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Socialist Postmodernism. The Case of the Late Soviet Lithuanian Architecture [PDF]
Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017 AbstractThe aesthetical and cultural features of Lithuanian architecture related to Postmodernism are closely connected to socio-political, socioeconomic and sociocultural transformations at the end of the 20th century. The article presents an interpretation of modernisation-related processes, which affected and shaped the Lithuanian architecture of ...
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study compares policy responses to persistent low fertility in Korea and Hungary, two countries facing similar demographic pressures but embedded in distinct institutional settings. It asks whether the diffusion of pronatalist policies has produced convergence in the design, implementation, and effects of fertility policy in these cases ...
Kilkon Ko, M. Jin Lee, Tamás Pesuth
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing intensity of climate change calls for a more comprehensive understanding of how energy use and financial systems influence global carbon emissions. So far, existing research and policy efforts have mainly focused on production‐based emissions (PCO2).
Siyu Sun, Amber Pervaiz, Antonio Cimino
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Sustainable Development and Structural Bottlenecks in Transition Economies: New Uzbekistan
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses the sustainable development of Uzbekistan over 2016–2024. The methodology combines min–max normalization and unweighted aggregation to derive goal‐level composite scores and an overall SDG index, correlation analysis, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to characterize the goals that shape the country's progress; key ...
Khusanboy Abdufattokhov +1 more
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CHANGES IN SOVIET ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN THE 1930s
Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhitekturno-stroitel'nogo universiteta. JOURNAL of Construction and Architecture, 2019 Purpose: The aim of the paper is to study the history of Soviet architecture, associated with changes in its stylistic orientation, when instead of the previously dominant constructivist forms other forms began to prevail, namely Art Deco, neoclassicism and eclecticism.
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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen +3 more
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that the current debate over defence spending in the United Kingdom is fundamentally flawed. Too much emphasis is being placed on preparing for a form of warfare with Russia that is unlikely to occur. As this article points out, the Russians actually want to avoid a traditional battlefield confrontation with NATO.
Rod Thornton
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АрхитектонThe study examines the influence of Soviet aesthetic ideals on the functional structure and imagery of interiors. Tendencies are identified in Soviet public interior design in the 1930s.
Voitov Ruslan V.
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Critical Post-Functionalism in the Architecture of Late Soviet Central Asia
ABE Journal, 2018 Relying on all but forgotten texts of architectural criticism from late Soviet Central Asia, the article explores the discursive strategies employed by architects, critics, and historians to justify the shift away from the rigid functionalism of the ...
Igor Demchenko
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