Without active efforts to prioritize shared, public, and active mobility, the introduction of automated modes for transporting both humans and goods in an already contested public realm could mean a reversion to Modernist practices of privileging speed, efficiency, and function over human-scale interactions and serendipity.
Iraq's Sunni and Shia populations contested the realms of power and engaged in a civil war during 2006 and 2007: the Shias emerged victorious, asserting their position as the primary force in the new Iraq as more than 90,000 Iraqis perished in post-conflict violence, compounded by the ascendancy of al-Qaida in Iraq, as well as a proxy war between Iran and the US.
In this way, the site of struggle slips from one dimension to another, from the realm of contested facts to the realm of contested interpretations.
Her current project, Paying for the Public Life, focuses on written and built work by architect Charles W. Moore and his contemporaries, and examines the ways American architects negotiated a contested postwar public realm in creating an architecture and urbanism responsive to contemporary society.
Through these stories and others, Sahota moves some of the most urgent political questions of the day away from rhetorical posturing and contested statistics into the realm of humanity.
Independence has been a contested issue in Scotland since the region was first invaded by England in 1707, and the realm continues to linger between regional status and full sovereignty.
In the Greco-Roman world, where fatalistic belief was strong and where it found a popular expression in astrology, the belief that the whole world, but particularly the human realm, is governed by the stars was contested by Judaism and Christianity.
Representation, on and off the canvas, remains a key realm where visibility and influence are actively contested.
Flattery in the form of imitative inspiration enters all too quickly the realm of offensiveness when blanket ownership assumptions (contested beads and feathers) are made against it - especially when it involves big bucks.
