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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Malls"”.
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Suburban revisions : redesigning suburban strip malls
… of prototypes for the infill of existing strip malls in suburban strip commercial centers. These prototypes act as a systematic tool for the possible widespread densification and diversification of uses within these centers. The coherence and engaging vitality that will result from the …
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Declining tenant diversity in retail malls, 1970-2000
A study of tenant diversity in retail malls was carried out to determine if tenant diversity declined between 1970 and 2000. The study measured tenant diversity by examining the percent of tenants that occur more than once in a given set of sample malls where each occupant of a single mall space …
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Festival modernism : downtown plans & pedestrian malls, 1956-1974
… at the fringe. By the late 1980s, pedestrian malls, once a panacea for struggling downtowns, had become the quintessential failed urban project. The rise and fall of the pedestrian mall marks a critical moment in the trajectory of modernism and the history of the American city. The recent and …
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Emergence of Special Art Exhibits in Shopping Malls in Shanghai
… the phenomena of joint ventures between shopping malls and special art exhibits in Shanghai. Little research directly addressed this phenomenon from the museum or exhibit perspective. Over the past three years, at least 27 notable art exhibits were installed in shopping malls instead of art …
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The InforMALL: Shopping malls as infrastructures to support small-scale informal businesses
My dissertation inquiry focuses on the informal economic sector within the emerging economic area of Delft. This was born out of a personal fascination with the concept of informal or 'alternative-formal' economics. The existence of this concept was first brought to my attention through the Spaces …
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Shopping malls as ideological battlegrounds: discipline and power in Riyadh’s pseudo-public spaces
… in European and North American cities — whose malls have been competing with the city and its urbanity — malls in Middle Eastern and East Asian contexts have been an integral part of the urban process as well as the socio-cultural fabric of cities; Riyadh is no exception. However, the mall …
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Imagineering the community: The vagrant spaces of the malls, enclave estates, the filmic and the televisual
… in the 'real' sites of the contemporary shopping malls and the ever more visible master planned communities. These sites present nostalgic impulses of a community which is in harmony with itself, specifically drawing upon the concert of no idealised 'village' ethos which speaks of a more simple …
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Mortars to malls: Analyzing the relationship between peacebuilding and urban regeneration through a comparative study of place
This thesis examines the relationship between peacebuilding and urban regeneration in three post-conflict cities: Belfast, Sarajevo, and Beirut. In doing so, the research aims to answer the following questions: what is peacebuilding, how does it relate to a peace agreement, and how are these …
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Sorry we're closed : what closes malls and community centers in the United States? an analysis and predictive modeling of distressed centers
… of distressed retail centers, specifically malls and community centers, understanding what factors lead to their closure, and coming up with a predictive model to measure the properties' probability of defaulting. We analyze the geography of approximately 4,900 malls and community centers …
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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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Lessons for Chinese mega-mall development : a case study of the South China Mall
… 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 future mega-mall projects, it is …
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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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Rethinking Dead Mall: Reconsidering an American vacant mall site as a seed for re-growth
… growing consumerism. In support of the gigantic malls, more service infrastructures were built as in the multi-storied parking garages, surface parking, HVAC. Currently, the total number of malls in the U.S is approximately 116,000. The downside of the development has been observed as rapid as it …
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'Flea-ting' Markets: Commodities, Consumption and Value in a Flea Market in Singapore
… conventional retail spaces such as shopping malls. Indeed, shopping malls are primary and significant sites of consumption in the `modern? nation-state of Singapore, and play an important role both in its cityscape, as well as in the everyday consumption practices of consumers living in the …
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Consumer perceptions towards the marketing of functional foods in the Umhlathuze region
… number of 384 consumers at Richards bay shopping malls (230) and Empangeni shopping malls (154) respectively. The findings of the study showed that consumers' behaviour towards purchasing functional foods is influenced by the following: advertisements on social media accounts, health benefits of …
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The desert city within : notions about urban form for Phoenix, Arizona
… development, bedroom subdivisions, shopping malls, and over-dependence on the automobile; devoid of pedestrians and a street life. It is a city where an aggressive street grid is the only form of definition, in the absence of a physical urbanity that speaks of identity, character and …
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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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Framework for ongoing stakeholder engagement in policies for urban freight logistics in Singapore
… of urban freight policy design for retail malls in Singapore could weave stakeholder engagement into the policy lifecycle. This work also provides a framework for assessing the impact that a wide range of urban freight solutions could have on the different system stakeholders. System design …
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The places, power, and politics of Uganda’s secondhand clothing industry
… through often overlooked spaces of consumption: malls, markets, and informal street pop-up shops. Following Mansvelt’s call for research that takes seriously, “consumption as an arena in which governance, regulation, and citizenship are produced”, I analyze secondhand clothing markets and malls …
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Star Polymers and Dendrimers Based on Highly Functional Resorcin- and Pyrogallolarenes
… different methods (MALDI-TOF-MS, SEC-RI and SEC-MALLS, NMR).
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