scholarly journals Doxiadis and the ideal dynapolis: The limitations of planned axial urban growth

Author(s):  
Ray Bromley

The author is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he directs the Masters Program in Urban and Regional Planning. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE), the American Institute of Certified Planners, the American Planning Association, the International Planning History Society, and many other professional and scholarly associations, and he has served as a consultant with the United Nations, UNICEF, USAID, and various projects funded by the World Bank and AID. His research and publications focus on: the history of ideas in planning and community development; metropolitan and regional development policies; the revitalization of old neighborhoods; disaster avoidance and relief; and, micro-enterprise development. The text that follows is a revised and extended version of a paper presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-139
Author(s):  
Sharon Zukin

Profiling New York–based venture capitalists and VC firms that have been established in the city since the early 2000s, the chapter examines their risky but privileged perch between Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Interviews with VCs are juxtaposed with the post–World War II history of venture capital as a distinctive form of investment and management. The VCs’ equally distinctive commitment to New York is then contrasted with the increasing geographical dispersal of their investment funds to other regions of the world. Meanwhile, the integration of some corporate and VC members of the tech “community” into New York’s business establishment suggests the formation of a local tech-financial elite, updating C. Wright Mills’s critique of the institutional bases of power.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-217
Author(s):  
Aaron X. Smith

Professor Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University. Asante’s research has focused on the re-centering of African thinking and African people in narratives of historical experiences that provide opportunities for agency. As the most published African American scholars and one of the most prolific and influential writers in the African world, Asante is the leading theorist on Afrocentricity. His numerous works, over 85 books, and hundreds of articles, attest to his singular place in the discipline of African American Studies. His major works, An Afrocentric Manifesto [Asante 2007a], The History of Africa [Asante 2007b], The Afrocentric Idea [Asante 1998], The African Pyramids of Knowledge [Asante 2015], Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation [Asante 2009], As I Run Toward Africa [Asante 2011], Facing South to Africa [Asante 2014], and Revolutionary Pedagogy [Asante 2017], have become rich sources for countless scholars to probe for both theory and content. His recent award as National Communication Association (NCA) Distinguished Scholar placed him in the elite company of the best thinkers in the field of communication. In African Studies he is usually cited as the major proponent of Afrocentricity which the NCA said in its announcing of his Distinguished Scholar award was “a spectacular achievement”. Molefi Kete Asante is interviewed because of his recognized position as the major proponent of Afrocentricity and the most consistent theorist in relationship to creating Africological pathways such as institutes, research centers, departments, journals, conference and workshop programs, and academic mentoring opportunities. Asante has mentored over 100 students, some of whom are among the principal administrators in the field of Africology. Asante is professor of Africology at Temple University and has taught at the University of California, State University of New York, Howard University, Purdue University, Florida State University, as well as held special appointments at the University of South Africa, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and Ibadan University in Nigeria.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Jacob L. Susskind ◽  
Robert Fischer ◽  
Robert B. Luehrs ◽  
Joseph M. McCarthy ◽  
Pasquale E. Micciche ◽  
...  

J. M. MacKenzie. The Partition of Africa, 1880-1900. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. x, 48. Paper, $2.95. Review by Leslie C. Duly of Bemidji State University. C. Joseph Pusateri. A History of American Business. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1984. Pp. xii, 347. Cloth, $25.95; Paper, $15.95. Review by Paul H. Tedesco of Northeastern University. Russell F. Weigley. History of the United States Army. Enlarged edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Pp. vi, 730. Paper, $10.95. Review by Calvin L. Christman of Cedar Valley College. Jonathan H. Turner, Royce Singleton, Jr., and David Musick. Oppression: A Socio-History of Black-White Relations in America. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1984. Cloth, $24.95; Paper, $11.95. Review by Thomas F. Armstrong of Georgia College. H. Warren Button and Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. History of Education and Culture in America. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. Pp. xvii, 370. Cloth, $20.95. Review by Peter J. Harder. Vice President, Applied Economics, Junior Achievement Inc. David Stick. Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Pp. xiv, 266. Cloth, $14.95; Paper, $5.95. Review by Mary E. Quinlivan of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. John B. Boles. Black Southerners 1619-1869. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Pp. ix, 244. Cloth, $24.00; Paper, $9.00. Review by Kay King of Mountain View College. Elaine Tyler May. Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pp. viii, 200. Cloth, $15.00; Paper, $6.95. Review by Barbara J. Steinson of DePauw University. Derek McKay and H. M. Scott. The Rise of the Great Powers, 1648-1815. London: Longman, 1983. Pp. 368. Paper, $13.95. Review by Linda Frey of the University of Montana. Jack S. Levy. War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Pp. xiv, 215. Cloth, $24.00. Review by Bullitt Lowry of North Texas State University. Lionel Kochan and Richard Abraham. The Making of Modern Russia. Second Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Pp. 544. Paper, $7.95. Review by Pasquale E. Micciche of Fitchburg State College. D. C. B. Lieven. Russia and the Origins of the First World War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. 213. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Joseph M. McCarthy of Suffolk University. John F. V. Kieger. France and the Origins of the First World War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. vii, 201. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Robert B. Luehrs of Fort Hays State University. E. Bradford Burns. The Poverty of Progress: Latin Amerca in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Pp. 185. Paper, $6.95. Review by Robert Fischer of the Southern Technical Institute. Anthony Seldon and Joanna Pappworth. By Word of Mouth: Elite Oral History. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. xi, 258. Cloth, $25.00; Paper, $12.95. Review by Jacob L. Susskind of the Pennsylvania State University, The Capitol Campus.


1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Herbert Janick ◽  
Stephen S. Gosch ◽  
Donn C. Neal ◽  
Donald J. Mabry ◽  
Arthur Q. Larson ◽  
...  

Anthony Esler. The Human Venture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. Volume I: The Great Enterprise, a World History to 1500. Pp. xii, 340. Volume II: The Globe Encompassed, A World History since 1500. Pp. xii, 399. Paper, $20.95 each. Review by Teddy J. Uldricks of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. H. Stuart Hughes and James Wilkinson. Contemporary Europe: A History. Englewood Clifffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987. Sixth edition. Pp. xiii, 615. Cloth, $35.33. Review by Harry E. Wade of East Texas State University. Ellen K. Rothman. Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. xi, 370. Paper, $8.95. Review by Mary Jane Capozzoli of Warren County Community College. Bernard Lewis, ed. Islam: from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Volume I: Politics and War. Pp.xxxvii, 226. Paper, $9.95. Volume II: Religion and Society. Pp. xxxix, 310. Paper, $10.95. Review by Calvin H. Allen, Jr. of The School of the Ozarks. Michael Stanford. The Nature of Historical Knowledge. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. vii, 196. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95. Review by Michael J. Salevouris of Webster University. David Stricklin and Rebecca Sharpless, eds. The Past Meets The Present: Essays On Oral History. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. Pp. 151. Paper, $11.50. Review by Jacob L. Susskind of The Pennsylvania State University. Peter N. Stearns. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity. New York: Harper and row, 1987. Pp. viii, 598. Paper, $27.00; Theodore H. Von Laue. The World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century in Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 396. Cloth, $24.95. Review by Jayme A. Sokolow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean R Quataert, eds. Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World, 1500 to the Present. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xvii, 281. Cloth, $29.95; Paper, $10.95. Review by Samuel E. Dicks of Emporia State University. Dietrich Orlow. A History of Modern Germany: 1870 to Present. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1987. Pp. xi, 371. Paper, $24.33. Review by Gordon R. Mork of Purdue University. Gail Braybon and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars. Pandora: London and New York, 1987. Pp. xiii, 330. Paper, $14.95. Review by Paul E. Fuller of Transylvania University. Moshe Lewin. The Gorbachev Phenomenon: A Historical Interpretation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xii, 176. Cloth, $16.95; David A. Dyker, ed. The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev: Prospects for Reform. London & New York: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. 227. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson of Northern Essex Community College. Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp. viii, 308. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Arthur Q. Larson of Westmar College. Stephen G. Rabe. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism. Chapel Hill &  London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. 237. Cloth $29.95; paper, $9.95. Review by Donald J. Mabry of Mississippi State University. Earl Black and Merle Black. Politics and Society in the South. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. ix, 363. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Donn C. Neal of the Society of American Archivists. The Lessons of the Vietnam War: A Modular Textbook. Pittsburgh: Center for Social Studies Education, 1988. Teacher edition (includes 64-page Teacher's Manual and twelve curricular units of 31-32 pages each), $39.95; student edition, $34.95; individual units, $3.00 each. Order from Center for Social Studies Education, 115 Mayfair Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228. Review by Stephen S. Gosch of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Media Reviews Carol Kammen. On Doing Local History. Videotape (VIIS). 45 minutes. Presented at SUNY-Brockport's Institute of Local Studies First Annual Symposium, September 1987. $29.95 prepaid. (Order from: Dr. Ronald W. Herlan, Director, Institute of Local Studies, Room 180, Faculty Office Bldg., SUNY-Brockport. Brockport. NY 14420.) Review by Herbert Janick of Western Connecticut State University.


1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Marvin Reed ◽  
Donn C. Neal ◽  
Reuben Garner ◽  
James A. Zabel ◽  
Fred R. Van Hartesveldt ◽  
...  

Harry V. Jaffa. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Pp. 451. Paper, $9.95. Review by Charles F. Bryan, Jr. of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Arthur S. Link and Richard L. McCormick. Progressivism. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1983. Pp. ix, 149. Paper, $6.95. Review by Paul L. Silver of Johnson State College. William H. Chafe and Harvard Stikoff, eds. A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 386. Paper, $10.95. Review by Edward L. Schapsmeier of Illinois State University. Robert s. McElvaine, ed. Down & Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man." Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Pp. xvii, 251. Cloth, $23.00; Paper, $8.95. Review by William F. Mugleston of Mountain View College. G. de Bertier de Sauvigny and David H. Pinkney. History of France. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Arlington Heights, Illinois: The Forum Press, 1983. Pp. 436. Cloth, $28.50; Paper, $17.95. Review by W. Benjamin Kennedy of West Georgia College. Brian Catchpole. A Map History of the Modern World. London and Exeter: Heinemann Educational Books, Ltd., 1982. Third Edition. Pp. 169. Paper, $6.50. Review by Dan Levinson of Thayer Academy. Glenn E. Perry. The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. Pp. xv, 350. Paper, $15.95. Review by Arthur Q. Larson of Westmar College. Bill C. Malone. Southern Music, American Music. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1979. Pp. x, 203. Cloth, $16.00. Review by Monroe Billington of New Mexico State University. Walter Laqueur. Europe since Hitler: The Rebirth of Europe. New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Pp. 607. Paper, $6.95. Review by Steven Philip Kramer, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations 1983-1984. Sydney Wood. The British Welfare State 1900-1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 48. Paper, $3.95. Review by Fred R. van Hartesveldt of Fort Valley State College. John G. Stoessinger. Why Nations Go to War. Third Edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 226. Cloth, $12.95; Paper, $6.95. Review by James A. Zabel of The School of the Ozarks. Richard L. Rubenstein. The Age of Triage: Fear and Hope in an Overcrowded World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1983. Pp. 301. Cloth, $15.50. Review by Reuben Garner of Empire State College. Douglas A. Noverr and Lawrence E. Ziewacz. The Games They Played: Sports in American History, 1865-1980. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, Inc., Pp. vii, 423. Cloth, $34.95. Review by Donn C. Neal of the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education. James B. Gardner and George Rollie Adams, eds. Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives on the New Social History. Nashville: The American Association for State and Local History, 1983. Pp. viii, 215. Cloth, $17.95. Review by Marvin Reed of Brown University.


2021 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 05014
Author(s):  
Elena Petryaeva ◽  
Daria Milyaeva ◽  
Deirdre Wynter ◽  
Natalia Ageeva

In the context of the digital transformation of education, this study focuses on the analysis of social media as an efficient tool for developing learning spaces of universities. The goal of this study is to explore the use of Instagram by city universities, highlight the existing trends, and determine best practices and high-potential directions of online development for universities. The evidence base of this study included the Instagram accounts of six city universities of the world, specifically: the Moscow City University, the Dublin City University, the University of Taipei, the City, University of London, the City University of New York, and the City University of Hong Kong. The research was conducted using the method of content analysis with the use of Google Data Studio services. The analysis uncovered the following topic-based groups of content featured in the Instagram accounts of city universities: Personalities, University, Applicants, Learning and career, Science and technologies, City, Society and politics, Art, and Atmosphere. Subsequently, four high-potential directions of online development were identified for universities: first, more active user engagement and support; second, development of new forms of teaching and learning activities; third, popularisation of research; fourth, branding the university as a partner of the city. The novel contribution of this paper consists in engaging modern analytical tools to visualize a university profile from its published online content. The findings can be used by universities as recommendations on developing and adjusting their content strategies to adapt to the ever-changing realities and ensure effective online promotion and realization of their teaching potential.


1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
James Hantula ◽  
Ronald E. Butchart ◽  
Louis Y. Van Dyke ◽  
Juan Ramón García ◽  
George Kirchmann ◽  
...  

Harold C. Livesay. Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1978. Pp. x, 195. Paper, $8.95. Review by Frank J. Rader of SUNY Empire State College. Leroy Ostransky. Jazz City: The Impact of our Cities on the Development of Jazz. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, Inc., 1978. Pp. 274. Cloth, $10.95; paper, $5.95. Review by Barbara L. Yolleck of Columbia University and Rutgers University. Melvyn Dubofsky, Athan Theoharis, and Daniel M. Smith. The United States in the Twentieth Century. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Pp. xiv, 545. Paper, $13.95. Review by Eckard V. Toy, Jr. of the University of Oregon. Jack Bass and Walter DeVries. The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence Since 1945. New York: Meridian, 1976. Pp. xi, 531. Paper, $5.95. Review by James L. Forsythe of Fort Hays State University. Allan R. Millett, ed. A Short History of the Vietnam War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. Pp. xx, 169. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $3.95. Review by Frank Burdick of SUNY College at Cortland. Barbara Mayer Wertheimer. We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. Pp. xii, 427. Paper, $6.95. Review by Sandra C. Taylor of the University of Utah. Patricia Branca. Women in Europe Since 1750. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Pp. 223. Cloth, $17.95. Review by Dana Greene of St. Mary's College of Maryland. Michael Anderson. The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1978. Pp. 16. $1.45; Daniel R. Browner. Russia and the West: The Origins of the Russian Revolution. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1975. Pp. 16. $1.45; David F. Trask. Woodrow Wilson and World War I. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1975. Pp. 16. $1.45; Michael Adas. European Imperialism in Asia. The Forum Series. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1974. Pp. 16. $1.45. Review by Bullitt Lowry of North Texas State University. Deno J. Geanakoplos. Medieval Western Civilization and the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Co., 1979. Pp. xii, 513. Cloth, $12.95. Review by Delno C. West of Northern Arizona University. Edward Crankshaw. The Shadow of the Winter Palace: The Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917. New York: Penguin Books, 1978. Pp. 509. Paper, $3.95. Review by George Kirchmann of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Samuel H. Mayo. A History of Mexico: From Pre-Columbia to Present. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Pp. xi, 454. Paper, $9.95. Review by Juan Ramón García of the University of Michigan-Flint. By What Standard? A Response to Ronald E. Butchart by Louis Y. Van Dyke- Response by Ronald E. Butchart. Textbooks and the New York Times American History Examination. Review by James Hantula of the University of Northern Iowa.


AI Magazine ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Hans Werner Guesgen

The 22nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-22) was held 19th – 21st May 2009 at the Sundial Beach and Golf Resort on Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.  It continued a long tradition of FLAIRS conferences, which attract researchers from around the world.  The conference featured technical papers, special tracks, and invited speakers.  This year’s conference was chaired by Susan Haller, from the State University of New York at Potsdam.  Conference program co-chairs were Hans W. Guesgen, from Massey University in New Zealand, and H. Chad Lane, from the University of Southern California.  The special tracks were coordinated by Philip McCarthy, from the University of Memphis.


1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Irby C. Nichols ◽  
Harry E. Wade ◽  
Robert O. Lindsay ◽  
Gerald H. Davis ◽  
Eckard V. Toy ◽  
...  

Peter C. Rollins, Editor. Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983. Pp. x, 276. Paper, $10.00; Cloth, $26.00. Review by Richard Robertson of the Alabama Humanities Resource Center. M. A. Fitzsimmons. The Past Recaptured: Great Historians and the History of History. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 230. Cloth, $16.95. Review by Dana Greene of St. Mary's College of Maryland. Peter Loewenberg. Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1983. Pp. 300. Cloth, $20.00. Review by Thomas T. Lewis of Mount Senario College. John Anthony Scott. The Ballad of America: The History of the United States in Song and Story. Second edition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 439. Paper, $12.95. Review by George W. Geib of Butler University. Stanley Coben and Lorman Ratner, eds. The Development of an American Culture. Second edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Pp. viii, 371. Cloth, $15.95; Paper, $8.95. Review by Peter Gregg Slater of Mercy College. Jerome R. Reich. Colonial America. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984. Pp. x, 307. Paper, $15.95. Review by Raymond C. Bailey of Northern Virginia Community College. Vivian C. Fox and Martin H. Quitt, eds. Loving, Parenting, and Dying: The Family Cycle in England and America., Past and Present. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1981. Pp. vi, 488. Cloth, $38.50; paper, $11.95. Review by Ross W. Beales, Jr. of the College of the Holy Cross. Arthur S. Link and William A. Link. The Twentieth Century: An American History. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1983. Pp. x, 374. Cloth, $27.50; Paper, $16.95. Review by James L. Forsythe of Fort Hays State University. Mine Okubo. Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 209. Paper, $8.95. Review by Eckard V. Toy, Jr. of Oregon State University. Brian Catchpole. A Map History of Our Own Times from the 1950s to the Present Day. London and Exeter: Heinemann Books, 1983. Pp. vii, 148. Paper, $7.00. Review by Gerald H. Davis of Georgia State University. Edward Peters. Europe and the Middle Ages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. Pp. 319. Paper, $14.95. Review by Robert O. Lindsay of the University of Montana. P. M. Harman. The Scientific Revolution. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. vii, 35. Paper, $2.95. J. H. Shennan; France Before the Revolution. London and New York: Methuen, 1983. Pp. vii, 35. Paper, $2.95. Review by Harry E. Wade of East Texas State University. Woodruff D. Smith. European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Chicago: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1982. Pp. vii, 273. Cloth, $20.95; Paper, $10.95. Review by Irby C. Nichols Jr., North Texas State University.


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