Suchergebnisse

Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto's Regent Park has experienced common large-scale public housing problems. Instead of simply tearing down old buildings and scattering inhabitants, the city's housing authority came up with a plan for radical transformation. In partnership with a private developer, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation organized a twenty-year, billion-dollar makeover. The reconstituted neighbourhood, one of the most diverse in the world, will offer a new mix of amenities and social services intended to'reknit the urban fabric.'Regent Park Redux, based on a ten-year study of 52 households as they moved through stages of displacement and resettlement, examines the dreams and hopes residents have for their community and their future. Urban planners and designers across the world, in cities facing some of the same challenges as Toronto, will want to pay attention to this story.

This service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran C. C. Dunwoody (1846- ), dated from 1913. ; 1 leaf ; 2 pdf pages ; All descriptive lists and service records in this United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans manuscript collection believed to be based out of Robert E. Lee Camp #158 of the United Confederate Veterans (Fort Worth, Tex.). United Confederate Veterans. R.E. Lee Camp No. 158 (Fort Worth, Tex.) ; The Southwest Collection Manuscript Record can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00119/tsw-00119.html

"This book, now in is second edition, is the premier resource to learn SYCL 2020 and is the ONLY book you need to become part of this community." Erik Lindahl, GROMACS and Stockholm University Learn how to accelerate C++ programs using data parallelism and SYCL. This open access book enables C++ programmers to be at the forefront of this exciting and important development that is helping to push computing to new levels. This updated second edition is full of practical advice, detailed explanations, and code examples to illustrate key topics. SYCL enables access to parallel resources in modern accelerated heterogeneous systems. Now, a single C++ application can use any combination of devices–including GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs–that are suitable to the problems at hand. This book teaches data-parallel programming using C++ with SYCL and walks through everything needed to program accelerated systems. The book begins by introducing data parallelism and foundational topics for effective use of SYCL. Later chapters cover advanced topics, including error handling, hardware-specific programming, communication and synchronization, and memory model considerations. All source code for the examples used in this book is freely available on GitHub. The examples are written in modern SYCL and are regularly updated to ensure compatibility with multiple compilers. What You Will Learn Accelerate C++ programs using data-parallel programming Use SYCL and C++ compilers that support SYCL Write portable code for accelerators that is vendor and device agnostic Optimize code to improve performance for specific accelerators Be poised to benefit as new accelerators appear from many vendors Who This Book Is For New data-parallel programming and computer programmers interested in data-parallel programming using C++ This is an open access book.

Adam Smith is unanimously described as the founding father of modem economics. His An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations published in 1776, is justly proclaimed as the inaugural work on classic political economy. However, many people also consider him to be the emblematic author of the theory of liberal economy or economic libera¬ lism. Yet, while Smith is undeniably a liberal thinker, his liberalism is far from the standpoints defended by certain con¬ temporary sectarians of economic liberalism. He defends a relatively tempered in fine concept of liberalism, putting the market at the centre of his analyses, and yet not excluding either obstacles to free trade in certain cases or State intervention to ensure justice and social well-being.

Adam Smith's lectures present a bleak theory of history in which the innate human "love of domination" results in the perpetuation of increasingly repressive slave societies. This theory challenges common conceptions about the philosophical and historical foundations of Smith's thought, and accounting for it requires moving beyond traditional dichotomies between an "economic" sphere grounded on asocial wants and a "political" sphere grounded on sociability. For Smith, under the influence of earlier thinkers like La Rochefoucauld, Mandeville, and Rousseau, all human behavior is rooted in our esteem-seeking social nature, and the dominant form of esteem-seeking is a "corrupt" one based on external superiority. Understanding these foundations explains why Smith views both European commercial society and its central motive of economic self-interest as historically contingent, the product of a long series of unintended historical consequences.

Abstract:Adam Smith has long been celebrated as a polymath, and his wide interests in and contributions to each of the discrete component fields of PPE have long been appreciated. Yet Smith deserves the attention of practitioners of PPE today not simply for his substantive insights, but for the ways in which his inquiries into these different fields were connected. Smith's inquiry was distinguished by a synthetic approach to knowledge generation, and specifically to generating knowledge with applications exportable to other fields. Further, Smith's investigations of various areas of study led him to recognize patterns in and across these fields, and his sensitivity to such patterns helped guide his inquiry and render it a connected enterprise. This paper examines several of Smith's discrete inquiries in the history of astronomy, language, moral philosophy, and political economy, to show how he employed the techniques of pattern detection that he practiced in each of these inquiries to the task of generating new insights into new fields of inquiry. In so doing, Smith not only distinguished himself as an early practitioner of what we today identify with PPE, but he also provides a useful point of reference for those doing PPE today.

Auf der Basis bislang wenig beachteter soziologischer Schriften wird die Frage der Struktur des Staates und der Gesellschaft bei Adam Smith untersucht. Smiths Politik der unsichtbaren Hand setzte die Existenz einer Gesellschaft voraus, die zwar nicht gewaltausübend, jedoch in keiner Weise frei von Autorität war. Die Sicherung der wirtschaftlichen Klassenherrschaft ohne Rückgriff auf offene Gewaltausübung durch einen Apparat wird nicht durch einen betrügerischen Kontrakt (Rousseau), sondern durch die freiwillige Unterwerfung der Armen, durch ihre Anerkennung des Wohlstands als Autorität ermöglicht. Die soziale Basis dieser Unterwerfung wird herausgearbeitet. (ICEÜbers)

Resumen: En el presente trabajo nos proponemos reconstruir el problema que interpretamos guía la obra de Adam Smith: la pregunta por la viabilidad histórica de la sociedad moderna. Para tal fin, procuramos argumentar: 1) que tanto La teoría de los sentimientos morales como La riqueza de las naciones ponen de relieve que el pleno despliegue del comercio es a la vez necesario y problemático, hasta gravemente peligroso, como fundamento de la nueva sociedad; 2) que ambas obras apuntan a argumentar, desde ángulos complementarios, en qué sentido y bajo qué condiciones la sociedad moderna es viable. Si de suyo es de interés comprobar que Smith había reflexionado sobre tal problema, aún más relevante es la solución misma en la que trabajó a lo largo de toda su carrera, sin alcanzarla: el desarrollo de un fundamento científico y filosófico para una teoría de la jurisprudencia moderna que posibilite la gestación y maduración de una sociedad bien gobernada. ; Abstract: In this paper we aim to address the problem that we interpret as guiding Adam Smith´s work: the question of the historical viability of modern society. To this end, we seek to argue: 1) that both The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations show that the full deployment of trade is both necessary and problematic, even seriously dangerous, as the foundation of the new society; 2) that both works discuss, from complementary angles, in what sense and under what conditions modern society is viable. If it is of interest to note that Smith reflected on such a problem, even more relevant is the very solution on which he worked throughout his career, without reaching it: the development of a scientific and philosophical foundation for a theory of modern jurisprudence that would make possible the conception and progress of a well-governed society.