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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Place Theory"”.
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Centers all the way down: a study of centrality in the modern city
… proposed by Doxiadis, Alexander, Central Place Theory, and others.
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Exploring The Past With Place: Incorporating Multimodal Archival Composition In Secondary English Education
… pedagogical approach that integrates place theory, multimodality, and archival elements to create a versatile framework for crafting compelling narratives and meaningful connections for public audiences. This project consists of three assignment models, collectively titled "Exploring …
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White Island in a Black Sea: An Examination of Christology and Race in a Southern Church
… Church. Using anthropological research methods, place theory, and reflexive analysis, I discovered two cohorts within the field of my study: the non-innocent oblivious cohort and the growing awareness cohort. The data collected showed a correlation between the non-innocent oblivious cohort and …
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Vitality and viability in the contemporary English High Street: Understanding the changing relationship between the commercial ‘viability’ and social ‘vitality’ of town centres in a period of economic transition
The challenge, and in some places the crisis, facing the English town centre is the focus of much political and academic debate. This research analyses the changing relationship between the social vitality and commercial viability in the English town centre from 1945 to the early 2020s, and in …
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Relationship to place as catalyst for positive change
… how might an individual’s deeper relationship to place become a catalyst for positive change? Participants who engage in a variety of activities within park spaces were interviewed and interview data was analyzed, with five major themes emerging: First, the value of habit in creating patterns of …
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Engaging reality: examining how mixed reality mobile apps and games facilitate sense of place development for a more engaged citizenry
… be purposefully designed to facilitate sense of place development among users, which can lead to outcomes like engagement in one's community. According to sense of place theory, sense of place is made up of place identity, place attachment, and place dependence, which relate to how a person …
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An investigation of Chinese business event experience: A third place perspective
… nature of business events using a sociological theory (Third Place) and apply it to a business event in order to gain a greater understanding of the symbiotic relationship between attendees and the event. The thesis will test a number of hypotheses relating to attitudes, motivations, perceived …
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Forsendur staðarvals matvöruverslana í Reykjavík. Markaðshagsmunir og sjálfbærnisjónarmið.
… hugtaka þjónustukjarnakenningarinnar (e. central place theory) sem ramma, og útreikningum á mannfjölda og myndrænni framsetningu í landupplýsingakerfi ArcGIS Pro, leiðir rannsóknin í ljós að u.þ.b. 36% Reykvíkinga hafa ekki kost á því að ganga í matvöruverslun á 10 mínútum eða minna. Alls 14 …
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Creating a Place for Monstrosity: The Forced Liminality and Limited Mobility of Codified Monstrosity in Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
… romance and drama. These narratives also take place in speculative fiction, although veiled in fantasy elements like supernatural powers and fictional worlds. Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars (2019) is one narrative where this underlying mental health narrative underpins the overarching plot of a …
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COMMUNITY, BODY, AND LANDSCAPE: CONSTRUCTION OF PLACE IN MOLLY GLOSS’S THE DAZZLE OF DAY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN’S ALWAYS COMING HOME
… environmental ethics and phenomenological place theory to examine the sense of place created by Molly Gloss in The Dazzle of Day (1997) and by Ursula K. Le Guin in Always Coming Home (1985). Ecofiction narratives, such as Dazzle and Always, are particularly important because they allow us …
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COMMUNITY, BODY, AND LANDSCAPE: CONSTRUCTION OF PLACE IN MOLLY GLOSS’S THE DAZZLE OF DAY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN’S ALWAYS COMING HOME
… environmental ethics and phenomenological place theory to examine the sense of place created by Molly Gloss in The Dazzle of Day (1997) and by Ursula K. Le Guin in Always Coming Home (1985). Ecofiction narratives, such as Dazzle and Always, are particularly important because they allow us …
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Transport problems for students and their effects on attendance in community secondary schools in Dar es salaam city, Tanzania
… face interviews respectively. Field survey took place in February and March 2014. Analysis of data employed triangulation whereby percentages have been used as statistical technique to analyze the data. The findings indicate that transportation system has significant effects on students’ school …
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The Influence of Railways on the development of Accrington and District, 1848-1914
… approaches such as metropolitan central-place theory and cliometric counter-factual modelling. W.W. Rostow's "take-off' and F.J.Turner's "frontier" concepts are selectively rehabilitated, re-interpreted and synthesised to build an innovatory framework to describe and explain the …
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Making place through urban restructuring : the case of Mthatha
… of the unique characteristics of a particular place be consigned to the dust-bin of history. This was in favour of a universal design language that would homogenize space. These ideas arrived in South Africa almost as soon as they were formulated in Europe through the links that academic …
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Crafted Places: The Use of Place in Wisconsin Craft Beer Marketing
<p>This research examines place-related themes used in craft beer marketing initiatives in Wisconsin. "Place" describes the emotions and perceptions individuals hold in certain locations. Place theory, despite being universally experienced, is relatively understudied. Furthermore, this project is …
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Urban Spatial Structure and Household Travel Time
… time and housing prices embodied in central place theory and its limited polycentric extensions. An analysis of joined trips suggests that households with less access to economic centers used joined trips, in which multiple destinations are visited on a single trip from the home, to reduce …
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Iron age maritime nodes on the English Channel coast.
… This draws upon `port of trade' and `central place' theory and from social and economic models of gateway communities. The study is approached through a combination of maritime and terrestrial perspectives. It is concluded that coastal sites are identifiable in the archaeological record at a …
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An exploration of non-work destinations in Singapore
… data to improve the spatial representation of places with high concentration of human activity, and use these places as a proxy of non-work destinations. Then, a clustering algorithm characterizes the spaces at the interior of those previously identified places by the geometry, diversity and …
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Development of mining settlements in Namibia: An investigation into prospects for Rosh Pinah, Klein Aub and Tsumeb
… five concepts, namely (i) Christaller’s Central Place theory (1933) which influences spatial analysis and development models until today; (ii) human migration perceptions; (iii) a life-cycle model for mining settlements adapted from Luca’s mineral life-cycle model for resource towns (1971); (iv) …
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