Category Archive: Introduction

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp (1917)

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp (1917)

Source: www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573/text-summary Fountain is one of Duchamp’s most famous works and is widely seen as an icon of twentieth-century art. The original, which is now lost, consisted …

 

In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, 1913

In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, 1913

There is a large element of hazard in these matters, and a second hazard, that of our own death, often prevents us from awaiting for …

 

Being in Danger – Nobel Lecture by Al Gore

Being in Danger – Nobel Lecture by Al Gore

Source: www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/gore-lecture_en.html   Al Gore delivering his Nobel Lecture in the Oslo City Hall, 10 December 2007. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, …

 

Camillo Sitte – City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889)

Camillo Sitte – City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889)

MODERN SYSTEMS. ARTISTIC LIMITATION OF MODERN CITY PLANNING From City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889), Translated by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins (London: …

 

Cullen – The Concise Townscape (1961)

Cullen – The Concise Townscape (1961)

INTRODUCTION There are advantages to be gained from the gathering together of people to form a town. A single family living in the country can scarcely …

 

statistics – Manuel Castells – The Information Age trilogy

statistics – Manuel Castells – The Information Age trilogy

Finale The promise of the Information Age is the unleashing of unprecedented productive capacity by the power of the mind. I think, therefore I produce. In …

 

Green Activism: 25 Environmental Organizations and Agencies

Green Activism: 25 Environmental Organizations and Agencies

 Sierra Club The Sierra Club, founded in 1892, is one of the oldest conservation organizations in existence. (You can read more about it in the overview …

 

India: More NGOs, than schools and health centres

India: More NGOs, than schools and health centres

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/first-official-estimate-an-ngo-for-every-400-people-in-india/643302/2   Housing the largest number of active non-government, not-for-profit organisations, an estimated 3.3 million of them, India has an NGO for every 400 people. While the …

 

A Dangerous Delay

A Dangerous Delay

From “A Dangerous Delay – The cost of late response to early warnings  in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa” http://www.savethechildren.org The 2011 crisis in the …

 

Paul Krugman : How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

Paul Krugman : How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

I. MISTAKING BEAUTY FOR TRUTH It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes …