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De auteur van dit werk neemt je mee op een trip langs vijf smart-city-bestemmingen in Europa die hem tijdens verschillende bezoeken de afgelopen jaren sterk geboeid hebben. Hij toont hoe de steden het elk op hun manier hebben aangepakt, omdat deze plaatsen ook jou en jouw stad kunnen inspireren en veranderen. Geen van deze steden is de ultieme, of meest complete slimme stad. De ultieme slimme stad bestaat waarschijnlijk niet, maar de voorbeelden in dit boekje hebben wel allemaal een erg interessante invalshoek. Dit boekje wil een bron van ideeën zijn, maar het heeft ook de ambitie om je écht tot reizen aan te zetten. Smart-city-toerisme is booming business. Steeds meer beleidsmensen, bedrijfsleiders, creatievelingen en onderzoekers gaan op studietrip naar de toonaangevende smart cities. Een smart city moet je nu eenmaal zien om te weten of het werkt. Maar ook niet-specialisten kunnen hier wat aan hebben. Mensen reizen niet meer enkel naar New York of Amsterdam om er een lijstje bezienswaardigheden af te werken. Ze willen een stad ervaren die duurzaam, menselijk, sociaal, dynamisch, avontuurlijk en verbluffend is: allemaal eigenschappen van een geslaagde smart city. Misschien willen ze zich ook laven aan het gevoel dat zo?n slimme stad ook hun leven kan veranderen. Het doet hen dromen over wat de toekomst van hun eigen stad zou kunnen zijn.Bron: http://www.politeia.be/nl-be/book/5-x-smart-cities-een-reisgids-naar-de-slimme-stad-vub/15862.htm

Toerisme ; steden. --- Travel writing --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Steden --- Stadssamenleving --- Innovatie --- Duurzaamheid --- Kopenhagen --- Londen --- Rotterdam --- Barcelona --- Messina --- Stad

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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after colonialism in its various guises. The Companion is organized into three parts. Part I, 'Departures', addresses key theoretical issues, topics, and themes. Part II, 'Performances', examines a range of conventional and emerging travel performances and styles in postcolonial travel writing. Part III, 'Peripheries' continues to shift the analysis of travel writing from the traditional focus on Eurocentric contexts. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field, appealing to students and teachers of travel writing and postcolonial studies.

Travelers' writing --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Travel writing --- Travel in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Travelers' writings --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History.

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With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the 'Renaissance'. Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

Non-fiction --- Sociology of literature --- History of civilization --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Travel writing --- Travel, Medieval --- Culture diffusion --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Civilization, Medieval --- Travel --- Authorship --- History --- E-books --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Eastern travels. --- Muslim-Christian encounters. --- cultural exchange. --- early modern. --- medieval. --- mercantile exchanges. --- renaissance. --- travel writing.

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When scholars of cultural studies consider representations of the land by British writers, the Romantic poets continue to dominate the enquiry, as though the period right before the intensification of the Industrial Revolution offers readers one last glimpse of untarnished nature. Denys Van Renen instead examines the British authors writing in the decades following the Restoration of Charles II, writers whose literary works re-animate and re-embody the land as a site of dynamic interactions, and, through this, reveal how various cultural systems and ecologies shape notions of self and national identity.Van Renen presents a rich and varied cultural history of ecological exchange-a history that begins in the 1660s, with Milton and Marvell's rejection of established Renaissance constructs, and ends with Defoe's Farther Adventures, in which the noise of the persistent howls of animals pierces human representational systems, arguing that British literature from 1665-1726 represents a cognitive symbiosis between human and non-human.As humans attempt to reduce the adverse effect of the Anthropocene, the author ultimately proposes that the aesthetics of British writers from the Restoration and early eighteenth century might be mobilized in order to rebind humans to their environs.

English literature --- Ecology in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- National characteristics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1500-1700 --- British literature --- women's studies --- environmental studies --- travel writing

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This book tackles photography’s role during Robert Louis Stevenson’s travels throughout the Pacific Island region and is the first study of his family’s previously unpublished photographs. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book integrates photographs with letters, non-fiction, and poetry, and includes much unpublished material. The original readings of photographs and non-fiction highlight Stevenson’s engagement with colonial ideology and reality and advance new arguments about Victorian travel, settlement, and colonialisms in the Pacific. Like the Stevensons, the book moves from the Marquesas to the atolls of the Gilbert Islands in Micronesia; from the Kingdom of Hawai‘i’s political ambitions to Samoan plantations and the Stevensons’ settlement at Vailima. Central to this study is the notion that Pacific history and Pacific Island cultures matter to the interpretation of Stevenson's work, and a rigorous historical and cultural contextualization ensures that local details structure literary and photographic interpretation. The book’s historical grounding is key to its insightful conclusions regarding travel, settlement, photography, and colonialism.

Travel writing --- Travel --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- Stevenson, Robert Louis, --- Stevenson, R. L. --- Shih-ti-wen-sheng, --- Stivenson, Robert Lui, --- Sŭtʻibŭnsŭn, R. L., --- Sitivensin, Robert Loui, --- Stivenson, Robert Lʹi︠u︡is, --- Stivensoni, Robert Luis, --- Sṭivanasana, Āra. Ela., --- Sṭivansana, Āra. Ela., --- Stivenson, R. L. --- Стивенсон, Роберт Луис, --- Стивенсон. Р. Л., --- סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס --- סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס, --- סטיבנסון, רוברט לואס --- סטיבנסון, ר״ל, --- סטיבנסון, ר. ל. --- סטיווענסאן, ראבערט ל. --- סטיװענסאן, ראבערט לואיס, --- 史蒂文森罗伯特·路易斯, --- R.L. スティーブンソン, --- R.L.スティーヴンソン, --- R. L. S. --- RLS --- S., R. L. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Photography. --- Culture. --- Australasia. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Australasian Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Literature, Modern—19th century.