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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"No Man's Land"”.
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Reclaiming no-man's land : a case study in the utilization of expressway land-scraps
… problem, and in the process generate technical innovations, architectural forms and methodological approaches which potentially can have more general application. The chosen site is a tangled intersection of expressways in the center of Boston. A plan is developed for the construction of a complex …
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Bridging across Nicosia's divide : from a "no man's land" to a shared public realm
… Cyprus, by rebuilding the Buffer Zone -the "no man's land" that presently divides the city- in a way that encourages the sharing of the urban space by both the Greek and Turkish communities. The author investigates theories of the relationship between activities and the physical space and how …
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Collaborating in No man's land : an enquiry towards creating an environment for 'equal' collaboration between international partners in an applied theatre project
… study, I used my master's fieldwork project, No-man's land, a theatre project involving performers from South Africa and The Netherlands. The problematics of international exchanges in which people, resources and art works are brought together over long distances, generates issues around …
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Tower House
… dates back to the Civil War when the Totomoy was no man's land between Union and Confederate earth works. It has been farmed by my grandfather since the late 1940s. The house is a pair of rectangles separated by a stair. The concrete block walls are punctured by large windows, aligned to define …
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Identity and representation under occupation: cultural conflict in contemporary cinema
… (Moshen Makhmalbaf, 2001), NicU? zemija (No Man's Land, Danis Tanovic 2001), and Yadon llaheyya (Divine Intervention, Elia Suleiman, 2002). The three films exemplify the ways in which the concepts: of home, nation and identity are "inextricably interwoven" in both the actualities of the …
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Border fusion / Fusión en la frontera : integrating industry, habitation and exchange in a divided city
… to population and activity centers and their economic and social importance as sites for border crossings, these communities are sites of contention which have tended to attract a mixture of conventionally undesirable development programs. The critical interface connecting the US and Mexican …
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The liquid border: Subjectivity at the limits of the nation-state in southeast Europe
… from the perspective of cultural and performance theory. The site of this study is the trilateral border region of Prespa, where Albania, Greece and Macedonia/FYROM meet over the waters of two lakes. This ethnography offers an analysis of the discursive ways in which the border, a …
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Walling political conflicts : an urban archetype for the Demilitarized Zone
… called the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The no man's land is a thickly belted corridor on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea, incorporating territory on both sides of the cease-fire line and being created by retreating 2km along each side of the line. For these …
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Exploration of nonevent among Israeli expatriates
This study explores the experience of nonevent among Israeli expatriates. A nonevent is the failure of an expected pivotal life event, or change, to occur. An account of the lived experience of nonevent and its personal meaning has been lacking in the literature to date. This study has attempted to …
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The popular Christian novel in America, 1918-1953
The purpose of this study is to explore a phenomenon which is both literary and social: the popularity of didactic Christian novels in twentieth-century American literature. Specifically, the study is restricted to a consideration of best-selling Christian novels and an examination of the attitudes …
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Gender, feminism and talk on British television, 1970-1990
… programmes from across this time period: No Man’s Land (Associated Television/ITV, 1973), Good Afternoon! (Thames Television/ITV, 1971-1984), Pictures of Women: Sexuality (Channel 4, 1984), Watch the Woman (Channel 4, 1985), and Question Time (BBC One, 1979-present). These case studies …
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Planning and Construction History of the Eight Columns, Anti-Mongol Stone Fortress in the Sichuan Theater at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty
… Fortress, and the Kuzhuai Fort. Collectively known as the "Eight Columns," these fortresses formed the core of Yu's Sichuan Mountain Fortress System and played a pivotal role. During the Song-Mongol War, Yu devised a defensive strategy based on Song's river defense strategy and the geographical …
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Psycho-history: An Integrated Approach to the Teaching of History in the High School
… as dull and irrelevant to life. This is not surprising when one recalls the weary round of talk (unrelieved by chalk) and of dictated notes to be learned and then tested. Such methods almost guarantee boredom, particularly as much of the subject matter is incomprehensible to the young in …