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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz +2 more
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An Analogical and Analytical Approach to the Burçevi Monumental Tomb
Ancient Anatolia is well known for housing significant artifacts from the Roman period. One such artifact, the Burçevi Monumental Tomb, stands out as a unique example in this region of Anatolia, with no other known parallels, and has not yet been ...
Pehlivan Erdener +2 more
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Social vs. Monumental: Contrasting Views of the Architectural Profession
In this essay, influential and contrasting views of the architectural profession are analyzed in light of conscious research efforts made in response to the crisis of architecture that took place in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bergström, Anders,
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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For this column dedicated to architecture and displayed in the second issue of MMD, the decision was made to go beyond the beaten path of traditional architecture themes to explore a topic where history, art, and engineering meet in the creation of our ...
Federico Maria Giorgi
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An Architectural Investigation into the Relationship between Doric Temple Architecture and Identity in the Archaic and Classical Periods. [PDF]
The predominant approach to the study of Doric temple architecture during the twentieth century has been the evolution model, which connects a temple’s design directly with its date of construction (Dinsmoor 1950; Lawrence 1996).
Woodward, Robert
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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Neoclassical Architecture in Contemporary Architecture of Tehran [PDF]
Persian Architecture witnessed drastic alterations due to increased interaction with the West since mid-Qajar period. Elements of European Classic Architecture were used in combination with Persian Architecture.
Sevil Zafarmandi, Nadieh Imani
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