for Hierarchical Models -- 5.4 A Hierarchical Multinomial Logit Example -- 5.5 Using Mixtures of Normals -- 5.5.1 A Hybrid Sampler -- 5.5.2 Identification of the Number of Mixture Components -- 5.5.3 Application to Hierarchical Models -- 5.6 Further Elaborations of the Normal Model of Heterogeneity -- 5.7 Diagnostic Checks of the First Stage Prior -- 5.8 Findings and Influence on Marketing Practice -- Chapter 6 Model Choice and Decision Theory -- 6.1 Model Selection -- 6.2 Bayes Factors in the Conjugate Setting -- 6.3 Asymptotic Methods for Computing Bayes Factors -- 6.4 Computing Bayes Factors Using Importance Sampling -- 6.5 Bayes Factors Using MCMC Draws from the Posterior -- 6.6 Bridge Sampling Methods -- 6.7 Posterior Model Probabilities with Unidentified Parameters -- 6.8 Chib's Method…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Underwood -- The margin as a space of connection : the artists Mira Schendel, Salette Tavares and Amélia Toledo in Lisbon / Margarida Brito Alves and Giulia Lamoni -- Exile and the reinvention of modernism in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1937-1964 / Rafael Cardoso -- Arrival city Istanbul : flight, modernity and metropolis at the Bosporus. With an excursus on the island exile of Leon Trotsky / Burcu Dogramaci -- Mapping Finchleystrasse : Mitteleuropa in north west London / Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall - Hospitable environments : the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and Green's Hotel as sites of cultural porduction in Bombay / Rachel Lee -- Tales of a city : urban encounters in the travel book Shanghai by Ellen Thorbecke and Friedrich Schiff / Mereike Hetschold -- The bar Sammy's Bowery Follies as microcosm and photographic milieu study for emigrated European photographers in 1930s and 1940s New York / Helene Roth -- Temporary exile : the White Stag Group in Dublin, 1939-1946 / Kathryn Milligan -- Inner city solidarity : Black protest in the eyes of the Jewish New York Photo League / Ya'ara Gil-Glazer -- Bohemians, anarchists and arrabales : how Spanish graphic artists reinvented the visual landscape of Buenos Aires, 1880-1920 / Brian Bockelman -- The city of Plovdiv as a new Latin American metropolis : the artistic activity of Latin American exiles in communist Bulgaria / Katarzyna Cytlak -- Hedda Serne and the lure of New York / Frauke V. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Decoupling assistance from citizenship: the changing fractal in social protectionFrom social risk management to social floors in Colombia; The case study; Demographic data; Concluding reflections: The need for a renewed debate on agency and social protection; Note; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Potentials of the urban poor in shaping a sustainable Lagos metropolis; Introduction; The agency of the poor: literature overview; The agency of the urban poor of Lagos metropolis; Conclusion; References…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “….); 8 Acerca de la actualidad del concepto simmeliano de metrópolis; 9 Arquitectura y ciudad: ¿para qué la belleza?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Dimensión misionera de la nueva evangelización / Octavio Ruiz Arenas -- La misión ad gentes, dinamismo de la nueva evangelización / Eloy Bueno de la Fuente -- "Ser misionero en la nueva evangelización": ámbitos del primer anuncio / Adolfo González Montes -- Nueva evangelización e iglesias locales: la alegría de creer, el entusiasmo de comunicar / José Valdavia Lobo -- Pedagogía del primer anuncio / Juan Carlos Carvajal Blanco -- La nueva evangelización en los umbrales de la parroquia / Roberto Calvo Pérez -- La búsqueda del sentido y la nueva evangelización / Francesc Torralba -- Testimonio, encuentro y servicio en Marruecos / Natalia Moratinos -- Sectas: pentecostalismo y neopentecostalismo / Francisco Ortega -- "Misiones populares" / José Luis Castillo Poyatos -- La nueva evangelización en las metrópolis / Xavier Morlans -- Experiencia con los empobrecidos / Concepción López Alcoceba -- La misión en el "planeta media" / José Francisco Serrano Oceja…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Raggazzoli ; Water, toponymy, and the Image of the City in Graeco-Roman Egypt / Jesús Carruesco García ; Pharaonic Alexandria: Ezekiel's Exagogé and Political Allegory in Hellenistic Judaism / Tim Whitmarsh ; Urban Connections: Arsinoe, Antinoopolis and Hermopolis in the papyri / Myrto Malouta ; Les jumelles non identiques: Mendès et Thmouis aux époques hellénistique et romaine / Katherine Blouin ; Reflections on Urbanism in Graeco-Roman Egypt: a Historical and Regional Perspective / Paola Davoli ; Oxyrhynchos: Metropolis and Landscape / Eva Subías Pascual ; Appendix. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case study : The 'green metropolis". Political transition : Essay: The political landscape. …”

“…Se aprecia el ojo clínico de un escritor investigador que busca datos etnográficos sobre una fábrica de ladrillos, cuya construcción se asemejaba a una especie de isla marginada dentro de la metrópolis. La corteza de la narración tiene resonancias reales pero la parte interior es una confluencia de elementos imaginarios. …”
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“…To answer this question, the reality of the metropolis is discussed in two main aspects: a first, concerning the understanding of the metropolitan space as a socio-historical product, the result of the conception of the creators of the project for the construction of a new capital for Brazil and of the spatial practice - of them and of those who appropriate this space, also acting in its production - which resulted in what we now know as Brasília and its metropolitan space; and a second, concerning the passage from the analysis of the discursive plan to the fully lived one, that is, from the demonstration, through ideas, concepts, information and findings, of which metropolitan space it is concerned, one seeks to enter this space at scale of everyday life in order to try to show the lived space: that which the inhabitants of a distant and supposedly less integrated periphery take over who are, in fact, a constituent part of the metropolis…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Modernity and the city. The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- The mire of the macadam / Marshall Berman -- The invisible Flâneuse: women and the literature of modernity / Janet Wolff. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Goths and Roman in Tolkien's imagination / Tom Shippey -- Civil pleasures in unexpected places: an introduction to the etiquette of Middle-earth / Jane Suzanne Carroll -- 'Wildman of the Woods': inscribing tragedy on the landscape of Middle-earth in The children of Húrin / Dimitra Fimi -- Deeper and deeper into the wood: forests as places of transformation in The lord of the rings / Rebecca Merkelbach -- The forest and the city: the dichotomy of Tolkien's Istari / Dominika Nycz -- 'Raw forest' versus 'cooked city': Lévi-Strauss in Middle-earth / Thomas Honegger -- 'A preference for round windows': hobbits and the Arts and Crafts movement / Karl Kinsella -- Fractures, corruption and decay: understanding speculative cities through the imagery of Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Metropolis / Jennifer Harwood-Smith -- The forests and the trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie / Verlyn Flieger -- 'The cedar is fallen': empire, deforestation and the fall of Númenor / Gerard Hynes -- 'Sacred and of immense antiquity': Tolkien's use of riddles in The Hobbit / Erin Sebo -- Less noise, more green: cultural materialism and the reverse discourse of the wild in Tolkien's The Hobbit / Ian Kinane -- Tolkien and Dante's Earthly Paradise: enculturing nature Alison Milbank -- The party tree and its roots in the Spanish Civil War / Meg Black -- The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. …”

“…The subjects ranged widely: from plants and nature to the modern metropolis, from exotic cultures to the German Volk, from anonymous workers to historical figures. …”

“…A sweeping narrative history of one of the 20th century's most loved-and unloved-cities, Berlin is every bit as fascinating, vibrant, and colorful as the great German metropolis itself. . In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…MacWilliams -- Manga in Japanese History / Kinko Ito -- Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture / Gilles Poitras -- Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka / Susanne Phillips -- From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema / Lee Makela -- Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga / Mizuki Takahashi -- Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture / Deborah Shamoon -- Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War / Yulia Mikhailova -- Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977 / Eldad Nakar -- Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime / Rich Gardner -- Medieval Genealogies of Manga and Anime Horror / Raj Pandey -- The Utopian "Power to Live": The Significance of the Miyazaki Phenomenon / Hiroshi Yamanaka -- Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away / Shiro Yoshioka -- National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress / Melek Ortabasi -- Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity / Jaqueline Berndt -- Bibliography…”
Enlace del recurso

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2 VANGUARDIASLas huellas fotográficas del montaje cinematográfico; El abismo de la percepción; Montar alegóricamente una lectura desde la metonimia; Alegoría y montaje; Las consecuencias del montaje; Protocolizar el montaje; Las dos caras del espejo; El punto de inscripción; El fotomontaje soviético; La industria intertextual; La enfermedad como doble: El gabinete del doctor Caligari; Apunte callejero; Óptica; Demoliciones; Taller mecánico; Liquidación; La documentalización de la metrópolis contemporánea; Del artefacto al monumento (...); La madre; El derrotero ideológico; Cambio cultural…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inhabitants of Spontaneous Settlements in Bangkok: Networks and Actions Changing the Contemporary Metropolis / 4. Collaborative Urban Farming Networks in Bangkok. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Industria agrícola-pecuaria continua la misma materia y se coteja el estado agrícola de las colonias con el de la Metrópoli ; VII. Industria fabril que los españoles fomentaron y arruinaron en América ; VIII-IX. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bound by Difference: The Merger of Rostov and Nakhichevan-on-Don into an Imperial Metropolis during the Nineteenth Century Michel AbesserPart 3: The City as a Palimpsest of Empires7. …”