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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Brooklyn"”.
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The Brooklyn Bridge Hotel : a design proposal for the Brooklyn waterfront
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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A mosque for Brooklyn
… that is connected to the cultural landscape of Brooklyn and specific to the Muslim community.
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The Brooklyn Water Works
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1868
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A proposed church for St. Vincent Ferrer Parish, Diocese of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
no abstract provided by author
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What next? : densifying suburban Brooklyn
… to the densification of the suburban township of Brooklyn in Pretoria over the next two to three decades. The project attempts to use the opportunity (presented by the city’s need to densify) to reconfigure the future suburban form for the better. Brooklyn is used as a casestudy through which the …
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Idiomien käännösstrategiat Colm Tóibínin romaanin Brooklyn suomennoksessa
… käännösstrategioita Colm Tóibínin romaanin Brooklyn suomennoksessa. Olen kiinnostunut siitä, onko teoksen kääntäjä pystynyt säilyttämään lähtötekstin idiomit teoksen suomennoksessa kääntämällä ne jollakin suomen kielen idiomilla vai onko kääntäjä käyttänyt jotakin muuta käännösstrategiaa …
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An Episcopal church for Brooklyn, New York
no abstract provided by author
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I Can! Kid-Abilities Day Brooklyn Children's Museum
… I Can! Kid -Abilities Day, presented at the Brooklyn Children's Museum on October 121 h, 2014. The project is based on my experience organizing this educational event. I focus on the operational needs of planning and implementing it, as well as, outreach and evaluation. A background …
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Placemaking and Belonging in Brooklyn: Bushwick City Farms
… at the border of Bushwick/Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Its overcrowded, dusty, and scarce conditions have pushed the migrants living there to engage with the wider community. This paper explores the active involvement of the migrants living at Stockton Street in Bushwick City Farms (BCF), a …
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A Social History of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900
… and associational life of the Catholic Irish in Brooklyn between 1850 and 1900. Over this pivotal half century, the Brooklyn Irish developed a rich associational life which included temperance, Irish nationalism, land reform and Gaelic language and athletic leagues. This era marked the emergence …
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Brooklyn Country: Class, Culture and the Politics of "Alternativity"
… what I, and many of my interlocutors call the "Brooklyn country music scene" (or sometimes, the "Brooklyn Country music scene"), a particular nexus of country music activity that was in existence during the time of my research, between the spring of 2005 and the winter of 2007/8. I explore the …
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The improvement of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1906 (first author), and Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1906 (second author).
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The urban waterfront in flux : accommodating uncertainty in Brooklyn
… is prioritized over another through the lens of Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn has a great diversity of land uses, industries, and demographics. Its history is colorful and has led to a present condition replete with challenge and opportunity along the shore. Residential development, industrial …
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Creating the city : toward 21st-century production in Brooklyn, NY
… in the city. The thesis uses the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, as a case and example of how to go about supporting new kinds of urban creative clusters. The thesis proposes principles, guidelines, and an approach to cluster development, not as a universal solution for currently …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
… out to new communities, such as Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This thesis applies descriptive methods to compare and contrast several historical communities that are similar to Sunset Park, and then evaluates the impact of landscape and other elements in urban design on their community identity. This …
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A 12-year community plan for Culver in Brooklyn, New York
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1948.
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An argument of the overwhelming: architectural forms in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
This is a thesis investigation of the potential of architectural form in its ability to overwhelm. Architecture cannot be measured by bolts or decorative elements; it must be measured by its capacity to move us. Technological feats, humanistic comforts, or historical legacies will never yield the …
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Cultivating the City: Urban Agriculture and Agrarian Questions in Brooklyn, New York
… period of urban agriculture expansion in Brooklyn, New York as a case study, I investigate the ways in which urban agriculture is working to challenge the problems produced by conventional agro-food, and the engendered contradictions that arise in the tensions between the goals of urban …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
… holiday with a tear in one’s eye.” But in south Brooklyn, many miles away from their “motherland,” confers the Russian Jewish immigrants a freedom to express allegiance on their own terms, choosing their own set of songs, emblems, and activities by blending premigration symbolism from the Soviet …
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Brooklyn of Korea: Place branding as a process in production of space
… the past decade, widely branded with the label “Brooklyn of Korea.” With diverse parties using the Brooklyn brand in different ways while leveraging similar qualities, Seongsu provides a rich case study on how branding as a process not only shapes images of a place, but can also impact the built …
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