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Understanding Video Games

The Essential Introduction

Understanding Video Games is a crucial guide for newcomers to video game studies and experienced game scholars alike. This revised and updated third edition of the pioneering text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of game studies, and highlights changes in the gaming industry, advances in video game scholarship, and recent trends in game design and development--including mobile, casual, educational, and indie gaming. In the third edition of this textbook, students will: Learn the major theories and schools of thought used to study games, including ludology and narratology; Understand the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry; Trace the history of games, from the board games of ancient Egypt to the rise of mobile gaming; Explore the aesthetics of game design, including rules, graphics, audio, and time; Analyze the narrative strategies and genre approaches used in video games; Consider the debate surrounding the effects of violent video games and the impact of "serious games." Featuring discussion questions, recommended games, a glossary of key terms, and an interactive online video game history timeline, Understanding Video Games provides a valuable resource for anyone interested in examining the ways video games are reshaping entertainment and society.

In the game SimCity, a prime example of a commercial game with educational
potential, players have to plan and run a small city, developing it from a hole in
the ground to a bustling metropolis. In order to do so they must understand many
of ...

Understanding China's Urbanization

The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China’s urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of the demographic, spatial, economic and social aspects of China’s urban transformation. Based on years of fieldwork and data analysis from different types of cities and towns in every region of China, the authors present a detailed description of how China has urbanized since 1978 and an original theory about the way in which top-down and bottom-up policies have impacted urbanization. They describe China’s on-going urbanization process as a ‘double-dual’ transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one and from a concern with the quantity to the quality of urbanization. In doing so, the authors provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on Chinese urbanization to date. This scholarly study will appeal to academics and practitioners, including professors and postgraduate students of urban studies, planning, geography, Asian studies, and other social science disciplines and professional fields concerned with cities and urban development. Professionals involved in international development, particularly in China and elsewhere in Asia, will be particularly interested in the book.

These densely agglomerated city-regions are developing into Large City Clusters
(hereafter LCCs) or megalopolises. Most of the ... The word metropolis and the
more precise term metropolitan area 232 Understanding China's urbanization.

Understanding the Earth System

Compartments, Processes and Interactions

"Understanding the Earth System" aims to contribute to the timely discussion on Global Change of the Earth system. The discussion centers around the synthesis of procedures effecting both the natural and social sciences. The concept of Earth System Analysis, although controversially discussed, will be the focus of future scientific programs related to Global Change. The main problems are overpopulation, water shortages and climate change.

... the study on Singapore presents an interesting approach to quench thirst of a
giant and land constraint metropolis. ... to be met in the next millennium will be
from urban populations in fast-growing megacities in the developing countries.

Understanding and Managing Urban Water in Transition

This book examines changes and transitions in the way water is managed in urban environments. This book originated from a joint French-Australian initiative on water and land management held in Montpellier, France. The book delivers practical insights into urban water management. It links scientific insights of researchers with the practical experiences of urban water practitioners to understand and respond to key trends in how urban water is supplied, treated and consumed. The 51 contributors to the volume provide a range of insights, case studies, summaries and analyses of urban water and from a global perspective. The first section on water supply and sanitation includes case studies from Zimbabwe, France and South Africa, among others. Water demand and water economics are addressed in the second section of the book, with chapters on long-term water demand forecasting, the social determinants of water consumption in Australian cities, a study of water quality and consumption in France, governance and regulation of the urban water sector and more. The third section explores water governance and integrated management, with chapters on water management in Quebec, in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond urban area, in Singapore and in Australia. The final section offers perspectives on challenges and future uncertainties for urban water systems in transition. Collectively, the diverse insights provide an important step forward in response to the challenges of sustainably delivering water safely, efficiently and equitably.

Three Engineering Paradigms in the Historical Development of Water Services:
More, Better and Cheaper Water to European Cities Bernard Barraqué 1
Introduction Paris is now a major metropolis, but unfortunately the Seine has
become too ...

Understanding India’s New Political Economy

A Great Transformation?

A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations. Filling a gap in existing literature, the book goes beyond looking at the transformations in isolation, managing to: • Explain the empirical linkages between these three phenomena • Provide an account that integrates the insights of separate disciplinary perspectives • Explain their distinct but possibly related causes and the likely consequences of these central transformations taken together By seeking to explain the causal relationships between these central transformations through a coordinated conversation across different disciplines, the dynamics of India’s new political economy are captured. Chapters focus on the political, economic and social aspects of India in their current and historical context. The contributors use new empirical research to discuss how India’s multidimensional story of economic growth, social welfare and democratic deepening is likely to develop. This is an essential text for students and researchers of India's political economy and the growth economies of Asia.

The Urban Transformation of the Developing World, Oxford: Oxford University
Press: 93¥132. Mohan, R. (2005) aIndian Economy in ... Political Weekly, 39(30):
3387¥3390. Nair, J. (2005) The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth
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Understanding Regulation, Theory, Strategy, and Practice

Business, Business

Facts101 is your complete guide to Understanding Regulation, Theory, Strategy, and Practice. In this book, you will learn topics such as What is `Good` Regulation?, Explaining Regulation, Regulatory Failure, and Regulating Risks plus much more. With key features such as key terms, people and places, Facts101 gives you all the information you need to prepare for your next exam. Our practice tests are specific to the textbook and we have designed tools to make the most of your limited study time.

It is similar to SimCity, in that the game involves successfully developing a town
into a larger metropolis; however, the focus is more on the ability of the citizens to
use transportation to get around the area (hence thename). Very fine control of ...

Understanding Cairo

The Logic of a City Out of Control

This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are portrayed and mapped: the huge, spontaneous neighborhoods; housing; traffic and transport; city government; and its people and their enterprises. The book argues that understanding a city such as Cairo is not a daunting task as long as pre-conceived notions are discarded and care is taken to apprehend available information and to assess it with a critical eye. In the case of Cairo, this approach leads to a conclusion that the city can be considered a kind of success story, in spite of everything.

... rapidly developing fringes—but in it the imperative to place her work within the
fabric of western academic discourse is ... Ironically, it is Cairo that has probably
been better covered by serious treatment than any other nonwestern metropolis.

Understanding Third World Politics

Theories of Political Change and Development

Understanding Third World Politics gives a comprehensive and critical introduction to the main theories of political science used to understand political change in developing countries. It provides an overview of the variety of political institutions and processes in the third world, and critically evaluates the major explanatory frameworks used by political scientist to understand them. The discussion is supported throughout by carefully-chosen, contemporary examples from around the world. The book concludes by considering the political instability that so frequently plagues poor countries and by identifying the conditions required to establish democratic stability. This third edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout and offers a clear and theoretically rigorous introduction to the politics of the third world.

What has held back development is lack of know-how, enterprise, capital and pre
-capitalist social and political ... cause 'shifts in peripheral economic activity and
relations with the metropolis', as when metropolitan interests are 'displaced' from
 ...

Understanding Innovation in Emerging Economic Spaces

Global and Local Actors, Networks and Embeddedness

A small number of countries, regions, cities, and localities are powerful gatekeepers and generate the bulk of creative and innovative ideas, while the majority is largely excluded. This book looks at neglected, but emerging innovation centres analysed from various spatial and organizational perspectives; ranging from entire countries and regions to individual firms and small neighbourhoods. Bringing together leading scholars from various disciplines, it examines a variety of economic sectors including biotechnology, agrotourism, and the food retail industry. The authors employ various, often contradictory, concepts, ranging from local buzz and the global pipeline, through an analysis of collective learning processes to geographical embeddedness, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The purpose of the book is twofold: investigating changes occurring in the regions and cities under transformation and attempting to find common and unique mechanisms behind these changes. Consequently, the authors shed light on the scale and scope of the innovativeness of selected economic and social processes.

Rapid Growth beyond the Metropolis, edited by Ann R. Markusen, Y.S. Lee, and
S. DiGiovanna. London ... “Proactive fasttracking” diffusion of supermarkets in
developing countries: implications for market institutions and trade. Journal of ...

Understanding the Global Environment

... Stanley Lieberson. Metropolis and Region in Transition (New York: Sage ...
Ehrhardt-Martinez, Karen, 'Social Determinants of Deforestation in Developing
Countries: A Cross-National Study', Social Forces, 77(2), 1998: 567-86. Firey,
Walter ...