scholarly journals Identity and globalization: The world at a crossroad

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 286-289
Author(s):  
Bruno Henriquez
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Vice President ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The University

The author, a Cuban Physicist, is currently involved in environmental physics in buildings, sustainable development and the promotion of renewable sources of energy and bioclimatic architecture. He is a member of the board of directors of Cubasolar, Vice President of the Cuban Society of Physics and Director of Energia y tu, the magazine of Cubasolar. He is an adviser to Cubaenergia, the center for the management of information and development on energy, and has a radio and television program. He has published numerous books of which Energy in Buildings Handbook is forthcoming and the result of his last project "Index of Energy Efficiency in Buildings." He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented by the author at the internationalsymposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

Death of Mr. Guillaume Bordier

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (229) ◽  
pp. 221-221
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Master Of Business Administration ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The University

Mr. Guillaume Bordier, former vice-president and an honorary member of the ICRC, died on 9 July 1982.Mr. Bordier was born in Geneva in 1901 and did his schooling there. He continued his studies at the Federal Polytechnicum in Zurich where he graduated in engineering. He then went on to study economics in the United States and received his “Master of Business Administration” degree from the University of Harvard in 1929. On his return to Geneva he joined the Banque Bordier et O in an executive capacity and later became a partner in the bank. He was a member of the Swiss Bankers' Association and sat on the Board of Directors of a number of companies.

scholarly journals Public space as an element of local identity: On the notion of quality in urban design

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
Dieter Frick
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author, after studying architecture in Munich and Berlin, and working in a large number of international architectural offices, served as Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Technische Universität Berlin, and as a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung. Dr Frick is also Senior Fellow, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His numerous publications have been published extensively in Germany and internationally. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19- 24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Globalization, world habitat and Japanese identity: From 20th century machine-to 21st century global environment-oriented civilization

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Koichi Tonuma
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Vice President ◽  
World Society ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental Development ◽  
Research Institute

The author, Emeritus Professor at Waseda University, Tokyo, is currently Chairman of the Board of the Research Institute for Urban and Environmental Development, Japan (UED). Dr Tonuma is the author of a book entitled Japan in the 21st Century with emphasis on planning for residential surroundings, and of numerous articles, some of which have also been published in Ekistics. He is a former Vice-President of the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a revised and edited version of a paper presented by the author at the WSE Symposion"Globalization and Local Identity, " Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September,2005. He has pursued the theme of this paper in research published in Japanese in the UED Report, January 2007, and is currently researching habitability zones and Ecumenopolis. 

scholarly journals Coping with urbanization in China: The role of the sciences of human settlements and planning practice

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 196-206
Author(s):  
Wu Liangyong
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Tsinghua University ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World ◽  
Urbanization In China ◽  
The University

The author is Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies , Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China; member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; and Director of both the Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies and the Center for Human Settlements, Tsinghua University. He is also a member and former President of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Articulating electronic space for interaction

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Mit Mitropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Vice President ◽  
World Society ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Space Networks ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author has been working on communications with and without technology, and was guest-editor of the Ekistics special issue with the same title (October 1983). His Edinburgh University 1974 Ph.D was on Space Networks, considering space as a network. Born into a family of sailors, he grew up on ocean-going boats, and for three years was a Naval Intelligence officer. He was active in the 1968-and-after period in Northern European universities. He has acted as consultant to national/international bodies and, being invited to look into Europe as-a-whole, or into the Aegean Sea, or into the Mediterranean, he has formulated proposals to change policy (although cannot claim being successful in trying). Having combined behavioral sciences with visual arts, he has contributed to the art-science-technology field two on-going series of projects and project-proposals: the video communications installations Face-to-Face, and geopolitical art. He has concentrated on islands both for observations of communications issues and using telecommunications for quality development, and also for the ongoing series of minimal constructions on coastal remote sites. As a student he was invited to the Delos 1969 Symposion on Networks, and is a member of the World Society for Ekistics - for which society he has also acted as vice-president. He has not sailed through the Pacific. The text that follows is a slightly edited version of a paper presented by the author at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals The Poster Session: A fitting finale to a very successful WSE meeting

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 330-333
Author(s):  
David Langridge
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Poster Session ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
World Society ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Urban Planner ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The author trained and worked initially as an urban planner with workin England and Australia. He was Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Studies (Architecture Planning, Landscape Architecture), Cheltenham College of Art, between 1971 and 1983. Since 1983, he has lived and worked in Edinburgh as an artist, developing a visual language. His subject matter is the City and its visual form, drawing inspiration from the city of Edinburgh. He is a graduate of the Athens Center of Ekistics and since 2003 a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is the co-ordinator's report of the Poster Session on the afternoon of Friday, 23 September, 2005, with Nobuyuki Sekiguchi as Chairman, at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Separating out the levels: Globalization, identity, and the Ekistic Grid in sociological perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
William Michelson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
World Society ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto. His special areas are Urban Sociology and Social Ecology, with a focus on built environments. His most recent book is Time Use: Expanding Explanation in the Social Sciences (Boulder, CO,Paradigm Publishers, 2005). Previous books include: Man and his Urban Environment: A Sociological Approach (1970 and 1976), Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction (1977), From Sun to Sun: Daily Obligations and Community Structure in the Lives of Employed Women and their Families (1985), Methods in Environmental and Behavioral Research (1987), and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology (2002). He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics, as well as the Royal Society of Canada. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.

scholarly journals Downsview Park, Toronto: A part of the natural city of the 21st century

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (424-426) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Tony Genco
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Agricultural Society ◽  
Executive Vice President ◽  
The World ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The University ◽  
Home Assistance

The author has been with Parc Downsview Park Inc. for close to five years. After only two years he has risen to lead the company as Executive Vice-President, which he has done for nearly three years through an extremely challenging period that included the change in governance and reorganization of the company and hosting two very large international events. Mr Genco has an extensive breadth of experience and skills in all facets of public affairs, communications, government relations and management. He is active in many charitable and community activities, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Woodbridge Agricultural Society, the Community Home Assistance for Seniors (CHATS), the Columbus Centre, Heritage Vaughan and is a member of the Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network. The text that follows is an edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on 'The Natural City," Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

scholarly journals Local environments in a global context

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 122-131
Author(s):  
Amos Rapoport
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
World Society ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Global Context ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The author is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Architecture, School of Architecture and Urban Planning , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. Professor Rapoport is also a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows was made available to participants at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005, which Professor Rapoport was finally unable to attend.

scholarly journals Globalization, gender equity and local identity in Nigeria Globalization, gender equity and local identity in Nigeria

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (436-441) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
Julia Otibhor Omokhodion
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Sociology Of Education ◽  
World Society ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Union Institute ◽  
The University

The author, holder of a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, a Masters'degree in Education Sociology, both from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a Ph.D in Sociology of Education from the University of Birmingham, England, is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at Lagos State University, and an Adjunct Professorat Union Institute and University Graduate College, Cincinnati, Ohio,USA. She has over 40 publications (national and international) which include journal articles, book chapters, monographs, text books and commissioned empirical research reports. Dr Omokhodion is an external examiner to some Nigerian universities, a consultant to UNICEF, UNESCO and UNDP, Nigeria Country Offices, Federal Ministry of Education, National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal education, and does accreditation of Courses for Nigerian Colleges of Education. She is currently working on an expanded version of her book on the Sociology of Esan, Edo State, Nigeria and on another book on The Sociology of African Families. Dr Omokhodion is a member of the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and LocalIdentity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September 2005.

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