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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Spatial History"”.
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A spatial history of protest in Boston
… mobilization, there is limited research on the spatial patterns of protest over time. This thesis utilizes the Dynamics of Collective Action dataset to identify, geocode, and map 421 protests, rallies, sit ins, and marches that took place in the Boston area between 1960 and 1995. In addition to …
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Spatial History: Using Spatial Memory to Recall Information
… but they cannot remember which document. SpatialHistory looks to allow a user to recall which windows and documents were open at a certain time spatially. The user may query a particular region of a large display and SpatialHistory will report the windows that were open in that area. …
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Imaging and Imagining the Waikato: A Spatial History c.1800-c.1914
This thesis reframes the history of the Waikato from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries through a spatial history approach using a visual archive. I argue that Pākehā images of the Waikato were both contemporary records and instruments of colonisation in the region, and that the …
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Informal housing in New York City : a spatial history of squats, lofts, and illegal conversions
… of the 20th century. Chapter three provides a history, from 1960 to the present, of the informal transformation of commercial loft spaces to residences in SoHo and Brooklyn and describes the effects of these conversions on the neighborhoods in which they occurred. Chapter four demonstrates how …
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Retromapping: conceptual outline of a novel method for visualizing and exploring urban spatial evolution in the digital environment
… been used for visualizing and studying urban spatial information. For the early phases of urban development in most cities, however, there are usually few maps due to the high cost of map making. These temporarily widely spaced early city maps document the evolution of cities as a series of …
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Plantable Maps
… using plant-based materials that visualize the spatial history of "blight" in San Francisco. Blight, originally an ecological term for a fungal disease in plants, was used by mid-century urban planners to justify redevelopment policies with racially unjust consequences. These map sculptures …
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Craving / Carving a sacred space : a study of religion on Stone Mountain.
Drawing upon the tools of spatial analysis, this study examines varieties of sacred space crafted at Stone Mountain Park, near Atlanta, Georgia. The focus on spatial aspects of religious practices at Stone Mountain grounds three over-arching methodological objectives of the thesis. The first is to …
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Spatial Practice : The politics of "activating" public space in the State of Kuwait
My thesis examines the socio-spatial dialectics that unfold throughout the development of public spaces in Kuwait. In my thesis, public space is understood as a space of urban dialogue between the state, the city, and the people. This dialogue can be understood by examining the spatial dynamics …
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Behind the Waterfront: Enduring Inequities and Illusive Renewals in the Making of Mediterranean Port Cities
… IN BEIRUT’S SPACES OF CRAFTSMANSHIP unearths the spatial history of crafts workshops in Beirut's port-facing neighborhoods and situates their recurring displacements in the city's design politics. Overall, this dissertation demonstrates how spatial injustices have persisted through physical forms, …
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
… and fusing (individual) memory and (collective) history. Such texts, hybrid narratives between histories and stories of Denmark (or Danmarkshistorier), implicate a Danish national model reader who is alive both to the homogenising contemporary discourse of danskhed (Danishness) and to its …
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Realms of Remembered Violence: The Emergence of Mass Murder Memorials in the United States, 1986-2012
… the twenty-first century. Using written and oral history sources in combination with memorial designs, I explore the planning processes undertaken by five different communities: Virginia Tech, Columbine, University of Texas, Oklahoma City and Edmond, OK. I analyze what these case studies reveal …
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Land and housing practices in Namibia: cases of access to land rights and production of housing in Windhoek, Oshakati and Gobabis
As in many other places, socio-spatial production in modern Namibia has been a top-down practice approached in professionalised and standards-oriented ways, focused on outputs. 'Participation’ or involvement of 'beneficiaries’ has over time been added to the repertoire of such practices, but this …
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Hyde Park and Chartwell in History and Heritage
This dissertation examines Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill’s lives and legacies through the lens of their homes. This dissertation argues that homes are fertile sites for contending with the character of political leaders as physical expressions of identity. In Part One the author focuses …