Do You Know the Way to L.A.? San Jose Shows How to Turn an Urban Area into Los Angeles in Three Stressful Decades

Author(s):  
Randal O'Toole
Keyword(s):  
San Jose ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-391
Author(s):  
ROBERT W. HARTMAN
Keyword(s):  
San Jose ◽  

Author(s):  
Thomais Kordonouri

‘Archive’ is a totality of records, layers and memories that are collected. A city is the archive that consists of the conscious selection of these layers and traces of the past and the present, looking towards the future. Metaxourgio is an area in the wider historic urban area of Keramikos in Athens that includes traces of various eras, beginning in the Antiquity and continuing all the way into the 21st century. Its archaeological space ‘Demosion Sema’ is mostly concealed under the ground level, waiting to be revealed. In this proposal, Metaxourgio is redesigned in light of archiving. Significant traces of the Antiquity, other ruins and buildings are studied, selected and incorporated in the new interventions. The area becomes the ‘open archive’ that leads towards its lost identity. The proposal aims not only to intensify the relationship of architecture with archaeology, but also to imbue the area’s identity with meanings that refer to the past, present and future.


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Miller

This article contemplates the way Northern and Southern California have been used in science fiction films since the 1970s. Continuing a trend the author traces to the 1940s novels Earth Abides and Ape and Essence, Northern California represents possible utopian futures while Southern California represents dystopia. The article includes a photo essay featuring science fiction film stills held up against their filming locations in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.


Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Alejandro Mollá-Sirvent ◽  
Higinio Mora ◽  
Virgilio Gilart-Iglesias ◽  
Raquel Pérez-delHoyo ◽  
María Dolores Andújar-Montoya

There is a growing social awareness about accessibility. The accessibility in cities and public spaces has become in an important issue in official agendas due to recent European directives. There are several studies on the way to improve accessibility in cities but they do not offer the possibility of view if solutions applied are valid over time. This paper proposes a method to measure the degree of accessibility of a city or urban area by using data from conflicting accessibility points collected by the own citizens. It will allow us to visualize in a concise way how accessible a city is and its progression in the time.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Alissa Walker

This essay discusses the connection between land use, cars, and housing affordability, looking first at the way freeways affected Los Angeles neighborhoods, and then at the ways changing technologies might remake them once again. She argues that cleaner, quieter, self-driving cars coupled with plans to cap freeways and build parks over them could make underused land alongside busy roadways attractive for new housing.


(an)ecdótica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-117
Author(s):  
Ana Castaño

The illustrious 18th century bibliographer, theologian, preacher and professor Juan José de Eguiara y Eguren, wrote and preached approximately 212 sermons and talks which have been preserved in manuscript form in the Biblioteca Nacional de México. Despite the fact that these texts account for almost half of this author’s written work, we are only aware of the publication of 10 of his sermons. We may find this surprising when we consider, on the one hand, the literary and cultural transcendence of the genre of the sermon during the Colonial period and, on the other, the great care that Eguiara dedicated to the composition, correction and transcription of many of these pieces of writing. In this article, I present the edition of the first part of a manuscript sermon by Eguiara dedicated to St. Joseph, to whom the author seemed to show particular devotion, as I intend to demonstrate, based on the work and on the cultural and religious context of the historical period. I also propose here that this relatively extensive piece of writing complies with the formal characteristics of an “academic sermon,” insofar as we may speak of such a type of sermon in the 18th century. We know that Eguiara’s sermon about St. Joseph was preached during the second quarter of the century, on a more or less solemn occasion, though we do not know where; I shall propose some options regarding possible locations. We also know that Eguiara considered this sermon to be ready to go to press, both because of his clearly stated indication thereof and because of the attention given to the style and the structure of the work. It was carefully copied by an amanuensis and has corrections and additions by Eguiara; it was bound along with 9 other booklets containing other sermons about saints.


Acta Poética ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Nadal Palazón

Como respuesta a las escasas descripciones existentes sobre los titulares periodísticos —las cuales en algunos aspectos a menudo no superan la prueba empírica que supone cotejarlas con la realidad observable en los periódicos—, en este trabajo se propone un inventario actualizado de las particularidades formales más características de los titulares, de acuerdo con su distribución en un amplio corpus de prensa actual en español. El inventario se resume en cuatro rasgos constantes y cuatro variables. Los rasgos constantes, presentes de manera relativamente homogénea por todo el corpus (si bien algunas de sus variantes presentan ciertos condicionamientos), son los siguientes: bimembración expresiva, elipsis, estructuras nominales y presente histórico. Los rasgos variables, que muestran una distribución menos regular, son, en cambio, los siguientes: tercera persona impersonal, verbo inicial, potencial citativo y presencia de criptónimos. El análisis se basa en un corpus de 3 689 titulares recientes publicados en español en las ediciones impresas de los periódicos El País, de Madrid (España); La Opinión, de Los Ángeles (Estados Unidos); El Universal, de México (México); La Nación, de San José (Costa Rica); Hoy, de Santo Domingo (República Dominicana); El Tiempo, de Bogotá (Colombia); El Nacional, de Caracas (Venezuela); El Comercio, de Lima (Perú); El Mercurio, de Santiago (Chile), y Clarín, de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Cuando procede, se atiende el factor diatópico, y se demuestra la inexactitud de algunos planteamientos que suelen repetirse en la bibliografía especializada.


Author(s):  
Amy C. Beal

This chapter examines Bley's early compositions. According to Bley, her earliest mature work is the twelve-bar blues in F called Donkey, which she probably composed in Los Angeles in 1958. In a collection of her piano music published in 1981, Bley called the melody of the piece “a blues line,” even though it flies by at a rapid pace and seems more akin to bebop melodies than to anything else. Likewise, the short explosion of Ictus (also dated 1958) is to be played “as fast as possible.” Unlike Donkey, which she considered a blues, Ictus does not have chord symbols written in the way then standard for jazz scores. Indeed, many of her early works have a tendency to obscure any sense of metrical regularity through irregular placements of short phrases, held notes across the bar lines, and plenty of rests.


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