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  2. Metaphoric architecture - Wikipedia

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    Metaphoric architecture is an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the mid-20th century. [1]It is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism whilst others consider it to be a school in its own right and a later development of expressionist architecture.

  3. List of Googie architecture structures (United States)

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    A number of postwar motels in New Jersey, including a cluster in The Wildwoods, have been recognized as high-style Moderne architecture, and some or all of these have been termed Doo-Wop and/or Googie in style. A number of these were studied in a National Register of Historic Places 2001 architectural survey. [23]

  4. Urban morphology - Wikipedia

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    Space syntax axial map of Brasilia, showing the most integrated (red) to most segregated (blue) streets in the city network. Urban morphology is not generally object-centred, in that it emphasises the relationships between components of the city. To make a parallel with linguistics, the focus is placed on an active vocabulary and its syntax.

  5. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]

  6. Functionalism (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The former Czechoslovakia was an early adopter of the functionalist style, with notable examples such as Villa Tugendhat in Brno, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, Villa Müller in Prague, designed by Adolf Loos in 1930, and the majority of the city of Zlín, developed by the Bata shoe company as a factory town in the 1920s [5] and ...

  7. How Cities Are Using Nature-Based Solutions to Tackle Floods

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    Finding the space to implement nature-based solutions is always going to be an issue in a big city, and may cause inconveniences like the removal of parking spaces to make room, says Alday. But ...

  8. Family as a model for the state - Wikipedia

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    He says, for example: "the government of a household is a monarchy, since every house is governed by a single ruler."(2)/ "The rule of a household is a monarchy, for every house is under one head" [2] Later in the same text, he says that husbands exercise a republican government over their wives and monarchical government over their children ...

  9. Los Angeles fires: NFL moves Vikings-Rams wild-card game to ...

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    The NFC wild-card game between the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings is being moved to Arizona, the NFL announced Thursday. The game remains scheduled for Monday at 5 p.m. PT, but will now be ...