The rise and fall of Monica Felton, British town planner and peace activist, 1930s to 1950s

This article reflects growing academic interest in the careers and historical significance of professional women town planners, an interest clearly registered in Planning Perspectives and other publications. Unlike other women town planners, however, the career of Monica Felton remains largely obscure. It was certainly short-lived, beginning as it did on the London County Council in 1937 and ending spectacularly while she was Chairman of Stevenage Development Corporation in 1951. Felton became an outcast from both her profession and her country when she gave up on new town development to campaign against British and American involvement in the Korean War in 1951. This article emphasizes her distinctive contribution to the evolving roles of women in British town planning during the mid-twentieth century and shows how this contribution was obscured by her fall from grace.

Alguns textos teóricos de 1896

Seleção e tradução de alguns textos teóricos de 1896 de Alfred Jarry.

All that fall /Todos os que caem

Este artigo resulta de uma comunicação realizada no âmbito de um Colóquio sobre Samuel Beckett, organizado por Armando Nascimento Rosa, aquando do espectáculo homónimo da Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa, 2006.

The good, the bad and the ugly: The fall and resolution of Banco Espírito Santo

This case study – and accompanying teaching note – briefly describes the history of the Espírito Santo family, a banking dynasty who led one of Portugal’s leading economic and financial groups, along with its “crown jewel”, Banco Espírito Santo. It chronicles how the corporate governance issues at BES allowed the family to exploit the bank, its shareholders and its customers, so as to support its unprofitable non-financial businesses. This left the bank in a poor financial situation, which deteriorated beyond control, leaving regulators – whose actions are also analysed here – with no alternative, amidst a severe liquidity crisis, but to apply a resolution measure, pinning large losses on junior bondholders and shareholders before recapitalising the bank.

The White Cane Magazine, Fall 2013, Vol. 4, no. 3

Quarterly newsletter produced by the Iowa Department of Blind, about the information and activities that are on going in the department.

Ein digitales Kulturobjekt. Der Fall der »Restaurierung« des Ecce homo von Borja

Im August 2012 brachte der Heimatverein von Borja, in Spanien, auf seinem Blog seine »tiefe Betroffenheit« über einen, wie es hieß, »unbeschreiblichen Vorgang« zum Ausdruck: Ein Wandgemälde in der Iglesia del Santuario de la Misericordia war in einer Form restauriert worden, die das ursprüngliche Motiv - den Schmerzensmann - fast unkenntlich machte. Die Affäre ging in kürzester Zeit durch die internationale Presse und durch das Internet. Sie schlug dabei unerwartet hohe Wellen, mit denen sich Hohn und Spott über den in fast allen Kommentaren als »misslungen« bezeichneten Restaurierungsakt ergoss. Im Web 2.0 hingegen gab das dergestalt »restaurierte« Antlitz des Ecce homo Anlass zu einer Vielzahl von Neuinterpretationen, es avancierte zu einem regelrechten Internet-Phänomen, das in der vorliegenden Studie in Hinblick auf den Umgang mit und die Aneignung von Bildern im digitalen Zeitalter untersucht werden soll.