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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Farmhouses"”.
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Farmhouses That Became Boarding Houses in the Catskill Mountains of New York State
In this thesis the author uses oral histories to study vernacular architecture, analyzing the changes in the way people in the Catskills have used buildings, specifically farm dwellings, to make a living, first as farmers and then as proprietors of boarding houses. The Catskills region in upstate …
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An Urban Dwelling Place for Farmers
… From spacious rural cultivator with evocative farmhouses, to confined urban neo-farmer, the stage for dwelling is extremely critical to determine. These displaced farmers do not perform all typical city functions, but they are confined as city dwellers. For them, it remains critical to be …
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A study of the parishes of Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys 1782-1947.
… given by the persistence in the siting of farmhouses, of land holdings and land ownership patterns and by the gradual acceptance of appropriate innovation underpinned other fluctuations in the economy. The Enclosure Acts heralded changes in the distribution of cottages and in the …
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Preservation without boundaries : transitioning Bhutan's traditional settlements into an urban environment
… The conservation program should celebrate the farmhouses and government officials should learn from their design by making urban growth in Thimphu's valley relate to the original settlement patterns. Second, the most efficient way to guarantee the survival of traditional structures is to …
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The Spiritual Curation of American Modernism
… seekers, they join seances in Vermont farmhouses, attend Theosophical lectures on Karma, get lost in copies of Jnana-Y oga, journey to Buddhist temples in China, and consume spiritual manuals on Mentalphysics. But where do they go after those encounters? And, more importantly, what do …
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Making land fly : the institutionalization of China's land quota markets and its implications for urbanization, property rights, and intergovernmental politics
… new land quotas by demolishing sparsely located farmhouses, and resettling peasants into high-density apartments. These quotas are then sold in new land quota markets to real estate developers. I find that China's land quota markets alter the traditional calculus of location and land use theory: …
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Encapsulation of Waste in Cementitious Systems for use in Civil Engineering Applications
… buildings such as sport centres and playgrounds, farmhouses, DIY outlets, outbuildings, storage units, garden centres among others. The high porosity of the encapsulated plastic concrete may also distinguish them as pervious concrete capable of applications in concrete flatwork applications such …
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The demand for nonfarm housing: a time series analysis
<p>In this study, an attempt is made to identify the sources of bias in the estimates of the elasticities of housing demand and estimate the demand functions for housing with emphasis on the problem of identification. The main finding of this study is that the permanent income elasticity of housing …