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Monument to the discoveries [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2011 A week ago I was standing with my wife by the River Tagus in Lisbon, next to the Monument to the Discoveries. The monument is at the spot where Vasco da Gama set out to discover the southeast passage from Europe to Asia, past the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco's discovery marked the beginning of the Portuguese maritime empire.
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Géographie et Cultures, 2002 The Kenyan State still is one of the main builders and agents in small western towns. Administrative functions primed bath in lime and through their economic importance in urbanisation processes, making basic public buildings like townhalfs, schools ...
Claire Médard
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In the midst of great kings: the monumentalization of text in the Iron Age Levant
Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2022 The Bar-Rakib Palace Inscriptions from Zincirli have received relatively little attention from philologists and archaeologists alike because of their predictable and derivative content.
Timothy Hogue
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Monumentality in 'capital' cities and its implications for tourism marketing: the case of Barcelona [PDF]
, 2007 Monuments and monumental architecture are established vehicles for communicating capital city status. The need to reduce complex cities into simplified images also means they can be very effective destination marketing tools.
Smith, A.
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‘Not Months but Moments’: Ephemerality, Monumentality, and the Pavilion in Ruins [PDF]
The Open Arts Journal, 2014 This article examines a fundamental tension between ephemerality and monumentality in the history of pavilion architecture. Descended from the ancient tent, the pavilion was taken up by European landscape architecture in the eighteenth century ...
Ihor Junyk
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Counter-Non-Anti-Remembrance. The Anti-monumental Practices by TIST Collective
European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and LandscapesIn the recent decades, monumentality has been significantly reconsidered with its symbolic materiality and agency in public spaces. Counter-, non-, and anti-monumental practices have emerged on the scene of contemporary art as a new, critical mode of ...
Yulia S. Tikhomirova
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Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y ArqueologíaThis article explores the commemorative monumentality of the Battle of San Carlos, focusing on material evidence, documentary sources, and oral memory spanning nearly a century of monumental landscape (1935-2024) at the site of Los Cuatro Vientos ...
Carlos Landa +3 more
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Monumentality in Hispanoroman cities: a social network approach
Cuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra, 2016 The aim of this paper is to examine the relation between monumentality and connectivity of the cities on the Iberian Peninsula during the High Empire, using spatial and social network analyses.
Pieter H.A. Houten
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Les monuments inachevés de l’époque romaine au Liban. Une approche analytique du phénomène
Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences)During the Roman era, Lebanon experienced significant economic and urban growth. Thus, the Lebanese territory was marked by the development of dozens of largescale architectural projects.
Hany Kahwagi-Janho
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