A Greek Carnival

1919 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
D. S. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Good Night ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

In the discussion of Greek dramatic origins, a curious passage of Apuleius has never, so far as I know, been mentioned.In the second book of the Metamorphoses the hero Lucius describes a feast given at Hypata in Thessaly by his rich relative Byrrhena. After the feast Byrrhena informs him that an annual festival, coeval with the city, will be celebrated next day—a joyous ceremony, unique in the world, in honour of the god Laughter. She wishes that he could invent some humorous freak for the occasion. Lucius promises to do his best. Being very drunk, he then bids Byrrhena good-night, and departs with his slave for the house of Milo, his miserly old host. A gust blows out their torch, and they get home with difficulty, arm in arm. There they find three large and lusty persone violently battering the door. Lucius has been warned by his mistress, Milo's slave Fotis, against certain young Mohawks of the town—‘uesana factio nobilissimorum iuuenum’—who think nothing of murdering rich strangers. He at once draws his sword, and one by one stabs all three. Fotis, roused by the noise, lets him in and he quickly falls asleep.

Belji of Dhulikhel

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Colopy
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water System ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Urban Riots ◽  
The World ◽  
May Day ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rural Nepal ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

I first heard of Bel Prasad Shrestha five years before I met him. An article in the Nepali Times lauded his efforts to establish a water system in the town of Dhulikhel while he was its mayor. I clipped it and set it aside. Fifteen miles from Kathmandu was a municipal utility that put Kathmandu’s to shame. I wanted to know more. Perhaps I saved Bel Prasad for last, expecting the visit to Dhulikhel to be a pleasant excursion—a hopeful encounter that would show me that the break down of urban management I saw every day in Kathmandu was not an inevitable part of development in Nepal. After all those discouraging discussions about Melamchi and about Kathmandu sewage and water supply problems, perhaps I was going to meet a Newar who had a gift for water like his ancient forebears. I went to Dhulikhel the day before May Day, 2010, when Nepal’s Maoists were planning to outdo their usual May Day celebrations with protests all over the city. They were massing their cadres in Kathmandu, ostensibly to pressure the prime minister of another party to resign. On a Friday morning I set out with my friend Ram, a Kathmandu taxi driver who was always available when I needed to venture out on a longer excursion. The shocks on his little white Maruti Suzuki were shot, as they were on most taxis in Kathmandu, but Ram was a good driver who knew all the roads and backroads. Aside from worries about being able to return to the city in the face of demonstrations and roadblocks—or perhaps the complete countrywide shutdown that the Maoists were threatening—Dhulikhel was a green and quiet escape, a fine place to wait out urban riots if any were to materialize. And I found a charming host in Bel Prasad, a unique and now elderly gentleman who had straddled the wide gulf between the rural Nepal of his childhood and the world he had seen in visits to Europe, America, and Japan.

Agonising Liminality: A Study Of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
A. Ezhugnayiru
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Republic Of Turkey ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Unpleasant Experience

                      This article throws light on the distress a liminal experience could give for an individual or to a community who belong to a specific ethnicity, regarding the novel Snow written by the Turkish writer, Orhan Pamuk. Turkey located geographically in the edges of landscapes where the east and the west meet encounters this liminality over a couple of decades and stays as the setting of the novel Snow. In the liminal state, people fall in the breaks and crevices of the social structure which they think.The liminal stage individual encounters, a period of instability and vulnerability. Orhan Pamuk's Snow reflects the unpleasant experience of progress from the Islam arranged Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. The setting of the novel, the town of Kars, a periphery city fringe to Turkey stands as a representative of Turkey's minimization from the world. Pamuk supplements the fruitless condition of the city all through this novel.

David Hilbert 1862-1943

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 547-553 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Compound Fracture ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
David Hilbert ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
East Prussia

David Hilbert, upon whom the world looked during the last decades as the greatest of the living mathematicians, died in Gottingen, Germany, on 14 February 1943. At the age of eighty-one he succumbed to a compound fracture of the thigh brought about by a domestic accident. Hilbert was born on 23 January 1862, in the city of Konigsberg in East Prussia. He was descended from a family which had long been settled there and had brought forth a series of physicians and judges. During his entire life he preserved uncorrupted the Baltic accent of his home. For a long time Hilbert remained faithfully attached to the town of his forbears, and well deserved its honorary citizenship which was bestowed upon him in his later years.

scholarly journals MENYONGSONG 25 TAHUN SISTER CITY JAKARTA – TOKYO

2017 ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Witarsa Tambunan
Keyword(s):  
Provincial Government ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Apparatus ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
And Training

AbstractThe term sister city was originally introduced by Dwight Eisehower to the XII century,which means the town brothers, friendly city. The concept of sister city intends to maximizethe relationship between community members in all corners of the world to be created andmaintain peace. Sister city Jakarta - Tokyo has succeeded in building a positive image ofJakarta as an international city. As an international city, Jakarta has a vision of "Aligningthe city of Jakarta with cities abroad." That is why the cooperation program of sister cityJakarta - Tokyo for the Jakarta Provincial Government is a necessity as a consequence ofJakarta as the Capital of Indonesia Republic and international city. In making the city ofJakarta as the city of city services, through its sister city Quezon City - Tokyo, JakartaProvincial Government to send its agents (HR) to Tokyo to follow the Exchange Program,Apprenticeship and Training Apparatus, to turns knowledge, skill, and attitude towardpositive changing of apparatus, it means improved the quality of human resources so thatits services meet international standards so the city can be a service city. As for thecommunity (people), sister city programs Jakarta - Tokyo has managed to build brotherhoodand friendship through sports and high school student and teacher exchanges.Keywords: Sister City, Service City

scholarly journals NIZHYN MAGISTRATE: HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF RESTORATION

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Vitalii Ostapchuk
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Bell Tower ◽  
Reconstruction Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Part ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Storey Building

This article reveals the historical and urban significance of the magistrate in the town of Nizhyn, and explaines the necessity of its reconstruction. There is a description of restoration reconstruction methods. This work also gives the examples of reproduction of historical buildings around the world and in Ukraine. The author's approach to reproduction and ways of using a rebuilt building had been proposed in this article.In 1625 Nizhyn granted the Magdeburg Law. It meant that the town became self-governing. The magistrate was responsible for the administration, household and law. The magistrate building was the center of the composition of the Cathedral Square and played a key role in the town-planning ensemble.The new brick building was erected instead of the wooden one by Andrii Kvasov which had been damaged by fire at the end of XVIII century. It was two-storey building in the style of classicism with trading rows beside. Unfortunately, the building was ruined due to the series of unpleasant occasions. But there are the architect Kartashevskiy’s drawings of the magistrate which he made during the building repair. So it is possible to do the restoration reconstruction which means the construction of a new structure in the same place and in the same forms as previously existing object.There are a lot of examples of reproduction of the historical buildings in the world such as an Old Town in Warsaw, Riga Town Hall in Latvia, the Saint Marco Cathedra’s bell tower in Venice, Saint Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv etc.The only part of building which is preserved now is the underground floor filled in with soil. So the reconstructed building must be separated from the original part. In order to achieve this, basement should be strengthened and restored first. The new building must be placed on the platform with pile foundation apart from the basement. The reproduced building can be used with its original purpose. It is possible to move the part of the City Council there or the museum of the Magdeburg Law.Moreover, the reconstruction of the magistrate is important now because of the 400 year anniversary of the granting Nizhyn a Magdeburg Law in 2025.

scholarly journals THE SURVEY OF THE MONUMENTAL FOUNTAIN IN THE TOWN OF DALMINE: A PRELIMINARY WORK FOR THE CONSERVATION PROJECT

2021 ◽  
Vol XLVI-4/W5-2021 ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
A. Cardaci ◽  
P. Azzola ◽  
A. Versaci
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
The World ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Abstract. The Monumental Fountain of Dalmine was built to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s historical address held on March 20, 1919, to which the square was dedicated. In the basin stood a large marble block on which some sentences of the Duce’s speech were carved. The work was partially destroyed at the end of the World War II and the block was removed. Today, what remains of the Dalmine Fountain constitutes the privileged meeting place of the city. However, it has great sealing problems as well as high management and maintenance costs, which prevent its normal functioning. Consequently, it is kept empty for many months of the year and filled with water only in the summer. This essay intends to propose a study based on the analysis of historical sources and 3D survey and modelling techniques aimed to understand the historical and urban value of the monument, to support its conservation and to enhance its role as a central meeting point for the town.

Nutrition, Health and the Future

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Walter Yellowlees
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Degenerative Diseases ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Small Scale Farmer ◽  
Better Than

The health of the Scottish Highlander appears to be no better than that of the town dwelling Scotsman. Beautiful scenery, tranquility and freedom from the stress of the city do not prevent common degenerative diseases such as peptic ulcer or coronary heart disease. The researches of T. L. Cleave and others strongly suggests that the increasing consumption of refined, processed food is the cause of these degenerative diseases. Changing food consumption in the Scottish Highlands and throughout the World has been accompanied by changing patterns of disease and by changing agriculture. In many countries imported canneed or preserved food has replaced home grown produce. The small-scale farmer is fast disappearing and is being combined in “collectives”; this results in massive depopulation and causes an imbalance between town and country. In this country we have not solved this problem of land use which will ensure a sane future. Until our people can enjoy food which is fresh, varied, unrefined and grown on fertile soil our health is not likely to improve.

scholarly journals Od znikania do odpominania

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1(70)) ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Barbara Wieżgowiec
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
World War ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Ghost Town ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

From Disappearance to Re-Remembrance. Post-Memory Narration about Miedzianka Miedzianka – a lower Silesian village, earlier: mining town and a leisure-tourist resort, ger. Kupferberg. It is said that it is a ghost-town, which has (almost) diaappeared. Some traces, however, remained – a church, photography or human memories – both from before World War II, of German citizens and after the world war of polish inhabitants. All of them are connected by the traumatic experience that combines post-war resettlement and the destruction of the town. The memory of Miedzianka was not destroyed, though, being passed to next generations. One of the voices of this post-memory can be found in the report by Filip Springer, Miedzianka: Story of Disappearing in 2011. This book quickly became recognised ensuing an increasing interest in the town, its history and fate, making new post-memory narrations to appear, which I describe as „post-memory practice”. One of them is Miasto, którego nie było (The City, which didn’t exist). What and how do these books tell us about Miedzianka? In what sense do these alternative but interpenetrating narrations influence the perception of this place, as well as the memory of it? These questions are the basis of the reflections leading to a display of relations between man and his oblivion/memory and the place. The literature, however, or widely art, having the power to preserve memory and therefore to save, allows the showcasing of the transformation of the town: its history, disappearance, and finally transubstantiation into a place of memory, which is created mainly by the second and third generations – heritage depositories.

Lyon – UNESCO’s Creative City of Gastronomy?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Avelino Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Brand Positioning ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Marketing Program ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The fast urbanization in many regions of the world has generated a high competition between cities. In the race for investments and for international presence, some cities have increasingly resorting to the territorial marketing techniques like city branding. One of the strategies of recent years has been to use of creativity and / or labeling of creative city for the promotion of its destination. This phenomenon raises a question whether the city branding programs have worked in accordance with the cultural industries of the territory or if such labels influence the thought of tourists and locals. This paper begins by placing a consideration of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) and the strategies of the Territorial Marketing Program of the city of Lyon in France, Only Lyon. It also raises the question the perception of the target public to each of the current actions through semi-structured interviews which were applied between May and August 2015. Finally, I will try to open a discussion the brand positioning adopted by the city of Lyon

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

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