From phenomenology to critical theory

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

Part IV PHENOMENOLOGY , HERMENEUTICS , EXISTENTIALISM , AND CRITICAL THEORY

Non-leptonic Decays of Beauty Hadrons – from Phenomenology to Theory

In the last few years considerable progress has been achieved in our understanding of the decays of heavy flavour hadrons. One can now calculate inclusive transition rates in QCD proper through an expansion in inverse powers of the heavy flavour quark mass without recourse to phenomenological assumptions. The non-perturbative contributions are treated systematically in this way; they are found ...

From Phenomenology to Field Theory: Faraday’s Visual Reasoning

Faraday is often described as an experimentalist, but his work is a dialectical interplay of concrete objects, visual images, abstract, theoretically-informed visual models and metaphysical precepts. From phenomena described in terms of patterns formed by lines of force he created a general explanation of space-alling systems of force which obey both empirical laws and principles of conservatio...

Mindfulness from theory to therapy

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy involves, components of Beck cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy provided by Kabat-Zinn and in a therapy group to work with persons with a history of depression and thus vulnerable period later developed.This training of people to broaden their perspective to see maladaptive thoughts, ruminations thought processes and cognitive im...