The dialectic of localism and cosmopolitanism,with the opposition between nationalists and cosmopolitans,since independence and perhaps even before,is an element that structured the spiritual life and the literature o...The dialectic of localism and cosmopolitanism,with the opposition between nationalists and cosmopolitans,since independence and perhaps even before,is an element that structured the spiritual life and the literature of a country such as Brazil,as it was pointed out by Antonio Candido.This dialectic in a globalized country which had been transformed by an extremely rapid urbanization,nowadays is perhaps stronger than ever.That could be seen in contemporary literature,on the level of the imaginary but also on the level of the representation of cities such as Manaus in the north of the country(Relato de um certo Oriente,by Milton Hatoum),Recife in the northeast(Estive la fora,by Ronaldo Correia de Brito),or Brasilia in the central west(Cidade Livre,by Joao Almino).Through these three novels,this essay aims to analyze how a few years after the end of the dictatorship,at a time marked by important changes in Brazilian society,the fiction grasps the articulation between local specificities and the“globalized”city.To that extent,the reading of many urban contemporary fictions will build a kind of mosaic of Brazil and its cultural varieties,through the prism of the city.展开更多
Vast amounts of data are produced with the development of smart cities and urban computing technologies.The data is often captured from multiple sensors,with heterogeneous structures and highly decentralized connectio...Vast amounts of data are produced with the development of smart cities and urban computing technologies.The data is often captured from multiple sensors,with heterogeneous structures and highly decentralized connections.Integrated data representation and smart computational models are required for more complex tasks in urban computing.We dwell deeply on two fundamental questions—can we provide an integrated data representation for the whole cyber–physical–social system?And,can we provide an integrated framework to choose the appropriate data for understanding a specific urban event?A holography data representation and the quasi-holography computational model have been proposed to address these problems.We describe case studies using the quasi-holography computational model,and discuss further problems to solve regarding our model.展开更多
文摘The dialectic of localism and cosmopolitanism,with the opposition between nationalists and cosmopolitans,since independence and perhaps even before,is an element that structured the spiritual life and the literature of a country such as Brazil,as it was pointed out by Antonio Candido.This dialectic in a globalized country which had been transformed by an extremely rapid urbanization,nowadays is perhaps stronger than ever.That could be seen in contemporary literature,on the level of the imaginary but also on the level of the representation of cities such as Manaus in the north of the country(Relato de um certo Oriente,by Milton Hatoum),Recife in the northeast(Estive la fora,by Ronaldo Correia de Brito),or Brasilia in the central west(Cidade Livre,by Joao Almino).Through these three novels,this essay aims to analyze how a few years after the end of the dictatorship,at a time marked by important changes in Brazilian society,the fiction grasps the articulation between local specificities and the“globalized”city.To that extent,the reading of many urban contemporary fictions will build a kind of mosaic of Brazil and its cultural varieties,through the prism of the city.
基金This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(2015CB352501,2015CB352500).
文摘Vast amounts of data are produced with the development of smart cities and urban computing technologies.The data is often captured from multiple sensors,with heterogeneous structures and highly decentralized connections.Integrated data representation and smart computational models are required for more complex tasks in urban computing.We dwell deeply on two fundamental questions—can we provide an integrated data representation for the whole cyber–physical–social system?And,can we provide an integrated framework to choose the appropriate data for understanding a specific urban event?A holography data representation and the quasi-holography computational model have been proposed to address these problems.We describe case studies using the quasi-holography computational model,and discuss further problems to solve regarding our model.
