Academic literature on the topic 'Melbourne Town Hall History'

The Old Town in Sieradz is one of the oldest and best-preserved medieval urban complexes in Poland. In its center there is the Old Market Square, which was marked out at the intersection of important trade routes in the 13th century. Unfortunately, to this day, the center-market buildings, including the town hall, have not been preserved. Moreover, no photo or drawing showing the appearance of the Sieradz seat of municipal authorities has survived. In connection with the above, the article attempts to present the history of the repeatedly rebuilt town hall in Sieradz from different periods, as well as plans for its reconstruction. For this purpose, the available archival materials, the results of archaeological research and the literature on the subject were used, the analysis of which allowed to draw conclusions about the history of the town hall in Sieradz.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to challenge Matthew Lorenzon’s contention that the late 1890s outcry demanding Melbourne University music professor G.W.L. Marshall-Hall’s removal from office was precipitated by his praise of war in an 1898 public address. It also disputes Lorenzon’s view that the belligerent, anti-philanthropic content of the address was inspired by Alexander Tille’s Social Darwinist introduction to four works of Friedrich Nietzsche which, Lorenzon says, Marshall-Hall had misread. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses the speech and responses to it, comparing its content with that of the book and taking into account Marshall-Hall’s annotations and other relevant remarks. It also considers the broader situational context in which the speech was delivered with a view to identifying additional influences. Findings – Despite superficial resemblances, Tille’s concern is with the physiological capabilities that determine the outcome of a universal struggle for physical survival, other qualities being important insofar as they contribute to such physiological power, whereas Marshall-Hall, driven by situational circumstances, focuses on contests for occupational pre-eminence in which physiology plays little part. While both men denigrate altruism they mean quite different things by it. Moreover, the speech had little to do with the ensuing furore, which stemmed primarily from offence caused by Marshall-Hall’s book of verse, Hymns Ancient and Modern. There is no reason to believe that he had misread Nietzsche. Originality/value – The paper contributes to Marshall-Hall scholarship by arguing that the controversy was driven by purely local circumstances, not international debates about evolution.

The article considers the history of the origin and formation of the town hall architecture as the first building of local governments. Over the past century, most town hall buildings have lost their historical significance. This process is due to the improvement of local government in Europe. In addition, the reason for this was the development of autonomy of city government and civil liberties. This process was also influenced by the democratization of the life management procedures of the urban community. From the beginning of its existence, the town hall was formed as the main public space of the city. This space was a place of judicial and public gatherings; the town hall was a centre of trade, as well as a core of theatrical and cultural events. Some town halls had a system of spaces of social interaction, such as closed halls, open and semi-open public rooms. The tendency of concentration of administrative institutions and service enterprises developed. This development took place through the integration of functional, spatial, organizational and technological structures into a single public-administrative complex. In modern town hall buildings, such components as assembly halls, session halls, exhibition halls, museum premises, offices of the City government and offices of fractions are kept until now.

Trades Hall, Melbourne, 16 March 2003. An expectant buzz fills the auditorium. The capacity crowd, several hundred strong and mainly under thirty, is anticipating a spectacle: a contest between two members of a profession not otherwise known for staging fights in the public arena. This bout could have been billed ‘The Ugly v. The Righteous’. The Ugly is Keith Windschuttle, author of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. The Righteous is Patricia Grimshaw, Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.

The Georg von Neumayer Anniversary Symposium held at the Royal Society of Victoria Hall in Melbourne on 27–30 May 2009 brought together a wide range of perspectives on the life, times and scientific achievements of one of the most remarkable figures of 19th Century Australian, German and polar science.

AbstractThis article explores a Portuguese town's latest market hall and adjoining new town square. Lourinhã, a town in the north of the District of Lisbon, introduced plans in 1966 to renovate its urban landscape, reorienting the town away from the cramped streets of the medieval centre to a new, open and manageable central square. Over the next forty years, and despite the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, Lourinhã’s municipal government, enjoying tacit support from its citizens, used tools such as electrical infrastructure and legislation to manage and develop what came to be called a ‘European’ landscape.

The Metro Tunnel Project is delivering twin nine-kilometre rail tunnels in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to the tunnels, five new underground stations are being constructed. Two of the new stations – State Library and Town Hall – are complex cavern and adit excavations located in Melbourne’s City Centre which will directly connect to the existing City Loop Stations. The State Library station, located predominantly underneath Swanston Street and a busy tram route, was surrounded by a mixture of modern, educational and heritage developments requiring the excavation sequence and primary support to be designed to ensure minimal surface impacts. To simulate the anisotropic rock mass response to the excavation of the State Library Station, FLAC3D numerical analysis was undertaken. The analysis adopted the ubiquitous joint constitutive model approach and was used to assess the performance of the primary lining design and to determine the impacts the predicted ground displacements may have on the surrounding structures.

Prior to his career as a painter, Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1940) was employed for a number of years as an actor. Indeed the muse of the theatre was a constant influence throughout Sickert’s life and work yet this relationship is curiously neglected in studies of his career. The following thesis, therefore, is an attempt to address this vital aspect of Sickert’s œuvre. Chapter one (Act I: The Duality of Performance and the Art of the Music-Hall) explores Sickert’s acting career and its influence on his music-hall paintings from the 1880s and 1890s, particularly how this experience helps to differentiate his work from Whistler and Degas. Chapter two (Act II: Restaging Camden Town: Walter Sickert and the theatre c.1905-c.1915) examines the influence of the developing New Drama on Sickert’s works from his Fitzroy Street/Camden Town period. Chapter three (Act III: Sickert and Shakespeare: Interpreting the Theatre c.1920-1940) details Sickert’s interest in the rediscovery of Shakespeare as a metaphor for his solution to the crisis in modern art. Finally, chapter four (Act IV: Sickert’s Simulacrum: Representations and Characterisations of the Artist in Texts, Portraits and Self-Portraits c.1880-c.1940) discusses his interest in the concept of theatrical identity, both in terms of an interest in acting and the “character” of artist and self-publicity. Each chapter analyses the influence of the theatre on Sickert’s work, both in terms of his interest in theatrical subject matter but also in a more general sense of the theatrical milieu of his interpretations. Consequently Sickert’s paintings tell us much about changing fashions, traditions and interests in the British theatre during his period. The history of the British stage is therefore the backdrop for the study of a single artist’s obsession with theatricality and visual modernity.

The main theme of my thesis is the city administration of Prachatice as a seigniorial town between the years 1622 and 1699. I've focused my attention primarily on the functioning of the town hall in Prachatice. I've tried to reconstruct its staff structure and I've also been engaged in the renewal of the autonomy town authority related with it town hall, elders and the town reeve. The primary sources for my work were the town councillor manuals, lists of renewals, wedding contract books and testament books stored in the state regional archive in Prachatice, in stock Archive of the Prachatice town. I used sources, which were created during the renovation process, stored in the state regional archive in Třeboň, workplace Český Krumlov, and register books stored in the state regional archive in Třeboň. In the opening chapters I've tried to generally familiarize with the essential literature, the towns autonomy and town laws. I've compared the Prachatice autonomy with studies engaged in autonomy authorities of other towns.

<p>The Christchurch Town Hall (CTH) complex contains six reinforced concrete buildings constructed circa 1970 in Christchurch, New Zealand (NZ). The complex is used for performing arts and entertainment, with an Auditorium that is internationally recognized for its acoustics. It is listed as a Grade-1 heritage building due to its cultural and historical significance. Unfortunately, the CTH foundation system was not originally designed to accommodate liquefaction-induced differential settlement and lateral spreading effects, as highlighted by the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. Although the most extreme ground motions exceeded the NZS 1170.5 code-defined 1/2500 year earthquake loads, the CTH structures performed remarkably well for a design that pre-dated modern seismic codes. Most of the observed structural damage was a result of the differential ground deformations, rather than in response to inertial forces. The post-earthquake observations and signs of distress are presented herein. The primary focus of this paper is to describe two major features of the seismic retrofit project (initiated in 2013) which were required to upgrade the CTH complex to meet 100% of current NZS 1170.5 seismic loadings. Firstly, the upgrade required extensive ground improvement and a new reinforce concrete mat slab to mitigate the impacts future ground deformations. Soil stabilization was provided by a cellular arrangement of jet-grout columns, a relatively new technique to NZ at the time. The new mat slab (typically 600-900 mm) was constructed over the stabilized soils. Secondly, upgrading the superstructure had many constraints that were overcome via a performance-based design approach, using non-linear time-history analysis. Recognizing the heritage significance, the superstructure “resurrection” as a modern building was hidden within the original skin minimized disruption of heritage fabric. Retrofit solutions were targeted, which also minimized the overall works. The 2015–2019 construction phase is briefly discussed within, including jet-grout procedures and sequencing considerations.</p>

This chapter describes the commodification of the wholesale and retail trades of pharmaceuticals since late Ming times and assesses the contribution of mercantile actors to the overall discourse of pharmacy. In particular, the chapter examines the cultural significance of the medicinal marketplace through two interconnected case studies. First is the rise of a sub-county-level market town named Zhangshu, located in the Jiangxi Province, where wholesale traders of materia medica gathered and traded, and supplies from all over the country were pulled together for redistribution. Second, the chapter revisits the well-documented history of the pharmacy Tongrentang (Hall of Common Humanity), which opened for business in Beijing circa 1702. The argument here is that metropolitan pharmacies like Tongrentang could only exist and function after an integrated wholesale market came into existence in the late Ming.

By mid-April 2020, a third of the global population was under full or partial lockdown. While ‘lockdown’ was not a technical term used by public-health officials, it referred to anything from mandatory geographic quarantines to non- mandatory recommendations to stay at home, closures of certain types of businesses, or bans on events and gatherings. During this lockdown period, the travel sector worldwide continued to experience a loss of business. For example, Spain’s famous annual San Fermin bull-running festival, which usually draws thousands of participants, was canceled because of the coronavirus crisis. “As expected as it was, it still leaves us deeply sad,” said acting mayor Ana Elizalde in a statement from the local Pamplona town hall. The July festival, which was made famous in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, has seldom been canceled in its history. Other major European tourist events were canceled, including Oktoberfest, the famous annual German beer-drinking festival which traditionally sees six million people travel to Munich.

The electronic computer has profoundly changed chess. This chapter describes the birth of computer chess, from the very first discussions of computational chess at Bletchley Park during the war to the first chess moves ever calculated by an electronic computer. We cover a number of historic chess programs—including Turing’s own ‘Turochamp’—and recapture some of the atmosphere of those early days of computer chess. Albert Square, Manchester, 2012. The time was coming up to 9 o’clock on a grim summer morning, two days after what would have been Turing’s 100th birthday. Litter from the Olympic torch ceremony still scattered the ground. There were unusual numbers of chess enthusiasts and computer scientists in the square, hurrying past the awkwardly posturing statue of William Gladstone and up the steps at the entrance to Manchester Town Hall. Inside, they filed past more statues—chemist John Dalton, physicist James Joule—and took their seats in the crowded gothic-revival great hall. News of Turing’s centenary celebrations had reached over forty countries: fans in other time zones clicked to join the audience, watching their screens and waiting for the big event to start. Shortly after 9, a flawlessly groomed Garry Kasparov took the stage. Born in the Soviet Union in 1963, Kasparov (Fig. 31.1) became world chess champion at the age of only 22. He has gone down in history as the first reigning champion to be beaten by a computer. In a New York TV studio on the thirty-ninth floor of a Seventh Avenue skyscraper, IBM’s chess computer DeepBlue crushed Kasparov in 1997 (see Ch. 27). Fifteen years later he had come to Manchester to honour Turing, the first pioneer of computer chess. Seeming a bit nervous at first—until his natural ebullience reasserted itself—Kasparov haltingly told the crowd: ‘Apart from personal love of the game, Turing did serious work with chess as a model of mechanical thinking and machine intelligence’. Yet Turing, he said, ‘was a fairly terrible chess player’.

Abstract US retail giant Walmart has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 77% stake in India’s largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart with an investment of around $16 billion, making it the largest transaction in the history of the online retail space globally. The deal, which wiped away $10 billion of Walmart’s market capitalization as investors reacted negatively in early morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange, stands out for several exits. The biggest was Sachin Bansal selling his entire 5.96% stake for $1.23 billion and parting ways with Flipkart that he had founded in 2007 along with a friend from IIT, Binny Bansal (not related). Sachin was nowhere around at the Flipkart campus when the Walmart top team led by CEO Doug McMillon addressed employees in a town hall meeting. Another significant exit is that of Soft Bank, the largest investor in Flipkart. In a strange coincidence, the deal, valuing Flipkart at $20.8 billion, was announced to the world by Soft Bank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son in a webinar with investors hours before Walmart did so. He also confirmed that Soft Bank would get about $4 billion from its $2.5-billion investment in Flipkart last August. Flipkart’s valuation at $20.8 billion is a 75% increase over its previous valuation in the range of $11–12 billion last August. Out of the $16-billion investment, Walmart will put in $2 billion in new equity funding, while the rest will be utilized to acquire stakes of existing investors in the Bengaluru-based company. The case study focuses on Effect of regulatory restrictions in Indian Ecommerce Markets for Global MNCs.

First results of the excavation of the medieval castle of Dos Hermanas (Montemayor, Cordoba)In the south of the kingdom of Córdoba, there is the castle so-called Dos Hermanas, located in the municipality of the current town of Montemayor. It has been considered that the construction of the castle of this stately town was the result of the first moments of decline of the fortress of Dos Hermanas, located on the bank of the Carchena stream. Currently, a first excavation campaign has been carried out that brings us closer to the anthropic occupation of the site. At the same time, the archival research gives new information to the history of the site, exceeding the date of 1340, when Don Martín Alonso de Córdoba partially destroyed the Arab fortress of Dos Hermanas to build the castle of Montemayor. The first data extracted from the field work support the written sources, providing us with new data that allow us to make a more complete and novel interpretation. The survival of part of the facilities of the Dos Hermanas castle with an occupation from Roman times to the sixteenth century that shows the total non-depopulation of the place in the fourteenth century, as previously thought. A high degree of conservation of the structures found inside the wall enclosure appears a southern bay with stables with nine mangers. To the west, there is a vain and an angled staircase that allowed access from the parade ground until the round pass over the main door, which is also preserved. The objective of this proposal will be to present these first results of the archaeological intervention centered on the southern wall of the castle. These research works are accompanied by a consolidation project of the main structures, all financed by the Provincial Delegation of Cordoba and Montemayor Town Hall, whose continuity is developed in 2019 and 2020.

<p>The footbridge was selected in the proposal and has to be designed symbolic and nimble. It also has to guide many visitors from the current city area to other areas.</p><p>It is necessary to increase the number of visitors to the city and extend the sojourn time by improving the attractiveness of the city's coastal areas. The area around the main station, which has a history and charm since the opening of the port and has been the driving force of the regional economy as an area where business and commerce are concentrated, has been in the north area and south area with the relocation of the city hall in June this year. In both areas, many projects are developing in a continuous process. The location of large-scale facilities will continue, and it is expected that the area will become even more lively due to the increase in visitors.</p><p>For this background, many visitors to the main station are smoothly guided to other areas in the north area and south area, such as the famous Y-Park, Chinatown, and old town, to improve mobility. Since this will lead to the revitalization of those districts, a pedestrian deck will be constructed to connect the center buildings in front of the main station and the central Park.</p><p>We carried out preliminary bridge design and landscape design while considering future maintenance and the surrounding environment for the construction of a pedestrian deck that is safe and comfortable and is in harmony with the facilities near this one.</p><p>The footbridge has a moderate presence and is not heavy-looking in the town as an entrance gate of the main road.</p>

El Call de Girona, su barrio judío, es uno de los conjuntos monumentales más importantes de Cataluña y por su nivel de conservación de toda Europa. Caracterizado por sus estrechas callejuelas, herederas de la trama romana de la Gerunda original, unido al resto del casco antiguo de la ciudad, se configuran como el centro histórico-urbano más importante de Cataluña. La creciente afluencia de turistas, junto con la sucesiva mejora y ordenación de las viviendas y edificios singulares que configuran el barrio, totalmente habitado y lleno de vida, está propiciando una serie de medidas urbanísticas para mejorar la accesibilidad al mismo a la vez que se consolida su uso residencial y de equipamientos, mediante una normativa de especial protección urbanística. Por otra parte esta ciudad dispone de un extraordinario sistema de información geográfica, (UMAT) Unidad Municipal de Análisis Territorial, que permite disponer de toda la cartografía urbana de la misma e incluso de un modelo de reconstrucción cartográfica virtual desarrollada por un equipo de expertos bajo los auspicios del Ayuntamiento de Girona y el Museo de Historia de la Ciudad. Tomando como entorno esta zona e información, se propone el desarrollo de una investigación aplicada dentro del ámbito de la expresión gráfica arquitectónica, fundada primero en un trabajo de análisis y estudio de las fuentes bibliográficas, cartográficas e históricas en materia de desarrollo histórico-urbano de la zona y en segundo lugar, en un estudio de aplicación de las modernas técnicas de representación SBIM Sketch Based Interface and Modeling y la AR, Augmented Reality. Fundiendo todos estos registros y campos de trabajo, se lanza la hipótesis de que es posible ampliar la traza de callejuelas actualmente existentes mediante la catalogación y levantamiento de dos nuevos callejones, que denominaremos 1, conocido antiguamente como el callejón “d’Hernandez” que proponemos renombrar como el de la Última Sinagoga y otro callejón, el nº 2 que llamaremos de “Les Dones”, recuperando una referencia histórica anterior, que hasta la fecha tan sólo estaban documentados como paso cerrado el 1 y sin pistas del 2, y que con nuestro trabajo de campo y aportación se ha visto que son perfectamente recuperables. Esta recuperación se aborda en la investigación, mediante la simulación visual de los mismos usando las técnicas de SBIM y AR, antes citadas, de forma combinada y adaptadas a las especificidades del trabajo y habilidades de un arquitecto-urbanista, de manera que se desarrollan una serie de casos de estudio prácticos cuyo objetivo final es que un observador, situado ante la actual entrada tapiada del callejón, mediante un dispositivo tipo Tablet PC, conectado a una webcam y un programa de bajo coste, pueda hacerse una idea de cuál sería el aspecto de esa callejuela. Esta estrategia de pre-visualización, ha de servir además para que el diseñador pueda plantear las posibles alternativas a su recuperación, no siempre evidentes si no evalúan sobre el lugar. En ese sentido y como arquitectos proponemos una solución arquitectónica en cada caso junto con el ensayo del uso de información sobre el terreno (UMAT) con el objetivo último de facilitar la accesibilidad a los diferentes monumentos y edificios patrimoniales del casco histórico de Girona. Por otra parte como docentes de expresión gráfica arquitectónica, ensayamos nuevas estratégicas que permitan potenciar la creatividad. Por último, con nuestro trabajo aspiramos a facilitar a los investigadores informáticos datos y experiencias, que les permitan optimizar las nuevas herramientas y procesos, y a los arquitectos en general, darles a conocer las posibilidades actuales en materia de SBIM y AR. The Call of Girona, its Jewish quarter, is one of the most important monumental assemblies of Catalonia and by its level of conservation, from across Europe. It characterized by their narrow alleys, heirs of the Roman plot of the Gerunda original, along with the remainder of the old helmet of the city, they configure themselves as the most important historic-urban center of Catalonia. The growing affluence of tourists, along with the successive improvement and ordering of the dwellings and singular buildings that configure the neighborhood, completely inhabited and full of life, is giving a series of urban development measures to improve the accessibility to the same one, at the same time that their residential use is consolidated and of equipment, by means of a regulation of special urban development protection. On the other hand this city has an extraordinary system of information online that permits to have all the urban cartography of the same one and even of a model of Virtual cartographic reconstruction developed by a team of experts under them you promote of the City Hall of Girona and the Museum of History of the City. Taking as environment this zone and information, the development of an investigation applied inside the environment of the architectural graphic expression is proposed, founded first in a work of analysis and study of the bibliographical, cartographic and historic sources in matter of historic-urban development of the zone and in second place, in a study of application of the modern techniques of representation SBIM Sketch Based Interface and Modeling and the Augmented Reality. Melting all these registrations and fields of work, the hypothesis is thrown that is possible to expand the plan of at present existing alleys by means of the cataloguing and lifting of two new alleys, that will call 1, or "d' Hernandez", that we propose to rename as that of the Last Synagogue and 2, or "De les Dones", to date only documented to level of location but that with our work of field and contribution has been seen that they are perfectly recoverable. This recovery is undertaken in the investigation, by means of the visual simulation of the same using the techniques of SBIM and AR, before cited, of form combined and adapted to the specificities of the work and abilities of an architect-town planner, so that they develop a practical study cases series whose final objective is that a visitor, situated before the current entrance walled of the alley, by means of a device type Tablet PC connected to a webcam, can be get an idea of which would be the aspect of that alley, on the other hand inaccessible, given that at present is found walled. This strategy of pre-viewing, should serve besides so that the designer can present the possible alternatives to his not always evident, physical recovery. In that sense and as the architects we propose an architectural solution in each case along with the information devices trial on the land that facilitate the accessibility to the different monuments and hereditary buildings of the historic center of Girona. On the other hand as educational of architectural graphic expression, we practice new strategic graphic that permit to promote the creativity and as a group to facilitate the investigators data processing data and experiences that permit to optimize the new tools and processes, and to the architects in general, to bring to light the current possibilities in matter of SBIM and AR.