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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Publicness"”.
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Publicness, Priorities, and Mega-gifts: Does Money Change Anything?
As constraints on public funding become more prevalent and public policy devolves funding responsibility to the agency level in part, public organizations seek additional revenue streams. One identified private resource is philanthropy, which has seen a growth in importance over the past decade as …
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The Marginal Public: Marginality, Publicness, and Heterotopia in the Space of the City
This thesis explores the experiences of an urban population who are considered to exist at the social margins of society, but who paradoxically spend much of their time in urban public space. Often referred to as ‘street people,’ the issues they face, such as homelessness and drug addiction, become …
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Spatial Publicness of Contemporary Publicly Open Space: Its Utilitarian Possibilities of Urban Planning
… to understand the concept of the contemporary publicness of the publicly open space. The main research methods of this dissertation include 1) a systematic literature review and 2) the Q-methodology, which is a useful method of illuminating cognitive characteristics according to the internal …
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An oasis for the urban nomad : public transport interchange as an advocator for publicness
… the 'man on the street': An urban nomad. Publicness, complemented by ideas of cultural configuration and the concept of third space, forms the core literature for the architectural enquiry. The dissertation looks beyond the notion public and private spaces and rather sees those spaces as a …
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Does Publicness Matter? A Mixed Method Analysis Identifying and Measuring Institutional Contributions to State Goals for Public Higher Education
… Using a framework of empirical and realized publicness, this exploratory sequential mixed-methods study used content analysis of state agency mission and vision statements to identify state goals for public higher education. Quantitative measurements of institutional contributions to common …
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Eco-cities: technological showcases or public spaces?
… it conceptualises cityness through the lens of ‘publicness’. It makes an original contribution to knowledge by developing a new theoretical model of publicness as an ‘assemblage’ of space and behaviour, with an ‘emergent’ and ‘civic’ modality. It thereby extends recent debates over the idea of …
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A Study of Strategic Planning in Federal Organizations
… between these difficulties and the degree of publicness of the agencies, and to uncover and describe techniques used by federal agencies to overcome difficulties. The research is important because strategic planning has gained renewed interest in federal government organizations stimulated by …
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Warning, patrons ahead! A development assessment framework for public space for landscape architects drawing on lessons from the Festival City of Adelaide, Australia.
… The framework measures the degree of ‘publicness’ in public space by comprehensively capturing and assessing public space elements. The perceived conflict between public space and private use is explored through 16 case study sites in Adelaide, Australia. The city is recognised …
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Building the spectacle : breaking the wall : project for a civic sports precinct at Trafalgar Park, Cape Town
… territory and voyeurism or peoples' desire for publicness. The project is initiated through this pairing of seemingly antithetical themes. The second part and final outcome is a building proposal. Its function has been formed through my engagement with themes. The resultant programme is a civic …
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Enhancing access to public spaces : an evaluation of public libraries and the urban situation in Seoul
… impermeable urban form in Seoul that impedes the publicness of the existing public spaces. The urban morphology hinders people from freely navigating and accessing the existing public spaces. Two recent cases of incremental commercial development offer lessons for possible future revitalization …
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Spectacular political experiments: the constitution, mediation and performance of large-scale public participation execises
… of citizens in the polity are concerns about publicness and the modes of politics that may be suited to this task. In this thesis case studies of three large-scale public participation exercises are presented: a local governmental exercise; a national popular media initiative and a …
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Public Art: A Critical Approach
… analysis of public art. I focus on its "publicness," and draw implications at the level of public art's ontology, appreciation, and value. I uphold the view that an artwork is public when received within a public sphere rather than within artworld institutions. I further argue that, as a …
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Exploring Pedestrianism in Contemporary Streetscape Planning: A Scrutiny of the YongeTOmorrrow Initiative in Downtown Toronto
… a reinvented pedestrianism. This is a danger to publicness, as its benefits will be limited to businesses and their middle-class consumers, whose presence and interests are prioritized. Meanwhile, street-present non-consumers will be urged to move along under the regulatory absolutism of The Safe …
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Design metaphysics of a nature conservatory
… complex. Issues of inhabitation, scale, and publicness in a natural landscape are presented. The experimental orientation of the facility is expressed in the functioning and character of spaces and details. To establish the context of the design problem, the evolution of social attitudes …
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Enhancing Publicity and Promotion: Applying Gerard Hauser's Theory of Reticulate Public Spheres to Encourage Discourse for Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)
… and outsider communities to enhance their publicness by creating and maintaining constructive, inclusionary, and invitational discourses. Discourse-based IMC models can generate improved relationships between marketing professionals and consumers by restoring trust and credibility for …
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The meeting point : rethinking public space in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
… in Jeddah today. By questioning the issue of 'publicness' I intend to analyze how the development of the city has been affected by the cultural restrictions imposed upon it.
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Filling the Gaps: Reimagining Public Space as a Continuum
… gaps are chosen to explore the possibilities of publicness along the street. How can a continuum streetscape for public life emerge within the city? Through tactical interventions and urban storytelling, the project reimagines a process where urban dwellers renegotiate and extend the public …
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Architecture of the rail : exploring the potential of urban infrastructure
… form, an attempt to restore a quality of "publicness" in the urban landscape through the implementation of a transit structure. It is the investigation of the physical qualities which could potentially incorporate rail structures as useful elements in the city fabric. Approaching the rail …
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Four Essays on Defense and Peace Economics
… and intrastate conflicts are apt to increase the publicness of NATO defense spending over the last eight years. When NATO allies’ defense shares of GDP are correlated with their GDP ranks, there is clear evidence of the exploitation of the large, rich allies by the small, poor allies, indicative …
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Reacting to negative self-relevant information in an interpersonal context
… audience’s standard, audience’s performance and publicness of the situation were manipulated to examine participants’ reactions to feedback pertaining to an ostensibly important ability. These experiments revealed that compared to the interdependent self-construal, the independent self-construal …
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