From Slum to Village: A Semiotic Analysis in Reimaging Urban Space

The transformation of inner city spaces has been dominated by explanations stressing political economy factors such as rent gap and cultural factors such as urban amenities. This paper takes a different approach in that it uses the tools of urban semiotics to show how the representations of space in a downtown location of protracted decline in the Canadian city of Calgary are transformed discursively and experientially to produce a different image for a different social class. What made this reimaging of space so critical was the fact that the displacement of the existing population was rejected which called for a powerful and aggressive semiotic reinterpretation of the area. The semiotic strategies are discussed in relation to the material changes which reveal the contradictions and dilemmas in attempting to create a mixed class community through revitalizing imagery rather than merely redevelopment

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 2

• The Swiss Bank House in Pennsylvania • Trance-Preaching in the United States • The Sleeping Preachers: An Historical Study of the Role of Charisma in Amish Society • A Central Chimney Continental Log House • The German Journalist and the Dunker Love-Feast • Christmas Customs: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 10https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/1034/thumbnail.jp

Quantum Pieri rules for isotropic Grassmannians

We study the three point genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants on the Grassmannians which parametrize non-maximal isotropic subspaces in a vector space equipped with a nondegenerate symmetric or skew-symmetric form. We establish Pieri rules for the classical cohomology and the small quantum cohomology ring of these varieties, which give a combinatorial formula for the product of any Schubert class with certain special Schubert classes. We also give presentations of these rings, with integer coefficients, in terms of special Schubert class generators and relations.Comment: 59 pages, LaTeX, 6 figure