scholarly journals Creating a positive mega-event legacy : exploring the impact of the Pan American games on the west Don Lands community, Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandrea Nicole Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Area ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The West ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Olympic Village ◽  
Sports Organization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

In November 2009, the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) announced that Toronto won the bid to host the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games. The Toronto bid included many ambitious policies and challenging development projects. One of the most notable development projects is the construction of the Athletes' Village on the West Don Lands (WDL), a former industrial area that Waterfront Toronto has been working to revitalize. The construction of the Village is supposed to compliment the existing plan for the WDL revitalization, as outlined in the Precinct Plan, which aims to develop the site into a mixed-use community. The intent of this Masters Research Paper is to explore whether using the WDL as a temporary site for the Village will leave a positive post-game legacy, where the goals originally set for the site are actualized. Lessons learned from three previous Olympic village conversions will be used to develop four factors that indicate whether a successful post-game village conversion will occur on the West Don Lands.

scholarly journals Creating a positive mega-event legacy : exploring the impact of the Pan American games on the west Don Lands community, Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandrea Nicole Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Area ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
The West ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Olympic Village ◽  
Sports Organization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

In November 2009, the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) announced that Toronto won the bid to host the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games. The Toronto bid included many ambitious policies and challenging development projects. One of the most notable development projects is the construction of the Athletes' Village on the West Don Lands (WDL), a former industrial area that Waterfront Toronto has been working to revitalize. The construction of the Village is supposed to compliment the existing plan for the WDL revitalization, as outlined in the Precinct Plan, which aims to develop the site into a mixed-use community. The intent of this Masters Research Paper is to explore whether using the WDL as a temporary site for the Village will leave a positive post-game legacy, where the goals originally set for the site are actualized. Lessons learned from three previous Olympic village conversions will be used to develop four factors that indicate whether a successful post-game village conversion will occur on the West Don Lands.

Natural Disaster and Crisis: Lessons Learned about Cleft and Craniofacial Care from Hurricane Katrina and the West Bank

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Van Aalst ◽  
Ronald P. Strauss ◽  
Lynn Fox ◽  
Cynthia H. Cassell ◽  
Margot Stein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Health Care Delivery System ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Craniofacial Anomalies ◽  
The West ◽  
The Impact

Cleft care is generally characterized by staged, carefully timed surgeries and long-term, team-centered follow-up. Acute and chronic crises can wreak havoc on the comprehensive team care required by children with craniofacial anomalies. In addition, there is evidence that crises, including natural disasters and chronic disruptions, such as political turmoil and poverty, can lead to an increased incidence of craniofacial anomalies. The purpose of this article is to delineate the impact of acute and chronic crises on cleft care. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005, resulted in an acute crisis that temporarily disrupted the infrastructure necessary to deliver cleft care; chronic turmoil in the West Bank/Palestine has resulted in an absence of infrastructure to deliver cleft care. Through these central examples, this article will illustrate—through the prism of cleft care—the need for (1) disaster preparedness for acute crises, (2) changing needs following acute crises that may lead to persistent chronic disruption, and (3) baseline and long-term monitoring of population changes after a disaster has disrupted a health care delivery system.

scholarly journals What Will The Legacy Of The Pan American And Parapan Games 2015 Be For Toronto? Looking At Past Successes And Failures To Inform Toronto's Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha P. Jailal
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Social Environmental

The 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games will be hosted in Toronto. The Athletes’ Village is being constructed in the West Don Lands and post Games will be transformed into a mixed-use community. Due to the scale of the project and brief duration of the Games, the creation of this new neighbourhood in Toronto is a sizeable undertaking but has the potential to accommodate Toronto’s anticipated growth and serve to connect the Waterfront from east to west. The central issue for this paper is identifying the legacy aspects of the Athletes’ Village and how stakeholders can work to mitigate any potential negative impacts identified. The investigation will focus on the social, environmental and economic impacts. Recommendations for stakeholders are presented based on the research approach which included interviews, a review of literature as well as case studies of previous sporting events in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Cold War in the Village

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-195
Author(s):  
Marcel Thomas
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

This chapter examines in more detail how the inhabitants of the two villages engaged with the other Germany and the division of their nation. The Neukirchers and Ebersbachers lived far away from the inner-German border, but in their everyday lives they nonetheless were forced to confront the impact of division. By analysing everyday practices through which the villagers positioned themselves in the political landscape of the Cold War, the chapter sheds new light on the asymmetry of (be)longing and othering in the divided nation. It demonstrates how the Neukirchers and Ebersbachers constructed their own respective imaginary East and imaginary West shaped by local concerns and searches for identity. In Neukirch, the villagers increasingly built up the West as an object of longing in their attempts to deal with the daily struggles of life in a shortage economy. The Ebersbachers, on the other hand, used the East as a Cold War ‘other’ to express pride in their economic recovery and gain a stronger sense of their own identity in a divided nation. These distorted images of the other Germany led to widespread alienation and misunderstandings in the first German–German encounters in the reunified nation. It was difference, rather than a shared sense of national identity, that dominated the experiences of the Neukirchers and Ebersbachers when the inner-German border disappeared in 1990.

scholarly journals L’icona miracolosa del principe Ašot II Bagratuni

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ruffilli
Keyword(s):  
Historical Sources ◽  
The West ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
Byzantine Icon ◽  
The Church

The Armenian prince Ašot II Bagratuni (685/686-688/689 d.C.) placed in the church he himself founded in the village of Daroynkʽ a Byzantine icon mentioned in the Armenian historical sources as an image of the «Incarnation of Christ», coming from «the West». The years of the principate of Ašot partly coincide with those of the first of the two reigns of Justinian II, the emperor who for the first time issued monetary coins with the image of Christ impressed, and presided in 692 d.C. the Quinisext Council ‘in Trullo’, whose canon no. LXXXII dealt with the representation of the Saviour’s body. The case of Ašot is an example of the worship of icons in the late 7th century Armenia, and contributes to witnes both the circulation of this kind of artifacts in the armenian territories, and the the impact of the contemporary reflections about the Incarnation of Christ and the sacred images; in agreement, moreover, with the condemnation of the iconoclastic theses expressed in the Armenian treatise attributed to Vrtʽanēs Kʽertʽoł.

scholarly journals What Will The Legacy Of The Pan American And Parapan Games 2015 Be For Toronto? Looking At Past Successes And Failures To Inform Toronto's Experience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha P. Jailal
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Social Environmental

The 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games will be hosted in Toronto. The Athletes’ Village is being constructed in the West Don Lands and post Games will be transformed into a mixed-use community. Due to the scale of the project and brief duration of the Games, the creation of this new neighbourhood in Toronto is a sizeable undertaking but has the potential to accommodate Toronto’s anticipated growth and serve to connect the Waterfront from east to west. The central issue for this paper is identifying the legacy aspects of the Athletes’ Village and how stakeholders can work to mitigate any potential negative impacts identified. The investigation will focus on the social, environmental and economic impacts. Recommendations for stakeholders are presented based on the research approach which included interviews, a review of literature as well as case studies of previous sporting events in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Guadalajara, Mexico.

scholarly journals DAMPAK POST-SUBURBANISASI DAN PERTUMBUHAN PERKOTAAN DI KAWASAN PINGGIRAN METROPOLITAN JABODETABEK TERHADAP KERENTANAN BENCANA BANJIR

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Erie Sadewo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Spatial Structure ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Land Area ◽  
The West ◽  
Ordinal Regression Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

Urban sustainability is facing serious challenges both from internal and from the outside. The influence of globalization has driven urban transformation into a post-suburban form, but surprisingly, the effect of such transformation on the sustainability of cities in the context of disaster is still debated. This study aims to determine the impact of the post-suburbanization process on the occurrence of floods in the suburbs of Metropolitan Jabodetabek. This is done by building an ordinal regression model using comparison of PODES 2005 and 2014 data at the village  level. The results shown that in that period and afterwards, the growth of Jabodetabek increasingly leads toward suburban. In the new urban spatial structure, the environmental quality around the newly developed sub-centers in the west and eastward of Jakarta has been degraded. Such situation indicates that the changes in urban spatial structures also contribute to the declining. The growth of population density and built land area in the growing Jabodetabek suburban area will be followed by an increase in environmental degradation threat characterized by opportunities for greater floods. The post-suburbanization process has an impact on the declining ecological function through urbanization and land use change so that development planning around the suburbs needs to pay more attention to sustainability through efforts to maintain the functioning of river ecosystems.

Contemporary Qur'anic Studies in Iran and its Relationship with Qur'anic Studies in the West

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Morteza Karimi-Nia
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The West ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
The Status ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The status of tafsīr and Qur'anic studies in the Islamic Republic of Iran has changed significantly during recent decades. The essay provides an overview of the state of Qur'anic studies in Iran today, aiming to examine the extent of the impact of studies by Western scholars on Iranian academic circles during the last three decades and the relationship between them. As in most Islamic countries, the major bulk of academic activity in Iran in this field used to be undertaken by the traditional ʿulamāʾ; however, since the beginning of the twentieth century and the establishment of universities and other academic institutions in the Islamic world, there has been increasing diversity and development. After the Islamic Revolution, many gradual changes in the structure and approach of centres of religious learning and universities have occurred. Contemporary advancements in modern sciences and communications technologies have gradually brought the institutions engaged in the study of human sciences to confront the new context. As a result, the traditional Shīʿī centres of learning, which until 50 years ago devoted themselves exclusively to the study of Islamic law and jurisprudence, today pay attention to the teaching of foreign languages, Qur'anic sciences and exegesis, including Western studies about the Qur'an, to a certain extent, and recognise the importance of almost all of the human sciences of the West.

Faiza Ambah's Mariam and the Embodied Politics of Veiling in France

Paragraph ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350
Author(s):  
Kaya Davies Hayon
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Islam And Secularism ◽  
The Impact

This article argues that Mariam uses its eponymous heroine's lived and embodied experiences of veiling to explore the impact of French secular legislation on Muslim schoolgirls' everyday lives in France. Interweaving secularism studies, feminism and phenomenology, I argue that the film portrays the headscarf as the primary means by which its protagonist is able to resist male patriarchal authority and negotiate her hybrid subjectivity. I conclude that Mariam offers a nuanced representation of veiling that troubles the perceived distinctions between Islam and secularism, oppression and freedom, and the veil and feminism in France and the West.

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