«He Confessed Christ…»: Reflecting on biography of priest Vasily Infantiev by S. G. Sizov

“…Sushko will also contribute to resolving the issue of the canonization of the priest Vasily Infantiev (this issue is now being dealt with by the Omsk Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church).…”
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Les trames vertes et bleues habitantes : un cheminement entre pratiques et représentations. L’exemple de la ville de Paris (France) by Étienne Grésillon, Marianne Cohen, Julien Lefour, Lydie Goeldner, Laurent Simon

“…In the first one, the TVB must be defended in the city because it is part of the everyday life of the people and in the other one they do not have their place in a metropolis like Paris. These results can be useful in the moment of the implementation of the politics of green and blue corridors at Paris.…”
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El Madrid de la Bestia : l’apocalypse urbaine d’Álex de la Iglesia by Diane Bracco

“…Through the deployment of strategies of grotesque distortion, de la Iglesia invites us to see in his filmic re-elaboration of the metropolis the metonymy of a Spain that has lost all its points of reference: while taking possession of the urban landscape, integrated into a spectacular production, de la Iglesia lifts the veil on the paradoxes of a postindustrial society which longs for modernization, at the dawn of the third millennium, although it still harbours the residues of a dictatorial past that the advent of democracy has not enabled to eradicate.…”
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La dimensión oculta de los alimentos by Eulalia Maria Gomez Escoda, Artur Roig Pérez

“…Esta observación minuciosa de los escenarios por los que transcurren los alimentos compone una nueva manera multiescalar de mirar y explicar la arquitectura y la ciudad destinada a abrir la reflexión sobre los tiempos y las distancias latentes en el aprovisionamiento de comida de las metrópolis. …”
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Self-Assembly of Particles on a Curved Mesh by Gabriele Costa, Santi Prestipino

“…When attempting to reproduce the equation of state of the model by Monte Carlo simulation, we find hysteretic behavior near zero temperature, implying a bottleneck issue for Metropolis dynamics near phase-crossover points.…”
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Un établissement pénitentiaire singulier dans «l’archipel punitif» de l’armée française en Algérie : L’établissement des fers de Douera puis de Bône (1855-1858) by Nadia Biskri

“…Its creation resulted from the Second Empire’s penitentiary policy based on the settlement of undesirables in the colonies, at a remove from the metropolis. Although these centers of detention did not last more than three years, this place of punishment for deviants to the military order has proven for the historian to be a real observatory of a penitentiary experiment in a colonial situation. …”
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Sobre o modelo decolonial: a importância do outro e a urgência de seu olhar by João Alberto Mendonça Silva, Josemar de Campos Maciel, Dolores Pereira Ribeiro Coutinho

“…Through what is called “Decolonial Turn” we sought to identify how the influence of the metropolis supplanted and replaced ways of being, thinking and doing traditional populations and those who were brought forcibly, characterizing the European pattern of development by capital and accumulation of goods, making them exclusive means of developing. …”
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An Evaluation of Qualitative Criteria of Subway Station According to Audience-Based Criticism by mohsen kameli

“…Considering the growing trend of metro expansion in Tehran metropolis and the increasing need for it, special attention is paid to the quality of the environment of stations The metro should be considered as a metropolitan environment for the social interactions of citizens. …”
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La variation toponymique dans l'oraliture comme pratique infrapolitique : études de cas à Uchon et Paris by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The article concludes with the importance of the variant in oraliture as an interstice where infrapolitical resistance can be imagined and embodied, transcending the differences in context between a metropolis and a hyperrural village.…”
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Un dimensionnement des territoires en héritage. Nouvelles tours résidentielles pour un horizon écologique incertain by Geoffrey Mollé

“…The new high-rise buildings planned in Europe since the 2000s crystallize the metropolization of territorial planning and the imaginary of the future. …”
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Between Destructiveness and Vitalism: Simmel’s Sociology of Crowds by Christian Borch

“…Finally, the fourth part of the article examines the crowd in the light of Simmel’s essays on the metropolis and sociability. It is argued that this part of Simmel’s work allows for a vitalist interpretation of crowds, which differs greatly from what Le Bon, Sighele, and Tarde suggested, and which anticipates Elias Canetti’s theory of crowds.…”
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Collective Awareness and Lyrical Poetry: The Emergence of Creole Literary Culture in the Archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe by Ewa A. Łukaszyk

“…It could be a way of overcoming the Eurocentric “chronopolitics” that remained valid also in the postcolonial studies, associating the decolonial processes, on the one hand, with the metropolis as a place where the decolonial thought took shape, and on the other, with the chronology, rhythms, and trends of its literary evolution. …”
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Identify and prioritize architectural and cultural indicators based on the application of technology in the age of globalization (Case Study: Tehran City) by Mino lafafchi, Mozian Dahashi Sharif, Iraj Etesam

“…Technological innovations are known to be effective parameter in developing and designing architectural spaces in metropolis; however the impact of technology on the architecture of different communities in the world is not the same. …”
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The Integrated Development Strategy of Coastal Industrial Areas and City Based on Underground Space Development by Feng Shao, Pingyang Shi, Yusheng Ding, Ce Dong

“…As a crucial node of Qingdao’s construction of a modern international metropolis, a topnotch marine port, a demonstration zone for local economic and trade cooperation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and an international shipping trade financial innovation center, the Qingdao Cruise Port warrants transformation to adapt to the future development of Qingdao city. …”
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Regards sur le séisme de Mexico de septembre 2017 : permanences et décalages par rapport à la catastrophe de 1985 by Jean-François Valette

“…By confronting a press review on the recent earthquake and analyzing the current urban context of the metropolis, this article aims to understand how Mexico-City resisted relatively well, but also how the recent crisis has cruelly highlighted on the one hand the socio-spatial inequalities within the agglomeration, and on the other hand, the weaknesses of the Mexican State. …”
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Fumar em Área Aberta é o Suficiente para Proteção das Crianças? by Maria Alice Santos Tavares, Leandro Alberto Calazans Nogueira, Ney Armando de Mello Meziat Filho, Renato Santos de Almeida, Camila Drumond Muzi, Raphael Mendonça Guimarães, Raquel de Souza Ramos, Gisele Fragoso Mendes, Selma Cristina de Jesus Mesquita, Manassés Moura dos Santos Santos, Maria Victória de Jesus Mesquita Palazzo, Juliana Miranda Batista Moura dos Santos, Agnaldo José Lopes

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Partager l’action paysagère avec des enfants comme piste d’apprentissage expérientiel by Roxane Wormser

“…In Place Caulier, in a context of tension caused by major cases of misuse and disappointments regarding planning projects, the city of Lille and the European Metropolis of Lille are experimenting with a new planning process. …”
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Historia a medias e historias medias: imaginarios de lo pueblerino en el contexto de juicios al terrorismo de Estado by Ariel Gravano

“…Lo hacemos desde el concepto de imaginarios identitarios urbanos, por los cuales adquiere importancia el análisis de cómo «la ciudad toda» vive esos acontecimientos, en los que se contrasta la Historia centralizada en la metrópolis y la historia local, en la que parece preponderar una imagen de «quietud», «donde nunca pasa (ni pasó) nada». …”
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Keeping Warm in Subtropical Winter. When Everyday Life Disrupts the Concept of Hyper-Conditioned Environments in Chongqing (Southwest China) by Madlen Kobi

“…The ethnographic data discussed here from the metropolis of Chongqing (southwest China) presents a more nuanced picture and encourages scrutiny of the notion of “hyper-conditioned environments”. …”
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From a grand hotel to an urban symbol: the Astor Hotel in old and new Tianjin by Taoyu Yang

“…Moreover, the expansion of the Astor Hotel evolved along with the development of Tianjin from a hypercolonial city to a Chinese-run metropolis. Shortly after the Communist Revolution in China, its ownership was overtaken by the Tianjin Municipal Government. …”
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