Beyond Beauty or Urban Design of Responsibility

Beauty beyond Measure

The female body is more than an anatomical form; it has come to represent everything that a woman is. Beauty is both a woman’s being and her worth. In “Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source,” Susan Sontag explores the contradictions and consequences inherent in modern standards of beauty. According to Sontag, beauty’s association with women has caused the depreciation of women, just as women...

Responsibility beyond 60 years.

T his year marks the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. Whatever the historical circumstances at the time, the bombings were tragic experiences for the cities and for the many who sustained severe blast, heat, and radiation injuries. The horrifying consequences prompted efforts to control nuclear arms proliferation, an issue that still rem...

Beyond Bristol: taking responsibility.

Beauty in the Standard Model and Beyond

The study of CP violation in the B system allows us to perform quantitative tests of the CP symmetry in the Standard Model. Many precise measurements of the sides and angles of the Unitarity Triangle used to test the theory are made possible by the abundant experimental data accumulated at the B factories and the Tevatron. I review the Standard Model description of CP violation and the key meas...

Ecological Design of Urban Landscape

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...