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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Beautification"”.
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D.C. beautification / Visual quality
Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Beautification Practices Among Asian And Asian American College Students
… western beauty standards into their routine beautification practices. Asians' and Asian Americans' beautification practices function as their habitus to conform to western beauty standards. In this research, I conduct qualitative semi-structured interviews with six Japanese and six Asian …
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The Revitalization of Economically Depressed Cities: Engaging Youth in Urban Agriculture and Vacant Lot Beautification
Large urban areas across the country have fallen deep into poverty while the surrounding ring of suburban areas continues to prosper. Vacant houses and lots, few shops and restaurants, and poverty-stricken residents are predominant features in major cities. But what can be done to improve life in …
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Ornamenting Fingernails and Roads: Beautification and the Embodiment of Authenticity in Post-War Eastern Sri Lanka
In post-conflict Sri Lanka, communal tensions continue to be negotiated, contested, and remade. Color codes virtually every aspect of daily life in salient local idioms. Scholars rarely focus on the lived visual semiotics of local, everyday exchanges from how women ornament their nails to how …
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Mirages Solidified: Myth, Beautification, and Tourism in the Creation of Santa Barbara's El Pueblo Viejo Landmark District
… a uniform Spanish style not only inspired local beautification efforts but also historic preservation, which ultimately resulted in the creation of the <em>El Pueblo Viejo </em>Landmark District in 1960. Additionally, this narrative critically examines the area’s history prior to the district’s …
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Guidelines for Campus Beautification With Special Reference to Seventh-day Adventist Academies and Colleges in North America
… Few recognize the potential between campus beautification and the enrichment of the institutional programs or the responsibility role of stewardship for school lands. Often, campus beautification has not been considered an important item in capital outlay.</p> <p>Method. The study utilized …
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Self-Improvement and Teen Magazines: A Matter of Fashion and Beauty: A Content Analysis of Sassy, Seventeen and YM--Teen Magazines for Adolescent Females
… self-improvement through fashion and physical beautification. The data was collected from ten issues each of Seventeen, Sassy and YM. lssues selected for Seventeen and YM were published during the time period from June 1996 through July 1997. The issues selected for Sassy were published during …
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Design for a student homestead at a land-grant university: integrating vernacular patterns, local systems, and ecological heritage
… academics during the decades of rural reform and beautification, which spanned the progressive era. The investigation sets forth a foundation and allows a dialog between historic and contemporary homestead design. Finally, programming on site is suggested based on successful small agriculture …
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Growing Communities: Urban Agriculture In Post-Katrina New Orleans
… tout the importance of farms and gardens in city beautification, economic development, education, and making food more accessible. Examining the groups and individuals operating in the city, it is evident that all of the positive externalities are generated from gardens, the most impactful result …
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Israelizing Jerusalem : the encounter between architectural and national ideologies, 1967-1977
… city. Their criticism became the catalyst for a beautification campaign that intriguingly resembled the British Mandate's "colonial regionalism." It also inspired younger Israeli-born architects whose quest to create an "architecture of the place" was ambivalently modeled after the Palestinian …
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From artifact to site : understanding the canal in the city of gardens
… city through a continuing emphasis on landscape beautification. This approach is not just irrelevant but pernicious to topical thinking about equitable and sustainable development.
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The aestheticization of ugliness : the Pulcinella narrative in Giandomenico Tiepolo's Villa Zianigo
… purported understanding of aestheticization as beautification, this paper explores how the recontextualization of an ugly subject into a beautiful, artistic context strengthens the relationship between the subject and the audience. As a complement, this paper also argues for the possibility of a …
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Latinidad in London: An ethnographic study exploring how Latin American Londoners represent their ethnic community discursively
… that Latinas are associated with attractiveness, beautification, and seduction. Practices linked to appearance and dancing are seen as respectable or as excessive, and are coded in terms of aspiration, thus reflecting processes of stratification. Overall, this thesis finds that latinidad is …
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Urban Green Spaces: Bridging cultural, ecological and political planning gaps to make the city of Colombo a leading ‘Greener-City’
… by its tropical climate. Greening the cities for beautification, recreation and environmental reasons has occurred here since ancient times. Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka, is a complex fast-growing city. A history of colonisation, first Portuguese, then Dutch followed by British, …
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Entrepreneurial teaching in creating third spaces for experiential learning: a case study of two science teachers in low-income settings
… urban schools, David developed a school beautification project and used solar panels and biodiesel to bring electricity to a Haitian school. This second case investigated the project-based, experiential science curriculum David used in school and after-school clubs. With both cases, the …
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Brockport, New York: A Narrative of That Place (and the Place of this Narrative)
… post-Civil War cultural changes and village beautification.</p> <p>In addition to providing an empirical account of one particular place, the utility of place as an organizing concept is tested, as is the suitability of narrative as a mode of representation. This is intermittently presented …
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Growth for Whom? Sacrifice of Chicago’s Chinatown Then and Now
… that marked the era of Urban Renewal and the beautification efforts of the City Beautiful Movement led to widespread displacement and destruction of many Chinatowns across America, including Chicago’s. The history of Chicago’s Chinatown tells a story of a community that has always been an …
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Examining the Influence Facility Managers exert within the Urban Domain: A case study of the Cape Metropole area
… such as maintenance, cleaning, gardening, beautification, parking, and security, could ensure not only preservation of the urban precinct but improvement thereof and minimise wastage. The researcher applied rigorous analytics on data garnered from the small purposive sample by means of …
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Enhancing and developing sustainable tourism through landscaping in Nigeria
… development in Nigeria. Also is the need for the beautification of the attractions through landscaping as well as the provision of tourism infrastructures. The implication of the findings is that if landscaping is not made the centre of tourism policy, tourism is likely to fall short of …
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The planning and urban design of liveable public open spaces in Oman : case study of Muscat
… that though public open spaces are viewed as beautification elements of the city structure, there are major weaknesses in meeting users’ requirements, engaging users and in considering local climate in those spaces. Although the planning and urban design system in Oman has been adopted from …
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