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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"MALL"”.
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Jeddah Auto Mall
… building would be a symbol of luxury. The auto mall gives a common platform to different car makers to display their cars and address their competition under one roof which would be convenient for customers to compare cars. The building has twelve show room units. Each unit has a display area, …
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Lessons for Chinese mega-mall development : a case study of the South China Mall
China is embracing mega-mall development: Seven out of the ten largest shopping malls in the world will have been located in China by the year 2010. All the completed mega-malls are now suffering from high vacancy rates and therefore experiencing enormous economic losses. To avoid the failure of …
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Rethinking Dead Mall: Reconsidering an American vacant mall site as a seed for re-growth
… one of the most common was the Enormous shopping mall in suburban districts which are the collections of a vast range of retail corporations in response to the growing consumerism. In support of the gigantic malls, more service infrastructures were built as in the multi-storied parking garages, …
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Atrio-Mall: el atrio como mirador vertiginoso
La tesis genera un sistema de atrios y circulaciones, con vacíos de plantas circulares, y locales que se ubican de manera axial. El cilindro varía sus radios y sus alturas, mientras fija la ubicación de los subsistemas que lo componen. Los pares de escaleras van a eje con la circulación comercial, …
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Metabolizing obsolescence: strategies for the dead mall
… sheds light upon opportunities presented by dead malls in the American landscape. The Lincoln Square Mall of Urbana, Illinois, is analyzed as a case study to determine how obsolescence occurred and what strategies were effective for re-gaining vitality. This thesis utilizes the concepts of …
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Absurd machine : project on the National Mall
… the ubiquitous state capitols and state capitol malls, are classically inspired European architecture and planning of reason and nature, adopted in America by Jefferson in 18th century as symbols of democratic institutions. These symbols are in contradiction to our evolving dialogue with …
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A love letter to the American mall
… the United States, giving birth to the regional mall. Gruen's wish for the Mall was to provide a civic center to participate in modern community life which was traditionally served by the urban downtown. But the origins of the mall do not come without developers. And developer performa became …
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LIVING MALL Claustro cautivo de claustros y clusters
"La tesis parte de la investigación de la tipología del claustro y un caso de estudio en particular, King Toronto de Bjarke Ingels Group, para así intentar generar una novedad conceptual a partir de su entendimiento. En principio, entendemos que los edificios dentro de la tipología se organizan a …
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Reimagining Gaborone main mall: precinct urban design framework
… and oldest economic hub of the city, Main Mall located in the capital core is currently in decline, gradually losing its pioneering role and reputation as a symbol of Botswana's post-colonial identity and economic engine. This may cause massive detriment to the local surrounding community, …
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Mall re-imagined reconsidering a Cape Town shopping centre
There is a common assumption that shopping malls are "bad" buildings. But this thesis aims to contest this assumption and offer a new way to approach shopping centre design. The shopping mall is not bad in the sens that it functions highly effieciently and serves the retail requirements of both …
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Effects of Hedonic and Utilitarian Shopping Satisfaction on Mall Consumption
… utilitarian rewards during a single visit to the mall. The orchestrating of both hedonic and utilitarian benefits in one visit challenges mall management and retailers to deliver the maximum shopping experience. This study seeks to reveal relationships among six variables: demographic …
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The assemblage of exchange : housing, industry and the potential mall
This thesis is interested in examining a contemporary generative method for approaching design in urban areas. It considers the levels of interactions in the city in which the questions of architecture are clearly affected by the conditions of this new information age. One cannot ignore that within …
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The Urban Sublime: A Park Lodge for the National Mall
… sublime experiences of nature. The National Mall in Washington, D.C. is a National Park. Not only in name, but also in spirit. The Mall is a landscape consisting of monumental structures connected by parkland and accessible mainly by foot. However, the National Mall lacks a Great Lodge of its …
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Ethnography of 'Herero Mall' (Windhoek) as a post-apartheid social space
… the social meaning of the so-called ‘Herero Mall’ in the heart of Katutura. Providing an important means of economic survival, ‘Herero Mall’ is a solace to the urban subaltern, to invoke Gayatri Spivak’s concept. Most traders if not all are unable to join formal employment because of their …
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Meanings and motivations among older adult mall walkers: a qualitative analysis
… and explore the meaning of and motivation for mall walking among a group of older, rural, independently living adults. Interviews were conducted with 14 respondents aged 62-81 and participant observation was conducted at a rural mall. Mall walking was initially motivated by three conditions: …
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The mall society : illusion, exclusion, and control in the urban center
… our largest cities--in the form of the shopping mall. This thesis explores some of the powerful implications of this shift: 1) the deepening of a consumer culture; 2) a heightening of socio-economic polarity; and 3) the institutionalization of a new form of subtle, omnipresent, largely consensual …
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Perspectives on the revitalization of a downtown mall in Charlottesville, Virginia
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.
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Pedestrians walking speed and psychological distance at bus terminal and shopping mall
… which are bus terminal and two shopping malls namely Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (TBS), MyTown Shopping Centre and Sunway Velocity Mall. In overall, the fastest walking speed was obtained at bus terminal and the slowest was obtained at shopping mall with the average walking speed of 1.03 …
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A Comparison of Mall Shopping Behavior Between Hispanic-Americans and Anglo-Americans
… characteristics, responses to excitement in the mall, consumption patterns, and repatronage intention. A total of seven hypotheses were developed, all of which were either supported or partially supported.
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Assessing shopping mall led urban restructuring in Lusaka: location factors and key actors.
… factors that determine the location of shopping malls and the resulting urban restructuring that has taken place in Lusaka. It was guided by three objectives; to evaluate the factors that determine the location of shopping malls; to identify the key actors in the location of shopping malls; and …
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