Communities in both Europe and North America are encouraging the development of cultural amenities as a strategy for improving quality of life, attracting and retaining productive workers, and promoting urban revitalization. If these policies are effective then the presence of cultural amenities should increase the local demand for housing, and the value of cultural amenities should be reflecte...

Background: Associations were analyzed between cultural values/attitudes and psychiatric morbidity/health complaints in different cultures, drawing on data from two independent cross-cultural studies. It was assumed that cross-cultural differences in psychiatric disorders and health complaints could be related to differences in cultural values. Specifically, it was assumed that more traditional...

The main goal of this study consists in building indicators regarding the performance cultural venues city Portimão, Alrgarve region, Portugal, which are inserted a pedestrian route, Accessible Tourist Route Portimão. These Museum venue that expresses local history canning industry, and Tempo Theatre, placed also historic building, where there performances. Both buildings architectural objects ...

The present paper aims for the most part to prove the fact that religious and spiritual places and above all, mosques play major roles within Islamic urban areas. They are in fact the basis of civil infrastructures. A historical analysis focusing on where mosques stand in Islamic urban areas reveals that mosques have always been the center of development and growth and that they must be studied...

This paper argues that the Internet is changing our culture and particularly that of the Net Generation those who are growing up using the Internet. A review of the literature identifies the key values attributed to Internet culture. It is argued that if the Internet is stimulating cultural change this is more likely to occur in younger Internet users. Data from the 10 GVU WWW Survey (Graphic, ...

This article looks at two libraries founded in 1934 as counter-symbols to the Nazi book burning: the German Freedom Library in Paris and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books at the Brooklyn Jewish Center in New York. It describes these two libraries as agents of cultural memory, as privileged sites for redefining German, German-Jewish, and Jewish-American cultural identity in times of radi...

In his article, "Globalization, Pedagogical Imagination, and Transnational Literacy," Ezra Yoo-Hyeok Lee explores the juncture of comparative literature, globalization and postcolonial studies as to how creative writers, literary critics, and cultural theorists respond to globalization and its challenges. Arjun Appadurai expounds that globalization has demanded new research conceptualization an...