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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"City Space"”.
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Filling in the gaps | Reimagining underutilised city space to promote sustainable intensification
The existing residential space in New Zealand’s context is significantly impacted by housing shortages and a poor quality of housing stock. Current methods of urban sprawl accompanied by the detached dwelling remain as the predominant method of housing expansion to remedy these issues. However, …
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A theory and praxis of a city poetic: Jakobson, poetic function and city space: women, deixis and the narrator: a city poem: 'Shades of light: a triumph of city'
… order to construct a suggested iconic and poetic space, with special reference to a city poetic. The suggested model is used to develop a possible genre of a city poetic. The role of the narrator in poetry is explored with specific reference to shifters and deictics, with a view to a gendered …
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African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments
… project is instead a non-linear narrative of the city space constructed out of a combination of essays, narrative fragments, reportage, images and formal and informal interviews. Starting with what makes an African city "African" in African City, the investigation moves through five more thematic …
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Women, the city, and spatial citizenship examining identity formation and employment amongst Afro-Brazilian women in Rio De Janeiro and Belo Horizonte
… of citizenship are specifically shaped at the city level in urbanized environments. The way that people navigate the city is often contingent upon varying degrees of access and justice in different areas of life activity. I argue that access to citizenship is as much an economic endeavor as it …
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Merchants of the City: Situating the London Estate of the Drapers’ Company, c. 1540-1640
… in the built environment of the early modern City.1 Broadly, it is concerned with tracing institutional topographies of the urban environment and examining the city’s development in relation to these systems of governance. Specifically, it investigates the Drapers as administrators, landlords …
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Imagining a new public space in the foreshore by re-creating the city-sea relationship
Aim: Reconnect the City to the Sea through investment in the pedestrian and public space, supported by activity generating and accommodating architecture. Theory question: What architectural methods are being employed in global port-side cities to reinvent and make use of large tracts of de-valued …
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Building the Body: Gendered Space and Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York City, 1890-1930
… twentieth century Rio de Janeiro and New York City, this dissertation reveals how gendered space operated as a powerful structuring tool for the cities and for the bodies of inhabitants. As the physical geography of Rio and New York underwent significant growth and development from …
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Rituals of health : new healing spaces for Khayelitsha district hospital
… architects are appropriating new formations of space within the city. The research began as an exploration into how a contemporary African city space could be envisioned, a future trajectory of design thinking that challenges normative systems of design. The diverse nature of South African …
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Alice in a township : accessible learning through an interactive communal educational environment
… as being the most important designed children’s space in townships [as developed transit camps]. The study will aim to address school environments in an extroverted or interactive manner. This will be done in order to transform the school grounds into a community children’s ‘city of learning’ …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… Renaissance. Querying the problematics of the city space, of sexuality and of race as they emerge in the novel, this chapter considers McKay’s percipient understanding of the need to reconfigure diasporic identity beyond the limits set by American nationalism. Chapter Two engages with McKay’s …
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Essays on DSGE Models and Bayesian Estimation
… of his ability. Read as an ontological capacity, sovereignty is coterminous with an existent’s activity in the world. As lived, this capacity is regularly limited by the ways in which space is produced via its representations, its symbols, and its practices. All collective appropriations of …
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Becoming Otherwise: Sovereign Authorship in a World of Multiplicity
… of his ability. Read as an ontological capacity, sovereignty is coterminous with an existent’s activity in the world. As lived, this capacity is regularly limited by the ways in which space is produced via its representations, its symbols, and its practices. All collective appropriations of …
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COSMOPOLITE SPACE
The Cosmopolite Space By Foong SiewTong The thesis is about designing a prototypical city space that integrates working, living and playing for the future city dwellers, it explores to what extent is this integration going to be and what are the architectural responses. 2. Specifically, it is about …
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Rising temperatures and expanding megacities : improving air quality in Mexico City through Urban Heat Island mitigation
Mexico City exists as a city space pushed and pulled in multiple directions. Different scales and levels of spatial reference and planning have come together to produce a dynamic and contradictory place united by the identity of Mexico City. Unfortunately, the city faces a regional environmental …
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Models of Utopia: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Paris
… foregrounds their outlook on not only the city-space but of humanity which held much promise for harmony, happiness, and order in a future "utopian" state.
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Squares: a network of places
… relinquishing their open and community-oriented spaces to concrete and mortar. Gone are the medieval days in which cities and towns were centered on large community spaces - places where residents could gather, work, shop, and play together. Therefore, this Master’s Project and Report proposes …
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Living Language Policy Through Stratified Space: A Linguistic Ethnography in the United Arab Emirates
… visas) who live in Ras Al Khaimah, a small city in the United Arab Emirates. The primary set of participants are staff and students recruited from a private language school in the city but the project expands well beyond the school premises, following these individuals as they make their way …
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Perspectives on Urban Land Restitution: what constitutes good enough?
… of land restitution within both rural and urban spaces, that previous claims will not be seen to, while new claims will take years to resolve. This is unacceptable. How can the process of land restitution be better managed, conducted and performed so as to fulfil the requirements and goals of …
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Re-articulating culture in the context of urban regeneration: a thirdspace approach
… regeneration planning, the so-called 'Thirdspace approach', while examining the different ways in which culture is articulated in the context of urban regeneration. The research critically analyses approaches to urban regeneration which have used culture as a tool to influence development. …
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Mixed use property development and its place in UK urban policy
… deemed appropriate for the 21st century city, but which critics argue takes for granted multiple positive outcomes for cities and their citizens. Inspired by the work of Jane Jacobs, theorists have proposed the value of mixing types of buildings, streetscapes and activities in urban …
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