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Journal articles on the topic "Buildings in fiction"
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Dexter, Arthur. "Intelligent Buildings: Fact or Fiction?" HVAC&R Research 2, no. 2 (April 1, 1996): 105–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10789669.1996.10391336.
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Beggs, C. B. "The Airborne Transmission of Infection in Hospital Buildings: Fact or Fiction?" Indoor and Built Environment 12, no. 1-2 (February 2003): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1420326x03012001002.
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Frame, Alex. "Fictions in the Thought of Sir John Salmond." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 30, no. 1 (June 1, 1999): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v30i1.6021.
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A Lecture delivered for the Stout Centre's "Eminent Victorians" Centennial Series in the Council Chamber, Hunter Building at Victoria University on 31 March 1999. The author pays tribute to the late Sir John Salmond by discussing the role of "fiction" in law and in the thought of Sir John. The author notes the nature of fiction as a formidable force, as it facilitates provisional escape from the tyranny of apparent fact and forget about the suspensory nature of fiction. There are three types of "fictions" in the legal world: legislative fictions, whereby the world is refashioned in accordance with the legislator's desires; constitutional fictions, which places fictional boundaries on government rule; and corporate fiction, which creates a fictional corporate personality for companies. The author concludes that it is purpose that keeps fiction honest, and that the relationship between fiction and purpose is just as important as that between hypothesis and fact.
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Darmawan, Moh Faridl, and Retno Dwi Maesya. "Analysis of Reading Interest with the Role of The Library at MAN 8 Jombang." SCHOOLAR: Social and Literature Study in Education 2, no. 1 (July 3, 2022): 54–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.32764/schoolar.v2i1.1961.
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This study aims to determine the library management of MAN 8 Jombang based on the National Library Standard. This research is a qualitative research which was conducted at the Library of MAN 8 Jombang. The technique of taking research subjects used snowball sampling with a case study approach. Data collection was carried out by means of unstructured interviews, with the head of the library, employees or staff, and users of the MAN 8 Jombang library, observing the state or condition of the MAN 8 Jombang library, and relevant documents.
The results of this study, among others, the Library of MAN 8 Jombang has library management, which includes buildings, collections of library materials, labor and services. Based on the National Library Standards, the area of the MAN 8 Jombang library building still cannot be said to be effective, because the building is inadequate, besides that some rooms are in the MAN 8 Jombang building less than 5m2. Judging from the aspect of the number of library materials, the comparison of collections of general works or fiction books is 20% and non-fiction books related to the curriculum by 77%. The library of MAN 8 Jombang has not fulfilled the management of the library in the aspect of the library building which is not designed according to the needs of visitors with disabilities. In addition, MAN 8 Jombang still divides the focus or especially the budget on classes used for teaching and learning activities.
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Stasiowski, Maciej. "No Figures in the Landscape: Post-Anthropocentric Typologies of Architectural Settings in Science-Fiction Films." Kwartalnik Filmowy, no. 110 (August 26, 2020): 24–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.36744/kf.357.
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In the ascending age of automation factories, storage facilities, and server farms, intelligent buildings are becoming less dependent on human maintenance. These new and updated architectural forms do not comply with traditional typologies. From the Vitruvian Man to Modulor, our bodies were the measure of most constructions. Yet automation renders new constructions incompatible with patterns of human habitation. This article focuses on the iconography of buildings designed to operate with little to none human interaction, providing an insight into how such settings influenced recent (last decade) science-fiction films like Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2017), Captive State (dir. Rupert Wyatt, 2019), I Am Mother (dir. Grant Sputore, 2019), or Transcendence (dir. Wally Pfister, 2014). In each of them, artificial intelligence is an intrinsic composite of the environment, terraforming a post-anthropocentric reality of data centres, automated warehouses and drosscapes.
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Glazzard, Andrew. "‘A great traffic was going on, as usual, in Whitehall’: Public Places and Secret Spaces in Sherlock Holmes’s London." Victoriographies 11, no. 3 (November 2021): 282–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2021.0434.
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Arthur Conan Doyle is rarely considered a master of spy fiction, but several Sherlock Holmes stories were highly influential in the development of this genre in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. This paper examines three of these stories – ‘The Naval Treaty’, ‘The Second Stain’, and ‘The Bruce-Partington Plans’ – and shows how they use the topography of London to explore themes of secrecy, concealment, and political power. Holmes investigates place and space in two ways: he discovers what happens behind the closed doors of government buildings like the Foreign Office in Whitehall and the Woolwich Arsenal, and he reads public spaces (like the London Underground and the streets of Westminster) to detect relationships not apparent to those lacking his criminological skills. These stories inspired contemporary and later authors of espionage fiction as they exemplify some of the purposes and pleasures of the genre – the romanticisation of bureaucracy and insights into secret history.
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Atkinson, Kenneth. "On Further Defining the First–Century CE Synagogue: Fact or Fiction? a Rejoinder to H. C. Kee." New Testament Studies 43, no. 4 (October 1997): 491–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688500023341.
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Recently in this journal H. C. Kee has exposed and refuted perceived anachronistic notions concerning the existence of the pre-70 CE synagogue.1According to Kee's thesis, the pre-70 CE synagogue was not a distinctive architectural edifice, but a voluntary gathering place for worship. Kee writes:The earliest distinct buildings date from the third century, and vary widely in style and interior arrangements. There is simply no evidence to speak of synagogues in Palestine as architecturally distinguishable edifices prior to 200 CE. Evidence of meeting places: ‘Yes’, both in private homes and in public buildings. Evidence of distinctive architectural features of a place of worship or for study of Torah: ‘No’.2As a result, Kee attempts to redate the Theodotus inscription, our major epigraphical source for the pre-70 CE Palestinian synagogue, to the ‘mid–second to late third century CE’.3This late dating is necessary in Kee's theory, since this inscription documents a succession of synagogue rulers, extending back to Theodotus’ grandfather, which would place the Palestinian synagogue and its institutions well into the first century BCE.
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AÇIKEL, Mikail, and Zuhal KAYNAKÇI ELİNÇ. "EXAMINATION OF STORAGE UNITS IN TERMS OF THE DESIGN OF SPACE AND FURNITURE IN TRADITIONAL TURKISH DWELLING." Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken / Journal of World of Turks 14, no. 2 (August 15, 2022): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/zfwt/140216.
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The role and importance of local architecture in the traditional texture are significant. Traditional dwelling as part of the local architecture; The influence of religion shapes the family structure of the people living in the region, culture, social relations, climate, and topography. The concept of storage, which defines a meaningful service action in traditional dwellings, has a regional approach inspired by both socio-cultural and natural environments in terms of space and reinforcement fiction. In this context, as the fruit of centuries of past experience, the storage areas in the space and reinforcement of traditional dwellings have unique qualities. These areas' protection, registration, and sustainability are essential for the cultural identity. In this direction, of the study, the storage areas in traditional Turkish dwellings; functional construction (Space-Action Relationship) and reinforcement properties (Fixed and Moving Reinforcements), and construction technique-material and ornamental properties of these units were examined. In the light of the examinations made, the traditional Turkish dwelling storage units, woodshed, haystack, storeroom-warehouse, pantry room, and attic used in functional fiction; fixed and moving units are determined to consist of fixed equipment such as load, cabinet systems, rack-sergen, fixed granary and moving equipment such as cubes, baskets, crates and moving grain warehouses. It is thought that the storage action, an essential part of daily life, will be a source for other research in examining the traditional Turkish dwelling buildings, determining their cultural qualities, transferring them to future generations, and creating an archive for the cultural inventory. Keywords: Traditional Turkish Dwelling, Interior Architecture, Venue and Equipment Fiction, Storage Units
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Bytkivska, Ya V. "DERIVATIONAL ADAPTATION OF ENGLISH LOAN WORDS INTO THE ADJECTIVE SUBSYSTEM OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE." PRECARPATHIAN BULLETIN OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Word, no. 3(55) (April 12, 2019): 131–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31471/2304-7402-2019-3(55)-131-138.
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The article tackles the issue of the behavior of English loan-words (adjectives) in the derivational system of the Ukrainian language. It particularly covers the issue of their adaptation to the word-building norms of the target language, collocations with domestic lexemes, as well as the influence of foreign elements upon the microstructures of the target language. The practical material consists of the anglicisms used in mass media, fiction, conversational speech and internet resources. The terms “direct anglicism” (English lexemes borrowed from the source language by means of transcription or/and transliteration) and “mediated anglicism” (borrowed English lexemes that on the ground of the target language obtained new word-buildings and form-building affixes) are introduced. According to the research that social orders as well as the popularity of some anglicisms accelerate their adaptation to the word-building peculiarities of the Ukrainian language. After the attachment of the derivative formants the mediated anglicisms widen their denotation range by means of new semes. The modification suffixes emphasize the subjective attitude of a speaker towards the nomination object. Transpositional and mutative suffixes cause the expansion of word-building nests. The widespread usage of anglicisms in everyday speech and slang caused their adjustment to phonetic games and linguistic experiments. On the other hand, the utilizations of suffixoids as well as word-building substantive structures show the influence of the source language on the target one.
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Simpson, Tim. "Scintillant Cities: Glass Architecture, Finance Capital, and the Fictions of Macau’s Enclave Urbanism." Theory, Culture & Society 30, no. 7-8 (October 10, 2013): 343–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276413504970.
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This article analyzes articulations among urban enclaves, finance capital, and glass architecture by exploring MGM’s corporate investments in the Las Vegas CityCenter development and the Chinese enclave of Macau. CityCenter is an unsuccessful $9 billion master-planned urban community financed by MGM and Dubai World. Macau is a former Portuguese colony and Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China which has, since its return to the PRC in 1999, replaced Las Vegas as the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming revenue. Taken together, CityCenter and Macau are illustrative of the political economy and cultural logics of financialization. Foreign investment from Las Vegas entrepreneurs has vitrified Macau, transforming it into a phantasmagoria of glass resorts. Macau in turn plays a crucial functional role in capitalism’s recomposition in East Asia, similar to the autochthonous role of the Italian city-states of Venice and Genoa in the historical origins of capitalism. In order to ‘read’ the cities of Las Vegas and Macau, I explore intertextual legibilities among fictitious capital that relies on glass fiber-optic technology to enable grand architectural projects; expressionist fictional representations of glass architecture and its utopian transformative potential; and glass buildings that themselves dissimulate in a manner not unlike fiction.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Buildings in fiction"
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Campbell, Ronald. "Intelligent buildings : fact or fiction?" Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336647.
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Duvall-Francisco, Bethany. "The Former Lives of Buildings." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5628.
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The Former Lives of Buildings is a novel about thirty-one-year-old architect Adelle Corey. Adelle is a woman in denial. A nightmare figure called the Baron steals memories of her closest relationships and most poignant experiences. He hides the memories in Adelle's dreams, where he reconstructs them into buildings. The only way she can recover the memories is by cutting or tattooing these buildings into her skin. Adelle uses notebooks, mnemonic devices, and academic trivia to keep track of her daily routines. The novel takes place in contemporary times and opens in the burn unit of Bridgeport Hospital, Connecticut, where Adelle has been recovering for two months. She does not remember her stay prior to the opening day of the story, but she retains her memories from this day forward. Adelle's parents, her husband, and the mysterious woman Celesse St. Armand, who has been given charge over her care, refuse to allow Adelle to see her six-year-old son, Ben, until she can recover the missing days. Adelle suspects that something has happened to Ben. She seeks the help of Sam, her tattoo artist, to recover memories. The search uncovers painful truths about Adelle's childhood and marriage, ultimately forcing her to face that the Baron is a device she created to protect herself, not an outside force acting upon her. Adelle goes from a lonely, untrusting existence to a willingness to form deep friendships. She gains the capacity to face the whole truth instead of selecting only the comfortable parts. She does not find her son in any of the buildings. However, confronting the experiences hidden there gives her the strength to accept that she has passed her memory problems on to her son, who has not been able to remember his family since the fire. Although their marriage does not survive, Adelle and De learn to work together as parents.M.F.A.
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Haines, Michael. "Building Bonfires." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1632.
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Johnson, Sharolyn Shae. "Castle Building: Contemporary Poetry and Flash Fiction from Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/611.
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Appalachian writing brings a voice to the region that is often obstructed or excluded by popular culture throughout the United States. Crowded with stereotypes, many stories of Appalachian culture are misconstrued or never heard at all. This makes the work of modern Appalachian writers especially significant. Perhaps one of the best ways to reach a broader audience of people in this fast-paced digital time is through shorter writings, and in this thesis I will be presenting my process of writing modern flash fiction and poetry and of sharing the truths of working class, Appalachian people.
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Charlton, Anne. "Blueprints and buildings : constructing the French fictional utopia 1761-1795." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284950.
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Frings, Laura [Verfasser]. "Detecting the Self and the Other : Violence and Nation Building in Postmodern Crime Fiction / Laura Frings." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220913308/34.
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Thomas, Reena. "KILLING THE `ANGEL IN THE HOUSE': THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN AND NATION BUILDING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH AND POSTCOLONIAL POLITICAL FICTION." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555838.
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This dissertation is concerned with the gendered discourse of nation and home where women carry the symbolic duty of holders of a pure, uncontaminated culture passively confined to the domestic space. I consider two commonplace tropes, the woman-as-nation metaphor and the Victorian angel in the house, both of which convey a limited view of women's agency and her significance in simultaneously resisting and ratifying patriarchal visions of nation and gender. The novels in this study document various phases of nation building under periods of colonialism and postcolonialism, and each features the plight of women affected by the realities of sham democracies and political instability. My analysis rests on the claim that postcolonial authors continue the inquiries into the ironic and futile foundations on which nation and identity is built which define modernist despair. I assert the value in understanding how women respond to disillusionment across cultures in an attempt to recover the experience of women and her political consciousness, granting a relevance to the role women play in textual deliberations on political skepticism and political idealism often reserved for male actors.
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Balch, Oliver. "Pulp fictions : the role of detachable corporate social responsibility in building legitimacy for Uruguay's largest ever foreign investment." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285428.
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This thesis examines how practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) serve to legitimise Uruguay's largest ever foreign investment, the US$2.5-billion pulp mill constructed by the Finnish-Chilean firm Montes del Plata. Unusually, this investment prompted little social conflict, which runs counter to the community tensions frequently associated with large-scale infrastructure investments in Latin America. To explore this, the thesis takes an agency-oriented approach to the study of corporate-community relations. It offers fresh insights for critical management scholars and anthropologists of corporations into the techniques of collusion and co-optation in large-scale foreign direct investment (FDI) projects. Based on participant observation with Montes del Plata's community relations managers and their community interlocutors, conducted over separate periods during and after the mill's construction, the thesis examines the legitimising impulse of corporate citizenship, both as concept and practice. I show how the company seeks to incorporate itself as a morally-infused entity through ongoing interactions between its representative agents and external actors. I argue that the form of CSR that emerges is neither moral nor responsible, but its command over social relations nonetheless makes it a potent force for corporate capitalism's expansion. The mill owner attempts to manage its social and political relations in such a way as to secure the proximity needed for legitimacy-building, while creating the requisite distance to reduce onerous moral obligations; a balance that I analyse using the concepts of detachment and depoliticisation. The thesis opens with a discussion of the politics of representation, demonstrating how the agents of Montes del Plata (the Corporation) shape the local political ecosystem through the recognition, or not, of its counterparties' claims to representativeness. Chapters 1 and 2 also explore the theory of personation, especially in the efforts by the Corporation's community managers to infuse the company with moral characteristics. Their struggles in doing so invite consideration of a pragmatic approach to legitimacy building through the calculated management of social relations. Chapters 3 and 4 further show how principles of detachment and depoliticisation frame the Corporation's approach to relationship management. Chapter 3 examines how participation and empowerment are utilised to depoliticise development goods and stage the Corporation's detachment from their delivery. Chapter 4 examines the detachment effects of the changes to the region's political economy sparked by the mill project, and how the mill owner depoliticises public expectations of job creation. The conclusion makes the case for a distinctive approach to FDI legitimation driven by detachment (and reattachment) and facilitated by depoliticisation, which I term 'detachable CSR'.
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Asif, Hazem. "The Mall: A world-building speculation on the future of privacy." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5403.
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This thesis is a science fiction exploration of a future dystopian world where privacy becomes a dominant currency that is distributed according to social class and ranking mechanisms. It utilizes speculative world-building to study the unanticipated implications of technology on personal privacy, surveillance and social inequality on future societies. The project introduces The Mall, as a highly efficient and hyper-connected world, but also exposes its downfall as a society with heightened cultural and socio-political disparities. Inspired by past civilizations, the development of the modern nation-state as well as contemporary society, the design adapts, appropriates and reformulates existing cultures into new hybrid possibilities. This thesis project is presented as an illustrated coded tapestry that allows the viewer to explore and interact with various components of the narrative to speculate and critique an alternative future-world void of privacy.
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Craig, Travis S. "The Reclaimer: Azabon's Hammer, Prologue - Chapter 8." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1510242979847811.
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Toast, Sarah. Guess what they're building. Lincolnwood, Ill: Publications International, 1994.
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Barry, Dawson, ed. Traditional buildings of India. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
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ill, Mongeau Marc, ed. A billion building blocks. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 1990.
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Bertetti, Paolo. "2. Building Science-Fiction Worlds." In World Building. Transmedia, Fans, Industries, edited by Marta Boni, 47–61. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9789048525317-003.
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Nokes, Jeffery D. "Seeing Others' Perspectives Through Historical Fiction." In Building Students' Historical Literacies, 195–215. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003183495-12.
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Baldanzi, Jessica. "Boxing Bodies and Building Stories." In Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction, 13–51. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003133513-2.
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Hatem, Mervat F. "From Fiction to Social Criticism." In Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, 113–50. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230118607_5.
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Schmidt, Douglas C., Maximilian Ott, Guru Parulkar, Rolf Stadler, and Andreas Vogel. "QoS for Distributed Object Computing Middleware — Fact or Fiction?" In Building QoS into Distributed Systems, 207–9. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35170-4_24.
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Greiner, Rasmus. "Fiction Film and History." In Cinematic Histospheres, 17–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70590-9_2.
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AbstractAs well as taking stock of the existing literature on film and history, this chapter aims to develop a terminological apparatus for describing the conceptual core of the historical film. The first section makes reference to a classic semiological model according to which a film’s production of meaning is determined by its specific arrangement of signs. It draws parallels to debates within historical studies that have enabled a reassessment of fiction film as a historiographical medium and mode of conceptualizing history. Building on these considerations, the second section posits a genre of popular fiction film defined by its referential relation to historical events, individuals, and lifeworlds. The third section argues that this is less a matter of incontrovertible factual accuracy than of generating a feeling of authenticity.
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Mosser, Caroline. "Building Hope Through Community in Élisabeth Vonarburg’s The Maerlande Chronicles." In Studies in Global Science Fiction, 169–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15685-5_10.
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Braun, Michele. "Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts’s Novels." In Studies in Global Science Fiction, 67–82. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15685-5_4.
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Lester, Paul B., Sharon McBride, and Rhonda L. Cornum. "Comprehensive soldier fitness: Underscoring the facts, dismantling the fiction." In Building psychological resilience in military personnel: Theory and practice., 193–220. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/14190-009.
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Mangham, Andrew. "‘Nest-Building Apes’: Female Follies and Bourgeois Culture in the Novels of Mrs Henry Wood." In Violent Women and Sensation Fiction, 126–68. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230286993_5.
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Szpakowska-Loranc, Ernestyna. "Function of time in narration of contemporary cities." In Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8056.
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Contemporary perception of time differs significantly from historical one. The contemporary time is speeding, divergent, meticulously quantified with abstract units, disconnected from perception of space. Differences between day and night, physical and digital, far and near are constantly, gradually vanishing.
With this new time perception, contemporary urban space has evolved. Cities extend, their centres melt; deallocation, speed and light images explode interior-exterior oppositions. The space aspires to the speed of light. Shizophrenic, kinetic reality, where signifiant leaves signifié is characterized by discrepancies: economic barriers, fences, and incessant opening into virtual reality.
Time is a factor joining events in narration and in architecture. Chronology of events is shattered in contemporary literature, introducing strategies of retrospection, anticipation and anachrony. The situation in contemporary architecture is similar. These strategies appear also in contemporary cities: retrospection in historic monuments, anticipation in avant-garde, “science-fiction” buildings and anachrony in non-places on the verge of physical and virtual reality. Lines of events in a plot of a city’s narration has changed. Certain duality of a contemporary city space appears: perception of sheer time in ruins, monuments, and a temporal flow of events-spaces.
Along with the speeding urban organism, an idea of slow city spaces has appeared. The idea of a city “tasted” with senses, replacing the terms of acceleration, progress and change with: slowness, reflection, variety, essence; effects of reflective attitude towards reality, traces of resistance against the inevitable loss of beauty in contemporaneity. A phenomenological approach as a response for the speeding city reality.
Thisarticle analyses affiliations between the contemporary perception of time, narrative strategies and city space.
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Hanna, Julian R., and Simone R. Ashby. "From Design Fiction to Future Models of Community Building and Civic Engagement." In NordiCHI '16: 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2993922.
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Lorne, Frank, Jamel Vanderburg, Aanchal Sharma, Jaan Malik, Rishabh Neb, Kitti Sandhu, Siva Sateesh Pitchuka, et al. "Establishing a Student-Community Book Club for Civic Engagement." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002266.
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This paper articulates the reasons and the implementation steps for the forming of a student-community book club that aims to build small communities motivated by Raghuram Rajan’s 2019 book: The Third Pillar: How Markets and the States Leave the Community Behind. We believe humans and societies survive based on rational dialogues. A book club of this type can provide escape valves for individuals holding strong unbendable beliefs on how society should function, which has dichotomized America since 2016. Themes generated from books (fictions or non-fictions) contain scientific or humanistic views can encourage community network building of the type that will broaden people's view, rather than focus on specific disagreements. Disintegration of various factors, according to Rajan, is the crisis that communities all over the world are facing. Building communities have always been some historical endeavors, resulting often from wars and land grabbings. The urgent needs to do so now are due to technological changes. Technologies are disrupting the lifestyles in the world that can amplify as well as compromise disagreements. A web-ground co-development is necessarily for bringing out the goods while managing the bad of technologies.
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Rodríguez González, Sylvia Cristina. "Megadesarrollos turísticos de sol y playa enclaves del imaginario." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7522.
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Los megadesarrollos turísticos de sol y playa han sido impulsados por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) como proyectos de estrategia de desarrollo turístico, en México nacen los Centros
Integralmente Planeados (CIP´s) para dar orden urbano, descentralizando grandes inversiones turísticas principalmente de origen extranjeros. Son identificados ante la promoción turística por la inversión de
insumos y tecnología. Los emplazamientos turísticos de sol y playa han crecido y destinan espacios para el hospedaje turístico temporal y permanente. Este tipo de emplazamientos destacan por ser
representaciones de exclusividad, privacidad y seguridad, manifestando enclavamiento en la serie de conjuntos turísticos construidos para integrar el megadesarrollo turístico, demarcando un acceso que indica el inicio del montaje realidad-ficción, conformando el montaje de ficción, que llevan a construir una realidad a partir del imaginario.
Lo sucedido fuera del montaje será considerado como realidad, al establecerse una serie de compaginaciones que fabricarán la nueva realidad, la realidad-ficción, entre representaciones de fantasía
visuales, de sonidos y sobretodo de ideas por transmitir, como es lo motivante que resultan para los turistas las guías turísticas. Las representaciones son basadas en imágenes de paisajes, personas, ciudades, entre otros emblemas simbólicos. Cada espacio por destacar será retomado para enfocar el montaje en dibujos, pinturas, danzas, arquitectura, entre otras dinámicas de conquista turística, igual sucede con la reproducción de sonidos relacionados con la exclusividad, privacidad y seguridad para el
turista al interior del conjunto. Toda construcción de la realidad se realiza en un espacio y un tiempo definido a partir del imaginario, ya que existe el objetivo de cautivar al visitante, dentro de una serie de
montajes continuos donde será eliminada la línea de corte entre montajes, convirtiendo la ficción en realidad para el turista, el montaje correcto y el escenario indicado, señalan el orden constante de los montajes.
Del trozo de imágenes fabricadas y rescatadas del ambiente natural o real, se conformara una relación argumental a través de la compaginación con la secuencia adecuada de cada una de las escenas plasmadas por el imaginario, unir y encauzar los montajes para el cumplimiento de la representación en un filme. De los ejemplos más destacados son las creaciones a partir del imaginario en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, representados en los hoteles como torre hilton baynunah, jumeirah Beach burj al-arab, hotel w, hotel apearon island y hotel eta, los cuales exponen servicios como compras de lujo, centros spa con instalaciones exclusivas para el deporte y el tiempo libre, habitaciones equipadas, climatizadas y con lo último de la tecnología. Se distinguen los colores y las formas por resaltar ante la cultura árabe, pero es importante señalar que cada uno de esos megadesarrollos turísticos marcará su filme con esta serie de montajes, que permitirán compaginar la serie de trozos de imágenes fabricadas ante la fantasía imaginada.
Los megadesarrollos turísticos se distinguen por crear escenarios turísticos a partir del imaginario,
destacando el enclavamiento a través de la búsqueda del concepto de seguridad, con un marcado interés
para conformar comunidades nuevas, asimismo elementos como los acceso se encuentran custodiados
por personal de seguridad que indicara la bienvenida al turista, sin conocer que será guiado y vigilado por
cámaras de video ocultas en la masa de la edificación, también se distinguen elementos de seguridad
para la movilidad y accesibilidad al conjunto, destacando vía aérea, naval ó terrestre, el recorrido al
interior marcándose bajo un escalonamiento de cota descendente a nivel de playa, mostrara cada uno de
los escenarios turísticos montados para indicar el recorrido al turista al interior del conjunto turístico. The sun and beach tourist megadevelopments have been stimulated by the Inter-American Bank of Development (BID) as projects of strategy of tourist development, in Mexico there are born the Integrally
planned Centers (CIP's) to give urban order, decentralizing big tourist investments principally of origin foreigners. They are identified before the tourist promotion by the investment of inputs and technology.
The emplacements have grown and destine spaces for the tourist temporary and permanent. This type stand out for being representations of exclusivity, privacy and safety, demonstrating interlock in the series
of tourist sets constructed to integrate the tourist megadevelopment, limiting an access that indicates the beginning of the montage reality - fiction, shaping the montage of fiction, that they lead to constructing a
reality from the imaginary one.
The happened out of the montage will be considered to be a reality, on there having be established a series of page lay-outs that will make the new reality, the reality - fiction, between visual representations of
fantasy, of sounds and overcoat of ideas for transmitting, since motivation is that the tourist guides prove for the tourists. The representations are based on images of landscapes, persons, cities and symbolic
emblems. Chaque espace pour se faire remarquer sera repris pour mettre au point le montage dans des dessins, des peintures, des danses, une architecture, entre d'autres dynamiques de conquête touristique, égale il succède avec la reproduction de sons relatifs à l'exclusivité, confidentialité et sécurité pour le touriste à l'intérieur de l'ensemble. Toute construction de la réalité est réalisée dans un espace et le temps
défini à partir de l'imaginaire, puisqu'il existe l'objectif de captiver le visiteur, à l'intérieur d'une série de montages continuels où la ligne de coupure sera éliminée entre des montages, en changeant la fiction en réalité pour le touriste, le montage correct et la scène indiquée, ils marquent l'ordre constant des montages.
Of the chunk of images made and rescued of the natural or real environment, a plot relation was conforming across the page lay-out to the suitable sequence of each one of the scenes formed by the imaginary one, to join and to channel the montages for the fulfillment of the representation in a movie. Of the most out-standing examples they are the creations from the imaginary one in the United Arab Emirates represented in the hotels as tower hilton baynunah, jumeirah Beach burj al-arab, hotel w, hotel apearon island y hotel eta, which expose services as purchases of luxury, centers spa with exclusive facilities for the sport and the free time, equipped rooms with the last technology.
The colors and the forms are distinguished for standing out before the Arabic culture, but it is important to indicate that each of these megadevelopments will mark with this series of montages, which will allow to
arrange the series of chunks of images made before the imagined fantasy. The megadevelopments differ for creating tourist scenes from the imaginary one, emphasizing the interlock across the search of the
safety concept, with a marked interest to shape new communities, likewise elements like them I access they are guarded by safety personnel that was indicating the welcome to the tourist, Without knowing that
it will be guided and monitored by secret video cameras in the mass of the building, also safety elements are distinguished for the mobility and accessibility to the set, emphasizing airway, navally ó terrestrial, the tour to the interior being marked under an stairs of descending level to beach level, there was showing each of the tourist scenes mounted to indicate the tour to the tourist to the interior of the set.
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Prior, Matthew A., Ian C. Stults, Matthew J. Daskilewicz, Scott J. Duncan, Brian J. German, and Dimitri N. Mavris. "A Design Methodology Enabling the Efficient High-Fidelity Design of Combined Cycle Power Plants." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90291.
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The demand for greater efficiency, lower emissions, and higher reliability in combined cycle power plants has driven industry to use higher-fidelity plant component models in conceptual design. Normally used later in preliminary component design, physics-based models can also be used in conceptual design as the building blocks of a plant-level modeling and simulation (M&S) environment. Although better designs can be discovered using such environments, the linking of multiple high-fidelity models can create intractably large design variable sets, long overall execution times, and model convergence limitations. As a result, an M&S environment comprising multiple linked high-fidelity models can be prohibitively large and/or slow to evaluate, discouraging design optimization and design space exploration. This paper describes a design space exploration methodology that addresses the aforementioned challenges. Specifically, the proposed methodology includes techniques for the reduction of total model run-time, reduction of design space dimensionality, effect visualization, and identification of Pareto-optimal power plant designs. An overview of the methodology’s main steps is given, leading to a description of the benefit and implementation of each step. Major steps in the process include design variable screening, efficient design space sampling, and surrogate modeling, all of which can be used as precursors to traditional optimization techniques. As an alternative to optimization, a Monte Carlo based method for design space exploration is explained conceptually. Selected steps from the methodology are applied to a fictional but representative example problem of combined cycle power plant design. The objective is to minimize cost of electricity (COE), subject to constraints on base load power and acquisition cost. This example problem is used to show relative run-time savings from using the methodology’s techniques compared to the alternative of performing optimization without them. The example additionally provides a context for explaining design space visualization techniques that are part of the methodology.
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Süyük Makakli, Elif, and Ebru Yücesan. "Spatial Experience Of Physical And Virtual Space." In SPACE International Conferences April 2021. SPACE Studies Publications, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51596/cbp2021.jrvm8060.
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Abstract Fictional spaces produced with multidisciplinary research using improving technologiescreate settings that provoke new questions and have diff erent answers. This comes about bybroadening the horizons in virtual space studies, space concept, design, and experience. Evaluatingvirtual space as a layer of reality represents architectural space that belongs to the physical world.The principal factors that form the physicality of a space, its shape and content, are related tocultural, public, societal, perceptual, and intellectual codes. The space concept can be explained asa physical concept. In the sense of human interaction with space, the feelings it elicits, perceptualfactors, both in the subjective and abstract dimensions, that can be described as feelings, and 3Dphysicality. Spaces designed and produced for human use can be perceived diff erently and meanother things to diff erent people through human–space interactions. Perceiving, interpreting, anddescribing a space is a complex process that can only occur by experiencing it.Although virtual reality emerged as a simulation of physical space, there are increasing attempts toform an emotional and physical connection to such spaces today. New technologies used to createnew spaces and descriptions such as virtual reality, virtual space, cyberspace, and hybrid space arearticulated as new layers within the spatial memory accumulated to date.Virtual reality technologies, which can be explained as an interface between humans and machinesand describe diff erent life systems, give one the feeling of being in another space. Although thesespaces are virtual, they can be related to the space concept as they can be experienced and give thefeeling of being somewhere. These settings, which present multi-dimensional spatial experiences bytaking humans into a digital reality, are created using computer support and are experienced usingvarious electronic tools. These settings in which human and machine, organic and non-organicentities meet are also crucial in design education as they improve creative processes related to thefuture, machine-human interaction, and the space concept and its formation.As virtuality beingevaluated as a layer of reality becomes a representation of architectural space that belongs to thephysical world, it also has the potential to approach space design in a new way.It has the potential to aff ect and improve the perception of creating space and deliver spatialsolutions, understand new living conditions, and discover the future by responding to technologicalimprovements.Virtual reality creates a personal space experience that diff racts space and time—improvingtechnologies set these spaces, which simulate reality, as a layer of fact, a refl ection or representation.The cyber and virtual experiences that have emerged in new media spaces have reduced space’sdependency on the physical world through the integration of improving technologies and art. ‘SALT Research’ within Salt Galata, a monumental building in Galata-İstanbul, and ‘Virtual Archive’, a media art project by Refik Anadol that questions the virtual-digital space concept, were chosen as experience spaces. It was emphasized that there are holistic composition differences between spaces due to the current physical space experience that composes the infrastructure of the study and virtual space. It is composed of different elements and is perceived just like real space. The dataset includes a detailed assessment of two different spaces with similar contexts and contains the physical and virtual space analysis through syntactic, semantic and pragmatic scales. Volunteer participants emphasized the differences in holistic composition between the two spaces. They noted that the virtual space differs from the physical space and is composed of different elements and that the user has the perception of belonging just like in a physical space.The physical space, SALT Research, was evaluated as satisfactory and high-quality in terms of aesthetics and equipment. Phrases used to describe it were neat, high spaces, comfort, spaciousness, light, dark areas, tranquillity, silence, acoustic balance, harmony, historical, gripping, transformation, aesthetic and functional, and plain. In contrast, participants saw the Virtual Archive is a new, exciting, different, and innovative experience. The bodily freedom of the virtual space experience was described as optimistic. Through a brief understanding of the space, they overcame the difficulties of physical existence that arose when accessing information in this new environment.Fictional space produced with a multidisciplinary study using improving technologies creates settings where new questions are asked, and different answers are made, broadening the horizons in virtual space studies, space concept, design, and experience. Virtuality being evaluated as a layer of reality represents architectural space that belongs to the physical world.Virtual reality technology changes and influences our time, dimension, and architectural perceptions, the modes of expression and interaction models in art and architecture by taking us into a different universe experienced spiritually and mentally in new space creations.The space experience through the journey of interpretation and understanding of space and architecture tells different things for each person on each occasion. Perceiving space through the physical space experience and active senses via intellectual feedback also affects virtual reality interactions.Different disciplines examine the machine, human, space, and future relations in an interdisciplinary environment. Different designs’ varieties and opportunities have a place in architecture and interior architecture. In the future, the integration of physical space, virtual space, and machine intelligence into space design and design education and the role and effect of the designer will continue to be discussed.Today, new representation environments present new evolutions that improve, evaluate, and interpret spatial ideas. Despite changing technologies, humans must exist somewhere, and existence is related to our sensory, emotional, and memorial creations. In this sense, the place of humans and designers will continue to be questioned in the new spaces created. Keywords: Patrik Schumacher, ethics, ethical paradigms in architecture, humanitarian architecture, architectural media platforms.
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Carrasco Gallegos, Brisa Violeta, and Glenda Yanes Ordiales. "Morfogénesis de una ciudad turística: los lenguajes arquitectónicos desde el imaginario internacional de lo mexicano." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7605.
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Las ciudades turísticas intentan recrear los imaginarios internacionales sobre culturas determinadas, adaptándose a las expectativas que se tengan sobre el sitio a visitar. Los imaginarios son la realidad social construida desde los ciudadanos. A través de ellos las personas aprehendemos y explicamos las percepciones que nos formamos sobre los otros, los eventos y relaciones, así como sobre las obras y objetos.
En las ciudades del turismo emergentes, la construcción de los equipamientos turísticos, tanto públicos, como privados, hace tabula rasa de la ciudad preexistente, dejando de lado las experiencias culturales
locales, para preparar un escenario óptimo, que haga atractivo el sitio al público extranjero. En ese sentido los referentes culturales de lo mexicano, plasmados en la arquitectura, retoman elementos de
distintas regiones y momentos históricos, acordes al imaginario internacional. Esos lenguajes arquitectónicos funcionan como referencia de autenticidad del espacio consumido, validando la experiencia turística.
El objetivo de este trabajo es dar luz sobre el origen de las formas arquitectónicas –la morfogénesis- de una ciudad turística emergente. Es decir, observaremos los lenguajes urbanos y arquitectónicos, y la
relación que los diseños exhibidos guardan hacia el imaginario internacional de la cultura mexicana. Para ello, utilizaremos como instrumentos los recorridos que los turistas hacen para acceder a los desarrollos
turísticos, las imágenes expuestas en lugares específicos, así como el análisis del relato emitido por el turista en relación a la experiencia vivida. Nuestros medios de acceso serán las imágenes reales
(tomadas in situ por las autoras) y aquellas recogidas de los sitios web de las cadenas hoteleras y de las bitácoras personales (blogs) de turistas disponibles en Internet. Con estos instrumentos pretendemos
asociar los lenguajes plásticos del sitio con aquellos provenientes de imaginarios internacionales sobre la cultura mexicana, más allá de los de la realidad del sitio analizado. Retomamos a manera de ejemplo dos
puntos de vista: el del promotor inmobiliario y del turista. El caso de estudio es Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, ciudad que ha sufrido una fuerte conversión a las
actividades turísticas en los últimos diez años y cuyo auge inmobiliario, representa un caso emblemático del turismo en el noroeste mexicano.
Adelantándonos a manera de breve conclusión, podemos señalar que las imágenes montadas en el armado y diseño del puerto anterior cumplen la paradójica función asentarse en la memoria del viajero (crear una ciudad memorable y singular), a la vez que autentifican la experiencia turística, es decir, son imágenes congruentes con el imaginario que el turista se ha formado aún antes de iniciar su recorrido, ya sea a través de los relatos de otros viajeros o del discurso del promotor inmobiliario. Ambos disponibles con la facilidad de un clic.
Por otro lado, los referentes buscados por los promotores turísticos, están ligados, mediante la arquitectura y el urbanismo a la antigua arquitectura mexicana, de las culturas prehispánicas, las haciendas rurales y la arquitectura colonial, que poco o nada tienen que, ver con las actualidad de las ciudades mexicanas y mucho menos con el entorno regional de Puerto Peñasco. Sin embargo, ese tratamiento permite la creación de un ambiente "ideal" para el acercamiento a la cultura mexicana que los turistas esperan.
Al contrastar los puntos de vista de un viajero y de un promotor inmobiliario de esta localidad portuaria, daremos cuenta de la ciudad deseada y de la ciudad ficción, acercándonos de esta manera a la "ciudad
real", que bien pareciera la copia de las dos anteriores. The tourist cities intend to recreate the international imaginaries about certain cultures, adapting to the given expectations of the visiting place. The imaginaries are the social reality built by the citizens. Through them, people seize and explain their perceptions on others, on events and relationships, and as well as on
objects.
In the emerging cities of tourism, the building up of equipment, public as well as private, ignores the preexisting city. Cultural local experiences are left aside to prepare an optimal scenario that would make
the place attractive for the foreign visitors. In this sense, the cultural references for “the Mexican” are
captured trough architecture. They take elements from different regions and different historical momentums, according to the international imaginary. These architectural languages works as an
authenticity reference for space, validating the tourist experience.
The objective of this paper is to throw light on the origin of architectural forms –the morphogenesis- in an emerging tourist city. We will look at the urban and architectural languages, as well as the connexion that the exhibit designs keep towards the Mexican culture international imaginary. In order to do so, we will take advantage of the itineraries the tourists follow to get to the tourist developments, of the images exposed in specific places, and of the tourists account of their experiences. Our means of access will be
the real images (taken by the author of this paper) and those collected in web sites of hotel chains and personal tourist journals (blogs). With these instruments we intend to associate the place plastic languages with those derived from international imaginaries on the Mexican culture. As an example we
take into account to points of view: the real estate promoter’s and the tourist’s.
The case of study is Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, a city that has suffered a tough switch to the tourist activities within the last ten years, and of which its real-estate growth represents an emblematic case in the
Mexican northwest.
Bringing forward a brief conclusion, it can be pointed out that the array of images and the port design achieve the paradoxical function settle themselves on the traveller’s memory (creating a memorable and
singular city), and at the same time they authenticate the tourist experience. In other words, these images are consistent with the imaginary that the tourists have formed even before they began their tour. This recreation of the images is accessible through the stories of other travellers or trough the speech of realestate promoters (realties), both of which available with a single “clic”.On other side, the references seek by the tourist realties are attached to the antique Mexican architecture: the pre-Hispanic cultures, the haciendas and the colonial period, that have very few or nothing to do with the regional environment of Puerto Peñasco. However, that array allows the creation of an "ideal"
environment, expected by the tourist to approach to the Mexican culture.
Finally, contrasting the point of view of a traveller and a real-estate promoter, we will expose the desired city and the fictional city. In this way, we will approach to the "real city", which now seems the copy of the other two.
Reports on the topic "Buildings in fiction"
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Pollock, Wilson. Pivot the Future Makers: Building our People and Places. Edited by Musheer O. Kamau, Sasha Baxter, and Golda Kezia Lee Bruce. Inter-American Development Bank, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003188.
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Pivot is a movement of radical ideas for the Caribbean of the future. In 2020, the IDB and its partners (Caribbean Climate Smart-Accelerator (CCSA), Destination Experience (DE), and Singularity University) launched The Pivot Movement and asked the people of the Caribbean to think of big ideas to transform the region. A small group came together at The Pivot Event to design 9 moonshots for electric vehicles, digital transformation and tourism. Pivot: The Future Makers is a comic book produced by the Pivot partners and illustrated by Caribbean artists. In it, the 9 moonshots have been developed into fictional stories as a simple and powerful means of conveying possible, probable futures, to help us visualize the Caribbean in 2040.