The Agora

This chapter focuses on the Athenian Agora, the civic center and marketplace of the polis. At the heart of this chapter is the issue of when the government buildings and functions shifted from the older Archaic Agora to this new area, and how the new buildings articulated the changed political landscape of the polis. This chapter progresses monument by monument. Three buildings in particular are highlighted—the Old Bouleuterion (Council House), the Stoa Basileios (magistrate’s office), and the Southeast Fountain House—due to their unique forms and decoration, their important functions for the polis as a whole, and their siting within the Agora. This chapter also considers the role of movement and sight lines within and around the Agora.

Kedudukan Hak Angket sebagai Fungsi Pengawasan terhadap Penyelenggaraan Negara

Tujuan Penelitian untuk menganalisis kedudukan hak angket sebagai fungsi pengawasan terhadap penyelenggaraan negara. Metode Penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitan hukum mormatif. Hasil penelitian bahwa Hak Angket Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (Pasal 20A ayat (2)) mengatur dan merekomendasikan diatur dengan Undang-Undang dengan asumsi dan dengan keinginan Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat dalam Sistem Pemerintahan Presidensil adalah juga Parlemen harus punya hak sebagai bagian dari Fungsi Pengawasan yang dimiliki Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. Hasil Penelitian menunjukkan penggunaannya cenderung royal bahkan sasarannya melebar menjadi alat penekan terhadap Pemerintah. Ini terjadi sebagai akibat belum diaturnya dalam Undang-Undang tentang Hak Angket. The purpose of the study was to analyze the position of the questionnaire right as a function of supervision of state administration. The research method used is a normative legal research method. The results of the study that the House of Representatives' Questioning Rights (Article 20A paragraph (2)) regulates and recommends are regulated by law with the assumption and with the wishes of the House of Representatives in the Presidential Government System that the Parliament must have the right as part of the Oversight Function owned by the Council House of Representatives. Research results show that their use tends to be royal even the target is widening to be a pressure tool on the Government. This happened as a result of not having been regulated in the Law on Questionnaire Rights.

FORMAL SYSTEM OF ZHOLTOVSKII COUNCIL HOUSE IN MAKHACHKALA

The Council House in Makhachkala is one of the main works of academician Zholtovskii. In spite of the fact that this architectural monument generated significant interest of the Soviet researchers in the 1920s and was mentioned in a number of publications, it is still not fully studied. This study aims at generalizing the existing practices as well as expressing personal vision taking into account new archive materials and the latest on-site examinations of this architectural monument. Its particular qualities and specific structure are shown in the context of the Soviet architecture and the creative activity of Zholtovskii. The presented photographs and archival documents have not been published before.

Alarums and Excursions

This chapter offers an overall theoretical explanation of why Glasgow’s council housing was so inadequate in spite of Herculean construction efforts. This was because offensive and Calvinistic Victorian class attitudes to working-class people were incorporated uncritically within 20th century housing management policy. This ensured that different kinds of tenants were perceived as more-or-less worthy of a decent council house. This in turn resulted in class attitudes being signified publically in the bricks, concrete and mortar of Glasgow’s council housing schemes. There were three layers of scheme and they were for First, Second and Third-Class citizens. Thus the city’s council housing policy had the unintended consequence of reproducing and amplifying social segregation within Glasgow.