City Of Dreams Research Articles

The use of pixel-based algorithm for automatic change detection of 3D Building from Aerial and Satellite Imagery: Erbil city as a case study

         Detection of Three Dimension (3D) changes and monitoring urban areas using photogrammetric and remotely sensed data is becoming an important research topic for monitoring the city development, disaster assessment, earthquake monitoring, and updating geo-database. In practice, identifying 3D changes manually in urban areas, specifically when dealing with a large number of buildings is considered to be a very time-consuming task, in such cases, automatic 3D change detection is considered to be very cost-effective. This paper presents an algorithm which is based on using pixels differencing to automatically detect 3D change of the buildings that occurred in the selected study area (Erbil city) for the periods from 2012 to 2017 by subtracting two digital surface models (DSMs) generated from two different datasets that has been captured from two different sensors. The first dataset is from stereo aerial imagery captured in (2012) and the second dataset is based on Very High Resolution (VHR) stereo satellite imagery captured in (2017). The proposed method is applied to three study areas (Ankawa, Dream city and 32 park) in Erbil city. Prior to applying change detection algorithm, the vertical accuracy of the DSMs is checked, through field point measurements by Differential GPS (DGPS).      The presented work in this article deals with building change detection. The changes that refer to differences in size and shape of buildings are considered significant, while changes in other urban objects, such as roads, ground and vegetation, are considered insignificant and needs to be removed. Through some post-processing steps that performed to preserve only the real changes and eliminate the virtual ones.      The outcome of this study revealed that for study area one (Ankawa), 105 out of 157 changed buildings are detected correctly. While in the study area two (Dream city) 74 out of 106 changed buildings are detected correctly, and for study area three (32 park) the result was more accurate and 28 out of 31 changed buildings are detected correctly.

Dream City: Creation, Destruction, and Reinvention in Downtown Detroit by Conrad Kickert

180 The Michigan Historical Review have been impressed with the fleet of transport vehicles, chefs, servants, electric lights, and hotel stays, not to mention a private yacht during the early years, by the end of the road trips in 1924, the world had endured the First World War and financial panics and had developed a greater understanding that the accouterments of the wealthy often came at a great personal cost to hourly wage-earning Americans. Most striking was the change in domestic life. Americans witnessed the transition from an agrarian, relatively isolated lifestyle to social connectivity made possible by the telephone, recorded music, the automobile, and electric light. Repair shops, parking lots, and petrol stations needed to be part of city planning. While Guinn does not use footnotes, his writing would enable anyone to verify his content, a writing practice that may render the reading more streamlined and enjoyable. While not delving into great detail on every point, the author does not fall into the trap of portraying these men on a pedestal. He approaches the anti-Semitic sentiments of some of the travelers, the enmity they held towards organized labor, and, in the case of Ford, infidelity. Should this be the first book a person reads on these men and women, they will be well prepared for the core topics covered in other writings. Guinn’s work exemplifies that a mixed relationship with the media is not a phenomenon of the digital age. Edwina A. Murphy Archivist Ann Arbor, MI Conrad Kickert. Dream City: Creation, Destruction, and Reinvention in Downtown Detroit. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019. Pp. 436. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth: $44.95. Urban designer Conrad Kickert’s Dream City describes the evolution of Detroit’s downtown from the 1805 fire that destroyed the original fortified settlement to contemporary efforts to revivify the city center. Rising from the ashes, Detroit became an entrepot for Michigan’s extractive and agricultural industries, thriving on river trade until it was bypassed in the late 1800s by east-west rail lines unwilling to cross into Canada or bridge the Detroit River. Recovery and new growth came in the early 1900s with the automobile industry, but urban decline resumed as car production and workers migrated to outer-ring and suburban Book Reviews 181 locations. There is scant sign of political involvement until the 1940s when Edward Jeffries served as mayor; succeeding mayors, including Coleman Young (in office 1974 to 1994), were not able to turn the tide of urban decay even with generous state and federal grants. Nor were professional city planners and urban architects such as George Emory or Charles Blessing able to counter the “dirty collar” of blight choking downtown by implementing the standard techniques of demolishing vacant buildings and constructing expressways. A succession of master plans, blue-ribbon commissions, and publicprivate initiatives also proved ineffective, leaving behind great swaths of ragweed and rubble in and near downtown. Public transportation efforts such as street cars, trollies, and a People Mover failed even as automobile traffic in and around the central city became ever more congested despite street widening and the construction of new arterials. Parking lots replaced many derelict buildings so that, by 2001, fifty percent of the city’s downtown was vacant land. The automobile that had saved Detroit was killing it. Detroit’s politicians, planners and business leaders were slow to realize that the problem was not only physical but socioeconomic. As the author points out, new injections of concrete were unlikely to revive a “downtown without a pulse,” much less the moribund social structure of the city (p. 246). Discrimination created neighborhoods that were deemed blighted and in need of remediation through urban renewal, raising class and racial tensions. Major race riots occurred in 1943 and 1967; crime rates soared in the latter half of the twentieth century, changing the sobriquet of “Motor City” to “Murder City.” Construction of the Cobo and Renaissance centers and new sports venues on the riverfront, a ring of three casinos, and the development of various entertainment destinations have not halted downtown Detroit’s deterioration because their fortified architectural designs prevent the street life essential to thriving cities (p. 291). Recently, mortgage mogul...

The philosophy and life of Abu Nasr al-Farabi: knowledge and vision

Al-Farabi recieved his initial education in his native village of Visich and continued it in the city of Otrar (Farab). While at the age of forty, in search of knowledge, he moved from the city of Marv, across the Iranian country to the city of Bagdad, where he learned from great teachers of various fields of knowledge, and, as an encyclopedist he formed the basis of his philosophy of Muslim scholar. In this article, based on written sources and scientific conclusions of scientists in al-Farabi studies, we tried to determine through systematic knowledge that the scientist’s philosophy was largely based on the science of logic. At the same time, we tried to find out that his philosophy was based on the principles of Islam and logic of Aristotle. In this regard, we have included the оpinion of scientists in al-Farabi studies, who claim that his treatise «City of dreams» or «Good city» takes beginning from the treatise «Main nodes of thought». We have also developed a new translation version into Persian and Kazakh languages, comparing it with the authenticity of the Arabic version of the treatise «Main nodes of thought» ( ). Since it is very important for Oriental studies to delivery an authentic source in the Kazakh language and thereby creating conditions for independent analysis of our history and culture, avoiding this sphere from the influence of other languages. Key words: Abu Nasir al-Farabi, Islamic philosophy, religion and philosophy, Amin Ahmet Razi, Aristotle, Plato, Abay, theoretical mind, practical mind.

Héla Ammar's À fleur de peau / Body Talks: From Anonymous to Familiar Bodies

Héla Ammar's À fleur de peau / Body Talks:From Anonymous to Familiar Bodies Anna Rocca HÉLA AMMAR IS A MULTIFACETED and politically active individual. She is a feminist, a visual artist, a jurist, and a professor of law at the University of Tunis. Her personal and professional commitment to social causes is reflected in both her artistic production and legal engagement. Art, specifically photography, is Ammar's preferred medium for addressing societal disparity. Since 2003, she has regularly shown her works nationally and internationally, though the 2011 Tunisian revolution and its aftermath significantly increased and expanded the diversity of her artistic engagement. This article will focus on Ammar's 2018 photography exhibition, À fleur de peau / Body Talks, particularly upon the photographic series of portraits representing seven young Tunisian celebrities, each well known to the media for their political activism and engagement in support of LGBTQ+ rights. Inherent in the artist's aesthetic expression is a type of reflective commitment that intends to shift the audience's perspectives and assumptions about LGBTQ+ people. Ammar portrays celebrities with their heads concealed under a colorful floral scarf. While communicating the complexities of gender identities, these fine-art portraits, in which the faces remain concealed, help to create a mystery, a curiosity, and an interest in looking further into the lives of these bodies. Indeed, because there is often something comforting about seeing a human figure rather than an unfamiliar face, these bodies, I argue, allow for the establishment of a sympathetic relationship with the viewer. They may represent a call for change: a turning away from the interpretation of the body as a site of struggle and control towards a conceptualization of the body as a conduit for communication and connection. Representing the forgotten "'Les gens de la marge' est apparemment un thème qui passionne et obsède Héla Ammar," affirms Olfa Belhassine.1 Indeed, immediately after the revolution, Ammar and five other photographers participated in the Artocratie Inside-Out Tunisia art project, in which images of ordinary Tunisian citizens were displayed on the streets to counteract the propaganda portraits of former President Ben Ali. In the same year, as a member of the CNIDV—Commission nationale d'investigation sur les dépassements et les violations, the [End Page 83] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. "Body Talks," Héla Ammar, 2018. Tunisian National Committee scrutinizing the civil rights violations that were committed during the revolution—Ammar gained access to twelve penitentiaries in order to document prisoners' conditions. As a result of this transformative experience, she produced a series of installations (Counfa 2012), copublished a judicial survey against the death penalty (Le syndrome de Siliana, 2013),2 recorded a TED event entitled "Feriez-vous confiance à des criminels?" (2013), and composed an exceptional book of photographs and text on prisons and prisoners (Corridors, 2015). In 2017, to raise awareness about the impoverished daily life of underprivileged young Tunisians, Ammar produced Contre jour. The installation, which draws its name from the type of light the artist used to photograph and to interview them, was later presented at the Contemporary Art Biennial of Tunis Dream City. Prisoners and disadvantaged youth, Ammar remarked, experience similar problems: "la zatla (drogue), la harga (immigration clandestine), la houma (le quartier), la violence, le délit mineur, la précarité" (Belhassine). The artist's drive to give a voice to people living on the fringes of society is also at stake in À fleur de peau / Body Talks. First presented in 2018 at the Ghaya Gallery in Sidi Bou Said, the installation continues to explore themes central to Ammar's artistic investigation: memory, time, and identity. The [End Page 84] artist invites the audience to contemplate three interconnected aspects of Tunisia's history. One section illustrates the past of the newly independent Tunisia by means of legal documents and newspapers of the period. Regarding that fertile past, full of hopes and new visions, Ammar comments, "j'ai commencé par le passé, évoqué à travers des journaux officiels, des compilations de lois et règlements des premières années de l'indépendance. C'est une époque importante de la Tunisie, celle de la construction de...

Farewell, City of Dreams

“Farewell City of Dreams” is the interior consciousness of an Armenian woman seeing the end of life for Armenians and other Christians living on their historic homeland in Turkey as the Ottoman government begins its program of genocidal eradication.

The dream city in medieval literature, or urban imagination: the case of the anonymous Herzog Ernst (ca. 1170/ca. 1220), Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier und Meliur (ca. 1280), and Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du monde (ca. 1310)

ABSTRACTEven though we tend to assume that the concept of a sophisticated and complex city belongs to one of the constitutive factors of the modern age (maybe since ca. 1600), we can recognise an entire discourse on the dream city beginning already in the late twelfth century and continuing throughout the centuries, as illustrated by the cases of Herzog Ernst, Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier und Meliur, and The Travels by Marco Polo. When Italo Calvino predicated his famous Invisible Cities on Marco Polo’s account, he might not have been aware of the broad and deep literary tradition. This article identifies the crucial components of this discourse and builds distinct bridges between the Middle Ages and modernity. As the analysis will demonstrate, the dream city was not simply a well-fortified town, but a relatively expansive city with many luxuries and pleasures for the inhabitants, at least within literary imaginations.

Assessment of malnutrition among the internally - displaced old age people in the Tikrit City, Iraq

Background: With the steady increase in the number of old age people, the prevalence of chronic diseases, and the health expenditures, the importance of preventing malnutrition is becoming more critical than ever. This study aimed to assess malnutrition among the internally- displaced old age people in Iraq.
 Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study conducted between November 2016 and March 2017 at the Dream city camp for the internally - displaced persons in Tikrit city, Iraq. Data was collected using the valid (Arabic) version of the mini - nutritional assessment (MNA) questionnaire. The internally displaced persons (IDPs) interviewed, and the nutritional status assessed via the MNA, body mass index (BMI), mid-arm circumferences (MAC) and calf circumferences (CC) measures.
 Results: A total of 142 eligible old age persons, of which 40.2% were malnourished, and 35.2% were at risk of malnutrition. Among those with malnutrition, 40% were males, and 60% were females. Concerning comorbidity, 80% with positive malnutrition, had chronic diseases. DM reported a higher prevalence (46.5%) compared to other chronic diseases.
 Conclusion: The prevalence of malnutrition was high among the old age people resident at the displacement camp in Iraq. Both the deteriorating security situation and the lack of proper services have combined to exacerbate the nutritional status of older persons in displacement camps.

Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues by Lincoln A. Mitchell

Reviewed by: Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues by Lincoln A. Mitchell Steve Gietschier Lincoln A. Mitchell. Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2018. 254 pp. Cloth, $38.95. Readers can be forgiven if they begin to think that the baseball tale most often told is no longer the Doubleday myth, the Called Shot, or the demolition of the color line but rather the story. The story, sometimes anguished and sometimes celebratory, of how the Dodgers and Giants left Brooklyn and Manhattan for Los Angeles and San Francisco. One can argue that the historiography on this subject, both popular and academic, is now large enough to begin to assuage the angst of the fans left behind, still vibrant more than sixty years after the fact. It begins to reward those on the West Coast who saw major league baseball not leaving but coming to them. Start with the enormous selection of literature, some texts no more than [End Page 215] nostalgia, asserting a special relationship between Brooklyn the team and Brooklyn the one-time city. Leaven with solid work like Andrew Goldblatt’s The Giants and the Dodgers (2003). Add the conventional wisdom that Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley still stands as one of the twentieth century’s most evil men. Temper with Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker (1974), Neil J. Sullivan’s The Dodgers Move West (1987), Paul Hirsch’s 2011 essay, “Walter O’Malley Was Right,” and Andy McCue’s biography of O’Malley, Mover and Shaker (2014). Season with newer work like Michael Fallon’s Dodgerland (2016), Robert Garrett’s Home Team (2017) and Gerald Podair’s City of Dreams (2017). What more need or might be said? Lincoln Mitchell, a San Franciscan working in New York (irony?), thinks he has the answer. Stating it clearly, he writes “The most immediate impact of the move west was that it greatly expanded the sense of what was possible for big league baseball” (36). This is indeed a new wrinkle. It posits that major league baseball was so conservative in the early 1950s that anything short of the “courageous and smart” decisions made by O’Malley and Giants owner Horace Stoneham would have condemned the business of baseball to continued decline (18). Mitchell asserts that “the decision by O’Malley and Stoneham to move west was absolutely central to the making of modern Major League Baseball (MLB), and that those moves helped baseball continue to grow domestically, maintain a singularly important niche and role in American culture, and become the increasingly global institution that it is today” (4). This is an intriguing idea, well worth exploring in detail, even if it implies that O’Malley and Stoneham participated in a venture which had implications they themselves might not have fully grasped. The argument’s components include minimizing the impact of earlier franchise shifts, like the Braves to Milwaukee, the Browns/Orioles to Baltimore, and the Athletics to Kansas City. Another is establishing the notion that fans of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), who held their brand of baseball to be “major league,” would not have welcomed anything less than two excellent, competitive teams. Mitchell also considers the counterfactual. The PCL could have been made more robust and elevated to a third major league. Two lesser clubs could have relocated. Major league Baseball could have expanded from its two eight-team leagues and put two new clubs on the West Coast. But none of these things happened. Had the Dodgers and Giants not moved, and had the American League still decided to expand by two teams in 1961, those teams might have gone to Los Angeles (as the Angels did) and San Francisco. But, as Mitchell writes, “there is no concrete reason to think expansion teams would have succeeded in these new cities, which were steeped in self-confidence and a long history of PCL baseball” (226). In short, a golden opportunity would have been squandered. Mitchell presents his argument in his longish introduction and returns to [End Page 216] it in his...

Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum

Reviewed by: Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum Andy McCue Eric Nusbaum.Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between. New York: Public Affairs, 2020. 331 pp. Cloth. $28.00. It is one of the enduring urban myths of Los Angeles that the poor, Mexican American community of Chavez Ravine was destroyed to build Dodger Stadium. It is a testament to Eric Nusbaum’s research that he recognizes that there was no community known as Chavez Ravine, but rather three smaller ones—Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop. There is no doubt they were destroyed. And there is no doubt Dodger Stadium rises where the 1,300 households of those communities once stood. But, as Nusbaum’s Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers and the Lives Caught in Between shows, those two undoubted events are connected by forces that were beneficial to the Dodgers and inimical to the communities, but driven by goals that have little to do with either. Nusbaum’s story is one that builds on the earlier work of Neil Sullivan’s The Dodgers Move West; Gerald Podair’s City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles and my own Mover and Shaker: Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers and Baseball’s Westward Expansion. But, he comes at the story from a different, and much more human, angle than the earlier works. Stealing Home weaves together three stories: The Arechiga family, Frank Wilkinson, and the fragmented Los Angeles establishment’s campaign for a greater Los Angeles. The Arechiga family was a multi-generational family living in several houses they owned in the Palo Verde neighborhood. The matriarch, Abrana Arechiga, had migrated from Monte Escobedo, Zacatecas to New Mexico, and then to Los Angeles, settling at 1171 Malvina Avenue in the early 1920s. She and her husband built the house, raised their children, and then helped the children build houses on Malvina and neighboring streets. She had numerous male relatives in World War II and lost a son-in-law at the Battle of the Bulge. Then came Frank Wilkinson. Wilkinson is portrayed as a naïve and some-what [End Page 236] hapless villain—an idealist who winds up as a tool of the larger, establishment forces driving the growth of Los Angeles. Wilkinson was the son of upper-middle-class privilege. His father was a deeply religious doctor who believed in helping people and passed that belief to his son. As Wilkinson ventured out into the world in the Depression years, widespread poverty drove him to reject his conservative father’s religion while committing himself to the social gospel. He joined the Communist Party. Like many other committed leftists of the time, he saw public housing as a solution to the problems of slums, as poor neighborhoods were termed in those years. As large federal funds became available to build public housing in the late 1940s, Frank was working for the Los Angeles Housing Authority. A true believer, he and his family lived in the projects. As the 1950s dawned, new federal funds made it possible for the authority to expand its program of public housing. The Housing Authority identified Palo Verde and its sister communities as an ideal site. The authority began buying up the land from willing sellers or using eminent domain on the unwilling. The Arechigas were willing sellers. But when a judge ruled the authority’s original offer had to be cut from $17,000 to $10,000, the Arechigas dug in their heels. By late 1953, the Arechigas and a handful of other families were all that was left of the 1,300 households. They were holding out for their money and for the last shreds of the community they had built. But by then, the real estate interests in Los Angeles had revolted. Through pressure on the city council, initiatives put before the voters, and relentless criticism from the Los Angeles Times, they had brought about a voters’ rejection of public housing. They had elected an anti-public housing mayor and smeared Frank Wilkinson with his Communist associations. For the real estate interests, the...

Италия Достоевского

The theme “Dostoevsky and Italy” is extensive and diverse due to the fact that a number of researchers constantly turn to it, opening new pages in the life of the great writer. It includes the following areas of research: Dostoevsky's journey through Italy, the images of Italy in the pages of Dostoevsky's works, the reception of the writer's creativity in journalism, cinema and art, the problems of translating Dostoevsky's works into Italian. A special appeal to this topic shows that these four areas of research are connected in the works of Dostoevsky with such Italian cities as Rome, Florence and Naples. This determines the problematic of this article. The author assumes that there is a special integrity in all the disparate impressions and plots of Dostoevsky connected with Rome, Naples, and Florence. Dostoevsky's great novels are born in Rome against the backdrop of the great creations of Italian architecture. Naples is a city of dreams, a city where “noise, thunder, life” is intertwined with Dostoevsky’s fatal love, with truly Italian passions that defined the love story of the writer and Apollinaria Suslova. Florence is a city of quiet family happiness and comfort, which the writer needed so much during his creative dawn.

Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That Nancy K. Miller (bio) 1 I've always loved Joan Didion's essay about leaving New York, where she lived during her twenties, at first entranced by the city, and then, suddenly, not. Didion tells the story of how finally in her late twenties she learned "the lesson … that it is distinctly possible to stay too long at the Fair." I borrowed the theme of "Goodbye to All That" a few years ago for my Paris memoir, where I transposed Didion's account of leaving New York with my returning to it from Paris, giving up on the city of my dreams, at about the same age. I'm leaning on it now for another story with the same lesson of timely farewell, with a different location. Slow learner. This story, which I've told before (you'll see why) is not about cities, though it is about location: Hanover, New Hampshire in the summer of 1988. The scene: The School for Criticism and Theory. Michael Riffaterre, then Director of the School, and my former dissertation advisor at Columbia, had invited me to teach in the summer session and "carry the flag" (the flag being feminist criticism). Naturally, I was flattered, even a little thrilled. I would be teaching in the same session as Mary Ann Caws, who was a friend, and Edward Said, whom I knew slightly and admired greatly. I felt promoted just by virtue of getting to hang out with the cool kids. [End Page 243] I'm a New Yorker, not really a fan of life in the country; after a while, all the green wears me down and trees fail to absorb my daily quotient of anxiety. But the teaching would be challenging, I reasoned, maybe even fun, as was the idea of sharing work in progress with a group of smart people. The drill involved the teaching faculty circulating a piece of new work to the entire school and then discussing it in public, after responses by the director and a faculty member from the host institution. At the same time, having just left Columbia for CUNY, did I really want to spend six weeks in striking distance of the man who had alternately praised and diminished me for almost two decades of emotional turmoil? Why return to that roller-coaster ride? Because I thought I'd be safe. We were no longer at Columbia, after all. My turn to share my work came midway through the summer. I was nervous but also curious. The previous presentation sessions had been exciting. I believed in my project, a self-conscious experiment I called "Dreaming, Dancing, and the Changing Locations of Feminist Criticism, 1988." I was eager for feedback. Once we were all settled on stage, the Director took the floor, and in a cold, almost bitter tone, read out an attack on Feminist Criticism, notably what he called the "insularity of Feminist Criticism. You Feminist Critics," he objected, mansplaining avant la lettre, and addressing his complaint to me, "are not content to define your differences," but are "othering male critics … and excommunicating their interpretations." It's obvious, he concluded, "that the premises of today's Black Criticism imply the same kind of exclusion." The man went on, nursing his wound, building to his conclusion, a defense of Literature: "Even if we were to concede," he claimed, "that, the insularity of what I should call native criticism (rather than personal, or gender, or race criticism) would still ignore the very nature of the literary phenomenon, namely that it transcends time, place, and borders." Native. The audience sat in stunned silence. While the structure of the event included the requirement of a response from the faculty member whose work was being discussed, I found it impossible to speak. I refused, I finally said, because the critique was generic and had nothing to do with my paper, which was a particular instance of feminist literary criticism. My silence in the moment was not entirely voluntary. The attack had quite literally staggered me: taken my breath away, my head and heart were pounding as I sat there [End Page 244] facing the audience, which included...

Ottoman architectural heritage in the Medina of Tunis: resistance through modern day artistic events

The Traditional Medina of Tunis is a historical city center holding a remarkable architectural and cultural heritage which is a mixture of several civilizations and traces of different era. One of the most remarkable architectural traces is left by the Ottomans. The Ottoman architectural monuments left in the Medina of Tunis are reflecting a resistance in the face of gentrification.This research aims to describe the impact of modern art events and their induced hybrid representations on the Ottoman architectural heritage of the Medina of Tunis. Despite the structural changes left by commercialism, the centuries old infrastructures still possess an outlook of an authentic historical space embracing several civilizations. A qualitative research method has been chosen to achieve the goal. In the first part of this study, a brief history and an overview about the urban context of the Medina of Tunis is given. Subsequently the existing Ottoman architecture in the Medina of Tunis and the ways it has affected the existing urban atmosphere is reflected upon. To highlight the interaction of Ottoman architectural heritage and modernity, two contemporary art events are commented upon as an observation cases. The events are ‘Interference’ and ‘Dream city’ and they are held annually in the Medina of Tunis.It is concluded that modern art events are becoming a tool to express the community’s ‘psyche’ of culture. Events like ‘Interference’ are nurturing a crosscultural interaction of identities, where virtual simulations are shaping new experiences inside spiritual city walls of Medina and leading to highlight the imminent presence of Ottoman architectural heritage in this historical city center.

Review: City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles by Jerald Podair

Review: City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles by Jerald Podair

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

Book Review| July 01 2018 City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. By Tyler Anbinder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. xxiv + 738 pp. List of maps, appendix, notes, select bibliography, illustration credits, and index. $35 (cloth); $17.99 (paper). Steven J. Diner Steven J. Diner Rutgers University Newark Steven J. Diner is University Professor at Rutgers University-Newark, where he served as Chancellor until 2011. His publications include A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago (University of North Carolina Press, 1980), A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (Hill and Wang, 1998) and Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America (John Hopkins University Press, 2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2018) 37 (4): 96–98. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.4.0096 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steven J. Diner; City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2018; 37 (4): 96–98. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.37.4.0096 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Correction to: Hidden Present, Visible Absent in the City of Dreams: Assembling the Collective Imagination

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The name of “Tuuli Pern” is now corrected in the author group of this article. The original article has been corrected.

Hidden Present, Visible Absent in the City of Dreams: Assembling the Collective Imagination

This paper serves as a collaborative auto-ethnography of psychological researchers, engaged in a unique encounter with each other and with the streets, artefacts, history and ghosts of Vienna, the City of Dreams. This small international and interdisciplinary group engaged in four pre-planned exercises in this city, each geared towards developing the sensitivity of researchers to notions of embodied introspection. Participants were asked to recollect and diarise their internal dialogue and these voices were assembled according to the practice of bricolage. This paper aims to demonstrate how new forms of knowledge might be created, based on the material experience of place, and the assembling of the collective imagination of researchers. It also aims to demonstrate how this collective imagination might be written about in novel ways, with a decentred author capturing the atmosphere while it lasts.

This is Not the Film: Narrative Frustration, Indeterminacy, and Silence in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive

‘A Love Story in the City of Dreams’ ran the coy promotional tagline for David Lynch’s 2001 film Mulholland Drive. Since its release, this ‘love story’ – jagged, fragmentary, achronological – has inspired an overproduction of criticism focused on dream analysis. Central to such a mode of interpretation, one which separates content from form, which mines for content at the expense of considerations of form, is the distinction between those facets of the film’s narrative marked off as ‘fantasy’ and those marked off as ‘reality’. While these investigations have, in their way, been fruitful, they have also had the lamentable effect of rendering legible, reducing to a story, a work of art which, as a time-bound cinematic experience, deliberately resists the consolations of a linear narrative, amounts, in effect, to an anti-story that in its non-revelations, its silences, becomes time-less. And though inquiries into the formal features of Mulholland Drive have been made (by Jennifer Hudson (2004) and David Roche (2004), for instance), the ways in which Lynch employs narrative frustration and indeterminacy as a disorganising principle in his film have not been adequately explored. This article aims to redress the deficiency by examining Mulholland Drive as a film which, like its predecessor and, to some extent, progenitor, Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966), undermines its mysteries by foregrounding its own constructedness and historicity as an art object (in Lynch’s case, through a parodic treatment of the Hollywood system and noir aesthetics), which occludes and then collapses its narrative proliferations, subverting attempts at a definitive thematic reading, and which as a result establishes a temporality, an atemoporality, in which assertions of fantasy and reality are voided, and can only fall silent.

Jerald Podair. City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles.

Jerald Podair. City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles.

Development and application of super heavy gauge high-strength structural steel for high-rise buildings

This paper presents development of 130mm S460G1-Z35 by using low carbon Nb-Ni-Mo-V-Ti micro-alloying design and two-stage rolling, quenching and tempering process. For the super heavy gauge high-strength structural steel, the yield strength is higher than 450MPa, the tensile strength is higher than 550MPa, the elongation is greater than 20%, the low temperature(-40) impact energy value is not less than 250J, the z-direction section shrinkage is more than 65%, and the welding performance is good. The plate are successfully applied to the engineering construction of the city of dreams in Macau.

Cushicle/Suitaloon

An invitation from the editors of the JAE to revisit a project executed over fifty years ago may reflect a nostalgia for an imagined golden age when architects, in truth just a handful, dedicated themselves to the wholesale rethinking of the built environment. For this happy few the prospect of servitude in an architect's office endlessly reworking the client-funded classic one-off building did not exactly inspire; so, armed with a conviction that change needed to happen on the scale of the city, they coalesced into groups like Archigram to produce the clientless Plug-in City, Walking City, Instant City, Living City, Dream City and Rok Plug/Log Plug. All of them unrealizable except perhaps for Instant City, which was a sort of modernized traveling circus. And in 1969 Instant City actually happened when a cow pasture in Bethel, NY turned into a city pop. 400,000 for four days at the end of which the cows got their pasture back.My solo offering was the 1966 Cushicle/Suitaloon, a project whose genesis was a photograph I found of a man wearing a warm suit (manufactured, apparently, by the Frankenstein company[!]). Add an air cushion vehicle (abbreviated to Cushicle) type hovercraft, a few inflatables and some items from NASA and you were on the way to making a living environment…….or so went the hype.The JAE-requested revisitation, as might be expected, changed the project1 not so much in terms of its appearance but in the way it gets explained. It allowed the project to develop into a less gee whiz and more thoughtful study, I would like to believe, of the concentric skins surrounding us that help compensate for the fact that rarely is the local meteorology what you might call Garden-of-Eden quality—i.e. blue sky, temps. 80°F, humidity 52%, no bugs.2