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Art and the Global City brings together a host of academics
(communication specialists, sociologists, historians and cultural
theorists) who seek to expand the notion of a "communicative city"
by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the
rapidly expanding global landscape. Spanning four continents (North
America, Europe/Eurasia, Asia, and Australia) and multiple cities
(from Chicago to Singapore, Moscow, Seoul, and Melbourne), these
case studies focus the reader's attention to the evolution of art
in public spaces and the rhetorical power of new artistic visions
and conglomerations in the urban landscape.
Art and the Global City brings together a host of academics
(communication specialists, sociologists, historians and cultural
theorists) who seek to expand the notion of a "communicative city"
by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the
rapidly expanding global landscape. Spanning four continents (North
America, Europe/Eurasia, Asia, and Australia) and multiple cities
(from Chicago to Singapore, Moscow, Seoul, and Melbourne), these
case studies focus the reader's attention to the evolution of art
in public spaces and the rhetorical power of new artistic visions
and conglomerations in the urban landscape.
The Stein Fellow and Drexel University Pediatric Neuropsychology
Symposium was held in collaboration with the Philadelphia
Neuropsychology Society in November 2010. Pediatric Neuropsychology
is a rapidly growing and dynamic subspecialty dealing with the
normal and abnormal development of the human brain where new
assessments and interventions and new professional issues are
emerging. The Drexel Symposium brought together leading scientists
and clinicians whose research, scholarship, and clinical practice
are informing and shaping the evolution of the field. The goal of
the Special Issue is to illustrate some of those research,
clinical, and professional directions including advocacy and
training that are specific to the developing subspecialty of
Pediatric Neuropsychology.
In this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth-century London,
Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as an
explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and
experimentation that characterized this period. Focusing on London,
the most visible area of both destitution and social
experimentation, this book examines the political as well as
benevolent motives behind the great expansion of public
institutions--nondenominational organizations seeking not only to
relieve hardship, but to benefit the nation directly--funded and
run by voluntary associations of citizens. The needs of police, the
maintaining of civil order and the refining of society, were
thought by many ordinary citizens to be central to the expansion of
England's role in the world and to the upholding of the country's
peace at home. Drawing on previously unexplored and unsynthesized
materials, this work reveals the interaction between charitable
theorizing and practical efforts to improve the condition of the
poor. The author argues that it is impossible to comprehend
eighteenth-century charity without taking into account its
perceived social utility, which altered as circumstances mandated.
For example, the charities of the 1740s and 1750s, founded to aid
in the strengthening of England's international supremacy, lost
their public support as current opinions of England's most urgent
needs changed. Creating and responding to new visions of what
well-directed charities might accomplish, late-century
philanthropists tried using charitable institutions to reknit what
they believed was a badly damaged social fabric. Originally
published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
In this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth-century
London, Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as
an explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and
experimentation that characterized this period. Focusing on London,
the most visible area of both destitution and social
experimentation, this book examines the political as well as
benevolent motives behind the great expansion of public
institutions--nondenominational organizations seeking not only to
relieve hardship, but to benefit the nation directly--funded and
run by voluntary associations of citizens. The needs of police, the
maintaining of civil order and the refining of society, were
thought by many ordinary citizens to be central to the expansion of
England's role in the world and to the upholding of the country's
peace at home.
Drawing on previously unexplored and unsynthesized materials,
this work reveals the interaction between charitable theorizing and
practical efforts to improve the condition of the poor. The author
argues that it is impossible to comprehend eighteenth-century
charity without taking into account its perceived social utility,
which altered as circumstances mandated. For example, the charities
of the 1740s and 1750s, founded to aid in the strengthening of
England's international supremacy, lost their public support as
current opinions of England's most urgent needs changed. Creating
and responding to new visions of what well-directed charities might
accomplish, late-century philanthropists tried using charitable
institutions to reknit what they believed was a badly damaged
social fabric.
Originally published in 1989.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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