Regionalism

Can Critical Regionalism counteract the impact of Globalisation on our cities? In the era of constant networking and relaying of information, the world has become a much smaller place. The shrinking world has somewhat become a familiar spectacle of identical fads and lifestyles. At least in the developed countries, globalisation has given birth to homogenous consumer culture. Demonstrated not only by the expansion of multi-national cooperations such as Apple and Starbucks but also by the indistinct

is threatening to subtly disintegrate the stylistic innovation in architecture as the universal styles and cultures takes over. In order to address the threat of globalization in architecture, it is a imperative to focus on the use of critical regionalism throughout the world. By the integration of

Grant Wood            I recently took a trip to the Jocelyn Art Museum. There they had many great painting in the permanent art collection. One that caught my eye, which I had seen many times before, but never knew any thing about, was a painting called Stone City, Iowa , which was created by Grant Wood in 1930. This painting is oil on wood panel and is 30 ¼ X 40 inches. Grant Wood is a famous philosopher who was born in February in the year 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa. Wood was born to Quaker parents

Name Instructor Corse Date Realism In the century America, there were changes in the society and politics resulting from the expansion to the westward as well as the civil wars. Artists in America turned to reality and regionalism as a way to bring their concerns during that time. Their concerns included the widening gap in social classes where there were class struggles among those of the working class as well as the middle class who were brought down socially. These artists wrote down these transfo0rmations

Dawn Brancati furthered the literature around the decentralization of governments in her work, “Decentralization: Fueling the Fire or Dampening the Flames of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism?.” She introduces a point that had not been explored before in academia, by showing a causal relationship between regional parties and ethnic conflict/secessionism. She displays in her work that political decentralization indirectly leads to ethnic conflict and secessionism. This is not inherent to the structure

Regionalism is a political ideology based on a collective sense of place or attachment, and is discussed in terms of Canadian society, culture, economy and politics (Westfall, 3). Canada is known internationally as a nation incorporating several multiregional interests and identities into its unification of culture. Its diverse population is comprised of numerous ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and traditions; and all resides under one federal government. Ever since the founding of Canada

sentimentality, collective wisdom, and prejudices. Realism stories are usually about the middle-class people, and it aims to show a truthful portrayal of truth. Regionalism is a class of realist literature distinguished by closeness to the habits, language, dialects, manners, history, traditions, beliefs of a particular geographical region. Regionalism manifests the characters of both realism and romanticism. Romanticism is cultural the period from 1830-1860 in America. Humankind is naturally good. The characteristics

part of other eras. Writing mainly toward the beginning of the era and coming from a small Midwest village, Twain was greatly influenced by Regionalism. Bierce, on the other hand, drew much of his ideas from the period that followed Realism: Naturalism. While Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce both primarily wrote Realism, Twain's writings have a bent for Regionalism, while Bierce's short stories lean towards Naturalism. Samuel Clemens, better known as

A resurgence of regionalism in American literature occurred in the mid twentieth century. Around this time, the United States was just coming out of the Great Depression and entering World War Two. The “Return to Regionalism” movement was inspired by the original regionalism authors, such as Mark Twain, from the mid to late nineteenth century. The return to regionalism movement was characterized by the focus on certain regions of the United States of America. The Great Depression affected millions

along the way. How an author brings everyone along with them to the destination of their choice is by using techniques in writing like regionalism and local color. Regionalism and local color is setting the reader in a particular place (i.e. England, North American, Australia), the characters met, and the languages they speak. In “Sense of Place: A Response to Regionalism,” written by Jonathan Hart, “from the beginning, North America was multinational and multicultural” (Hart 113). Kate Chopin uses all