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Srivastava, Kinshuk, and Rashmi p. Dyondi. "THE REFLECTION OF SOCIETY REFLECTED IN FOLK MUSIC." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 3, no. 1SE (2015): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i1se.2015.3470.
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Culture is found in human society. This culture is transferred from one generation to another. That is why the culture of every society survives. The culture of each society is rooted in language, custom, knowledge, traditions, religion, law, music, folk art, folk music, folk tales, literature etc. Human interactions in society affect each other and it is on the basis of these actions that a cultural society is formed. Therefore, the mirror of the society lies in the folk culture itself. "Music is the most popular in the tradition of culture." Folk music is a huge variety of culture. The language of folk music is simple, tunes easy and heart-rending for the entertainment of the general public of the society. Daily activities of human society, plowing, cattle grazing, grinding mill, cowling. Fishing water from wells, wedding marriages, christenings, festivals, festivals, natural places, sweltering fields, the sound of river flowing water, waterfalls, waterfalls, waterfalls, rain, spring season, blooming colorful flowers, etc. Natural events origin of folk songs Places are "" For folk songs, Shriram Tripathi has adopted the word 'Gramgeet'. The experience behind calling folk songs as village songs is that only rural people have preserved the tradition of folk songs. The place of various rites and festivals associated with Indian life is relatively low in urban life, so the songs sung on various occasions are getting destroyed without the opportunity to sing while the countryside still has enthusiasm for festivals and festivals. Therefore, at the time of sowing, harvesting, nairai, marriage and marriage of fields, these songs are spontaneously released from their hearts. These melodious waves of folk music do not cease to be heard only at these festivals and fairs and festivals, but these enchanting taunts constantly resonate in the lives of the people who live here. Folk music holds an integral place even on occasions ranging from human birth to death. Folk songs are automatically created from the heart of the common people at various times, filled with different emotions according to different circumstances. Hence, folk music is a simple mood expression of an ordinary person living in society with tone, rhythm and rhythm.
 मानव समाज में संस्कृति पायी जाती है। यह संस्कृति एक पीढ़ी से दूसरी पीढ़ी को हस्तान्तरित होती रहती है। इसी कारण प्रत्येक समाज की संस्कृति जीवित रहती है। प्रत्येक समाज की संस्कृति भाषा, प्रथा, ज्ञान, परम्पराएँ, धर्म, कानून, संगीत, लोक कला, लोक-संगीत, लोक-कथाएँ, साहित्य आदि में निहित होती हैं। समाज में मनुष्य की पारस्परिक अन्तः क्रियाएँ एक-दूसरे को प्रभावित करती है तथा इन्हीं क्रियाओं के आधार पर ही सांस्कृतिक समाज बनता है। अतः समाज का दर्पण लोक संस्कृति में ही निहित है। ‘‘संस्कृति की परम्परा में संगीत सबसे अधिक लोकप्रिय है। लोक संगीत संस्कृति की विशाल विभूति है। समाज के जनसाधारण के मनोरंजनार्थ लोक संगीत की भाषा सरल, धुनें सहज एवं हृदय ग्राहय होती है। मानव समाज की दैनिक क्रिया, हल चलाना, पशु चराना, चक्की पीसना, गोड़ना। खेते नियरानों कुओं से पानी भरना, शादी ब्याह, नामकरण, उत्सव, त्यौहार, प्राकृतिक स्थल लहलहाते खेत, नदी के बहते जल की ध्वनि, झर-झर झरते झरने, वर्षा, बसंत ऋतु ,खिलते रंग बिरंगे फूल आदि प्राकृतिक घटनाएँ लोक गीतों के उद्गम स्थल हैं ‘‘लोक गीतों के लिये श्रीराम त्रिपाठी जी ने ‘ग्रामगीत’ शब्द को अपनाया है। लोक गीतों को ग्रामगीत कहने के पीछे यह अनुभव है कि ग्रामीण लोगों ने ही लोकगीतों की परम्परा को सुरक्षित रखा है। भारतीय जीवन से संबद्ध विभिन्न संस्कार व उत्सवों का स्थान शहरी जीवन में अपेक्षाकृत कम है, अतः नाना अवसरों पर गाए जाने वाले गीत गाने के अवसर पाए बिना नष्ट हो रहे हैं जबकि देहातियों के लिए अभी भी उत्सवों ,त्यौहारों के किए उत्साह है। अतः खेतों की बुआई, कटाई, नियराई, शादी ब्याह के समय, अनायास ही उनके हृदय से ये गीत निःसृत हो जाते हैं। लोक संगीत की ये स्वर लहरियाँ इन्हीं त्यौहारों तथा मेले व पर्वाें पर ही सुनाई देकर समाप्त नहीं होती बल्कि ये मनमोहक ताने यहाँ के बसने वाले जनसाधारण के जीवन में निरन्तर गूँजती है। मानव जन्म से लेकर मृत्यु तक के अवसर पर भी लोक संगीत अभिन्न स्थान रखता है। लोक गीत विभिन्न परिस्थिति अनुसार अलग-अलग भावनाओं से भरपूर अनेक समय पर जन साधारण के हृदय से स्वतः ही निर्मित होते चले जाते हैं। अतः लोक संगीत समाज में रहने वाले साधारण व्यक्ति की स्वर, लय व ताल युक्त साधारण मनोभावाभिव्यक्ति है।
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Gómez López, María. "Asilah Arts Festival (Morocco): encounters in the urban space." Ge-conservacion 11 (June 25, 2017): 10–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.37558/gec.v11i0.429.
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This essay aims to present Asilah Arts Festival through its history, program and outcomes, as an interactive platform for international and local cultural interchange and diffusion but especially, as the essential preservative source it still is, particularly regarding the town’s urban and architectural ensemble and the national and international, material and immaterial legacy it celebrates. The methodology for this research combined a critical bibliographical analysis, followed by a three weeks stay in the Moroccan town carrying out fieldwork that included interviews, visits to sites of interest or participation in the event’s activities. The results obtained from this investigation have in this paper been grouped in four sections: “Urban and architectural heritage”, “Cultural heritage”, “Social impact” and “Everyday life”. These tackle how the event affects local economy, contributes to the population’s education, raises awareness towards the importance of the patrimony’s safeguarding or renders explicit the value of the town’s quotidian existence.
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Fitzsimmons Frey, Heather. "A Small Festival for Small People." Theatre Research in Canada 40, no. 1-2 (2020): 64–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1068258ar.
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The WeeFestival, English Canada’s first performance festival dedicated to children from ages 0 to 5, acts as an advocate for the early years demographic and for the artists who create for them through three key elements of festival structure: programming, space, and creative/artistic exchange. Engaging with research by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Lise Hovik, Matthew Reason, and Adele Senior, this article uses company archives, artist interviews, and the writer’s personal experiences to analyze how the WeeFestival temporarily establishes an alternative public sphere that challenges policy-makers, funders, and artists to rethink relationships between arts, very young citizens, and urban life. Even though very young citizens may not initially know that they want to experience art, the festival attends to the interests and responses of young people, demonstrates respect for their capacity to be emotionally and intellectually engaged by artful and thoughtful productions, and establishes festivalized spaces that put an alternative public sphere into action, gesturing to the possibility of real social change. Taking into account the significance of programming for artists, educators, and policy-makers alongside the significance of meaningful audience-artist exchange, the analysis suggests that events like the WeeFestival have the capacity to gently shift how urban dwellers perceive very young children and the way they interact with the arts in daily life.
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İnceköse, Ülkü. "The Sustainability of an Urban Ritual in the Collective Memory: Bergama Kermesi." Sustainability 11, no. 9 (2019): 2684. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11092684.
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Bergama Festival, locally known as Bergama Kermesi, is an annual festival which dates back to 22 May 1937 in the city. It came into existence as a result of Atatürk’s intention to introduce this, an extraordinary town with its historical and cultural properties, and promote it internationally. The Festival is an important element in the collective memory of the city. Initially, it was a civic event, a device in the formation process of the Turkish Republic. However, now, it is a civil event for national and international representatives, and a festival that allows locals and guests from different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds to mix freely and equally for a certain period. In the course of the Festival, the public buildings and the open spaces of the town become places of activity and entertainment. Parks, stadiums, the town square, and streets function as spaces for a variety of activities. Looking back at its 81-year history, one can notice some important changes in the Festival’s cultural and social practices, from an earlier state-dominated character into the current more publicly oriented one. This article studies the change of Bergama Festival as an ‘invented tradition’ into an element of the collective memory in town from the perspective of different public affairs that it introduces. In this regard, the article will also show how an urban ritual can maintain its sustainability by keeping itself fresh in the social life.
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Franklin, Adrian. "Where "Art Meets Life"." Journal of Festive Studies 1, no. 1 (2019): 106–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2019.1.1.27.
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In Hobart, a litany of winter festivals flopped and failed until the arrival of Mona (Museum of Old and New Art), a private museum owned by mathematician, successful online gambler, and autodidact David Walsh. Since 2013, its new festival, Dark Mofo, not only has reignited long-somnolent traditions of midwinter festival imaginaries among its postcolonial society but also has proved to be an effective vehicle for galvanizing an all-of-community form of urban activation, engagement, and regeneration. It has also completely overwhelmed the city with visitors keen to participate in a no-holds-barred ritual week with major global artists and musicians keen to be on its carnivalesque platforms. While Mona has explored grotesque realism themes of sex, death, and the body in its darkened, labyrinthine and subterranean levels, Dark Mofo has permitted their mix of carnivalesque and Dionysian metaphors and embodied practices/politics to take over the entire city in a week of programmatic mischief and misrule at midwinter. Research by an Australian Research Council–funded study of Mona and its festive register will be used to account for its origins and innovation as well as its social, cultural, and economic composition and impact.
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Гафар, Татьяна, Tatyana Gafar, Андрей Лисицкий, and Andrey Lisitskiy. "«Great unidentified movement». Festivals in Volgograd as a tool of influence on the urban environment and development." Universities for Tourism and Service Association Bulletin 10, no. 1 (2016): 98–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/17743.
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The article discusses the concept of the festival as a form of organizing regional cultural life and a subject of
 cultural policy in the region, the current state of development of culture of Volgograd region. The authors present
 expert opinion on the work done on research of the festival movement in the Volgograd region of 80s – 90s of the
 XX century and now days. They examine not only festival practice, but the notion of the festival as a form of the
 organizing regional cultural life and the subject of cultural policy in the region. The authors analyze the current
 state of development of culture of the Volgograd region, the potential of cultural and symbolic resources of the region
 for the increase of its attractiveness for tourists, creation of conditions for changes in the social and economic
 situation in the region. There are comparative characteristics of socio-economic development of the Volgograd
 region and neighboring regions. It considers problems of development and preservation of the intellectual potential
 of the region. This article uses the materials of focus groups and in-depth interviews of organizers, idea creators,
 participants and spectators of the festivals. The participants of the festival movement formulate goals and objectives
 of the festivals, the conditions under which these festivals can become the factor of the region development.
 This study is an attempt to systematize the practical experiments with a view to develop approaches for the creation
 of the festival organization model as a form of territorial development with culture. The authors are experts in the
 field of cultural studies with theoretical and practical experience of implementing social and cultural projects.
 The article will be useful for office professionals and cultural managers, cultural specialists, potential authors of
 projects in the sphere of culture.
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BRUCHER, KATHERINE. "Grant Park Music Festival and Music in Chicago's “Front Yard”." Journal of the Society for American Music 14, no. 1 (2020): 10–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175219631900052x.
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AbstractChicago's Grant Park Music Festival, a free classical music series, provides a case study for exploring how music festivals contribute to the musical life of cities. Each summer, the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra and Choir perform dozens of free performances at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park and in residential neighborhoods. In 1935, James C. Petrillo, head of the Chicago local of the American Federation of Musicians, initiated the festival, then called Grant Park Concerts, to employ musicians during the Great Depression with funds from the federal Works Progress Administration. Changes in the city's cultural policies, its demographics, financial support, and expectations for how the festival serves the community have impacted how it programs its season and seeks audiences. Based on archival research, this article focuses on how the festival as a civic institution creates a listening public invested in particular narratives of Chicago as a dynamic city through programming music in public spaces. Looking at Grant Park Music Festival from contemporary and historical angles provides insight into how changes in aesthetic and social values, funding for the arts, and urban planning shape the way a festival engages with the city.
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Zieleniec, Andrzej. "Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre." Urban Planning 3, no. 3 (2018): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v3i3.1343.
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Henri Lefebvre’s project, developed over decades of research produced a corpus of work that sought to reprioritise the fundamental role of space in the experience and practice of social life. His assertion that there is ‘politics of space’ provides a challenge to the planning and design of the built environment by emphasising the need to understand the complex of elements involved in ‘the production of space’. Lefebvre’s approach and his ‘cry and demand’ for a ‘right to the city’ reflects the fundamental focus and importance he imparts to the practices, meanings and values associated with the inhabitation and use of the social spaces of everyday life. It will be argued that planning and design theory and practice should seek to address more fully and incorporate Lefebvre’s spatial theory as a means to reinvigorate and regenerate the urban as a lived environment, as an oeuvre, as opportunity for inhabitation, festival and play and not merely as a functional habitat impelled by the needs of power and capital.
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Enyedi, Fruzsina, Sándor Papp, and Viktor Pál. "Urban Noise Conflicts in Szeged." Belvedere Meridionale 32, no. 3 (2020): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/belv.2020.3.4.
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Noise pollution is a serious and complex city problem. While there are objective, measurable parameters for noise mapping assessments, since the effects of noise are also subjectively perceived, it has been difficult to accurately evaluate the urban problems and conflicts arising from noise. Urban noise and its perception is related to the quality of life; thus its analysis is can provide useful insights for decision-makers. Therefore, through an analysis of online media content, the paper presents local the attitudes in Szeged towards urban noise. During the analysis different noise categories and the city’s noise characteristics were determined. Even though the noise pollution in residential areas was found to be mainly concentrated in the city centre, it also affected more remote areas, and social problems and political discourses were also identified. Besides the noise of urban traffic, Szeged people appeared to be disturbed by noise related to leisure activities, such as urban (and university) programs and festival noise, which indicated that noise reduction efforts should be focus on more than just the reduction of traffic noise.
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Feng, Huichao, and Jieling Xiao. "A Funeral as a Festival: Celebrations of Life in the Mosuo Tribe in China." Architecture and Culture 6, no. 3 (2018): 473–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2018.1530036.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban Simple Life Festival"
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Kuo, Ching-Ping, and 郭敬平. "Research on Marketing Strategies of Cultural and Creative Activity： The Case Study of Simple Life Festival." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7acq6t.
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碩士<br>銘傳大學<br>傳播管理學系碩士在職專班<br>101<br>Simple Life festival, a big cultural two-day event in Taipei Huashan1914 Creative Park has been hold every two years since 2006. It not only attracts more than 30,000 people, but also generates considerable income.
Furthermore, it is a collaborative creation on lifestyle aesthetics which combines music, architecture, design, exhibitions and life, on the 1st, 2nd of December 2012. The scale and business model are very innovative in Taiwan.
Hence, what are the values from this event and how to co-create it become the precious issue.
The issue will be discussing the idea of project prepare, media and the execution of activity and news. Finally we can analyze the whole effect about this project.
According the marketing strategies of cultural and creative activity about Simple Life festival, we can take different point of view to think the strategies from the 7-ELEVEN and StreetVoice company and we also can assist to creative the value of whole Integrated Marketing Communication in the business model.
Books on the topic "Urban Simple Life Festival"
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Gwen, Hyman, and Bacon Quentin, eds. Urban Italian: Simple recipes and true stories from a life in food. Bloomsbury, 2008.
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Newton, Peter, ed. Urban Consumption. CSIRO Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643103511.
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Growth in human consumption is the transcending problem of our times. In the short span of 50 years, high income societies have shifted from an era when a 'simple life' was the norm to one where material consumption is pervasive. Consumption has become the engine for post-industrial societies. The liveability of cities in these societies is directly attributable to the consumption of resources – indirectly via their built environments and directly by their residents. This pattern of development is not sustainable. Nor is it equitable. 
 Urban Consumption is an important book, exploring the prospect for winding back current levels of household consumption in high income societies, and covering such critical areas as energy, water, food, housing and travel.
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Adams, Mark, and Peter Attiwill. Burning Issues. CSIRO Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643103467.
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Southern Australia is one of the three most fire-prone areas on Earth. After more than a century of urban growth and valiant efforts to ‘tame’ the bush, recent decades have seen more people moving back onto the fringe or into the middle of this volatile landscape. As this movement has intensified, so has the debate on how to best protect life and property from the ever-present bushfire threat. A long-running drought and a predicted warming climate have ensured that bushfire is a dominant factor in our nation’s long-term planning.
 Following the tragic Victorian Black Saturday fires in 2009, a much greater urgency now confronts policy makers, land and fire managers and communities living in bushfire areas. This has led to a call for a single, simple answer on fuel reduction burning to reduce the bushfire risk. Burning Issues explains that this is a complex issue without such a simple answer.
 The book gives an account of the role of fire in Australia’s ecosystems, how we have to accept and live with fire, and how we can manage fire both for safety and for diversity. It aims to change people’s attitudes to fire, and to be influential in encouraging changes in land management by government agencies.
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Oldfield, Paul. ‘To Destroy a City so Great and Remarkable’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0023.
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Medieval works of urban panegyric, some of which adhered to the so-called laus civitatis paradigm, ostensibly represented initiatives formed to praise and promote the profile of a given city. This literary genre flourished particularly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and can be connected to fundamental transformations that were occurring in medieval urban life. Indeed, while in many cases these works served unexpressed agendas, they were not simple pieces of fiction and rhetoric. Their power lay in their reapplication of Classical and Christian traditions, in their reflection of some of the deep realities of urban living, and in their association with the heated conceptual debates surrounding the very idea of the medieval city. In this context, the inclusion of material which could lament or dishonour the name of a city, or which could imply a threat to its integrity may seem both incongruent and significant. Focusing primarily on Bonvesin della Riva’s celebrated De Magnalibus Mediolani (1288), this chapter thus explores the dissonant presence of lamentation and critique presented in works of urban panegyric in order to produce a more nuanced and holistic understanding of this literary genre as well as a new appreciation of the evidence it can offer for understanding medieval urban mentalities at a crucial point in the process of European urbanization.
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Carrington, Tyler. Love at Last Sight. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917760.001.0001.
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Love at Last Sight is a history of dating in the modern metropolis. It opens with the seemingly simple question, “How did single people meet and fall in love in new big cities like Berlin at the turn of the century?” but what emerges from this investigation of daily newspapers, diaries, serial novels, advice literature, police records, and court cases is a world of dating and relationships that was anything but simple. The murder of Frieda Kliem, a young, enterprising seamstress who was using newspaper personal ads to find a husband—the story of which serves as the book’s central narrative—reveals the tremendous risk associated with modern approaches to love and dating. The risk of fraud, censure, or worse was ever present, especially for the many Berliners who strove for the stability of middle-class life but were outsiders to the social power structures of German society. Indeed, though the technologies and opportunities of the big city offered the best shot at finding love or intimate connection among the urban sea of strangers, availing oneself of them—pursuing a missed connection from the streetcar or using a newspaper personal ad—meant putting one’s livelihood, respectability, and life on the line. This was the romantic dilemma facing the vast majority of city dwellers at the turn of the century, and a great many chose to risk everything for some measure of connection and intimacy. This book explores their stories as a way of illuminating this core tension of modern, metropolitan life.
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MacDonald, John, Charles Branas, and Robert Stokes. Changing Places. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691195216.001.0001.
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The design of every aspect of the urban landscape—from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing—fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there. It can affect people's stress levels and determine whether they walk or drive, the quality of the air they breathe, and how free they are from crime. This book provides a compelling look at the new science and art of urban planning, showing how scientists, planners, and citizens can work together to reshape city life in measurably positive ways. It demonstrates how well-designed changes to place can significantly improve the well-being of large groups of people. The book argues that there is a disconnect between those who implement place-based changes, such as planners and developers, and the urban scientists who are now able to rigorously evaluate these changes through testing and experimentation. It covers a broad range of structural interventions, such as building and housing, land and open space, transportation and street environments, and entertainment and recreation centers. Science shows we can enhance people's health and safety by changing neighborhoods block-by-block. The book explains why planners and developers need to recognize the value of scientific testing, and why scientists need to embrace the indispensable know-how of planners and developers. It reveals how these professionals, working together and with urban residents, can create place-based interventions that are simple, affordable, and scalable to entire cities.
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Doyno, Mary Harvey. The Lay Saint. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501740206.001.0001.
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This book investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. The book uses the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of lay religiosity, charismatic power, civic identity, and the church's authority in this period. Although claims about laymen's and laywomen's miraculous abilities challenged the church's expanding political and spiritual dominion, both papal and civic authorities, the book finds, vigorously promoted their cults. It shows that this support was neither a simple reflection of the extraordinary lay religious zeal that marked late medieval urban life nor of the Church's recognition of that enthusiasm. Rather, the history of lay saints' cults powerfully illustrates the extent to which lay Christians embraced the vita apostolic—the ideal way of life as modeled by the Apostles—and of the church's efforts to restrain and manage such claims.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cousin Phillis and Other Stories. Edited by Heather Glen. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199239498.001.0001.
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‘I see her now – cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.’ Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of the genre. The novella-length Cousin Phillis is a lyrical depiction of a vanishing way of life and a girl’s disappointment in love: deceptively simple, its undercurrent of feeling leaves an indelible impression. The other five stories in this selection were all written during the 1850s for Dickens’s periodical Household Words. They range from a quietly original tale of urban poverty and a fallen woman in ‘Lizzie Leigh’ to an historical tale of a great family in ‘Morton Hall’; echoes of the French Revolution, the bleakness of winter in Westmorland, and a tragic secret are brought vividly to life. Heather Glen reflects on the stories’ original periodical publication and on the nineteenth-century development of the short story in her Introduction to these immensely readable and sophisticated tales.
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Majumder, Sarasij. People's Car. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282425.001.0001.
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People's Car explores one of the major movements for resisting the acquisition of land by the government in the interests of siting a Tata Motors car factory in Singur, India. The factory becomes the alibi for nuanced interrogations that are both material and theoretical on resistance, changing rural realities in globalizing India and the very nature and idea of land. It asks why such long drawn resistances against corporate industrialization coexist with political rhetoric and slogans promoting fast paced industrialization. It argues that such contradictory rhetoric and promises target divided sentiments in rural India where land is more than a simple agricultural plot to middle caste small and marginal landowners aspiring nonfarm futures. People's Car breaks new ground by ethnographically establishing the incommensurability between land and money. Such incommensurability or non-equivalence, the book shows, simultaneously drives protests against land acquisition and fuels the demands for non-farm jobs and industrialization, the crux of rural middle-caste aspirational politics. It questions the dominant trend of romanticizing rural life and associated anti-development protests that uses the clichéd dichotomous tropes—rural Bharat vs. urban India.
Book chapters on the topic "Urban Simple Life Festival"
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ZHANG, Min, Sihui DING, and Dan DI. "Association Study on Urban Festival Activities and Residents’ Happiness: Taking Shanghai Tourism Festival as an Example." In New Media and Transformation of Social Life in China. SAGE Publications, Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9789353280659.n6.
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Rodden, John G. "Marooned in the Workers’ Paradise: Cold War Catechetics, 1951–61." In Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195112443.003.0010.
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August 12, 1951. It’s a brilliant Sunday afternoon in the eastern sector of Berlin, the DDR’s capital, now an urban showplace of 1.7 million residents and proudly known on road signs as Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR—a simple declaration of the SED’s ongoing claim to the entire city as DDR territory. The boulevards are clean and neat in Alexanderplatz, the downtown area of East Berlin. Windows are bedecked with flowers, and flags from every nation of the globe festoon the buildings, which are draped with tapestries displaying the goal of world socialism in dozens of languages: Friede, Pokoj, Paix, Beke, Pax, Pace, Peace. But a walk off the main drag casts doubt on whether there is much cause to preen: six years after the war’s close, block after block of row houses are still gutted. The decrepit trolley cars are slow-moving war survivors; postwar automobiles are nowhere to be seen, except for a few “official” vehicles of the government and People’s Police. Rubble lines every side street. The National Reconstruction Program, a much-publicized campaign to repair the DDR’s war-scarred cities, is not slated to begin until late fall. Economic reconstruction is barely under way. But ideological reconstruction is well advanced. Waves of Blueshirts, 100 abreast, pass at the rate of 30 ranks per minute in the gala marking the climax of the two-week World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace. Sponsored by the international Communist Youth Organization, this year’s festival dwarfs its predecessors in Prague (1947) and Budapest (1949), as well as the “Storm Berlin” Deutschlandtreffen (German rally) of 500,000 youth in May 1950. The theme for the 1951 festival is “Stalin’s Call to Arms for Peace.” The vast majority of the participants belong to the FDJ and JP, which together boast almost three million members. Down the treeless center parkway of Unter den Linden—the lime trees were cut down years ago—and from the side streets filled with debris sweep one million East Germans, along with 26,000 foreign guests from 104 countries.
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"9. Case Example of a Festival: San Francisco Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Festival." In Celebrating Urban Community Life. University of Toronto Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442621855-011.
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Emmerson, Allison L. C. "Italy’s Suburban Amphitheaters." In Life and Death in the Roman Suburb. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852759.003.0006.
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“Italy’s Suburban Amphitheaters” traces the benefits that a city might derive from placing a major entertainment building in the suburb, concentrating on examples at Verona, Capua, Herdonia, and Ocriculum. Not least, suburban amphitheaters took advantage of the zone’s open space to manage large festival crowds that included locals as well as the residents of neighboring cities. At the same time, the Italian highway system brought many regional and long-distance travelers to the suburbs, making a suburban amphitheater a particularly effective means of communicating competition with neighboring cities while at the same time expressing participation in a larger shared culture. Nearby monumental tombs, moreover, reinforced an amphitheater’s message, enhancing the urban façade while celebrating the city’s most prominent residents. In some cases, this interaction could even recall the architecture of the capital and declare a local endorsement of imperial power.
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Katz, Anne. "Facilitating Meaningful Reading and Writing Practices in Urban Schools through Student-Generated Literacy Initiatives." In Student-Driven Learning Strategies for the 21st Century Classroom. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1689-7.ch017.
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The Teens for Literacy program at a Title I school in downtown Savannah provides a forum for students to empower their peers and their community regarding the importance of literacy. Over the past four years, the author has had the honor of serving as faculty advisor for the project, which is a partnership between the university and school. The author collaborates with school counselors, the librarian, the Instructional Coordinator, and the principal to facilitate the initiative. A leadership team of thirteen middle school students in grades 6-8 generates ideas for promoting literacy among their peers. Student leaders have produced multiple editions of school-wide newspapers with topics they have selected; composed play vignettes spotlighting the importance of reading and writing; launched a blog with book reviews to promote summer reading among the student body; introduced a local Children's Book Festival author to the school community; established a pen pal exchange with students in Haiti; and inaugurated a school-wide poetry initiative, among other initiatives. As the year evolves, university undergraduate and graduate students are invited to serve as volunteers/mentors for various literacy projects. A Shadowing Day is held on the college campus each spring to introduce students to collegiate life.
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Synnes, Kåre, Matthias Kranz, Juwel Rana, and Olov Schelén. "User-Centric Social Interaction for Digital Cities." In Creating Personal, Social, and Urban Awareness through Pervasive Computing. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4695-7.ch014.
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Pervasive computing was envisioned by pioneers like Mark Weiser but has yet to become an everyday technology in our society. The recent advances regarding Internet of Things, social computing, and mobile access technologies converge to make pervasive computing truly ubiquitous. The key challenge is to make simple and robust solutions for normal users, which shifts the focus from complex platforms involving machine learning and artificial intelligence to more hands on construction of services that are tailored or personalized for individual users. This chapter discusses Internet of Things together with Social Computing as a basis for components that users in a “digital city” could utilize to make their daily life better, safer, etc. A novel environment for user-created services, such as social apps, is presented as a possible solution for this. The vision is that anyone could make a simple service based on Internet-enabled devices (Internet of Things) and encapsulated digital resources such as Open Data, which also can have social aspects embedded. This chapter also aims to identify trends, challenges, and recommendations in regard of Social Interaction for Digital Cities. This work will help expose future themes with high innovation and business potential based on a timeframe roughly 15 years ahead of now. The purpose is to create a common outlook on the future of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on the extrapolation of current trends and ongoing research efforts.
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Ringas, Dimitrios, and Eleni Christopoulou. "Effect of Urban Computing on the Public's Perception of Place, Community, and Infrastructure." In Megacities and Rapid Urbanization. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9276-1.ch012.
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The work presented in this chapter delineates the longitudinal experience of deploying an urban computing system that enables citizens to share and interact with digital content about the urban environment and experiences of people with it. It is part of an emerging and novel aspect of urban computing that expands research beyond simple optimisations of city functions towards a social and cultural approach that seeks to orchestrate complex socio-technical ensembles. Offering Collective City Memory as a service to citizens and enabling them to interact with it via diverse novel interfaces has uncovered the implications for city life that the introduction of urban computing brings such as the redefinition of spatial and temporal proximity and the effects on the perception of city space, fostering of social interactions, contribution to shared resources and participation in collective efforts.
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Ringas, Dimitrios, and Eleni Christopoulou. "Effect of Urban Computing on the Public's Perception of Place, Community, and Infrastructure." In Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0827-4.ch008.
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The work presented in this chapter delineates the longitudinal experience of deploying an urban computing system that enables citizens to share and interact with digital content about the urban environment and experiences of people with it. It is part of an emerging and novel aspect of urban computing that expands research beyond simple optimisations of city functions towards a social and cultural approach that seeks to orchestrate complex socio-technical ensembles. Offering Collective City Memory as a service to citizens and enabling them to interact with it via diverse novel interfaces has uncovered the implications for city life that the introduction of urban computing brings such as the redefinition of spatial and temporal proximity and the effects on the perception of city space, fostering of social interactions, contribution to shared resources and participation in collective efforts.
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Pridemore, Amelia A. "Crank It to Eleven." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch024.
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Music festivals' popularity has exploded, boosting revenues for host cities, artists, businesses, and a struggling recording industry. They also provide an environment very conducive for community development, for both locals and visitors alike. This research attempts to fill a literature gap by building on urban policy and arts policy theories to show how music festivals and music, in general, fit into the academic public administration discourse. These festivals have the potential to increase host cities' residents' quality of life and allow residents and visitors alike to experience new culture and showcase their own. However, a city that considers hosting a music festival cannot dive into the situation without careful considerations of significant challenges others have faced. Given these significant implications for cities for the better or worse, public administration scholars should examine this topic carefully and continue to monitor the new information about these festivals as it develops.
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Djakouane, Aurélien, and Emmanuel Négrier. "The Place to be... global, The glocal configuration of world festivals, The case of Les Eurockéennes de Belfort, France." In Focus on World Festivals. Goodfellow Publishers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-910158-55-5-3014.
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The simple aim throughout this book is to ask questions of world festivals, as evidenced in recent advances in research about festivals. The ‘festivalisation of culture’ (Négrier, 2015) approach has seen an expansion in both qualitative and quantitative research in recent years. A few years ago, the research on festivals was going in three directions: a monographic approach (Autissier, 2008); an approach dominated by economic issues, management (Maughan and Bianchini, 2004; Bonet and Schargorodsky, 2012) or tourist attractiveness (Anderson and Getz, 2009); and an approach considering the festivals as peripheral, or exceptional, items of cultural policies. More recently, new opportunities emerged with the crossing of these three approaches with more artistic or aesthetic issues, as we can see in Focus on Festivals (Newbold et al, 2015). At the same time, the interest in the multi-dimensional nature of festivals opens up new questions about the relationship between festivals and public space (Giorgi et al, 2011). The identification of a world category of festival is both logical and paradoxical. It is logical, because, by their history, festivals, more than other cultural enterprises, were the levers for artistic exchange beyond national borders and beyond daily life (Falassi, 1987). Rather than the local and national institutions permanently installed in cities and artistic seasons, the programming of festival is still a powerful tool for the circulation of artists, for sharing tastes, and for cooperation between actors. The global nature of festivals is a substantial element of their dynamics, even if not all of them have the same degree of international openness. That’s why festivals seem to be not only in perfect harmony with the contemporary anthropological moment, but also a response to several ongoing issues of cultural policies: cultural democratisation (Négrier et al, 2010), the legitimisation of local authorities (Watermann, 1998), the transformation of artistic genres (Dowd et al, 2004), cultural diversity or European identity (Maggauda and Solaroli, 2011) or, more generally, territorial identity. The development of mega-events, as a new strategy of distinction for towns and cities, has become a particular research topic (Gold and Gold, 2005; Quinn, 2005; Van Aalst and Van Melik, 2012), not without a causing a critical current (Rojek, 2013). However the world category of festivals can also be paradoxical. Indeed, alongside the considerable growth of these events, the balance of studies about many of them shows how each festival has a singular story, and is always singularly local. Here we have the opportunity to illustrate this from the perspective of a particular event, the Eurockéennes de Belfort. But on this point, the example is widely generalisable. The research discussed in this chapter is based on a dual survey conducted four years apart (2010 and 2014), using the same quantitative and qualitative methods. It is part of a research programme about festivals that began, in France then in Europe, in 2006.
Conference papers on the topic "Urban Simple Life Festival"
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Kirsanova, Julia. "FESTIVAL OF URBAN CULTURE: EFFECTIVE WAYS OF PARTICIPATION OF URBAN COMMUNITIES IN THE LIFE OF A CITY." In 6th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences ISCSS 2019. STEF92 Technology, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sws.iscss.2019.5/s19.043.
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Rozis, Nicholas, and Ataur Rahman. "A Simple Method for Life Cycle Cost Assessment of Water Sensitive Urban Design." In Ninth International Conference on Urban Drainage (9ICUD). American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40644(2002)148.
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Domiciano Fidalgo, Clara, Isabela Machado Santos, Caroline de A. Nogueira, Maria Clara Souza Portugal, and Lídia Maria T. Martins. "Urban sidewalks, dysfunction and chaos on the projected floor. The search for accessible pavements and sustainable mobility." In 7th International Congress on Scientific Knowledge. Perspectivas Online: Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25242/8876113220212366.
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The pavements of the sidewalks are not simple roofs for the floor of cities. The correct specification and application of the materials not only guarantees the accessibility of this space, but also favors and enhances the urban mobility of pedestrians, the walkability, much defended by several professionals of urbanism. Have you stopped to observe the city we live in? The streets, the sidewalks and all of your public areas? Note the immense "invasion" of public space, making life on sidewalkssomething stimulating and interesting, by the enormous confusion implanted: kiosks, street vendors / street vendors, cars parked in a forbidden place and sometimes on the sidewalks, barbecues, holes, steps, obstacles, furniture and urban equipment very poorly located,results of the complete dysfunction ofthis space. The problem observed reflects the current dismay of people and public authorities in relation to accessibility, mobility and safety of people, especially those with reduced mobility,disabled or not. That said, this work objectives tofind a floor of easy installation and low cost that meets the principles of universalaccessibility, urban aesthetics and enhances the mobility of people in the city with autonomy and security. Based on an observational and photographic study of the sidewalks of the Pelinca neighborhood, together with a technical survey of existing sidewalks,the information obtained will be compared with the guidelines contained in the accessibility and urban mobility legislation in force, whether at the municipal, state and federal levels. The data extracted in the evaluation of existing floors, will provide subsidies, for the identification of a new type of pavement, contributing to the Public Power in the elaborationof booklets for the implementation and or adoption of guiding measures for the construction and reformulation of sidewalks, in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes
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Hanninger, Lisa-Marie, Jessica Laxa, and Diane Ahrens. "Rural areas on their way to a smart village - experiences from living labs in Bavaria." In Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Society. University of Maribor Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-362-3.7.
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This paper presents an overview of the approaches and experiences from existing living labs: german rural villages in which several digital solutions had been developed and implemented. The test villages have been selected based on a competition and are funded by the Bavarian state government in the project "Digitales Dorf" (Engl. digital village). Started in 2016 several measures had been taken to push digitalization in these rural areas with the goal to create equivalent living conditions to urban areas. The research question is how digitalization enhances the value of rural areas and which methods can be used to overcome the digitalization gap with a transferable and simple approach. This paper focuses on the transformation process rather than digital solutions, and presents requirements and best practices to promote digitalization in rural environments, their municipal processes and traditional approaches in everyday life.
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Domingo Calabuig, Débora, and Laura Lizondo Sevilla. "UNI-HERITAGE. European Postwar Universities Heritage: A Network for Open Regeneration." In CARPE Conference 2019: Horizon Europe and beyond. Universitat Politècnica València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/carpe2019.2019.10255.
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This research project aims at the regeneration of European universities created in the 60s and 70s through a systematic, circular, open and integrated process of their cultural heritage. At present, these campuses represent both a tangible and intangible heritage (architecture, urban planning, landscape… but also pedagogy, specialization areas, educational policies) whose adaptation to contemporaneity involves issues related to environmental sustainability, to the institution organizational capacities, and to its social implication. Specifically, this proposal aims at lines of action that would offer strategies such as the renewal of infrastructures and services and the adaptive reuse of the built heritage (space recycling, sustainability), the updating of the physical teaching spaces to the new teaching methodologies (European Higher Education Area), and the campus social consideration as a comfortable, conflict-safe and cultural-integrated area. Beyond the simple conservation, restoration and physical rehabilitation of a set of buildings and a university fabric, this project has the added value of an integrated or interdisciplinary action model that seeks four aspects of innovation: the organizational, the formative, the technological and social. This research proposes to ensure a longer life cycle for the heritage through its participation as a resource in the dynamics of regeneration of the universities.
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Oliva Quecedo, Javier, and Arturo Ruiz de Villa. "Pedestrian/Bike Bridge over Manzanares River in Madrid." In Footbridge 2022 (Madrid): Creating Experience. Asociación Española de Ingeniería Estructural, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24904/footbridge2022.004.
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<p>The city of Madrid is making efforts to make the most of the river Manzanares, improving the quality of life of the citizens and increasing the biodiversity. Madrid Rio is the most central and visible side of this work. But there is also a will to extend this enhancement beyond the city center, taking advantage to the fullest extent of the opportunities that a river brings to enhance the urban sustainability of such a big metropolis. The Manzanares Linear Park extends this intervention south along the river. The bridge presented in this work belongs to that linear system; its objective is not just crossing the waterway, since it is a sparsely populated area with other bridges nearby, but rather bringing the trail and the users closer to the river. Limited time was available for design, fabrication and installation of the bridge. This fact had a deep effect on the solution. It is a simple design that consists of three different pieces of similar weight that are manufactured in the workshop and separately brought to the final location where they are quickly assembled by means of pinned connections and without any additional welding on site. Then the whole bridge is craned to its final position.</p>
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Kaczkowski, Nicolas, Elie Attie, Nicolas Fabry, and Umut Aldatmaz. "Development in culvert repair technology: Strengthening using UHPFC shotcrete." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.1892.
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<p>There are currently no standardization regarding the production, design, and operational execution of Ultra- High Performance Fibre-Reinforced Shotcrete structures. Based on the recent practical feedback and understanding of the standard UHPFC cast in place, Freyssinet has developed an innovative technology, which is particularly suitable in repair solution to improve the competitiveness of strengthening design both technically and economically.</p><p>This attractive alternative repair solution is implemented on a specific shaped structure like a culvert pipe composed of a corrugated tin steel plate, and used for secondary human or hydraulic path under highway embankments surroundings rural and urban areas.</p><p>Despite their general simple appearance, pipe structures provide key issues involved in the design, implementation and maintenance when their sizes are reaching their limits. The combined use of the blast technology and the UHPFC material performance have allowed to develop a new sustainable repair solution.</p><p>The design solution provides a thin UHPFC shotcrete shell adapting to the roughness of the existing steel plate, and keeps similar flexible behavior relevant to the soil/structure stiffness interaction. In terms of strengthening and robustness, the solution develops the full load capacity for extending the structure design life.</p>
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Tenorio, Gabriela de Souza. "Better places for a liveable-and lively- city. A method of Post-Occupancy Evaluation of public spaces." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/pgpu3582.
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Public spaces that attract and retain diverse people are crucial to foster urbanity and tolerance, and build stronger and livelier communities, especially in big cities. The simple coexistence of similarities and differences in public spaces can, to say the least, validate our own essence and offer us a possibility of growth. Sharing the same space with other people – even without interacting with them – favors social learning. Theory suggests that thought, feeling and behavior can be altered by observation. The search for public spaces that make urbanity viable is desirable in any society (especially in more unequal societies, as one can find in developing countries). However, inspired by ideas built on the critique of great urban agglomerations after the Industrial Revolution, cities around the world have undergone transformations that did exactly the opposite. As a series of lifeless places began to emerge, several researchers tried to figure out why this was happening. These researchers found that just wanting to create a lively place was not enough. It was necessary to scrutinize the behavior of people in public spaces in order to understand the relationship between their configuration and use. The knowledge they have built has been largely responsible for the increasing concern with public spaces and their relation to public life since the 1960s. Cities around the world are realizing that empty places could be full of people, and that not only a place full of people is something positive, but an empty place is not. They are learning to see underused public spaces as social, cultural, environmental, and financial waste. However, even with so much information available, it is still possible to find, in any contemporary city, public spaces that fail to support public life. Frequently, little or nothing is done to make them safer or more attractive, diverse and pleasant. It is even more worrying to realize that such places continue to be created. This is the focus of this paper. It brings together available knowledge and experiences in the area of public space design. It also complements, structures and translates such experiences and knowledge into a Public Space Post-Occupancy Evaluation Method, which stresses the importance of observing people and their activities. As a result, one can better understand, observe, assess and, thus, manipulate the main attributes of a public space that may influence its capacity to attract and retain diverse people on a daily basis. The method is offered as a tool to support those who deal with public spaces at different levels – from academic studies to municipal management. It has been used in Brasilia, Brazil, for the past 7 years, with positive results in governmental decision-making processes. A case study is briefly presented to illustrate its use.
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Chabanon, David. "CBTC/ERTMS/PTC Convergence." In 2013 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2013-2447.
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A trend has recently emerged in re-signaling projects, especially in Europe, where infrastructure managers of large commuter rails are facing a dilemma: “should we install CBTC (Communication Based Train Control) or ERTMS (European Rail Traffic, Management System) — or both?” These commuter rails often span over a large territory, interfacing sometimes with the national network and have to cross through high-density traffic sections in crowded cities. This paper discusses this dilemma and the factors that contribute to the decision-making process of deploying a new signaling system. These factors, often captured early in the business case of the project, are more complex than the simple issues of a) high throughput capability (leaning toward CBTC) and b) interoperability needs (leaning toward ERTMS). Other factors are considered in the business case such as: operating needs of the railway including the regulation concepts, reducing the Life Cycle Cost of the system, the risk level that the owner is willing to carry, other high-profile national roll-out plans and special needs of key stakeholders. All of these different factors and parameters are discussed in this paper, and are illustrated by actual re-signaling projects in London, Paris, Madrid and Istanbul. The main characteristics of ERTMS and CBTC are presented with their pros and cons for these types of applications. The paper further discusses how the industry is reacting to this emerging trend. Are there any state-of-the-art signaling solutions from the suppliers that can fit these types of projects? The paper also gives an overview of the recent progress of the European Rail Industry in terms of research and development for future signaling systems in urban / suburban areas. Meanwhile, Positive Train Control (PTC) systems are being deployed in North America on class 1 railroads as mandated by the US congress, primarily as a means to increase safety. At the same time, some US rail transit agencies are adopting CBTC (albeit at a slow pace). The paper explores if there are any lessons from Europe related to CBTC/ERTMS convergence that could apply in North America related to CBTC/PTC convergence.
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Orecchini, Fabio, Federico Villatico Campbell, and Adriano Alessandrini. "The HOST Vehicle Concept: Human Oriented Sustainable Transport." In ASME 2005 3rd International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fuelcell2005-74072.
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HOST is an innovative vehicle concept suitable for the urban transport of both persons and goods. To lower the impact of mobility on the cities, cleaner vehicles are not enough: an integrated passenger and freight strategy must be adopted. Cleaner vehicles must be specifically designed for the purpose to be better than conventional ones under any aspect, including costs. To lower such costs and to start up the Low Polluting Vehicles (LPV) market the versatility of LPVs has to be enhanced. HOST aims at developing a fully versatile low-cost LPV concept. Versatility is achieved by making HOST vehicle modular and cost reduction is obtained by using the same vehicle for different purposes, simply changing different cabins on the same chassis. The main four tasks HOST is conceived for are: • Nocturne collective taxi; • Daytime car sharing services; • Daytime freight collection and distribution; • Nocturne garbage collection. The four mentioned services are not the only ones HOST may be used for, but are those for which it is specifically studied. Such choice is made for one very simple reason: all of the four tasks belong to the same family of “municipal services”. Using the same chassis to operate all the different services is feasible and can finally create the critical mass of final users, so to reach convenient prices. The four services chosen, two addressing passenger mobility and two addressing freight mobility, go all in the way of reducing city mobility impact. Car sharing and nocturne collective taxi systems, if integrated with public transport, can increase its attractiveness, pushing more people to use it. Freight pick-up and delivery and garbage collection need a low polluting alternative to be re-organised, so to become sustainable. The powertrain layout and the possibility to easily vary the platform main dimensions enable HOST to be equipped with very different bodyworks, which let the car manufacturer provides both private and public bodies, such as municipalities or urban mobility authorities. More in detail the energy system is all included in the HOST platform and it is conceived in shaped boxes, so that its modules become inter-exchangeable. A series hybrid configuration let HOST to be equipped with an internal combustion engine (ICE) coupled with an energy recovery system (batteries+supercapacitors), anyhow is already designed to utilise fuel cells (FC) powered by pure hydrogen just changing the energy module (and the tank), being this last the final purpose of the concept design. Thanks to these two solutions HOST is able to run as a zero emission vehicle for a limited period (ICE) or for the whole driving cycle (FC). A full drive-by-wire solution is adopted and the only mechanical connections between the cabin and the platform will be a specifically designed mechanical anchorage, these solutions will allow the easy installation/removal of any cabin. The vehicle has four wheel drive capability (4WD), thus featuring a good grip even on slippery roads. The four electric motors (one per wheel) allow an easy traction control, ensuring stability and safety. The chassis has a four wheel total steering (4WS) configuration, that enables the vehicle to rotate around its vertical axis as well as the to shift horizontally. These characteristics give HOST decisive advantages for the missions it has been conceived for. The 4WS capability gives to the vehicle easy manoeuvring in little streets in the cities centres and they are useful for the accurate positioning to be easily accessible by wheel chairs, during freight loading/unloading operations and while it runs as a garbage truck. Only a modular vehicle featuring the reusing concept can cover contemporarily all the selected services: one vehicle chassis with different sizes interchangeable energy generation modules and different bodies, depending on the service it is used for. Such concept, other than abating the environmental impact, will allow: • a reduction of costs: one chassis can fit several bodies compensating the higher cost of a low environmental impact energy and traction system; • a reduction of occupied space: the vehicle is always in use, night and day; • a reduction of waste materials, increasing their lifetime; • an increased life of vehicles, due to the possibility of changing bodies and energy generation modules; • traffic congestion reduction: using and reusing one vehicle for several services.