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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Imageability"”.
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Toward Conservation of Magnolia Bogs on Utility Rights-Of-Way: Increasing Imageability
Magnolia Bogs are a rare wetland type known only to the gravelly sands of the inner Chesapeake Bay watershed. Scattered across upland landscapes just east of the fall-line, these habitats occur where lenses of clay intersect the rolling terrain and groundwater seeps along the faces of hillsides. …
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Imageability and Intelligibility in 3D Game Environments Examining Experiential and Cultural Influence on the Design Process
… game environments is correlated to the imageability of the projected two-dimensional screen image. The application of this methodology to internationally popular, and culturally specific, game environments establishes new knowledge on tacit cultural influences within game design …
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IMAGEability of place : experimental form and public space in an exploratorium for art and interactive telecommunications
… urban environment, such a public place of high imageability can form a stable focus for daily human existence. The imageability of the Exploratorium need not arise purely from monumentalism or novel aesthetics. The legibility of this public place can instead ensue from a rich application and …
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Links between Short-Term Memory and Word Retrieval in Aphasia
… higher repetition accuracy on high frequency and imageability words, while individuals with semantic language comprehension impairments tend to err on items at the end of a list and are not as susceptible to manipulations of frequency and imageability. The current study further explored the link …
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Understanding and repeating words: evidence from aphasia
… to impairment than concrete words. Word imageability was investigated in more detail in a number of experiments with a word meaning deaf patient (DRB). It was shown that his impairment is one of access from the input lexicon to the semantic system. The impairment results in …
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Building an urban image
… and "shared space". The readability, or imageability (in Kevin Lynch's term) of a city results from the recognition of larger urban patterns, organizations, and elements. One such pattern, the "city edge", is identified and explored through the design. A "shared space" is one which can be …
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The junction: transcending sociotechnical divides through youth space
… In reacting to urban infrastructure, the idea of imageability and presence are important considerations. These concepts enable youth to positively engage with the architecture, and allows the building to convey its purpose and programmatic intent, thereby creating a strong social interface with …
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(Re)-programming typologies of public infrastructure to serve as a tool for cultural evolution: a re-imagination of the Cape Town Station
… the larger field of discussion of aestetic and imageability. This dissertation therefore will approach the problem from a completely different angle, and will use the issue of identity in a post-apartheid South Africa as a basis to explore method of design that is appropriate for the …
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The Kelburn connection : this study [dissertation] has been carried out in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Diploma of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
… visual anarchy, then the townscape will have 'imageability'. Kelburn, an inner city suburb has several functions in Wellington's townscape. It is a visual catchment and an identity area with clearly defined boundaries. It is also a microcosm of Wellington, containing some of the elements of the …
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Conscious Conceptual Thought
… the history of philosophy centered on the non-imageability of certain mental states to demonstrate how purely sensory views of the mind vastly constrain what is thinkable. In Chapter 3 I survey contemporary arguments in the cognitive phenomenology debate, and I provide several arguments in …
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Envelopes of adaptation - an architecture of social thresholds and flexibility: investigating the socio-technical relationship between the built edge and social surface
… ethnographics, social development and imageability of spatial ordering are all fundamental factors that need to be addressed within building envelope design (Lovell, 2010). The design dissertation inquiry explores the multi-faceted nature of building envelopes as well as an architecture …
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The relationship between visuospatial perception networks and visual confrontation naming in aphasia
… of semantic properties (e.g. prototypicality, imageability, semantic category, etc.) [1,6,12,18,22,23,51,52,66,77] and the specific effects of these semantic properties and the neural networks that subserve them remain relatively understudied. Models of visual confrontation naming performance …
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Liberated pixels : alternative narratives for lighting future cities
… social directions for future infrastructures of "imageability" (Lynch 1964) in the city.
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The effect of place image on the uses of public space : the Cheonggye Stream case
… buildings and landmarks increase the imageability of the place and therefore the level of familiarity. By contrast, a lack of landmarks, similar skylines, and complicated paths enforce the disconnected feeling, and hence people feel that those areas' paths are very long and tiring, …
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Pronounced Absurdity: The Wedding-scape Outside a Conical Field
… architecture and critiques the misalignment of imageability and physicality in Xiamen’s wedding spaces. This thesis imagines a set of wedding infrastructures inserted in the highly dense urban fabric of Shapowei district, building up fantasies with the appropriation of architectural symbols. The …
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Understanding localness of built form at the urban scale: investigating 'Maqamiat' in the case of Karachi, Pakistan
… and the impact of global forces through imageability, aesthetics and style. The research identifies that urban anthropologists are better positioned to understand and explain maqamiat because of their cross-disciplinary approach to analysing the society, as compared to urban theorists. …
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A drug-free theranostic approach for localized and systemic diseases via nanoparticles
… can also simultaneously be endowed with imageability to track the success of therapy and hence a subfield in nanomedicine called “theranostic” advened in recent years. However, the obstacles in the translation of the nanoparticles such as batch to batch variation during scale-up, the lack …
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Involuntary retrieval from autobiographical memory and the nature of cues
… To assess whether the effect of the concreteness/imageability of the cues observed in involuntary memory retrieval can be obtained in a parallel task in which autobiographical memories are obtained through voluntary retrieval we ran the last experiment (Exp 7) in the dissertation. The results of …
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Leveraging Open-Source and Crowdsourced Data to Evaluate Spatial Justice in Cultural Planning
… and integrated Kevin Lynch's (1960) notion of imageability as an analytical lens to identify perceived discrepancies between community insights and digital datasets. The study provided a systematic approach for the multi-level examination of cultural resources, highlighting the conceptual …
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The corporate plaza and the office tower: The potential for a mutualistic space-form relationship
… of usability as well as a relationship to the imageability of the skyscraper, ensuring a holistic image for the site/place in which the skyscraper and plaza coexist in a mutualistic relationship.
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