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Technological requirements for solutions in the conservation and protection of historic monuments and archaeological remains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Executive summary: This Study has discovered many achievements associated with European support for scientific and technological research for the protection and conservation of cultural heritage. The achievements to date are: 1.
Brimblecombe, P.   +6 more
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
wiley   +1 more source

Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

open access: yesJournal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
wiley   +1 more source

How memory embeds in the city: Everyday cultural memory in Kraków, Poland

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development
Memory embeds itself in Kraków, Poland, through both visible and subtle means, particularly in the Planty parkland surrounding the Old Town. Rich with monuments and landscape designs, this area commemorates some personalities from the Romantic Era, a ...
Drozdzewski Danielle
doaj   +1 more source

In Gettysburg, the Confederacy Won

open access: yes, 2017
Almost every day, I ride my bicycle past some of the over 1,300 statues and monuments commemorating the Civil War in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where I live. They are everywhere. None of them are of black people.
Hancock, Scott
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

Representativeness and Diversity in Photos via Crowd-Sourced Media Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this paper we present a hybrid three steps mechanism for automated-human media analysis employed for selecting a small number of representative and diverse images in the context of a noisy set of images.
Anca-Livia, Radu   +4 more
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

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