The electoral strategy of communalism by Sixtine Van Outryve

“… This article focuses on one of the outputs of the 2010 assembly-movements: the electoral strategy to run for municipal elections in order to channel city hall’s power to a popular assembly gathering the town’s residents. Though this strategy has been initially fleshed out by the American thinker Murray Bookchin in order to bring about a communalist society – that is, as society in which public power is exercised by the assembled people at the local level – it has been practised in the field in the last years. …”
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Des objets en bois remarquables issus d’un puits de la place d’Assas à Nîmes (Gard) by Pierre Mille, Éric Bayen, Frédéric Conche, Martial Monteil

“…The building is in the heart of the town forum, near and to the west of the Maison Carrée. …”
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Visions of Sustainable Future Shaped Through a Dilemma: International Tourism Development and Lagoon Management in Bacalar by Eriko Yamasaki, Laura Meneghello

“…As a drastic increase in tourist arrivals leads to the contamination of the lagoon, the question of sustainability of tourism development has become a highly debated issue in that small town. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in March 2019, this paper examines the visions of sustainability that the citizens of Bacalar developed in the attempt to find a balance between the growth of international tourism and the protection of local natural heritage. …”
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How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…It is clear that when Bram Stoker was creating the character of count Dracula, he used the information he had from the Hungarian orientalist Ármin Vambéry, who was a native of the multicultural Hungarian (now Slovak) town of Svätý Jur and studied in the other Slovak cities — Dunajská Streda and Bratislava. …”
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Un nouveau cas de sépultures multiples à Troyes, Place de la Libération (Aube, Moyen Âge) by Cécile Paresys, Dominique Castex, Cédric Roms, Isabelle Richard, Stéphanie Degobertière

“…Archives indicate that these graves are in that part of the parish cemetery which was allocated to the town’s infirmary. In the particular context of acute mortality events, the use of archaeo-anthropological methods (analysis of corpse deposition and of age and sex distribution at death) can provide new elements for consideration. …”
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Fleece qualities of menemen sheep: i. morphologic and physical qualities by Günnur Peşmen, Mehmet Yardımcı

“…<p> <b>Materials and Methods:</b> This study was carried out on 98 Menemen sheep in a private company established in Karacaören area, Şuhut Town in Afyonkarahisar.<p> <b>Results:</b> The results for greasy fleece weight, post-shearing live weight, clean fleece percentage, fineness, length, elasticity and strength were 1583.78 g, 51.68 kg, 66.78%, 30.91 &#956;m, 36.35 mm, 32.60% and 20.69 cN/tex, respectively in Menemen ewes.…”
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En poudre ou en blocs ? Matières colorantes et faciès funéraires dans la plaine d’Alsace au Néolithique ancien (5300 à 4950 av. n.è.) by Laura Waldvogel

“…The Alsace plain has thus the particularity to be split into two with a border near the present town of Colmar. For both entities, the shape taken by colorants deposited with the deceased has been seen as a defining factor: in powder form within the facies I, these substances are found in raw or semi-processed blocs in the facies II. …”
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La polis grecque classique by Flore Lerosier

“…It’s, indeed, a transitional space between town and countryside that makes more porous the city’s limits than the wall suggests and brings new elements to the study of the polis. …”
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Dynamisme du néo-gothique, architecture du renouveau religieux : le débat sur la création architecturale dans les années 1840 : A. W. N. Pugin et J. H. Newman by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…The polemical aspect of Pugin’s opposition to Newman is exemplified by his quarrel with The Rambler, a Catholic journal supported by Newman, concerning an article on town churches, published in January 1850.…”
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Heart of the Country by Len Kamerling

“…Parents, elders and leaders of this once impoverished town have been tempered by the long journey through the cultural upheaval of postwar Japan. …”
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Connectivity Index in Vague Graphs with Application in Construction by Huiqin Jiang, Yongsheng Rao

“…Finally, an application of connectivity index in the selected town for building hospital is presented.…”
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The ANC and Apartheid South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program by Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Anna-Mart van Wyk

“…This paper traces the early development of the ANC’s position on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, before discussing its international anti-nuclear initiatives, including its armed struggle and attack against the Koeberg nuclear power plant close to Cape Town, during its construction. …”
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Une maison du quartier cathédral de Tours (Indre-et-Loire) : évolution architecturale et techniques de construction by Bastien Lefebvre

“…What is special about it is that it is situated within the town itself. The house is in fact constructed inside the site of the ancient amphitheatre and contains reused masonry from this building, itself very complex. …”
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Climate change adaptation measures in territorial planning documents by Sadkovskaya Oxana Ye.

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Crossing Texts, References and Images. A Survey of a City Planner’s Personal Library in São Paulo (1920-1960) (2/2) by Heliana Angotti-Salgueiro

“…A shared dimension of textual and visual documents in the history of transnational town planning from this period emerges in original analyses developed in two articles, composing a Dossier. …”
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Les logiques sociales de l’iconographie contestataire : le cas du quartier d’El Príncipe à Ceuta by Alicia Fernández García

“…Contrary to the public art of town center’s official monuments, in El Principe’s peripheral district, urban art is born in a context of social downgrading. …”
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Crossing Texts, References and Images. A Survey of a City Planner’s Personal Library in São Paulo (1920-1960) (1/2) by Heliana Angotti-Salgueiro

“…A shared dimension of textual and visual documents in the history of transnational town planning from this period emerges in original analyses developed in two articles, composing a Dossier. …”
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Le Queenborough d’Ellen Glasgow : cartographie d’une Babylone en devenir by Brigitte Zaugg

“…For her "tragicomedies of manners", The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929) and The Sheltered Life (1932), Ellen Glasgow chose a common setting, the fictional town of Queenborough. Although she modeled it mainly on Richmond, Virginia, she meant it to represent "the distilled essence of all Virginia cities rather than the speaking likeness of one". …”
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Mobile Off-grid Achitecture. A potential tool for the resilience of rural communities in the event of natural disasters by Shota Tajima, Satoko Nasu

“…The paper illustrates a study conducted for the town of Nagara in Japan to test the use of mobile off-grid architecture (MOA) in support of the resilience that rural communities are expected to acquire by 2050. …”
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Completeness of b∼Metric Spaces and the Fixed Points of Generalized Multivalued Quasicontractions by Basit Ali, Mujahid Abbas, Manuel de la Sen

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