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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119807530
Author : Dennis Rodwell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470759516
Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they can be brought together in a common philosophy and practice that is mutually supportive. It sets out the theoretical and practical background to architectural conservation and how its perceived relevance and level of attainment can be extended when harnessed to wider agendas of sustainability and cultural identity. It tests the achievement of urban conservation through examples from across Europe and further afield and relates them to the sustainability agenda.
Author : Uwe Altrock,Simon Güntner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351898751
Accession to the EU in May 2004 was a historic milestone for the spatial and urban development of the new member states. Meanwhile, the social and economic transition during the pre-accession phase already brought about radical changes in national urban systems and new challenges for regional development. In this edited volume, a carefully selected and specially commissioned set of articles, written by experts from both the new and the old EU member states, presents a comprehensive assessment of emerging political and planning solutions at local, regional, national and EU levels. Topics include brownfield redevelopment in the Czech Republic, urban sprawl in Hungary, the upgrading and integration of marginalized Roma settlements in Eastern Slovakia and sustainable coastal management in Cyprus.
Author : Kiril Stanilov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781402060533
This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It links the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and the forces of socio-economic reforms. The detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space.
Author : Jan C. Behrends,Martin Kohlrausch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633860366
The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Belgrade, or Athens confirms the importance of the Western model as well as the influence of international experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe. In addition, this volume presents an alternative perspective that aims to understand the genesis of Eastern European cities with a metropolitan character or metropolitan aspirations as a process sui generis. The rapid expansion of metropolitan cities such as London and Paris began in the 17th and 18th centuries. Large parts of Central and Eastern Europe underwent urbanization and industrialization with considerable delay. Nevertheless beginning in the second half of the 19th century, the towns in the Romanov and Habsburg empires, as well as in the Balkans grew into cities and metropolitan areas. They changed at an astonishing pace. This transformation has long been interpreted as an attempt to overcome the economic and cultural backwardness of the region and to catch up to Western Europe.
Author : State Dept (U S )
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0160725526
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last S. Prt. 108-59. Joint Committee Print. November 2004. Report submitted by the Department of State in accordance with Section 102 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Provides information on matters involving international religious freedom. Covers events from July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004. 108th Congress, 2d Session. Related products: Human Rights resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/international-foreign-affairs/human-rights Religion & Faith-Based Issues product collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/consumer-home-family/religion-faith-based-issues
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050393714
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : PSU:000058155660
Author : Marek Kohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300273748
A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. These old towns and their turbulent histories have been key sites in Europe’s ongoing theater of politics and war. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, the acclaimed writer Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history. Uncovering hidden stories behind these old and old-seeming façades, Kohn offers us a new understanding of the politics of European history-making—showing how our visits to old towns could promote belonging over exclusion, and empathy over indifference.
Author : Jorg Hackmann,Marko Lehti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317989646
The Baltic–Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of Tallinn in 1944, from the city centre in April 2007 have demonstrated the political impact that contested sites of memory may still reveal. In this publication, collective memories that are related to major traits of the 20th century in North Eastern Europe – the Holocaust, Nazi and Soviet occupation and (re-)emerging nationalisms – are examined through a prism of different approaches. They comprise reflections on national templates of collective memory, the political use of history, cultural and political aspects of war memorials, and recent discourses on the Holocaust. Furthermore, places of memory in architecture and urbanism are addressed and lead to the question of which prospects common, trans-national forms of memory may unfold. After decades of frozen forms of commemoration under Soviet hegemony, the Baltic case offers an interesting insight into collective memory and history politics and their linkage to current political and inter-ethnic relationships. The past seems to be remembered differently in the European peripheries than it is in its centre. Europe is diverse and so are its memories. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies.
Author : Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134528257
Offering a unique level of coverage, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the political and economic development of the countries of the former Soviet Union from the mid-1990s onwards.
Author : Lithuania. Konstitucinis Teismas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131542925
Author : Kevin C. O'Connor Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313014840
The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are thriving after hundreds of years of German colonization, numerous wars of conquest, and demographic Russification. Their cultures have survived, perhaps through a conscious effort to sustain many of their most ancient customs and traditions. Though the Baltic States are responding to modern and postmodern international trends, contemporary developments in the region's cultural life are part of an ongoing conversation about the way in which the Balts understand their histories, destinies, and national identities. This timely overview of the reemerging states portrays the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians as they see themselves—through a historical lens. The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are thriving after hundreds of years of German colonization, numerous wars of conquest, and demographic Russification. Their cultures have survived, perhaps through a conscious effort to sustain many of their most ancient customs and traditions. Though the Baltic States are responding to modern and postmodern international trends, contemporary developments in the region's cultural life are part of an ongoing conversation about the way in which the Balts understand their own histories, destines, and national identities. This timely overview of the reemerging states portrays the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians as they see themselves—through a historical lens. The approach in each of the topical chapters is to generalize what is common among the three states and then to focus on each country in turn. Chapters on the land, people, and history; religion; marriage, family, gender, and education; holidays, cuisine, and leisure activities; language, folklore, and literature; media and cinema; performing arts; and art are a superb introduction to the Baltics and to the unique aspects of the countries. Lithuania's culture has been heavily influenced by Poland, and the capital, Vilnius, was a thriving center of Jewish learning until the Nazi years. Latvia is the most ethnically diverse and Russian-influenced. Estonia sees itself as a European country, indeed, Scandinavian.
Author : Stephen J. Vicchio
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725257252
This book is the product of fifty years of scholarship. It consists of two main parts: the first is an essay on the history of interpreting the book of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second part is a commentary on the book.
Author : Eliyahu Stern
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300183221
DIV Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna,” was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as a process of Western European secularization—with Jews becoming citizens of Western nation-states, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of society—Stern uses Elijah’s story to highlight a different theory of modernization for European life. Religious movements such as Hasidism and anti-secular institutions such as the yeshiva emerged from the same democratization of knowledge and privatization of religion that gave rise to secular and universal movements and institutions. Claimed by traditionalists, enlighteners, Zionists, and the Orthodox, Elijah’s genius and its afterlife capture an all-embracing interpretation of the modern Jewish experience. Through the story of the “Vilna Gaon,” Stern presents a new model for understanding modern Jewish history and more generally the place of traditionalism and religious radicalism in modern Western life and thought. /div