___MAGYAR ELEKTRONIKUS TOZSDE____________________________HU-ISSN_1216-0229 HUNGARIAN ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE copyright 1990. Dear Sir, We organize an international ****************************************************************** ELECTRONIC JOURNAL CONFERENCE ****************************************************************** *** WE INVITE JOURNALISTS, EDITORS and PUBLISHERS *** to BUDAPEST, HUNGARY on November 9-10-11 ,1995 TOPICS: * ELECTRONIC JOURNAL WRITING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING * PUBLIC RELATIONS IN THE E-JOURNAL, GOPHER AND WWW CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on all subjects mentioned. Please submit ASCII text and image (uuencode) [written in English] 5.000 words containing a 65 character/line a brief abstract (at max. 5 lines long) [log in to unmask] subject: papers Lecture Authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers by August 20, 1995. The conference proceedings are intended to be published on flopy disc. CONFERENCE LANGUAGE: English (translation into Hungarian) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Csaba S. Orczan [chair] Zsolt Orczan Dr [co-chair) [log in to unmask] SOCIAL PROGRAMME Welcome Cocktail November 9, 1995 Excursion , Theatre, Opera... CALL FOR PARTICIPATION To participate in the conference please fill in and e-mail the attached Registration Form to the [log in to unmask] at your earliest convenience. Please note that for early registration a reduced fee is applicable. You will receive the confirmation of your participation and the detailed program in due time. Early Registration until August 20, 1995 FEES before August 20, after 299 USD 350 USD ACCOMPANYING PERSONS are welcome and may attend the welcome cocktail, the Conference reception and the lunches on the conference days at a fee of: 120 USD PAYMENT Participants are kindly requested to transfer the fees to the following: MoneyGram to AMERICAN EXPRESS BUDAPEST HUNGARY-1052, ORCZAN Zsolt or POSTA BANK Budapest H-1920 account number: 131-121844 ORCZAN Zsolt Please note that in case of cancellation only a 50 % of the paid fee will be refunded. CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT MET Budapest Pf.311 Hungary H-1536 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ........................cut here.......................................... REGISTRATION FORM Family Name:... ... male/female First Name(s):... Address:... e-mail:... Telephone:... I intend to submit a paper ... yes/no Title /area of paper:... Technical equipment required:... I pay the fee MoneyGram ... yes/no or Bank account ...yes/no transaction date:... and number...... I register ... accompanying persons. Please send me information about available accomodations ... yes/no I need a hotel room ... single/double luxus...five star(*****)...four star (****)...three star (***)...yes/no Date from ...... to ...... Please inform me about Excursion, Theatre, or Opera... yes/no ......................cut here........................................... About BUDAPEST In 1835, an English peer by the name of John Paget got his first look of Buda and Pest from the crest of Gellert Hill. Of what he saw there he wrote as follows: "Buda with its blue chain of hills, Pest with its yellow plain, and the majestic Danube with its green isles were all sprawled out at our feet... and we sat for some time, enthralled by all that beauty... One hundred and fifty years have passed since the ousting of the Turk, and in this space of time, the city has risen from squalid ruins to become one of the great cities of Europe. Pest owes its progress not to the good will of a benevolent ruler, but to its natural endowments and the en- ergy of its people... It lies on the banks of a river that traverses half of Europe, and may expand unbounded in every direction. All this leads one to anticipate a splendid future for Pest-Buda." It is interesting to compare Paget's description with the observation made by the geographer Kohl from Bremen just seven years later. The order-loving German appraised the city with satisfaction: "Pest was conceived in an orderly manner, the city plan was elaborated with proper circum- spection. The main thoroughfares leading in every direction from the centre of the town are broad and straight." The haphazardness of Buda, however, was less to his liking. "There is no sign of planning. The streets are neither cen- tralized nor straight; consequently, the town has no core, and in its network of streets, one will find nothing that re- sembles order. The reason for this is the unfavourable soil and the fact that the roads are cut off by hills, preventing the population from building their houses in a rational manner." Whether we think of the past or the present, the descrip- tion is faithful. Whether to its advantage or otherwise, Pest is comparable to other big cities lying on the plain. But Buda is unique, like Stockholm, Istanbul, or Rio, and this is due precisely to its "disorderliness". Pest may expand without constraint, but Buda is bound by the surrounding hill coun- try. In the course of its development, Pest has smothered and devoured its environment, as most big cities do. But even today, Buda is inseparable from it, despite the fact that the "peaceful coexistence" between man and nature is being increasingly threatened. More and more houses are appear- ing on the formerly sparsely populated hillsides, and the ten- tacles of urbanization feel their way not only upward: they bore their way into the remotest hollows of the valleys. Small plots of land are being congested by large houses, and even sometimes entire neighbourhoods; the gardens are shrinking, the woods receding into the distance. New roads are being built, public utilities, service accommodations es- tablished. Nevertheless, Buda continued to be characterized not so much by its wreath of hills as by the fragmentedness of its inner area. It has no rational geometrical scheme. The inner city hills - Rozsadomb, Naphegy, Varhegy (Castle Hill), Gellert-hegy and Sashegy, - which boast perhaps the world's only big city nature conservation area, divide the body of the town into sections, thus giving the whole a diver- sified, exciting aspect. The old sixteenth-century Italian say- ing according to which the world has three gems: Venice on the water, Florence on the plain, and Buda on the hill, in all probability still holds true, and so does the ironic saying of Hungarian architects, according to which the natural en- dowments of Buda are so beautiful that even they, the ar- chitects. can't wipe them out completely. Please reply as soon as possible! Yours sincerely, Dr. ORCZAN, Zsolt & ORCZAN Csaba | MET Publisher: ORCZAN, Zsolt e-mail.:[log in to unmask] | | MET Chief editor: ORCZAN, Csaba e-mail.:[log in to unmask] | *** MET BUDAPEST PoBox. 311. HUNGARY, H-1536 **** MET@HUEARN ****