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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Image of the City"”.
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Television's image of the city : the Jamaica Plain case.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Place Pulse : measuring the collaborative image of the city
This thesis presents Place Pulse, a tool capable of conducting large crowdsourced visual preference surveys. The data collected with Place Pulse was used to create quantitative measures of the perceptions people hold of urban environments. From this data, novel algorithms identified locations …
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The image of the city: Boston, ten years later.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1969. M.C.P.
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Reimagining Cape Town Walls: The Culture and Image of the City
Public culture creates an image of the city for both local and international publics to engage and encounter. The needs of the city to be globally recognised and create opportunities for economic growth can reveal discrepancies in development agendas and raises questions about fulfilling the needs …
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"The Image of PLAZA" : an analysis of an academic community web space using Kevin Lynch's approach for "The image of the city"
This thesis is a case study of how the design issues of a community web space can be approached from the viewpoint of urban design not in terms of appearance but in terms of its functionality. An urban public place like a plaza and a community web space both serve their residents' social lives …
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A Collective Sense of Place and the Image of the City @ Urban Public Spaces: Analysis on People's Perception of User-Generated Image Content and Hashtags on Instagram
… restructured with new meaning, reflecting their socio-cultural, political, historical, and technological influences. Over the last two decades, the rapid technological advancements and increasingly widespread use of mobile devices give people a chance to share their experiences of their …
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The city of a hundred voices : Berlin's polyphonic urbanism
… multiple layers and its eclectic urban character of the past 100 years have resulted in a city rich with different architectural voices and urban ideals. The constant making and unmaking of Berlin's urban form has become part of the its unique DNA. Yet, after its reunification in 1989, a new voice …
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Mixed-use building at Washington Circle inspired by the Situationist ideas
The project is a mixed-use building based on three main Situationist themes: 1. The creations of situations - creating a foundation for the spontaneous interaction between users of a building and people randomly passing by. 2. The Labyrinth - a playful structure that is not necessarily rational and …
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MIA-mi: Exploring the Affect of Digital Cinema Through Micro-Budget Production Techniques
… written, and directed by Yesenia Lima in pursuit of the Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida. The film is a satirical and naturalistic look at the standing global image of a city, Miami, FL, and its inhabitants. The guiding question behind …
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Revitalizing Kuwait's empty city center
The phenomenon of land vacancy in Kuwait's city center and its adverse effect on both the image of the city and land economics was investigated, and issues of symbolism, character, and identity were addressed. In addition to the description of the physical and natural environments, social context, …
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Placelogging : mobile spatial annotation and its potential use to urban planners and designers
With the rise of 'Mobile 2.0,' digital telecommunications are beginning to provide deep resources of information to mobile city dwellers. Particularly striking among recent applications is placelogging, defined here as the practice of digitally annotating physical places with user-generated text …
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Detroit : open city
Detroit is often regarded as America's largest city in decline, a metropolis that has failed to recover from an insidious cycle of deindustrialization, racism, suburban flight and laggard politics. This image of the city highlights the tragic aspects of Detroit's urban development and obscures the …
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A multiuse building for Vaasa, Finland : a design through change for continuity
This design thesis presents an alternative way of introducing a new building into an existing urban setting. The visibility of change through time is one of a city's most valuable assets. However, the sense of continuity is often destroyed by our obsession for change. In designing for continuity, …
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TG (TRANSIT GUIDANCE) : spaces for wayfinding in multi-modal transportation hubs, a proposal for Atlanta's Lenox Station
"The efficiency of the city and therefore the contribution of urbanization to development will depend to an important degree on how the problems of mobility are resolved. " Wilfred Owen (1972) Based on current urban patterns, this thesis assumes that as cities continue to expand and densify, living …
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The water's edge: a point of termination, a point of continuation, a point of generation
The design of a mixed-use market, three axes of influence was studied on a site at the end of King Street in Alexandria, VA. A semicircular form was developed that terminated the main circulation axis down King Street, continued the free form edge of the Potomac, and acted as a visual beginning to …
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Towards an explanation and prediction of residential movement: An examination of the concept of sectoral movement, Adams restricted image causal hypothesis, and the initial development of a predictive statistical model of restricted lateral movement
… argues that movers possess a restricted sectoral image of the city based upon their home sector. This image operates to restrict a household’s movement to its home sector. This research examines that particular causal hypothesis in terms of its theoretical basis and tests its explanatory role for …
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Planning for school choice
The image of the picturesque urban schoolhouse is increasingly becoming a thing of the past. City schools were viewed with fear or disdain. The urban school's image shifted to an unruly coop for 'dangerous' unteachable students. This stark juxtaposition reflects the gradual transition in the urban …
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Designing a moment in time : First Night and Boston's public spaces
From the international Olympic Games to small-scale neighborhood street festivals, ephemeral events produce profound effects on the image of their host cities; in turn, these cities' images influence the character of the ephemeral events produced within the public realm. Boston's annual New Year's …
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Flæðarnar á Sauðárkróki. Tillaga að miðbæjargarði
… Patrik Grahn um grunniðkanir í görðum, Image of the City eftir Kevin Lynch fyrir svæðisgreiningu, aðalskipulag Skagafjarðar, gildandi deiliskipulag fyrir Flæðarnar og fleiri. Einnig voru gerðar fjölbreyttar greiningar til að komast að eiginleikum og göllum svæðisins sem er grunnurinn að …
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The image of a city : a place for the people
This thesis is a proposal to create ''The Image of a City: A Place for the People." The study begins by exploring the notion of an image, studying the various images that may already exist, and creating a place from the chosen image or images that becomes a recognizable symbol of the city. Images …
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