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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Place-Making"”.
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Place-making in traditional China
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Commemorating Controversy: Place-making at the Birthplace of the Bomb
… first atomic weapons. Today, the remaining places and spaces of the bomb at Los Alamos are being preserved for future generations through their inclusion in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, a unique partnership between the Department of Energy, which will continue to own and …
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Unearthing living memory: from displacement to place making in 'Konstansie'
… remnants of the communities who were displaced by the apartheid regime. The historical context of forced removals has left a lasting mark on the fabric of what was once Konstansie and the traces it now holds of injustice and the disruption of livelihoods and identities. The history of cut …
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Place imaginaries: Photography and place-making at Te Awa River Ride
… within ways of knowing, experiencing and making places and the subsequent visual constructions of place imaginaries. Drawing on contemporary photographic practice and theory, I position myself as a qualitative researcher engaged in creative practice, specifically lens-based approaches and …
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A New Campus in the City: Place-Making in South Lake Union
… companies. In this project, I explore the place-making practices of the professionals who commute to South Lake Union to work for these global corporations. My focus on their day-to-day activities in public space and on their discourses about South Lake Union helps me explore the ways in …
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Making an exit: Millennials, place-making, and exodus at South Korea’s edge
… from the ‘rules of the game,’ and a positive remaking of social foundations from the ground up. ‘Exodus’ has been theorized in political philosophy, but there have been few empirical studies that analyze what it looks like on the ground – and the possibilities and limitations its spatial …
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Place-making on Main Street : society, design and policy in small towns
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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What We Are Nostalgic For: Place-Making and Social Capital in Local Museums
What We Are Nostalgic For:Place-Making and Social Capital in Local Museums Megan Kathleen Hull Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Information University of Toronto 2025 Abstract What roles do local museums play in their communities? This dissertation addresses this question through a case study of the …
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How many designers create furniture that allows meaningful place-making in modern office
… allow users to express their aspirations through place making or creation of meaningful office workspaces. During my empirical work, I discovered that there were problems in getting the office workers to explain their ideas through verbal explanations. They did not have the right techniques and …
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How may designers create furniture that allows meaningful place-making in modern office
… allow users to express their aspirations through place making or creation of meaningful office workspaces. During my empirical work, I discovered that there were problems in getting the office workers to explain their ideas through verbal explanations. They did not have the right techniques and …
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Internet GIS as a Historic Place-Making Tool for Mammoth Cave National Park
… photographs and manuscripts of past places and events to augment information held by institutions and academia. A public-participation website for the Mammoth Cave Historic GIS (MCHGIS) created a central Internet location for dispersed and disparate data related to pre-park …
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Technical communication in place-making professions: Exploring the network pictures of urban designers
<p>This dissertation addresses how professional writing as a field can pay attention to broader definitions of design in order to help further conversations of spatial justice (the act of helping to promote equity in matters of development in urban spaces). I begin by noting the conversations that …
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Place-making under Japan's neoliberal regime: ethics, locality, and community in rural Hokkaido
… make a fair evaluation of the practices of place-making in Japan today. To answer the questions, I conducted a yearlong fieldwork on a rural revitalization project called the BVP in a rural town of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. A local non-profit organization, the ODC, sponsors …
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A river remembered - reconnecting to landscape, memory and place-making through water routes
… be harnessed to support an emerging practice of place-making in a community on the outskirts of Clanwilliam. Acknowledging the growing claim to Khoe and San heritage among members of said community, the project found its departure in an investigation into the intangible ties that once connected …
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Place making in new retail developments : the role of local, independently owned businesses
… retail developments can help add to a "sense of place" in these projects and thus make them more successful. New retail developments of the past two decades, often called Lifestyle Centers, Urban Entertainment Centers, Town Centers or New Main Streets, attempt through design to create a "place." …
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Infilling the middle landscape : suburban zoning codes to retain historical place making forms
… suburban context. While specific to a particular place and land use type, the rule making approach which is proposed and different from the existing is conceived as a general premise. That is, in place of the abstract functional rules which permeate the zoning regulations of Anytown, USA, I …
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Place making Under Occupation: Impacts of Segregation on Buildings Rhetoric. West Bank case studies
… the West Bank and its impact on the Palestinian place making practices and to understand if some could be considered as possible expressions of resilience. The research question to be answered to was: “What are the effects of the occupation on the perception of space and place rhetoric by the …
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Public place making in Enkanini : a socio-spatial methodology for intervening on the informal
Architectural and urban design projects implemented on informal settlements tend to neglect the local existing patterns of living. As a result, these projects impose new social and spatial conditions that are often not liberating to the communities that they serve. As an alternative, this thesis …
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Making “Quare” Spaces: Re-membering Childhood as a Queer Practice of Indigenous African Place-making
… aesthetic impulse in my practice of queer space making. I use performances of intimate childhood memories of shame and othering to articulate how black queer subjects emerge in distinct relation and/or contra-position to the white Euro-American identity construct that dominates understanding of …
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