While a safe systems approach has long been acknowledged as the underlying philosophy of contemporary road safety strategies, systemic applications are sparse.
The area within the city that has undergone the most significant historical superimposition is that of the contemporary road, Via dei Fori Imperiali.
Arguably Daniel Defoe's linear routes around portions of Britain in his 1720s Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain were literary equivalents of contemporary road maps, but they were ultimately designed to be pieced together into a panoramic overview of the newly formed nation.
Though much of the culture is contemporary — a road came through town about 20 years ago, and there are modern conveniences like electricity, television and packaged hot dogs — virtually everyone in town is Mayan, and Spanish is spoken by only a few people.
Supplementary, detailed LiDAR data were used to detect features of the past cultural landscape, and to determine the interference in that due to contemporary logging roads.
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Wheeler retraces significant parts of these journeys herself, usually alone, once in the company of her two sons and husband, providing a contemporary counterpoint in road trips to the earlier women's journeys by carriage, steamboat, train and horseback.
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Having won the Orange prize in 2008 for her contemporary novel The Road Home, Rose Tremain returns to historical fiction, and to the narrator of 1989's Restoration, in Merivel: A Man of His Time.
Will Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights (her third feature after the realistic contemporary dramas Red Road and Fish Tank) and Cary Joji Fukunaga's Jane Eyre (his second movie after his impressive debut with Sin Nombre, a harrowing account of the experiences of Hispanic emigrants heading for the States) take their place alongside Wyler and Stevenson's monochrome classics of seven decades ago?
