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Hulse, Clark. "Ovid’s urban metamorphosis." Sederi, no. 29 (2019): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.34136/sederi.2019.4.
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In Book XV of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pythagoras meditates on the rise and fall of cities and foresees that the survival of Rome requires turning from war to the “arts of peace.” Once ancient Rome has fallen, its urban imagery hybridizes with a Biblical counter-imagery in which God wills the ruination of Rome and other centers of wickedness. Through this Ovidian/Pythagorean lens, this essay then examines how Spenser confronts the fall and rise and possible fall again of early modern London, with glances also at Shakespeare and Dryden. This Ovidian model creates challenges of identity, belief, and ethical obligation that result in an “outward turn” of the theme of metamorphosis toward its social boundary.
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Mehmood, Sadaf. "Seesaw of Spatial Metamorphosis in Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower." NUML journal of critical inquiry 18, no. II (August 3, 2021): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/numljci.v18iii.131.
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Urban space is inherently uneven. Economic pursuits and commercial integrity translate urban space into categorization of haves and have-nots.Neo-Marxists theorize spatial disequilibrium through the dynamics of capital accumulation.Analysis of Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga helps to explorecity space as a commodified place that serves the interests of capital accumulation by converting it as a space of differences, struggles and negotiations. While examining spatial alienation, I probe the making of urban other who experiences, evictions, and displacements followed by the development projects of capital accumulation in the theoretical frame of David Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession. The urban space expands and grows not for the urban other but for the elitist consumption. This directs the argument to inspect the creation of a critical spatial consciousness to assert the urban other’s right to the city. By retaliating to their evictions and dispossessions they devise strategies for remaking their space through their lived daily experiences. This has been supported by the theoretical lens of Henri Lefebvre’s “The right to the city”. The selected fiction defines uneven city space whereby the spatial metamorphosis dispossesses and displaces the urban other andraises critical spatial consciousness to obstruct subsequent displacements.
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Ferwati, M. Salim, Maryam AlSuwaidi, Arezou Shafaghat, and Ali Keyvanfar. "Employing biomimicry in urban metamorphosis seeking for sustainability: case studies." ACE: Architecture, City and Environment 14, no. 40 (June 2019): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ace.14.40.6460.
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Munier-Gaillard, Cristophe. "Dreams Under Construction: A Poetic Report on Yangon’s Urban Metamorphosis." Journal of Burma Studies 22, no. 2 (2018): 321–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jbs.2018.0015.
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Verenini, Andrea. "Living on the Edge: Portsmouth’s Urban Metamorphosis through the Effect of Edges." Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies 1, no. 2 (2011): 145–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2154-8676/cgp/v01i02/53791.
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Clerc, Valrie, and Armand Hurault. "Property Investments and Prestige Projects in Damascus: Urban and Town Planning Metamorphosis." Built Environment 36, no. 2 (July 4, 2010): 162–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.36.2.162.
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Rios-López, Neftalí. "Effects of increased salinity on tadpoles of two anurans from a Caribbean coastal wetland in relation to their natural abundance." Amphibia-Reptilia 29, no. 1 (2008): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853808783431451.
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Abstract Many amphibians depend on wetland ecosystems for reproduction and survival, and coastal wetlands are not the exception. Recent advances on climate change research predict a reduction in land cover of coastal wetlands due to sea-level rise in response to global warming. Although this scenario will contribute to further amphibian population declines worldwide the impacts of sea-level rise and its related salt water intrusion on anuran assemblages in coastal wetlands remain largely unknown. I documented patterns of abundance of the native Caribbean white-lipped frog (Leptodactylus albilabris) and the introduced marine toad (Bufo marinus) along an inland-to-coastal salinity gradient in Puerto Rico. In addition, I investigated the effects of increasing salinity on larval growth and survival to metamorphosis in L. albilabris and B. marinus in laboratory experiments. In the field, relative abundance of adults of L. albilabris decreased with increasing salinity, while B. marinus showed the opposite pattern. Laboratory experiments with L. albilabris and B. marinus revealed that percentage of larvae surviving to metamorphosis in both species was greatly reduced in 22-25% seawater (8 ppt), which is within salinity levels found in their natural distribution. In this salinity level, the native L. albilabris showed ∼100% metamorphosis failure while the introduced B. marinus showed ∼60% metamorphosis failure. The reduction in metamorphosis was due to high mortality in L. albilabris and was accompanied with morphological abnormalities in B. marinus. Tadpoles of only L. albilabris reared for four weeks showed significant weight loss at 8 ppt, but showed no difference in length. These results suggest that anuran tadpoles may be living near their physiological limit for salinity in the studied wetland. Conservation implications are profound, however, as salt water intrusion and urban encroaching inland may result in anuran population replacement, from native species to introduced species in this wetland.
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Prus, Robert. "Human Memory, Social Process, and the Pragmatist Metamorphosis." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36, no. 4 (August 2007): 378–437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241606299029.
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Sides, Josh. "Straight into Compton: American Dreams, Urban Nightmares, and the Metamorphosis of a Black Suburb." American Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2004): 583–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0044.
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Giosan, Liviu, William D. Orsi, Marco Coolen, Cornelia Wuchter, Ann G. Dunlea, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Samuel E. Munoz, et al. "Neoglacial climate anomalies and the Harappan metamorphosis." Climate of the Past 14, no. 11 (November 13, 2018): 1669–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1669-2018.
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Abstract. Climate exerted constraints on the growth and decline of past human societies but our knowledge of temporal and spatial climatic patterns is often too restricted to address causal connections. At a global scale, the inter-hemispheric thermal balance provides an emergent framework for understanding regional Holocene climate variability. As the thermal balance adjusted to gradual changes in the seasonality of insolation, the Intertropical Convergence Zone migrated southward accompanied by a weakening of the Indian summer monsoon. Superimposed on this trend, anomalies such as the Little Ice Age point to asymmetric changes in the extratropics of either hemisphere. Here we present a reconstruction of the Indian winter monsoon in the Arabian Sea for the last 6000 years based on paleobiological records in sediments from the continental margin of Pakistan at two levels of ecological complexity: sedimentary ancient DNA reflecting water column environmental states and planktonic foraminifers sensitive to winter conditions. We show that strong winter monsoons between ca. 4500 and 3000 years ago occurred during a period characterized by a series of weak interhemispheric temperature contrast intervals, which we identify as the early neoglacial anomalies (ENA). The strong winter monsoons during ENA were accompanied by changes in wind and precipitation patterns that are particularly evident across the eastern Northern Hemisphere and tropics. This coordinated climate reorganization may have helped trigger the metamorphosis of the urban Harappan civilization into a rural society through a push–pull migration from summer flood-deficient river valleys to the Himalayan piedmont plains with augmented winter rains. The decline in the winter monsoon between 3300 and 3000 years ago at the end of ENA could have played a role in the demise of the rural late Harappans during that time as the first Iron Age culture established itself on the Ghaggar-Hakra interfluve. Finally, we speculate that time-transgressive land cover changes due to aridification of the tropics may have led to a generalized instability of the global climate during ENA at the transition from the warmer Holocene thermal maximum to the cooler Neoglacial.
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Biehl, João. "PATIENT-CITIZEN-CONSUMERS: JUDICIALIZATION OF HEALTH AND METAMORPHOSIS OF BIOPOLITICS." Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, no. 98 (August 2016): 77–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-6445077-105/98.
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Abstract Situated at the meeting points of Law and Medicine, the "judicialization of the right to health" is a contested and hotly debated phenomenon in Brazil. While government officials and some scholars argue that it is driven by urban elites and private interests, and used primarily to access high-cost drugs, empirical evidence refute narratives depicting judicialization as a harbinger of inequity and an antagonist of the public health system. This article's quantitative and ethnographic analysis suggests, instead, that low- -income people are working through the available legal mechanisms to claim access to medical technologies and care, turning the Judiciary into a critical site of biopolitics from below. These patient-citizen-consumers are no longer waiting for medical technologies to trickle down, and judicialization has become a key instrument to hold the State accountable for workable infrastructures.
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Miszewska, Barbara, and Robert Szmytkie. "Morphological Processes in the Spatial Structure of the Southern District of Wrocław City." Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 27, no. 27 (March 1, 2015): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bog-2015-0009.
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Abstract The paper analyses the morphological changes in the spatial structure of the southern district of Wrocław city (Lower Silesia, Poland). The district developed from the former villages of vegetable-growers, which in the Middle Ages bordered directly with the city as set out in the charter. In the second half of the 19th century, the villages were incorporated into the city, and after a while, they started their metamorphosis. Rectangular urban blocks were formed on the basis of medieval axes in the villages. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the blocks were successively filled with typical tenement buildings. As a result of World War II, existing buildings were totally destroyed. In the 1960s, they started re-construction of the district, which led to its second metamorphosis. The new constructions resembled typical, socialist apartment projects in other Polish cities. The prestige the district enjoyed before World War II was lost together with its style and character.
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Barrett, K., C. Guyer, and D. Watson. "Water from Urban Streams Slows Growth and Speeds Metamorphosis in Fowler's Toad (Bufo fowleri) Larvae." Journal of Herpetology 44, no. 2 (June 2010): 297–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1670/08-315.1.
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Dickman, Christopher, and Michelle Christy. "Effects of salinity on tadpoles of the green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea)." Amphibia-Reptilia 23, no. 1 (2002): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853802320877582.
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AbstractWe investigated the effects of various salinities on larval growth, metamorphosis and survival in the green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea). This large hylid was formerly common on the east coast of Australia, but now occurs in only a few scattered localities where rising salt is one of a number of potential threats. Tadpoles tolerated salinity up to 4% seawater (sw; 1.58‰) without apparent effect, but salinity of 5.5% sw (1.87‰) and above significantly decreased growth rates and increased mortality. Salinity of 10% sw (4.41‰) caused mortality of all individuals within 72 days, 20% sw within four days, and 25% sw within five hours. Salinities from 10-15% sw (4.41-6.73‰) were tolerated for short periods (up to 3 weeks) before significant weight loss and mortality resulted, indicating a detrimental cumulative effect with high salinity. Metamorphosis occurred frequently below 5.5% sw but did not occur above 5.5% sw. Although L. aurea tadpoles can tolerate moderate salinities, increased salinisation caused by substantial land clearing, urban run-off and accumulation of salt in some waterbodies may contribute to the reduction of populations.
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Tan, Edna, and Angela Calabrese Barton. "From peripheral to central, the story of Melanie's metamorphosis in an urban middle school science class." Science Education 92, no. 4 (July 2008): 567–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sce.20253.
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Rigotti, Ana María. "LE CORBUSIER'S PLAN FOR BUENOS AIRES. USEFUL EXPLANATIONS ON THE BIRTH OF THE CITIES." Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 40, no. 2 (June 16, 2016): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2016.1189366.
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Intuited during Le Corbusier’s trip to Sudamerica in 1929 and developed in 1937, the plan for Buenos Aires contradicts general assumptions about his early urban theories. It is not a generic proposal that breaks with the inertia of geographical, histori- cal and formal precedents. On the contrary, it follows Marcel Poëte theory of the cities as organic souls whose destiny is registered in their birth. The Plan is founded on an interpretation of the geographic settings and proposes a metamorphosis of the city on their own footprints, such as they were sketched on a map of 1713. This radical change in Le Corbusier’s formal and theoretical presumptions is due to the intuition of buildings with engineering scale in contrast with the magnitude of the American landscape. Also to the material provided by a previous urban project for Buenos Aires by the Comisión de Estética Edilicia (1925) with a clear agenda for the urban future and a historical interpretation of its historical development filled with old maps and photographs: this publication acted as a hidden dossier and inspired Le Corbusier’s proposal.
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Huque, Sana, Sarmistha Pattanaik, and D. Parthasarathy. "Cityscape Transformation and the Temporal Metamorphosis of East Kolkata Wetlands: A Political Ecology Perspective." Sociological Bulletin 69, no. 1 (January 30, 2020): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022919899020.
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Cities are changing globally because neoliberalism demands so. But the impacts of these changes do not remain confined within urban limits only. Kolkata similarly is attempting to change itself in leaps and bounds because it has to keep up with the demands of neoliberalism. However, along with the city, the wetlands in the eastern vicinity of Kolkata are also undergoing a major transformation. This article attempts to look at these transformations that have been the result of changing times. The focus is upon tracing the details of how the city and the wetlands have changed over the years of its existence and examine those changes through the lens of political ecology perspective.
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Lambert, Max R. "Clover root exudate produces male-biased sex ratios and accelerates male metamorphic timing in wood frogs." Royal Society Open Science 2, no. 12 (December 2015): 150433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150433.
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In amphibians, abnormal metamorph sex ratios and sexual development have almost exclusively been considered in response to synthetic compounds like pesticides or pharmaceuticals. However, endocrine-active plant chemicals (i.e. phytoestrogens) are commonly found in agricultural and urban waterways hosting frog populations with deviant sexual development. Yet the effects of these compounds on amphibian development remain predominantly unexplored. Legumes, like clover, are common in agricultural fields and urban yards and exude phytoestrogen mixtures from their roots. These root exudates serve important ecological functions and may also be a source of phytoestrogens in waterways. I show that clover root exudate produces male-biased sex ratios and accelerates male metamorphosis relative to females in low and intermediate doses of root exudate. My results indicate that root exudates are a potential source of contaminants impacting vertebrate development and that humans may be cultivating sexual abnormalities in wildlife by actively managing certain plant species.
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Mubi Brighenti, Andrea, and Mattias Kärrholm. "Morphogenesis and animistic moments: On social formation and territorial production." Social Science Information 57, no. 2 (March 19, 2018): 249–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018418763560.
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This article explores the issue of morphogenesis and metamorphosis in socio-spatial formations. The specific key is what we propose to call the ‘animistic moment’ in form-taking processes. We believe that a conceptualisation of animistic moments might help us to focus better not simply on the coming about of new forms, but also on the power forms are endowed with. The general social-theoretical horizon for the essay is an approach to social collectives as forms of territorialisation and territorial stabilisation. We suggest that an inquiry into the genesis and the transformation of forms through animistic moments might also be employed in the study of an array of processes of social territorialisation. In this article, we look in particular at two examples of the materialisation and animation of social-territorial boundaries: the first relates to the architectural construction of brick arches and walls, while the second relates to urban warfare and the demolition of urban walls.
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Chida, Nassime. "Guido da Montefeltro and the Tyrants of Romagna in Inferno 27." Romanic Review 112, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 97–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00358118-8901827.
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Abstract This article uses historical scholarship on Guido da Montefeltro and medieval Romagna (Franceschini and Vasina) alongside Ovid’s Metamorphosis and the Serventese del 1277 to contextualize the question asked by the soul of Guido (about peace or war in Romagna) and the catalog of tyrants provided by the pilgrim in Inferno 27. It examines how Dante held Guido accountable for the intensification of warfare in Romagna and made an argument for the responsibility of military strategists in the consolidation of urban signorie. Dante’s assessment coincides with current historiography and shows his concerns about the formation of regional states. A recontextualization of Guido’s question reveals the targeted nature of the pilgrim’s response, in which the pilgrim presents Guido with the triumph of his enemies.
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Lanzani, Arturo. "Un'esperienza inaspettata. Indizi della ‘ndrangheta in Lombardia." TERRITORIO, no. 63 (December 2012): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2012-063011.
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Today the mafia are building a new landscape in the North, which is to say they are formulating spatial rules in which land is no longer a public asset. It is generating a new economy - it is fuelling new property processes through new urbanisation, sub-contracts and earth movement - by supporting ‘plans' in which increasingly more areas are being classified as for building. The reconstruction of this metamorphosis by looking at signs and traces, experiences and news stories is the premise for a new assumption of responsibility.
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Sales, Isaia. "Criminalitŕ urbana e periferie criminogene: il caso di Napoli." TERRITORIO, no. 49 (July 2009): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2009-049018.
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- Some aspects of local culture and practices, including planning practices, connected with the camorra (mafia of the Campania region) emerge in the origin and development of the outer districts of Naples and in its social question. Naples does not have ‘one' outer district, as in the standard European urban model, but has a new post earthquake outer ring next to the city centre, historically an occasion for the reproduction and metamorphosis of the camorra. It is not by chance that one characteristic of Neapolitan culture in the past was social promiscuity, which while it lies at the origin of the camorra's control, is also a factor in the growth of the poorest groups in society. This belief is reflected in proposals to redefine the city centre of Naples as a university campus and the student population as a means of social mixing and economic revitalisation of the city centre.
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Veivo, Harri. "The city as a mediating device and as a symbol in Finnish poetry of the 1960s." Sign Systems Studies 40, no. 3/4 (December 1, 2012): 514–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2012.3-4.13.
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In Finnish poetry of the 1960s, the city, and above all the capital Helsinki, is the scene where the metamorphosis of Finland from an agrarian into an urban society is staged, analysed and commented. It is also a symbol that serves to situate the country in the global context, with all the contradictions that were characteristic of the position of Finland in the cold war system. Writing about the city was a means to reflect on the transformations of social and political reality and of the physical environment, a means to represent the confusion these transformations produced or to work towards understanding them. The article analyses the city in texts belonging to the "new poetry" of the 1960s, as well as in texts representing the modernist poetics of the 1950s, arguing that the very co-existence of two contrasting poetic discourses was crucial for the semiotic development of Finnish culture in the period of time in question.
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Kissfazekas, Kornelia. "METAMORPHOSIS OF PUBLIC SPACES IN HUNGARY OR THE QUESTION OF CONTEXT WITHIN THE PUBLIC SPACES OF THE COMMUNIST AND POST-COMMUNIST PERIOD." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 37, no. 3 (October 1, 2013): 182–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2013.832391.
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The design of successful public spaces is not merely a simple stylistic problem, but also a reflection on the social circumstances of a certain era, an architectural answer to the demands of society (Shields 1986). By following the continuous change in public spaces, we can observe a particular slice of history. This study is an investigation of the changing roles of two very different types of public spaces common in Hungary: the new urban squares of the '50s and the centres built in the '70s for public institutions. The study accomplishes this primarily by analysing them within their different contexts. The conclusion of this study is that public squares built in the communist period can meet contemporary space use demands in different ways. However these square types’ problems have great differences in scale and nature, during their renewals the deep knowledge of their history is essential. This is the precondition to creation public spaces that are intimately linked to the venue (and its spirit and history), even if we use fashinable designing tools.
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Sehgal, P. C., and Teki Surayya. "Innovative Strategic Management: The Case of Mumbai Suburban Railway System." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 36, no. 1 (January 2011): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090920110105.
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Business organizations today have to survive and grow in a turbulent and volatile business environment. Continuous metamorphosis in technology, competition, inconsistent government policies, group dynamics of employees and militant unions, rational customers and their forums have been constantly reminding them to be more vigilant. Generation and rendering of services is often more vulnerable as services are perishable and dynamic. The strategic management of any service sector must be innovative and sustainable. Efficient urban transport systems are critical elements of the sustainable development of urban areas. This paper presents the innovative strategic management system of Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) in addressing the Mumbai suburban public transport problems. An incredible 88 per cent of all travel in Mumbai is by bus and rail; this illustrates the popularity and necessity of having an effective and efficient public transport system, particularly the railways. The paper outlines a case study of US $2.5 billion expansion and improvement of the Suburban Railway Network, as a part of the multi-modal Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). Increase in suburban trains in Mumbai has not kept pace with the passenger demand and therefore loading in the existing suburban trains have increased and the travelling conditions in the trains have become unbearable. The paper gives an insight into the process of building social and political consensus while taking into consideration the aspirations of people for conducive and comfortable commutation. The diverse but integrated objectives that were achieved holistically, is indeed through innovative strategic management that led MRVC to attain customer satisfaction, energy conservations, socioeconomic benefits, environmental upgradation through afforestation, rain water harvesting, and noise reduction. MRVC is doing rain water harvesting, mangrove plantation, tree plantation and transplantation to compensate for cutting of tress at project sites. A glaring example of an infrastructure project that aptly envisaged ecological balance and environmental and social upgradation of slum dwellers. Innovative improvement in commuters' amenities including ventilation system, GPS-based passenger information system, pneumatic suspension for comfortable riding, etc., have enhanced customer satisfaction that is required for a long-term business growth.
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Čebron Lipovec, Neža. "Homage to a New Town in an Old One: Dequel’s Bust of Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane." Ars & Humanitas 13, no. 1 (August 20, 2019): 248–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ah.13.1.248-263.
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The concept of collective memory raises fundamental questions regarding the assessment of heritage, especially of built heritage in contested spaces. The simultaneous presence of different groups in conflict introduces into the space parallel memory discourses that can be recognised both in the built environment as well as in public sculpture, and both can be read as a symbolic marking of space (Veschambre, 2008). The urban space of northern Istria, where the Italian and Slovene communities have become intertwined throughout history, were drastically marked by the political and historic events of the mid-20th century. Post-war conflict-solving processes lead and an ongoing process of “ethnic metamorphosis” (Purini, 2010) in the region came to a peak when the majoritarian Italian-speaking population of the urban area emigrated, while the space was settled by newcomers from inner Slovenian regions and other Yugoslav republics. Tensions between Slovenes and Italians arose in the early 20th century, especially from the period of Fascist oppression and violence against the Slovene population. Nevertheless, the antifascist struggle united the two ethnic groups, specifically within the Communist ideology, so after WWII the area of the so-called Zona B of the Free Territory of Trieste was marked by the ideal of fratellanza, the brotherhood between Italians and Slovenes in Istria. A monument to this ideal was created by a sculptor from Capodistria, Oreste Dequel, who is unknown in the Slovene context. The sculpture represented the Protestant Bishop of Capodistria, Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane, a friend of the key Slovene Protestant Primož Trubar. Despite the then leading Socialist Realist aesthetics, the artist managed to intertwine in the artwork, using a subversive approach, several collective memories.
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Čebron Lipovec, Neža. "Homage to a New Town in an Old One: Dequel’s Bust of Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane." Ars & Humanitas 13, no. 1 (August 20, 2019): 248–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ars.13.1.248-263.
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The concept of collective memory raises fundamental questions regarding the assessment of heritage, especially of built heritage in contested spaces. The simultaneous presence of different groups in conflict introduces into the space parallel memory discourses that can be recognised both in the built environment as well as in public sculpture, and both can be read as a symbolic marking of space (Veschambre, 2008). The urban space of northern Istria, where the Italian and Slovene communities have become intertwined throughout history, were drastically marked by the political and historic events of the mid-20th century. Post-war conflict-solving processes lead and an ongoing process of “ethnic metamorphosis” (Purini, 2010) in the region came to a peak when the majoritarian Italian-speaking population of the urban area emigrated, while the space was settled by newcomers from inner Slovenian regions and other Yugoslav republics. Tensions between Slovenes and Italians arose in the early 20th century, especially from the period of Fascist oppression and violence against the Slovene population. Nevertheless, the antifascist struggle united the two ethnic groups, specifically within the Communist ideology, so after WWII the area of the so-called Zona B of the Free Territory of Trieste was marked by the ideal of fratellanza, the brotherhood between Italians and Slovenes in Istria. A monument to this ideal was created by a sculptor from Capodistria, Oreste Dequel, who is unknown in the Slovene context. The sculpture represented the Protestant Bishop of Capodistria, Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane, a friend of the key Slovene Protestant Primož Trubar. Despite the then leading Socialist Realist aesthetics, the artist managed to intertwine in the artwork, using a subversive approach, several collective memories.
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Dobjani, Etleva. "Requalification of Residential Space in Tirana - Methodologies and Intervention Strategies." European Journal of Engineering and Formal Sciences 4, no. 1 (February 21, 2020): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejef.v4i1.p79-92.
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The city of Tirana is subject to constant physical and spatial metamorphosis. In its urban territory, the different residential typologies are well distinguished by socio-economic conditions and the technical-constructive characteristics which have been influenced by political development of the country. The multi-family residential buildings from the post-war period up to the 1990s, in addition to the problems that accompanied them from their initial construction, are found today in front of a physical degradation derived from the years they have. Problematic residential spaces are also most of the buildings constructed in the first decade after 1990, characterized by a low technological and housing quality, derived from an uncontrolled and informal development of the building sector. The building quality in this research, is focused on the applied architectural standards, the technological solutions adopted and the energy consumption derived from them. From the analysis made it has been reached in the conclusions that a renewal and requalification process is necessary to reduce the energy waste and to increase the quality of housing within residential spaces. The main objective of this research is to contribute to the sustainable development of the residential area of Tirana, referring to both the architectural and technological scale. Sustainable development in this paper is closely linked to the quality of residential spaces, which is directly related to the quality of life of the inhabitants. Due to the complexity of the urban environment and its transformations over time, the identification of light regeneration and redevelopment strategies is fundamental, minimizing demolition works. This article includes numerous European examples and a theoretical part, from which proposals for the future development of the residential areas of the city of Tirana can be extrapolated.
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NEBBAK, AMIRA, SEKOU KOUMARE, ALEXANDRA C. WILLCOX, JEAN-MICHEL BERENGER, DIDIER RAOULT, LIONEL ALMERAS, and PHILIPPE PAROLA. "Field application of MALDI-TOF MS on mosquito larvae identification." Parasitology 145, no. 5 (August 3, 2017): 677–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031182017001354.
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SUMMARYIn recent years, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has emerged as an efficient tool for arthropod identification. Its application for field monitoring of adult mosquitoes was demonstrated, but identification of larvae has been limited to laboratory-reared specimens. Study aim was to test the success of MALDI-TOF MS in correctly identifying mosquito larvae collected in the field. Collections were performed at 13 breeding sites in urban areas of Marseille, a city in the South of France. A total of 559 larvae were collected. Of these, 73 were accurately morphologically identified, with confirmation either by molecular identification (n = 31) or analysis with MALDI-TOF MS (n = 31) and 11 were tested using both methods. The larvae identified belonged to six species including Culiseta longiareolata, Culex pipiens pipiens, Culex hortensis, Aedes albopictus, Ochlerotatus caspius and Anopheles maculipennis. A high intra-species reproducibility and inter-species specificity of whole larva MS spectra was obtained and was independent of breeding site. More than 92% of the remaining 486 larvae were identified in blind tests against the MS spectra database. Identification rates were lower for early and pupal stages, which is attributed to lower protein abundance and metamorphosis, respectively. The suitability of MALDI-TOF MS for mosquito larvae identification from the field has been confirmed.
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Auffray, Charles, Rudi Balling, Niklas Blomberg, Myrna C. Bonaldo, Bertrand Boutron, Samir Brahmachari, Christian Bréchot, et al. "COVID-19 and beyond: a call for action and audacious solidarity to all the citizens and nations, it is humanity’s fight." F1000Research 9 (September 14, 2020): 1130. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.26098.1.
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Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) belongs to a subgroup of coronaviruses rampant in bats for centuries. It caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Most patients recover, but a minority of severe cases experience acute respiratory distress or an inflammatory storm devastating many organs that can lead to patient death. The spread of SARS-CoV-2 was facilitated by the increasing intensity of air travel, urban congestion and human contact during the past decades. Until therapies and vaccines are available, tests for virus exposure, confinement and distancing measures have helped curb the pandemic. Vision: The COVID-19 pandemic calls for safeguards and remediation measures through a systemic response. Self-organizing initiatives by scientists and citizens are developing an advanced collective intelligence response to the coronavirus crisis. Their integration forms Olympiads of Solidarity and Health. Their ability to optimize our response to COVID-19 could serve as a model to trigger a global metamorphosis of our societies with far-reaching consequences for attacking fundamental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Mission: For COVID-19 and these other challenges, there is no alternative but action. Meeting in Paris in 2003, we set out to "rethink research to understand life and improve health." We have formed an international coalition of academia and industry ecosystems taking a systems medicine approach to understanding COVID-19 by thoroughly characterizing viruses, patients and populations during the pandemic, using openly shared tools. All results will be publicly available with no initial claims for intellectual property rights. This World Alliance for Health and Wellbeing will catalyze the creation of medical and health products such as diagnostic tests, drugs and vaccines that become common goods accessible to all, while seeking further alliances with civil society to bridge with socio-ecological and technological approaches that characterise urban systems, for a collective response to future health emergencies.
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Vilchinskaya-Butenko, Marina E. "METAMORPHOSES OF FINNISH URBAN ART." Articult, no. 2 (2020): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2020-2-77-86.
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Weyers, Joseph R. "English shop names in the retail landscape of Medellín, Colombia." English Today 32, no. 2 (December 21, 2015): 8–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078415000607.
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The city of Medellín, Colombia's second largest, impresses the visitor. What was once the most dangerous city in the world has gone through a metamorphosis since drug lord Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Indeed, in 2013, Medellín was named the World's Most Innovative City by the Wall Street Journal and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). ‘Few cities have transformed the way that Medellín… has in the past 20 years' reads the ULI's explanation (Wall Street Journal, 2013, online). Medellín is now poised to move forward with its innovative infrastructure projects, and looks to position itself as a center of international business, technology, and education (Alexander, 2015). One of the ways in which this new international outlook manifests itself is in the ever-increasing use of English in various areas of public life, notably in advertising and in shop names. Accordingly, this study explores and describes the use of English in shop names in a cross section of commercial areas in Medellín. First, we consider the use of English shop names in four shopping malls that serve customers from a variety of socioeconomic strata. Note that our use of ‘shop’ refers not only to stores but also restaurants, bars, travel agencies, and any other commercial enterprise. Second, we look at four public commercial corridors (retail streets or demarcated zones) in metropolitan Medellín through a similar lens. From these two commercial venues, we find that English use is common in Medellín's retail landscape and that it increases as the socioeconomic status of the target consumers increases.
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Rodrigues, Jovenildo Cardoso, Rodrigo Luciano Macedo Machado, Luciano Rocha da Penha, and Adolfo Oliveira Neto. "INTERFACES DO RURAL E DO URBANO NA CIDADE DE BARCARENA, AMAZÔNIA PARAENSE." InterEspaço: Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade 5, no. 19 (January 18, 2020): 202016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2446-6549.e202016.
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RURAL AND URBAN INTERFACES IN THE CITY OF BARCARENA, PARAENSE AMAZONINTERFACES RURALES ET URBAINES DANS LA VILLE DE BARCARENA, AMAZONIE PARAENSERESUMOAs cidades brasileiras vêm passando por transformações aceleradas como resultado de determinações vinculadas ao avanço dos processos de urbanização do território, estruturação de cidades, conformando um mosaico complexo, diverso e contraditório de múltiplos territórios e territorialidades urbano-rurais. Em escala local, a cidade de Barcarena revela-se como espaço de intensas metamorfoses socioespaciais, enquanto produto de ações do Estado e de novos agentes econômicos na constituição da urbanização extensiva do território paraense, com reverberações nas relações e interfaces do rural e do urbano na referida cidade. O presente artigo objetiva analisar as relações e interfaces do rural e do urbano no município e na cidade de Barcarena, Amazônia paraense, a partir dos anos 2000. Como procedimento metodológico, realizamos levantamento bibliográfico e documental, produção cartográfica, registros fotográficos e entrevistas semiestruturadas com agentes do poder público municipal e moradores de áreas rurais e urbanas. Defendemos a ideia de que o rural e o urbano em Barcarena encontram-se amalgamados enquanto processos que revelam coexistências, resistências, bem como, interfaces imbricadas da relação rural-urbano em Barcarena, conformando um mosaico articulado e conflituoso de espacialidades urbano-rurais.Palavras-chave: Rural-Urbano; Cidade; Amazônia; Barcarena.ABSTRACTBrazilian cities have been undergoing accelerated transformations as a result of determinations linked to the advance of the processes of urbanization of territory, structuring of cities, forming a complex, diverse and contradictory mosaic of multiple territories and urban-rural territorialities. On a local scale, the city of Barcarena reveals itself as a space of intense socio-spatial metamorphoses, as a product of state actions and new economic agents in the constitution of extensive urbanization of Pará territory, with reverberations in the relations and interfaces of rural and urban in that city. This article aims at analyzing the relations and interfaces of rural and urban in the municipality and city of Barcarena, in the Amazon region of Pará, starting in the 2000s. As a methodological procedure, we conducted bibliographic and documentary surveys, cartographic production, photographic records and semi-structured interviews with municipal government agents and residents of rural and urban areas. We defend the idea that the rural and the urban in Barcarena are amalgamated as processes that reveal coexistence, resistance, as well as, imbricated interfaces of the rural-urban relationship in Barcarena, forming an articulated and conflicting mosaic of urban-rural spatialities.Keywords: Rural-Urban; City; Amazon; Barcarena.RÉSUMÉLes villes brésiliennes ont connu des transformations accélérées suite à des déterminations liées à l'avancée des processus d'urbanisation, à la structuration des villes, formant une mosaïque complexe, diverse et contradictoire de multiples territoires et territorialités urbaines-rurales. À l'échelle locale, la ville de Barcarena se révèle être un espace d'intenses métamorphoses socio-spatiales, produit des actions de l'État et des nouveaux agents économiques dans la constitution d'une urbanisation extensive du territoire du Pará, avec des répercussions sur les relations et les interfaces entre le rural et l'urbain dans cette ville. Le présent article vise à analyser les relations et les interfaces entre le rural et l'urbain dans la municipalité et la ville de Barcarena, dans la région amazonienne du Pará, à partir des années 2000. Comme procédure méthodologique, nous avons mené des enquêtes bibliographiques et documentaires, des productions cartographiques, des enregistrements photographiques et des entretiens semi-structurés avec des agents de l'administration municipale et des résidents des zones rurales et urbaines. Nous défendons l'idée que le rural et l'urbain à Barcarena sont amalgamés en tant que processus qui révèlent la coexistence, la résistance, ainsi que les interfaces imbriquées de la relation rural-urbain à Barcarena, formant une mosaïque articulée et conflictuelle de spatialités urbaines-rurales.Mots-Clés: Rural-Urban; Ville; Amazone; Barcarena.
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Bathrellos, G. D. "An overview in urban geology and urban geomorphology." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 40, no. 3 (June 5, 2018): 1354. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.16888.
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Worldwide is observed an expansion in urban areas. In Greece a proportional phenomenon is mentioned. More than 52% of the Greek population now lives in the two metropolitan municipalities of Athens and Salonica. For this reason grows up the scientific interest to urban geology and urban geomorphology. Urban Geology is the application of geologic knowledge to the planning and management of metropolitan areas. Its domain spans both regional geology and applied geology. Urban Geomorphology is the study of man as a physical process of change whereby he metamorphoses a more natural terrain to an anthropogene cityscape. In such a context Urban Geomorphology is the surface component of Urban Geology, which is one of the important subfields of environmental geology. The urban geomorphology is related with the management of natural hazards and the spatial planning. Engineering geology and urban planning need to interface with geomorphology in hazardous areas.
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Atkinson, Paul. "Book Review: Fin de Millénaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life." Qualitative Research 3, no. 1 (April 2003): 139–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794103003001772.
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Solinger, Dorothy J. "Demolishing Partitions: Back to Beginnings in the Cities?" China Quarterly 159 (September 1999): 629–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000003386.
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Using euphemisms and albeit haltingly, the leaders of the PRC in its 40s began blasting the barricades their forebears had constructed to design what they had considered a fully pristine, orthodoxly socialist, separate urban realm. The result of this recent demolition is that, as the system turns 50, its political elite – along with the markets they have licensed – is remodelling the metropolises into places less distinct socially from the rural areas outside them and much less homogeneous internally than the urban areas from which they are metamorphosing.
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Riposa, Gerry. "Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics. By Juliet F. Gainsborough. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001. 191p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper." American Political Science Review 96, no. 4 (December 2002): 823–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402470463.
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By the 1970s—and, some might argue, a decade earlier—America had shed its urban persona and had metamorphosed into a suburban nation. Yet in comparison with research done on cities and urban politics, little work had focused on this transition and ensuing suburban politics. Juliet Gainsborough's work seeks to reduce this deficiency by examining the suburban movement, its motivations, and their linkage to political behavior. Thankfully moving beyond previous discussions of mortgages and work commutes, the author narrows the focus of this short monograph to how living in the suburbs affects voter choice and policy preferences by altering the decision-making calculus (p. 8).
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De Carvalho, Vinicius Mariano. "The Metamorphoses of 'Orfeu da Conceição' by Vinicius de Moraes." Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies 9, no. 1 (September 5, 2020): 580–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.25160/bjbs.v9i1.121768.
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This text is a hermeneutic exercise about one of the paradigmatic works of Vinicius de Moraes, Orfeu da Conceição. This plays opens a partnership between the poet and the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, which was fruitful and unique for Brazilian arts. Orfeu da Conceição is also paradigmatic because it is the first work to bring black actors to the stages of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. Orfeu da Conceição led to one of the films that most contributed, positively or negatively, to the international image of Brazil in the second half of the 20th century, the award-winning Orpheus Negro, by Marcel Camus. The text will notice how many of the ideas and representations of the favela were already visible in the Brazilian popular repertoire prior to the composition of the play. The idea, in general, is to observe how, in addition to its poetic-musical quality, Orfeu da Conceição can also serve as a reflection on how we represent and see favelas in the urban context, both in 1956 and today.
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Karakayalı, Nedim. "Metamorphoses of the “Stranger”: Jews in Europe, Polish Peasants in America, Turks in Germany." New Perspectives on Turkey 29 (2003): 37–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600006105.
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The increase in population of wood and mountain barbarian tribes on one hand, and the increasing demand for labor in the developing culture areas on the other created, with increasing wealth, numerous lower or unclean services. When the local resident population declined to take them over, these occupations fell into the hands of alien workers of foreign origin who were permanently lodged in urban areas but retained their tribal affiliations (Max Weber, 1968 [1923], p. 12).
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Krajewska, Anna. "Dramatyczne przestrzenie Andrzeja Wajdy." Przestrzenie Teorii, no. 27 (December 15, 2017): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pt.2017.27.0.
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This editorial is an impressionistic work on Andrzej Wajda’s output, predominantly emphasising its dramatic nature. The text presents the uniqueness of Andrzej Wajda’s creative work in such diverse forms of art as if they were one – his painting metamorphosed into film, drawing into screenplay, urban space into a theatre stage. Wajda is seen here not only as a director, but also as a contemporary dramatist, who creates the dramatic space of history’s traps, who dramatises the fate of the individual, and who interprets the drama of the philosophical stage.
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Meniku, Jonida. "Promoting Community Participation in Peri - Urban Infrastructures." South East European Journal of Architecture and Design 2016 (November 7, 2016): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/seejad.2016.10025.
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AIM: The aim of this research is to examine the importance of community participation in education and social infrastructure in Peri - Urban of Tirana city.MATERIAL AND METHODS: This research states that “involvement of community” is a direct response to giving the community a voice in shaping their future environment to promote urban regeneration in combination with the respecting of the principle of sustainability.RESULTS: This rich picture of community participation and urban planning brings an improver's eye to the real issue on the ground, focused mainly on the guidelines set by the European Union. The goal of the project participation which generates public space, beyond the values that carry on improving the quality of life for the citizens – can illustrate how urban regeneration projects may have a huge impact on the entire city life. The result is to create an area which improves profits and a good lifestyle; re-conceptualization of investment as an investment in urban infrastructure, an investment that can have a large impact even with a relatively low cost.CONCLUSIONS: This article emphasises the need for a real metamorphose to all barriers between builders and users which must be abolished so that building and usage become two different parts, of the same planning process.
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Bater, James H. "Urban Industrialization in the Provincial Towns of Late Imperial Russia." Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, no. 503 (January 1, 1985): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/cbp.1985.24.
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Modernization in Russia was intimately associated with the process of urban-industrialization, with the penetration of capitalism into a society which had evolved under the conditions of an absolute autocracy. While the level of employment in industry certainly did not figure prominently in the economy of most Russian cities on the eve of the Great War, industrialization-- and with it rapid urban growth-nonetheless did serve as a catalyst in the general process of economic development. The process started late in Russia, of course, gathering momentum only toward the close of the nineteenth century. Many cities were metamorphosed during the years of rapid industrialization, not least of which being the Empire's capital, St. Petersburg. Here, as elsewhere in Russia, modern industrialism was not easily accommodated by the existing, largely antedeluvian, urban infrastructure. Nor were the demands of the factory, with its emphasis on regularity of habit and labour discipline, readily accommodated by workers whose prevailing socio-cultural values were more often those of the countryside than the city.
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Tostões, Ana. "Tropical Architecture, South of Cancer in the Modern Diaspora." Tropical Architecture in the Modern Diaspora, no. 63 (2020): 2–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/63.a.9y0ptl3f.
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Getting back to the point of “Tropical architecture,” architecture in the humid tropics is collaboration with nature to establish a new order in which human beings may live in harmony with their surroundings. As publications at the time concentrated on French and British colonies, to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the Modern Movement diaspora, it is essential to revisit, analyse, and document the important heritage built south of the Tropic of Cancer, where the debate took place and architectonic models were reproduced, and in many cases subjected to metamorphoses stemming from their antipodal geography. Notable for the modernity of its social, urban, and architectonic programs, and also its formally and technologically sustained research, the modern architecture of these latitudes below the tropics constitutes a distinctive heritage.
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Williams, Peter W. "The Iconography of the American City: or, A Gothic Tale of Modern Times." Church History 68, no. 2 (June 1999): 373–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3170862.
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Some dozen years ago, I began in collaboration with David Holmes, Dewey Wallace, Charles Wallace, and others to conduct tours of houses of worship during the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society of Church History. The challenge of these tours for me gradually metamorphosed from providing basic information on dates, architectural styles, and parish history highlights—all useful enough in themselves—to reading these buildings in the broader context of the urban built environment. Churches, synagogues, and other religious buildings do not appear in the vacuum that a slide presentation or text illustration might suggest. Rather, they are in a continual mute dialogue with their surroundings, which in the urban context tend to be other buildings of commercial or civic purpose. The context is also four-dimensional. Not only do religious buildings themselves undergo expansion, remodeling, and changes in denominational identity, but their neighbors frequently change even more rapidly.
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Maloutas, Thomas. "Travelling concepts and universal particularisms: A reappraisal of gentrification’s global reach." European Urban and Regional Studies 25, no. 3 (May 23, 2017): 250–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776417709547.
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Some concepts travel worldwide, although they remain unobtrusively attached to the contexts in which they were produced and, therefore, are insufficiently abstract and general. Gentrification is a travelling concept with lingering attachments to the Anglo-American urban context. Three issues related to gentrification’s global reach are discussed in this paper. The first is the definition of gentrification. The simple definition adopted by the current gentrification research agenda leads us to accept gentrification’s global reach literally by definition. The second issue is the question of contextual boundaries. Boundaries that are too broad and ill-defined – such as the metropolis of the Global North versus the metropolis of the Global South – conceal what contextual difference may be about. The third issue is the reification of cultural differences, which may lead to them being used to explain attitudes towards gentrification, even though such attitudes could be explained by more prosaic socioeconomic motives compatible with Western rationalism. This paper concludes that the metamorphoses of gentrification through its different waves in the Anglophone world do not provide the script for understanding other cities’ urban histories and making sense of their urban restructuring processes. These cities must realize that new processes emerging under increasingly neoliberal policy orientations are regressive compared with previous arrangements, especially when they tend to exclude political alternatives. The Anglo-American world may have been a pioneering laboratory for the application of gentrification policies, but other parts of the world have shown more effective resistance that can be an asset in future struggles and sociopolitical arrangements and make a difference in people’s lives.
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Fritz, Jessica. "Teen Women in Action: A Case of Theoretical Praxis in the Daily Lives of Young Women." Practicing Anthropology 22, no. 3 (July 1, 2000): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.22.3.fg3711r013q54xm1.
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Outside of academia, there is no one job description or standard role for applied anthropologists. We work in various roles and divergent occupations, contributing anthropological knowledge and skills in our chosen realms. I chose advocacy and action aimed at improving the lives of women, particularly low income women living in urban settings. I have approached this role in phases—combining intense research, critical hands-on learning, community orientation, action and advocacy. Throughout this ongoing process, theory and practice have metamorphosed from separate entities into a united state of theoretical praxis. The initial phase of intense research revolved around social policy and problems related to low income women living in urban areas. At this juncture, the welfare reform policy was of particular interest and became the focus of my research. A detailed analysis of the 1996 legislation, the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), including an analysis of its provisions, economic saliency for recipients, and scholarly contributions to the issue, brought me to the conclusion that much needed to be done in this realm to work toward economic self sufficiency and justice for women.
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Devasundaram, Ashvin. "Cyber Buccaneers, Public and Pirate Spheres: The Phenomenon of Bittorrent Downloads in the Transforming Terrain of Indian Cinema." Media International Australia 152, no. 1 (August 2014): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1415200112.
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The polemic circumscribing the rise and regulation of new independent Indian cinema is a compelling example of vicissitudes in India's public sphere. This article locates a growing access to new independent Indian films through pirate spheres, reflected in the burgeoning popularity of BitTorrent websites, particularly among young, urban Indians, disenchanted by inaccessibility due to regulations and multiplex cinemas' expensive ticket-pricing system. It precipitates deeper discourses of ‘migrating’ cinema audiences, an ambivalent state of film and internet regulation, and civil resistance, exemplified in the recent Madras High Court volte face, unblocking banned BitTorrent websites. This article invokes interviews with independent filmmakers also utilising the paradigm of independent Bengali film Gandu (2010) – purportedly denied a release for its graphic sexual content, and yet widely accessed via BitTorrent and YouTube. Ultimately, this study examines the discursive ramifications of new independent Indian cinema in a metamorphosing Indian cinema sphere.
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Nyarko, Jacob, Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo, and Benedine Azanu. "Communication lapses to combating COVID-19 pandemic: Evaluating Ghana’s COVID-19 campaign." Journal of African Media Studies 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 159–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00041_1.
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COVID-19 is described as ‘novel’ largely because the virus has rarely been studied. Without any vaccine, the key to containing the virus was the timely delivery of educative public health information to people. With a population of 29 million composed of small urban segments, Ghana has enormous rural enclaves where most of her citizens live. This study seeks to explore the nature of Ghana’s COVID-19 campaign, focusing on the communication strategies and the extent to which indigenous communication tools (ICTs) have been employed. Relying on document analysis, Ghana’s COVID-19 campaign rarely deployed ICTs but rather paid lip service to the country’s indigenous resources in public addresses to the nation. It also found that the fight against the virus metamorphosed into political campaigns making WHO’s vital information subservient to images of political figures and political iconography in general. We argue that the nature of the campaign created generalized awareness of the pandemic, but did less to educate the masses on the WHO preventive protocols.
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Bertrand, Gilles. "Venice Carnival from the Middle Ages to the Twenty- First Century." Journal of Festive Studies 2, no. 1 (November 30, 2020): 77–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2020.2.1.30.
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As with other carnivals around the world, the history of the Venetian Carnival sheds light on the complex dialectic between festivity and politics and more particularly on the growing need for political authorities to control the urban environment. This article provides a longue durée approach to carnival in Venice and unpacks the meaning of its successive metamorphoses. During the Middle Ages, Venetians used carnival as a defense strategy for their city, intended to ensure the cohesion of its various neighborhoods around a common destiny. In the fifteenth century, the legacy of public festivals for both rich and poor gave way to a more official celebration, which allowed Venice to outdo its European rivals. The civilized and policed expressions that were elaborated from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century gradually set Venetian Carnival apart from the exuberance and invertibility displayed by rustic carnivals in other parts of Europe. However watered-down and commodified present-day Venetian Carnival may seem, it continues to raise eminently political issues, most of which have to do with the appropriation of public space by private interests and the recreation of traditions for mass consumption.
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Ng, Wing Chung. "Urban Chinese Social Organization: Some Unexplored Aspects in Huiguan Development in Singapore, 1900–1941." Modern Asian Studies 26, no. 3 (July 1992): 469–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00009872.
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Immigrant associations known commonly as huiguan have long been a research area among specialists on the Overseas Chinese. Recently, the same subject has attracted increasing attention among scholars who attempt to examine urban life in late imperial China. In either case, the existing historical literature seems to have focused on the two following aspects of huiguan development: the various principles of organizational formation such as common native place, surname, occupation and the new locational identity, and how they interacted with one another and shaped the community structure; the functional relevance of huiguan firstly to the various needs of the immigrant society and the local elite, and secondly to the overriding concerns of the ruling authority, be it the Chinese imperial bureaucracy or the governing authorities in a foreign settlement. Yet few attempts have been made to delineate the longitudinal evolution of these associations over an extended period in any single locale, and above all, to provide an analytical framework to decipher the complex interplay of different forces behind organizational changes. Relying primarily on Chinese newspapers, huiguan archives and publications in Singapore,3 this paper represents a very preliminary effort along both lines. After a brief background discussion on the nineteenth century, I will try to document closely several significant features in the development of Chinese huiguan in Singapore between the turn of the century and the beginning of the Pacific War. The main thrust here is to demonstrate the possibility of going beyond number games, that pay too much attention to organizational inventory, to examine more substantive issues such as changes in organizational forms, the revamping of institutional set-ups, leadership turnover and varying functional priorities. Then the following section will seek to account for these organizational metamorphoses. It will be argued that our explanatory paradigm should at least consist of three categories of factors: domestic forces associated with community evolution; the impact of the host society; and influences emanating from China and particularly the native area.