A community of interest is a community of people who share a common interest or passion. These people exchange ideas and thoughts about the given passion, but may know (or care) little about each othe ...
Main articles: History of Brasília, Timeline of Brasília and History of BrazilThe Pilot PlanFrom 1763 to 1960, Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil. At this time, resources tended to be centered ...
In Bolivia, a 62% majority of residents over the age of 15 self-identify as belonging to an indigenous people, while another 3.7% grew up with an indigenous mother tongue yet do not self-identify as i ...
The specifics of Paleo-Indian migration to and throughout the Americas, including the exact dates and routes traveled, provide the subject of ongoing research and discussion. The traditional Western t ...
Washington, D.C., is a national center for the arts. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is home to the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington National Opera, and the Washington Ba ...
Main article: History of Washington, D.C.Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people (also known as the Conoy) inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited ...
The word capital derives from the Latin caput, meaning "head".In several English-speaking states, the terms county town, county seat, and borough seat are also used in lower subdivisions. In unitary s ...
Areas devastated by war or invasion challenge urban planners. Resources are scarce. The existing population has needs. Buildings, roads, services and basic infrastructure like power, water and sewerag ...
In the Neolithic period, agriculture and other techniques facilitated larger populations than the very small communities of the Paleolithic, which probably led to the stronger, more coercive governmen ...
The preeminent example of a planned community in interwar Poland is Gdynia. After World War I when Poland regained its independence it lacked a commercial seaport (De iure Poles could use Gdańsk, whi ...
Several of the world's capital cities are planned cities, including Canberra in Australia, Brasília in Brazil, Belmopan in Belize, New Delhi in India, Valletta in Malta, Abuja in Nigeria, Astana in K ...
The power of municipalities range from virtual autonomy to complete subordination to the state. Municipalities may have the right to tax individuals and corporations with income tax, property tax, and ...
A community has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location. The word is often used to refer to a group that is organized around common values and is attributed with soci ...
Benedict Anderson defined a nation as "an imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign". Members hold in their minds a mental image of their affinity: for examp ...
Since the publication of "Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation" (Lave Wenger 1991), communities of practice have been the focus of attention, first as a theory of learning and later ...
