Symbolizing place: journalistic narratives of the city
Geographical research has increasingly scrutinized popular culture texts as repositories of spatial understanding. The newspaper repays such study because it is tied functionally and symbolically to conceptions of place and describes characteristic
inflections of the narrative city life. Strategies in news narrative typically mediate between the newspaper's economic self-interest in regional development and the journalistic ideal of public service.
Foundations of the morphography of cartographical symbols
Cartographie ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Symbole cartographique ; Sémiologie ; Technique cartographique
Semiology does not inquire into principles in forming the symbols in details, namely for the individual application. Various new symbol may be formed by means of morphographical operation - affixation, congugation, rotation, convertation, mutation
Symbolic use of globalization in urban politics in Tokyo
Capitalism ; Economic restructuring ; Ethnic group ; Globalization ; Honshu ; Ideology ; Japan ; Power ; Tokyo ; Town ; Urban function ; Urban policy
pourquoi Tokyo a tout d'abord réussi à établir une coalition politique pour la restructuration urbaine, puis a échoué. La globalisation comme symbole politique a pris un rôle idéologique en masquant les traits pré-modernes de la coalition et en lui donnant
Abandoned industrial land ; Development ; Economic restructuring ; European part of Russia ; Moscow ; Service area ; Urban fringe ; Urban policy ; Urban regeneration ; Urban region
The A-B-C system of horizon nomenclature is shown to be unsatisfactory. A set of six principles for establishing horizons is given. A new nomenclature and symbols are proposed for soil horizons. The symbols can be used as map symbols
Seven journeys to map symbols: multiple intelligences applied to map learning
Cartographie ; Enseignement de la géographie ; Enseignement primaire ; Etats-Unis ; Symbole cartographique
Cartographic symbol ; Cartography ; Primary education ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Gardner's theory of seven kinds of intelligence is the framework to teach map symbols to upper elementary school students and as a way to encourage them to identify and practice their own strengths. - (DWG)
The article introduces a new form of economic activities, which has attracted much attention during the past years. This new form is cultural industry, a term which defines a certain part of tertiary activities, the importance of which is rapidly
gaining in importance within cities. The term cultural industry includes all highly specialized services, which provide products and services, that have a higher symbolic than material value and trade with intellectual property rights. The article provides
precise definitions of cultural industry and an empirical presentation in the case of Ljubljana. Furthermore the article also implies possible consequences of cultural industry on the economic and spatial development of cities. - (IKR)
Cartographie ; Information cartographique ; Représentation cartographique ; Symbole cartographique
Cartographic information ; Cartographic symbol ; Cartographical display ; Cartography
Maps sometimes seriously misrepresent reality through the intention of their makers. Map authors may utilize scale, projection and symbolization to enhance or suppress information for a specific purpose. It is important for the map user to recognize
Cartographic symbol ; Cartographical display ; Cartography ; China ; Economic space ; European Union ; France ; IEC ; Japan ; Mediterranean States ; Pacific Ocean ; Russia ; Spatial organization ; Third World ; Town ; United States of America
CEI ; Cartographie ; Chine ; Espace économique ; Etats-Unis ; France ; Japon ; Monde ; Méditerranéens, pays ; Organisation de l'espace ; Pacifique océan ; Représentation cartographique ; Russie ; Symbole cartographique ; Tiers-Monde ; Union
Cartographie ; Ellipse ; Généralités sur la géographie ; Symbole ; Technique cartographique ; Utilisation
L'ellipse offre des avantages par rapport aux autres symboles conventionnels (cercles, carrés, rectangles, etc.) car elle peut représenter aussi la relation entre deux ensembles de données. Les longueurs des demi-axes représentent les valeurs des
, plus exigeants que ceux des symboles communément utilisés.
L'A. se demande si la reprise des activités boursières à Budapest, Prague et Varsovie dès 1990 relève du symbole ou si elle participe réellement d'une politique économique, étant donné le manque de liquidités et la mauvaise situation financière des