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ROBERT FREESTONE, MARCO AMATI (eds.) - Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture
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Ashgate, Farnham, Inglaterra, 2014, 303 págs.
Idioma: Inglé
Paru : "Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change" / Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, and Robert Freestone, University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2019
No full textAccédez au site de l'éditeur : Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change Contributors: Arnold R. Alanen, Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade, Sandra Annunziata, Robert Freestone, Christine Garnaut, Isabelle Gournay, Michael Hebbert, Susan R. Henderson, James Hopkins, Steven W. Hurtt, Alena Kubova-Gauché, Jean-François Lejeune, Maria Cristina a Silva Leme, Larry McCann, Mervyn Miller, John Minnery, Angel David Nieves, John J. Pittari, Jr., Gilles Ragot, David Schuyler, Mary ..
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
The right to housing
No full text Is affordable housing a basic right for all Australians like other social goods such as education? In his new book Accommodating Australians: Commonwealth Government Involvement in Housing Pat Troy answers this question strongly in the affirmative and chronicles a betrayal of this position over the last 60 years by numerous actors most notably the Commonwealth Government. The highpoint for inclusionary housing policy was the 1940s. Responding to the widespread misery of the Great Depression exacerbated by other national priorities during the Second World War and then faced with the return of hundreds of thousands of ex-servicemen to civil life, a bi-partisan political consensus acknowledged the importance of shifting significant resources into residential construction. Home ownership and a central role for the private sector were never in doubt, but most social commentators of the day advocated – and the broader community endorsed – a national obligation also to meet the general housing needs of the stratum of low income earners on a priority basis. The Commonwealth Housing Commission which inquired into all aspects of the post-war housing question certainly endorsed this position and set in train a joint agreement with the states to fund public housing through low interest grants (actually loans). At the same time the challenge was seen as more than just building houses. The national obligation was to develop real communities, establishing a close nexus between housing and the then fledgling profession of town planning. Things went well for a while, even if post-war shortages of building materials and recalcitrant state governments proved troublesome. But when the Labor Governments which had dominated the parliament in the 1940s, lost office, out went the high-level commitment to quality public housing in the broadest sense. Instead, owner-occupation became the new bulwark of national policy and a succession of Commonwealth-State Housing Agreements up until 2008 when they ceased altogether progressively emasculated public housing by redirecting declining funding into a suite of welfare housing programs catering for special needs. In the process the notion of a right to housing has been irreversibly corroded and the progressive and inclusive vision of the 1940s completely lost. Troy tells this story in both a combative and exacerbated manner alive to the social justice questions which have always troubled him, and evident in his earlier books Equity in the City (1981) and A Just Society? (1981). The doyen of Australian urban researchers, he has worked tirelessly and fearlessly for an informed and justice-driven national commitment to cities since the 1960s. While this book focuses on housing specifically, it has plenty more targets from tunnel-visioned bureaucrats and airport privisatisation through McMansions to Westfield and the NSW Department of Planning. There are, needless to say, few sacred cows. But the main lament surrounds the hijacking of housing policy by increasingly economistic approaches cemented by the rise of neo-liberalist doctrines from the 1980s. Needless to say the role of the Commonwealth Treasury is not given a great wrap with a long history of negativity towards extra demands on the public purse regardless of social and environmental dividends. The rot starts with Menzies who seemed blind to the needs of low income earners but few political leaders, Labor or Liberal, are spared. Surprisingly, two conservative politicians emerge with reputations enhanced: Thomas Playford, long term South Australian Premier who so well understood the connections between housing, community amenity and economic development that he could actually rebuff the feds for a while, and Dame Annabelle Rankin, a long suffering housing minister in the first Holt Government. The real hero here is HC (‘Nugget’) Coombs, Director of Post War Reconstruction in the 1940s. His vision of planning magically balance between technocracy and democracy and driven less by aesthetic standards and more by a fundamental commitment to economic and social reform suffuses this account. What makes Accommodating Australians such a compelling book is how the author manages to convincingly fold in so many of his well known bete noires: the current vogue for densification which he has questioned consistently since his The Perils of Urban Consolidation (1996); political preoccupation with short term point scoring rather than long term beneficence; the failure of the planning system on many fronts but particularly institutionalising high costs of development; developers intent on maximising their profits above all else; superficial critiques of urban form based on environmentally determinist ideologies; and the chronic absence of analytical evidence-based policy formation. All of this makes for a serious if not bleak read. Certainly, there seems no longer a bipartisan constituency to significantly enhance the low income public housing stock nationally. The Liberals have been ideologically antagonistic for decades and with Labor, well, even there ‘the light on the hill was turned off some time ago’. The best hope, says the author, lies in constituting new federal and state commissions as independent and principled sources of research and policy advice for government on housing and the urban environment generally. Needless to say Accommodating Australians is an authoritative, thoughtful and remarkably nuanced account of the Commonwealth’s role in housing policy since the 1940s. Its remit is primarily historical but Pat Troy loves nothing better than a good debate on public policy and there are rich pickings here for that. Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning at the University of New South Wales. Accommodating Australians: Commonwealth Government Involvement in Housing by Professor Patrick Troy AO, Adjunct Professor in the City Futures Research Centre at the Faculty of Built Environment of the University of New South Wales. Federation Press, August 2012. 
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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