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A Small Door: Recognizing Ruth In The Psalter-Hours ‘Of Yolande Of Soissons’, Alexa Sand
A Small Door: Recognizing Ruth In The Psalter-Hours ‘Of Yolande Of Soissons’, Alexa Sand
Art and Design Faculty Publications
Long the subject of iconographic speculation, the miniature that currently opens the luxurious late-thirteenth-century Psalter-Hours "of Yolande of Soissons" (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M.729) can now be securely identified as a depiction of the opening scene of the book of Ruth. The identification rests on an iconographic peculiarity shared with two roughly contemporary vernacular Bibles, a connection that in itself gives some sense of the textual and pictorial environment in which the "Yolande" manuscript was conceived. The choice of this extremely rare subject for a pictorial preface to a devotional book created for an aristocratic laywoman indicates the interpenetration …
Measuring The Configuration Of Street Networks: The Spatial Profiles Of 118 Urban Areas In The 12 Most Populated Metropolitan Regions In The Us, John Peponis, Douglas Allen, Dawn Haynie, Martin Scoppa, Zongyu Zhang
Measuring The Configuration Of Street Networks: The Spatial Profiles Of 118 Urban Areas In The 12 Most Populated Metropolitan Regions In The Us, John Peponis, Douglas Allen, Dawn Haynie, Martin Scoppa, Zongyu Zhang
Art and Design Faculty Publications
In this paper we report an analysis of 118 urban areas sampled from the 12 largest metropolitan regions in the US. We deal with familiar measures of block size, street density, intersection density and distance between intersections. We also introduce two new variables, Reach and Directional Distance. Reach is the aggregate street length that can be accessed from the midpoint of each road segment subject to a limitation of distance. Directional distance is the average number of direction changes needed in order to access all the spaces within reach. We provide parametric definitions of these variables and implement their computation …