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Unstable Pedestals: Controversial Monuments in public spaces
, 2023 report commissioned by the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) to provide guidelines to heritage institutions and local governments for dealing with controversies surrounding public ...
Oostindie, G.J. +5 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu +2 more
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World Monuments Fund: protegiendo tesoros patrimoniales
, 2012 World Monuments Fund (WMF) is the leading, independent privately supported non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of the world´s cultural heritage that works on a global scale.
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson +2 more
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Female Public Sculptures: Visibly Invisible
Social SciencesMonuments and public sculptures embody collective memory, values, and identity. This study analyses the representation of women in public sculptures in Ibarra, Ecuador, and evaluates citizens’ recognition of the historical figures depicted.
Miguel Ángel Posso-Yépez +3 more
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What's In a Name? : An Artistic Deconstruction of Our Public Monuments
, 2011 A monument not only brings forward into the present the values of the subject it is commemorating but also the values of those who decided to have the structure built/named.
NC DOCKS at East Carolina University +1 more
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Seeing Heritage Management through Systems Science
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Heritage is influenced by a range of multifaceted factors, such as global issues, power dynamics, entangled legal frameworks and multilayered needs. The interplay of these elements creates a challenging environment for heritage managers, who must navigate a web of stakeholders with diverse interests and values. This paper suggests that systems
Omid Shakerian +2 more
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Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art
In this collection, a diverse range of international contributors examine commemorative monuments from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book reveals how those monuments enable new perspectives and understanding of histories as well as
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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
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