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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Third Place"”.
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Cohabiting Third Place: Integrating Natural Hydrology with Healing Architecture
Washington D.C. has been ranked third among U.S. cities in terms of its percentage of youth who have reported a severe major depressive episode. Depression, stress, anxiety are the uninvited visitors of our day-to-day urban living. Most of the time we ignore our mental health unless we reach the …
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An investigation of Chinese business event experience: A third place perspective
… of business events using a sociological theory (Third Place) and apply it to a business event in order to gain a greater understanding of the symbiotic relationship between attendees and the event. The thesis will test a number of hypotheses relating to attitudes, motivations, perceived service …
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Creating a Third Place for Collaboration: Museum and Art Community Network
<p>It is widely believed that museum and art professional networks are useful to professionals’ capacity development and networking. However, how these networks unite and create space for collaboration, and whether they are beneficial and accessible to larger professional communities has not been …
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Making a third place: the science and the poetry of husbandry
… contains or heaven, or hell;<br/>There’s no third place in’t.<br/>(Webster 1993)<br/><br/>Husbandry in its original sense is a ‘being together’, based on dwelling in a particular place. There is an intricate connection between modern science and industrialised agriculture, both of which …
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Cooking Together: Form & Function of Community Kitchen as Urban ‘Third Place’ Promoting Community Wellbeing
… has surged in recent years, with nearly one-third of the world population experiencing food insecurity between 2020-2022. Malnutrition remains a leading cause of death globally, making food access a major determinant of health. Cities are increasingly grappling with challenges as urban …
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Excellent, Approachable, Local: Using an experience-driven, embodied methodology to explore communities of practice within a third place
… Coffeehouse as a community of practice within a third place, this thesis is an attempt to highlight the complex humanity at play in every interpersonal experience, and an argument that this humanity is best approached by researchers who are interested in seeing and relating to their humanity, not …
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"Life is good. Life is what you make it" The significance of a third place: an ethnography of Masters swimming.
… county of Dorset, where the exploration takes place, has an ageing population which is well above the national average. Furthermore, the National Governing Body for swimming is endeavouring to increase sport participation by ensuring that more people swim regularly. Masters athletes are viewed …
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In Defense of a "Third Place": How Reassembling the Boundaries of an Urban Military Installation can Maintain Security while Uniting the Community
… treatment of these barriers can create a "third place" ripe for interaction between the installation and the surrounding community. By designing retail, educational and cultural spaces along the border, the security of the installation can remain intact while also fostering an active …
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Private in Public - Public in Private: A Library on H Street NE Washington, DC
… tendency for an individual to seek out its own place within a group. More specifically, the project studies whether private and public could not only occupy the same geographic space independently, but also activate one another. A library was chosen as the program for its opportunity to serve as …
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Socioeconomic Diversity in Public Spaces
… and economic integration. These spaces serve as third places, or social spaces where community members regularly visit, similar to their regular visitation of their home and workplaces. In the City of Roanoke, three visited public parks serve as local third places where individuals of different …
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Coffee shop, environmental behavior, and design (How does social behavior and interaction influence coffee shop design?)
Re-thinking the concept of coffee shop as “a third place between home and work (Oldenburg, 1989)” and its conventional seating layout, this thesis studied characteristics that encourage social behaviors and the meaning of coffee shops in modern U.S. society. The study was qualitative that included …
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Community in the electronic age : an information resource center at Government Center
… the positive social qualities inherent in the "third place". Utilizing the communicative ability of the available technology, the IRC supports the proposition of an intermediate realm, between the public and the private, which would restore community in our lives. This exploration begins with a …
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The developing role of the university library as a student learning commons: Implications to the interior spaces within
… within the university community (Hisle, 2005). Third places are "public places on neutral ground where people can gather and interact. The character of a third place is determined most of all by its regular clientele and is marked by a playful mood, which contrasts with people's more serious …
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Professional Wrestling and Myth
… American civic life. Churches functioned as the third places (besides work and home) where people can find a community and reaffirm community values. The decline of sacred mythic heroes provides an opportunity for new heroes to be born. In the search for third places, people found community …
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The Making of Character: When Space Becomes Room, and Room Becomes Place
… community life by rethinking the idea of the "third place," spaces outside home and work where people gather. Using downtown Blacksburg as the main site and comparing it with examples from Charlottesville and Gatlinburg, the study examines how design and the use of form can activate downtown …
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Community living, learning and wellness: designing a graduate student housing centre at the University of Manitoba
… aims to provide a welcoming and energizing third place environment where graduate students can live, study, network, play, and relax within one convenient location.
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Can Urban Gardening be a Case for Neighborhood Infrastructure Reparation The Case for Cambridge, Massachusetts
… design new spaces, and also an important social place that fosters civic life (what sociologists call a “third place”). They are not the solution for all urban problems but can enhance the livability of our neighborhoods. This thesis analyzes the potential of urban food gardens in Cambridge, …
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Die rol van moedertaalversteuring in die Afrikaans van Zoeloesprekende leerlinge
… The results also showed that Afrikaans occupies third place after the mother tongue and English in the research area. So is it fair to teach pupils a second language higher grade syllabus in Afrikaans ? Why not make provision for a second Language lower grade or even a third language Afrikaans …
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An Analysis of the Problems Impeding the Ground Operations in the Air Freight Industry
… be called an industry, air freight took a poor third place to passenger and mail operations. As a rule, only the residual space on passenger aircraft was made available for freight, effectively contributing to its poor showing. The situation improved very slowly, and prior to World War II, air …
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The Social Transformation of Coffee Houses: The Emergence of Chain Establishments and the Private Nature of Usage
… is given to Ray Oldenburg's (1989) concept of third places as environments that offer visitors friendship and a sense of community. However, given that coffee houses have moved from small-scale businesses to chain-owned and many people now use them to work on laptops, this idealized image of …
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