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Quinault, Roland. "Westminster and the Victorian Constitution." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 2 (December 1992): 79–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3679100.
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The British constitution is unwritten, but not unbuilt. The character of Britain's government buildings reflects the nature of its political system. This is particularly true with respect to the Houses of Parliament. They were almost entirely rebuilt after a fire, in 1834, which seriously damaged the House of Commons and adjacent buildings. The new Houses of Parliament were the most magnificent and expensive public buildings erected in Queen Victoria's reign. Their architectural evolution has been meticulously chronicled by a former Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Michael Port. But constitutionalists and historians have shewn little or no interest in the political character of the Victorian Houses of Parliament. Walter Bagehot, in his famous study, The English Constitution, published in 1867, made no reference to the newly completed Houses of Parliament. Likewise most modern books on Victorian political and constitutional history make no mention of die rebuilding.
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Crompton, Ryan P., K. John McAneney, Keping Chen, Roger A. Pielke, and Katharine Haynes. "Influence of Location, Population, and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925–2009." Weather, Climate, and Society 2, no. 4 (October 1, 2010): 300–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010wcas1063.1.
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Abstract This study reevaluates the history of building damage and loss of life due to bushfire (wildfire) in Australia since 1925 in light of the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria in which 173 people lost their lives and 2298 homes were destroyed along with many other structures. Historical records are normalized to estimate building damage and fatalities had events occurred under the societal conditions of 2008/09. There are relationships between normalized building damage and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean dipole phenomena, but there is no discernable evidence that the normalized data are being influenced by climatic change due to the emission of greenhouse gases. The 2009 Black Saturday fires rank second in terms of normalized fatalities and fourth in terms of normalized building damage. The public safety concern is that, of the 10 years with the highest normalized building damage, the 2008/09 bushfire season ranks third, behind the 1925/26 and 1938/39 seasons, in terms of the ratio of normalized fatalities to building damage. A feature of the building damage in the 2009 Black Saturday fires in some of the most affected towns—Marysville and Kinglake—is the large proportion of buildings destroyed either within bushland or at very small distances from it (<10 m). Land use planning policies in bushfire-prone parts of this country that allow such development increase the risk that bushfires pose to the public and the built environment.
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BREMNER, G. ALEX. "NATION AND EMPIRE IN THE GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTURE OF MID-VICTORIAN LONDON: THE FOREIGN AND INDIA OFFICE RECONSIDERED." Historical Journal 48, no. 3 (September 2005): 703–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x05004632.
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In 1856 the British government held an international competition for the design of public offices to be located near Whitehall and the houses of parliament. Comprising a Foreign Office and War Office, the project was radically altered in 1858 when the War Office component was abandoned and replaced with a new India Office. The controversy that surrounded this competition and its aftermath has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, not least for its importance to the history of Victorian architecture. The current study seeks a wider interpretation of this project by examining the way it became a conflict over ideas concerning British identity and nationhood. It is argued that, at a time when Britain had reached the relative height of its international power, these buildings were seen as a means of not only improving London's urban environment but also celebrating its unrivalled political and economic status. The India Office, often neglected by historians, was significant in this regard, symbolizing the reach and authority of the British empire. Here the Foreign and India Office are reconsidered for what they reveal about British national/imperial self-perception and its representation in architecture during the mid-Victorian period.
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NEUWIRTH, JESSICA, ROBERT PAYNTER, KEVIN SWEENEY, BRADEN PAYNTER, and ABBOTT LOWELL CUMMINGS. "Abbott Lowell Cummings and the Preservation of New England." Public Historian 29, no. 4 (2007): 57–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2007.29.4.57.
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Abstract This interview discusses Abbott Lowell Cummings' life and work as a public historian, focusing in particular on his long career at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England). It deals with the early history of SPNEA under William Sumner Appleton and Bertram K. Little, but focuses particularly on the post-1955 development of the organization after Cummings' arrival and on the refinement of SPNEA's collection of historical buildings through deaccessioning and the establishment of increasingly professionalized standards for preservation, conservation, and interpretation. It also discusses important preservation battles in Boston, such as the fight to preserve the West End from urban renewal and the battle over whether to tear down Victorian architecture on Beacon Hill.
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BORSAY, PETER. "Why are houses interesting?" Urban History 34, no. 2 (June 20, 2007): 338–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926807004671.
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Shortly into his path-breaking study of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London, Peter Guillery remarks that ‘houses are principally interesting because people live in them’ (p. 10). To urban historians the observation might seem unexceptional, even banal. To many architectural historians his comment would be incomprehensible. Therein lies the difficulty for the urban historian with a concern for housing, public buildings and planning. There is a wealth of serious academic studies of architecture, but the majority are written in a language which can seem arcane to the uninitiated and address an agenda which appears little interested in those who inhabited the buildings. At the heart of the problem lies the requirement to treat the built form primarily as a work of art, so that what is studied has to justify itself as an object worthy of aesthetic consideration, and has to relate to an established stylistic canon and chronology. Judged in this light, considerations of user and usage are largely irrelevant, and can appear an invitation to slip into the sort of popular architectural discourse, common in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, in which dwellings are valued primarily for the celebrities and anecdotes associated with them. People are germane only to the extent that they designed buildings, as architects, or commissioned them, as patrons of the arts. Among the two most influential figures in developing and in particular disseminating the art-history perspective on architecture in twentieth-century Britain were Nikolaus Pevsner and John Summerson. Today their presence is felt not only in the world of scholarship, where it has not gone unchallenged, but also and more importantly in popular perceptions of architecture, as mediated through guide literature, the amenity societies (like the National Trust, the Georgian Group and the Victorian Society) and the conservation movement. It is an influence which has been ambivalent. On the one hand, it has led to a far deeper popular understanding and appreciation of architectural form and its history, and has saved many fine buildings. On the other hand, it is has led to a dissociation of form and human usage, a devaluation of structures and traditions not defined as canonic and a blindness to the subjective and ideological nature of architectural history itself.
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Glazzard, Andrew. "‘A great traffic was going on, as usual, in Whitehall’: Public Places and Secret Spaces in Sherlock Holmes’s London." Victoriographies 11, no. 3 (November 2021): 282–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2021.0434.
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Arthur Conan Doyle is rarely considered a master of spy fiction, but several Sherlock Holmes stories were highly influential in the development of this genre in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. This paper examines three of these stories – ‘The Naval Treaty’, ‘The Second Stain’, and ‘The Bruce-Partington Plans’ – and shows how they use the topography of London to explore themes of secrecy, concealment, and political power. Holmes investigates place and space in two ways: he discovers what happens behind the closed doors of government buildings like the Foreign Office in Whitehall and the Woolwich Arsenal, and he reads public spaces (like the London Underground and the streets of Westminster) to detect relationships not apparent to those lacking his criminological skills. These stories inspired contemporary and later authors of espionage fiction as they exemplify some of the purposes and pleasures of the genre – the romanticisation of bureaucracy and insights into secret history.
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Opal, J. M. "The Making of the Victorian Campus: Teacher and Student at Amherst College, 1850-1880." History of Education Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2002): 342–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2002.tb00002.x.
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In the mid nineteenth century Amherst, Massachusetts, amounted to a cluster of farm houses and a collection of public buildings. Its 3,000 inhabitants remained agricultural by trade and localist in orientation. Overlooking the town stood Amherst College, founded in 1821. Its three humble dormitories and decrepit chapel provided a fitting tribute to the evangelical asceticism of its founders. The clothing of its 200 students betrayed their disparate backgrounds. Freshmen stood out. A cringing, submissive manner distinguished them as they scurried to recitation. In contrast, sophomores exuded a haughty demeanor. Others boasted a genteel look, while Amherst's seven professors imparted an air of gravity to the campus. Bearded and dignified, they nodded warmly to pupils who stood aside in deference. Silence typically prevailed at sundown, but attacks by upperclassmen on the freshmen sometimes shattered the quiet. On select evenings, murmured prayers also broke the silence. Kneeling on the chapel floor, students might be found with their hands clasped and eyes shut in meditation. Some broke into tears under the intensity of the prayer meeting, weeping and holding one another with temporary abandon. Professors often knelt beside them. During such revivals, the walls that stood between teacher and pupil crumbled, if only for a moment, in a cathartic surrender.
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Bullen, J. B. "Alfred Waterhouse’s Romanesque ‘Temple of Nature’: The Natural History Museum, London." Architectural History 49 (2006): 257–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066622x00002781.
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The Natural History Museum in London is a spectacular building in many senses (Fig. 1). As one of the outstanding landmarks of high Victorian architecture, it was designed to draw attention both to itself and to its contents. No other museum building in Britain adopted a Romanesque style on this scale; no other building had used terracotta in such a rich and decorative manner, and no other building (other than, perhaps, the University Museum, Oxford) so curiously employed external decoration to illustrate its internal function. It was calculated to appeal to a wide public and its animal sculpture was selfconsciously didactic in the way in which a number of contemporary museum buildings were created to a programme. Planned as a showcase for the nation’s imperial scientific achievements, its appearance was strongly ecclesiastical. When it opened in 1881, The Times leader called it a ‘true Temple of Nature’, which, the writer said, demonstrated ‘the Beauty of Holiness’. But for many visitors in 1881 Nature had abandoned the temple for wilder places; she had bloodied her claws, and the beauty of holiness had been replaced by the more severe, mechanistic principles formulated by Charles Darwin.The concept of a large museum of natural history was the inspiration of the great naturalist Richard Owen. It was also the crowning achievement of his lifetime in science. The ‘Temple of Nature’ that Alfred Waterhouse built for him embodied Owen’s belief that the history of the natural world was not a matter of randomness and chance but the creation of a transcendent presence. In other words, the Natural History Museum is the expression of an ideology, and its shape, size, position, style and decoration are charged with legible meanings. Some of those meanings are readily interpreted, others less so, and although the building history of the museum has been well documented, many questions remain. Why, for example, was Waterhouse chosen as its architect? What spurred him on to use terracotta in such an original way? And above all why did he risk the unusual Romanesque style? The choice of Romanesque for such a building, although it was later imitated elsewhere, was highly original. But that choice was conditioned by a substantial web of aesthetic, social, and political factors. The Natural History Museum was not just Waterhouse’s creation; it was very much the product of its time. It was born of national and local politics; it was shaped by Owen’s unusual position in the scientific world, and it was an expression of Waterhouse’s passion for early medieval architecture.
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Pettigrew, Wendy, and Mark Southcombe. "The End of the Wooden Shop: Wanganui Architecture in the 1890s." Architectural History Aotearoa 4 (October 31, 2007): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/aha.v4i0.6747.
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The 1890s was a decade of remarkable progress in Whanganui. The depression of the 1880s was over. The town became an important port and distribution centre with railway connections to Wellington and New Plymouth as well as wharves at Castlecliff and in town. Alexander Hatrick began his riverboat service on the river enabling tourists from all over the world to travel the "Rhine of New Zealand." The colonial town developed culturally. The Technical School of Design was established in 1892, the public museum opened a few years later and the library was extended. The local MP, John Ballance, was Premier until his death in 1893; his state funeral and that in 1898 of the Māori chief, Te Keepa Rangihiwinui, were defining moments in Whanganui's history. A 40-year building boom began, starting with the replacement of old town centre premises dating from the 1860s and earlier. In 1890 there were two architects in town, but only one with recognized qualifications: Alfred Atkins, FRIBA. Having been in practice with Frederick de Jersey Clere in the 1880s, Atkins' practice blossomed in the 1890s. He was architect to both the Education and Hospital Boards at a time of major commissions and advisor to the Borough Council. He designed the museum and a large warehouse and bond store for Sclanders of Nelson and organized the architectural competition for what is now known as The Royal Whanganui Opera House. This paper examines these and other buildings together with some "gentlemen's residences" as examples of the Victorian architecture which characterizes Whanganui today. During the 1890s the Borough Council continued to grapple with the problem of fires in town. The arguments raged over the merits of building in wood versus brick. This paper looks at the evolution of the Council's eventual designation in 1898 of a downtown "brick area" with bylaws requiring at least brick side walls on all new buildings. The era of building permits began and the erection of new brick walls heralded the end of the wooden shop. The brick buildings that followed changed the character of Whanganui's townscape.
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LONE, SHABIR AHMAD. "Art and Architecture of Ancient Kashmir During Karkota Dynasty with Special Reference to Lalitaditya Muktapida (724-761 A.D)." Journal of Language and Linguistics in Society, no. 22 (March 30, 2022): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jlls.22.34.43.
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The Karkota dynasty of Kashmir was led by Lalitaditya Muktapida, who was its greatest emperor. During his reign, which lasted from 724 until 761 AD, he brought Egypt to the peak of glory. His rule was unquestionably historic in many ways, but his conquests are what history will remember him for the most. The kingdom's golden age began during Lalitaditya's leadership. For him, there was no one religion that he could not accept. At this period, both Buddhism and Brahmanism, the two major religions in India at the time, gained support from this emperor, who built temples for the Buddha and other gods? Several viharas, where learning flourished, were established by the king, who lavishly supported scholars. Foreign scholars and intelligentsia were treated with respect in Kashmir, and several cultural missions from other countries were welcomed. Many public buildings and services were overhauled under his watch. In the event of a natural disaster, farmers were given access to irrigation facilities and relief measures were put in place. As a result of the establishment of charitable institutions, those in need were fed every day. During the reign of Lalitaditya, also known as Samudurgupta of Kashmir, the author of this thesis focuses on art and architecture. During his reign, Kashmir prospered in art, architecture, culture, and learning. Many historians and writers have dubbed him the "Alexander of Kashmiri history" because of his many victories. The study will investigate the old styles of art and architecture from the time of the Karkota Dynasty, which was controlled by Lalitaditya from 724-761. These styles are of considerable significance in the modern era as part of the rich cultural history of the country.
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Walker, Rae, Jonathan Pietsch, Lisa Delaney, Barry Hahn, Carolyn Wallace, and Kitty Billings. "Partnership Management: Working Across Organisational Boundaries." Australian Journal of Primary Health 13, no. 3 (2007): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py07032.
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The short paper that follows is fundamentally about evidence-based practice. In Kuruvilla, Mays, Pleasant and Walt's (2006) terms it was an exercise in the application of research to service development and evidence-based practice. In Walter, Nutley, and Davies' (2003) taxonomy it resulted in a professional intervention, the development of which was led by research users seeking evidence to inform practice development. The team emerged out of a social network of individuals interested in partnership development issues (Kalucy, McIntyre, & Jackson-Bowers, 2007). The resulting paper was the foundation for a significant investment, by the Department of Human Services, in building capacity for partnership leadership in Victoria. The team that undertook this research-to-practice project consisted of three Primary Care Partnership (PCP) executive officers/managers, one of whom was also executive officer to the Statewide Chairs and Managers Group, a university researcher, and a final year undergraduate student working as a volunteer. The executive officer to the Statewide Chairs and Managers Group formed the team to explore broad issues of PCP development and to report to the chairs. The Statewide Chairs and Managers Group was the pathway through which the group's work would reach decision-makers. After a series of meetings to clarify the issues to be addressed, a developmental process for working with the chairs and managers was designed. The executive officers/managers were key to clear issue definition and appropriate process; the researcher to linking the issues to the partnership evidence base. The process relied on tapping the tacit knowledge of PCP managers and chairs and relating this to the relevant body of research. In this process implicit learning needs in regard to partnership leadership were articulated within a framework developed out of a complex research project undertaken with similar partnerships elsewhere. The university researcher on the team had a long history of research into partnerships and networks in the field of primary health care. The specific research project in question was a National Health and Medical Research Council-funded study of trust in the relationships between organisations in a Primary Care Partnership. The study of trust in a partnership is necessarily a study of partnership processes more generally. It was the general learning about partnership processes from this and related research that turned out to be so useful for the service system. The report of this work, that follows, was written in a form suitable for decision-making. It is not a research report but it is built on strong research-based frameworks that were "tested" in the local context. The recommendations are specific to PCPs in Victoria but will also be familiar to partnership workers elsewhere. The predicted effects of the recommendations are supported by research evidence.
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Davis, Jim, and Tracy C. Davis. "The People of the “People's Theatre”: The Social Demography of the Britannia Theatre (Hoxton)." Theatre Survey 32, no. 2 (November 1991): 137–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557400001046.
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In 1882, Walter Besant declared that the hinterland beyond Aldgate had two million people yet “no institutions of their own to speak of, no public buildings of any importance, no municipality, no gentry, no carriages, no soldiers, no picture-galleries, no theatres, no opera—they have nothing.” The fact that Whitechapel first appeared in the theatrical annals in 1557, Stepney contained several of the largest engineering projects in Regency London, and Shoreditch's Britannia was one of the most successful theatres in Victorian Britain belies the prejudice in Besant's statement. Cultural historians of all types need to resist such propaganda and have good cause to suspect the entire record of life, leisure, and entertainment in the industrialized inner suburbs. The history of nineteenth-century English theatre has—with very few exceptions—focussed on London, yet apart from essays by Michael Booth and Clive Barker little serious attention has been paid to theatre in the East End. Booth points out the limitations arising from scholarship that ignores the area where half of the metropolitan theatre seats were located, while Barker shows the methodological difficulties that arise once a redressive investigation into the audience is undertaken. The omissions from the historical record are compounded by narrow selectivity of enquiries: leading performers receive scholarly attention while supernumeraries (supers), ballet dancers, front of house staff, property makers, and the many functionaries who made up the whole community responsible for running a theatre are consistently neglected. These characteristics are somehow more evident in scholarship on the East End, where no matter how sociogeographically biased the enquirers may be the working class and its conditions are central themes, and the repertoire has always been allowed (perhaps stereotyped) as sensational.
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McDowall, Duncan. "Ward, Robin. Echoes of Empire: Victoria and its Remarkable Buildings." Urban History Review 26, no. 1 (October 1997): 70–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1016683ar.
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Dyer, A. "Victoria County History, Vol. V, Part 2: The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions." English Historical Review CXXII, no. 496 (April 1, 2007): 458–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem007.
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Piggott, Gillian S. J. "Rogers' Chocolates Ltd. and the Corporation of the City of Victoria: A Case Comment on Involuntary Designation and the Conservation of Heritage Buildings." International Journal of Cultural Property 18, no. 2 (May 2011): 225–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739111000117.
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AbstractThe process adopted by the local government to protect the interior of an old building in Victoria, British Columbia, culminated in a significant compensation award in favor of the building's owner and highlights the shortcomings of a coercive regulatory approach to heritage conservation. This study focuses on the relationship between cooperative resolution of conflicts between the rights of the public to protect heritage buildings and the rights of private property owners to the use of their property without interference, on the one hand, and the long-term utility and conservation of historic buildings and the sustainability of local government heritage programs, on the other. Analysis includes discussion on (a) key issues arising out of an involuntary heritage designation, (b) flexible alternative conservation mechanisms and incentives available to local governments, (c) approaches to conservation of heritage buildings in other jurisdictions, and (d) opportunities for improvement in the local government heritage conservation program.
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Isakov, O. A., Zh Zh Bapanova, and A. G. Tlegen. "HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF KAZAKH ARCHITECTURE IN THE XIX CENTURY." Bulletin of Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Construction 86, no. 4 (December 15, 2022): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.51488/1680-080x/2022.4-02.
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The article presents some results of the study of the history of the development of Kazakh architecture of the XIX century. It presents residential and public buildings of that time, a new type of housing called "Korzhyn", "Modern" urban housing, public buildings, in particular mosque buildings, as well as the development of architecture, a broad understanding of the patterns of architectural compositions. In addition, at present we are talking about the use of architectural elements of buildings of the XIX century.
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Hurlimann, A. C. "Urban versus regional – how public attitudes to recycled water differ in these contexts." Water Science and Technology 57, no. 6 (March 1, 2008): 891–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2008.167.
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This paper reports findings from a comparative study which investigated public attitudes to recycled water in two Australian locations both in the state of Victoria: the capital city, Melbourne, and Bendigo, an urban regional centre. Two commercial buildings were used as case studies, one at each location. These buildings will soon be using recycled water for non-potable uses. The study was facilitated by an on-line survey of future occupants of both buildings to gauge their attitudes to recycled water use. Specifically the paper reports on happiness/willingness to use recycled water for various uses and attitudinal factors which were found to influence this. The circumstances for potable water availability and recycled water use differ in Melbourne and Bendigo, making this study a significant contribution to understanding public acceptance of recycled water use in these different contexts. No significant difference in happiness to use recycled water was found between locations. However, prior experience (use) of recycled water was found to be a significant and positive factor in facilitating happiness/willingness to use recycled water, particularly for closer to personal contact uses such as showering and drinking. Various attitudinal and demographic variables were found to influence happiness to use recycled water. Results indicate it is not just the locational context of water availability that influences happiness to use recycled water, but a person's experience and particular perceptions that will facilitate greater willingness to use recycled water.
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Wateren, J. F. van der. "Archival resources in the Victoria and Albert Museum." Art Libraries Journal 14, no. 2 (1989): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200006192.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum, itself an archive of material culture, houses several collections of archival records. The Museum’s Registered Papers are divided between the Museum itself, which holds those papers relating to objects in the Museum, and the Public Record Office, where papers relating to Museum buildings and administration can be found; all papers produced since 1984 are to be housed together in a newly established V & A Archive. The quality of the archive of Registered Papers is uneven due to the lack of a controlling and unifying policy; this, and questions of conservation and administration, are being addressed as part of the current restructuring of the Museum. For the same reason the archives of the different Departments, though important, vary considerably not only in content but also in their organisation. The National Art Library, part of the V & A, includes archival collections of ephemera, comprising examples of printing and graphic design, and of manuscripts, including artists’ papers; it also includes the Archive of Art and Design, founded in 1978 to avoid the splitting up of significant archives between the Museum’s Departments.
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Coventry, C. J. "Links in the Chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia." Before/Now: Journal of the collaborative Research Centre in Australian History (CRCAH) 1, no. 1 (May 3, 2019): 27–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.35843/beforenow.173286.
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Beneficiaries of British slavery were present in colonial Victoria and provincial South Australia, a link overlooked by successive generations of historians. The Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, hosted by University College, London, reveals many people in these colonies as having been connected to slave money awarded as compensation by the Imperial Parliament in the 1830s. This article sets out the beneficiaries to demonstrate the scope of exposure of the colonies to slavery. The list includes governors, jurists, politicians, clergy, writers, graziers and financiers, as well as various instrumental founders of South Australia. While Victoria is likely to have received more of this capital than South Australia, the historical significance of compensation is greater for the latter because capital from beneficiaries of slavery, particularly George Fife Angas and Raikes Currie, ensured its creation. Evidence of beneficiaries of slavery surrounds us in the present in various public honours and notable buildings.
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Neofotistos, Vasiliki P. "Sport and nationalism in the Republic of North Macedonia." Focaal 2019, no. 85 (December 1, 2019): 110–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2019.850110.
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Using the Republic of North Macedonia as a case study, this article analyzes the processes through which national sports teams’ losing performance acquires a broad social and political significance. I explore claims to sporting victory as a direct product of political forces in countries located at the bottom of the global hierarchy that participate in a wider system of coercive rule, frequently referred to as empire. I also analyze how public celebrations of claimed sporting victories are intertwined with nation-building efforts, especially toward the global legitimization of a particular version of national history and heritage. The North Macedonia case provides a fruitful lens through which we can better understand unfolding sociopolitical developments, whereby imaginings of the global interlock with local interests and needs, in the Balkans and beyond.
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Wagner, Tamara S. "SPECULATORS AT HOME IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL: MAKING STOCK-MARKET VILLAINS AND NEW PAPER FICTIONS." Victorian Literature and Culture 36, no. 1 (March 2008): 21–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080029.
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In THE WAY WE LIVE NOW (1875), the Melmottes’ origins remain a mystery that becomes increasingly irrelevant. Few of Augustus Melmotte's business partners venture to inquire too closely into the specious public faith in his financial integrity even as they prepare to extract the promising output of his highly speculative enterprises. On the contrary, a suspicion that their seemingly stable investments are as unsafe as they are spurious, that they bear the marks of risky speculation, accompanies the rise of the commercial Melmotte Empire from its beginnings. Close inquiry is not so much guarded against as shirked by those who wish to believe in it. When aristocratic would-be investors scramble for a seat on the boards of this “New Man,” they are therefore guilty not simply of nourishing a fraudulent financier whose history as a swindler they are well aware of, for Melmotte's connections to continental scams are notorious. Rather, they are building on ambivalent attitudes to the seemingly successful speculator. Just as the instability associated with speculation is conveniently embodied by an international man of mystery in the worst sense, it can also be exorcised just as easily by his self-destruction.
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Boucher, Leigh, and Robert Reynolds. "Decriminalisation, Apology and Expungement: Sexual Citizenship and the Problem of Public Sex in Victoria." Australian Historical Studies 49, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 457–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2018.1521853.
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Anatoliev, Mitko. "Some Public Buildings of Vasilyov-Tsolov Architectural Bureau." Sledva : Journal for University Culture, no. 41 (August 20, 2020): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/sledva.20.41.15.
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After a short survey of influences of German architecture on the formation of Bulgarian architectural scene after the Liberation (1878), the paper focuses on the interwar period known for its architectural practices, consisting of two leading architects. The influence of the modernist movements from this period on the classical architecture of the state and public buildings in Bulgaria is traced through the history of Vasilyov-Tsolov Architectural Bureau, its formation and philosophy. The article presents four examples of their significant projects, which are the pinnacle of their careers and largely shape the urban look of Sofia city center, having become its symbols, namely: St. Nedelya Church, Sofia University Library, the National Library, and Bulgarian National Bank.
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Azis, Baskoro, Herry Santosa, and Jenny Ernawati. "ASSESSING PUBLIC PERCEPTION FOR ILLUMINATION OF BUILDING IN KAYUTANGAN STREET, MALANG, INDONESIA." DIMENSI (Journal of Architecture and Built Environment) 46, no. 1 (August 26, 2019): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/dimensi.46.1.11-22.
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Malang is well-known for colonial buildings. Visual quality of building in the Kayutangan corridor makes it an icon of Malang City. Assessment of visual quality is affected by daytime and nighttime conditions. Day and night lighting are factors that influenced the visual quality assessment of buildings. This study meant to assess the visual quality of buildings in the kayutangan corridor which has a history and aspects that influence by society during the day and night. This study used a descriptive quantitative method explaining public perception about the visual quality of buildings in Kayutangan street corridors during the day and night. Semantic Differential Scale was the instrument to describe the respondents’ perceptions. From the result showed that visual quality of four of 10 buildings have a low scores and there are six variables that have the most influence on daylight and eight variables at night on buildings in the Kayutangan corridor.
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Cain, Victoria E. M., and Adam Laats. "A history of technological hype." Phi Delta Kappan 102, no. 6 (February 22, 2021): 8–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031721721998147.
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Education leaders frequently turn to technological solutions to improve schools, often without evidence of their effectiveness. According to Victoria Cain and Adam Laats, this pattern of leaders pouring money into new technological systems and then being disappointed in the results goes back centuries. They describe how, in the early 1800s, Lancastrian schoolrooms captured the public imagination and how, in the 1950s and ‘60s, were seen as a solution to current educational ills. These examples provide a warning to those who see online education as a silver bullet.
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Prochaska, F. "Shorter notice. The Contentious Crown. Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria. R Williams. Remaking Queen Victoria. M Homans, A Munich [ed.]." English Historical Review 114, no. 456 (April 1999): 478–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/enghis/114.456.478-a.
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Prochaska, F. "Shorter notice. The Contentious Crown. Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria. R Williams. Remaking Queen Victoria. M Homans, A Munich [ed.]." English Historical Review 114, no. 456 (April 1, 1999): 478–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.478-a.
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Shiriyev, Tural. "Influence of Islam on public buildings in Middle Ages Azerbaijan culture." OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii" 2020, no. 02 (February 1, 2020): 267–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.31166/voprosyistorii202002statyi28.
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Meadows, Graham. "Geographical Resource Allocation for Public Mental Health Services in Victoria." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 31, no. 1 (February 1997): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679709073805.
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Objective:To provide background information on the approach of area based funding models for mental health services, to describe the considerations which have come to bear in the development process of the Victorian model, to explore the impacts of different models, and to suggest courses for further development. Method:The history of this approach to funding in the UK and the USA is summarised, then an account is given of the development of the Victorian model. The position is put that the validation of such models is hampered by having only sparse relevant data. Suggestions are made for improving this situation. Results:The Victorian model has come to include adjustments for socioeconomic disadvantage, the age, sex and marital status structure of the population, and a variable discounting for estimated substitutive activity of the private sector. Different methods of combining these adjustments into a working formula can be seen to have very different impacts. Conclusions:The approach taken in development of this model can be expected to have major influence on funding within Victoria, but also more widely in Australia. The impacts of differing assumptions within these models are significant. Specifically targeted epidemiological research, and activity analysis of the private sector will be necessary to enhance the validity of models of this type.
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Austin, Barbara. "Canadian Papers in Business History, Vol. 1. Edited by Peter Baskerville · Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria Public History Group, 1989. vi + 269 pp. Tables and notes. $19.95." Business History Review 63, no. 4 (1989): 981–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3115988.
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Dixon, Nicholas. "George IV and William IV in their Relations with the Church of England*." English Historical Review 134, no. 571 (December 2019): 1440–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez364.
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Abstract George IV and William IV have long been represented as fundamentally pleasure-seeking monarchs who had little or no interest in religion. However, this assumption has never been sustained by detailed evidence. This article comprehensively challenges the stereotype by presenting the regency and reign of George IV together with William IV’s reign as a distinct and significant period in the relationship between the British monarchy and the Church of England. Three main aspects of this relationship are considered: George IV and William IV’s private commitments as manifested in court religion, the political actions of these monarchs in relation to the established church and their encouragement of Anglican church building and educational projects. The article draws upon a wide range of neglected sources, and especially the private correspondence and memoirs of those closest to George IV and William IV. Most notably, it introduces into the discussion the extensive and revealing autobiography of George IV’s chaplain Hugh Pearson, which has received scant attention from historians until now. From such sources, there emerges a picture of royal interaction with Anglicanism that almost entirely overturns the conventional view. Not only were the two last Hanoverian kings interested in religion; their Anglican beliefs directed much of their public and private conduct. This reinterpretation has important implications for our understanding of monarchy, religion and political culture in pre-Victorian England.
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Worden, Nigel, and Elizabeth Van Heyningem. "Signs of the Times : Tourism and Public History at Cape Town's Victoria and Alfred Waterfront." Cahiers d’études africaines 36, no. 141 (1996): 215–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/cea.1996.2009.
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Brunner, Patrick, Peter Kifinger, and Elke Nagel. "Civic Building Activities in Riga and Munich: Parallels in Urban Development and Stylistic History." Architecture and Urban Planning 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 38–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aup-2019-0006.
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AbstractTwo distant towns, two founding initiators and, at least for parts of the historic development, strictly separated political systems do not actually suggest a range of similarities. Yet, in closer examination during an academic student research project on major public buildings in Riga and Munich, several remarkable references occurred: some triggered by outstanding individuals, some due to pan-European architectural flow. By comparing the key stages of urban development, mainly on the analysis of historical plans and vedutas and by detecting stylistic links in the cities’ public buildings, striking parallels became visible, as well as significant differences in detail.
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Wahrman, Dror. "“Middle-Class” Domesticity Goes Public: Gender, Class, and Politics from Queen Caroline to Queen Victoria." Journal of British Studies 32, no. 4 (October 1993): 396–432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386041.
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In early 1831, the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton contributed a comparative essay to the Edinburgh Review on “the spirit of society” in England and France. A key issue for discussion, of course, was that of fashion. “Our fashion,” stated Bulwer-Lytton, “may indeed be considered the aggregate of the opinions of our women.” The fundamental dichotomy which ran through these pages was that between public and private: “the proper sphere of woman,” Bulwer-Lytton continued, “is private life, and the proper limit to her virtues, the private affections.” And in antithesis to the aggregate opinions of “the domestic class of women”—in his view, the only virtuous kind of women—which constituted fashion, stood “public opinion”; that exclusive masculine realm, that should remain free of “feminine influence.”Some two years later, in his two-volume England and the English, Bulwer-Lytton restated the antithesis between fashion and public opinion, both repeating his earlier formulation and at the same time significantly modifying it. By 1833, his definitions of fashion and opinion ran as follows: “The middle classes interest themselves in grave matters: the aggregate of their sentiments is called OPINION. The great interest themselves in frivolities, and the aggregate of their sentiments is termed FASHION.” Here, Bulwer-Lytton no longer designated fashion as the aggregate of the opinions of women but, instead, as the aggregate of the opinions of the upper classes; and public opinion was no longer the domain of men but, instead, the aggregate of the opinions of the “middle class.”
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Kuhn, William M., and Richard Williams. "The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria." American Historical Review 104, no. 3 (June 1999): 995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2651131.
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Lucas, A. M., Sara Maroske, and Andrew Brown-May. "Bringing Science to the Public: Ferdinand von Mueller and Botanical Education in Victorian Victoria." Annals of Science 63, no. 1 (January 2006): 25–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790500365389.
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Dupré, Ruth. "Canadian Papers in Business History. Vol. I. Edited by Peter Baskerville. Victoria, British Columbia: The Public History Group of the University of Victoria, 1989. Pp. vi, 269. $19.95 (Canadian)." Journal of Economic History 50, no. 3 (September 1990): 772–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700037682.
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Ergashevich Abdullaev, Oktamjon. "Architectural Image of Bukhara in the XVI-Early XX Centuries." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 8, no. 12 (December 4, 2021): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v8i12.3275.
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In the 16th century, the types of architectural structures were improved, many public buildings and structures (caravanserais, bridges, cisterns, baths in cities, time and other stalls) were built, the history and appearance of monumental buildings were changed. The city of Bukhara is surrounded by a thick and high wall (up to 10 meters) with city gates. Large buildings used the traditions of folk architecture, and monumental buildings began to be built outside the city.
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Baymetova, Zumradkhon B. "PROBLEMS OF PRESERVATION OF UNIQUE STRUCTURES AND HARMONIZATION WITH MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN URBAN PLANNING OF UZBEKISTAN (ON THE EXAMPLE OF BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES BUILT IN TASHKENT IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XX CENTURY)." Oriental Journal of Technology and Engineering 01, no. 01 (December 1, 2021): 30–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/supsci-ojte-01-01-05.
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This article discusses the problems of combining the unique structures of urban planning in Uzbekistan, built after the 60s of the twentieth century, with modern architecture. The study also examines the history of buildings and structures in Tashkent, as well as the fact that many buildings in the city fell into disrepair after the 1966 earthquake. There are also public buildings and residential buildings built between 1966 and 1996, thanks to which buildings built according to unique and inimitable projects have become the hallmark of the city.
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Bohdanova, Yuliia, and Іhor Kopylyak. "FORMATION HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF CLUB BUILDINGS OF LVIV." Vìsnik Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu "Lʹvìvsʹka polìtehnìka". Serìâ Arhìtektura 4, no. 2 (December 22, 2022): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/sa2022.02.025.
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The article shows the history of the formation of the architecture of Lviv clubs from the beginning of their formation to the present day. Today, there is a trend where iconic historical objects, which often have lost their original function, attract the interest of potential investors. In order not to lose valuable objects of the city’s cultural heritage, a policy of integrating the monument into a new functional context is being pursued. Cultural and educational functions prevail among the most popular solutions: media libraries, co-working spaces, social hubs, art and cultural centers. Their main goal is to revitalize cultural communication and public life in the city. Thanks to modern materials and technologies, architects and designers have the opportunity to create flexible, universal spaces that allows quickly respond to changes in user demand and hold a wide range of events. Innovative approaches in the construction process make it possible to preserve iconic objects and bring the architectural environment of the city into European and world contexts. Modern trends in the development of society indicate that there is an acute need for buildings and spaces for the cultural activities of numerous societies and organizations. Recently, as a result of the diversity of urban life, new forms of public communication have appeared, and therefore, new types of buildings in which such communication takes place. The social conditions of each socio-economic formation leave their mark on the type of building, give it a new social meaning and structure. Therefore, in order to predict the development of multifunctional cultural and educational objects today, to determine their optimal functional structure and volume-spatial solution of the auditorium, capable to exist for different types of events, it is necessary to know and use the architectural experience of past times, when cultural and educational buildings and clubs are becoming the most popular, both on our territory and in the world.
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Lei, Yin Bin, and Feng Hua Lu. "Analysis on the Space Remodeling of the Old Public Buildings Courtyard." Advanced Materials Research 368-373 (October 2011): 3254–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.368-373.3254.
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Many neoteric public buildings in old urban communities are material carriers of the history of the due city; hence, when these building are preserved and renovated, they can always act as symbols of the city memory. It is necessary to remodel the space of these old public buildings, and to make sure that they continue to play important roles in the the development of the area. In this essay, through probing into the features and analysing the economic, cultural and historical values of these public constructions, the author put forward different remodeling methods and techniques. It is of practical and cultural significance.
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Goldfinch, Shaun, and Vanessa Roberts. "New Public Management and Public Sector Reform in Victoria and New Zealand: Policy Transfer, Elite Networks and Legislative Copying*." Australian Journal of Politics & History 59, no. 1 (March 2013): 80–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12005.
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Beller, Anne-Marie. "Brief Encounters: Sensation Fiction and the Short Story." Victoriographies 12, no. 3 (November 2022): 269–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2022.0470.
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Building on recent work on sensation short fiction, which has convincingly argued for the form’s significance to our knowledge of mid-Victorian sensationalist culture more broadly, this article examines Wilkie Collins’s ‘A Marriage Tragedy’ (1857–58), and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s ‘Levison’s Victim’ (1870) and ‘The Mystery at Fernwood’ (1861). Through a focus on generic hybridity, marriage, and identity, the connections and divergences between the short and long forms of literary sensationalism are traced, from the passing of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act in 1857 to the first Married Women’s Property Act of 1870. These particular markers reflect the distinct emphasis on matrimony within these texts during a crucial period of public interest in the Marriage Question. It is argued that the sensation short story is more heavily characterised by gothic tropes than its longer counterpart, even as it eschews the supernatural. Female characters in these stories encounter marriage as an uncanny site of terror and are silenced and traumatised by these intimate experiences. Despite the legal reforms and ongoing public debate of the 1860s and 1870s, writers of the sensation short story suggest that modern marriage retains the threats to female liberty, safety, and sanity that characterised the gothic narratives of an earlier period.
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Lucas, Colin, and James A. Leith. "Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares, and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799." American Historical Review 98, no. 2 (April 1993): 505. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2166899.
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Gook, Leonid, and Halyna Khavkhun. "APPLICATION OF ART GLASS IN INTERIORS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS." Architectural Bulletin of KNUCA, no. 22-23 (December 12, 2021): 166–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.32347/2519-8661.2021.22-23.166-171.
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The aim of the research is to identify the compositional methods of using art glass in the interiors of public buildings in order to increase their aesthetic expressiveness. In the article the information on the history of art glass development is given. According to the results of the historical analysis, it is concluded that new directions of glass application arose with the development of new technologies of glass production and processing - this process continues to this day. An overview of the state of study of the problem, in particular the research of Kazakova L.V., F.Petryakova, Som-Serdyukova O.M., Daineko V.V., and identified the main areas in which research is conducted. The physical properties of glass and its types by technological features are considered. A historical overview of the development of gutnitsy on the territory of Ukraine. The two main trends in studio glassmaking to date have been identified and a conclusion has been drawn about the evolution of art glass from the subject form to the art object. The current state of art glass formation is characterized by associativity, metaphoricalness, and increased decorativeness. The classification of art glass according to the function of application in public interior is carried out. The basic compositional methods of placing art glass in the space of public interior are revealed. Three degrees of integration of art glass with elements of architecture are formulated: the decor on architectural elements, as a part of architectural elements, is directly an architectural and constructive element. Examples of objects that demonstrate the integration of art glass with architectural elements are given. Henri Matisse's stained glass windows in the Dominican Sisters' Chapel in Mans, France, are described as an example of the use of the "rhythm" compositional technique and Dale Chihuly's glass garden gallery in Seattle with a glass installation that dominates the pavilion. It is concluded that the choice of compositional methods of including art glass in the interior space depends on many factors - the functional purpose of the room, the specifics of space, its size, etc. and should take into account aspects of its psychological impact on man, principles of structural and compositional organization and features life processes.
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Stacul, Jaro. "Redeveloping history in postsocialist Poland." Focaal 2018, no. 81 (June 1, 2018): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2018.810106.
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This article analyzes the reorganization of public memory space in postsocialist Poland and how the state and municipal councils use it to legitimate themselves. Drawing on research conducted in Gdańsk, the birthplace of the social movement (Solidarność) that questioned the legitimacy of the socialist state in the 1980s, it examines the proposed redevelopment of the shipyard where the movement was formed. While the redevelopment sets out to create a public memory space, it is rife with contradictions, for it involves demolishing many buildings associated with the movement. What legitimated the municipal council’s authority over its memorial landscapes was not so much its rediscovery of complex local histories as it was its ability to define the local past in “material” terms.
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Leahy, Deana, Dawn Penney, and Rosie Welch. "Schooling health: the critical contribution of curriculum in the 1980s." History of Education Review 46, no. 2 (October 2, 2017): 224–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-03-2016-0016.
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Purpose Public health authorities have long regarded schools as important sites for improving children and young people’s health. In Australia, and elsewhere, lessons on health have been an integral component of public health’s strategy mix. Historical accounts of schools’ involvement in public health lack discussion of the role of health education curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to redress this silence and illustrate the ways health education functioned as a key governmental apparatus in Victoria in the 1980s. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on governmentality studies to consider the explicit governmental role of official health education curriculum in the 1980s in Victoria, Australia. The authors conduct a discourse analysis of the three official curriculum texts that were released during this period to consider the main governmental rationalities and techniques that were assembled together by curriculum writers. Findings School health education functions as a key governmental apparatus of governmentality. One of its major functions is to provide opportunities to responsibilise young people with an aim to ensure that that they can perform their duty to be well. The authors demonstrate the central role of policy events in the 1970s and how they contributed to conditions of possibility that shaped versions of health education throughout the 1980s and beyond. Despite challenges posed by the critical turn in health education in the late 1980s, the governmental forces that shape health education are strong and have remained difficult to displace. Originality/value Many public health and schooling histories fail to take into account insights from the history of education and curriculum studies. The authors argue that in order to grasp the complexities of school health education, we need to consider insights afforded by curriculum histories. Historical insights can provide us with an understanding of the changing approaches to governing health in schools.
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Zulfiqar, Hamid, Adnan Anwar, and Shahid Mansoor Khan. "British Colonial Era Architectural History of Abbottabad and its Tourism Prospect." Global Political Review V, no. III (September 30, 2020): 193–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2020(v-iii).19.
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This research focuses on exploring the existing valuable yet neglected heritage trail of Abbottabad. The primary objective of the research is to prepare a conservation strategy for the selected heritage trail in the city after profound study culminating in the detailed documentation of architecturally rich and valuable heritage buildings of the city. One of the important focuses of the conservation was the promotion of tourism in the city by attracting the local as well as international tourists by providing details of each historic structure. Documentation of the Architectural characteristics of important buildings in the selected areas of the city was included in the study. Moreover, all important buildings were documented in terms of their location, architectural and artistic importance. The research brought forth some interesting findings regarding the responses of government authorities and the general public towards the rich heritage trail of the area. In the light of these findings, conclusions were derived and a set of suggestions was prepared for practical implications on an immediate as well as long-term basis.
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Muir, Carlyn, Ian R. Johnston, and Eric Howard. "Evolution of a holistic systems approach to planning and managing road safety: the Victorian case study, 1970–2015." Injury Prevention 24, Suppl 1 (February 16, 2018): i19—i24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042358.
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BackgroundThe Victorian Safe System approach to road safety slowly evolved from a combination of the Swedish Vision Zero philosophy and the Sustainable Safety model developed by the Dutch. The Safe System approach reframes the way in which road safety is viewed and managed.MethodsThis paper presents a case study of the institutional change required to underpin the transformation to a holistic approach to planning and managing road safety in Victoria, Australia.ResultsThe adoption and implementation of a Safe System approach require strong institutional leadership and close cooperation among all the key agencies involved, and Victoria was fortunate in that it had a long history of strong interagency mechanisms in place. However, the challenges in the implementation of the Safe System strategy in Victoria are generally neither technical nor scientific; they are predominantly social and political. While many governments purport to develop strategies based on Safe System thinking, on-the-ground action still very much depends on what politicians perceive to be publicly acceptable, and Victoria is no exception.ConclusionsThis is a case study of the complexity of institutional change and is presented in the hope that the lessons may prove useful for others seeking to adopt more holistic planning and management of road safety. There is still much work to be done in Victoria, but the institutional cultural shift has taken root. Ongoing efforts must be continued to achieve alert and compliant road users; however, major underpinning benefits will be achieved through focusing on road network safety improvements (achieving forgiving infrastructure, such as wire rope barriers) in conjunction with reviews of posted speed limits (to be set in response to the level of protection offered by the road infrastructure) and by the progressive introduction into the fleet of modern vehicle safety features.
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Nam, Seunghoon, Jaemoon Kim, and Duwhan Lee. "Current Status of Aged Public Buildings and Effect Analysis Prediction of Green Remodeling in South Korea." Sustainability 13, no. 12 (June 10, 2021): 6649. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13126649.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the scope of the expected improvement effect of office buildings and educational research facilities according to green remodeling. Thus, in order to quantitatively grasp the architectural performance of the existing buildings, the building thermal performance, the airtightness, the indoor environment, and the air quality were measured using equipment. The analysis indicated that the envelope performance and the indoor environment were unsatisfactory compared to the current legal standards, and for indoor air quality, CO2 and formaldehyde were measured to be dissatisfactory in some buildings. The energy analysis results indicated that the improvement range differed according to the renovation history for each building, resulting in differences in the energy-saving rate for each alternative. The reduction rates of primary energy consumption using energy simulation were 38.5–67.4% for office buildings and 23.7–66.3% for educational research facilities, and the payback periods were 14 to 27 years for office buildings and 12 to 30 years for educational research facilities. These results are expected to contribute to the activation of green remodeling because they can be used as indicators to predict the expected construction cost, the payback period, and the expected effect required for green remodeling.