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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"Milan"”.
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An urban intervention in Milan
… and the floor of the Piazza del Duomo, in Milan, Italy. The piazza is an ideal case history of the development of an urban fabric, and of the consciousness of urbanism itself.
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Slowness, Identity and Ignorance: Milan Kundera’s French Variations
… in detail three academically neglected novels by Milan Kundera: Slowness (1995), Identity (1998) and Ignorance (2002). Originally written in French, the author’s second language, after six novels, a short-story collection and a play originally written in Czech, these texts are often bracketed off …
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THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND YOUTH WORK IN MILAN
… with a migration background in the city of Milan. It investigates the role of this actor in the construction, suspension, or renegotiation of the criteria of national belonging within the socio-educational spaces in which it operates (Youth Centres). Starting from an urban and media context …
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Italian creations : elaborations of collective identity in Milan, Italy
… based on fieldwork primarily undertaken in Milan, Italy from May through August 1997. In this work I examine ways in which a localized network of individuals variously construct a sense of intimacy within the collective identity of an Italian national community and the ways in which national …
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Transformed materials : a material research center in Milan, Italy
… of a Material Research Center (mRC). located in Milan, Italy.
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Crowded Voice: Speech, Music and Community in Milan, 1955-1974
… and chronological lens: first, the city of Milan, a powerful political and cultural interface between Italy and Central Europe; secondly, the years 1955-1974, key decades in the constitution of Italy’s first democratic government and years of vertiginous anthropological changes across the …
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For an Urban History of Milan, Italy: The Role of GIScience
… is to investigate the history of the city of Milan, Italy, employing Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Using historical maps and ancillary data, the spatiality of historical events that interested the city is analyzed, interpreted and explained by means of new geospatial technologies …
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Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
<p>Ambrose, bishop of Milan, was one of the most outspoken advocates of Christian female virginity in the fourth century C.E. This dissertation examines his writings on virginity in the interest of illuminating the historical and social contexts of his teachings. Considering Ambrose's treatises on …
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"Multi-use" airport design : a new terminal for Malpensa International Airport, Milan, Italy
… building for Malpensa International Airport in Milan, Italy. The main effort here was to develop a major terminal facility based on a local theme. the arcade.
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The opera house and cultural policy: the post-war politics of La Scala, Milan
This is a study of La Scala, the opera house in Milan, and its relationship with cultural policy-making and political power, since the end of the Second World War. The study provides an original interpretation of Gramsci 's writings in relation to cultural policy analysis, and applies this …
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Empathic Narratives: a Case Study of Immigrati/e in Milan Perceiving the ‘Migration Crisis’
… perceptions of resident migrant communities in Milan’s diverse areas of ‘Zona 2’ and ‘Zona 9’ regarding the current ‘migration crisis’; and aims to determine whether growing discrimination has produced communal solidarity or purposeful disengagement in the affected communities. The findings, …
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Bygone Modernity: Re-imagining Italian opera in Milan, New York and Buenos Aires, 1887-1914
… study of Italian operatic transfer between Milan, New York and Buenos Aires in the decades around 1900. It investigates how ideas and practices of Italian opera were defined in these two key American cities, offering an explicitly transnational perspective on Italian operatic culture. In so …
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Recycling industrial architecture into the city fabric : the "Progetto-Bicocca" Pirelli International Competition, Milan, Italy
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Ambrose of Milan
This study investigates the concept of light in the early Jewish-Christian exegesis of the biblical creation narrative (Gen. 1, so-called ‘hexaemeron’). The study argues that the early hexaemeral exegetes theorised light from a dual perspective, both physical and metaphysical. The physical exegesis …
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