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XXe siècle

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The Value of Concepts in the Shared Design Practice

Gilles Deleuze was used to say that philosophers are creators of concepts, extracted by a continuous flux of thinking (Deleuze 1980). These concepts, during a period of intense exchange between disciplines in the 20th century, have not been limited to phil ...

2018

Historical Map of Albanian Villages: a Tool for Harmonizing Census Data throughout the 20th Century

Martin Schuler, Alain Nicolas Jarne

The present article deals with conceptual and methodological questions at the base of a research project of settlement history of Albania in the 20th century. We focus our interest on the identification of all local units and their population. In order to ...

2017

Traffic-Based Condition Assessment and Fatigue-Life Predictions for a Highway Bridge

Ian Smith, Alain Nussbaumer, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Most civil infrastructure today was built during the second half of 20th century and is nearing the end of its service life. With increasing infrastructure demand that cannot be met with current resources for new supply, replacement of all aging infrastruc ...

Amer Soc Civil Engineers2017

How Energy Metabolism Supports Cerebral Function: Insights from 13C Magnetic Resonance Studies In vivo

Rolf Gruetter, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Sarah Catherine Sonnay

Cerebral function is associated with exceptionally high metabolic activity, and requires continuous supply of oxygen and nutrients from the blood stream. Since the mid-20th century the idea that brain energy metabolism is coupled to neuronal activity has e ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

Social Housing in Vienna and Frankfurt: two complementary architectural models

Alessandro Porotto

The paper discusses urban policies for social housing in Vienna and Frankfurt in the inter World War years of the twentieth century. It provides not only historical knowledge, but also examines social housing ensembles within the contemporary city from an ...

2016

The Venice Time Machine

Frédéric Kaplan

The Venice Time Machine is an international scientific programme launched by the EPFL and the University Ca’Foscari of Venice with the generous support of the Fondation Lombard Odier. It aims at building a multidimensional model of Venice and its evolution ...

ACM2015

The Urban Diffusion of Local Direct Democracy between Switzerland and the United States

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

In this chapter I expose how direct democracy instruments based on the ballot (referendum, popular initiative, recall), as opposed to assembly based direct democracy, have developed in Switzerland and have been adopted by more than 20 US states as an answe ...

Ashgate Publishing2015

For an "Observatory of Modern and Contemporary National Heritage" - From the Material History of Building to the Material History of Preservation

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

A project without memory is an amputated project: history must be considered both as a methodological basis and as a veritable tool for work. Underlying all intervention existent, extensive historical and material knowledge of what is built must guide the ...

Editions C N R S2014

Combining Statistical Evidence

Stephan Morgenthaler, Robert Staudte

The combination of evidence from independent studies has a curious history. The origins reach back at least to the beginning of the 20th century. Since the mid-1970s, meta-analysis has become popular in several fields, among them medical statistics and the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

The Functional City between utopia and reality

Sila Karatas

Acting as a decision making institution on the raison d’etre of modern architecture by attributing a utopian role to it, CIAM (Congrés International d’Architecture Moderne), formed by some pioneering modern architects from Europe and USSR, and served betwe ...

2013

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