Asian Cities: Armature, Enclave, Heterotopia

Cities of Otherness: the smart city as a heterotopia

This paper provides an exploratory dimension to the current smart city discussion by regarding the smart city as a heterotopia space – a space of otherness. By adopting a Foucauldian approach, this paper briefly describes the ‘discursive formation’ of the smart city by analysing its ‘surfaces of emergence’, ‘authorities of delimitation’, and ‘grids of specification’, in order to capture the sma...

Armature Reaction

Armature Reaction: The effect of magnetic field set up by armature current on the distribution of flux under main poles of a generator. The armature magnetic field has two effects: (i) It demagnetises or weakens the main flux and (ii) It cross-magnetises or distorts it. Fig 1 shows the flux distribution of a bipolar generator when there is no current in the armature conductors. The brushes are ...

The Archaeology of South Asian Cities

Urbanism in the Indian subcontinent occurred in three distinct time periods in which cultural cohesion over large regions is archaeologically demonstrated through the architecture and artifacts of social, ritual, and economic activity. In the Indus (2500– 1900 B.C.) and Early Historic (3rd century B.C. to 4th century A.D.) periods, cities were not necessarily tied to political territories or gu...

The Integrative Enclave

NORC Data Enclave

Launched in 2006, the NORC Data Enclave provides a confidential, protected environment within which authorized researchers can access sensitive microdata remotely. While public-use data can be disseminated in a variety of ways, fewer options exist for sharing sensitive microdata that have not been fully de-identified for public use. Some data producers have sufficient economies of scale to deve...