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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Shopping malls"”.
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Emergence of Special Art Exhibits in Shopping Malls in Shanghai
… analyzed the phenomena of joint ventures between shopping malls and special art exhibits in Shanghai. Little research directly addressed this phenomenon from the museum or exhibit perspective. Over the past three years, at least 27 notable art exhibits were installed in shopping malls instead of …
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The InforMALL: Shopping malls as infrastructures to support small-scale informal businesses
My dissertation inquiry focuses on the informal economic sector within the emerging economic area of Delft. This was born out of a personal fascination with the concept of informal or 'alternative-formal' economics. The existence of this concept was first brought to my attention through the Spaces …
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Shopping malls as ideological battlegrounds: discipline and power in Riyadh’s pseudo-public spaces
… and the human scale were often neglected. The shopping mall typology offered a solution that seemed to provide the city with the public spaces that it needed. Unlike their counterparts in European and North American cities — whose malls have been competing with the city and its urbanity — malls …
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Assessing shopping mall led urban restructuring in Lusaka: location factors and key actors.
… the factors that determine the location of shopping malls and the resulting urban restructuring that has taken place in Lusaka. It was guided by three objectives; to evaluate the factors that determine the location of shopping malls; to identify the key actors in the location of shopping …
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Mall re-imagined reconsidering a Cape Town shopping centre
There is a common assumption that shopping malls are "bad" buildings. But this thesis aims to contest this assumption and offer a new way to approach shopping centre design. The shopping mall is not bad in the sens that it functions highly effieciently and serves the retail requirements of both …
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'Flea-ting' Markets: Commodities, Consumption and Value in a Flea Market in Singapore
… on `formal?, conventional retail spaces such as shopping malls. Indeed, shopping malls are primary and significant sites of consumption in the `modern? nation-state of Singapore, and play an important role both in its cityscape, as well as in the everyday consumption practices of consumers living …
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Consumer perceptions towards the marketing of functional foods in the Umhlathuze region
… a total number of 384 consumers at Richards bay shopping malls (230) and Empangeni shopping malls (154) respectively. The findings of the study showed that consumers' behaviour towards purchasing functional foods is influenced by the following: advertisements on social media accounts, health …
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Pedestrians walking speed and psychological distance at bus terminal and shopping mall
… two locations which are bus terminal and two shopping malls namely Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (TBS), MyTown Shopping Centre and Sunway Velocity Mall. In overall, the fastest walking speed was obtained at bus terminal and the slowest was obtained at shopping mall with the average walking speed …
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Evaluation of a proposed vibration criterion
… the acceptability of existing office floors, shopping malls, and pedestrian bridges. The evaluation results for each criteria are compared and the strengths and weaknesses of both criteria are discussed in detail. A derivation is presented for the proposed criterion and the calculations …
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Structural opportunities of ETFE (ethylene tetra fluoro ethylene)
… buildings as roofing for courtyards, atria, and shopping malls.
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The desert city within : notions about urban form for Phoenix, Arizona
… low density development, bedroom subdivisions, shopping malls, and over-dependence on the automobile; devoid of pedestrians and a street life. It is a city where an aggressive street grid is the only form of definition, in the absence of a physical urbanity that speaks of identity, character and …
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Lessons for Chinese mega-mall development : a case study of the South China Mall
… development: Seven out of the ten largest shopping malls in the world will have been located in China by the year 2010. All the completed mega-malls are now suffering from high vacancy rates and therefore experiencing enormous economic losses. To avoid the failure of future mega-mall …
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Consuming, producing, defining halal : halal authorities and Muslim consumers in South Africa
… dining out and the cost effective, one-stop shopping that mass retailers offered. Muslims began to spend more time on vacation, at shopping malls and at restaurants. This change in consumption behavior resulted in a demand for halal products. This demand precipitated into requests for
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A Cost-Effective Cloud-Based System for Analyzing Big Real-Time Visual Data From Thousands of Network Cameras
… from different environments, such as streets, shopping malls, and natural scenes. The big visual data from these cameras can be useful for many applications, but analyzing this data presents many challenges, such as (i) retrieving data from heterogeneous cameras (e.g. different brands and data …
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The Walk of Life: An Examination of Mall-Walking and the Older Woman
… Five themes emerged from the research: (1) The shopping malls are "cathedrals of consumerism" whose primary goal is that of economic solvency. Older women have however transformed the mall into a sporting arena that empowers and gives visibility to the older woman; (2) Older women have stylized …
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The missing middle : nascent potential in South Africa's commercial environment
… that there are a large number of big-box type shopping centres and a large number of small-scale micro-enterprises but very few retail buildings that are at a scale between these two. Practice: I was interested in the gap in the market for the provision of built-environment professional …
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Conflicting Frames : the dispute over the meaning of rolezinhos in Brazilian media
… organized by low-income youth in Brazilian shopping malls. To analyze the framing of these events, a corpus of 4,523 online articles was compiled. These articles, published between December 7th, 2013, and February 23 rd, 2014, were investigated using Media Cloud-the system for large scale …
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Visualizing Users, User Communities, and Usage Trends in Complex Information Systems Using Implicit Rating Data
… focuses on applications such as in online shopping malls and simple information systems. These systems consider user profile and item information obtained from data explicitly entered by users. There it is possible to classify items involved and to personalize based on a direct mapping from …
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Poisson Distribution based algorithm to reduce grid harmonics caused by EV chargers
… at many facilities such as universities, shopping malls, hospitals, parking facilities etc. When many EVs start plugging into these facilities to charge, the grid power quality is expected to deteriorate, so it is important that the grid power quality be maintained in the most economical …
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The Free[way] City: An exploration of Inner City Renewal through the removal of Settlers Way Freeway in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
… on the peripheries of the city in the form of shopping malls drawing much needed economic investment further away from the city centre.
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