their environment or surroundings. In the New Lanark community‚ Owen enhanced his workers environment; he also managed to obtain an increase in profit and productivity. In 1824‚ Owen and his family moved to the United States in order to pursue his Utopian ideas. He did so by purchasing 20‚000 acres of land in New Harmony‚ Indiana. Unfortunately‚ the two year experiment of the New Harmony society was a total failure for Owen. The community failed due to the lack of individual sovereignty and private
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of the Second World War. Brutalism has it roots in Modernism; however‚ it emerged as a movement in revolt to the architectural mainstream. Brutalism attempted to come out of the Modernist movement on the basis of an undeniably honest approach to architecture‚ demanding that form follow function. Pioneers thought that the most successful way of doing so would be to avoid unnecessary flourishes. In other words‚ relying on clean lines and ‘honest detailing’. Brutalism adheres to no official definition;
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Crime free housing by Poyner‚ Barry and Webb Barry‚ p. 1985 5. Can sound urban planning help reduce urban crime and violence? By Mitchell J. Rycus ‚ professor of urban planning at the university of Michigan‚ USA Publications at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning www.tcaup.umich.edu/publications/pubs.html (29th jan 2002 @ 1:30 am) 6. Crime prevention through environmental design by robert a. Gardner‚ cp www.vcnet.com/expert/library/cpted.html (29 jan 2002 @ 1:30 am) th 7. The history
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Oneida Utopian Community The Oneida Community can be considered one of the most successful utopian societies that there has ever been. “The Oneida Community‚ in many ways the most radical social and sexual experiment in American history‚ was founded in central New York by John Humphrey Noyes and a small band of Christian perfectionists in March 1848” (Olin‚ 285). The community eventually came to an end around 1879 and although somewhat short-lived‚ this utopian community presented many ideas that
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Academic Reading sample task – Identifying writer’s views/claims Discovered in the early 1800s and named ‘nicotianine’‚ the oily essence now called nicotine is the main active ingredient of tobacco. Nicotine‚ however‚ is only a small component of cigarette smoke‚ which contains more than 4‚700 chemical compounds‚ including 43 cancer-causing substances. In recent times‚ scientific research has been providing evidence that years of cigarette smoking vastly increases the risk of developing fatal medical
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Drafting By: Madison Stewart Drafting is the drawing up of blueprints for architectural structures‚ and mechanical engineering tools and objects. There are two sides to drafting‚ the mechanical side and the architectural side. It’s a great career that is fun‚ and easy to do. Architectural drafting has to deal with drawing up the blueprints for homes‚ schools‚ churches‚ and any other architectural structure you can think of. It’s very easy to come up with these blueprints. You can either draw
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everything is the same . There’s nothing to desire because everyone and everything is the same ‚ will be the same ‚ or possess the same things. If everyone is perfect ‚ then no one would lack and want to be someone else . A great example to this utopian universe would be the world in the book The Giver by __________. There was no crime because there was no hate or envy . There was no envy because everyone saw the world the same . I believe that there is not a mentality that could make this universe
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The 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) 1-6 October‚ 2008 Goa‚ India Earthquake Risk Mitigation Strategies in India C. Ghosh National Institute of Disaster Management‚ New Delhi‚ India Keywords: Disaster Management‚ earthquake‚ mitigation‚ building codes‚ ABSTRACT: About 59% of India’s land area is under the threat of moderate to severe earthquake shaking intensity VII and higher. In the last 20 years‚ 8 major
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The Giver was written by Lois Lowry in 1993. It tells about a utopian society in which every person is assigned their life’s purpose at different ceremonies that occur yearly. The society is very organized‚ and everything is very matter-of-fact and by the book. Every year there are ceremonies for the children growing each year‚ named the year they are turning. Each year new milestones are reached‚ and everyone looks forward to the Ceremonies‚ especially the Ceremony of Twelve. The Elders decide what
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Saint Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy‚ comte de Saint-Simon‚ often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760–19 May 1825) was a French utopian socialist thinker. Saint-Simon was born in Paris. He belonged to a younger branch of the family of the duc de Saint-Simon. He claimed his education was directed by Jean le Rond d’Alembert‚ though no proof of this exists; it is likely that Saint-Simon himself invented this false intellectual pedigree. At the age of sixteen he was in America helping
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