1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454669403321

Autore

Horwitz Robert Britt

Titolo

Communication and democratic reform in South Africa / / Robert B. Horwitz [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12162-0

0-511-01221-7

1-280-43004-4

0-511-17358-X

0-511-15271-X

0-511-32765-X

0-511-51015-2

0-511-04685-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 409 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Communication, society and politics

Disciplina

302.2/0968

Soggetti

Communication policy - South Africa

Democracy - South Africa

South Africa Politics and government 1989-1994

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-393) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Introduction and Overview -- ; 2. The Ancien Regime in the South African Communications Sector -- ; 3. "Sharing Power without Losing Control": Reform Apartheid and the New Politics of Resistance -- ; 4. "Control Will Not Pass to Us": The Reform Process in Broadcasting -- ; 5. "All Shall Call": The Telecommunications Reform Process -- ; 6. Free but "Responsible": The Battle over the Press and the Reform of the South African Communication Service -- ; 7. Conclusion: Black Economic Empowerment and Transformation.

Sommario/riassunto

The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency and the print press from apartheid-aligned apparatuses to accountable



democratic institutions took place via a complex political process in which civil society activism, embodying a post-social democratic ideal, largely won out over the powerful forces of formal market capitalism and older models of state control. In the cautious acceptance of the market, the civil society organizations  sought to use the dynamism of the market while thwarting its inevitable inequities. Forged in the crucible of a difficult transition to democracy, communication reform in South Africa was navigated between the National Party's embrace of the market and the African National Congress leadership's default statist orientation.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482901403321

Autore

Vitruvius Pollio

Titolo

M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem / / Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Gvilielmi Philandri integris ; Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Clavdii Salmasii passim insertis .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amstelodami : , : Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, , 1649

Elsevier B.V., , 2013

ISBN

1-4832-8516-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (579 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

PhilandrierGuillaume <1505-1565.>

SaumaiseClaude <1588-1653.>

BarbaroDaniel <1514-1570.>

WottonHenry, Sir,  <1568-1639.>

BaldiBernardino <1553-1617.>

AlbertiLeon Battista <1404-1472.>

MeibomMarcus <1630-1711.>

AgricolaGeorg <1494-1555.>

MontjosieuLouis de <active 16th century.>

GoldmannNikolaus <1611-1665.>

GauricoPomponio <1481 or 1482-1528.>

LaetJoannes de <1581-1649.>

Disciplina

690

Soggetti

Architecture

Sculpture

Painting

Electronic books.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Gvilielmi Philandri integris ; Danielis Barbari excerptis, & Clavdii Salmasii passim insertis ; Præmittuntur Elementa architectvræ collecta ab Illustri Viro Henrico Wottono Equite Anglo ; Accedunt Lexicon Vitrvvianvm Bernardini Baldi Vrbinatis, Guastellæ Abbatis et ejusdem Scamilli Impares Vitrvviani ; De pictvra libri tres absolutissimi Leonis Baptistæ de Albertis ; De scvlptvra, excerpta maxime animadvertenda ex dialogo Pomponii Gavrici Neapolit ; Lvdovici Demontiosii Commentarivs de scvlptra et pictvra ; Cum variis indicibvs copiosissimis ; Omnia in unum collecta, digesta & illustrata a Ioanne de Laet Antwerpiano.

Added title page (frontispeice) engraved: M. Vitrvvii Pollionis de architectvra libri decem. Amstelodami, apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, Anno MDCXLIX.

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CHAPTER 1. PRINCIPI: CHRISTINÆ -- CHAPTER 2. AD: BENEVOLVM LECTOREM -- PART 1. ELEMENTA ARCHITECTVRÆ -- CHAPTER 3. ELOGIVM AVCTORIS -- CHAPTER 4. PRÆFATIO -- CHAPTER 5. ELEMENTORVM ARCHITECTVRAE -- CHAPTER 6. ELEMENTORVM ARCHITECTVRÆ -- CHAPTER 7. VITRUVII VITA EX IPSO -- CHAPTER 8. DE ARCHITECTVRA -- CHAPTER 9. Quid Fit Architectura, & de Architectis in Fituendis -- CAP II. Exquibus rebus Archoitectura confiet -- CAP III. Departibus Architectur& in privatorum & publicorum &di-ficiorum diftributionibus, & gnomonices & machinationis --

CAP IV. De electione locorum falurium, & qua obfint falubriti, & unde lumina capiantur --CAP V. De fundamentis murorum & turrium -- CAP VI. De divifione operum, qu& intramuros funty, & corum difpofitione ut ventorum noxii flatus vitentur -- CAP VII. De Electione locorum ad ufum communem Civitatis -- CHAPTER 10. DE ARCHITECTVRA -- CAP I. De prifcorum hominum vita, & de initiis humanitatis atque tectorum, & incrementis eorum -- CAP II. De Principiis rerum, feundum Philofophorum opiniones -- CAP III. De lateribus ex qua terra, quo tempore & qua forma eos duci oporteat -- CAP IV. De arena & ejus generibus --

CAP V. De Calce, & unde coquatur optima -- CAP VI. De pulvere Tuteolano, & ejus ufu -- CAP VII. De lapicidinis, earumque qualitatibus -- CAP VIII. De generibus ftructure & earum qualìtatibus, modis ac locis -- CAP IX. Demateriacodenda, & de arborum quarumdam proprietatibus -- CAP X. De Abiete ftpernate & inferriate, cum Apennini defiriptione -- CHAPTER 10. DE ARCHITECTVRA -- CAP I. De Sacrarum adium compofitione & Sjmmetris, & corporis humani menfura -- CAP II. De quinque adium fpeciebus -- CAP III. De frndationibus & columnis, atque erum ornatu & epiftyliis, tam in locis folidis quam congeftitiis --

CHAPTER 11. DE ARCHITECTVRA -- CAP I. Detribus generihus columnarum, earumque origine & inventione -- CAP II. De ornamentis columnarum -- CAP III. De ratione dorica -- CAP IV. De interiore cellarum & pronai dìftrihution -- CAP V. Deadibus conftituendis fecundum regiones -- CAP VI. De oftiorum & antepagmentorum facrarum adium rationibus -- CAP VII. De Tufcanis rationibus adium facrarum -- CAP VIII. De aris Deorum ordinandis -- CHAPTER 12. DE ARCHITECTVRA -- CAP I. De Foro, ejufque difpofitione -- CAP II. Dearario, carcere, & curia ordinandis -- CAP III. De Theatro ejufque falubri conflitutione --



CAP IV. De Harmonia fecundum Ariftoxenitradìtionem -- CAP V. De Theatri vafis -- CAP VI. De conjormatione Theatri facienda -- CAP VII. Detecto porticus Theatri -- CAP VIII. De tribus Scenarum generibus -- CAP IX. De porticibus post scenam, & ambulationibus -- ACP X. De Balnearum di fpofitionibus & partibus -- CAP XI. De Palaftrarum adificatione & Xyftis -- CAP XII. De portubus & ftructuris in aqua faciendis -- CHAPTER 13. DE ARCHITECTVRA -- CAP I. De diverfis regionum qualitatibus & variis cæli afpectibus, fecundurn quos funt adtficia difponenda -- CAP II. De adificiorum privatorum proportionibus & menfuris -- CAP III. De cavis adium.

Sommario/riassunto

De architectura