This paper examines the relationship between the Revue Olympique (monthly publication that first appeared in 1901), the Modern Olympic Movement and modern culture. Specifically, it demonstrates that the Revue Olympique provided a link between the ideology of the Modern Olympic Movement and the discourse of modernism. According to Art Herman (1994), modernism specifies a series of suppositions t...

eorge Eliot’s legacy for modernism is worth considering on multiple grounds but especially in the context of religious belief and its influence on social morality. The comments of two early twentieth-century writers are suggestive of the mixed nature of her legacy. On the one hand, novelist Virginia Woolf (among the most strident critics of Victorian culture) famously said of Middle-march (1872...

The paper reviews the relationship between spatial and transportation planning in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region of Sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that most urbanisation in the region has largely occurred subsequent to the 1950s and, accordingly, urban development has been profoundly and negatively affected by the (misguided) spatial and institutional tenets of modernis...