There is no question that the architect is marginalised. The privatisation of building, economies of development and bigger liabilities have meant that architects are appointed late, once strategies and scope are set, and exit early. As one...
Breaking stuff isn’t a new thing. In the UK we’ve had crockery and plate smashing at fairgrounds for hundreds of years. But this is different. This is a cascade of rage. I’m telling you people, this is a very strong weak signal and indicative of something quite nasty potentially. A...
However, the English term ‘left behind’ has another meaning, which is to occupy a lowly position in spatial and socio-economic hierarchies. In China, a devaluation of rurality in the nation’s ongoing process of urbanisation has long underpinned many rural individuals’ view that they are ...
Storey emphasises that popular culture emerges from the urbanisation of the industrial revolution, which identifies the term with the usual definitions of 'mass culture'. Studies of Shakespeare (by Weimann, Barber or Bristol, for example) locate much of the characteristic vitality of his drama in ...
The state played a key role in the development of industry and manufacturing. As John Zerzan notes, the "role of the State is tellingly reflected by the fact that the ‘armoury system’ now rivals the older ‘American system of manufactures’ term as the more accurate to describe the new ...
2) Apply corrections for urbanisation to data originating from urban areas. 3) Divide the globe into 5°x5° latitude/longitude boxes 4) Determine the temperature `anomalies' for each box based on available data. 5) Combine the trends from all the boxes to arrive at an overall `global mean...
Development Priorities for the Nile Basin Countries: What Difference can the Nile Basin Initiative Make? by Mahmoud El Zain Institute of Social Studies, The Hague WIC Nov 28, 2000 Abstract: This paper is part of a larger project I am currently conducting as my Ph.D. research on the 'Hydro...
Other research by Dr Robert Balling of the Univ. or Arizona on heat islands has found that the effect even pervades communities of only a few hundred people, let alone 50,000. To be truly `rural’ a site needs to be strictly `greenfields’, where there is no urbanisation whatsoever. ...
The story of the making of a Nordic legal culture and court culture appears, at first glance, to be a story of what should not have been. Culture is about commonalities arising from common experiences. However, the similarities between the Nordic countries’ political history are limited, with...
Keywords: urbanisation; ecosystem services; health benefits 1. Introduction Throughout history, humans have had an intimate relationship with nature, most obviously depending on it for subsistence and production. As modern society emerged, and the human population condensed into urban areas, ...