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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Streetcar"”.
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A Streetcar Named Kanye West
<p>This abstract is brought to you by Pogodyne Incorporated, whom you may remember from other narrative disasters such as: Finding Pynchon and that one about Marcella Hamilton with that guy. In this one, Kanye West and his partner Dog the Bounty Hunter find themselves involved in another zany …
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The Scenic Design Process for A Streetcar Named Desire
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Decaying gentility in A streetcar named Desire: An actress' analysis of Blanche DuBois
1 PDF file (iii, 133 pages)
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The return of streetcars to western American cities : reintroducing streetcars in Denver's historic streetcar neighborhoods
Modern streetcars are making a comeback in the United States after their disappearance in the mid twentieth century. They resemble their distant relative, also known as the trolley, in many ways but express a contemporary, provide modern conveniences, and act as a magnet for redevelopment within …
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What is a bungalow?: redefinition and revival of an American house type
… in response to those ideals, and as electric streetcars opened the urban periphery to development, "streetcar suburbs" full of bungalows proliferated. Particularly in the younger, developing cities of the early 20th century, residential areas are dominated by the American bungalow. In these …
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The Feasibility of Closing Vehicle Crossings along St. Charles Avenue: A Study of Transit Safety and Performance
<p>The St. Charles streetcar is an important transit line in the city of New Orleans, with about 65,000 people living within a ½ mile walking distance from it. However, the line experiences a very high streetcar/automobile crash rate due in large part to the large number of grade vehicle crossings …
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A Baseline for Downtown Transit-Oriented Development: Planning for Success in the Loyola Corridor
… districts and 24-hour neighborhoods. A new streetcar on Loyola Avenue in the New Orleans Central Business District was planned to encourage new development in the area. By analyzing the current land uses and values, projections of future change predict over $500 million in added value. For …
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Learning the City: A Community College and Mixed-Use Neighborhood for Washington, D.C.
… mixed-use neighborhood, traffic circle, and streetcar station. Within the larger plan sits a Library and Student Center, which emerges as the iconic piece of architecture for the school and the neighborhood.
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Variations on Suburbia: Integrating People-Oriented Design
… design, from nineteenth-century railroad and streetcar suburbs to modernist and New Urbanist alternatives.
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Harness Electricity, Free the Mules: Animal Rights and the Electrification of the Streetcars in New Orleans
<p>Prior to the streetcar lines being electrified in the late 1800s, equines pulled the cars. The quadrupeds that pulled the horsecars in New Orleans, Louisiana, were area specific: New Orleans had mules, not horses. The mule in the South is typically associated with the rural South; however, in …
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Reviving upside-down architecture : using a historically transitional form of parking to reduce the impact of cars in mixed-use commercial areas
… Sears, Roebuck located some of its stores on streetcar lines and also provided parking on the roof, making the store accessible to both pedestrians and drivers. At the time, rooftop parking signaled a transition from density to sprawl, and from a transit-based transportation system to the …
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"Somewhere and not Anywhere": A Place-Conscious Study of Literature Set in the City of New Orleans
… Chopin's The Awakening, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and Walker Percy's The Moviegoer to students living in that same city. In addition to defying the customary format for an English thesis, my project challenges conventional methods of reading New Orleans within these three …
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Balancing the scales : the impact of the built environment on the socioeconomic diversity of Metropolitan Boston
… identified two distinct neighborhood styles, the streetcar suburb and the affordable suburb, that promoted diversity. The observations from this fieldwork sparked three theories to explain why certain communities are more diverse than others: The Second Best Location Theory, the Affordable …
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Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930
… understanding growth and diversification in a streetcar suburb. The village of Oak Park developed as a "classic" affluent nineteenth-century suburb whose residents were almost all exclusively white and Protestant. The early 1900s witnessed a rapid influx of Catholic residents to Chicago's near …
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
… Williams's two plays: The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Beginning with a brief discussion of the socio-historical background of Pai's Republican China and Williams's American South, a general analysis of previous scholarship on Pai and Williams's works follows. The analysis of the …
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‘I used to be subversive, but now I’m gay’: representations of queer identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s
… texts. I will examine Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Suddenly, Last Summer (1958), Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band (1968), Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart (1985), Tony Kushner’s two Angels in America (1992) plays, Millennium Approaches …
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Narrative Structures: The Creation of Meaning Through Reference and Collage in Architecture
… transit shelters along the new Cincinnati Streetcar route and will tell the story of White Hawk and the Sky Sisters, a Shawnee ethnoastrological myth originating in the Ohio River Valley. Transportation and movement require a study of sequence, which can be distilled into two contrasting …
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Love in the big city: Intimacy, marriage, and risk in turn-of-the-century Berlin
… was the decision to approach a stranger on the streetcar, go dancing with a co-worker, look for a mate in one of the city’s many gay bars, post a newspaper personal ad, or eschew the institution of marriage altogether and opt for a free love union, Berliners of all stripes left the shores of …
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Excavating L.A. : urban design futures of new transit
… for the first time since the early 20th century streetcar era. Increasing levels of population growth currently challenge LAs low density, horizontal, suburban form to fold inward and build upon itself in new ways and the city has embraced transit oriented development (TOD) as a strategy for …
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Thomas Swann: political acrobat and entrepreneur
… first public police department, fire department, streetcar system, and larger park. With the corning of the Civil War, Swann left the Know-Nothing Party and began a decade of numerous shifting political alliances, in which he was a bellweather in anticipating the wave of the future. In 1864 Swann …
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