Public space in an age of austerity
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DOI: 10.1057/s41289-019-00082-w
Abstract: Through an overview of the decade 2008 to 2017, and looking comparatively across four northern European cities, this paper reflects on the changing nature of public space during these austerity years and on the processes… read more here.
Keywords: space age; paper; austerity; public space ... See more keywords
Engineering world society? Scientists, internationalism, and the advent of the Space Age
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DOI: 10.1057/s41311-017-0070-8
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the English School concept of world society and how it helps to illustrate the role of non-state actors and the promotion of cosmopolitan values. Yet,… read more here.
Keywords: advent space; world society; space age; society ... See more keywords
East Austin Oaks: The Limits of Participatory Planning in the Space Age
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DOI: 10.1177/1538513220916811
Abstract: In the fall of 1968, just after the passage of the Fair Housing Act and before astronauts would first orbit the moon, President Johnson launched a housing design competition meant to apply space-age technology to… read more here.
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James E. Webb, Technocracy, and the New Deal Roots of “Space Age Management”
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DOI: 10.1353/tech.2017.0081
Abstract: abstract James E. Webb, NASA’s Administrator during the hectic years preparing to send American astronauts to the Moon, has come to represent the pinnacle of postwar American optimism and support for large-scale, technically complex national… read more here.
Keywords: age management; space age; james webb;
Space Age: Past, Present and Possible Futures
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DOI: 10.1590/jatm.v13.1226
Abstract: Since Gagarin’s flight on April 12th, 1961, the dream of making human space flight routine and making Homo sapiens a multiplanetary species seemed to have become closer to reality. Nonetheless, on average less than 10… read more here.
Keywords: space; present possible; space age; age past ... See more keywords