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Shcherbina, Elena V., and Ali A. Belal. "The value of historical and cultural heritage in the reconstruction and restoration of cities." Vestnik MGSU, no. 4 (April 2019): 417–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.22227/1997-0935.2019.4.417-426.
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Introduction. The aim of the study is the problem of protecting cultural and historic properties in the cities, that have been affected and damaged as a result of war. It is shown that the properties of cultural and historical heritage are significantly damaged, threatening their preservation, which can lead to their complete loss. In each case, the primary concern has been the impact of the reconstruction on the values for which the property was inscribed as a World Heritage site. The urgency of the problem is determined by the fact that cultural heritage sites that are not on the UNESCO list remain outside the attention of the authorities, the professional community and the public, which, as a result of reconstruction process, can lead to their loss, loss of urban identity, and not only negative humanitarian consequences, but also reduce significant economic potential. Materials and methods. The studies are based on a retrospective analysis of the territory, which can be used to identify the boundaries of the city, which have historical and cultural significance. The systematic approach and cartography method are used to determine the location of the historic center of Homs city and historical heritage objects within, which is necessary to assess their value and to face all the challenges and prevent further damages loss of cultural significance that was caused by the military conflict. Special approaches were proposed for protecting the objects which have historical and cultural significance. Also, a several points of weakness were presented in the reconstruction process of cities affected by the war. Results. Applying cartography method based on retrospective analysis of the city affected by military conflicts in our case Homs city. Both methods can help detecting the boundaries of the territory, which has signs of historical and cultural significance. Also, a recommendation mechanism was proposed for reconstruction process in the historical cities affected by military actions based on the preservation of their historical potential and urban identity, aimed at implementing the concept of sustainable development. Conclusions. The study of post-conflict reconstruction of historic cities, shown the necessity of using special urban planning techniques for the restoration process in the territories with historical and cultural significance.
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Abdollahyan, Hamid, and Foroogh Mohammadi. "An Ethnographic Study of Communication Between Humans, Nature, and Place: In Search of a Sense of Belonging in Abarkouhi Homes, Iran." Space and Culture 23, no. 4 (June 13, 2018): 522–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218782409.
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This article uses Cronkhite’s definition of communication to examine the relationship between Abarkouhi homes and three forms of human communication—(1) human–human, (2) human–nature, and (3) human–place—that take place in the “home” as symbolic actions. We assumed first that it is the sense of belonging that causes the stability of life in Abarkouhi houses. We use the definitions of “home” offered by phenomenologists to present our theoretical synthesis based on two concepts of place and communication. The article will discuss the ethnographic methodology of the study and the ethnographic interviews conducted with the residents about Abarkouh’s historic context, including the analysis of a number of photos. After collecting the interview data, we combined them with the data gathered by direct observations. Some of the findings indicate that the current residents of Abarkouh are old men and women who are probably the last generation of people living in the historic city. Therefore, the sense of belonging to “home” and the level of adaptation to new ways of life and new communicative actions within the old homes are not such that they contribute to the durability of life in the old houses and to keeping the future generations eager enough to continue living in this historic context. Along with the introduction of new technology and a modern way of life, many of the communicative actions resulting from living in these homes have disappeared, and nothing has replaced them. We believe that the historic context of the city, including its various home types and typical places, is in danger of disappearing.
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Rutherford, Janice Williams. "Historic Corbin Park: Preservation Success Story or Study in Challenges?" Public Historian 27, no. 4 (2005): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.45.
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Platted in 1899, the Corbin Park neighborhood in Spokane, Washington, is the only historic district in the city that is listed on all three historic registers: the National Register of Historic Places, the Washington State list of historic properties, and the Spokane Register of Historic Places. A diminutive enclave of eighty-three homes that surround a small, oval-shaped city park, the district offers a case study of several issues surrounding district designation: in the past, its residents have used preservation as an instrument of exclusion, they have accommodated change as the "patina of place" has modified the district's character, and for several decades, the neighborhood has navigated conflict between preservation advocates and park officials—a paradox created by opposing city policies.
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Petruneva, R. M., V. D. Vasilyeva, B. A. Navrotskiy, and Ju V. Petruneva. "The City and the University: One Destiny for Two." Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia 29, no. 4 (May 1, 2020): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2020-29-4-109-118.
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The article is devoted to faculty staff and students of the Stalingrad mechanical Institute who were the participants of the Great Patriotic war and home front workers, considers the destiny of the city and the University as one for two. The authors describe the activities of scientists, teachers and students of the Stalingrad Mechanical Institute during the Great Patriotic War, both during the Battle of Stalingrad and in evacuation in Chelyabinsk. The subject of scientific and applied work devoted to solving a number of technical problems on the creation, improvement and repair of military equipment, mainly the most massive tank of the Great Patriotic War T-34, rocket launchers «Katyusha» and several others. The results of a sociological survey of Volgograd students about their attitude to the Battle of Stalingrad are given. More than 70% of respondents are aware of the names of the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, the historic places, streets, squares associated with this event. The young generation carries the historic memory conveyed by the elder generation. The authors believe that it is necessary to develop the historical memory in University students using historic materials, mass media, Internet-resources, family archives, museum expositions.
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McDonnell, Hugh. "Bringing the French Empire (to the) Home?" Contemporary European History 29, no. 3 (August 2020): 356–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777320000302.
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In November 2018 eight people, including a mother from the Comoros and residents from Tunisia and Algeria, died when two buildings collapsed in the run down area of Noailles in the old port area of Marseille. A 2015 government report had already warned that 40,000 dilapidated and dangerous homes put 100,000 people at risk in France's second city, but campaigners say little was done. The tragedy occasioned widespread anger about run down and exploitative housing in the Mediterranean city. It also refocused public attention on housing and the concept of the home. In turn this raised questions about how housing and the home connect to space and social justice, the division of labour between national and local government, citizenship and ‘the right to the city’.
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Hosagrahar, Jyoti. "Mansions to Margins: Modernity and the Domestic Landscapes of Historic Delhi, 1847-1910." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 60, no. 1 (March 1, 2001): 26–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/991677.
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This essay examines the ways in which the private, domestic landscape of historic Delhi changed between 1847 and 1910. I look at Delhi's ubiquitous introverted courtyard house, the haveli, during a time of dramatic cultural dislocation. Modernity and the British colonial presence together had the consequence of fragmenting sprawling princely mansions to modest dwellings and tenement houses or redefining them as more rational and efficient homes. Tracing the transformation of the haveli in form and meaning serves as a mirror to the changes in the city during the time. In Delhi, monolithic and oppositional categorization of "traditional" and "modern" masked more complex identities as the quintessential "traditional" city grew and changed in ways that were distinctly "untraditional." The landscapes of domestic architecture reveal a city struggling to define itself as modern-on its own terms.
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Schlozman, Daniel. "Pakk Ya Cah in Havid Yard: Seeing Historic Boston on Foot." PS: Political Science & Politics 31, S1 (September 1998): 10–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500053932.
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The home of America's first university, its first public school, and its first public library, the Boston area now hosts more than two hundred thousand students. From 1630, when John Winthrop said Boston should be “a city on a hill,” through the McGuffey readers of the nineteenth century, the city has been a beacon of learning. Its politics have been long and colorful: Massachusetts boasts the oldest continuously used, written Constitution in the world, John Adams's 1780 state constitution; the gerrymander was named after Governor Elbridge Gerry's plan for redrawing North Shore districts; the early years of this century saw fierce Yankee-Irish battles for the State House. Massachusetts produced and remains transfixed by the Kennedys, was the only state to vote for George McGovern, and has another interesting gubernatorial race this year. (Keep an eye peeled for people standing with election signs at busy intersections, a local political tradition.) In short, Boston holds much allure for the political scientist.For the tourist, too, Boston is an appealing destination. It is a compact city and, in the words of the old travel cliché, a city best appreciated on foot (or by public transportation). Most sites of interest in the historic downtown and nearby nineteenth-century neighborhoods are within walking distance of each other. There are restaurants, shops, book-stores, and a certain European vitality of city life—perhaps the result of narrow streets and ample green space. For walkers, the Freedom Trail organizes most of the major Revolution-era sites, and plenty of other spots are marked in the historic core. The same history, though, means Boston's streets were laid out on seventeenth-century cowpaths.
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Bailey-Tarbett, Leslee. "Becoming Historic: Unsettling Preservation as “Activism” in the Memphis Neighborhood of Central Gardens." Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology 11, no. 1 (May 8, 2020): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/rerm.3853.
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Based on an interdisciplinary research course for graduate students, this paper describes a project that combines arts-based research, walking methodology, and posthuman theories to design a research-creation. The purpose of this assemblage of photographs, archived newsletters, online information, maps, and other materials is to aid in the suspension of linear thinking and offer a unique contribution to the discussion of what gaining “historic” status can do in a particular place/time. This paper describes how the neighborhood association, formed 50 years ago, had the primary mission to lobby for historic status in order to protect property values and prevent multi-dwelling homes and businesses from moving in. By embarking on a multisensory inquiry employing walking methodology, I demonstrate how this insular, exclusive, historic neighborhood continues to be entangled within the surrounding geographic areas, as well as within the socio-politico-and economic dimensions of the city.
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Ryberg-Webster, Stephanie. "Community development and Historic Preservation: Exploring intersections in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District." Community Development Journal 54, no. 2 (September 21, 2017): 290–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsx046.
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Abstract Urban neighbourhoods are home to complex social interactions, cultural traditions and historic built environments that have accrued over time. Many community development corporations (CDCs) in the United States work in older, inner-city neighbourhoods, setting the stage for a possible alliance with historic preservation. This paper explores the intersection of community development and historic preservation, asking: In high-growth contexts, how do community developers working in neighbourhoods with strong cultural and ethnic identity use historic preservation? What are their motivations? And, how do they define, use, and/or adapt preservation to address the needs of their target communities? The article chronicles the Seattle Chinatown-International District Preservation Development Authority’s (SCIDpda) efforts to reverse neighbourhood decline while preserving the International District’s significant history, fostering its continued future as a Pan-Asian community, overcoming persistent barriers to development, and mitigating high growth pressures. The findings show that for community developers, preservation can serve as an oppositional strategy to demolition and incompatible new development, helping to attract outside financial resources, and providing a means to assert local symbolic ownership over neighbourhood space.
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Tampubolon, Meta Vaniessa. "Studi Literatur Pencegahan Bahaya Kebakaran pada Pemukiman Masyarakat Suku Baduy dan Penerapannya." ARSITEKTURA 18, no. 2 (November 5, 2020): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.20961/arst.v18i2.44957.
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<p class="Abstract"><em>Cultural heritage areas in the form of historic urban villages are part of the country's wealth that deserves to be preserved. The value and authenticity of settlements is the focus of conservation measures. Protocol Hoi Ana in 2009 explained the dimensions of cultural heritage. This dimension is divided into two: first, dimensions that are visible, in the form of visual, visible, building material, location, place settings, and others. Second, the dimensions of values contained in cultural heritage, in the form of history, spirit of place and others. The authenticity and whereabouts of historic villages in a city have so far decreased in number and seem to disappear with frequent cases of fires that damage this cultural heritage area. From the data collected, there are various causes of fires in the historic urban village. The main focus is related to the low level of public awareness, among others: negligence due to the fall of candles, transformer explosions, excessive use of currents, low awareness of the causes of electricity theft practices which often lead to short circuits which cause fires that cause casualties, damage to urban areas and historical buildings in it. The historic city village is a property of the nation and state. The community has the same responsibility in a community to save and preserve it. This paper reviews various literature studies related to the role of the community in preventing the danger of fire in cultural heritage areas that have been home to tens or even hundreds of years. With the existence of knowledge and sense of ownership by the community, it is hoped that fire prevention management in the historic township can be applied and its sustainability carried out.</em></p>
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Zhu, Longbin, Hongyan Xiang, and Qiaoli Zhang. "Low Carbon Exploration in Urban Revitalization in Yangzhou Old City Project." E3S Web of Conferences 198 (2020): 04015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019804015.
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Low-carbon and ecological city and sustainable conservation of historic urban areas are issues that need to be addressed in current urban development in China. Based on the principles of community participation, local adaptive technology and cost-benefit balance, Nanhexia Low-carbon Community Project in Yangzhou proposed holistic strategies and solutions to achieve low-carbon community by means of low-carbon planning, low-carbon transportation, energy efficiency of building, low-carbon behavior, and greening in open space. The project innovatively integrated low carbon concepts into regeneration of old city, combined traditional architectural styles with modern green technologies, and won the first platinum award of LEED Homes in China. The experience of the project may provide reference for the regeneration of other communities or other similar projects in old cities.
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McGowan, Abigail. "Domestic Modern: Redecorating Homes in Bombay in the 1930s." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 75, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 424–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2016.75.4.424.
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In the 1930s, upper-class residents of Bombay were bombarded with ideas and products intended to make their homes modern. Showrooms, exhibitions, advertisements, and design books all addressed a consuming public newly interested in “the art and comfort of the home.” As Abigail McGowan demonstrates in Domestic Modern: Redecorating Homes in Bombay in the 1930s, attempts to remake Indian homes were hardly new; from the late nineteenth century on, sanitary reformers, girls’ educators, and urban planners introduced new principles of home management and hygiene into domestic space. In 1930s Bombay, attention shifted from household practices to style—a distinctively modern look expressed through new architectural spaces and the latest consumer goods. Recent scholarship has explored new building styles and practices in interwar India; McGowan argues that new kinds of furnishings and decor were equally important in defining what “the modern” meant in the city in this period.
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Kwanda, Timoticin. "Adaptive Reuse and Interventions of Chinese Architectural Heritage in the City of Lasem, Indonesia." International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/essd.v5i1.718.
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In Indonesia, Lasem identities as a China Town are constructed and developed over time, and Chinese architectural heritage is one of the main qualities and identity of the city. Recently, these unique Chinese architectural heritages have been transformed for tourism needs. This paper aims to document the transformation of functions or adaptive reuse, and its impact to forms and meanings of the Chinese architectural heritage of the city, and focuses on whether the interventions occurred was by the principles of architectural conservation. In April 2019, the study surveyed and documented five Chinese historic buildings in Karangturi area in Lasem to understand how the architectural heritage has transformed. The result shows that tourism has a direct influence on changes in the building functions in Lasem, such as the Oei House and Little China that have changed from residences to homestays to accommodate the needs of tourists lodgings. The other two buildings, namely House of Nyah Giok and Nyah Lasem museum have also changed their functions from residences to a batik home industry and a museum related to tourism attractions. Interventions on the four buildings with sensitive uses are following the principle of minimum intervention that preserved the original main buildings and changed only in the wings buildings, and new buildings for lodgings were infilled in vacant land of the site for the Oei House case. For one building, however, tourism has no direct influence on changes in the building functions, it has changed from a residence to an Islamic boarding school for the development of Islamic education that had nothing to do with preserving Chinese culture. Indirectly, the building remains a tourist destination because of its unique Chinese architectural features. Findings shows that for the four Chinese owners, the meaning or significance for the adaptation of the building is preserving historic values of the Chinese architecture, and economic values as well by developing commercial spaces and historic areas for tourist attractions.
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Hillier, Amy E. "Residential Security Maps and Neighborhood Appraisals." Social Science History 29, no. 2 (2005): 207–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014555320001292x.
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At the request of the Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) created color-coded maps for cities across the country between 1935 and 1940 that indicated risk levels for long-term real estate investment. Involvement in this City Survey Program marked a departure from the original mission of HOLC to provide new mortgages on an emergency basis to homeowners at risk of losing their homes during the Depression. This article considers why HOLC made these maps, how HOLC created them, and what the basis was for the grades on the maps. Geographic information systems and spatial regression models are used to show that racial composition was a significant predictor of map grades, controlling for housing characteristics.
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Connors, Thomas G., and Raúl Isaí Muñoz. "Looking for the North American Invasion in Mexico City." American Historical Review 125, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 498–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz940.
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Abstract At a time when Latinxs play an increasingly important role in U.S. society, a group of teachers seek out places in Mexico City connected to the U.S. Invasion of 1847–1848, hoping to understand how it is remembered there today. Museums and memorials commemorate the sacrifices made by a wronged nation and honor the legendary figures who have come to dominate its popular narrative of the war, Los Niños Héroes and the San Patricios. By contrast, the historic landscape is nearly silent on Santa Anna and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Back home, the group incorporates the places they visited into their classrooms through images and stories. Finally, they consider how the war’s place in the teaching of Texas and U.S. history is changing and offer Elliott West’s Greater Reconstruction thesis as a framework for reimagining the nation’s history by focusing on how the expansion of this period affected the peoples over whom the border crossed and reoriented national attention toward Latin America and the Pacific. Throughout the essay, a Mexican American reflects on his first encounter with the capital of his ancestral homeland.
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Shroff, Beheroze. "Sidis in Mumbai: Negotiating Identities between Mumbai and Gujarat." African and Asian Studies 6, no. 3 (2007): 305–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920907x212259.
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AbstractIn this essay, I discuss issues of identity within the context of social and economic circumstances of the Sidi1 community in Mumbai. I argue that the Sidis who work as caretakers of shrines in Mumbai are accorded dignity and status from the community of devotees who are often from the Muslim, Hindu and Parsi Zoroastrian communities. Those Sidis who are dispersed in different parts of the city and who work as domestics in the homes of middle class Muslim or Hindu families, on the other hand, merge into the nameless toiling masses of the city of Mumbai. Most of these Sidis work in low-income jobs and live in one or two room shanty dwellings. Part of my enquiry also raises the question of home and belonging for the Sidi community. Where do Sidis locate home and how do they construct belonging in India? Finally, I conclude my essay by examining a very different Sidi presence in Mumbai, that of the descendants of the royal family of the Sidis of Janjira (an island off the coast of Mumbai) who live in the upper middle class area of Mumbai. I discuss how the descendants of the Sidis of Janjira construct identity in terms of class and privilege.
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Ali Abdulrazaq, Hala, and Manuel Correia Guedes. "Post-war sustainable housing design strategies: the case of reconstruction in Iraq." Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability 6 (2021): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/rees/2021021.
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The damage of architecture in Iraq has been caused by a series of wars during the last four decades. The last conflict against the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017 caused severe destruction to the buildings in seven governorates, namely: Nineveh, Baghdad, Anbar, Babel, Kirkuk, Diyala, Salah Aldeen. three years after the Iraqi government has announced liberation, the cities are still covered by tons of rubble and thousands of people are still staying in camps. Several international humanitarian organizations are providing urgent assistance to help some local people to rebuild their homes. This paper presents initial results of an ongoing PhD research, which focuses on the role of architectural design in the postwar reconstruction in Iraq. It addresses an architectural damage assessment of the Post-War in the Old City of Mosul, after liberation from ISIS in 2017. The damage assessment focuses the residential buildings as it is the most affected sector and the most needed to start re-building. As rubble is the main obstacle for the residents besides that it's the first step for the recovery, this paper studies the scale of destruction to determine the quantity and quality of rubble in this historic city. Thus, it presents the current actions taken by locals and examines the government movements towards rubble management. Results show that, the unguided strategy of rebuilding is inefficient causing more damage to the environment and there is no comprehensive plan to protect historic buildings with a high heritage. The aim of this paper is to provide basic guidelines and recommendations for preventing further destruction to the heritage of the Old City.
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White, Jay. "The Homes Front." Articles 20, no. 3 (November 6, 2013): 117–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1019268ar.
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No city in Canada was closer to the front lines of battle in 1942 than Halifax, Nova Scotia. But Halifax, like the rest of the country, was unprepared for a long war and the city struggled to cope with the heavy demand placed on her housing stock and municipal services. In one respect, Halifax was ready: the massive federal investment in new piers and rail facilities, begun before the First World War, enabled the port to accommodate huge British battleships and passenger liners converted into troopships. Her commodious harbour provided safe haven from German U-boats to hundreds of Allied merchantmen. But on the domestic front, Halifax could not even begin to manage the effects of a 10% rise in population in less than two years. Few industrial jobs, limited housing construction, a very high transient population, and a reluctance on the part of the federal government to accept responsibility for local problems all contributed to Halifax having a "rather uncomfortable rail seat at the spectacle of war." — Quotation from "Gateway to the World", film produced by the Nova Scotia Department of Industry and Publicity, 1946.
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Mohl, Raymond A. "The Interstates and the Cities: The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Freeway Revolt, 1966–1973." Journal of Policy History 20, no. 2 (April 2008): 193–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jph.0.0014.
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When construction began on the urban expressways of the new Interstate Highway System in the late 1950s, homes, businesses, schools, and churches began to fall before bulldozers and wrecking crews. Entire neighborhoods, as well as parks, historic districts, and environmentally sensitive areas, were slated for demolition to make way for new expressways. Highway builders leveled central city areas where few people had cars so that automobile owners from other places could drive to and through the city on the big, new roads. As one analyst of postwar America put it: “The desire of the car owner to take his car wherever he went no matter what the social cost drove the Interstate Highway System, with all the force and lethal effect of a dagger, into the heart of the American city.” In response, citizen activists in many cities challenged the routing decisions made by state and federal highway engineers. This Freeway Revolt found its first expression in San Francisco in the late 1950s, and eventually spread across urban America. By the late 1960s, freeway fighters began to win a few battles, as some urban expressways were postponed, cancelled, or shift ed to alternative route corridors.
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Citron, R. S., and J. P. Talamini. "HERITAGE AT RISK IN BRAZIL: WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM THE REGENERATION OF ROYAL ARSENAL, EAST LONDON?" ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W15 (August 21, 2019): 335–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w15-335-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> All over the world, historic building in city centres are being demolished to give way to new (and taller) developments. In most cases, there isn’t even any kind of documentation of the historic buildings before its demolition. This is a very usual phenomenon in Brazil, where building conservation is a recent subject and only a few architectural styles are considered heritage. This leaves a great number of buildings under no kind of protection, especially in smaller and non-touristic communities. These buildings are usually located in city centres, where taller (and more profitable) developments are encouraged, which puts heritage in even a higher risk of demolition. When historic city centres are regenerated, it usually results in gentrification, with the old housing being replaced by restaurants and shops for tourists. In the UK, in the other hand, heritage conservation has been discussed for many decades, resulting on a good number of heritage-led regeneration examples to be followed. Investments in the conservation of areas of historical interest have turned them into social, cultural and economic benefits. A big difference between the conservation practice in Brazil and in the UK is that in the last one and specially in London, where the demand for new homes grows every year, heritage buildings are usually converted into residential use. Besides, a much greater number of buildings are considered heritage since it's been agreed that the value of a building or an area should be attributed by the community that created it. During the process of adaptive reuse of the building, a accurate survey os required for the planning application, which helps documenting these buildings for future intervention. This paper analyses the regeneration process of Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, in East London and aims to demonstrate why Britain gets to develop and preserve at the same time while in Brazil we usually can only do one or the other. To get to this result, this paper will point out the main differences between the conservation and planning processes in both countries.</p>
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Mundy, Barbara E. "No Longer Home: The Smellscape of Mexico City, 1500–1600." Ethnohistory 68, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 77–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8702360.
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Abstract During the course of the sixteenth century, the Aztec (or Mexica) city of Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco (present-day Mexico City) was transformed from a sweet-smelling lacustrine city into a foul one, the direct result of the Spanish invasion (1519–21). This article reconstructs both the sources of odors and culturally situated ideas about smell among the city’s Nahuatl-speaking residents. They are opposed to the ideas about smell held by settler colonists, derived from the framework of Hippocratic medicine. These imported ideas about acceptable smells (like those of urban slaughterhouses) and dangerous smells (swamps) came to have disastrous consequences as they played out in the unique environment of the Basin of Mexico.
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Fabian, Carole Ann. "Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library." Art Libraries Journal 36, no. 1 (2011): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030747220001676x.
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The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in the City of New York is one of the world’s great architectural research libraries. In addition to its commitment to maintaining a comprehensive collection of bibliographic and archival materials for architecture, the library, its staff and services directly support academic programs in architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, art history and archaeology, as well as the liberal arts education of undergraduates. The Avery is also home to the Avery index to architectural periodicals. As publisher of this leading abstracting and indexing resource for research in architecture and related topics, the Avery is solely responsible for all editorial, business and technical operations and serves as an authoritative source for the terminology and literature of the field.
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Rasmussen, Shaundra, Travis Warziniack, Abbye Neel, Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, and Melissa McHale. "When Small Is Not Beautiful: The Unexpected Impacts of Trees and Parcel Size on Metered Water-Use in a Semi-Arid City." Remote Sensing 13, no. 5 (March 5, 2021): 998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13050998.
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Colorado’s water supply is under threat due to climate change pressures and population growth, however Colorado has been recognized to have some of the most progressive water conservation programs in the country. Limiting outdoor water consumption is an increasingly popular approach to conserving water in semi-arid cities, yet in order to implement effective water reduction and conservation policies, more utilities and city managers need a firm understanding of the local drivers of outdoor water consumption. This research explores the drivers of outdoor water consumption in a semi-arid, medium-sized Colorado city that is projected to undergo significant population growth. We used a combination of correlation and linear regression analyses to identify the key descriptive variables that predict greater water consumption at the household scale. Some results were specific to the development patterns of this medium-sized city, where outdoor water use increased 7% for each additional mile (1.6 km) a household was located from the historic urban center. Similarly, more expensive homes used more water as well. Surprisingly, households with a higher ratio of vegetation cover to parcel size tended toward less water consumption. This result could be because parcels that are shaded by their tree canopy require less irrigation. We discuss these results to assist city managers and policymakers in creating water-efficient landscapes and provide information that can be leveraged to increase awareness for water conservation in a growing, semi-arid city.
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Bogdashina, Irina V. "Leisure and Recreation in the Socio-Cultural Memory of Urban Women in the 1950 and 1960s Based on Materials from Volgograd." RUDN Journal of Russian History 20, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 295–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2021-20-2-295-304.
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The article examines everyday practices of rest and leisure among urban women living in the city of Volgograd (Stalingrad) - a city that had been completely destroyed during the war. The goal of the present study is to identify specific characteristics in the everyday practices of women. The methodology combines comparative historical, biographical and aggregate methods. Interviews conducted along the empathy method made it possible to identify the sensual and emotional sides of the respondents' lives. The research is based on ego-documents (diaries, oral history), periodicals (magazines, newspapers), and statistics. The article discusses the concepts of free time and rest as preserved in the memory of townspeople, and also private and public forms of leisure. A major finding is that women's memory and texts reveal sensory and emotional experiences that can be used for the history of everyday life. This allows for an imagination of everyday life from a new angle. Domestic work took away the vast majority of women's free time, and given the cultural potential of the region was still underdeveloped, most city dwellers concentrated pastime activities on their homes. However, with the high workload of women at home and at work, it was leisure outside the home that remained one of the few ways for women to relax and recover from mental and physical stress. The everyday life of urban women in the 1950s and 1960s was characterized by a division of leisure in private and public forms.
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Parrinder, Patrick. "“TURN AGAIN, DICK WHITTINGTON!”: DICKENS, WORDSWORTH, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY." Victorian Literature and Culture 32, no. 2 (September 2004): 407–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150304000567.
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IN A BRILLIANTLY SUGGESTIVE ARTICLE, the urban historian Lewis Mumford defined the form of the “archetypal city” as follows: First of all, the city is the creation of a king…acting in the name of a god. The king's first act, the very key to his authority and potency, is the erection of a temple within a heavily walled sacred enclosure. And the construction of another wall to enclose the subservient community turns the whole area into a sacred place: a city. (12) This ancient city, which arose just before the beginning of recorded history, is double walled. It has an inner as well as an outer boundary. The outer walls enclose the area inhabited by a subservient population, but the city itself exists for the sake of the temple and its adjoining palace, the homes, respectively, of the god and the king. Some great historic city centers such as Rome with its Vatican, Moscow with its Kremlin, and Beijing with its Heavenly City preserve a structure that is apparently descended from this model. In Anglo-Saxon London, however, an abbey and a seat of government were established at Westminster, just outside what became the walled City overlooked by the grim citadel of the Tower. Canterbury, not London, became the nation's religious capital. London, in effect, marks a stage in the separation of spiritual and temporal powers and, thus, in the secularization of the city. Medieval London was able to assert its independence from the monarchy through the institution of its self-governing Corporation, presided over by the Lord Mayor. The mayoralty was the only significant temporal office in the land not in the gift of the king; and this explains why, in the folk-tale, the ragged boy Dick Whittington could become Lord Mayor of London.
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Baumgartner, Kabria. "Searching for Sarah: Black Girlhood, Education, and the Archive." History of Education Quarterly 60, no. 1 (February 2020): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2019.49.
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Roberts v. City of Boston is a well-known legal case in the history of US education. In 1847, the Boston School Committee denied Sarah C. Roberts, a five-year-old African American girl, admission to the public primary school closest to her home. She was instead ordered to attend the all-black Abiel Smith School, about a half-mile walk from her home. In March 1848, Sarah's father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston for denying Sarah the right to attend the public school closest to her home. The case wound its way through the courts, eventually reaching the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In 1850, Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled in favor of the city of Boston, affirming that the Boston School Committee had “not violated any principle of equality, inasmuch as they have provided a school with competent instructors for the colored children, where they enjoy equal advantages of instruction with those enjoyed by the white children.” And thus, the doctrine of separate but equal was born in Massachusetts.
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Ciani, Kyle E. "Hidden Laborers: Female Day Workers in Detroit, 1870–1920." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4, no. 1 (January 2005): 23–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781400003649.
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On October 1, 1898, twenty-year-old laborer Peter Dumbrowski married Lettie, a girl from his Detroit neighborhood. Both of their Polish immigrant families had left their new Canadian homes in 1881, joining thousands of other families who had already moved south for the promise of good wages in an emerging city. The following summer, at the age of seventeen, Lettie gave birth to their first daughter and would soon be pregnant with a son. Peter earned enough as a metalworker to support the small family as well as make a down payment toward the purchase of a six-room home on the west side. By Peter's fortieth birthday, he could claim that he made thirty dollars a week at one of Detroit's most important employers of men, Timken Detroit Axle. His eldest son, now sixteen, contributed to the family economy most of his salary (twenty dollars per week) from another key operation, Insulated Wire Works.
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Watts Malouchos, Elizabeth, and Carey Champion. "Exploring Heritage Archaeology at Indiana University." Museum Anthropology Review 15, no. 1 (September 13, 2021): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/mar.v15i1.30846.
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This article is an overview of a collaborative Indiana University (IU) Bicentennial Project designed to explore and raise awareness of the cultural heritage on IU’s historic Bloomington campus, protect the university’s archaeological resources, contribute to its teaching and research mission, and enhance documentation and interpretation of its historic house museum. The primary project partners were IU’s Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology and the Wylie House Museum, a unit of IU Libraries. Using state-of-the art remote sensing methods and traditional archaeological excavations, the project sought to locate the buried subterranean greenhouses at the home of first university president, Andrew Wylie. Historical research focused on the position of the Wylies and IU in the development of the city of Bloomington, particularly on the transition from subsistence farming in the mid-19th century to the development of leisurely gardening and floriculture later in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Through campus archaeological field school opportunities, internships, talks, exhibits, presentations on campus, and outreach opportunities throughout the university and Bloomington communities, the project contributed to the IU curriculum and promoted a better understanding of IU’s cultural heritage. Importantly, this campus archaeology project provided a unique opportunity to pursue place-based education and experiential learning that connected students, university, and community stakeholders to their local heritage.
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De La Ossa V, Jaime, and Alejandro De La Ossa-Lacayo. "Aspectos de la densidad poblacional e historia natural de Milvago chimachima (AVES: Falconidae) en el área urbana de Sincelejo (Sucre, Colombia)." Universitas Scientiarum 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.sc16-1.aotp.
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<p><strong>Objective. </strong>Population assessment of <em>Milvago chimachima</em> (Falconidae), commonly known in Spanish as <em>pigua</em>, is a raptor species occurring in the urban area of Sincelejo, department of Sucre, Colombia. <strong>Materials and methods</strong>. Population density was calculated using a line transect. Knowledge on feeding and reproductive behavior was based on fixed-point observations. The home range of the species in the study area was estimated using parallel line transects after marking three individuals. <strong>Results</strong>. The obtained density was 4.9 individuals/Km<sup>2</sup> and the home range was between 1.43 and 1.88 Km<sup>2</sup>/individual. <strong>Conclusions</strong>. The availability of preys like rats and mice, as well as carrion and organic waste of the city can influence the presence of the bird, although its density is comparatively low.</p> <p><strong>Key words: </strong>abundance,<em> </em>Colombia, density,<em> </em>home range,<em> Milvago chimachima, </em>Sincelejo, urban area.</p><br />
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El Maarouf, Farouk, and Moulay Driss El Maarouf. "City as Canvas." Matatu 51, no. 1 (June 18, 2020): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05101009.
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Abstract The city reflects a politics of possession, upon which pieces of land ultimately get encircled by walls for exploitation. Walls—the entities that frame up the city—are territory ma(r)kers, yet this architectural gesture, far from being innocent, symbolizes a lurking desire at owning territories in the ma(r)king. This paper brings this idea home by examining the other meanings of the wall in contemporary Morocco, by closely studying the poetics and politics of the wall in the context of the Jidar street art festival of Rabat, situated, as it were, in the intersection of concepts (such as festival, paint, street art, wall, patronage, cooptation, resistance, local and global). We argue that the JSAF presents, among other things, a venue for local artists to perform and translate their thoughts and artistic visions into murals of a grand scale. Yet under the gaze of power, their performances accentuate the existentialist yet ambivalent position of city walls not only as embodiments of visual escape, but also as terrains of artistic/economic opportunities, incompatible social emotions, and contentious politics.
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Lestegás, Iago, João Seixas, and Rubén-Camilo Lois-González. "Commodifying Lisbon: A Study on the Spatial Concentration of Short-Term Rentals." Social Sciences 8, no. 2 (January 25, 2019): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8020033.
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This article explores the relationship between the spatial concentration of short-term rentals in Lisbon’s historic center and the phenomena of uneven development and tourism gentrification. By providing quantitative and qualitative evidence of the uneven geographic distribution of tourist apartments within the municipality of Lisbon, it contributes to the study of the new processes of neoliberal urbanization in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe. It argues that the great share of whole-home rentals and the expansion of the short-term rental market over the housing stock are symptoms of the commodification of housing in the neoliberal city. Due to the loss of consumption capacity by the Portuguese society amid crisis and austerity, real estate developers target external markets and local households must compete for access to a limited housing stock with tourists and other temporary city users. The subsequent global rent gap stimulates the proliferation of vacation rentals at the expense of the supply of residential housing, fueling property prices and jeopardizing housing affordability. With Portugal being a peripheral member of the EU and the Eurozone, the vulnerability of local households to the impacts of tourism gentrification is aggravated by the remarkable income gap with their counterparts of the core.
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Demshuk, Andrew. "A Polish Approach for German Cities? Cement Old Towns and the Search for Rootedness in Postwar Leipzig and Frankfurt/Main." European History Quarterly 50, no. 1 (January 2020): 88–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691419886277.
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This essay explores the consequences of a hunger for history amid the architectural desolation that had blighted most German cities by the 1970s. After sweeping demolitions had wrought a so-called ‘second destruction’ that eclipsed the scale of wartime losses, Germans on both sides of the Iron Curtain steadily identified Poland as a model for humane reconstruction. Not just historic preservation but even historic replicas long rejected by preservationists as inauthentic were demanded as a way out of modernist anonymity and ugliness to make ‘home’ in an invented history. It was a trend as thoroughly comprehensible as it was problematic – for which history would one privilege? If modernism had encouraged an escape from the past, preservation or reproduction of choice monuments threatened to instill selective forgetting, a reinvention of the past that could marginalize or twist the lessons of wartime destruction. To grapple with these quandaries, this essay begins with an exposition of the increasingly lauded Polish solution through close analysis of the old town in Wrocław, the very ‘capital’ of so-called ‘Recovered Territories’ acquired from Germany after the Second World War. Having reviewed the genesis, realization, and shortcomings of Poland’s nationalized reinscription of urban space, German disappointment with modernist erasure will be examined in Leipzig and Frankfurt, each leading cities in their respective Cold War successor states that roughly paralleled each other in their increasing interest in Polish methods. After timid attempts at preservation and replicas in each city before the mid-1960s failed to satisfy the public longing for hominess, debates intensified about whether to replicate a sweeping array of monuments lost to war and demolition. Alienated in ‘their own’ cities, residents in Frankfurt and Leipzig incited discourse with contemporary ramifications about how to appropriate one’s surroundings as home.
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Angjellari-Dajci, Fiorentina, and Richard J. Cebula. "The impact of historic district designation on the prices of single-family homes in the oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine, Florida." Journal of Property Research 33, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 64–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09599916.2016.1151918.
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DeGuzman, Pamela B., and Arlene W. Keeling. "Addressing Disparities in Access to Care." Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 12, no. 4 (November 2011): 199–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527154411429864.
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Health disparities for racial and ethnic minorities have been present in the United States and persist today. NMHCs (Nurse-Managed Health Center), which can serve as “Medical Homes,” are one mechanism by which nurses can attempt to overcome these disparities within communities. In the mid-1960s, Nancy Milio developed and found funding for a NMHC to address disparities in Detroit, Michigan. History shows that the center was so valued by community members that it remained untouched during the Detroit riot of 1967, despite all buildings surrounding it having been burned down or destroyed. This article uses traditional historic methods to describe the establishment of the center in inner-city Detroit in the 1960s in historical context and analyze factors that led to Milio’s success. To address disparities via NMHCs, nurses must be persistent in acquiring funding and should involve a racially and culturally diverse group representative of community members in the development, planning, and ongoing operation of the enterprise.
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Bliss, Katherine E. "He Said, She Said: Gender, Reformism, and Family Conflict in Twentieth-Century Guatemala." Law and History Review 24, no. 2 (2006): 423–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248000003370.
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Hetold the court that twenty-year-old Gloria abandoned their children and the home they had made together in Quetzaltenango in order to move to Guatemala City and live with another man.Shetold the court that forty-two-year-old Julio had refused to divorce his wife and marry her as he had promised and that she had made sure the children were safe with their father before she departed for the city to pursue a better life for herself.
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Anisa, Anisa. "Karakteristik Arsitektur di Kota Lama Kudus." NALARs 17, no. 2 (June 5, 2018): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.24853/nalars.17.2.155-164.
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ABSTRAK. Kota Lama Kudus atau yang lebih sering disebut Kudus Kulon adalah sebuah kawasan bersejarah yang berada di Kabupaten Kudus, Propinsi Jawa Tengah. Kabupaten Kudus terbagi menjadi dua yaitu Kudus Kulon dan Kudus Wetan dengan sebuah sungai sebagai pemisah kedua area tersebut. Kudus Kulon atau Kota Lama Kudus merupakan cikal bakal kota Kudus dan sebuah tempat bersejarah dengan adanya makam Sunan Kudus dan Masjid Menara Kudus. Kudus yang kita kenal sekarang ini selain adanya Masjid Menara dan Makam Sunan Kudus, juga terkenal karena industri rokok. Dalam sejarah dikisahkan dahulu industri rokok berkembang mulai dari home industry di Kota Lama Kudus sekitar tahun 1900. Jauh sebelum industri rokok berkembang, sudah ada perdagangan yang memajukan daerah Kota Lama Kudus yaitu perdagangan palawija dan tembakau. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang mendeskripsikan serta menginterpretasikan karakteristik arsitektur Kota Lama Kudus. Deskripsi dan interpretasi ini penting dilakukan karena kondisi terkini Kota Lama Kudus sudah mengalami banyak perubahan. Data diambil melalui observasi lapangan tentang kondisi rumah, permukiman dan kawasan Kota Lama Kudus. Pada daerah sekitar Masjid dan Menara Kudus, permukiman didominasi oleh rumah-rumah Kilungan sehingga membentuk jalan-jalan berbentuk lorong seperti labirin. Semakin jauh dari Masjid dan Menara Kudus bentuk permukimannya berubah menjadi rumah-rumah terbuka tanpa dinding kilungan. Selain lingkungan permukimannya, arsitektur rumah di Kota Lama Kudus juga beragam. Ada rumah tradisional Kudus dengan bangunan sisir (tempat usaha), rumah tradisional Kudus tanpa bangunan sisir, rumah gedong (gaya eropa) dan rumah kilungan (rumah di dalam pagar tinggi). Tiga arsitektur rumah tersebut adalah asli sebagai karakteristik arsitektur Kota Lama Kudus. Faktor yang mempengaruhi karakteristik arsitektur di Kota lama Kudus adalah aktivitas yang di lakukan di kawasan tersebut Kata Kunci: karakteristik, arsitektur, rumah, permukiman, Kota Lama Kudus ABSTRACT. Kota Lama Kudus or more commonly called Kudus Kulon is a historic area located in Kudus District, Central Java Province. Kudus District is divided into two namely Kudus Kulon and Kudus wetan with a river as a separator of both areas. Kudus Kulon or Kota Lama Kudus is the forerunner of Kudus city and a historic place with the tomb of Sunan Kudus and Mosque of Menara Kudus. Kudus that we know today besides the existence of the Masjid Menara and the Tomb of Sunan Kudus, also famous for the cigarette industry. In the history of the first cigarette industry began to grow from the home industry in the Kudus Old City around the year 1900. Long before the cigarette industry develops, there is a trade that promotes the area of the Old Town Kudus palawija and tobacco trade. This research is qualitative descriptive research that describes and interpret the architectural character of Kota Lama Kudus. These descriptions and interpretations are essential because the current condition of the Kudus Old City has undergone many changes. The data was taken through field observations on the condition of houses, settlements and the area of the Old City. In the area around the Mosque and the Menara, the settlements are dominated by Kilungan houses to form alley-shaped streets such as labyrinths. The farther away from the Mosque and the Menara form the settlements are transformed into open houses without the globe walls. In addition to its residential neighborhood, the architecture of the house in the Kudus Old City also varied. There is a traditional Kudus house with a sisir building (place of business), a traditional Kudus house without a sisir building, a gedong house (European style) and a kilungan house (house inside a high fence). The three architectural houses are genuine and are a character of the architecture of the Kudus Old City. Factors affecting the architectural characteristics of the old city of Kudus are the activities undertaken in the region Keywords: characteristics, architecture, house, settlement, kudus Old City
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Curtis, Susan, and James W. Lewis. "The Protestant Experience in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1975: At Home in the City." Journal of American History 80, no. 1 (June 1993): 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2079802.
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Barley, Alexandra. "Home as sanctuary." Power and Narrative 17, no. 1 (October 30, 2007): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17.1.09bar.
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This article explores the idea of home as a space of sanctuary and retreat from the problems of domestic life through the novels of Anita Desai and Raj Kamal Jha. I examine how these novels destabilise discourses of gender, home and family. Both novels demonstrate the relationship between narrative and power by showing how the protagonists overcome their relative powerlessness through narratives which enable them to reconstruct a sense of self that challenges nationalist ideologies. I show through a reading of the novels the problems of privileging the self over the family and communal identities and suggest how the consequences might be imagined and narrated in relation to the spaces of the home, the city and the nation.
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Tann, Jennifer, and M. J. Daunton. "House and Home in the Victorian City: Working-Class Housing, 1850-1914." Economic History Review 39, no. 1 (February 1986): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2596120.
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Ferdinand, Siarl, and Flora Komlosi. "The Use of Hungarian and Serbian in the City of Szabadka/Subotica : An Empirical Study." Hungarian Cultural Studies 10 (September 6, 2017): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2017.278.
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In this study Ferdinand and Komlosi analyze the use of Hungarian and Serbian in the city of Szabadka/Subotica, which is located in the Serbian region of Northern Vajdaság/Vojvodina. A mostly Hungarian speaking city for centuries, Szabadka/Subotica suffered the strong pro-Serbian language policy implemented by the Yugoslavian government from the end of the First World War until the dismantlement of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, which gave Hungarian and other local minority languages a second chance to survive. Nowadays, Szabadka/Subotica is home to two main language groups, southern Slavic languages such a Serbian and Croatian (over sixty per cent) and Hungarian (thirty three per cent). Although Ferdinand and Komlosi employed official figures from the Serbian censuses to determine the size of each group, the situation of each language was mapped through empirical observation of language use in informal conversations, in official signage, and in permanent as well as temporary commercial signage. The results show that the role of Serbian (mostly written in Latin script) is dominant in almost all spheres of public life and as a lingua franca among various groups. Nevertheless, Hungarian maintains a strong presence in the city, especially in the center and in its northwestern districts. In this paper, Ferdinand and Komlosi aim to contribute to a better general understanding of group dynamics in bilingual settings and, specifically, to provide a clearer view of the language situation in one of the Hungarian-speaking regions lost by the historic Kingdom of Hungary after World War I.
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Sugrue, Thomas J. "“Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work”: Deindustrialization and Its Discontents at Ford, 1950–1953." International Labor and Working-Class History 48 (1995): 112–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547900005378.
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Detroit is known the world over as the “Motor City”, Are you trying to change it? Where is your gratitude to your men, your city? We ask what will happen to the thousands who will be let out? What is going to happen to the thousands who are buying homes?
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Wilson, L., C. Power, R. Owens, and B. Lawlor. "Psychiatric consultation in the nursing home: reasons for referral and recognition of delirium." Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 36, no. 2 (November 10, 2017): 121–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2017.71.
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ObjectiveTo describe the behavioural and psychiatric problems found in nursing home psychiatric referrals in the Dublin South city area.MethodsWe undertook two consecutive surveys of nursing home referrals to the St James’s Hospital psychiatry of old age service over a 2-year period. During the second survey a new clinical nurse specialist was specifically appointed to manage the seven nursing homes included in the study.ResultsThe most common reason for referral during survey one was uncooperative/aggressive behaviour (22%). For survey two, patients were most commonly referred for low mood (31%) or agitation (29%). During survey one, the majority of patients assessed were diagnosed with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (41%). This was also a prevalent diagnosis during survey two, affecting 27% of those referred. Only 7% of patients were considered to be delirious during survey one. This rose to 31% the following year making it the most common diagnosis during survey two. Over the 2-year study period, 7% of referred patients were diagnosed with depression. In terms of prescribing practices, the discontinuation rate of antipsychotic mediation following psychiatric input was 13% in survey one. By survey two, this had risen to 47%.ConclusionsDelirium is often undetected and untreated in nursing homes. Residents presenting with psychiatric symptoms should undergo routine bloods and urinalysis prior to psychiatric referral. Dedicated input from trained psychiatric nursing staff can lead to both an improvement in the recognition of delirium and reduced prescribing rates of antipsychotic medication.
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Vincent, David. "Secrecy and the city, 1870–1939." Urban History 22, no. 3 (December 1995): 341–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926800016643.
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This paper discusses the treatment of space and social interaction in the emerging modern city, and argues that the notion of ‘reserve’ developed by Georg Simmel blurs the key polarity between secrecy and privacy. Case histories of home visiting and gossip are used to examine how the boundaries between the two forms of blocked communication were constructed and negotiated in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury British city. There was no unilinear transition from open to closed personal contacts, but rather a series of conflicts and anxieties generated by issues of class and political authority. The contingent distinction between privacy and secrecy revolved around the question of trust, which was in turn a function of domestic and corporate prosperity.
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Nesvig, Martin. "The Lure of the Perverse: Moral Negotiation of Pederasty in Porfirian Mexico." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1052120.
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This article examines the dynamic relationship between a criminologist, Carlos Roumagnac, and the inmates that he interviewed in the large Mexico City prison, Belem, in the first decade of the twentieth century. In particular the piece delves into the way that pederasty, or male homosexuality, was discussed in these interviews, revealing the ways in which Mexican men understood homosexuality as morally unseemly but acceptable if left unspoken. The article concludes with some suggestions about the difficulties encompassed in the history of (homo)-sexuality. / Este artículo examina la relación dinámica entre un criminologista, Carlos Roumagnac, y los presos entrevistados por él en la enorme cárcel Belem, en la ciudad de México en la primera década del siglo veinte. En particular este ensayo profundiza en la manera en que la pederastía, o homosexualidad masculina, fue discutida en estas entrevistas. En dichas entrevistas se observan las maneras en cómo los hombres mexicanos en la cárcel entienden la homosexualidad: mientras que aceptan que la homosexualidad es moralmente impropia, también afirman que es aceptable si no se discute. Este artículo concluye con algunas sugerencias sobre las dificultades encuadradas en la historia de la (homo)sexualidad.
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P.J., Shyju, Iqbal Ahmad Bhat, Kathryn Myers, and Naresh Tanwar. "Local stakeholders’ perspectives on religious heritage and tourism development in Varanasi." International Journal of Tourism Cities 6, no. 3 (June 27, 2020): 529–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijtc-10-2019-0194.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the perspectives of local stakeholders on the role of religious tourism and the development process that alter the sacred space and religious heritage of Varanasi. Specific objectives include study local stakeholders' view on the motivation of visitors, the image of the city they carry home, role of infrastructure development altering sacredness of the city, major issues pertaining to conservation of the city's religious heritage and whether tourism dominates the sacred space of the city. Design/methodology/approach The present study follows the philosophical approach of constructionism and is an inductive study based on the ontological features of realism. The study is conducted using qualitative research design. Participants were purposely selected from different groups to provide representative data. through in-depth interviews with a set of 22 open-ended questions. Findings The study acknowledged the spatial changes happening in an old city over time. The portrayed image of Varanasi remains deeply rooted in the minds of pilgrims, whereas the tourist perspective often goes beyond the texts as an experience. The reflection of local stakeholders in the transformation of sacred space to tourist experiencescape as a consumable experience, which is influenced by market-driven forces is a major finding of the study. Research limitations/implications Difficulties in finalising the respondents and building up the theoretical base, which is one of the main limitations of the study. During the process of data collection, the respondents mainly focussed upon the impacts of tourism on Varanasi, and the researchers made every effort to extract qualitative information on the current research. At times, some respondents hesitated to share their view on political influences in the development process, which restricted the authors to obtain righteous information, that could have contributed a better understanding of the deep-rooted issues of religious heritage conservation. Another limitation is that the perspectives of visitors have not been included in this research. Practical implications The study will contribute to the theoretical areas of tourism development in historic and sacred cities. As an interdisciplinary area, the selected theme of the study delves in to landscape planning, heritage preservation, tourism development in historic cities and more importantly how residents understand the changes happening in a scared environment. The present research opens opportunities for further researches such as social pressures and tourism development, urban morphology and its transformation in ancient cities and so on. Social implications Varanasi is an ancient city in India, which is also the heartland of Hinduism. The study reveals the understanding of respondents on religious traditions, sentiments and the social values attached to a place. At the same time, it also highlights the role of tourism in generating an intercultural dialogue with local cultures, appreciating the sacred value of sites associated with religious sentiments. Originality/value The study addresses the role of tourism in altering the landscape of ancient city of Varanasi. The original view of respondents has been used in the article to maintain originality. There are several researches conducted on Varanasi, but the present study is conducted in a systematic way to gather the real understanding of local people. The study acknowledges the changes happening in the city along the course of time.
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Bramen, C. T. "At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930." Journal of American History 93, no. 4 (March 1, 2007): 1266. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25094685.
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Brown, Jeremy. "Reluctant and Illegal Migrants in Mao's China: Civil Defense Evacuation in the Tianjin Region, 1969–1980." Journal of Chinese History 5, no. 2 (March 3, 2021): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jch.2020.49.
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AbstractMore than 100,000 people from the city of Tianjin were evacuated to the countryside in a civil defense program during the 1970s. Many evacuees refused to submit to state migration mandates, instead sneaking back to the city illegally or petitioning to regain urban residency. City officials responded flexibly to the evacuees’ pleas, sympathizing with family reunification and treating suburban districts (jiaoqu) on the outskirts of Tianjin as a buffer zone between city and countryside. Dominated by agriculture but home to a growing number of factories, workshops, and offices during the 1970s, jiaoqu became a solution to evacuation headaches. When compared with the recent coerced movement of hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens on national security grounds, the civil defense evacuations of the 1970s suggest that it may be misguided to think of the Mao Zedong years as a faraway time that was more radical or repressive than China today.
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Maestre, Carlos, and Victor Iribarren. "The Importance of Checking Indoor Air Quality in Underground Historic Buildings Intended for Tourist Use." Sustainability 11, no. 3 (January 28, 2019): 689. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030689.
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This article demonstrates the importance of quantifying the air quality with radon gas level as indicator in any heritage building, especially those intended for the use of people. The tourist activity or historical guide represents a typology where people spend a certain time, that is to say, in no case do they spend the same amount of hours as in their homes or jobs. Different gases that may be present in the environment must be controlled. The Séneca Square shelter, in Alicante, is a very important place for the history of the city during the Spanish Civil War that has recently been rehabilitated for exposure to people. The source of most radon gas inside a building is the ground. Many countries, including Spain, in which the building regulations, regarding the accumulation of radon gas, do not specify in their technical codes, the maximum dose that a building can sustain so that it is not harmful to people, or, the measures required to correct excessive accumulation. The possible existence of radon is verified in any underground building, regardless of the characteristics of the soil (whether granitic or not), the importance of defining and unifying the regulations that specify the different levels of radon in any architectural constructions is evident. Most of the scientific agencies in the field of medicine and health, consider that radon gas is a very harmful element for people. This element in its gaseous state is radioactive and it is present in almost all soils in which buildings are implanted, with granitic types of soil presenting higher levels of radon gas. Non-granitic soils have traditionally been considered to have very low radon levels. However, this work, providing the results of the research carried out in the underground air raid shelter in Seneca Square in Alicante (Spain), demonstrates the relevant presence of radon in non-granitic soils. This research addresses the constructive typology of the underground building and the radon presence in its interior obtained using rigorous measurement techniques.
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Palmer, Kelly. "Lost in space: Gold Coast characters wandering home(less)." Queensland Review 27, no. 2 (December 2020): 181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.15.
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AbstractThe Gold Coast is a multiply liminal space, often represented throughout mainstream media as a holidayworld in which to escape everyday life and structured work routines. Represented as a tourist destination and space for transitions – as a space in which to get lost or lose one’s self – Gold Coast locals are misrepresented as everyday tourists, criminals and dole bludgers, essentially wanderers floating around and through the city limits. Local literary fictions capture this sense of alienation among Gold Coast locals. Georgia Savage’s The House Tibet (1992), in particular, complicates local wandering, with the text representing her runaway protagonists not as living a leisurely existence but rather experiencing the idea of homemaking as a kind of labour necessitated by socioeconomic disadvantage. In this realist narrative, Savage’s depiction of adolescent homelessness advances under-represented views of the multifaceted city while dispelling tourist myths about the Gold Coast as a youthfully unburdened site. Meanwhile, the disenfranchised boys of Amy Barker’s Omega Park (2009) see themselves as aliens in their home city and wander as a means of distancing themselves from a place in which they are trapped. This interdisciplinary investigation of narratives of wandering on the Gold Coast reveals belonging as a dynamic process of placemaking and homemaking, and a privilege of post-colonial habitation and socioeconomic comfort.
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Lundh, Christer, and Stefan Öberg. "Routes and determinants of leaving home: the city of Gothenburg, 1915–1943." History of the Family 23, no. 2 (December 28, 2017): 260–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1081602x.2017.1417145.
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