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Mainstreaming a regional planning discourse within the UN technical assistance programme: Ernest Weissmann and the post-war international collaboration
No full textThe article investigates the role of Ernest Weissmann in diffusing and
institutionalizing a regional planning discourse within the United Nations
technical assistance mechanism between 1950 and 1965. Heading a
pioneering body within the United Nations Department of Social Affairs,
Housing, Building and Planning Branch (HBP), as the article shows, gradually
became a valuable vehicle for integrating Weissmann’s pre-war CIAM ideas
on ‘human planning’ into the UN developmentalist post-war endeavour in
Global Urban Governance. The process is followed through Branch’s
publication Housing, Building and Planning, which casts light on the process
of concatenation of ‘global experts’ and their missions in India (1954), Puerto
Rico (1956), and Japan (1958). Finally, the research examines Weissmann’s
bureaucratic efforts in establishing the United Nations Centre for Housing,
Building and Planning in 1965 as an intellectual base for outsourcing
technical knowledge for the newly established United Nations Development
Program. By situating Weissmann’s efforts within the broader
reorganization of the UN’s development apparatus during the mid-century,
the study highlights the role of bureaucratic agency in shaping mechanisms
for the circulation of technical assistance and planning knowledge across
national contexts
Tito's Residential Complex in Miločer, Budva (1975-1980)
Get PDFThe subject of this paper is the development of a conceptual design proposal for the official residence for the President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito on the Adriatic coast of Milocer, Budva (1975-1980). The research aims to unveil patterns of the regionalist approach within urban and architectural thought in the Socialist Republic of Montenegro (SR Montenegro) through the project of the presidential complex, shown here for the first time since its official presentation to the president himself in 1976. In methodological terms, the paper examines multiple layers of historical background of Milocer that affected the designers’ process of thinking, followed by a clear-cut description of the planning procedures, methodologies and reasoning that emerged from the archives and first-hand witnesses of the whole process. The final results reflect on the critical approach within the practice of the post-war generation of Montenegrin architects, successfully balancing between the poles of power-representation and contemporary architectural currents
Transitioning through the Cold War: Leisure Architecture in Socialist Republic of Montenegro 1960-1980s
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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
Modernism in the Petrified Landscape: Architecture in Montenegro 1945-1980
Get PDFThe subject of this paper is architectural heritage of the former Socialist Republic of Montenegro (SR Montenegro) in the period between 1945 and 1980, with particular emphasis on the role of stone in modern architecture. Stone, as a primordial building and design material, is present in post-war modernist Yugoslav architecture, especially during the first decades, the 50s and 60s of the 20th century. It establishes the continuity of construction, which in Montenegro has two fundamental links: the first is the connection with the vernacular principles of construction in the dry, rugged Mediterranean landscape that extends all the way to the central part of Montenegro, and the second is the connection with the beginnings of the modernist architectural idiom in Montenegro in the interwar period when stone was used mainly in a classical, academic manner. While the paper sheds the light on a hidden part of a very fruitful but neglected architectural heritage, standing in sharp contrast with today’s trends of neo-liberal design practices in the country, it also aims to discern an intrinsic influence of the Mediterranean ethos on the architectural and urban developments on the southern and central region of Montenegro. Although most of the addressed buildings are part of the urban context, the imprints of the Montenegrin landscape, with stone being its dominant characteristic and a certain kind of national demarcation present through its authentic use, create recognizable genius loci. Finally, while deconstructing this phenomenon, the paper will help to communicate the process of retreat with respect to the wider tendencies of European architectural currents of the 20th century
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