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Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...community takes over. In Part Four of the book, Sennett considers the timeframes in which the city is produced. Climate change is a long-term danger to the city and a ‘malign threat’ is particularly posed by water: we face an era of floods and droughts. Sennett proposes the ‘adaptive berm’ to think about how to plan for this new world – a flexible accommodation...
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Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed
History & The Arts

Why Glasgow’s ‘Bolshevist Uprising’ in 1919 wasn’t quite the red threat to UK many believed

...communism is one of numerous enduring misapprehensions about events that day in Scotland’s largest city. So let me clarify what really happened in George Square, and explain why January 31 1919 remains so vivid for many in the city today. It was only weeks since World War I had ended. In numerous cities around Europe, returning soldiers were taking to the streets to...
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Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020

...community to which they have strong personal and/or family ties. Club players and managers at the top end of the professional game are of many different nationalities across the world – and most of them will not be playing for the England team. The 2020/21 English Premier League champions Manchester City FC, for example, won the Premier League with a Spanish coach and a...
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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...communicate this with them and their loved ones. Answering ‘when will I die?’ is less about pinpointing a specific time and more about identifying when someone is in the dying phase. What are the signs that I am dying? When someone may have less than one month until they die, they often spend more and more time resting (in bed or in a chair); they sleep more and find...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...communities, whether or not they were actually living with their participants or just they tended to live in the same areas and had interaction, but they would actually meet them as they were cycling to the university or to wherever they were working and they’d meet their participants rather than just it being once every three months you actually meet up and do a formal...
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Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation
Society, Politics & Law

Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation

...Communities and Government: 2015) Out of sight, out of mind? This is all part of the changing reality of how homeless people of all nationalities are treated across the UK. Greater numbers of people are becoming homeless, while some police forces and local authorities are taking tough stances against people begging and sleeping rough, purporting to crack down on the...
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...communications networks, abandonment of local traditional building methods in favour of mass modern techniques and architectural style, or retention of local craft skills geared to modern tourism or new markets. Moreover, what happens in particular places also has an effect on the wider system. Not only does the existing character of an area influence the ways in which...
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Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture
Science, Maths & Technology

Iron from the sky: Meteors, meteorites and ancient culture

...communities. If the meteorite iron was recognised to have arrived from the sky, a place of gods, this would have given it even more value and perhaps further enhance the status of its owner. We do not yet fully understand what ancient Egyptians thought of iron prior to its use becoming common, but there are other known relatively early Egyptian iron artefacts from well...
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