Festival cities - culture planning and urban life by Gold, John Robert, Gold, Margaret

“…In this timely and thought-provoking book, John and Margaret Gold provide a reflective and evidence-based historical survey of the processes and actors involved, charting the ways that regular festivals have now become embedded in urban life and city planning. Beginning with David Garrick’s rain-drenched Shakespearean Jubilee and ending with Sydney’s flamboyant Mardi Gras celebrations, it encompasses the emergence and consolidation of city festivals. …”
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The way forward for the origin of life: prions and prion-like molecules first hypothesis by Jheeta, Sohan, Chatzitheodoridis, Elias, Devine, Kevin G., Block, Janice

Subjects: “…570 Life sciences; biology…”
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Triadic interaction in the background of a pairwise spin-glass by Bagherikalhor, M., Askari, B., Jafari, G. R.

“…Developing an equilibrium solution for a pairwise spin-glass with a quenched random infinite range shows a continuous phase transition. …”

Playing Like a Girl by Kollectiv, Galia, Kollectiv, Pil

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Design for the real lifespan: comparing two twentieth-century strategies for social and economic sustainability through life-cycle planning by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…Yet, they share a common departure point, i.e. the belief in planning as the ideal way to administrate scarce resources. …”
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The life project by French, Fiona, Camille, Baker, Raskob, Evan, Rothwell, Nick

“…The Life Project explores issues of psychological projection into technology by diving into the convoluted relationship between practical purpose and emotional attachment, through both the creative act of designing and making robot entities with artificial emotions, and the social act of engaging with them. …”
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Book review : Hate Spin: the manufacture of religious offense and its threat to democracy, by Cherian George by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Book review of: Hate Spin: the manufacture of religious offense and its threat to democracy / by Cherian George…”

Conference planning meeting by London Irish Women's Centre, LIWC

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Daylight and planning in Europe by Brotas, Luisa

“…All the above gave the basis to the definition of guidelines for daylight and urban planning in Europe. Two different set of criteria are presented. …”
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Architecture, festival and order: the history and persistence in the Florentine Feast of San Giovanni and its significance to the city's civic identity by Frost, Christian W.

“…The Feast Day of San Giovanni is still a significant day for Florence. …”
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Knowledge-based reactive planning and re-planning – a case-study approach by Djemai, Ramzi, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim, Dey, Maitreyee

“…Planning for uncertainties arising from indoor evacuations can be complex as there’s a fine balance to strike between a too-detailed plan and one that’s too vague. …”
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Dynamic path planning for indoor evacuation routing: a universal planning framework by Djemai, Ramzi, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim, Dey, Maitreyee

“…This paper introduces a novel reactive planning framework that incorporates real-world knowledge of building topology and planning policies into a knowledge-based planner and an event-driven replanner. …”
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LMU BSRC reflection on Review Conference and its recent works and plans by Lijun, Shang

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Melanocortin receptor-4 mediates the anorectic effect induced by the nucleus tractus solitarius injection of Glucagon-like Peptide-2 in fasted rats by Sun, Huiling, Meng, Kai, Hou, Lin, Shang, Lijun, Yan, Jianqun

Subjects: “…570 Life sciences; biology…”
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The road to Epidaurus is like the road to creation: tapping the urban archive by Beswick, Katie, Hawkins, Harriet, Kohlmaier, Joseph

Planning, history … and the environment? (editorial) by Gold, John Robert, Gold, Margaret

“…We occasionally remind ourselves that Planning Perspectives’ subtitle states that it is 'an international journal of history, planning and the environment'. …”

Photovoltaic panels and planning in the UK by Brotas, Luisa

“…Photovoltaic panels rights in planning are not clearly defined in the UK. There are also no accepted criteria to assess how much is considered an acceptable reduction of solar radiation being enjoyed previously. …”
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Improved goals, action plans, planning ahead and reflection : students’ self-assessment of coaching by Wylde, Allison

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Schopenhauer and Gotama on life's suffering by Ryan, Christopher

“…This chapter defends the view that Arthur Schopenhauer and Siddhattha Gotama were unquestionably pessimistic philosophers, insofar as they converged in locating the source of life’s suffering within the person rather than the external world. …”
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The secret to a good life by Smith, Bob, Smith, Roberta, Patrick, Brill, Jessica, Voorsanger

“…The Secret to a Good Life was commissioned by the Royal Academy (RA) to mark its 250th anniversary. …”
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