The Globalization of Giving. One of 16 special essays on how the field of social innovation has evolved and what challenges remain ahead. When Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) was first conceived in Silicon Valley a decade ago, newly wealthy, problem-focused entrepreneurs had seized the opportunity to use their knowledge, networks, and finances to advance the social good globally. They were both the architects and the beneficiaries of the information age and the technology-driven globalization it enabled. They wanted to see its dangers mitigated and its benefits more equitably shared. They formed learning communities like the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF), built consultancies like FSG and Bridgespan Group, explored novel market-based methods like “impact investing,” employed the tools of information and cellular technologies, and soon coalesced around standards for evaluating impact.
Their question was not whether, but how. It was a moment of invention. SSIR will be at the heart of this knowledge transfer. Singapore: The Lion City. Globalization. 3D Map of London's Urban Complexity. Innovation Forum 2013. CFP RGS-IBG 2010: “Urban Subversions: Conceptualising alternative urban pastimes in the modern World City”. « Posted by Oli in Urban Geography. Tags: Urban Geography trackback Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 1st – 3rd September 2010, RGS, London. Session conveners:Oli Mould, Department of Geography, Loughborough University. Bradley Garrett, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway. Sponsors: Urban Geography Research Group Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group Discussant: Professor Tim Cresswell, Royal Holloway, University of London Abstract: The increase of the urbanised population (presently and in the projected future) and the rise of procedures for creating a ‘world city’ to attract the global flows of capital, means that the usage of urban space is coming under increasing tension.
In these modern complex times, these ‘alternative’ usages of the city by a variety of different groups and individuals are becoming more prevalent. Like this: Like Loading... Sociation Today Urban Reprint Series. ® Volume 4, Number 2 Fall 2006 Urban Organization and Planning in the Post-Industrial City: An Editorial and Introduction to the Spring 2006 Issue of Sociation Today by George H. Conklin North Carolina Central University "Cities do not exist in nature.
Thus begins the call for a reexamination of the role of the city in the modern post-industrial world in the Fall 2006 issue of Sociation Today. 2006 represents the first time in human history where half of the human population of the world as a whole is urban. Wimberley and Morris (2006) point out that cities are really dependent on the good will of farmers who provide them with food, water and above all a place to get rid of the sewage and garbage which cities concentrate in one place. So why do cities concentrate on their own internal views of themselves and ignore the needs of rural areas? But it was not always that way. How is this accomplished? But can we measure the effects of Smart Growth? But why is sprawl feared? Conclusions References. World Cities Quiz. Global Sherpa. Clout. Journal » mapping. While we may think of geographic maps as amongst the more objective graphics, Stephen Boyd David reminds us of the subjective nature of mapping in this essay published in Emotional Cartography (Ed.
Christian Nold). There is always some degree of subjectivity in an image. The way we see the world is channelled by language (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis), and linguistics have taught us that maps, like pictures and words, do not represent things, but shared ideas of things. In contrast with the perspective, which needs a viewpoint, the map doesn’t need an onlooker – it is the first panopticon. However maps do distort and select – because they are made for a purpose: they carry place-names, or indicate a hierarchy of importance.
Whereas aerial photography shows the “raw stuff”, a well-made and usable map must be clear and legible, serving its purpose precisely through its selectivity. Oskar Karlin, Elephant & Castle-centred tube map. Tom Carden, Travel Time Tube Map Download the book (Ed. Risk Management and Assessment. Risk assessment involves a careful examination of what, in the hotel, teaching room, fieldwork site, street, or town could cause harm to people. What is a Hazard? A hazard is anything that has the potential to cause injury or harm. What is a Risk? The risk is the likelihood, great or small, of the potential for harm being realised and causing an accident or incident. The extent of the risk takes into account how serious the injuries or outcomes are likely to be.
What is Reasonably Practicable? This is a balancing act between the risk as described above and the cost in money, time, disruption, effort, etc. of the precautions needed to avoid the risk or reduce it to an acceptable level. Our Policy: In practice, our selection of field study sites involves all, or most of these criteria: Besides careful site selection, safety has been enhanced by investment in: Risk assessment specifically involves: Specific procedures exist at the Centre for: In summary, our aim is to: Chapter 9: Urban Geography. Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalization [Nottingham]
Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalization :: May 8 - July 4, 2010 :: The Geopolitical Turn: Art and the Contest of Globalization Conference, May 8 :: Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB, UK. Uneven Geographies focuses on projects by artists concerned variously with visualising the transnational mobility of capital, goods and people in today’s global networks. Its point of departure is the assumption that the opaque and labyrinthine workings of worldwide economies tend to frustrate attempts to represent the historic conditions and expanding geographies that define current forms of globalization.
Artists have consequently turned to the invention of innovative ways of imaging and narrating, analysing and reconceptualizing the processes and relations of globalization - whereby geopoetics mediates geopolitics. Curated by TJ Demos and Alex Farquharson (Director, Nottingham Contemporary) Serendipity. Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”. The notion of serendipity is a common occurrence throughout the history of scientific innovation such as Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928 and the invention of the microwave oven by Percy Spencer in 1945, the invention of the Post-it note by Spencer Silver in 1968.
The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company.[1] However, due to its sociological use, the word has been exported into many other languages.[2] Etymology[edit] The structure of serendipity[edit] Business and strategy[edit] M. U.S. Geography of Personality: The United States of Mind? When I moved from upstate New York to California some five years ago, the culture shock was almost as significant as when I had moved from Russia to Israel, then to Canada, then to the UK, then to Norway, and then to the United States.
This time the language, the currency, and the shape of power outlets were the same, but people appeared quite different in how they handled themselves, socialized with others, or approached life’s problems. Neurotic New Yorkers versus Laid-Back Californians? Perhaps. Though in some ways, my former neighbors in Ithaca, New York seemed more laid-back and less neurotic than my new neighbors in Mountain View, California. Where upstate New Yorkers appeared more friendly and more willing to resolve issues by relying on the common sense, Californians seemed more concerned with rules and appearances.
Their study also shows that “the personality dimensions are not randomly distributed, but geographically clustered” (p. 350). Urban Sociology Teaching Guide Syllabi by Course Focus. Urban Sociology Teaching Guide Syllabus Introduction. Urban Geography Research Group. Urban Sociology Teaching Guide Syllabus Introduction.