Regional studies are strongly related with the United Kingdom, which has one of the richest experience in the of regional policy. Despite of this fact, there are only few projects examining Wales in comparison with Italy, Germany or Ireland. This research focuses on the regional disparities of Wales based on a long-term territorial development and their effects of the recent spatial structure of the region. The analysis emphasizes the importance of geographical features taking shape of the main economic nodes, infrastructure system and centrumperiphery relations. After introducing the key aspects of the territorial structure the paper summarizes briefly the role of the regional policy in the latest territorial processes.
More...The formerly dominant model of managing public utilities came under intense scrutiny in the 1980s and 1990s, leading to new organisational forms based on PPI, private participation in infrastructure. These reforms of service delivery remain in the focus of vigorous debate, and the evaluation of the respective merits of the public and private sectors show radical differences in recent theoretical and empirical analysis. This paper reviews the differentiated consequences of service delivery reforms in light of international comparative studies. PPI leads to different outcomes among utility types; in developed vs. developing or post-socialist economies; in the different institutional contexts of different countries; as well as among more or less dense regions. Success or failure does not tend to manifest in extreme scenarios, but in real differences in efficiency. The majority position of international studies does not confirm the hopes invested in privatisation. Effective service delivery has more to do with establishing effective quality control and efficiency-based incentives in the public sector, or in innovative mixed delivery solutions combining the advantages of the private and public approach. However, the difficulties of institutional development, and the considerable path dependence of large systems highlights the difficulties of adapting good practice in a different institutional or territorial context.
More...Pénzes János: Periférikus térségek lehatárolása – dilemmák és lehetőségek. Didakt Kiadó, Debrecen, 2014
More...Umbrai Laura: Így szemeteltek Budapesten. A hulladékgazdálkodás múltja a fővárosban. Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest 2014.
More...When examining competitiveness of tourism, transport plays an outstanding role. The specific aim of our paper is to review and disclose the context between the touristic performance of localities with spa and thermal bath based on inland accessibility and domestic tourism data. The survey comprises two Hungarian regions, Western Transdanubia, considered as central from the point of view of tourism flow, and the peripheric Southern Transdanubia, thus spatial level consequences can also be drawn. From collected primary data and available secondary data ranking correlation coefficients have been calculated. The former source was an own questionnaire on spa selection preference, and the latter source was settlement data stock of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Upon evaluation of information in the questionnaire and the ranking correlation of domestic data the relationship between physical approachability, accessibility by road and touristic output of localities was confirmed. Results show that although there is relationship between data on tourism and road traffic, but it can only be shown to a limited extent, because of the indirect contribution of transport to tourism.
More...Macro level analysis below national level is greatly hindered by the low availability of macroeconomic data Several macroeconomic indicators are defined for national level, and even those data that are available, are not accessible at optional spatial breakdown. This way the lowest level breakdown of regional GDP relates to counties. This paper aims to determine the GDP of a city region, Győr and its agglomeration. In view of this at first the theoretical issues concerning city regions as units of analysis are reviewed then versatile estimates aregiven for the indicator. Finally the outstanding role of Audi Hungaria Motor Ltd. is discussed.
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Keywords: Paris; diary; George Banu; destiny; memories
Paris: it has enough assets to convince you, to attract you, to take you out from your ivory tower, to confound you in a highly positive or negative manner, to trouble you, to turn you into a bundle of questions to which you should then seek the answer, with a cocktail of sensations. Each person is related to Paris according to the experiences that blended, fed and shaped oneself. In this very Paris, contemporary, spectator on several occasions and several months I am trying, as always, to re-define myself: in the middle of the city, in its air, in its noises, in the lapping of the Seine which has fascinated generations of dreamers. And as always I feel guilty that my enthusiasm is not rooted but in the man-made wonders scattered here, on its streets, parks, into the museums and not in its people, not today, not in its present-day flesh, not in the core of today but in the measure in which today is the tomb of a glorious yesterday and much else. It is the discrepancy between the theatre of the city and the theatre of the living, of people. Between the show of the buildings and the human decadence. Between the old perfume of the museums and the scents of the 21st century streets. A world, a mosaic, a Babel with which one tries to re-compose oneself into an absolutely crazy daily rhythm, not before disintegrating first.
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Keywords: Radu Ghilaş; biography; In the container
Interview made by Vasilica Bălăiţă with Radu Ghilaş, actor at the Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre, on the occasion of his debut as a stage director in 2009, at Tătăraşi Athenaeum, with the show entitled În container (In the Container), by Constantin Cheianu. Biographic confessions revealing the actor’s interest in the social dimension of theatre.
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Review of the monograph Smilen Markov, Die metaphysische Synthese des Johannesvon Damaskus. Historische Zusammenhänge undStrukturtransformationen (= Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichtedes Mittelalters 118), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015, 461 SS.
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Keywords: Contemporary world; values; greed; violence
Although both written more than a decade ago, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, Arthur Miller’s plays, Mr. Peters’ Connections and Resurrection Blues, prove timeless in a conflict-dominated world, where traditional values seem dissipated and human interaction is dictated by greed and violence. While Mr. Peters’ is a play on the individual search for meaning in an increasingly exhausting and depressing world, “in Resurrection Blues lifestyle has replaced life. (…) Money, drugs, ambition, pragmatism prevail. Religion is either compromised or appropriated to serve other causes than the spirit.” Miller’s theatre thus becomes both a reflection of the tormented contemporary spirit and a means to investigate the causes which have brought humanity to this point. Once more, theatre proves able to identify and transmit quintessential aspects of humanity and, at the same time, provide clues on how reconciliation can be reached.
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Keywords: acting professors;remembrance; art and craft.
Now an actress, the author of this article returned with a nostalgic look on teachers who have guided her steps on the road to the theater. With obvious gratitude and emotion, she drew two portraits using words: the one of Constantine's Moruzan and other of Mihai Mereuță. She highlights so distinct personalities, but gracious, who left their mark on many generations.
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Keywords: actor; theater; Mihaela Werner; interview
Admired, loved or maybe contested, forgotten, ignored, envied – playing big or episodic parts, actors devote themselves to their public. Hard to evaluate, understand, their art is a lifestyle. Beyond interpretation technique, adopted masks, costume design, sound vibrations and mirage worlds, there is a man that abandons himself in a ritual aimed to thrill, arouse unrest and laughter.
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Keywords: Constantin Paiu;Romanian theatre; theater critic; theatre education
Professor Constantin Paiu, PhD was kind to have a dialogue with me as a representative of the journal “Theatre Colloquia”; he made sincere confessions with a sense of humour. In what follows, you will be able to explore the soul of a great personality of the Romanian theatre and the Iași School of theatre.
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Keywords: acting;Doina Deleanu; acting school from Iaisi
This year we celebrate 155 years of artistic education at the University of Arts in Iaşi and, on this occasion, my thoughts went up to our former graduates. After being disbanded in the years of communism, the Theatre Faculty was reopened in 1990, and the first class graduated from the academic desks in 1994.
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Keywords: Paris;diary; George Banu; destiny; memories
Paris: it has enough assets to convince you, to attract you, to take you out from your ivory tower, to confound you in a highly positive or negative manner, to trouble you, to turn you into a bundle of questions to which you should then seek the answer, with a cocktail of sensations. Each person is related to Paris according to the experiences that blended, fed and shaped oneself. In this very Paris, contemporary, spectator on several occasions and several months I am trying, as always, to re-define myself: in the middle of the city, in its air, in its noises, in the lapping of the Seine which has fascinated generations of dreamers. And as always I feel guilty that my enthusiasm is not rooted but in the man-made wonders scattered here, on its streets, parks, into the museums and not in its people, not today, not in its present-day flesh, not in the core of today but in the measure in which today is the tomb of a glorious yesterday and much else. It is the discrepancy between the theatre of the city and the theatre of the living, of people. Between the show of the buildings and the human decadence. Between the old perfume of the museums and the scents of the 21st century streets. A world, a mosaic, a Babel with which one tries to re-compose oneself into an absolutely crazy daily rhythm, not before disintegrating first.
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Keywords: Radu Ghilaş; biography;“În container” (“In the container”)
Interview made by Vasilica Bălăiţă with Radu Ghilaş, actor at the Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre, on the occasion of his debut as a stage director in 2009, at Tătăraşi Athenaeum, with the show entitled În container (In the Container), by Constantin Cheianu. Biographic confessions revealing the actor’s interest in the social dimension of theatre.
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Keywords: theater; new media; installation art; videoprojection; video mapping.
The explosion of technical means and technology have not led to the disappearance of the theatre as expected by many, but proving his syncretism, he knew to assimilate all this news and adapt them, giving new meaning to stage design. All this has not only improved the stage and to facilitate the work of those who stand behind the performances, the artists themselves are seeking not just to adapt to the latest trends, but also needed to "properties" virtual space. So the answer appeared in each display, the video portion having a dissimilar substance, any purpose: animation, decoration, light.
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Keywords: dramatic text; translation; directing; interdisciplinary
The InterDramText presented a partnership of the Theatre Faculty in Iaşi and the Germanistics Department (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University). In supporting these two institutions also came Austrian Cultural Forum, which offered financial support, making possible this way the accomplishment of the main goal: staging a German language dramatic text translation. On this background, since 2014 until now there have been presented two spectacles: The Chair Women by Werner Schwab and Offending the Audience by Peter Handke. And the endeavor does not stop here.
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Keywords: Miruna Runcan
Theatre Criticism: Where To?, Miruna Runcan’s most recent book, published by Presa Universitară Clujeană, is a collection of essays in which the author uses the starting point she declares by the enticing question in the title in order to explore an array of issues regarding the mechanisms of production and reception of contemporary performances. ------------------------------------------ A Guide through a Maze of Ideas There are thousands of pages that have been written about Eugen Ionescu, Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the absurd; libraries worldwide stand as witnesses. Any new attempt is a sort of balancing act on the razor’s edge; and yet, Tamara Constantinescu takes this risk and takes advantage of her double training (theatre and journalism) to allure us into a new journey inside the world of the female (and not only) characters from the theatre of the absurd.The author withdraws in the background in order to give us the chance of approaching the cryptic bridges of the relation between the theatre of the absurd and our (non)dramatic daily lives, marked by “...disappointments, desperation or pieces of memories heavy with the regret of unfulfillment, of lost illusions, of bitter failure.” A world caught between oneiric and reality, inside which drama receives the reverberations of farce, and innocence the degree of logic. Time diluted in memories, spaces narrowed through immobility, frailty hidden in extreme gestures – all these are analysed and given meanings that can draw the reader closer to the core of the characters/couples in the study.
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