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Architecture and Drawing: the Newport Career of John Dixon Johnston
No full textAlthough little known today, even among architectural historians, John Dixon Johnston (1849-1928) was one of the most prolific architectural professionals working in Newport from 1880 to 1920. This period, spanning the turn of the century was a generation of intense activity among nationally and regionally distinguished architects commissioned to design and build in Newport, architects such as Richard Morris Hunt, McKim, Mead & White, Peabody &Stearns, Bruce Price, Wilson Eyre, Frank Furness, Ogden Codman, and Irving Gill. There were other architects, long-time local residents, who helped create the streetscapes that even today shape Newport’s architectural ambience. The careers of such men as George Champlin Mason, his son George Champlin Jr., Dudley Newton, and Johnston have been slighted by architectural history. Johnston, who balanced a variety of roles from carpenter to builder to mill owner and architect, was involved in nearly two hundred documented buildings; most of which were erected in Newport and Jamestown during his half-century career
Emerson\u27s Transparent Eyeball
Get PDFIn his early essay Nature Emerson lays the foundation of the Transcendentalist or Romantic movement in America. Key is his transparent eyeball passage, where eye refers to the human role in Nature, i.e. creatively perceiving or knowing Nature. Man is Nature knowing itself
Millennial Attitudes Toward Books and E-Books
Get PDFThe Millennial generation is the most computer literate generation to enter the workforce. Also known as the Net Generation, those born from 1981- 2001 have been raised in an era of instant access. The 3x5 index card to them is a historic relic said to have been used for cross references in the library and recipes. Their learning and communication style is through multi-media. The common method of contact is text messaging and instant messaging as well as cell phones. Learning has even moved into web-based tools such as web-ct, online journals and i-pod downloads. The value of traditional books for learning and entertainment may be limited for these technologically savvy young people.
The attitudes of Millennial generation students from a small, private New England college were measured regarding usage and intended usage of books, e-books and audio books. Their views give an illustration of the outlook of this generation towards the evolution of digital media and how dependent their research skills are on technology
The Reef
No full textOn Brenton’s Point opening onto Brenton’s Reef, a grand estate aptly named The Reef once stood on a breath-taking eighteen-acre site overlooking the mouth of Narragansett Bay. The Reef was the summerhouse of Theodore M. Davis (1837-1915), a copper magnate and lawyer who was a native of New York City. In 1882, the Davises commissioned the Boston architectural firm of Sturgis & Brigham to build their Newport summer retreat. The Queen Anne-style stone cottage – completed in 1885 and dubbed The Reef – housed Davis’s impressive collection of Egyptian treasures and Old Master painting
Place-making: Planning, modernity and humanistic geography.
No full textThis research explores how the literature of place developed by humanistic geography can influence the practice of land use planning. The planning profession has accepted sense of place as a worthy social goal and casts itself in the role of place-making, yet planning practitioners have little grounding in the epistemology of place. Despite adopting the terminology of place, planning remains a largely rational exercise that fails to appreciate the complexity and richness of place as experience. Humanistic geography offers a humanities based understanding of place and of the particular challenge of place in modern society. This illumination of place is used to assess the limitations and potential of planning for place in the technological society
What does privacy mean in an age of virtual transparency?
No full textThis dissertation exams the foundations of privacy in America today and the effects of rapidly advancing changes in information technologies that appear to threaten commonly held ideas about personal privacy. Among the problems that challenge any examination of privacy are the lack of a commonly agreed upon definition for the term, and the lack of a conceptual framework to organize the vast literature on the greater conception of privacy itself. This paper offers a new definition for privacy and proposes a conceptual framework for consideration as a way to organize more methodically the disparate conversations that have been contributed to the debate about privacy\u27s value, content, and the ways and means privacy is claimed and achieved in the social, political and economic areas of life in America
