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Background: Non‐invasive body contouring has experienced recent growth. To meet demand, medical spas and non‐physician operators have grown. Insights into their practice can provide information on their impact. Objective: Our study investigated the current market distribution of body contouring providers in the aesthetic field. Materials and Methods: For the 30 most populous cities, data were collected for non‐invasive body contouring providers in medical spas and physician practices. Descriptive ratios were calculated, and various local factors were examined. Results: The cities with the greatest number of body contouring providers were New York (138), Los Angeles (106), and Houston (87). Population size had a significant relationship, while median household income did not. For number of body contouring providers per 100 000 persons, the top cities were Austin (4.87), Houston (3.74), and Las Vegas (3.41). The mean ratio of providers in medical spas to physician practices was 1.81. In total, 70.0% of cities had equal or more body contouring providers in medical spas than physician practices. Conclusion: Certain cities have experienced an unequal distribution of body contouring providers, and many cities are skewed in favor of medical spas over physician‐based practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the aspirations of young people in the Polish city of Kraków who wish to 'be their own bosses' – to become entrepreneurs. The article makes a rejoinder to portrayals of 'the fine salesperson' as a man or woman who 'can sell anything'. The forms of personhood and aesthetics favoured in Krakowian renderings of selling instead place emphasis on a good entrepreneur not as one who persuades, but as one who provides. Comprehension of these areas explains why the salient 'moment of sale' is when an aspirant businessperson comes up with their 'good idea' for a product. Drawing from the observation that the indiscriminate promotion of goods is widely disdained in Kraków, I argue that the topic of selling opens up discussions about the local constitution of difference and the ways in which successful entrepreneurs are able to match products to demographics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past few years private corporations have taken the responsibility to respect human rights as a salient dimension of their commitment to act responsibly. Their actions on that front, though, may occasionally come across as implausible, ill-intentioned or plainly inauthentic, even when they are well-meant, thereby triggering a reaction of repugnance on the part of their audiences. Such reaction appears to be shaped by a repertoire of civil purification dramas that unfold within many different institutional arenas, from cinema and fictional literature to media accounts and even to scientific and policy debates among experts. I will suggest that such dramas may offer a useful entry point to account for the aesthetic order that shapes our expectations about the relation between business and society. Furthermore, their analysis can generate a series of new questions that justify a new research agenda on the aesthetics of responsible business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sustainability discourse has largely played out in the domains of natural sciences and technology, with recent contributions from the social and political sciences. These contributions have been significant and our understanding of sustainability challenges has improved greatly over the past three decades. However, our individual, organisational and collective actions have lagged behind and the actual problems of sustainability have become worse in the same period. In this paper we argue that we can get better action and behavioural commitments to sustainability by using the arts, art-based methods, and aesthetics to develop passion and emotional connection for sustainable organising and living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts on planning which include "Labor Unions and Affordable Housing: An Uneasy Relationship," "Smoke and Mirrors: Willy Clarkson and the Role of Disguises in Inter-War England," and "Urbanization and Spatial Organization: Hospital and Orphanage Location in Chicago, 1848-1916."

The article presents abstracts of planning. They include "The Fall and Rise of the Local Community: A Comparative and Historical Perspective," by Hellmut Wollman, "The Compact Versus the Dispersed City: History of Planning Ideas on Sofia's Urban Form," by Sonia Hirt, and "A Paradigm for Practice," by Ronald D. Brunner.