Monthly Archive for July, 2010

Series: Spaces and Flows

Published on July 30, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

We are accepting book proposals for our new imprint Spaces and Flows.

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

Submissions Open for the Spaces and Flows Journal

Published on July 30, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

spaces_frontWe are accepting submissions for Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies.

Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies addresses some of the most pressing and perturbing social, cultural, economic and environmental questions of our times, focusing on spaces and flows as crucibles and vectors of ongoing transformation.

The Journal discusses two central issues:
- What are the new and emerging spaces of production, consumption, and human living as communities, regions, and societies organize and re-organize in contemporary times?
- What are the new flows of people, goods, services, information, and ideas in current times? How are they being constructed and how are they functioning?

In addressing these questions, our discussions range between the local the global, the empirical and the theoretical, the utopian and the pragmatic, the disciplinary and the transdisciplinary, research and its application, and the practices of knowledge making and those of knowledge dissemination.

Refereeing of submitted papers will commence shortly so start the submission process early by submitting your proposal.

Paper submission guidelines and timelines are available online.

Flying Cars

Published on July 25, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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From Daniel Albert, n + 1

Here we are half a decade into the 21st century and still no flying cars. We know there are powerful interests to overcome—gravity, for one thing, and all those people making money on our baroque transport system. The Portland Cement Association, not to mention the Mob, rake it in pouring ribbons of concrete. The automakers who killed the electric car probably wouldn’t mind sparing a bullet for a car that flies, while Boeing, Airbus, and the airlines are unlikely to give up their investment in the self-propelled cargo units euphemistically known as passenger planes.

But history, technology, and the earth itself are on the side of the flying car. The highway systems of the world are up to a century old, as is the basic architecture of person driving car on rubber wheels over hard-surfaced road. The technology for driverless or robot cars, able to keep their distance from others and play nice on the roads, already exists, but the historical and regulatory baggage of the land car won’t let it happen.

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