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...Ian Waites George Shaw (1966–) is a British painter known for his meticulous depictions of Tile Hill in Coventry, a post–World War II council housing estate where Shaw lived from 1968 until the late 1980s. This article assesses Shaw's work as a product of a wider struggle between the idealistic...

... to playgrounds or the council estates as tactile havens, the unregulated roadside shrine can be a genuine, creative vernacular space rather than an instance of state-sponsored approved discourse. Echoing Highmore's “image-repertoire,” Bednar draws on the “interpretive repertoire” through which differing views...

..., with the extension of the railways, Barnsbury’s population of prosperous tradesmen and professionals moved out. After 1945 whole streets were demolished, many replaced with council estates. From the 1960s onward Barnsbury experienced the first wave of classic gentrification of the surviving terraces and squares...

... Production .” Real Estate Record , April 18 . Lonberg-Holm, K. and Larson, T. 1938 . “ Industrialization of Housing .” Technical America , March . Melvin B.L. 1936 . “ Emergency and Permanent Legislation with Special Reference to the History of Subsistence Homesteads...

.... Regionally, in 1996 there were twenty-nine desalination plants in Saudia Arabia, producing 795 mcm per year. This is 30 percent of all desalinated water in the world. The six Gulf Cooperation Council countries account for over half of the world's desalination capacity. Jordan is building, with Japanese help...

... shares, and eventually bought six acres in Herefordshire. Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin were appointed as the master architects of what was now Letchworth, the first garden city. The estate formally opened in 1903. At stake in Letchworth was a new kind of urban space, designed according...

... Paris’s Richest Road into Park, Shopping Mall and Council Estate .” Independent , January 22 . Liechty Mark . 2012 . “ Middle- Class Déjà Vu: Conditions of Possibility, from Victorian England to Contemporary Kathmandu .” In The Global Middle Classes: Theorizing through Ethnography , edited...

... estate speculator, was merely called the Rich Jew. Furthermore, some (negative) dramatis personae in the play openly express anti-Semitic views. When asked to respond, Fassbinder retorted that philo-Semites (in the West Germany of the time) are in fact anti-Semites, because they refuse to see how...

...Gair Dunlop © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Bletchley Park is a former country estate, with a large house in an undistinguished late Victorian style. During its time as the headquarters of UK cryptanalysis efforts in World War II, its grounds began to fill with huts, followed by massive...

... the most powerful – almost monopolistic – force in real estate development and construction in Turkey. It operates very much in the manner of a private developer, and now shapes the Turkish real-estate sector through the vast resources and legal powers that it has acquired in recent years. In the period...

... Bevan ( 2022 ) has argued that Charles's ideas were part of “the 1980s culture wars that set Thatcherism against the so-called political correctness of local councils,” where promoting traditional architecture went “hand-in-glove with free marketeers intent on handing developers free rein.” We...

... Council) in one of the most transformative sociopolitical transitions of modern British history. There was also, but not for long, a Lenin memorial in Finsbury, North London, designed by modernist architect Berthold Lubetkin ( Kerr 1996 , 2001 ). Relations with Stalin's postwar Soviet Union were strained...

... York, the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid (“3/11”), the July 7, 2005 transport system bombings in London, the November 2, 2004 murder on the streets of Amsterdam of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, the tightening of immigration laws in Scandinavia, and the effort in France to provide an elected Council...

... – that reveal the attitudes and characteristics they ascribed to the village and its conceptual opposite, the city. The key innovations came from Albert Mayer, a New York real-estate developer who designed the modernist city of Chandigarh and India's village reconstruction scheme. Mayer's ideas persist in forms...

... youngest child of the Tallis family, who occupy the estate, is directing her visiting cousins in a production of her latest theatrical endeavor, which she intends to perform to celebrate a visit by her older brother, Leon. When Leon arrives, he has his friend Paul Marshal, a thuggish, lecherous businessman...

... mantener el frente unido y operativo. El agotamiento. La represión estatal. Hemos visto a Trump y a William Barr, el fiscal general en ese momento, diciendo literalmente que la gente que estaba en las protestas en defensa de las vidas negras, tenía que ser acusada de cargos federales además del equivalente...

.... To reverse this contemporary trend, the super-rich need to recognize their responsibilities to society and to a universal moral position that has relevance beyond their own enclosed world of secluded estates and private jets. They need to use their economic and political power to bring about a more equitable...

.... In 1973 the Office of Education's Advisory Council on Financial Aid to Students included United Student Aid Funds’ first president, Allen Marshall, and was chaired by Roger Freeman, who, when previously a fellow at the Hoover Institution, had been hired by United Student Aid Funds and the American Bankers...

... agency with branches in all the residential estates throughout the island. It would appear that the IT system was in place at the tail end of the epidemic ( Chua 2004: 196 ), and it remains unclear how many of the nearly 6,000 quarantined during the three-month period of the epidemic were contact-traced...

... be divorced from broader questions of why schools need to open those gates, including issues of school funding, the inequitable distribution of educational resources, and the extent to which such distributions are interwoven with the economic distributive impacts of other industries such as real-estate...