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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Richmond Virginia"”.
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Economic factors of Richmond, Virginia
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1947.
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A neighborhood for Richmond, Virginia
Through the use of regional planning, then, it may be stated that man could be protected against the depopulation or the land and the overcrowding of cities, which has been shown in history to have been the cause or decay or civilization. Through this new freedom and hope for the future, man will …
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A GIS Assessment of Urban Sprawl in Richmond, Virginia
… the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) of Richmond (The City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, Hanover County, and Henrico County). Urban land cover increased by one-fourth, from approximately 559 square kilometers to approximately 746 square kilometers from 1992 to 2001. Over the nine year …
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"Sisters of the Capital": White Women in Richmond, Virginia, 1860-1880
… elite, middle-, and working-class white women in Richmond, Virginia. Anne Firer Scott has written that the Civil War was a historical watershed that enabled southern women's movement into broader social, economic, and political roles in southern society. Suzanne Lebsock and George Rable have …
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The implementation of word processing in the Richmond, Virginia, metropolitan area
… businesses with word processing systems in the Richmond metropolitan area. No data are available about the current implementation of word processing in a major metropolitan area in Virginia. This study was undertaken in order to add to the knowledge base that already exists about the …
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Tectogenesis of the Hylas zone and eastern Piedmont near Richmond, Virginia
… studies of the Hylas zone northwest of Richmond, Virginia, reveal that Late Paleozoic thrusting to the northwest produced a zone of protomylonite, mylonite and ultramylonite from felsic gneiss and amphibolite. The thrusting event, which initiated retrograde metamorphism to greenschist …
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Lost Fragments: A Therapy Center to cope with grief in Richmond, Virginia
An exploration began to understand the relationship between architecture and human emotion. Inspired by a personal story of loss, this thesis began to disseminate the five stages of the Elizabeth Kübler Ross model of grief. Each of the stages was studied in depth to find architectural elements that …
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Housing and Community: School and Practice, 1983-2011, Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia
If books have a life of their own, oftentimes very different from what their authors might have imagined, how about buildings? How about buildings that only exist on paper, or pixels? Do Time, Tools, Practice, deform or inform the work of years ago? Finally, where have the intentions, the meanings, …
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Beyond the Early Adopters: Examining the potential for car-sharing in Richmond, Virginia
… thesis examines the potential for car-sharing in Richmond, Virginia through an attitude-based qualitative pilot study. Using the theory of planned behavior as a framework, urban and suburban residents were asked questions that measured car-sharing intention strength, mode choice habit, and life …
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Characterizing the distribution of planktonic fecal bacteria in the James River, Richmond, Virginia
… of fecal bacteria in the James River through Richmond, Virginia. Chapter 1 describes nearly 11 years of water quality, climate, and hydrologic data that occurred with changes in Escherichia coli concentrations, concluding that Richmond contributes significant quantities of fecal bacteria to …
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A case history of the New Horizons Project, school/business partnership, Richmond, Virginia
… Project, a school/business partnership in Richmond, Virginia, was established in 1980 between the Richmond Public Schools and the Metropolitan Richmond Private Industry Council to prepare youth from economically disadvantaged homes to enter the world of work. An in-depth case history of the …
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An explanation of declining voter turnout: the case of Richmond, Virginia, 1880-1913
… by examining dynamics found in a single city -- Richmond, Virginia. Richmond affords an opportunity to inspect dynamics of voter turnout at the turn of the 20th century in a geographic area of the country that neither model used as a basis for its theoretical propositions.
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Evaluation of Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic Tectonism: Atlantic Inner Coastal Plain Margin Near Richmond, Virginia
… geophysical, and geomorphic analysis of the Virginia Inner Coastal Plain margin near Richmond was conducted to investigate the presence of basement structures and to evaluate their influence on the overlying sedimentary package and present-day landscape. Basement structures identified …
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An analysis of policy models in terms of impact variables affecting the Richmond, Virginia, school system
… between 1970- 1973, that occurred within the Richmond School System. Policy areas that were studied included: budget, transportation, pupil conduct, instruction, personnel recruitment, and meeting with organizations. These policies were selected as representative of school system policies …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… from the viewpoints of two southern cities: Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. It looks primarily at four major newspapers, two in each city: the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Whig; and the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the New Orleans Whig. These four newspapers were …
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An analysis of the instructional leadership behavior of selected middle school principals in the Richmond (Virginia) metropolitan area
… school principals in the metropolitan area of Richmond, Virginia. Attention was given also to examining the relationship between selected demographic characteristics such as the sex, age, ethnic group, experience, educational background, and annual salary on the respondents and their …
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