William James and Henri Poincaré

1927 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 253-264
Author(s):  
M. H. Ingraham
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
William James ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Henri Poincaré ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
The Hours ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: A good many times today I have heard it said that we should emphasize in class those things that would interest the man in the street. I suppose that this is good doctrine. But if it is sound, it seems to me that our most important task is to find the right man in the street. Some years ago I succeeded in doing this to a marked degree here in Worcester. Between my sophomore and junior years in college I spent some time tramping in the White Mountains and on the way took the opportunity to see a little of New England. I had a very pleasant trolley trip starting from Hartford, including Springfield, Amherst, Northampton and ending here in Worcester. I had never been off the train in Worcester before and had only a few hours to stay. I knew nothing of the city except its population and the hours of a few departing trains. What should I see? What should T do? I went to the man in the street, the first policeman that I saw, and told him my plight. To my surprise he directed me to the Art Gallery. It was an unexpected answer but a very good one, for it is truly a gallery of which to be proud.

scholarly journals A full catalogue and analysis of a collection of postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario depicting scenes of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Piitz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Commercial Photography ◽  
The City ◽  
Photographic Imagery ◽  
The Way

This applied thesis is focused on the full cataloguing and contextualizing of a collection of one hundred and sixteen postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) depicting scenes of Toronto a the beginning of the twentieth century. Twenty-seven publishers representing international, national and regional manufacturers are identified with their imprint on the verso of the postcard. The applied thesis includes a literature survey discussing a rationale for the cataloguing of postcards, as well as a brief overview of the history of postcards and the history of the urbanization of the City of Toronto. A description and analysis of the AGO postcards provides information about the production cycle of postcards, the scope of commercial photography and the dissemination of photographic imagery in Toronto. The thesis also examines the way images were altered in the production cycle and the manner in which photographers and publishers exchanged photographs intended for postcard production.

scholarly journals A full catalogue and analysis of a collection of postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario depicting scenes of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Piitz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Commercial Photography ◽  
The City ◽  
Photographic Imagery ◽  
The Way

This applied thesis is focused on the full cataloguing and contextualizing of a collection of one hundred and sixteen postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) depicting scenes of Toronto a the beginning of the twentieth century. Twenty-seven publishers representing international, national and regional manufacturers are identified with their imprint on the verso of the postcard. The applied thesis includes a literature survey discussing a rationale for the cataloguing of postcards, as well as a brief overview of the history of postcards and the history of the urbanization of the City of Toronto. A description and analysis of the AGO postcards provides information about the production cycle of postcards, the scope of commercial photography and the dissemination of photographic imagery in Toronto. The thesis also examines the way images were altered in the production cycle and the manner in which photographers and publishers exchanged photographs intended for postcard production.

The Roman Wall

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-162
Author(s):  
J. J. R. Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Solid Rock ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The Road ◽  
Simple Matter ◽  
The North ◽  
Bridge Abutment ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

In the first number of Greece and Rome Mr. Symonds reminded us that the bearing of art and archaeology on literature can be studied by visits to sites and museums, and suggested that ‘even a holiday expedition to the Roman Wall is not beyond the bounds of ambition’. Indeed, once Newcastle or Carlisle is reached the motor-car has made a trip to the Wall a simple matter. A cursory visit starting from Newcastle takes but a few hours. A twenty-mile drive over the West Turnpike, Wade's Road as it is popularly called, along the line of the Wall with the earthworks visible for most of the way and a fragment of the Wall itself to be seen not far from the city boundary, brings us to Chesters. Here is the camp, or more properly fort, of Cilurnum, the fort baths, the bridge abutment, and the museum. After Chesters we travel a further ten miles. A substantial length of the Wall is soon seen on the right, while the earthworks line both sides of the road for most of the way, and at Limestone Bank are cut through solid rock. Then with less than half a mile's walk across the fields we come to Housesteads. Here we can see the fort of Borcovicium (or Borcovicus), and then walk a few hundred yards to the west to see a milecastle and get the well-known view of the Wall at Cuddy's Crag. If the start is from Carlisle the mileage is more, Housesteads being about half-way to Newcastle but Chesters ten miles farther east. If we come from the south by road we may leave the North Road at Durham and travelling by Lanchester, Consett, and Corbridge (Corstopitum), join the West Turnpike at Portgate where the Roman Road of the first of the Antonine Itineraries passed through the Wall on its way to the Cheviots and Scotland: or we may turn off earlier and make for Teesdale and Alston, to join the West Turnpike three miles north of Haltwhistle.

Μετοιϰία in the "Supplices" of Aeschylus

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Formal Status ◽  
The Way

In Aeschylus' "Supplices" the Danaids flee their cousins and take refuge at Argos. Scholars have noted similarities between the Argos of the play and contemporary Athens. Yet one such correspondence has generally been overlooked: the Danaids are awarded sanctuary in terms reflecting mid fifth-century Athenian μετοιϰία, a process providing for the partial incorporation of non-citizens into polis life. Danaus and his daughters are of Argive ancestry and take up residence within the city, yet do not become citizens. Instead, they receive the right μετοιϰεῖν τῆσδε γῆς (609). As metics they retain control of their person and property, and are not liable to seizure by another. They are not permitted to own immovable property (ἔγϰτησις), but receive rent-free lodgings. Pelasgus and the other Argive citizens serve as their citizen representative (προστάτης). Casting the Danaids as metics highlights the similarities between Pelasgus and his predecessor, Apis. Both leaders were confronted by violent strangers demanding to live among the Argives, and sought to protect the autochthony and territory of Argos. Yet as suppliants the Danaids (unlike the snakes) cannot be forcibly expelled. Pelasgus' solution is a grant of μετοιϰία approved by the Argive assembly. The emergence of μετοιϰία as a formal status at Athens is difficult to date. Most scholars place it between the reforms of Cleisthenes (508/7) and Pericles' citizenship law (451/0). The "Supplices" provides evidence for a date in the 460s, and functions as a charter myth legitimizing μετοιϰία, much the way the Eumenides does for the Areopagus. The "Supplices" also fits well within the context of immigration and urban development leading to Pericles' law. The fact that the Danaid trilogy won first prize may be due to the Athenians' empathy for Argos as a risk-taking polis committed both to defending its identity and to acknowledging divinely sanctioned claims to refuge.

scholarly journals El debate sobre el latifundio en la Argentina de entreguerras

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-159
Author(s):  
Roy Hora
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article analyses the agrarian debate in Argentina during the interwar period. Beginning in 1912, times of hardship for grain growers made agrarian conflict a recurrent feature in the Pampean cereal belt. As a result, large estates became the target of much criticism, both in the countryside and the city. This article explores changes in the way rural problems were depicted and discussed, focusing on the climate of ideas and the public mood rather than how individual authors analysed the agrarian question. A look at how the right and the left addressed rural issues also suggests that their contribution was of little significance. Finally, the article explores why the reformist consensus achieved during this period failed to transform the land tenancy structure.

scholarly journals Art. II.—On the Lake Phiala—the Jordan and its Sources

1856 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 8-31
Author(s):  
Captain Newbold
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

In Josephus we find the following account of the sources of the Jordan, and the Phiala lake: “The head of this celebrated river [the Jordan] has been thought to bo Panion; but in truth it passes hither underground; and the source of it is Phiala, an hundred and twenty furlongs [stadia] from Cæsarea [Philippi], a little on the right hand, and not much out of the way to Trachonitis. It is called Phiala (that is, the Vial) from the round figure of it; and its water stands always at a stay, the basin being brimful, without either shrinking or overflowing. The first discovery of this secret was from Philip, the Tetrarch of Trachonitis, by casting straws into Phiala, that came out again at Panion, which, till that time, was taken for the head of the Jordan. This river, thus, as to appearance, taking its origin from the Cave of Panion, afterwards crosses the bogs and fens of the lake Semechonitis; and after a course of an hundred and twenty furlongs farther, passes under the city of Julias [or Bethsaida], and so over the lake Genezareth; and then running a long way through a wilderness or desert, it empties itself at last into the lake Asphaltitis, or the Dead Sea.”

scholarly journals Dzielnica jako miejsca afektywne – Cwaniary Sylwii Chutnik i Królowa Salwatora Emmy Popik

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szalewska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Affective Experience ◽  
Urban Novels ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ideological Tensions ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The article analyzes two urban novels Cwaniary by Sylwia Chutnik and Królowa Salwatora by Emma Popik. Both present the vision of city as an affective place. Their strongest similarity is in the way they project emotions upon the city and the transformations of public space which they document. The author of the article proposes to concentrate on a number of questions. These include the affective experience of urban space, polis as the space of ideological tensions, relationship between the centre and periphery, postmodern understanding of locality, and finally, the status of a district as the site of settling in, which allows one to claim “the right to the city”.

scholarly journals The refugees’ right to the centre of the city: City branding versus city commoning in Athens

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802199700
Author(s):  
Charalampos Tsavdaroglou ◽  
Maria Kaika
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Over the years, cities have figured as exemplary places for neoliberal urban policies which tend to appropriate the right to the city through city-branding policies. However, as this article demonstrates, there are important claims of the right to the city raised by newly arrived refugees in the city of Athens. Although most refugees reside in overcrowded state-run camps on the outskirts of the city, there are many cases in which refugees enact the production of collective common spaces, occupying abandoned buildings in the urban core and claiming the right to the centre of the city. In this context and following the Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city and the spatial analysis on commons and enclosures, we explore the actions of refugees, and the way they engage in commoning practices that not only strive against the official state policies, but also often contest city-branding policies. In particular, we focus on the area of Exarcheia in Athens, which is an emblematic case of the conflicted nexus between investors’ and refugees’ right to the city.

The adaptation of design thinking in auditing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda MEIJER-WASSENAAR ◽  
Diny VAN EST
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

How can a supreme audit institution (SAI) use design thinking in auditing? SAIs audit the way taxpayers’ money is collected and spent. Adding design thinking to their activities is not to be taken lightly. SAIs independently check whether public organizations have done the right things in the right way, but the organizations might not be willing to act upon a SAI’s recommendations. Can you imagine the role of design in audits? In this paper we share our experiences of some design approaches in the work of one SAI: the Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA). Design thinking needs to be adapted (Dorst, 2015a) before it can be used by SAIs such as the NCA in order to reflect their independent, autonomous status. To dive deeper into design thinking, Buchanan’s design framework (2015) and different ways of reasoning (Dorst, 2015b) are used to explore how design thinking can be adapted for audits.

Memories for the Return? Remembering the Nakba by the First Generation of Palestinian Refugees in Syria

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaheed Al-Hardan
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Oslo Accords ◽  
Right Of Return ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
The Way

The 1948 Nakba has, in light of the 1993 Oslo Accords and Palestinian refugee activists' mobilisation around the right of return, taken on a new-found centrality and importance in Palestinian refugee communities. Closely-related to this, members of the ‘Generation of Palestine’, the only individuals who can recollect Nakba memories, have come to be seen as the guardians of memories that are eventually to reclaim the homeland. These historical, social and political realities are deeply rooted in the ways in which the few remaining members of the generation of Palestine recollect 1948. Moreover, as members of communities that were destroyed in Palestine, and whose common and temporal and spatial frameworks were non-linearly constituted anew in Syria, one of the multiples meanings of the Nakba today can be found in the way the refugee communities perceive and define this generation.

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