The Restructuring of the Soviet Economy and Prospects for Siberia's Development
This article begins with a critique of American views regarding the declining importance of Siberian development under Gorbachev. Drawing on statements by Gorbachev, as well as planning documents and research, this article argues that increased Siberian development is both an important part of Soviet regional policy and in its national interest. The nature of this future development and spatial relationships within Siberia are also discussed.
The influence of architectural decisions on improving the economic efficiency of development projects
With the changing approaches to the development of territories and the emergence of new legislative initiatives in the Russian Federation, approaches to the implementation of housing development projects become fundamentally different. The previous development model, which is focused solely on the interests of the developer and supported by unsatisfied demand for housing in the post-Soviet period, ceases to work, which necessitates the search for new approaches to the construction business and ways to increase the economic efficiency of investment housing projects. The paper is devoted to the study and systematization of architectural decisions of various levels, which can be taken into account by developers in housing projects in order to increase economic efficiency.
Reid on Hypotheses and the Ether; A Reassessment
In recent years historians of science have come to see that Thomas Reid’s Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man had a profound impact on the development of British methodological thought in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Larry Laudan has argued that Reid was “the first major British philosopher to take Newton’s opinions on induction, causality, and hypotheses seriously”; and that Reid was thereby instrumental in changing the character of British methodological discourse in the Enlightenment.(1) Geoffrey Cantor has examined in detail the influence of Reid’s critique of ether theories and hypotheses in the Essays on leading protagonists in the nineteenth-century debates surrounding the wave theory of light,(2) and Richard Olson has traced the origins of the scientific style of British physics in the Victorian period to the writings of Reid and other Common Sense philosophers. (3) As well as delineating Reid’s influence, Laudan, Cantor, and Olson have attempted to identify the problems to which he addressed himself in articulating his methodology, and they have analysed with some care the internal structure of his methodological views. Thanks to the work of these historians, therefore, we have a fairly comprehensive picture of Reid’s methodology and its fortunes in the nineteenth century.