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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"The production of space"”.
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The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
… dissertation argues that Henri Lefebvre’s (1991) The Production of Space expresses a theoretical blueprint for the construction of an interdisciplinary approach to social science that integrates political economy, ecology, and geoscience under common meta-theoretical commitments. From this …
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Understanding 'It': Affective Authenticity, Space, and the Phish Scene
"Understanding It: Affective Authenticity, Space, and the Phish Scene" is an ethnographic study of "scene identity" around the contemporary rock band Phish. Utilizing data generated from six years of ethnographic fieldwork, including over one hundred and fifty interviews with Phish scene …
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Law-in-spacing : geographies of territorialization and resistance
My thesis revolves around the extension of Anglo-American common law to the newly acquired territories of the Old Northwest and Louisiana. Both of these territories had French-speaking populations with traditions of European Civil law systems. I suggest that the extension of common law to these …
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Choleric spaces: Producing spaces for cholera patients during the 1877 cholera epidemic in Japan
This thesis investigates the production of space during the cholera epidemic of 1877 in Japan. Called “choleric spaces” in this thesis, they are separated into two co-constituting types: material and discursive. The material spaces are demonstrated by government-produced quarantine hospitals and …
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
Decades after the post-structuralist, Marxist, and postmodernist critiques of power, architects continue to play a role in assimilating and, sometimes, marginalizing the population through a mode of spatial production that contributes to climate change, structural racism, income inequality, social …
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Who Owns the Land? Domestic Model Claiming the Complexity of the Spatial Ownership Pattern
… role in city life and is seldom questioned on the ownership by architects, users and developers. In the development of urban housing, shifting the land control to privatization causes the destruction of housing, which is called capitalist accumulation. As a result, the displacement of …
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
This dissertation examines the transformation of urban life in the Balkan capitals of Belgrade and Sofia between 1830 and 1912. In the nineteenth century, mayors, planners, doctors and intellectuals envisioned a new, urban society in which progressive social transformation could emerge through a …
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Norms and Space: Understanding Public Space Regulation in the Tourist City
How are public spaces regulated in tourist cities? In this doctoral dissertation I seek to answer this question by exploring the intersections between urban tourism and public space regulation. I argue that public space regulation substantially differs from the tourist to the non-tourist zone. This …
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Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries
Taking as its point of departure Henri Lefebvre's contention that "(Social) space is a (social) product," my dissertation explores the contemporary American novels of Pynchon, Acker, Reed, Auster, DeLillo, and McElroy as well as the two recent films Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor and their …
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
Beginning in the seventeenth century, engraved texts on ancient monuments became a vital source for Confucian scholarship and artistic practice in China. Scholars used these inscriptions to establish meanings of Confucian classics, verify recorded historical events, and reconstruct lost sites of …
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Re-crafting Architecture in Philippi + the everyday - Developing the urban potentials and sites of production in the Cape Flats
The dissertation aims to surface relevant ongoing development of the informal economies and micro-industries shaping Philippi. This provides valuable information aiding in the understanding of the existing conditions of Philippi. The focus area of the Philippi Industrial Precinct sits on the …
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Public Pumping: The Nursing Mom's Support Program at Virginia Tech
The Lactation Support Program at Virginia Tech, renamed the Nursing Mom's Support Program, was established in 1999 when a group of women through the Women's Center and Work/Life Resources publicized a private concern about expressing milk. While the basic goal was to create a universal opportunity …
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Music and Depth in Landscape Experience
The estranged relationship with landscape exhibited by contemporary cultures has been well documented by prominent theorists. Design professionals can begin to reconcile culture and landscape by proposing interventions in everyday landscapes which embrace uncertainty, acknowledge the temporal …
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Inventory’s paper assembly: fierce sociology, sovereignty and self-organisation in London’s small press publishing scene 1995 to 2005
… attempts to deliver an intellectual history of the journal Inventory and its place within theories of knowledge, publishing, artistic practice, ethnography, politics and critical theory. The initial movement of the thesis, Chapter 1, establishes Inventory’s formal structure as a journal. …
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Gambling with regeneration: seaside resort regeneration and casino development
The United Kingdom’s seaside resorts are in decline. This has been addressed by various regeneration strategies. The Gambling Act 2005 threw a potential lifeline to some seaside resorts that wished to utilise casinos as cultural regeneration tools. However, this is a unique example of a …
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Music Pedagogy in Venezuela’s Plains: Making Space in Alma Llanera
<p>This dissertation argues that the process of institutionalizing traditional <em>música llanera </em>(plains region music) education in Venezuela is informed by a hierarchical spatialization of the capital, Caracas, and the historically agricultural- and livestock-producing region known as the …
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A scenographic analysis of emergent British 'national' identity, on the stages of the National Theatre between 1995-2005
This thesis examines space within the context of scenography and investigates its presence as a theme exposing the unstable condition of identity. It does this by examining how 'national' identity has been presented through the medium of design on the stages of the UK's National Theatre during an …
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Drawing Water, Drawing Breath, Drawing Thread, A synthesis of clinical and creative practice through space-time
This practice led research demonstrates the synthesis of clinical and creative practice through the concept of space-time, by addressing the idea of transferable skills and language across science and art. Clinical practice is focussed on the work of a highly specialist respiratory therapist. …
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Public cemeteries and the production of urban space in colonial Seoul, 1910-1945
This thesis traces the production process of colonial urban space in Seoul. In particular, the research analyses how the space of the dead (the gravesite) was transformed into a space of urban settlers during the colonial period. The Government General Korea introduced the burial rule in 1912, the …
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Architecture for performance - exploring the relationship between architecture, dance and the city
The focus of this investigation is the relationship between architecture and dance. The main concern is the challenge of translating dance to enhance architectural design, questioning how dance can inspire and unlock a potential in architecture through scale and movement of the body at various …
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