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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Bigness"”.
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The Collective Object: Realizing Collective Space in an Era of Bigness
… their cities embodied. This phenomenon, termed “Bigness” by Rem Koolhaas, is also linked to his essay, “Atlanta”, where he critiqued John Portman’s network of sky bridges for producing this supremacist phenomenon and suggested Atlanta as “the real city at the end of the 20th century”.</p> <p>By …
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Social Structure and the Dynamics of Interfirm Ties: The Audit Services Market, 1986 to 2002
… speak the nature of contemporary corporate bigness and its attendant social problems.
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Tauser Killed Both Dogs and Other Suburban American Family Folklore
… how we work out our very American obsession with bigness through telling stories about our dogs. These stories allow us opportunities to talk about the socially inappropriate issue of male body size expectations, by celebrating big dogs and "under"dogs and by ridiculing those with "little dog …
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Urban figure
… cities. Since Rem Koolhaas's 1993 essay, "Bigness or the Problem of Large," the concept of mega-scale urban intervention has been a prominent issue both in architectural theory and practice. The newly created urban figures, physically dominant in the city, not only became catalytic but also …
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An analytical study of John Dos Passos' Manhattan transfer
… page one can both feel and sense the emerging bigness. The city was becoming cosmopolitan, chaotic, dazzling, and needless to say, frustratingly awesome.
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Number, Language and Cognitive Development
… child may begin with a superordinate concept of bigness. In the course of cognitive development the child acquires various plans for discriminating dimensions, estimating quantitatives, and differentiating situations appropriate to the application of these strategies. In the absence of …
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SIlver Tower - A New Paradigm for Tall Building Design
The events of September 11, 2001, seemed to many to presage the end of the skyscraper as an urban form. Some 15 years later, the skyscraper is more prevalent than ever before, owing to its unique advantages over other building forms in an urban, environmental, and sociological context. Skyscrapers …