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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Rural Landscape"”.
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Appraisal of a Canterbury rural landscape
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Redefining identity in the altered rural landscape
… by the presence of foreignness. The contemporary rural community must negotiate these conditions in a new way, as it is being affected by social changes that, unlike the urban context, it does not have the infrastructure to support. The architect enters the project as an active observer, her …
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Rural landscape quality: The general and the particular
… on the premise that different people appreciate landscape in different ways. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, and links findings made in several fields so as to attempt understanding of the phenomenon of rural landscape quality. A range of relatively modern explanations of the nature of …
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Examining Rural Landscape Change Driven by the Digitalisation of Agriculture
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Ant and spider diversity in a rural landscape of the Vhembe Biosphere, South Africa
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Niche Croppind and the Rural Landscape in Wise, Dickenson, Scott, and Russell County Virginia
… economic development to economically depressed rural areas. The thesis takes place in the four counties of Wise, Russell, Scott and Dickenson and this study region is used to develop the ideas of limited regional competition, and product diversity for niche cropping enterprises. These ideas …
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The effect of turnaround migration on the rural landscape: a study of Grayson County, Virginia
… has shown that more people are migrating to rural areas from urban ones. Rural areas are now composed of a variety of residents from different social and economic backgrounds. Because of this variety of residents, potential for social conflicts exists. One area of possible conflict is the …
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Invisible Etruscans: a study on rural landscape and settlement organisation during the urbanisation of Etruria (7th - 5th centuries BC)
The present study focuses on the rural settlement data from Etruria, Central Italy during the key centuries, from the 7th and the 5th centuries BC, when urbanised institutions (and lifestyles) consolidated. Despite responding to similar stimuli, Etruscan centres adopted different strategies to …
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The assessment of change in rural landscape and the analysis of the driving forces. Proposal of a spatial model for the rural built environment
The presented study carried out an analysis on rural landscape changes. In particular the study focuses on the understanding of driving forces acting on the rural built environment using a statistical spatial model implemented through GIS techniques. It is well known that the study of landscape …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
… Ohio, forming small communities across the rural landscape. As they formed communities, they built institutions and began to challenge the limitations posed by the white supremacist society in which they lived. I argue that Southeast Ohio's self-sufficient Black communities were the core of …
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Rejuvenation of the ditch - redefining the landscape of the Embarras River with integrated analytical & design approaches
This thesis aims to redefine the traditional rural landscape of the upper section of the Embarras River (UER) in Champaign County, Illinois. To date, there are four issues existing in this landscape: flooding, impaired waterway, extinction of endangered species, and lack of identity. Integrated …
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Determining the Suitability of Functional Landscapes and Wildlife Corridors Utilizing Conservation GIS Methods in Denton County, Texas.
Denton County's unique cultural and natural landscape has undergone dramatic transformations during the past two centuries due to agricultural, urban and suburban processes which accelerated the loss and removal of native habitat and wildlife. This research sought out to identify the remaining …
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Tourism and Rural Identity in the Waasland, Belgium
… on Flemish heritage and identity, as well as the rural landscape to act as marketing tools. In terms of perception and the notion of a distinctly Flemish rural "space'" how are tourist flow patterns influenced? Does the process of perception result in an exclusive urban to rural pattern, or is …
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The Creation of the Ottoman Landscape in Southeastern Europe: Fourteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
… interpretation of Ottoman Europe. Focused around landscape theory, the work primarily examined human settlement patterns and land use. The confines of the study were limited to territories that were at one time centrally controlled by the Ottomans in Europe. An Ottoman Europe was reconstructed by …
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From the Ground Up: Journeys Through the Leitrim Landscape
This research uses the landscape of county Leitrim as a spatial lens through which to view alternative forms of knowledge past and present. In the physical act of journeying through the landscape, by boat and on foot, I have encountered evidence of a range of social structures linked to place …
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Small -Scale Farms, Large-Scale Politics: The Changing Landscape of Rural Lithuania
… Union's (EU) agricultural reforms map onto the rural landscape of post-socialist Lithuania. In it, I focus on how attempts to Europeanize the countryside in Lithuania are interacting with small-scale farmers' practices and identities. Through an ethnography utilizing official reports, archival …
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Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam
<p>This dissertation examines the changing rurality and the profound social stratification in contemporary Vietnam through the lens of rural-to-rural female migration. It is based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in a rural offshore fishing community in northern Vietnam called Hải Thành. …
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Rural vernacular building tradition: the design, construction, and use of springhouses in Montgomery County, Virginia
… are part of an established, regionally specific, rural vernacular building tradition. Over the one-hundred and fifty-year period examined for this survey, the form and design of springhouses remained consistent, but the size, number, construction materials, and functions of springhouses changed, …
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Population dynamics and succession strategies of rural industry producers
… and others on amenity consumption, the rural landscape is changing. The changes to the structure of Australia’s sheep industry and the nation’s rural landscapes are driven by substantial forces that cannot be resisted easily. This has implications for policy-makers, extension agents and …
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A framework for community design : Worcester's Main South neighborhood
… . While unchecked development diminishes the rural landscape, urban neighborhoods deteriorate, lacking the resources and amenities of new developments. The transformation of blighted urban neighborhoods into dense, mixed-use communities is a viable alternative to suburban sprawl. This thesis …
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