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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Study of Place"”.
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The Black Community in Waco, Texas : a study of place, family, and work, 1880-1900.
"The Black Community in Waco, Texas: A Study of Place, Family, and Work, 1880-1900," is a-local study which analyzes residential patterns, family structures, and occupational status of the city's black population in the late nineteenth century. Comparisons between 1880 and 1900 are made concerning …
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Mortars to malls: Analyzing the relationship between peacebuilding and urban regeneration through a comparative study of place
… does urban <br/>regeneration relate to notions of the legitimacy of the state, and in the post conflict context, to the stability of peace? What is urban regeneration and how is it manifest in the post-conflict city? What are the implications of these issues in regards to the role of …
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Cinemaplex Over the Pavese: An Architectural Response to the Question of Looking at Territory
… Mendrisio, Switzerland. Our shared task was to study a bucolic agrarian region of Northern Italy and propose a strategy for its development. All projects ultimately included in the Atelier's vision were to have a significant strategic value to the territory, resonating with and magnifying the …
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Xochimilco es Hogar : place attachment and belonging in Mexico City
Mexico City is a sprawling megalopolis of 22 million inhabitants with new residents moving into the city daily. The city's growth is spatially uneven; the southern delegation of Xochimilco has been experiencing rapid urbanization whereas the city center has experienced less. The thesis focuses on …
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Connection to Nature at the Building Edge: Towards a Therapeutic Architecture for Dementia Care Environments
… a connection to nature for residents. A study of ‘place as process’ included over two years of observational data highlighting multiple factors of the built and social environment that challenged or enabled sensory stimulation and nature-related activities. ‘Nature’ was defined and SLANT …
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A CASE STUDY IN TOPONYMY: SAMPLING AND CLASSIFYING A TRI-LINGUAL PLACE NAME INVENTORY FOUND IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL STATE OF NEW MEXICO
The north-central portion of the State of New Mexico has an extensive distribution of geographic names applied to landscape features from documented sources and from living oral tradition. Many of these geographic names originated from three distinct socio-linguistic groups, among which are names …