Timing the Future Metropolis**—an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science—explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city.** Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT.Through its sprawling programs of "organized research,"...

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural systems including transportation, energy, and water to bridge often-siloed technical, polit...

Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literat...

Efter romansuiten ULVESKINDS TRILOGIEN er Ekman her tilbage med en roman, der skriver videre på og går i dristig dialog med de evigt aktuelle spørgsmål i den svenske klassiker Hjalmar Söderbergs DOKTOR GLAS (1905).I Hjalmar Söderbergs skandaleombruste roman, der siden er blevet en af moderne svensk litteraturs klassikere, begås et medlidenhedsdrab. En velanset Stockholmerlæge slår en ældre tyrannisk præst ihjel for at udfri hans unge hustru for ægtemandens seksuelle tilnærmelser og ...

With the widespread transformation of information into digital form throughout society – firms and organisations are embracing this development to adopt multiple types of IT to increase internal efficiency and to achieve external visibility and effectiveness – we have now reached a position where there is data in abundance and the challenge is to manage and make use of it fully. This book addresses this new managerial situation, the post-digitalisation era, and offers novel perspectives on...

Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades. Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists, IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts. Most modern organizations have adopted different forms of IT, and become dependent on their computer-based information systems and their peripherals for everyday operations. Information technology offers opportunities to increase efficiency, custome...