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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Rural space"”.
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Transformation of rural space from an institutional perspective. Socio-economic development and land use change in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
Landscapes and societies in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China have undergone unprecedented changes over the last 60 years. These transformations within the landscapes manifest themselves as land cover change, for example intensification of traditional land use systems and …
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Making and Breaking Big Rural: Science and Technology Construct the Coalfield
Making and Breaking Big Rural: Science and Technology Construct the Coalfield examines science and technology research and its role in constructing a rural industrial space such as the Pocahontas Coalfield in Southern West Virginia/Southwest Virginia. It examines the ramifications of this single …
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The ‘Suburban Imaginary’: Restructuring the rural village in Ireland and France
… concern regarding the fate of the indigenous rural community. The central concern of this thesis is to investigate how the rural community is adapting to the presence of the outsider as both a temporary and permanent resident, by examining the interaction between local and outsider resident in …
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Tourism and Rural Identity in the Waasland, Belgium
… Existing in small, isolated tracts, are "green spaces" mainly devoted to agricultural output. The Flemish way of life and environment has become increasingly "urbanized." Tourism commissions operating in the countryside have drawn on Flemish heritage and identity, as well as the rural landscape …
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OUTSIDE THE CITY: RURAL SPACES IN CHINA'S ALTERNATIVE CINEMA
… alternative cinema collectively presents the rural as waste. The films studied here break the often dichotomised and polarised way of looking at the terms “rural” and “urban” in discourse by illustrating visually how waste connects both these spaces. The conception of waste is based on the …
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Kaili, the homeland of 100 festivals: Space, music, and sound in a small city
This thesis examines the production of social space in Kaili, a small city in southwest China, through its branding as “the homeland of one hundred festivals”, inhabitants’ conceptualizations of music, amateur music-making practices, and the construction of the built environment. Drawing on Henri …
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“Quisiera ver los que suelen componer estos libros de pastores donde todo es primavera”: campo literario y literatura del campo en España y la América colonial (1516-1808)
… My research offers a comprehensive grasp of the rural space and its diverse peoples. It contributes to current trends in colonial, cultural, and Spanish Early Modern studies by integrating frequently dissociated theoretical frameworks within the fields of history, literature, philosophy, and …
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Founding a farm: the marking out of Klein Stockwell, Western Cape, South Africa
… focuses primarily on a typological study of rural space and resulted in an architectural language that evolved from and amplifies the specific tradition of building as observed at Stockwell Farm in the Western Cape. The research process started with the temporal charting of the seen and the …
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Losing ground : locational formulations in argumentation over New Travellers
… of discourse analysed concerns the defence of rural space against New Travellers. In contrast to previous sociological and human geographical work in this area, instead of newspaper articles and Parliamentary discourse, participants' talk and texts are the starting point for the - …
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Bobcat traps and other theories
… late-20th century has witnessed the decline of rural America. Deindustrialization, divestment, and economic crises have left rural spaces underdeveloped and mired in economic stagnancy; spaces that survive as little else but ruins. In the contemporary socio-political moment, rurality has come …
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Urbanizing The Countryside? The Governance Of Rural Restructuring In Bancroft And North Hastings County, Ontario
… of “urban” phenomena in a traditionally “rural” space - while new forms of work encroach, and development pressures intensify - and highlights the limitations of existing structures of local government regarding the maintenance of a cohesive and inclusive community. A fundamental social …
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Studii privind perfectionarea managementului strategic in dezvoltarea rurala durabila din Depresiunea Jijia-Bahlui
… current and important problem of the Romanian rural space, whose study is absolutely necessary for the uniformous performance of the different types of socio-economic activities at rural communities level, namely sustainable rural development. The motivation behind this PhD thesis is …
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Sexual citizenship : an analysis of gay men as sexual citizens in nonmetropolitan England and Ireland
… created by the intersection of sexuality and the space of the rural. Crucially it strives to develop an understanding of the nature, depth, and scope, of the men’s sexual citizenship, as it applies within their geographic context. Forty-four men were interviewed: twenty-two in England and …
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Transurbane Konsumräume : Typologie und Ästhetik großflächiger Einzelhandelsaggregate in der deutschen Zwischenstadt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung gebauter Beispiele von 1990 bis 2007
Transurban spaces of consumption are a sub-category of the partly urban and partly rural space, for which the German urban planner and theoretician Thomas Sieverts in 1997 coined the term „Zwischenstadt“ translating in-between city or transurbia. Transurban spaces of consumption are a collective …
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El espacio agrícola de la Comunidad de Madrid : aproximación sistemática a la comarcalización basada en el medio físico y la tradición histórica
… de la significación de la expresión "espacio rural" y de su evolución en las últimas décadas; dentro de él está el "espacio agrícola". El Capítulo II se dedica a la descripción de un espacio concreto, la antigua provincia de Madrid, con sus rasgos físicos -geomorfología, climatología, …