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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Cultural sustainability"”.
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Cultural Sustainability through Architecture
… my thesis is dealing with the broad topic of cultural sustainability. I began my thesis thinking about a project dealing with ecological sustainability, but not long after starting to research, I gained the knowledge that the cultural aspect is often forgotten or minor. Thus the design got …
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Limassol Carnival Serenades: an approach to sustaining sound communities, safeguarding and cultural sustainability
… Commission for UNESCO of Cyprus as an Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2015. It is the only known Carnival that includes the Serenaders, male choirs, within its celebrations. Originating in the Ionian islands, a Serenade is a harmonised love poem, traditionally sung by men in a waltz rhythm, at …
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New civic landscapes : manifesting cultural sustainability and civic myth in urban public spaces
Civic spaces represent, constitute, and enhance the daily lives of citizens. As such, they hold an important role in constructing a communities social values regarding sustainable use of shared resources. This project investigates the thesis that constructive evolution and entropy of public space …
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Environmental and cultural sustainability In the built environment : an evaluation of LEED for historic preservation
… of buildings is an important process for both cultural and environmental sustainability. Buildings are frequently demolished and rebuilt long before necessitated by structural or material deterioration, wasting both materials and energy. Preservation can be seen as the ultimate form of …
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Design Solutions for Cultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Vernacular Residential Interiors from Northern and Central Jordan
… Jordan can contribute to the development of culturally sustainable interior design practices. This study integrates fieldwork, visual documentation, and qualitative interviews to explore the lived experiences and material cultures associated with Jordanian homes constructed between the 1880s …
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Localized design-manufacture for Developing Countries : a methodology for creating culturally sustainable architecture
… uptake in developing countries promote cultural sustainability and enable the production of endogenous solutions for development? This thesis, which focuses on technology dissemination for the benefit of under-served communities, is aimed at building capacity locally for self-sustained …
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Tourists' and community perceptions on sustainability of Umthayi Marual festival in Kwazulu-Natal.
… Festival is a marula first-fruits-appreciation cultural event organised, planned and staged annually at Manguzi area of Mhlabuyalingana Local Municipality in the northern part of Mkhanyakude District, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Festivals possess a potential to generate number of benefits for …
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The socio-cultural architectural features of vernacular and contemporary dwellings for sustainable desert dwellings design in southwest Libya
… have led to transformative patterns of socio-cultural life, which have recently resulted in the distortion of the architectural landscape of the region. Southwest Libya has experienced defects in desert-dwelling designs in terms of the lack of compatibility of those dwellings with the …
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The Kalahari Desert Festival: Music and Dance as a Celebration of Heritage and Identity Amongst the ǂKhomani San
… the festival emerged as an important site of San cultural sustainability and appreciation since its establishment in 2013. To contextualise my discussion, I discuss the various ways indigenous people in southern Africa have been historically marginalised as a direct cause of colonialism and …
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Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: An Investigation of Ecotourism Visitors’ Experience at Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana
… the ecotourism project at the site and its sustainability by assessing its 1) socio-cultural sustainability, in terms of improvement of social wellbeing of local people and conserving the local culture; 2) economic sustainability, in terms of income generation and creation of employment …
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Cultivating Multicultural Learning Environments: A Blueprint for Establishing a Korean Language and Cultural Immersion School in Southeastern Wisconsin
… Jin Abstract This qualitative study explores how cultural inclusivity can be fostered in elementary education through the development of an independent Korean Language and Cultural Immersion School in Southeastern Wisconsin. Grounded in multicultural education and culturally responsive pedagogy, …
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The internal layout design of social housing in Libya : a cultural value perspective
… the environment, economy, society and culture. Cultural sustainability reflects the ideas of how to accommodate local cultural values and norms with modem means. Previous research on housing design from an Islamic perspectivehas consistently concluded that traditional housing design for Muslims …
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Let my people grow: the diffusion of the Jewish farming movement through the Jewish community of the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area
… surrounding its diffusion, and the Jewish cultural and pro-environmental influence of the movement on participants. A grounded theory and mixed method approach was used to discover empirical regularities surrounding this phenomenon. This research resulted in the generation of a substantive …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
… able to revitalize without losing their unique cultural character and identity. In particular, the role of landscape amenities and urban landscape design in this process is examined, in order to understand if and how particular site-scale strategies, techniques and impacts of landscape can …
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Rischio idrogeologico, industriale e antropizzazione: studio di un modello per la creazione di un ‘sistema di salvaguardia integrata’ per il patrimonio culturale e paesaggistico applicabile al contesto della laguna di Santa Gilla
… discussing and understanding the issues of cultural sustainability, current regulations and the broad topic of community participation in the protection of cultural heritage in the context of Southern European Archaeology (Italy and Spain), in order to put forward an alternative …
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Performing Bantu: Narrative Constructions of Identity in Diaspora
… subjects' discursive practices associated with cultural sustainability, as well as deployment of social media in rejecting and resisting social and cultural influences that threaten the integrity of Somali Bantu identity in the United States. The dissertation also situates the subjects within …
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A Gender and Development (GAD) implementation evaluation: Testimonios reveal the successes, challenges, and unpredicted results for women's equality and community sustainability
… thinking about spirituality, ecological and cultural sustainability.</p><p>The study found some changes from the original project persisted, some behaviors reverted back to previous cultural norms, and some ill-feelings from the project implementation lingered. The study discovered …
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Green stormwater infrastructure, preference, and human well-being
Recently, cities across the world implemented Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI), a strategy that uses vegetation to manage stormwater. While evidence suggests that GSI provides ecological benefits to the urban environment, we know little about how GSI impacts human health and well-being. We …
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