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Utopia, A Must: A Review Essay on Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust [PDF]
Utopia or Bust, more than many foundational alternatives, forcefully though with non-sectarian wisdom, re-implants the notion of utopia to the front-of-the-line of Left theory (whether economic, geographic, political, social, and/or cultural).
Sculos, Bryant William
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The Official Student Newspaper of UAS [PDF]
"Game Over": A New "The End" -- Literary Traditions: Utopia -- The Desert Can Kill You in a Thousand Ways -- The Importance of Choosing Respect -- Calendar ...
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Abstract. Climate is usually considered to depend on a large number of parameters, this being essentially a functional in multi-dimensional parameter space. We propose a low-dimensional model of a climate where the temperature field on a thermally conducting planet depends on the external energy input and very limited number of internal parameters ...
Michael Gedalin, Michael A. Balikhin
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Analysing development to shape the future [PDF]
This article links theory and politics in a systematic way by proposing Is-Shall-Do as a didactical model for analysing a concrete conjuncture, relating it to the desired future in the form of a concrete utopia.
Lengauer, Lukas, Novy, Andreas
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The Art of Utopia and the Real City: Basic Principles [PDF]
Anti Randviir: The Art of Utopia and the Real City: Basic principlesKeywords: function of utopia, city, sociocultura l systems, utopianlogic, semiotic realitySummary:The article addresses semiotic topics connected with utopia and the utopian. Even though
Randviir, Anti
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The most important aim of the "Back to the Sense of the City" International Conference is to draw attention to the city and the sense of its being, the fact that a city seen as a heterogeneous entity is not only a work of its direct creators: architects, engineers, civil servants and municipal services, but all who "fill" it, primarily its inhabitants.
Biliński, Grzegorz+1 more
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This paper discusses the advantages of progress testing. A utopia is described where medical schools would work together to develop and administer progress testing. This would lead to a significant reduction of cost, an increase in the quality of measurement and phenomenal feedback to learner and school. Progress testing would also provide more freedom
Vleuten, C. van der+2 more
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This entry argues that utopia or social dreaming offers a fruitful, often literary, mode and method for thinking futures, socially and imaginatively, most often in non-linear ways, with literary texts from outside the mainstream and most often Eurocentric canon (such as the colonial Indian Muslim feminist utopian fable “Sultana’s Dream,” 1905) acting ...
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Utopia and the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro [PDF]
Utopias from ancient times to the present have come and gone. They remain as a part of literary, philosophical and historical texts and communal practices. Yet this subject has never ceased to inspire contemporary minds as well.
Carter, Curtis L.
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A leap of faith: Abbott, Bellamy, Morris, Wells and the fin-de-siècle route to utopia [PDF]
In the great surge of utopian writing that was produced during the fin de siècle, Edward Bellamy, William Morris and H. G. Wells among others imagined utopias that were global in scale and located in the future.
Kingstone, Helen
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