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Re-Conditioning: From Strategy to Project: Gabicce’s (Italy) Waterfront Case Study [PDF]
Athens Journal of Architecture, 2020 The unlimited growth typical of the Modernism and Post-Modernism has left a disorderly and uncontrolled soil consumption along with an urban heritage mainly designed on functional organization, that the economic crisis, social changes and time have ...
Alessandro Gaiani
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Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction. [PDF]
, 2012 The article investigates various approaches to seascape in selected poems of the contemporary Irish poet, Derek Mahon, set against the background of references to Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney or Odysseus Elytis.
D Mahon +15 more
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Designing the seaside: architecture, society and nature [PDF]
, 2006 The notion of taking a seaside holiday has only existed since the 18th century, when it was slowly becoming accepted that fresh air and sea water are good for health.
Gray, Fred
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Growing up and growing old with television: peripheral viewers and the centrality of care [PDF]
, 2016 This essay draws on feminist work on the ethics of care to both (re)establish an alliance between the very young and the very old and to begin to challenge the normative models of subjectivity and spectatorship that circulate within film and television ...
Holdsworth, Amy, Lury, Karen
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Economic activity during extreme events
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract Although extreme weather events, natural disasters or infrastructure failures potentially have important economic effects, quantifying these effects over small areas and fine time intervals has been difficult because of the fairly coarse scales available in most data sources. This paper surveys the use of relatively new and finely grained data
John W. Galbraith
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Jusqu’au bout de la promenade ?
Géographie et Cultures, 2019 Since the 18th century, coastal tourism in Great Britain has experienced architectural forms that will serve as reference. Among them, the pleasure pier allows for varied activities (boardwalk, fishing, dance, theatre, restaurant, attractions).
Damien Bruneau
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Tourism by the Sea. Development of Customs, Habits and Fashion on the Beach
ZoneModa Journal, 2021 The paper studies the development of seaside tourism, presenting the phases of its development: from health resorts, swimming in the cold sea, and slowly moving towards the warmer southern seaside destinations.
Petra Kavrečič
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Tennis aan zee tijdens de belle époque : een vergeten geschiedenis? [PDF]
, 2018 This article charts the development of tennis at Belgium's seaside before the First World War (1894-1914). It explores the history of tennis in seaside resorts such as Bredene, Ostend, Middelkerke and Westende, showing that the Flemish coast was the ...
Constandt, Bram, Constandt, Marc
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Bath construction at the Spanish Mediterranean seaside: maritime heritage for the coast environment [PDF]
, 2015 The construction of buildings holding baths along the Spanish seashore, not only supposed an enjoyment for affluent people but was a way of generating a new tourist landscape.
González Avilés, Ángel Benigno +2 more
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