The City of Scholars: New Approaches to Christine de Pizan

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Keith Busby ◽  
Margarete Zimmermann ◽  
Dina De Rentiis
Keyword(s):  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The City

Does Automated Enforcement Presence Impact Collisions and Crime?

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (10) ◽  
pp. 522-531
Author(s):  
Shewkar Ibrahim ◽  
Tarek Sayed
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Multiple Objectives ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Traffic Enforcement ◽  
Lognormal Model ◽  
Deployment Strategy ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The City

Enforcement agencies generally operate under a strict budget and with limited resources. For this reason, they are continually searching for new approaches to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their deployment. The Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety approach attempts to identify opportunities where increased visibility of traffic enforcement can lead to a reduction in collision frequencies as well as criminal incidents. Previous research developed functions to model collisions and crime separately, despite evidence suggesting that the two events could be correlated. Additionally, there is little knowledge of the implications of automated enforcement programs on crime. This study developed a Multivariate Poisson-Lognormal model for the city of Edmonton to quantify the correlation between collisions and crime and to determine whether automated enforcement programs can also reduce crime within a neighborhood. The results of this study found a high correlation between collisions and crime of 0.72 which indicates that collision hotspots were also likely to be crime hotspots. The results of this paper also showed that increased enforcement presence resulted in reductions not only in collisions but also in crime. If a single deployment can achieve multiple objectives (e.g., reducing crime and collisions), then optimizing an agency’s deployment strategy would decrease the demand on their resources and allow them to achieve more with less.

scholarly journals Choreography of the Past: Accounting and the Writing of Christine de Pizan

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Miley ◽  
Andrew Read
Keyword(s):  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Budget Management ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
The Past ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Single Entry ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTThis research discusses The Treasure of the City of Ladies, a manuscript written by Christine de Pizan in France during the early 15th century to give guidance on account keeping and budgeting. Christine de Pizan was born in Italy but raised in the French royal court. Her manuscript gives the keeping of accounts and budget management a religious imperative. She describes them as functions where the three divine virtues of reason, rectitude, and justice are applied. Christine de Pizan describes how demonstrating these virtues through the proper keeping of accounts and budgets is a way to demonstrate love of God. Although historical accounting records show how accounting was done, this manuscript explains why it was done. In giving a rationale for single-entry bookkeeping and budgeting, the manuscript provides a source that prevents present-mindedness when attempting to undertake contemporary analyses of accounting records from this historical period.

scholarly journals BLENDING OF OLD AND NEW APPROACHES IN GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Eduard Hofmann ◽  
Hana Svobodová
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Geographical Education ◽  
City Environment ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Natural Science Education ◽  
The City

Field work often takes place in the countryside and the city environment is neglected, although we usually move there more often. Natural science education should, however, include not only the evaluation of the rural landscape, but also the city, because we can find there an explanation for a number of physical-geographical but also socioeconomic phenomena and their spatio-temporal evolution. Therefore, the authors focused on the goal to use urban landscape as a "geography textbook". Urban landscape serves in this case as a didactic image. A study about significant viewpoints in Brno and its surroundings served as a basis for the experiment in which pupils and students had to sketch a view from these viewpoints and authors evaluated how they are able to perceive the urban landscape, locate the significant elements in an urban structure, identify their functions and relations among them. This concept can be understood as a use of nonverbal elements in teaching. The results of this experiment and namely the comparison of sketches produced by pupils and university students are described in the paper which also describes the blending of old and new approaches in geographical education. Key words: didactic image, geographical education, panoramic sketch, urban landscape.

Towards Feminism: Christine De Pizan, Female Advocacy, and Women’s Textual Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Romance Of The Rose ◽  
Early Modern Women ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Women's Literacy ◽  
Textual Communities ◽  
The City

Although "feminist" claims for full legal and political emancipation were nonexistent in the Middle Ages and women had restricted access to education, many elite women throughout Europe left eloquent written testimony of their intellectual and literary gifts. Some women explicitly took up the pen to defend women's honor against misogynistic attacks and to champion their contributions to society. This chapter focuses on the pro-feminine works of Christine de Pizan (1364–1430?), who not only engaged in an epistolary debate with male authorities denouncing the Romance of the Rose as antifeminist, but also wrote two works explicitly defending female virtue and promoting women's social well-being: The City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies. Christine's work participated in the spread of women's literacy; her female advocacy anticipated arguments for women's education and critiques of marriage made by subsequent female humanists and early modern women writers in France, Italy, and England.

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