A tale of three cities

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

A Tale of Three Cities : Perceptual Charting for

Heterogeneity of perceptions is a neglected issue in market segmen-tation studies. Only recently parametric approaches toward modeling segmented perception-preference structures such as combined MDS and Latent Class procedures have been introduced. A completely diierent nonparametric method is based on topology-sensitive vector quantization (VQ) for consumers-by-brands-by-attributes data. It ma...

A Tale of Six Cities

ONE OF THE interesting aspects of teaching statistics to students from different disciplines is to observe their differing attitudes to the subject. We are probably all familiar with the mathematician who will calculate a veritable feast of summary statistics with immense (and often inappropriate) accuracy but cannot express in words what any of them actually means. I find the opposite problem ...

Owning memories: a tale of two cities

In 1894 Queen Victoria opened the Salford Docks, now known as Salford Quays, home of MediaCityUK. At the time, Salford Docks were considered a masterpiece of engineering, allowing Manchester to circumvent the route through Liverpool and have access to international trade. The area was an ambitious hub for commerce, industrial activity and job prospects. Although more than 100 years have passed,...

A tale of two stricken cities.