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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Cityscapes"”.
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Re-constructing inner cityscapes as spaces of consumption
… at the micro-scale can re-present cityscapes in disadvantaged areas as spaces for leisure and tourism consumption to desired target markets, especially higherspending visitors; b) To explain the processes that refashion inner cityscapes as 'ethnic cultural quarters', with critical …
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Urban constellations: reading contemporary cityscapes with Benjamin and Baudrillard
This thesis seeks to contribute to the literature on Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, but not to merely retread old debates. It is concerned instead with a re-evaluation of the work of both thinkers in a particular context: the experience of the new cultural spaces, of twenty-first century …
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Cityscapes of exclusion: representation of the favela, favelados and figures of authority with specfic reference to cidade de deus
My thesis analyses the representation of the favela, favelados and figures of authority in Cidade de Deus (Meirettes & Lund, 2002). Specifically, I discuss the relationship between the film's visual style and socio-potitical messages that it communicates in order to argue that Cidade de Deus …
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Changing Cityscapes and the Process of Contemporary Gentrification: An examination of the transformation of Ringsend within the context of post-industrial growth in Dublin
The process of contemporary gentrification is a key feature of post-industrial growth and urban re-generation. A central concern of this research is to investigate the implications of the process of gentrification at the level of locality. This study approached this investigation by an examination …
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Differential treatment for stuff and things: A simple unsupervised domain adaptation method for semantic segmentation
… unsupervised domain adaptation tasks, GTA5 to Cityscapes and SYNTHIA to Cityscapes, and achieve the new state-of-the-art segmentation accuracy.
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Passages
… paths through forests, bodies of water and cityscapes: places both familiar and unknown. As a whole, these Passages explore a personal vision of the natural world, family and community. Structured to represent the passage of time through four seasons, the collection explores rites of …
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Design-integrated Urban Heat Island analysis tool and workflow : development and application
… activities that transform open terrain into cityscapes. Among global 21st-century concerns, projected trends in population growth, urbanization, and regional climate change could exacerbate the warming in cities and intensify the UHI effect. Yet, microclimate analysis essential to assessing …
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In Place: Visualising Migrant and Diasporic Home-making in Contemporary London
… visual depiction of domestic spaces and intimate cityscapes can represent the home-making experience of migrants and diaspora members in London and the contemporary urban environments in general. When looking at existing representations of migration and diaspora, it is noticeable that many link …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… on ideology alone, I dissect their respective cityscapes, illustrating how the systems they analyze extend to impact the architecture and urban layouts (especially in terms of public housing) in London’s The Iron Heel (1908), Benson’s Lord of the World (1907), Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), …
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Addressing Occlusion in Panoptic Segmentation
… and showcase results on the complex COCO and Cityscapes datasets. The novel classification method shows promising results for object classification on occluded instances in complex scenes.
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Depth aware RCNN
… challenging KITTI detection benchmark and the Cityscapes dataset. Likewise, the performance of our depth prediction branch is slightly better compared with methods using the same depth prediction architecture.
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Adaptive Toldo systems T̳M̳
… shading device, which is emblematic of Islamic cityscapes. Re-examining its historical roots along with its contextual, cultural and functional traits, the thesis aims at setting a framework on the basis of which to speculate its reincarnation within contemporary practice. Such framework …
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The cityscape and the modern gaze in Bogotá, 1930-1950
… between rich and poor. Through the analysis of cityscapes and representations of the built environment produced during the 1930s and 1940s in Bogotá, this research presents an approach from the perspective of aesthetics to the problem of inequality. Through discourse analysis this dissertation …
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Towards a volumetric city
… the same time liberates the natural ground. New cityscapes can be designed above and below the new datum which permit the architecture and architect to reclaim the "dead" ground. The Ground is alive.
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Cape Mongo
… follow the Mongo characters through various cityscapes, their journeys conjure up imagery relating both to my childhood as well as to several of the historical trajectories that have lead up to the endemic inequality2 and social alienation which characterise present day Cape Town.
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Urban soundscapes: the effect of auditory stimulation on mood
… and how do they interact to affect mood in urban cityscapes? To what extent do some typical landscape sounds increase negative feelings? To what extent do other typical sounds create calming and positive feelings in the landscape? This research examines the extent to which different sounds in …
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At the Conflux
… It is an exploration of its sprawling nocturnal cityscapes crisscrossed by thruways, its urban grid illuminated by fiery-hued highways pulsing through the city like arteries circulating blood, its towering skyscrapers watching over all, unmoved—soaring sentinels of steel and glass, its patterns …
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Marginality, Mayhem and Middle Class Anxieties: Imaginaries of Masculinity and Urban Violence in Contemporary Mexican and Brazilian Film
… of masculinity and its inter-linkages with cityscapes marked by social and material violence. Violence is at the same time the producer and the product of prevailing mediatic representations of social strife. As such, material and symbolic violence generate a spectacle of otherness …
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"A Mind of Metal and Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism in Joss Whedon's <em>Firefly</em> and J.R.R Tolkien's <em>The Lord of The Rings</em>
… that rules from central worlds filled with vast cityscapes and seeks to impose its will upon the more agrarian outer worlds, who want to be free. With Tolkien, it is the ever industrializing Isengard and Mordor which serve as an existential threat to the peoples of Middle-earth. In both works, …
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Negotiating the State: British Telegraphic Politics and Spaces, 1870-1912
… which characterised the development of urban cityscapes, this thesis will demonstrate how these mechanisms of state were tested and reconfigured through different spatial frictions. Tracing the multiplicity of state and non-state, as well as human and non-human actors involved in the growth of …
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