“From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.” UseLawSpacePlansStreetsDevelopmentMovedSouthOpeningBlockReformPreservesDesignerGermanyPlasticContinuityBerlinOpening UpTheoristsHollandAmsterdamTenementsPerimeter Author:Kenneth Frampton
“The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.” LittlesCultureTermEconomyChangedDevelopmentLaborSouthFolksTraditionalClingingIndustrializationModernizationMechanizationUrbanizationAntebellum Author:C. Vann Woodward
“There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.” KnowsCountryBigsAmericaNationsCommunityDevelopmentOceanSouthWaveIndianIslandsMexicoCoastSurfingPacificSouth AmericaBali Author:William Finnegan
“There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.” PeopleTechnologyExampleDevelopmentSouthAdmireKoreaSingaporeSouth Korea Author:Paul Kagame
“I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBigsCoursesGrowthEconomyDevelopmentSkillsCapacitySouthBoardsSouth AfricaConstraintsPrivate SectorShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki
“We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access a certain part, 5% was mentioned, of the funds in the hands of the institutional investors, domestically, for investment in the real economy. That being an agreement of the Growth and Development Summit, we will engage South African business to see how we can make that a practical thing. So, there is a different set of engagement with local business.” ShouldDifferentRealMatterHandsCertainGrowthEconomyDevelopmentInvestmentSouthRaisedAccessPracticalsLocalsAgreementFundInvestorsEngagementSouth AfricaSummitPractical ThingsLocal Business Author:Thabo Mbeki
“If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.” IfsLooksDoeSituationDevelopmentDemocraticSouthIranExcessAccusedZealUnstable Author:Garry Kasparov
“The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.” IfsWayLooksLongHas BeensCountrySocialLeaderDevelopmentHigherAreasIndiaSouthEducationalPrimariesContrastAsiaAsianNeglectedHigher EducationOdditiesSouth AsiaPrimary Education Author:Amartya Sen
“Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.” Has BeensEconomicDevelopmentSouthEducationalDrivenFactorsMiserableDramaticExpansionAsiaEconomic DevelopmentThailandSouth Asia Author:Amartya Sen
“Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.” ThinkingWellsStatesReasonWholeGovernmentMightWould BeForceSocialUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulClearEconomicDevelopmentIndependentSouthBeing SuccessfulInternalsRegionsVietnamBrutalDocumentsEconomic DevelopmentTakeovers Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.” ThinkingFeelsCultureChristDealsPersonalityDevelopmentElementsCatholicSouthNovelistsProphetDepartmentSociologyEmbarrassmentShoutingKinshipBackwoods Author:Flannery O'Connor
“Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.” YearsChildrenCountryGovernmentJesusNationsUnitedRichDevelopmentTaxesSouthWaveAidsDisasterReliefFundUnited NationsEarthquakesFamineOrganisationCharitableAdventurerRich CountriesTidal WavesOxfamDevelopment AidDisaster Relief Author:James Buchan