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  • Meyer indicated that the Dutch strive for a three-layered approach to flood control: concern over the urban life of the city, infrastructure, and the underground.

    Archive 2010-08-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • Meyer indicated that the Dutch strive for a three-layered approach to flood control: concern over the urban life of the city, infrastructure, and the underground.

    Hurricane Katrina: Climate Change Begets Delta Urbanism Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • Tocqeville's three-layered civil society (government, civil society, and the public) has shrunk to a two-layered structure, in which government and business are joined at the hip and reaping vast wealth and the public is atomized and irrelevant to serious decision-making.

    Fron Nahzi: Can Civil Society Survive in a Free Market Economy? 2010

  • Meyer indicated that the Dutch strive for a three-layered approach to flood control: concern over the urban life of the city, infrastructure, and the underground.

    Archive 2010-08-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • It possesses a unique three-layered shell that can easily fend off attacks from crabs.

    Three-Layered Snail Shell Inspires Better Body Armor | Inhabitat 2010

  • Tocqeville's three-layered civil society (government, civil society, and the public) has shrunk to a two-layered structure, in which government and business are joined at the hip and reaping vast wealth and the public is atomized and irrelevant to serious decision-making.

    Fron Nahzi: Can Civil Society Survive in a Free Market Economy? 2010

  • Meyer indicated that the Dutch strive for a three-layered approach to flood control: concern over the urban life of the city, infrastructure, and the underground.

    Hurricane Katrina: Climate Change Begets Delta Urbanism Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • Also a brilliant piece of three-layered propaganda: it's about the Space Shuttle itself which is portrayed as easy and safe enough to be flown by schoolchildren; because it's about the Shuttle this is also a pro-Western technology and civilization message; and thirdly it's an advert for the real Space Camp summer programme at Kennedy - presumably there are now hundreds of Americans who are devastated at not being accidentally blasted into space themselves.

    Max Needs Thermal Curtain Failure Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • Also a brilliant piece of three-layered propaganda: it's about the Space Shuttle itself which is portrayed as easy and safe enough to be flown by schoolchildren; because it's about the Shuttle this is also a pro-Western technology and civilization message; and thirdly it's an advert for the real Space Camp summer programme at Kennedy - presumably there are now hundreds of Americans who are devastated at not being accidentally blasted into space themselves.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • In a further step towards a multimedia news philosophy one may consider this shape as an octavo, meaning a folded three-layered cf. spoken, written and image language together forming a single text page which can be unfolded into the mentioned eight pyramids of content.

    The press becomes the press-sphere « BuzzMachine 2008

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