The inventive design vocabulary includes amphitheater-style seating oriented around the sunken plaza/pool basin (filled with water during the summer or frozen in winter for skating), cascading and spraying fountains to animate the space, lawn terraces, many sculptural objects, and ample opportunities for large- and small-scale gatherings.
Commemorations also took place in Istanbul, but on a far smaller scale, gathering a few hundred people.
As one of the opportunivores told me, with a baby girl on her knee: "Ideally, I think, I'd want to live in a tribal community, land based, bioregionally oriented, with elders and children all taking care of each other, and a blending of hunting and gathering and small-scale agriculture….The village, that's what I want for her, the village".
The program encourages block parties, small park gatherings, and other small-scale social events where the focus is on being, well, neighborly.
The Chinese Communist Party would far rather be faced with tens or even hundreds of thousands of separate small-scale incidents than one unified and momentum-gathering insurgency.
In this small-scale study, practical constraints limited the time and resources available for gathering and analysing data.
Students use research methods such as data gathering through participant observation, in-depth interviewing, administration of small-scale surveys, or secondary analysis of existing data.
Later this week I will be in Manchester at the Royal Exchange for Paines Plough's gathering called to investigate the changing (and increasingly fragile) ecology of small-scale touring and try and find solutions to some of the difficulties faced.
Cultures of this period exhibited a wide variety of subsistence patterns, including hunting and gathering, fishing, and, at least for part of the period, some herding and small-scale agriculture.
The tour took place from the plantation manager's white Toyota Hilux, with curious workers and villagers gathering around the car as the men stopped to point out water sources or small-scale mills that they described as 'illegal mills'.
Water (small-scale hydropower).
