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A cross-cultural comparative study of Buddhist monumental art: the Borobudur Temple Complex (Indonesia) and the Dazu Rock Carvings (China)
This study presents a transnational comparative analysis of two UNESCO World Heritage complexes and their sculptural programmes: the Borobudur Temple Complex (Java, Indonesia; built c. 8th-9th centuries CE) and the Dazu Rock Carvings (Chongqing, China; major carving activity late 9th-13th centuries CE). Using qualitative methods that integrate stylistic, iconographic, and technical analyses based on visual and photographic surveys and published conservation studies, the paper examines how stone type, carving techniques, compositional strategies, and ritual frameworks shaped divergent sculptural languages. Results show that Borobudur's mandala-based architectural order and narrative bas-reliefs-carved in volcanic andesite and largely experienced frontally along a prescribed circumambulatory route-favour shallow, sequential narrative modelling that supports didactic pilgrimage. By contrast, Dazu's sandstone reliefs and near-full-round modelling enable deeper undercutting, more pronounced chiaroscuro, and a syncretic iconography that fuses Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian elements for localized devotional practice; traces of polychromy and gilding further differentiate its visual effect. The study demonstrates that material and technical constraints critically inform form, viewing geometry, and ritual use, and argues for context-sensitive conservation approaches. These findings advance comparative understandings of Mahayana sculptural practice and contribute to broader debates in global art history.
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Technology disaster response and recovery planning
As libraries depend more and more on technology to provide essential services, they need to create a comprehensive response and recovery plan in the event of floods, fire, or other natural-- or man made-- disasters. This guide includes lessons learned from successful efforts in providing digital continuity and recovering from a variety of situations.
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Ghost Cities of China
Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.
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From the Outside In
InFrom the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how major nongovernmental, nonmarket institutions are taking responsibility for reshaping Philadelphia, led by suburban and state elites who sit on boards and recruit like-minded suburban colleagues to join them. In Philadelphia and other American cities, Third Sector organizations have built and expanded hospitals, universities, research centers, performing arts venues, museums, parks, and waterfronts, creating whole new districts that are expanding outward from the city's historic downtown.
The author draws on three decades of scholarship on Philadelphia and her personal experience in the city's nonprofit world to argue that suburban elites have recognized the importance of the central city to their own future and have intervened to redevelop central city land and institutions. Suburban interests and state allies have channeled critical investments in downtown development and K-12 education. Adams contrasts those suburban priorities with transportation infrastructure and neighborhood redevelopment, two policy domains in which suburban elites display less strategic engagement.From the Outside Inis a rich examination of the promise and difficulty of governance that is increasingly distinct from elected government and thus divorced from the usual means of democratic control within an urban municipality.
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Cyclescapes of the unequal city : bicycle infrastructure and uneven development
\"This book explores how bicycle infrastructure planning, once a fringe concern of progressive environmentalism, has become a key horizon of urban development. Using case studies from San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, and Philadelphia, it shows how bicycling has been redefined as critical to the competitive 21st century city, reinscribing race and class inequalities in mobility in the process\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subprime cities
\"Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer important insights into what is happening in today's mortgage market including the causes, effects, and aftermath of the 'subprime' mortgage crisis\"--
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