"The City Disinterred": The Shelley Circle and The Revolution at Naples

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

Cairo's Downtown in Narratives

2019 ◽  
pp. 356-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mougibelrahman Aboamer ◽  
Dalia Abdelfattah
Keyword(s):  
Historical Review ◽  
Active Part ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
The City ◽  
Dramatic Fall ◽  
The Revolution

Cairo's downtown, through sociopolitical conditions, had been moved from a single city to a hardship one. The authors attempt using a method of multiple readings to provide a new comprehension for the city by using the historical review side by side with several examples from Egyptian literature that describes this dramatic evolution. For this neighborhood, it is considered an active part of Cairo. The period they suggest for scanning the literature begins from Cairo Great Fire in 1952 and its consequences. The year of 1952 and the constitution of the first republic until the dramatic fall of this last by the revolution of January 2011. This chapter aims to articulate the evolution of Downtown Cairo from the singularity to the hardship.

The Symbolic Battleground: The Culture of Modernization in 1940s Leóón, Guanajuato

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Newcomer
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Orientation ◽  
Extensive Program ◽  
Religious Iconography ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

The idea of modernization influenced a reconciliation between advocates of the revolutionary state and its conservative opponents in 1940s Leóón, Guanajuato. Proponents of the Revolution demonstrated the transforming power of the state by advocating projects that expressed modernity. PRM supporters instituted an extensive program of construction that stripped the city of its local orientation, religious iconography, and of its status as the symbolic capital of Catholic Mexico. The eventual endorsement of the modernization ideal by conservatives allowed an ideological, economic, political, and cultural reconciliation between themselves and the PRM that contributed to the longevity of the postrevolutionary government. En Leóón Guanajuato, la modernizacióón jugóó un importante papel en la reconciliacióón entre los defensores del estado revolucionario y los de la oposicióón conservadora. Los partidarios de la Revolucióón sustentaron la capacidad transformativa del Estado mediante proyectos de infraestructura que dejaban claro la modernidad revolucionaria. Adherentes del PRM pusieron en marcha una séérie de obras púúblicas que transformaron una ciudad, que otrora, habíía fungido como el centro del catolicismo mexicano. Igualmente, estos proyectos obfuscaron la iconografíía religosa de la ciudad y cambiaron su orientacióón regional. Al apoyar y sancionar la obra modernizadora de la Revolucióón hicierion posible una reconciliacióón ideolóógica, econóómica, políítica, y cultural entre las facciones opuestas, hecho que conllevo a la longevidad del réégimen posrevolucionario.

“What Is the Law If Not the Expression of the Rights of Man and Reason?” The Champ de Mars Massacre and the Language of Law

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-310
Author(s):  
Janine M. Lanza
Keyword(s):  
National Guard ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Law ◽  
French Nation ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

On July 17, 1791, a crowd of Parisians gathered at the Champ de Mars, in the western part of the city, for the third time in as many days to make clear to the National Assembly their position on the question of the king's constitutional standing. They carried with them a petition that demanded, in unequivocal terms, the suspension of the king, pending his trial on charges of betraying the French nation and the Revolution. According to the testimony of several witnesses, the day began on a tumultuous note when two men were found hiding in some bushes. Members of the crowd attacked the two men and killed them. Condemned as spies by the crowd, they were defended as innocent bystanders by the National Assembly. As soon as the Assembly heard about the killings, they dispatched the National Guard, under the command of General Lafayette, to disperse the petitioners and restore order. When the troops arrived at the Champ de Mars, a number of those present threw stones at them. The tense troops reacted by firing on the crowd, and Bailly, the mayor of Paris, took the opportunity to declare martial law in an attempt to restore order in an increasingly volatile city.

scholarly journals Inception of Wagner's doctrine of regeneration prior to the revolution 1848-1849

New Sound ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Dragana Jeremić-Molnar
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Human Society ◽  
German Word ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

The predominant opinion in contemporary science is that Richard Wagner began formulating his doctrine of regeneration in the 1860s, with a subsequent elaboration in the so-called regeneration writings, creating a sort of theoretical platform for working on Parsifal, a festival play for the consecration of the stage. Wagner's written legacy, however, shows that he had been thinking about regeneration ever since the 1840s, as well as that he used the term in a broad range of meanings-especially considering that he used that word of the French origin as the synonym for the German word Wiedergeburt. This paper focuses on three instances where he referred to regeneration in the fifth decade of the 19th century: a letter from 1843, a text "How do republican aspirations stand in relation to the monarchy?", and a paper Art and Revolution. In 1843, Wagner had only vague ideas about regeneration in art; five years later, while the city of Dresden was eagerly awaiting the revolutionary wave from France, it was the rebirth of human society that he had in mind; after the collapse of the revolution, realizing his limitations and dispelling illusions about its success, he established a correlation-never to be dismissed-between regeneration and art; i.e. he fancied that the regeneration of the being of a nation's members could be achieved by exposing them to the effects of a special, true art.

scholarly journals Cyclists as the element that creates the city

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 017-022
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szmygin
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

The active participation of cyclists in the transformation of urban structures is becoming a commonly discussed subject nowadays. More bike lanes are being constructed, city bike stations, as well as grade-separated crossroads for cyclists and drivers are being created. Cyclists have been increasingly taken into consideration in the changes taking place within the city. Along with the revolution introduced by a Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl has changed thinking about cyclists. All of his regeneration and restoration projects focused primarily on structures that allow cyclists and pedestrians move without any obstacles. Article will discuss the founding of the cyclists-friendly city, the polish requirements for cycling infrastructure, as well as show examples of Polish and foreign properly designed solutions.

Industry in the Urban Space of Pre-industrial Cherepovets, 1880–1940s

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Anna Agafonova
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
World War ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Status ◽  
Potential Formation ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

The article is devoted to the analysis of the industrial development dynamics in Cherepovets in the late imperial period, during the revolution, the establishment of Soviet power and the first Five-Year Plans of industrialization. The purpose of the study is to reconstruct Cherepovets industrialization in the context of the urban space development in the 1880–1940s before the construction of a metallurgical plant and gaining the status of an industrial center. In the 1880–1940s Cherepovets industry mainly served the needs of the city and the governorate. Small industries dominated in the city. They were located on the city outskirts, as well as near local rivers. The present research is based on materials taken from the archives of the Cherepovets Museum Association, the Cherepovets Documentation Storage Center, the Russian State Historical Archive, and from official state statistics and periodicals. The analysis of these documents allowed the author to study the dynamics of Cherepovets industry development. The article states that developmental peaks that were associated with a quantitative increase in factories and plants in the city and that occurred on the eve and in the first years of World War I, as well as in the second Five-Year Plan of Soviet industrialization. The decline in industrial production was influenced by political events related to the end of World War I, the revolution, the civil war, and the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. They had a decisive influence on the economy of the country and the city. In the period under the study the urban space grew due to the expansion of urban outskirts, where industrial enterprises were built, and the inclusion of neighboring villages in the urban area. The results obtained in the study are significant for understanding the processes of the industrial potential formation in Soviet industrial centers, as well as for the subsequent studies devoted to the development of socioenvironmental urban problems caused by industrialization.

The Material Frame

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Walter Armbrust
Keyword(s):  
General Character ◽  
The Political ◽  
Garden City ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Tahrir Square ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Material Frame ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter discusses the material frame of Tahrir Square. As a space, it has been shaped by the political-economic policies of the past four decades, which essentially turned it into an antihuman space, nominally suitable only as a “nonplace” that people passed through. A liberalized economy under the umbrella of a state that systematically redistributed income upward shaped demands for “bread, freedom, and social justice” as surely as it walled off Bulaq from communication with its urban surroundings, segregated Garden City to protect the imperial agents of the “Washington consensus,” and prepared downtown for private redevelopment. The causes of the revolution were inscribed in the urban fabric of its primary theater. It should be emphasized that the revolution-era character of Tahrir Square is incomprehensible without linking it to the growth of the formal parts of the expanding city, specifically the suburbs and their gated communities. But it is equally incomprehensible without similarly linking it to the even more significant growth of the informal parts of the city, and indeed the more general character of informality in many spheres of life, most significantly labor, which was systematically made precarious by the same design that poured resources into the new cities and slated Bulaq for extinction. However, the quotidian antihuman Tahrir Square depicted in the chapter has greater depth as a performance space than one might think.

Rumor and Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-124
Author(s):  
Timothy Tackett
Keyword(s):  
National Assembly ◽  
Crime Wave ◽  
The City ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter follows events in the lives of Colson and his neighbors from the fall of 1789 through the summer of 1791. It takes note of the continuing moments of enthusiasm and joy, with the king’s short speech in the National Assembly in February 1790, followed by patriotic oaths throughout the city; and the Festival of Federation on July 14 of that year, the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. But it also examines the periods of fear and suspicion, notably from the perceived crime wave in Paris throughout this period; the women’s march to Versailles in October 1789; the endless rumors of aristocratic conspiracies to destroy the Revolution; and king Louis XVI’s attempted flight with his family in June 1791. The chapter ends with an account of the brutal repression of citizens attempting to draw up a petition in favor of a republic, known as the “Massacre of the Champ de Mars.”

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