Introduction. Heidegger, Novalis, and the Between -- Novalis: The Fertility of the Between -- Fecundity, Proliferation, and Exchange -- Hovering at the Edge: Oscillation, Indeterminacy, and the Between -- Writing the Book of Nature -- The Alchemy of the Word -- Heidegger: The Pain of the Between -- The Darkness of What Is Near -- The Pain of Belonging -- Between Beginnings -- Fragmentation, System, and Silence -- Epilogue.
Manitoba's dropout rate was nearly 3% higher than the national average of 8.5%, at 11.4%; this was the second highest rate among the ten provinces. The Government of Manitoba published the six-year high school graduation rate at 83.2% for the end of the 2017 school year (Government of Manitoba, 2017). This suggests the actual dropout rate may be significantly higher. Literature indicates there are several types of interventions schools can use to help mitigate many of the risk factors for students dropping out. Three common interventions in schools are food programs, mentoring programs, and the development of strong, positive student-teacher relationships. The purpose of this qualitative study is to gain an understanding of the perspectives of high school resource teachers in Manitoba regarding these interventions through one-on-one interviews. The resource teachers who contributed to this study reaffirmed the results of previous literature and the importance of these interventions for the at-risk student population. The results indicate Manitoba high schools have not implemented these interventions formally and/or they are not consistent between high schools. This study demonstrates the need for the implementation of formal food and mentoring programs, as well as policies and training for teachers to encourage the development of positive student-teacher relationships, with the end goal of reducing Manitoba's high school dropout rate. ; May 2021
Includes bibliographical references ; The Aerotropolis is one of many airport led urban development concepts that challenge the way city's have traditionally been planned and managed. In the developed world, airports have evolved from military bases to decentralised and privatised Airport Cities and regionally linked Aerotropoli. On the other hand, although Africa has 12% of the global population and represents 1% of global airfreight and passenger volumes, these figures are expected to increase over time. As South Africa is considered the gateway into Africa, the national led Oliver Reginald Tambo International Airport in Gauteng and the King Shaka International Airport in Ethekweni Durban have recently pursued regional airport approaches. There is substantial scope to apply airport-urban theories to the Cape Town International Airport, which is situated 20km from a sea port, sees the second highest passenger count in South Africa and is set for 11.5 billion Rand in upgrades in the next 5 years. However, the decision to pursue a regional airport approach for the CTIA must be orientated towards the South African context of post-apartheid restructuring and social transformation. This is because the question simultaneously raised is how to stimulate development in the historically segregated South East Metro, with the economic potential of the decentralised and adjacently located CTIA being largely overlooked. The dissertation provides a twenty (20) year regional Spatial Development Framework for the CTIA. Interviews are held with 10 key actors in fields related to airport, urban and business related planning. The literature and findings of the dissertation reveal that firstly, the AeroScape and Airea are more appropriate for conceptualising the retrofitting of an existing airport while the Aerotropolis is best suited as a business model and not a physical form. Secondly, the aviation linked sectors in Cape Town are connected to the City's unexploited comparative advantages in labour absorptive industries such as agri-processing, manufacturing and textiles which can be brought to the doorstep of the CTIA and South East Metro. Lastly, the functionality of these industries provides further opportunity to develop a sustainable closed loop metabolism between the CTIA, Phillipi East Industrial Node and Philippi Horticultural Area.
This paper examines the development of the Saudi cities of Jubail and Yanbu in the aftermath of the 1973 OPEC embargo. Developed as a means of shifting away from pure resource extraction and towards value-added technology sectors, the Saudi government aspired to build up the cities as petrochemical production hubs and investment "growth-poles." It considers the ways in which architecture, landscape, and environment became tools of petro-capital valorization. More specifically, it looks at how the master planning efforts of the construction conglomerate Bechtel and the late modern architectural firm TAC looked towards the quality and composition of the earth as their object of management, study, and design. Such a terrestrial vision of an extractive enterprise would seem to be paradoxical, but the paper ultimately shows how an emergent discourse of ecological systems thinking that legitimated the diffusion of energy and chemicals. This program therefore depended upon a kind of interdisciplinary convergence between architects, engineers, oilmen, scientists, and officials, who collectively manipulated these "natural" resources as the preliminary activity of Jubail and Yanbu's urban administration. These efforts exhibited a scalar flexibility -- from the micrological to the territorial -- that show the labile modalities of extractive activity, as well as a planning regime that adjusted itself to the vagaries of oil's global political economy. The demand to both protect the environment from, and cultivate it with the cities' attendant petrochemical infrastructure demonstrated a melding of technology and nature otherwise overlooked in histories of oil and architecture.
