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At the Edge of Europe Dr Bob Jarvis, Department of Art History, University of Sussex, UK Abstract The influence of ‘travel’ on an almost landlocked country which has been part of several empires and only established ‘national’ boundaries in the … Continue reading →

I have just completed an MA in Art History at Sussex and took a central but risky decision to write all my term papers and projects on Romanian art. I have put all these together in a single ‘collection’ which, … Continue reading →

BOB JARVIS BA(1st Class) MA(Distinction) MPhil PhD MRTPI(retired), IHBC(retired) In just over 200 words Bob Jarvis was educated as one of the last of the gentlemen planners at Newcastle University, but later took classes in poetry and contemporary dance. He … Continue reading →

Midnight in Bucharest/ Miezul nopti la Bucuresti (This is three songs, three pastiches, that like the countdown in In the Midnight Hour get closer to that zero hour. Acest este trei canturi, trei parodii care numaratoara in In ora meizul … Continue reading →

Everytime I start this it comes out a line of song quotes : so lets start that way (no prizes for looking up the answers on Google) ‘two degrees in bebop/a PhD in swing/..’ used to write and perform and … Continue reading →

He was aware that his city was a polyglot mixture of voices and nationalities, so as he sat outside the cafe on the street tables with his cappuccino alongside the Middle Easter men with their Turkish cigarettes and gruff voices, … Continue reading →

Townscape Revisited Townscape Revisited ________________________________________ Bob Jarvis Bob Jarvis re-reads ‘Townscape’ as a book and explores the devices of word and image and its language and construction. Townscape begins with a casebook in which ‘serial vision’, shown below, are the … Continue reading →

Living in the ruins: “A City that is constantly moving and shuffling its parts” : introductory notes from a project on Truman’s Brewery. The area for this project was one that has undergone and is still undergoing change at all … Continue reading →

For the first time – once : Bucharest Originally presented at the Planning Research Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, April 2010. Since this paper is intended to be read aloud it does not follow all the conventions of an ‘academic’ … Continue reading →