In the modern consciousness, they keep “classical” historicity and eschatology taking form of post-historicity post-apocalypticism. Such a state can be recorded in models consideration historical process expectation end history, both works authors at level “everyday” practices that use exploit history figure Apocalypse. It is worth noting expectations Apocalypse are no longer so tragic, built l...

In understanding change, history provides the only study material available. A standard challenge in urban research is, however, to overcome more or less trivial empiric renderings in favour of theoretically based conceptualisations. In the following, some effort is made to employ concepts that would encompass spatial as well as social processes, and address current problems of urban developmen...

Ð The introduction of the Washington Consensus involved not simply a swing from state-led to market-oriented policies, but also a shift in the ways in which development problems were framed and in the types of explanation through which policies were justi®ed. Key changes were the partial globalization of development policy analysis, and a shift from historicism to ahistorical performance assess...

This presentation considers the nature of classification and the challenges that bibliographical faces in the digital age both in library practice and in information retrieval theory. It considers fundamental questions such as “how do establish that A is a kind of X?” and “how do we distinguish good from bad classifications?” The new trend of evidence based practice (EBP) is seen as an argument...

Between 1919 and 1939, the conservation of architectural heritage in Spain underwent a radical transformation, which it went from maintaining theoretical principles practice based on romantic historicism, to developing innovative concepts scientific restoration, coinciding with international trends that inspired Charter Athens.
 In these twenty years, an alternative historicist restoration...