Post-Normal Material Practice

Examining the Environmental Impacts of Materials and Buildings - Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2426-8.ch010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 282-312

Author(s):

Jacob Wayne Mans

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

Open Systems ◽

Boundary Spanning ◽

Building Projects ◽

Material Practice ◽

New Ideas ◽

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This chapter explores building as a form of material inquiry. The process of building generates new ideas and questions that remain latent in unbuilt designs. These ideas and questions are uniquely trans-scalar and boundary spanning as compared to material inquiries that focus on isolated material attributes. Building projects embed material inquiries within the open systems that make up our environment. Thinking about material performance in this way can co-produce political, social, economic, and ecologic relationships that extend design agency beyond the artifact.

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Markets as Open Systems: Organizing and Reorganizing a Financial Market

10.1093/oso/9780198815761.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mats Jutterström

Keyword(s):

Financial Market ◽

Open System ◽

Open Systems ◽

Market Reform ◽

Institutional Environments ◽

System Perspective ◽

New Ideas ◽

Individual Market

What are the drivers of market reorganization? Based on an in-depth longitudinal example—frequent reorganizations of a huge financial market—this chapter focuses on contextual drivers of market reorganization. The chapter highlights three drivers of reorganization that made the lives of the organizers both unexpected and difficult: side markets, general ideas diverging from practice, and new ideas. Moreover, the question of market reform frequency is addressed; the study illustrates how it may be propelled by contextual dynamics and unrealistic ideas still hoped for. The chapter demonstrates the relevance of an open system perspective on markets, recognizing both their technical and institutional environments as drivers of individual market reorganization.

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Bangladesh: An Unfinished Revolution?

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2054506 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 891-911 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Talukder Maniruzzaman

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

French Revolution ◽

Social Economic ◽

Authoritarian Regime ◽

Russian Revolution ◽

Totalitarian Regime ◽

New Ideas ◽

North Vietnam ◽

The French Revolution ◽

The Revolution

Revolutionary mass upheaval generally weakens the people's respect for authority, law, and discipline; and it brings in its wake social, economic, and political disorders, facilitating the establishment of an authoritarian regime. The French Revolution was based on the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity; but the destruction of the old social and political fabric, and the failure to institutionalize the new ideas, led Frenchmen to search for “the man of genius destined at once to carry on and to abolish the revolution.” The Russian Revolution of 1917 was also followed by several years of civil war, which led to the establishment of the ruthless totalitarian regime of Stalin, itself reminiscent of the Thermidorian Reaction. In Algeria, Cuba, China, and North Vietnam, successful mass armed revolutions have been consolidated only because of their one-party dictatorships.

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Further Urban Development from the Beginning of the Century to the End of the 30s

European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research ◽

10.26417/453lhu18w ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 179

Author(s):

Eftiola Thanas

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Development ◽

Reference Point ◽

Social Economic ◽

Urban Structure ◽

The Press ◽

New Ideas ◽

Urban Problems ◽

The City

The years 20 - 30 of the last century brought great economic development for our country, and in particular for the city of Korca. In this period, urban planning and especially its implementation received great attention. At this time Korca was thinking of changing and improving its existing urban structure. The citizens and intellectuals of Korça, through numerous discussions that took place in the press of the time, provided their solutions to the main urban problems, such as the city river, electrification, roads and boulevards, forestation, etc. The introduction of new ideas for solving the urban problems that the city faced in that period turned Korca into a reference point for their implementation. Making it the center and reference point for the urban developments that he was conceiving and using in that period. This was the Korca of the 20s and 30s, the city of ideas, development, and social, economic, architectural, and urban change.

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