Abstract
This paper compares and contrast the English Archigram movement and the Japanese Metabolist group. It explains how these English Archigram movement embraced pop culture and high tech innovation and designed imaginary cities of the future where buildings walk and cities move. The author explores how the Metabolist group incorporated traditional Japanese architectural ideas into the Modernist idiom.

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"According to the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture an architect is a person capable of preparing the plans elevations and sections of a design of a sophisticated building with an aesthetic content and to supervise its construction ..."

Tags:Archigram

Metabolist, Japanese

Modernism

Abstract
This paper discusses Archigram, the 1960's innovative British architecture group that spawned futuristic and idealistic architectural drawings that redefined the concept of livable space. The paper's main focus is on one of their projects, the Walking City by Ron Herron. The paper addresses the concept of individual choice and the effects of mobility as factors in urbanism.

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"Archigram was a collective of six young renegade British architects; Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb, who sought to turn the established notion of architecture as something permanent, static and enduring on its ear (Wolfe). Their name, Archigram, was derived from a publication they produced called the Architectural Telegram. Coming into 1960s pop culture at the same time as the Beatles, they have been recognized as the Beatles of architecture."

Tags:The Walking City, Ron Herron, Archigram, British, architecture, architects, futuristic, Beatles, mobility

Abstract
This paper discusses the systems theory as understood and expressed in comparative architectural design history. It offers the theories of the Archigram in the West and the Metabolism Movement in Japan to qualify the author's discussion.

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"The objective of systems thinking is a methodology to solve problems. It follows two basic premises first that reality is regarded in terms of wholes. Gestalten' and that the environment is an ..."

Tags:Archigram, Metabolist, architecture, systems thinking, obsolete, technological focus

Abstract
This paper discusses the isolation and estrangement of modern man in society in terms of philosophy and architecture. It employs the concepts of architecture of Rem Koolhaas, the sixties architectural group Archigram, deep ecologist Arne Naess, author John Berger and phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty in order to qualify the author's ideas and reasoning.

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"Modern society is in many ways an adverse environment for people to live in. Myriad factors assaulting the integration of man into society have resulted in isolation and estrangement leaving man lonely-an island ..."

Tags:isolation, estrangement, Archigram, generic city, walking city, deep ecology, wounded cities, Rem Koolhaas, Arne Naess, Ron Herron, John Berger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology

Abstract
This paper discusses the progression from estrangement to event in Archigram member Ron Herron's, Walking City and architect Rem Koolhaas', Generic City. Postmodernism and existentialism are explored as the basis for the detachment these architectural concepts illustrate. The paper includes photographic representation.

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"From estrangement to event Archigram's, Walking City and Rem Koolhaas's, Generic City are conceptual models of modern society's transition from estrangement to event. In the evolution of modern thought the progression from estrangement to event has been ..."

Tags:estrangement, event, koolhaas, archigram, walking city, generic city, postmodernism, existentialism

Abstract
Terrorists' tactics may have changed throughout history, but their main goal has not; inflicting terror on a society to accomplish an end goal. This paper takes a brief look at four terrorist organizations. The groups discussed are: Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) which operates mainly in Uganda; the Japanese Red Army (JRA); the Black Star group, an anti-American, anti-establishment and anti-capitalist located in Greece and, finally, the Italian Red Brigades-Combatant Communist Party (BR-PCC).

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"For law enforcement to prevail in these instances, knowing the terrorists is a vital tool in fighting them. The main goal of law enforcement is to apprehend, and stop these acts of terrorism from reoccurring before they strike again. One way this can be accomplished is through good intelligence. The best way to break up an organization is by knowing their next move. Information is the key. Analyzing their tactics, their common methods of terror, and who their members are, can lead to a collection of valuable information."

Tags:combatant, resistance, terror, 911

Abstract
This paper discusses the building materials in Japanese architecture, including the use of wood and the Metabolists. The paper explains how the Japanese cultural expression is found in its architecture and choice of materials.

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"Japan is an ancient society with a unique culture and history and a distinctly Japanese architectural style. In general, architectural styles and specifically the building materials used in a country region or a culture's man made structures reflect available materials. In Italy and ancient Greece, for example, the presence of vast caches of marble and limestone led to the development of temples, civic structures and private residences made of these substances. In Japan, wood was used extensively in the..."

Tags:architecture, Japan, castles, Metabolists

Abstract
Thematic paper explaining the genesis of Iraqi and Lebanese nationalisms and modern states in post-World War I terms of the Treaty of Sevres that assigned responsibility for ex-Ottoman territories, 1920-1932. Much to transpire in both countries owed to British policies in Iraq and French policies in Lebanon that served to deeply disturb ethnic and religious politics. Various references.

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Explaining Iraqi & Lebanese Nationalisms. Introduction This paper examines the rise of nationalism and nation-station formation in 20^th century Iraq in relation to counterpart developments in Lebanon, of the same century, the power of foreign and European influence very plain as the stimulus for nationalist ideologies that could move beyond both territories' significant religious and cultural fissures. One sees the power of British and French influence in truncating what could be called `natural' determination towards what have proven ongoing complications in an uncertain, turbulent Middle East region that continues

Tags:sevres, br iraq, fr lebanon

Abstract
This paper introduces Susan McCaslin's poem in the light of her well known mystical interests that some see as typical of much literature from British Columbia. The paper provides a discussion of BC's unique historical culture shaped by mountains and the Pacific coast, by no means a cultural backwater, as ideas arrived from Pacific USA as well as Britain. The paper addresses the philanthropy that promoted public libraries, the sponsorship of the arts, and private presses. The paper shows how McCaslin's poem is brief but presents themes popular in BC which is known as a cultural world apart.

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"Susan McCaslin is a poet, academic and instructor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Douglas College, Coquitlam and lives in Langley, British Columbia. McCaslin studied at Simon Fraser University from the late 1960s and completed her doctorate at the University of British Columbia. McCaslin's poem "Just an Ordinary Woman" is typical of much work she has produced that stresses the human condition in mystical terms that often refer to Christian allegories. The poem is an excellent starting place..."

Tags:mccaslin, br columbia, mystical lit