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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Los Angeles (California)"”.
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Housing...the Hillside, Los Angeles, California
… for a prototypical hillside housing community in Los Angeles, California. As a prototype it is responsible for setting an architectural precedent. In this effort, the Thesis continues with focus on issues of construction methodology, urban planning, and land use relationships concerning the …
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Redevelopment of the Union Pacific Freight Terminal, Los Angeles, California
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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The Making of the Classic Period of the Long Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California
… dominant narrative short Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California. Although Black Power and the Black Power Movement are experienced in cities across the nation this study is being undertaken because African American participation in Black Power in Los Angeles is often overlooked. …
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Magical epistemic communities : the construction of specialized social realities in Bunyoro, Uganda and Los Angeles, California.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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Chicana Power and Pedagogy
… student mobilization against Proposition 21 in Los Angeles, California. In keeping with radical traditions in education, the research contextualizes Chicanas within a wider historical context by using a materialist theory of consciousness, culture and politics. Critical narrative interviews are …
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Prefabrication and the individual
… in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and in Los Angeles, California. A set of principles (the universal) was derived through the analysis of conditions on the two sites (the specific), and a new prefabricated construction system was developed in response. The universal acts as a platform for …
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Effect of seismic loading on steel moment resisting frames
… and the columns. The Northridge earthquake near Los Angeles California in 1994 showed that the existing designs for SMRF connections were inadequate and unstable. As a result, new connection designs were needed for SMRF construction. This thesis will first discuss the causes for the failures of …
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The Perception of Travel Agents as to Passenger Acceptance of the High Speed Civil Transport in Commercial Airline Service: A Study of Tomorrow's Transpacific Air Travel
… sent to randomly selected travel agents in the Los Angeles, California area. The questionnaire examined criteria that passengers use to select transpacific flights, including fare, schedule, flight time length, and comfort. Results indicated that all passengers will be attracted to supersonic …
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Collective spaces : a study in the conversion of storage to living spaces in City of Industry, California
… Zooming in on site, City of Industry, in Los Angeles, California, an island of warehouse typologies was found in the midst of diverse residential neighborhoods facing increasing housing pressures. Furthermore, mappings of "big box" warehouse spaces within Industry revealed inefficiencies …
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Equitable visitation of national parks : shedding light on community partner perspectives to improve park planning for all
… Mountains National Recreation Area (outside of Los Angeles California) is used as a case study to research the successes and challenges for more equitably distributing park's positive impacts on health and well-being to its adjacent communities. This research inquires questions around sense of …
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Splendor of Ruins: Gang, State, and Crime in Honduras
… community of international gangs with ties to Los Angeles, California, called the maras, and campaigns against them by the Honduran state and United States Homeland Security. I emphasize the ways in which Mano Dura, or Strong Hand policing, along with Anti-Gang legislation, undermined the …
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State Estimation for Tracking of Tagged Sharks with an AUV
… semifasciata</em>) in SeaPlane Lagoon, Los Angeles, California.</p>
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Observability of Origin-Destination matrices for Dynamic Traffic Assignment
… case study involving a large-scale network from Los Angeles, California is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.
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"Art is Love is God" : Wallace Berman and the Transmission of Aleph, 1956-66
In 1956 in Los Angeles, California, Wallace Berman, a Beat assemblage artist, poet and founder of Semina magazine, began to make a film. Over ten years, the film now known as Aleph became Berman's personal record, documenting family, friends, Verifax collage artwork and inspirations from popular …
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"Punk Has Always Been My School": The Educative Experience of Punk Learners
… of six adult participants located in Los Angeles, California and Gainesville, Florida, narrative data is interpreted to reveal their education journey that contains mis-educative experiences, educative experiences, and ultimately educative healing experiences.</p> <p>Through the …
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Latino Families and Parental Involvement: A Case Study of Home Literature Conversations in a Primary Bilingual Classroom
… in my first and second grade classroom in East Los Angeles, California. I was guided by the following research questions in this qualitative teacher research study: a) What is the nature of the home literature discussions, specifically what types of talk do parents and children use to think …
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HOME : collecting narratives, promoting dialogue, and guiding change
… homes. The community of Watts in South Central, Los Angeles, California serves as a case study in understanding what meaningful content collecting narratives about home can reveal. As a study in my own home, the thesis also operates as a journey of self-discovery in rethinking preconceived …
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Imagine Pershing Square : experiments in cinematic urban design
… single public space, Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles, California, with three cinematic "acts," this project puts three different methodological approaches to the test. Act One, "Pershing Square: Of Time and Place," employs critical theories to investigate the park through cultural …
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Integrating the Arts and Sciences in the Museum Setting
… case studies include the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California; The National Museum of Math in Manhattan, New York; The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore Maryland; The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge in Washington D.C., and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. These case studies review the …
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The Stylistic Variance and Underlying Unity in Selected Organ Works by Clarence Mader
… spent the majority of his professional career in California as organist, composer, teacher and organ consultant. Chapter Two will outline the various influences that shaped Mader as a composer during the 20th century in America, as well as identify the common threads that permeate his music. A …
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