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Spatial transformation mechanism of city networks in the middle and lower Ganga Plain in modern times: a perspective on cultural routes

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
The urban system in the middle and lower Ganga Plain experienced a critical spatial transition period from a traditional to modern pattern between the 18th and 19th centuries, developing a network structure influenced by cultural routes.
Xihui Wang   +3 more
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Competitiveness of Small Towns: Role of Town-Planning Culture Traditions in Residential Area

open access: yesНаука и техника, 2003
Due to reduction of centralized investments it is necessary to integrate small towns into the system of market relations. In this case a town with all its particulars is to be considered as a commodity.
T. T. Kuznetsova
doaj   +1 more source

2004 Water Quality Education Onboard the Gundalow, Bolster, M [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The Gundalow Company (a non-profit 501(c)3 organization) sponsors maritime history and environmental educational programs for school groups and the public onboard the replica gundalow Captain Edward Adams from May through November in 12-15 riverfront ...
Bolster, Molly
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Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews
Gamliel, Ophira
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Landscapes without the car : a counterfactual historical geography of twentieth-century Britain. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Despite increased concern about environmental damage and resource depletion, the private motor car, and associated automobility, are taken-for granted aspects of 21st century life.
Pooley, Colin
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A virtuous journey between the synagogues of the ghetto and synagogues of emancipation: the rediscovery of Venetian Judaism

open access: yesIn_Bo, 2017
The celebrations related to the 500 years of the institution of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016) represent a first hint for thought on the Venetian Jewish community and how much is left.
Valeria Rainoldi
doaj   +1 more source

Secret origins of the state: the structural basis of raison d'état [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
The Italian city-state system occupies a special place in the canon of orthodox international relations. For, as Martin Wight says, ‘it was among the Italian powers that feudal relationships first disappeared and the efficient, self-sufficient secular ...
Adelson   +31 more
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Public Spaces of Small Historic Towns. In Search of the Addressee

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2019
One of the solutions to the problem of migration from small towns and historical settlements is to organize public spaces required by different addressees.
Anna Gelfond, Mikhail Dutsev
doaj   +2 more sources

International Conference. 20th Century New Towns. Archetypes and Uncertainties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Producción CientíficaThe paper aims to revalue and to compare two urban phenomena of growth and change during the second half of the 20th century: the Mat Building and the Gated City.
Rincón Borrego, Iván Israel
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