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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Spatial theory"”.
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The living commons : a spatial theory for biological design
… and present a new design framework that offers a spatial and a context-driven approach to the design of living matter. Being rooted in a different interpretation of space and spatiality in design, the framework approaches biological design systematically, at three stages: 1) the design of the …
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A Spatial Theory of School Closure: An Examination of School Closure in America
… decisions? And finally, what is the role of the spatial organization of cities in shaping school closure outcomes? The econometric analysis is conducted using a multilevel model to estimate the correlation of several variables hypothesized to have a relationship to the school closure process. The …
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Religion and the public sphere: the spatial theory of Michel de Certeau and religious space
… to filling this by using Michel de Certeau's spatial theory as a means of seeing religion as a technique of everyday life, practiced within the physical, mental, and social arena's in which it is located. Rather than offering a different simplification of the relationship between religion and …
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Kaili, the homeland of 100 festivals: Space, music, and sound in a small city
… multi-disciplinary debates about Lefebvre’s spatial theory, and urban studies. For Chinese studies, it gives detailed scrutiny to Lefebvre’s spatial theory in considering the historical and recent formation of urban space in China, and in so doing goes beyond the truism that social space is …
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The role of spatial configurations in urban dynamics : an analytical model for urban design and development
The thesis explores the role of spatial configurations on the development of city form and the influence of these configurations on specific economic variables which govern the development of cities. It is argued that there are pervasive interconnections that seem to link the nature of society and …
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Essays in public finance
… on the ballot to test two implications of the spatial theory of voting. I find, contrary to theoretical predictions, that the magnitude and types of voters who come out to the polls is responsive to the race of the candidate on the ballot. While both black and white voters turn out in greater …
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Statements in Stone: The Politics of Architecture in Charlemagne's Aachen
… associated with the spaces of Aachen, while spatial theory will provide a framework for understanding the matter in which a society creates meaning out of Social rituals and the importance of space in this process of this creation.</p>
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Walking in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… disruptive, often destructive act. Informed by spatial theory and mobility studies, I examine how walking embodies displacement--ideological, gendered, and narrative--in five of Hardy's novels. His characters, in their inability to settle in one place, represent a destabilization of identity and …
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The Promise of Space in Mark Twain's Traveling Narratives
… Indians</italic>, through the general lens of spatial theory. Its primary focus is the way in which Twain challenges and employs layers of extant spatial meaning upon American soil, and suggests that his attention to natural space in these texts indicates a sense of America's potential for …
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A border of cloth: Ecological systems and critical spatial perspectives on the Islamic hijab
… points of view, namely ecological systems theory and critical spatial theory. Both theories are applied to argue that the ?ij?b should be interpreted holistically in the light of al-Isl?m as a religious and cultural system. It is a symbol with great personal significance for female Muslims …
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Techniques of Listening and Acoustic Orders
… by these acoustic orders. Henri Lefebvre's spatial theory will be utilized to develop this descriptive framework. The reciprocity outlined between listener and context suggests dual theoretical revisions. In the first part, phenomenology is shown to benefit from the inclusion of its socially …
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
… cultural space. The study is underpinned by the spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Michel Foucault. From this theoretical platform I assemble a conceptual framework and a spatial vocabulary that facilitates the critical engagement with the literary representation of the …
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Perceptions, Intentions and Realities: Exploring the Lived Experience of Sport Participation Amongst Youth and Young Adults Living in Toronto Neighbourhood Improvement Areas
… et al., 2007; OMahoney & Donnelly, 2010), and spatial theory (Lefebvre, 1991) to critically examine factors that influenced sport participation and development. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 young adults to explore participant sport journeys and five focus groups were …
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Michel Franco: Auteur of Violence
… and public levels. Using the filmic auteur theory as my basis for an exploration of his body of work, I examine his use of spatial theory, trauma, spectatorial complicity, and neoliberalism as contributors to violence in the present day, both within a Mexican and universal context. Within …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… fictional representation of female trauma and spatial theory. The trauma narratives reflect issues relevant to traumatised fictional women, as depicted in the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by Alice Sebold, The Vanishing Act of Esme …
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Thirding North/South: Mexico and Turkey in international development politics
… on insights from queer studies and Edward Soja’s spatial theory, I develop the Thirding Lens as a heuristic to examine how Mexico and Turkey are positioned in and engage with international development politics, and how they contribute to reproducing, challenging and transforming North/South. Based …
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Constructions of Space in Fiction of Neil Gaiman
This thesis conducts a spatial reading of a selection of novels written by Neil Gaiman to demonstrate how constructions of space in contemporary fiction can be analysed to reveal the underlying politics and cultural commentary of the work. Each of the titles selected juxtaposes an ostensibly …
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Dialogic Convergences of Spatiality, Racial Identity, and the American Cultural Imagination
… of the relationship between racial identity and spatialization in American cultural production. I assert that this relationship is uniquely dialogic, complexly impacting individuals as well as collective cultural groups, reciprocally affecting both social and physical spaces. Additionally, I …
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Continuums and Conjunctions: An assemblage of Eastern and Western architectural and philosophical perspectives
Continuums and Conjunctions examines spatial relationships in contemporary Chinese high- rise architectural design in the context of rapid urbanization. Traditional Chinese architecture was guided by the principles of Feng Shui, placing emphasis upon a harmonious interrelation of architectural and …
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"The windows of heaven" : temple windows in the Hebrew Bible and in comparative ancient Near Eastern evidence.
… context. Through comparative analysis and spatial theory, I explore architectural features and symbolism of windows in the Hebrew Bible (HB) and Ancient Near East (ANE). This analysis includes textual, architectural, and iconographic evidence categories. The textual evidence occurs across …
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