Tahkāl: the nineteenth–century record of two lost Gandhāra Sites

1987 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-324
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Errington
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Precise Location ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
The City

The name Tahkā is today remembered by archaeologists only as the provenance of the famous Gandhāra statue of Kuvera in the Lahore Museum (fig. 1:Lahore 3/G101). Little is now known concerning the site itself, its precise location, or whether any architecural remains are still visible on the ground. Yet a hundred years age, the area around Tahkāl contained the most prominent Gandhāra ruins in the immediate neighbourhood of Peshawar, attracting the attention of all interested visitors who came to the city. It is moreover possible to construct a clear picture of the remains from their contemporary descriptions and from the forgotten archaeological record of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the recent rediscovery of Punjab Public works Department reports of the 1870s, printed in the Punjab Government Gazette, provides many details concerning the precise nature of two of the three major Buddhist structures in this area.

Budapest: progresso urbano a passi accelerati

STORIA URBANA ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Ordasi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
European State ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The City

- Unlike other great cities of Europe, Budapest did not experience any significant urban development before the nineteenth century, especially before 1867, the year of the foundation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After that, the city became the second pole, after Vienna, of this important European state. The capital of the Kingdom of Hungary grew through the use of various types of urban architecture and especially through a "style" that was meant to express Hungarian national identity. Architects, engineers, and other professionals from Hungary and Austria contributed to this process of modernization as well as many foreigners from Germany, France and England. The city's master plan - modeled after Paris's - focused on the area crossed by the Viale Sugár [Boulevard of the Spoke] was set on the Parisian model and so covered only certain parts of the city. The Committee on Public Works (1870-1948) played a leading role in putting the plan approved in 1972 - into effect in all aspects of urban planning, architecture and infrastructure.

Engineers and waterpower on the Lachine Canal, 1843–1871

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-348
Author(s):  
Larry Mc Nally
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Strong Stimulus ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Unresolved Conflict ◽  
Rapid Industrialization ◽  
The City

As a result of the reconstruction of the Lachine Canal in the 1840s, waterpower became available within the city of Montreal. This power source was a strong stimulus to Montreal's rapid industrialization starting in the 1850s. However, the efforts of the Commissioners of Public Works of the Province of Canada to balance the competing demands of shipping and manufacturing resulted in many problems. The civil engineers, who designed and built the canal, were drawn into an unresolved conflict with other engineers who were interested in utilizing waterpower. Engineers were also in conflict with a variety of non-engineers over the building of waterpower installations and factories. This case study of waterpower on the Lachine Canal demonstrates the opportunities and conflicts for engineers in mid-nineteenth century Canada. Key words: waterpower, industrialization, turbine, hydraulic engineering, canal, Montreal, Lachine Canal.

scholarly journals Alle radici della moderna ingegneria

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Engineering Studies ◽  
Academic System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Engineering Industries

The subject around which the contributions in this volume gravitate is the creation of a higher institute of engineering studies in Florence in the late nineteenth-century. On the eve of the unification of Italy, Florence was a promising centre for a Polytechnic, in view of the experience of the Corpo di Ingegneri di Acque e Strade, the precocious railway building, the importance of the mining sector and the solidity of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano. Despite this, unlike what took place in Milan and in Turin, the Istituto Tecnico Toscano was not transformed into a Polytechnic for the training of engineers. The reasons for this non-development can be traced to the lack of "industrialist" propensities in the managerial group that emerged victorious from the "peaceful revolution" of 1859, to a desire for independence from the national academic system built on the Casati law, and to a local demand for engineering skills that was less dynamic than expected. Consequently, the prevailing winds were those of "normalisation" blowing from the government, the universities and the most prestigious Colleges of Engineers. Nevertheless, Florence continued to represent an important technological centre, especially in relation to railway infrastructures, public works, and the mechanical engineering industries (for example Pignone and Galileo). In the end it was not until one hundred years after unification that the city finally became the seat of a Faculty of Engineering.

scholarly journals Socialización de la salud y urbanismo en Elche a finales del siglo XIX

2020 ◽  
pp. 323-349
Author(s):  
María Rosa Gómez Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cholera Epidemic ◽  
Urban Distribution ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
New City ◽  
The City

Este artículo trata de analizar la respuesta municipal que produce la epidemia de cólera de 1884 en cuanto a la deconstrucción urbanística y arquitectónica de la ciudad según criterios de salud pública e higienismo, en Elche, ciudad del Mediterráneo occidental. Esta deconstrucción se desarrolla según cuatro categorías: la distribución urbana en calidad de nueva ciudad; extinción de la ciudad rural, que se traduce en la superación de la dialéctica huertos-espacios urbanos; la necesidad de obra pública; la apertura de espacios públicos de ventilación y la concienciación de higiene pública/privada. Cuatro categorías que sintetizan los contenidos de una intervención municipal que situamos en el contexto de biopolítica del Estado a finales del siglo XIX en Europa. This article tries to analyze the municipal response produced by the cholera epidemic of 1884 regarding the urban and architectural deconstruction of the city according to the criteria of public health and higiene, in Elche, city of the western Mediterranean. This deconstruction is developed according to four categories: urban distribution as a new city;the extinction of the rural city, which translates into overcoming the urban-urban spaces dialectic; the need for public works; the opening of public ventilation spaces and public / private hygiene awareness. Four categories that synthesize the contents of a municipal intervention that we place in the context of state bipolitics at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe.

scholarly journals THE MANILA WATERWORKS SYSTEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-196
Author(s):  
Ros Costelo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Modern Engineering ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
Colonial Body ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City

Primarily considered a nineteenth-century feat, the Manila waterworks system which was formally inaugurated in 1882 is regarded as one if not the most important sanitary infrastructure achievements of the Spanish colonial government. A centerpiece public works project of the Inspección General de Obras Públicas (IGOP), it intended to provide solutions to the problems of health and sanitation in a rapidly urbanizing Manila. Used as a testament of modern engineering in the colony, the infrastructure was central in cleansing, domesticating, and transforming the urban body of the city. This paper tackles the techno-scientific innovations that characterized the Manila waterworks project to sanitize and domesticatethe murky, dirty, sickly and unruly body of the modern city. The paper traces how this sanitary infrastructure project was conceptualized and concretized, how water was located, pumped, stored, and distributed to the colonial capital. Furthermore, it interrogates how water was used both as a tool and symbol to cleanse and modernize the colonial body and colonial city. It discusses how water access, exclusion, and control led to an ideological and spatial transformation of Manila in the last decades of the nineteenth century

Smelling Civic Peril

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Mack
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Water Tunnel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chicago River ◽  
The City ◽  
Commercial Expansion

This chapter focuses on the public debate over the pollution of the Chicago River between the Civil War and the 1871 effort to “reverse” its flow. The Chicago River, which served as the fountainhead of the city's commercial expansion in the second half of the nineteenth century, constituted a potent sensory nuisance; the obnoxious odors forced a raw confrontation with water pollution that sometimes left residents feeling physically ill. The river offended the eyes and tongue too, but the stenches generated the most complaint. The chapter first explores the reasons why the Chicago River's malodors offended the senses of the affluent classes before discussing how the control of odors figured in broader efforts to create a healthy urban order throughout the city. It examines two of Chicago's most substantial public works projects in the context of the stench of the Chicago River: a water tunnel under Lake Michigan for drinking water and the deepening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to change the flow of the river.

Strategic Planning Information Systems Enterprise Architecture Planning Method Case Study of Semarang City Public Works Department

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Agustinus Fritz Wijaya ◽  
Mahendra Wahyu Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Application Architecture ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
The City

Semarang City Public Works Department is a state-owned enterprise that works in the area of public services in the city of Semarang. Most of the technological conditions in the Public Works Department are still in manual data management, which is hampering business processes from going well. Therefore this research was conducted to design an Information System at the Semarang City Public Works Department using the Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) method which includes a SWOT analysis and Value Chain analysis. The existing framework in the Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) method can help align the data architecture and application architecture to get the expected results, which is achieving the business objectives of the City of Semarang Public Works Department so that business functions can run by the desired business processes. This research resulted in several proposals for the development of Information Systems and Information Technology in organizations including the development of several applications in the next 5 years.

‘Otherwise in London’ or, the ‘Essence of Things’: Modernity and Estrangement in the Nineteenth-Century Cityscape

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Julian Wolfreys
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Representation ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Writers of the early nineteenth century sought to find new ways of writing about the urban landscape when first confronted with the phenomena of London. The very nature of London's rapid growth, its unprecedented scale, and its mere difference from any other urban centre throughout the world marked it out as demanding a different register in prose and poetry. The condition of writing the city, of inventing a new writing for a new experience is explored by familiar texts of urban representation such as by Thomas De Quincey and William Wordsworth, as well as through less widely read authors such as Sarah Green, Pierce Egan, and Robert Southey, particularly his fictional Letters from England.

Transgender Narrative in Public Service Announcement

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Anna Puji Lestari ◽  
Yuliyanto Budi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
City Government ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Public Service Announcement ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Feminine Style ◽  
New City ◽  
The City

After changing its city branding several times, Semarang now has a new city branding, namely "Semarang Variety of Culture." However, the city branding reaped contra from academics and cultural figures because Semarang was considered not sufficient yet in terms of representing its cultural diversity. Responding to this, the Semarang City Government and the Semarang City Public Works Department created a public service advertisement on CCTV socialization for flood control in the city of Semarang with a transgender figure as the ad star. This research was qualitative research designed with Seymour Chatman's Narrative Analysis. The research found a commodification and objectification of transgender people who imitated the feminine style of women in the advertisement. In other words, the public service announcement of Semarang CCTV socialization lowered the femininity, which is synonymous with women.The public service advertisement also violated the moral codes adopted by the majority of the Indonesian people.

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