Transformation Of Infrastructure Research Articles

Recent Archaeological Work in Roman Iberia (1990–2002)

The Iberian peninsula is a key region that has the potential to transform fundamentally our understanding of the Roman Empire. The longevity of the Roman presence in Iberia, the huge geographical variety of its regions, and the cultural differences between its peoples make it ideal for understanding the genesis, development, and disintegration of the Roman Empire as a whole. The transformation of regional infrastructure in Spain and Portugal during the 1980s and 1990s has generated much new archaeological information. This is particularly true of the major cities, where intensive urban development has greatly enhanced our understanding of their layout and development during the historic periods. In the countryside too, the expansion of the road networks, EU-inspired changes in crop quotas, and the intensification of mechanized farming have all had a major impact and substantially increased the number of known villas and rural settlements.

Recent Archaeological Work in Roman Iberia (1990–2002)

The Iberian peninsula is a key region that has the potential to transform fundamentally our understanding of the Roman Empire. The longevity of the Roman presence in Iberia, the huge geographical variety of its regions, and the cultural differences between its peoples make it ideal for understanding the genesis, development, and disintegration of the Roman Empire as a whole. The transformation of regional infrastructure in Spain and Portugal during the 1980s and 1990s has generated much new archaeological information. This is particularly true of the major cities, where intensive urban development has greatly enhanced our understanding of their layout and development during the historic periods. In the countryside too, the expansion of the road networks, EU-inspired changes in crop quotas, and the intensification of mechanized farming have all had a major impact and substantially increased the number of known villas and rural settlements.

Assessing the potential for change in urban infrastructure systems

The premise of this paper is that there is a need for rethinking the design of technical infrastructures because of environmental problems, and to understand the dynamics of and the potential for change, urban infrastructure large technological systems must be seen as socio-technical artefacts. This paper offers a methodology for analyzing current infrastructure systems, and a case study, demonstrating that social relations play a significant role as barriers against implementing new management practices. It is argued that there is a need to involve more people in the rethinking of urban infrastructure, and this paper raises some strategic questions concerning planning for the transformation of technical infrastructures into more sustainable systems.

Evolution of telecommunication in eastern Europe

New global trends in telecommunications technology and liberalization will force dramatic changes in the national telecommunications of the East European countries. Some of them are described in this article. Mainly the technical issues of shaping telecommunication systems evolution in the region are considered. The major trends in regional telecommunication networks evolution-deregulation, new end user demands, and technological innovations are described first . Next, we deal with today's network structure. Finally, we describe the possible transformation of the network infrastructure in the near future.

Urban ecology and transformation of technical infrastructure

There is a need to rethink technical infrastructure for energy and water provision and for handling sewage and solid waste due to environmental problems related to the current large‐scale systems. From the author's point of view this includes a shift towards combining bottom‐up and top‐down strategies instead of seeing such strategies as incompatible. In Denmark there is an increasing interest in user involvement and small‐scale solutions to environmental problems, but still most planners of the large supply systems continue a top‐down attitude towards the planning process. It is argued that the main barrier to implementing urban ecology in network management is the lack of understanding of technical infrastructure as more than technique, and the technicians’ faith in large‐scale solutions. Today's planning practice and the momentum of the established systems require new forums for strategic debates if urban ecology is to be included in future network management. A methodology is presented for structuring a debate on future sustainable systems, which includes new actors with very different viewpoints on network management in the debate on the transformation process.

Delta as a Geographical Concept in Greek Literature

Previous articleNext article No AccessNotes & CorrespondenceDelta as a Geographical Concept in Greek LiteratureFrancis CeloriaFrancis Celoria Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 57, Number 3Autumn, 1966 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/350146 Views: 17Total views on this site Citations: 2Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1966 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Atsuro Morita, Casper Bruun Jensen Delta Ontologies: Infrastructural Transformations in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand, Social Analysis 61, no.22 (Jan 2017).https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2017.610208Atsuro Morita Infrastructuring Amphibious Space: The Interplay of Aquatic and Terrestrial Infrastructures in the Chao Phraya Delta in Thailand, Science as Culture 25, no.11 (Mar 2016): 117–140.https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2015.1081502