11 ‘For by Him All Things Were Created ... Visible and Invisible’: Sketching the Contours of Public and Private Religion in North America

In recent years, the concept of a “Smart City” became central in the agenda of researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. Although the application of information and communication technologies on city management has advanced exponentially, also other components would be needed for building a truly sustainable urban environment. Researchers from different domains debated the definition of a smart city and the conceptual variants. However, a broad view of the smart city field is still missing. This paper attempts to fill this gap by proposing a taxonomic classification of the most 105 outstanding smart city projects in Europe and North America. Collected data are then processed by statistical tools for clearly highlighting the success factors, trends and future paths in which all these projects are moving, along with different aspects (e.g., business model, purpose, industry). We then investigate the European and the North American Smart City concepts, illustrating the key role of mixed public and private partnerships in creating successful projects and the focus on the urban transportation, and freight and last-mile delivery in particular. Moreover, it emerges how the business modeling and the exploitation aspects have still low integration in the projects.

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At-a-glance - Pollens, climate and allergies: Quebec initiatives

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada ◽

10.24095/hpcdp.39.4.05 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 136-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Isabelle Demers ◽

Pierre Gosselin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Allergic Rhinitis ◽

North America ◽

Significant Role ◽

Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis ◽

Scientific Data ◽

Ambrosia Artemisiifolia ◽

Control Measures ◽

Private Landowners ◽

Public And Private

Pollen allergies are a major source of seasonal allergic rhinitis in North America. This type of rhinitis affects 17% of adults in Quebec, a marked increase in the last 30 years. Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) pollens are responsible for 50% to 90% of rhinitis cases. Climate change has played a significant role in the increased prevalence of seasonal allergic rhinitis over the last few decades. In 2015, the Quebec government put in place a strategy to tackle this problem, the Stratégie québécoise de réduction de l’herbe à poux et des autres pollens allergènes [Quebec strategy to reduce ragweed and other allergenic pollens]. Based on solid evidence, the Strategy advocates for co-operation between stakeholders and the integration of control measures into the maintenance practices of municipalities and other large public and private landowners. This article presents the scientific data underpinning the Strategy and initial successes of the action taken under the Strategy.

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I.—Foreign Psychological Literature

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.9.47.373 ◽

1863 ◽

Vol 9 (47) ◽

pp. 373-395

Author(s):

J. T. Arlidge

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

The State ◽

Public And Private ◽

Native Land ◽

Psychological Literature ◽

Psychological Medicine ◽

Proper Subject ◽

American Thought

‘American Journal of Insanity.’—The July number of this Journal has the unusual quality in American literary productions of being made up of original articles by Americans. This is a proper subject of congratulation, for it must be more gratifying to both editors and subscribers that its original articles should be home-grown, and not mere reprints from British periodicals. To ourselves also it is much more satisfactory, on opening this ‘Journal of Insanity,’ to find it occupied with the results of American thought and observation, than with borrowed articles from contemporaneous literature. The very large number of public and private asylums in North America afford a most ample field for study and research, and the numerous learned and skilful physicians who superintend those asylums have no apology for neglecting its cultivation and failing to contribute the fruits of their labour for the benefit of their colleagues practising in the same department, through the medium of the Journal which is supposed to represent the state of psychological medicine in their native land. It is far from our purpose to imply that it is an evil to reproduce in the journals of any one country articles or memoirs appearing in those of other lands; indeed, this section of our own publication proves how far such an idea is from our minds; but it is a very different matter, and attains the magnitude of an evil, when it becomes a custom to occupy the bulk of a periodical with reprints of papers taken bodily from other journals, and not merely in abstract, to the exclusion of original communications. It is an evil long since noticed in many American publications, and has tended, and will tend so long as carried on, to blight original thought and arrest research.

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Returning Archaeological Objects to Italy

International Journal of Cultural Property ◽

10.1017/s094073911800019x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 283-321

Author(s):

David W. J. Gill

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

North American ◽

Public And Private ◽

Auction Houses ◽

Private Collections ◽

Archaeological Objects ◽

Photographic Records

Abstract:It has been more than 20 years since the raids on the premises at the Geneva Freeport were linked to Giacomo Medici. The seizure of photographic records led to a major investigation of acquisitions by museums and private collectors. This was expanded following the confiscation of archives from Robin Symes and Gianfranco Becchina. Over 350 items have been returned to Italy from North American public and private collections as well as auction houses and galleries. This article reviews the returns and identifies some of the major themes. It also notes some of the unresolved cases both in North America and in Europe and Japan.

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Independent Community Archives: Challenging the Status Quo of Private and Public Archives

Atlanti ◽

10.33700/2670-451x.28.1.207-215(2018) ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 207-215

Author(s):

Anne J. Gilliland ◽

Tamara Štefanac

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

North America ◽

Status Quo ◽

Public And Private ◽

Community Archives ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Status ◽

Private And Public ◽

Legislative Framework ◽

Public Archives

The community archives movement has emerged as a prominent, and often critical, presence within, and also outside the archival traditions and practices in North America and the United Kingdom. They can take many forms and often contest how both public and private archives in these regions have historically been understood, structured and operated. This paper first presents a brief review of some of the ways in which community archives have been framed in the archival literature. It then considers several questions regarding how such framings of community archives might challenge the status quo of private and public archives as currently defined and organized under the recently revised Croatian legislative framework and proposes a more conciliatory approach.

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Looted Nigerian heritage – an interrogatory discourse around repatriation

Contemporary Journal of African Studies ◽

10.4314/contjas.v7i1.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 47-65

Author(s):

Zacharys Anger Gundu

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

African Culture ◽

Art Galleries ◽

Public And Private ◽

Auction Houses ◽

Private Museums

The colonial assault on African culture and heritage culminated in the indiscriminate looting of African cultural resources, many of which are icons in public and private museums and institutions in Europe and North America. Many more are in auction houses and art galleries outside the continent. While there is no comprehensive audit of these materials, they are estimated to run into hundreds of thousands. In this paper, attempts are made to identify the different genres of looted Nigerian materials in Europe and North America. Factors that have continued to exacerbate the looting of the country’s cultural resources are identified and attempts are made to suggest possible strategies for the repatriation of these looted treasures.

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The Hidden Histories and Geographies of Neotraditional Town Planning: The Case of Seaside, Florida

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d150349 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 349-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Karen Falconer Al-Hindi ◽

Caedmon Staddon

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Urban Form ◽

Community Planning ◽

Town Planning ◽

Public And Private ◽

Private Spaces ◽

Resort Development ◽

Normative Content

The neotraditional resort development of Seaside, Florida merits special attention from geographers and urban planners because of the normative claims made by its designers and because it has garnered widespread attention from practising architects, planners, anti social critics, Under the banners of ‘neotraditionalism’ and ‘community planning’ the principles implemented in Seaside have also been employed in numerous other developments in North America. Central to Seaside's appeal and normative content is the deliberate attempt to resurrect an idealised past of uniquely American communitarianism through the skillful manipulation of urban form. We develop our critique of neotraditionalism through a deconstructive analysis of the physical and ideological spaces of Seaside. Specifically, we discuss the origin and development of Seaside, the centrality of its urban and architectural codes, the paradoxical deployment of public and private spaces, and the emergence of a distinctively neotraditional subject. Our basic claim is that neotraditionalism is actually a carefully veiled form of what Foster has called “postmodernism of reaction”.

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