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ABSTRACT Northeastern New Zealand’s sedimentary rocks and soils are particularly vulnerable to landsliding, with some of the highest specific sediment yields, globally. In addition to earthquakes, rainfall is considered an important landslide triggering process.
Jivyde Despojo +4 more
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Ingénierie et grands travaux. Les fondations du cirque d’Arles
The Roman circus at Arles, whose construction began in the years AD 148–149, required major investment in its building; it is, along with the amphitheatre and the forum, one of the largest “major projects” undertaken in the town. The building, on a knoll
Claude Sintès
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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Spartan Daily, March 7, 2006 [PDF]
Volume 126, Issue 23https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10223/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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La topographie de Metz durant l’Antiquité tardive
The city of Metz experienced significant growth up to the end of the 3rd century, stretching across nearly 120 ha with the development of three districts located outside the original urban core: Pontiffroy, Outre-Seille, and the Amphitheatre district. At
Gaël Brkojewitsch +3 more
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Art and urban space in Athens: The spatial composition of a street art paradise
Abstract This paper explores how Athens's urban spaces, shaped by historical processes of rapid growth, unplanned development, and urban decay, have actively fostered a vibrant street art scene and related subversive practices during Greece's economic crisis. Based on ethnographic fieldwork (2015–2019) in central neighbourhoods like Exarchia and Psirri,
Johnny Karanicolas
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On the Silurian and lowermost Devonian vertebrates of the Ufa Amphitheatre, the Central Urals, with emphasis on agnathans and correlations with the East Baltic [PDF]
The vertebrate microremains from the Wenlock (lower Silurian) to the Lower Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of the Ufa Amphitheatre, on the western slope of the Central Urals, have been studied.
Tiiu Märss
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High resolution bathymetric survey on the NW slope of Walvis Ridge, offshore Namibia [PDF]
Expedition 17/1 of the German research vessel R/V MARIA S. MERIAN, carried out geophysical surveys and experiments between November and December 2010 in the area around Walvis Ridge, Southeast Atlantic Ocean.
Behrmann, Jan H. +2 more
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TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
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Assembling for Water: The Prefigurative Politics of Land Futures in Argentina
Abstract As in other areas of Argentina, residents from the Norte Neuquino in the northwestern reaches of Patagonia are concerned about the recent advancements of extractivism onto their territories. Their analysis is clear: the environmental crisis is directly linked to a democratic one, and they engage in a wide range of actions to envision and enact
Mattias Borg Rasmussen +1 more
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