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For sale: the streets of Southwark The borough of Southwark is London's largest landlord - and it can't afford the GBP 900 million repair bill. The solution? Social cleansing
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LONDON is two cities. One is that of the owner-occupier, of
Victorian and Edwardian terraces sliced and resliced into flats so as
to be in reach of the first-time buyer, or else left intact and sold
for prodigious prices. The other is the city of council estates,
whose architecture, signs and layouts assert their difference in the
strongest possible ways, some of which are routinely prefixed in
print by the words "the notorious" and whose visual prominence is
matched by their effective invisibility to those who don't live on
them. Non-residents of council estates tend to feel alienated and ...
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My roman affair
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Catholic Church. It was built during the reign of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and his name is inscribed on the structure. It...COS.TERTIUM.FEZIT which in English means "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, consul for the third time, built...
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YOUR OWN COLISEUM.(U)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; ...way. For example, the friendship between Agrippa and Octavianus could strike a chord with history buffs. After all, looking up Agrippa in the encyclopedia brings up Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, close comrade of Augustus Caesar...
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Finite elements, Roman-style
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering
; ...aqueduct was built around 20 B.C., probably by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who also built the Pantheon and other structures...other ancient technology-comes from the writings of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio in the first century B.C. Among...
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Finite elements, roman-style: a very professional corps of ancient engineers made a lasting contribution to Western civilization.(aqueducts)
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME
; ...aqueduct was built around 20 B.C., probably by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who also built the Pantheon and other structures...ancient technology--comes from the writings of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio in the first century B.C. Among...
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Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...studies. From effects, Aldrette moves on to the various flood control methods developed by such officials as Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who even traveled through the sewers by boat in 33 BC. Such efforts tended to be piecemeal, often short...
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