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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"Jerusalem"”.
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Jerusalem, cité où montent les nations
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A pilgrim's hostel for Jerusalem, Jordan
Thesis (B.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1955.
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Erich Mendelsohn : from Berlin to Jerusalem
This paper examines the creative persona of Erich Mendelsohn's seemingly incompatible bodies of architecture in Europe, Palestine and the U.S. The limits of existing formal analysis to explain his architectural shifts were the impetus for investigating the architectural position that facilitated …
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Forget Jerusalem: William Faulkner's Hyperreal Novel
… novel—the oft-neglected If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—as a proto-postmodern text which, when examined by the light of Baudrillard's theory of simulacra and simulations, informs the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism. This paper treats each author's work as a lens through which to view …
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1959.
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The Ethics of Survival, or Notes Toward Jerusalem
<p>“The Ethics of Survival, or Notes Toward Jerusalem” argues that modern institutional “reason”—across psychiatry, law, political economy, philosophy, and history—often functions as illogic: a grammar that performs rationality while enforcing conditions that foreclose relation, survival, and …
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Walk to Jerusalem: Facilitating physical activity in a faith community
… populations. The present study used the Walk to Jerusalem program as a motivational tool within a Caucasian faith-based setting. The objectives were to increase physical activity, decrease blood pressure and weight, if needed, and improve attitude toward physical activity. The primary objective …
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Spatialities of conflict : identity and exclusion in Jerusalem and Johannesburg
… through examination of individual perceptions of Jerusalem and Johannesburg. The two case studies have vastly different histories and current conditions, but each provides a window into a different portion of the process of shaping a city through exclusion. Cognitive mapping is the main mechanism …
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A Tainted Opportunity: Palestinian Practitioners Navigating Development Work in Occupied Jerusalem
… This dissertation explores how Palestinian Jerusalemites who work for an Israeli-led socioeconomic project relate to their role within a racialised development apparatus. Specifically, it discusses the tensions that shape the social lives of young Palestinian workers from Jerusalem (aged …
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Israelizing Jerusalem : the encounter between architectural and national ideologies, 1967-1977
The victorious Israeli acquisition of East Jerusalem during the 1967 War set off industrious construction intended to turn a modernist Israeli town and an ancient Jordanian city into "a united (and indivisible)" Israeli Jerusalem. This dissertation questions the reasons and venues for the …
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Cultural interfaces : (in)visible spaces in the Old City of Jerusalem
… problematics of the famously contested place, Jerusalem, and tries to understand the impact of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians on the fabric of the Old City. The goal is to describe how the inhabitants of this contested place deal, everyday, with their physical environment and …
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Uncovering the Hidden Palestinian City of Jerusalem: Disrupting Power Through Art Intervention
… Zionist forces emptied the western quarters of Jerusalem and its environs of their indigenous Arab inhabitants leading to the displacement and dispossession of an estimated 60,000 Palestinians. (Cattan, 2000 p. 45) In this practice-based thesis, I investigate the 'urbicide' of Jerusalem - a word …
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Proposal to establish urban continuity and identity along the Jerusalem-Ramallah Road
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Caligula in Jerusalem : the hostile relationship between Emperor Gaius and his Jewish subjects.
… in Alexandria and the emperor's decree that the Jerusalem Temple be converted into a pagan shrine. It is concluded that Gaius was a competent leader who intentionally asserted his power over the region of Judea based on his knowledge of the Jewish people based on their history and his …
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