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Open-Air Museums in Borneo and the Dialectic of Vernacular Form
Get PDFOpen-air cultural heritage museums in Borneo aim to preserve and showcase the traditional houses of the indigenous communities. However, the authenticity of these museums is questionable, as they often isolate the houses from their original context and present a romanticized view of traditional life. This paper argues that vernacular architecture in Borneo is not static but has evolved, responding to changes in socio-economic needs and globalization. The paper also highlights the indigenous people's ambivalent attitude towards traditional vernacular houses, as they represent their cultural identity but do not provide much comfort or practicality in today's world. The paper calls for open-air architecture museums in Borneo to be more inclusive, and to document the history of the indigenous people's changing lifestyles and the adaptation of their homes
Planning GDR and Czechoslovakia : The Scale Question under State Socialism
Get PDFThis contribution delves into how former European socialist countries defined urban planning and their respective development strategies. It reveals local perspectives on how the planning process operated, thus unfolding the unique trajectory in the post-socialist path of each city based on its location and importance within the country. The aim of this chapter is to juxtapose the particularities of planning practices in Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (ČSSR) with the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to explain the implications in urban development in terms of how they approach planning from different scales. Drawing from an examination of sources obtained from national archives, educational institutions and architectural journals from the former GDR and ČSSR, as well as various interpretations from various secondary literature, the findings conclude that ČSSR had a larger, sectoral, stratified approach to planning their cities whereas the city of East Berlin was planned on a smaller scale. As a result, there were more integration of public transport services, infrastructure and the idea of the compact city was more dominant in East Berlin compared to Bratislava and Prague, which became more auto-oriented and deconcentrated as the result of the Czechoslovak highway network policy, due to the ČSSR's more sectoral fragmented approach
The Spatial & Architectural Typology of Food Production in the Fishing Villages of Kuching, Malaysia
Get PDFThis paper explores the spatial relationship between structural archetypes, the environment and people, and examines how they revolve around the collection and consumption of food in the fishing villages of Kuching, Malaysia. Fishing villages are located outside the urban periphery with access to water bodies such as rivers, estuaries and the sea. These villages are often visited by people from the city centre who want to buy local fresh fish and seafood. However, the way of life in these villages is slowly disappearing due to changes in land use, urbanization and environmental degradation. Although these villages in Kuching have existed for centuries and have been mentioned in British and Chinese historical sources, there has been no systematic research on the typology of structures and fishing traditions. Thus, through the concept of the commons, this paper aims to fill this gap and contribute a wealth of knowledge on sustainable food futures
Theorizing the postcolonial city of Kuching : Colonial Logistics and Hybrid Spatialities in Kuching, Malaysia
Get PDFThe city plan of Kuching is not influenced by systematic planning principles, but rather, it is deeply embedded within colonial infrastructural logistics to meet the demands of global trade services and social structures. The postcolonial city is a palimpsest of hierarchical and territorial imprints from former colonial governance. Much of urban growth is concentrated around nodes, prioritized for resource collection and distribution. Therefore, this paper delineates how the current state and city governance recalibrate inherited infrastructures of economic development from the past, resulting in fragmented hybrid spaces of ethnic enclaves and economically marginalized groups in this northwest city of Borneo. We narrate how the Brooke dynasty, British administration and the Malaysian state have each developed and reappropriated logistics infrastructure based on their own agenda, leaving an indelible mark on the urban fabric and society of Kuching today. These findings are based on content analysis of city plans, visual surveys, government media, and secondary sources. We aim to open up new ways of understanding how multi-layered infrastructure and spaces produced by successive waves of different political strategies resulted in uneven development around the postcolonial city, and why some centres are given preference over others
From Perahus to Cars: Sectoral Planning and the Transformation of Fishing Villages in Kuching, Sarawak
Get PDFAs Kuching, Sarawak expanded in the 20th century, Malay fishing villages on the edge of Kuching’s rivers faced challenges due to congested waters and disruptions caused by sectoral planning policies. The villages’ growth trajectories were determined by economic activities in their vicinity, such as industrial estates, trading ports, educational institutions, or eco- tour-ism in rainforest parks. Situated in various locations, they have undergone significant changes that are directly linked to the expansion of Kuching and the emergence of new infrastructure. The replacement of rivers with roads has gradually severed their historic connection to the river, leading to a fundamental reshaping of their built environment, livelihoods, and sense of community. This study examines the transformation of four Kuching fishing villages from the 20th century to the present day. Drawing on in-depth semi- structured interviews with villagers, preliminary fieldwork, studies of settlement morphology, and analysis of planning documents, this research uncovers the often- overlooked human costs of sectoral planning and offers valuable lessons for planners facing similar challenges in Southeast Asia and be-yond. Through the lens of four fishing villages in Kuching, we reveal the complex interplay between infrastructure growth, social resilience, and economic viability in the face of rapid development and call for a nuanced approach to planning that prioritises the well-being of peripheral rural communities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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