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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited.
Md. Nazmul Haque +5 more
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Between the Visionary and the Archaic: Iannis Xenakis's Cosmic City [PDF]
, 2003 Almost parallel with his groundbreaking theoretical work Musiques formelles (Xenakis, 1963), the late composer and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) published “The Cosmic City” (Xenakis, 1965).
Sterken, Sven
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Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant [PDF]
, 2008 This paper will reflect on research currently in progress in Cape Town's De Waterkant neighbourhood—an area also known as Cape Town's 'gay village'. This paper engages the literature of utopia as a framework of analysis for interrogating the performance ...
Rink, Bradley M.
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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
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npj VaccinesHighly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses from different clades have been circulating globally, threatening wild/domestic birds and mammals. Given frequent spillovers and high mortality among mammals, coupled with our inability to predict which
Shiho Chiba +11 more
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Metric Characterizations of Superreflexivity in Terms of Word Hyperbolic Groups and Finite Graphs
Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces, 2014 We show that superreflexivity can be characterized in terms of bilipschitz embeddability of word hyperbolic groups.We compare characterizations of superrefiexivity in terms of diamond graphs and binary trees.We show that there exist sequences of series ...
Ostrovskii Mikhail
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QUASIUTOPIA IN A. PLATONOV’S WORKS OF THE 1930s [PDF]
Проблемы исторической поэтики, 2015 A. Platonov’s artistic creation of the 1930s is called the “ordeal of utopia”. During this period, Platonov writes the short novels “The Foundation Pit” [“Kotlovan”], “For future use” [“Vprok”], “Bread and reading” [“Hleb i chtenie”], “Juvenile sea” [“
Marina V. Zavarkina
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Utopia and action: The enigma of the bridge [PDF]
, 2015 A utopia literário-filosófica coloca em cena a cidade ideal imaginada pelo seu autor. Tomando como referência a obra matricial de Tomás More, caracteriza-se a utopia como expressão e mito da cidade ideal e evidencia-se a sua pretensão de paradigma de ...
Araújo, Alberto Filipe +1 more
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Smoothness conditions on measures using Wallman spaces
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 1999 In this paper, X denotes an arbitrary nonempty set, ℒ a lattice of subsets of X with ∅,X∈ℒ,A(ℒ) is the algebra generated by ℒ and M(ℒ) is the set of nontrivial, finite, and finitely additive measures on A(ℒ), and MR(ℒ) is the set of elements of M(ℒ ...
Charles Traina
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