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Showing 1 to 20 of 229 for “"Urban Context"”.
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Community Space in the Urban Context
Division is everywhere in our culture. We are divided by races, economic level, political affiliations, religion, nationality, and the list goes on, and on. Everywhere we turn we are faced with things that divide us, but we are rarely brought together. There are very few things in the world that …
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Retail/commercial edges in the contemporary urban context
… as a vital and necessary attribute of urban life and therefore of retail systems design and development in cities. The edges along three major Boston retail streets, Quincy Market--North and South Market Streets, Washington Street, and Boylston Street, are studied and documented. …
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Practices of food and diet in an urban context.
… It was thought that aspects of modern urban life would affect these elements and ergo by examining these issues using a multi-disciplinary method it would be possible to discover how urban living affects the way individuals experience food and diet choices. This thesis focuses on the …
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The inter-relationship of nature and built form in an urban context
… between architecture and nature in the context of densely settled area? This thesis attempts to address these questions through the application of environmental consciousness with three different scales: urban, community and individual. The site is known as Boston State Hospital Site in …
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The form and use of public space in a changing urban context
… has declined over the last few decades. The urban square, as the classic example of a public space, is studied here in the present context of an American city. While it is clear that the reasons for this decline in public life are much deeper than merely architectural, the underlying premise …
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Transparency in the Urban Context: a study on the complexity of transparent pieces
… of interconnections formed by our conceptions of context and order. These interconnections strive to be transparent so as to introduce a level of complexity that allows for a multitude of readings and is in constant variation as provided by the site, the inhabitants and the building. It is thru …
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Building Across the Sacred Landscape: The Romanesque Churches of Verona in their Urban Context
… religion, and community within the historical context of the Middle Ages, where architecture acts as an expression of the experience of urban life, as well as an affecting locus of social interaction. It focuses on medieval Verona, where the immense architectural renovations of the eleventh and …
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Toba Batak Marriage and Alliance: Family Decisions in an Urban Context (Kinship, Sumatra, Indonesia)
… arguing that structure is rooted in the context and social action. Detailed case study data on marriage decisions by middle-class families in Medan, Indonesia, demonstrate that alliance systems are more than the application of a rule of matrilaterial cross-cousin marriage. The thesis …
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Exploring the potential for native language revitalization in an urban context : language education in Vancouver
… Aboriginal languages represented in the city, urban Aboriginal language revitalization is complex and challenging. Sixteen research participants talked with me about competing priorities for urban Aboriginal individuals and families, the linguistic diversity of the British Columbia First …
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Move forward, into the city, my celebration : a meeting place between the rural immigrant and the urban context
The aim of the dissertation is to create a meeting place between the rural immigrant and the city. It is a system that recognizes the various layers in which the horizontal human meets the vertical city. The meeting place must act as a transition facility where one enters the complex mechanics of …
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Role of Solar-Reflective Coating in Improving Building Envelope Thermal Performance in the Urban Context of Phoenix, Arizona
… income, changing lifestyles and more interest in urbanization, and easy access to electricity. These factors lead to rising demand for energy. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) monthly review for the year 2020 showed that the building sector accounted for about 76% of electricity use …
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A library for the town of Milford : an addition to and redefinition of three buildings in an urban context
… library. This thesis attempts to resolve the urban issues implied by the existing town context, the architectural issues implied by the three buildings on the site, and the programmatic needs of a contemporary library.
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The use of Iscamtho by children in white city-Jabavu, Soweto: slang and language contact in an African urban context
The work presented in this thesis relies on language recordings gathered during thirty months of fieldwork in White City-Jabavu, Soweto. The data was collected from children between the ages of two and nine, following anthropological participant observation, and through the use of an audio …
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The relationship between an Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) literacy program and women's lives in Semi-urban context, in Cape Peninsula
The research employed a qualitative research paradigm. The ethnographic approach was used to conduct the research. Data collection was done though various ethnographic techniques, classroom observation, in-depth interviews and document analysis. The population was 85 women who participated in a …
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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. A case-study of institutional curating of contemporary art in an urban context
… and contemporary art exhibitions in a Western urban context today. It is concerned with exhibition studies’ methodology, the reciprocity between the art institution and the city, and the relationship between the art institution and the independent curator. With regards to methodology, I propose …
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The relationship between human beings and nature in an urban context: Tehran and the natural structures of seven river-valleys: a design and planning case study
… between human beings and nature in an urban context through the enhancement and improvement of the existing natural structures of the city. Although, in the past, the city was mostly characterised as a place of ‘non-nature’, nowadays the landscape is acknowledged to be the context from …
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Interpreting territorial structure : the machiya of Kyoto and the rowhouses of Boston's South End
… as one moves through layers of space in an urban context. The machiya or rowhouses of Kyoto are a sophisticated example of a building type which successfully creates a sense of privacy and contemplative retreat within a dense urban context. Through a study of the principles of spatial …
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Re-thinking the possibility of the urban roof space
Within an. urban context, if multiple level thinking associated with landscape architectural design principles are applied to roof spaces, these can be activated for specific purposes. The space on top of roofs has the potential to be converted into areas for production, recreation , socializing …
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