ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING PRINCIPLES OF URBAN BRIDGES RECONSTRUCTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Elizaveta V. KOSENKOVA ◽  
Denis V. LITVINOV
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Planning ◽  
Golden Gate Bridge ◽  
The City ◽  
Millennium Bridge

The bridges and overpasses of the city of Samara are considered, their main characteristics are identifi ed. A brief historical background of the appearance of the fi rst bridges as simple engineering structures is given, the main temporary periods are highlighted. Examples of implemented solutions that characterize the main stages of the history of bridge construction are given: the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, the Millennium Bridge in Gateshead, the Ponte Vecchio Bridge in Florence, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Russian Bridge in Vladivostok, the String Bridge in Jerusalem. The analysis helps to understand how a modern bridge, located in the city building system, aff ects it, complements and enriches it, combines many functions and advanced technologies, and also has architectural expressiveness.

scholarly journals Let There Be a Firmament in the Midst of the Waters

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Brock Winstead
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
Design History ◽  
International Exposition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Treasure Island

Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay was created to host the Golden Gate International Exposition, a World’s Fair, in 1939-40. The fair was an expression of an idealized order of both design and international relations. Neither survived much longer than the fair itself. The author considers the creation and re-creation of Treasure Island and the problem of building for an uncertain, ultimately unknowable future. This article is a critical appreciation of Andrew Shanken’s Into the Void Pacific, a design history of the fair.

Marine Operation of Gas Turbine Engines and Waterjet Pumps for Small Passenger Vessels

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Kowleski ◽  
C. D. Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
High Speed ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Gas Turbine Engines ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
Operational Problem ◽  
Golden Gate Bridge ◽  
Selection Of

This paper describes the planning, developmental, equipment selection and operational problem phases of the high-speed ferry system presently being operated on San Francisco Bay by the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. The reasons for the selection of the vessel propulsion package consisting of gas turbine engines and waterjet pumps are discussed in some detail. Most importantly, the paper covers the problems experienced to date with this equipment in continuous marine operation.

Bridge over troubled discourse: the influence of the Golden Gate Bridge on community discourse and suicide

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Gerald Caulkins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Golden Gate Bridge ◽  
Mirror Theory

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) as a work of art and the role of the bridge in shaping community identity and discourse. Particular attention is focussed on the discourse surrounding mental illness and suicide, which perpetuate the problem of suicides involving the bridge as a means and mechanism of death. An analysis of the person who attempts or completes suicide is also performed. Design/methodology/approach – Multiple research articles, writings, and a cinematic production are drawn on to frame the argument in terms of Michel Foucault's adaption of Pantopticism Theory and Jacques Lacan's Mirror Theory, which includes the concepts of the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic. Findings – The GGB is a major factor in shaping the discourse on mental illness and suicide in the San Francisco community. The influences the GGB exerts combines with and exacerbates a culture of stigma, which perpetuates negative discourse and increases the risk of suicides in those already vulnerable. Research limitations/implications – The research for this paper was performed at a distance and was conducted, with the exception of one personal communication, by literature search and application to theory. Ethnographic research would be a logical next step to study the phenomenon further. Practical implications – Theory developed from this paper could be used in determining a relevant course of action for adding to existing suicide prevention efforts in the San Francisco Area and any other community with a prominent icon, such as the GGB, that may be exerting a negative influence on the suicide rates of that area. Social implications – An awareness of how art, culture, and psychology interact would increase awareness of the creation of a stigmatized environment and perhaps precipitate a change in the underlying negative discourse. Originality/value – This paper takes a fresh look at the phenomenon of violent death by suicide where a physical object/icon (the GGB) is used as a means to die. The particular theories and approach used to explain the interactions that intensify the suicide death rate have never been combined and interwoven in such an interdisciplinary way to seek an explanation.

scholarly journals Image of the city and modern architecture in the Polish feature films of the 1960s’

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Adam Nadolny
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Film Image ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the inter-dependencies between the film image and architecture. The author has attempted to define what sort of historical background preconditions the film image to gain the status of a source for research on the history of Polish urban planning and post-war architecture, with particular emphasis placed on the 1960s.

scholarly journals Under the Golden Gate bridge: views of the sea floor near the entrance to San Francisco Bay, California

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dartnell ◽  
Patrick L. Barnard ◽  
John L. Chin ◽  
Daniel Hanes ◽  
Rikk G. Kvitek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Golden Gate Bridge

Living in a Fool’s Paradise

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Mark Hogan
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Residential Location ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Industrial Decline ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This article investigates the political processes and attitudes that have prevented San Francisco from adequately dealing with many of its challenges. It posits that the city is at risk of becoming a caricature of its former self if attitudes towards accepting and preparing for the future do not change as a chronic shortage of housing threatens to push many long-time residents out. The history of anti-development attitudes since the 1980s is reviewed, tracing the rebound from post-industrial decline to becoming a highly desirable residential location and the home to some of the world’s most innovative companies.

Broad views of the urban past in Europe and its extensions

Urban History ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-352
Author(s):  
ANDREW LEES
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Big City ◽  
Readable Book ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Readers of English can currently refer to only two works that offer synthetic overviews of the history of European cities from the period of classical antiquity into the twentieth century. We have long had the powerfully argued and highly readable book by the architectural critic, Louis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformation, and Its Prospects (1961). Beginning with the earliest settlements in the Near East and continuing through the rise of the suburbs in the United States, Mumford's volume tells a dramatic story in which urbanity at its best (as exemplified by such communities as Athens and Amsterdam) gave way to a succession of assaults, whether in the form of Baroque planning, rampant industrialization, oversized ‘megalopolises’ or automobiles. Continuing in the vein of many earlier critics, Mumford saw the modern big city as a depressing departure from earlier norms of urban beauty and human solidarity, and his view of the future was bleak indeed. Nearly four decades later, Sir Peter Hall offered a similarly large-scale but otherwise very different view of the broad sweep of the urban past, in his Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order (1998). He constructed his book not as a narrative but instead as clusters of case studies, in which sixteen cities appear as scenes and agents of various types of exemplary achievement. Focusing on Europe, but not restricting himself to it, Hall presented not only Athens, Florence, Paris, Vienna, London, Manchester and Berlin but also New York, San Francisco and Tokyo as ‘places that [have] ignited the sacred flame of intelligence and human imagination’ (p. 7). It is primarily for this reason that, in Hall's view, the history of great metropolises is inseparable from the history of civilization itself.

HEURESIBIOS SON OF SYRISKOS AND THE QUESTION OF TYRANNY IN OLBIA PONTIKE (FIFTH–FOURTH CENTURY BC)

2018 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 399-414
Author(s):  
Joanna Porucznik
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Political ◽  
Achaemenid Empire ◽  
The North ◽  
Political Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Delian League ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The City

This paper examines the ancient written, numismatic and archaeological sources that pertain to the political history of Olbia Pontike in the fifth and early fourth century bc. Several Olbian inscriptions that mention a certain Heuresibios son of Syriskos have been connected with a possible episode of tyranny that may have taken place in the city of Olbia. Most of the inscriptions are in a poor state of preservation and their interpretation has often been based on uncertain reconstructions of the texts; therefore, a re-examination of these inscriptions is provided alongside an analysis of other evidence that provides a broader historical background to the political situation in Olbia during that time. Olbia's status in the Delian League and the Athenian political and cultural influence on Olbia are examined. It is argued that the introduction of a political cult of Zeus Eleutherios was a reaction to a political change in Olbia that resulted in the establishment of democracy. Lastly, the economic and political relationship of the Achaemenid Empire with the North Pontic region, especially in relation to local coinage, is discussed, which allows for a synthesis of the material gathered.

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