Independent art spaces not only play an important role in exploring frontiers the visual arts but are often also pioneers discovering new artistic territories within cities. Due to their subordinate position field of art, they occupy marginal terms location urban structure and/or physical visibility built environment. Their outside established cores reflects, at same time, weaker economic stand...

To understand the evolution of the European Migration System one has to recognise that European states have again been facing significant changes in political, economic and social conditions over the last 20 years, which have led to a restructuring of their interactions. The collapse of the socialist system at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s was accompanied by the emergence of n...

The political events and global socio-economic reforms carried out by social democrats in the early 20th century, expansion of capital Austria inflow working class caused building a “garden city” with rich infrastructure, parks available comfortable dwelling. skills advanced Austrian architects, ideological meaning together economic forces, spatial concept socialist slogans gave birth to new ar...

Very little information is available regarding psychiatry in North Korea, which is based on the legacy of Soviet psychiatry. This paper reviews the characteristics of psychiatry in former socialist countries and discusses its implications for North Korean psychiatry. Under socialism, psychiatric disorders were attributed primarily to neurophysiologic or neurobiological origins. Psychosocial or ...

M arxists have seldom been noted for much economic sophistication in their critique of the capitalist market economy. Marxist reasoning was essentially easy game for Mises ([I9201 1990) in his classic initiation of what came later to be called "the socialist calculation debate." However, later market socialist contributions to this debate were for a long time believed to have provided the defin...

The article attempts to analyze, within phenomenological optics, the phenomenon of "empty places" in city, which, turn, is understood as a specifically organized space human life. In an interdisciplinary way, at intersection theoretical urban studies, memory studies and political philosophy, relationship between space, place emptiness environment, considered. Based on concepts...

Abstract Between 1949 and 1966, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-led municipal government of Shanghai renamed more than one in seven city's roads. Renaming was an important marker revolutionary change China's largest most foreign-influenced city. Road renaming socialist China has been commonly understood to have extensive. This article argues, however, that nature extent less dramatic assumed....

ohn E. Roemer, a leading socialist economist, has recently proclaimed a “Future for Socialism” (Roemer 1994). His book is advertised as being “measured, highly accessible, and most of all compelling.” I have come to the opposite conclusions. Roemer’s most provocative assertion is his claim to have found “ways of reformulating the concept of market socialism in response to the Hayekian critique”...

Ostrava, which used to be nicknamed the “steel heart of republic”, was an important industrial centre during and after socialism. The city’s official visual presentation itself socialism that a happy life in urban environment where it is already possible catch glimpses glorious future facilitated by industrialization its related transformations everyday landscape. In this paper, I present analy...