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Transnationalism and the German City, 2014
Written in the West is the title of the German film director Wim Wenders’s catalog of photographs... more Written in the West is the title of the German film director Wim Wenders’s catalog of photographs exhibited at the Parisian Centre Pompidou in 1986. The catalog contains striking images of cities and landscapes taken throughout California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. It closes with an image of “The Devil’s Graveyard,” taken in Big Bend, Texas, which is the location of the opening sequences in Wenders’s remarkable film Paris, Texas (1984). In the accompanying catalog interview with the French critic Alain Bergala, Wenders speaks eloquently about the meaningful relationship between photography, exploration, and travel: “Photography makes it possible to comprehend a place right away…. Both the familiar and the unfamiliar are, for me, excluded by photography: it’s an instrument of exploration, it belongs essentially to travel, practically like a car or a plane. The photo camera makes arrival in a place possible.”1 The histories of photography and the “discovery” of the American West through the lenses of explorers, photographers, and cinematog-raphers are closely connected. As in Wenders’s Written in the West, another catalog titled Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan discusses O’Sullivan’s nineteenth-century images of the American West as a “foundation of our understanding of the landscapes of the West”; photographs that create the “immediate impression of a landscape in turmoil.”2 These images depict a landscape that had suffered cataclysmic events. Importantly, rather than striving toward representations of the sublime, a not uncommon trope in early representations of the West, O’Sullivan was “interested in emptiness, in apparently negative landscapes, in the barest, least hospitable ground….
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](Olympic Sculpture Park—Seattle, WA Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism When the Seattl... more Olympic Sculpture Park—Seattle, WA Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism When the Seattle Art Museum decided to build a down- town sculpture park in 1996, its plans could be described only as extraordinarily ambitious. The site chosen was an 8.5-acre industrial brownfield incorporating a drop of more than forty feet from street level to the waterfront, sliced into three by active railroad tracks and an arterial road. Yet, in addition to restoring public access to the city’s waterfront across this site and establishing it as a pleasant setting for large works of art, the museum imag- ined bringing it back as a functioning ecosystem. This not only meant dealing with a sixty-year history of contamina- Above: The Olympic Sculpture Park on opening day, view from the north. Opposite left: Before construction, the waterfront site included three parcels of land divided by an arterial street and a rail line and dropping forty feet from street level to sea level. Opposite right: The ...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
In this paper, we present a new algorithm for alignment and haplogroup estimation of mitochondria... more In this paper, we present a new algorithm for alignment and haplogroup estimation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences. Based on 26,011 vetted full mitogenome sequences, we refined the 5435 original haplogroup motifs of Phylotree Build 17 without changing the haplogroup nomenclature. We adapted 430 motifs (about 8%) and added 966 motifs for yet undetermined subclades. In summary, this led to an 18% increase of haplogroup defining motifs for full mitogenomes and a 30% increase for the mtDNA control region that is of interest for a variety of scientific disciplines, such as medical, population and forensic genetics. The new algorithm is implemented in the EMPOP mtDNA database and is freely accessible.
Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 2012
Die Brache als Chance, 2003
178 N. Huber Zusammenfassung Das gleichzeitige Brachfallen und Entstehen städtischer Gebiete wird... more 178 N. Huber Zusammenfassung Das gleichzeitige Brachfallen und Entstehen städtischer Gebiete wird sowohl im deutschen wie im amerikanischen Diskurs kontrovers verhandelt: als Prozesse neuer Re-oder Dezentralisierung (» Europäische Stadt «,» New Urbanism «versus» ...
Transnationalism and the German City, 2014
Journal of Urban History, 2005
Based onthe conceptof cognitive mapping,the article addresses the issues of the production,repres... more Based onthe conceptof cognitive mapping,the article addresses the issues of the production,representation, and conceptualization of space. Focusing on emerging concepts of urban space in turn-of-the-century and Weimar Berlin as developed by the sociologist ...
Transnationalism and the German City, 2014
Written in the West is the title of the German film director Wim Wenders’s catalog of photographs... more Written in the West is the title of the German film director Wim Wenders’s catalog of photographs exhibited at the Parisian Centre Pompidou in 1986. The catalog contains striking images of cities and landscapes taken throughout California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. It closes with an image of “The Devil’s Graveyard,” taken in Big Bend, Texas, which is the location of the opening sequences in Wenders’s remarkable film Paris, Texas (1984). In the accompanying catalog interview with the French critic Alain Bergala, Wenders speaks eloquently about the meaningful relationship between photography, exploration, and travel: “Photography makes it possible to comprehend a place right away…. Both the familiar and the unfamiliar are, for me, excluded by photography: it’s an instrument of exploration, it belongs essentially to travel, practically like a car or a plane. The photo camera makes arrival in a place possible.”1 The histories of photography and the “discovery” of the American West through the lenses of explorers, photographers, and cinematog-raphers are closely connected. As in Wenders’s Written in the West, another catalog titled Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O’Sullivan discusses O’Sullivan’s nineteenth-century images of the American West as a “foundation of our understanding of the landscapes of the West”; photographs that create the “immediate impression of a landscape in turmoil.”2 These images depict a landscape that had suffered cataclysmic events. Importantly, rather than striving toward representations of the sublime, a not uncommon trope in early representations of the West, O’Sullivan was “interested in emptiness, in apparently negative landscapes, in the barest, least hospitable ground….
Olympic Sculpture Park—Seattle, WA Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism When the Seattl... more Olympic Sculpture Park—Seattle, WA Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism When the Seattle Art Museum decided to build a down- town sculpture park in 1996, its plans could be described only as extraordinarily ambitious. The site chosen was an 8.5-acre industrial brownfield incorporating a drop of more than forty feet from street level to the waterfront, sliced into three by active railroad tracks and an arterial road. Yet, in addition to restoring public access to the city’s waterfront across this site and establishing it as a pleasant setting for large works of art, the museum imag- ined bringing it back as a functioning ecosystem. This not only meant dealing with a sixty-year history of contamina- Above: The Olympic Sculpture Park on opening day, view from the north. Opposite left: Before construction, the waterfront site included three parcels of land divided by an arterial street and a rail line and dropping forty feet from street level to sea level. Opposite right: The ...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
In this paper, we present a new algorithm for alignment and haplogroup estimation of mitochondria... more In this paper, we present a new algorithm for alignment and haplogroup estimation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences. Based on 26,011 vetted full mitogenome sequences, we refined the 5435 original haplogroup motifs of Phylotree Build 17 without changing the haplogroup nomenclature. We adapted 430 motifs (about 8%) and added 966 motifs for yet undetermined subclades. In summary, this led to an 18% increase of haplogroup defining motifs for full mitogenomes and a 30% increase for the mtDNA control region that is of interest for a variety of scientific disciplines, such as medical, population and forensic genetics. The new algorithm is implemented in the EMPOP mtDNA database and is freely accessible.
Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 2012
Die Brache als Chance, 2003
178 N. Huber Zusammenfassung Das gleichzeitige Brachfallen und Entstehen städtischer Gebiete wird... more 178 N. Huber Zusammenfassung Das gleichzeitige Brachfallen und Entstehen städtischer Gebiete wird sowohl im deutschen wie im amerikanischen Diskurs kontrovers verhandelt: als Prozesse neuer Re-oder Dezentralisierung (» Europäische Stadt «,» New Urbanism «versus» ...
Transnationalism and the German City, 2014
Journal of Urban History, 2005
Based onthe conceptof cognitive mapping,the article addresses the issues of the production,repres... more Based onthe conceptof cognitive mapping,the article addresses the issues of the production,representation, and conceptualization of space. Focusing on emerging concepts of urban space in turn-of-the-century and Weimar Berlin as developed by the sociologist ...