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Showing 1 to 20 of 274 for “"Beijing"”.
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Beijing, bed, and breakfast : unpacking transient identities
… identity-making architecture, the proposed Beijing will bring together two private spaces: one of transience (identity without consciousness of place) and one of domesticity (place without consciousness of identity).
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Even slower : the great smog of Beijing
… media exposure of its air quality in 2008, Beijing has strived to improve its air quality. However, these preventive measures have not extensively altered the intensity of the smog-filled sky. This phenomena have generated an opportunity to redefine the position of architecture within the …
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Transforming space in the Old City of Beijing
… globalization and the approaching 2008 Olympics, Beijing has undergone a rapid transformation that is dramatically eroding the old fabric. It has been argued that whether the capital city should be modernized or has its most historical characteristics preserved as much as possible, and place …
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Modernity in Miniature: Maoism and the Beijing Department Store
<p>This thesis examines the Beijing Department Store as a contradictory structure embedded in the world’s largest Communist revolution. By looking at the urban planning decisions behind constructing a colonial form in the center of the socialist capital, I attempt to unravel the complex …
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The past, contemporary and future utility of Beijing courtyards
… the practical value of traditional courtyards in Beijing. It features a utilitarian perspective—examining the relevance of the courtyards on both macro- and micro-levels through mapping. The value of the project lies in its primary endeavor to introduce the concept of mutation into the controversy …
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A study of urban form in 18th-century Beijing
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Past and Present: Transformation of an ideal City - Beijing
… succeeded in creating a imperial ideal city - Beijing. The spatial order of Beijing expresses the elaborate system of imperial hierarchy (meaning). Since the founding of People's Republic in 1949 as all the physical elements which defined the old spatial order have changed, the Chinese State …
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Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth
… focus groups and in-depth interviews with 45 Beijing youths, aged between 18 and 30 years, based on the criteria of age, gender, occupation, class, local/non-local and overseas experience. According to the analysis of the data thus collected, the processes that Chinese urban youth engage in …
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The motivations, constraints and decision-making of Beijing outbound tourists
… and decision making in the pre-trip stage. Beijing was selected in the research because it is one of the three largest outbound tourist generating cities in China. Hence, the characteristics of travellers from Beijing are representative of a significant part in China's outbound travel …
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The Beijing Olympics political impact and implications for soft power politics
In the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, many commentators and scholars debated the potential impact of the Games in China. Some theorized that hosting the Games would lead to greater freedom and possibly democracy in China's political life. While the media debate focused on the optimistic …
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Chinese culture, tourism and a television series: Grand View Gardens, Beijing
… at a Chinese film set, Grand View Garden, Beijing from June 2013 to February 2014. The research site is not only a film set where the famous television series The Dream of the Red Mansion, an adaptation of the much loved novel of the same name, was shot, but it is also a site with profound …
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Locally Responsive Public Open Space Design: Special Reference to Beijing, China
… economic development. Recent urban projects in Beijing specifically have shown limited responsiveness to local context and needs of users. This is due to a political focus on financial returns, and has resulted in the proliferation of homogeneous ‘anywhere places’. Therefore, the aim of this …
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Beijing Consensus: alternative for Africa's development challenges? The case for Zimbabwe
The research aimed to study whether the Beijing Consensus, a Chinese development model is an alternative development model for Africa. The study used Zimbabwe's plan to collateralise its natural resources mainly minerals under the Angola Model strategy as a test case. Zimbabwe's economic revival is …
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Retail real estate development in Beijing, the People's Republic of China
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Smartphone-based mobility mapping and Perceived Air Quality evaluation in Beijing
… performed using a smartphone app, Moves, in Beijing, China, this thesis discusses the survey design and implementation process as well as the mobility analysis methods. The survey was launched in January 2016. This thesis is based on data from 258 subjects. The air quality is monitored …
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"Auto"-mobile Beijing : a bicycle network for a renewed "bicycle kingdom"
… be a catalyst for a renewed bicycle culture in Beijing, the capital of the former "Bicycle Kingdom". Beijing, only 15 years ago had more bicycles than any other city in the world, has in recent years undergone a drastic shift to become a city consumed by cars and highways, producing disruptive …
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Travel behaviour of Chinese tourists living in the city of Beijing, China
… the travel behaviour of tourists, outbound from Beijing, and their views on South Africa as a tourism destination. To accomplish this, the empirical research is designed from the quantitative perspective, and the data was collected by fieldworkers at the Beijing International Airport, using …
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