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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Urban Experience"”.
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Writing Barcelona: Reflections on City Planning and Urban Experience, 1854--1888
… uncover the inner tensions of a project of urban modernization which was fuelled by the emerging bourgeoisie and remains in question to this day. Indeed, this dissertation aims at exposing the initial articulation of what has recently been called the ""Barcelona model,"" a multi-faceted plan …
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Writing Barcelona: reflections on city planning and urban experience, 1854-1888
… the articulation and the reception of the new urban model that transformed the city of Barcelona between 1854 and 1888. Through an interdisciplinary approach that includes the analysis of literature, visual culture, and specific proposals of urban planning, I examine how the conception and the …
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Constructing Urban Experience: American Realism, the Periodical Press, and the Late-Nineteenth-Century Cityscape
Much realist fiction employing these emblematic urban spaces appeared serially in magazines alongside articles about developing American urban centers. By bringing together both the physical and publication contexts of realist fiction, this study offers a new reading of realism as embedded in …
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Hallucinating the Ukrainian Cityscape: A Reevaluation of Walter Benjamin’s Urban Experience for a Postsocialist Context
… between Walter Benjamin’s conception of modern urban experience and postsocialist representations of urban space in Ukrainian literature. By examining how urban experience influences the mobilization of formal strategies in literature and critical theory, this project articulates the normative …
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Urban experience and the development of city image: a study in environmental perception and learning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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Science of the Small: Nanotechnology Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
… and how modern industry can become part of the urban experience. Through the design of a nanotechnology research laboratory, I was able to discover a connection between modern architecture and nanotechnology which revolved around the topics of scale, layering and revealing.
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A study of the effects of urban laboratory experiences on the attitudes and self concepts of undergraduate students
… enrolled in the curriculum component of an urban elementary teacher education program at the State University College at Buffalo, New York, and a comparable group of students enrolled in the curriculum component of the regular elementary teacher education program in relation to self and …
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Imagen Ponce : public and private interests in the design of a free zone within the Port of Ponce, Puerto Rico
… of the industrial machine and the city's urban fabric. Layers of physical forms generated from past economic programs have given Ponce its rich character. The design proposes to introduce a new civic image that will enhance the urban experience and give clarity to the workings of the trade …
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The repurposing of the Bellville Marshalling Yard: Achieving an spatially efficient and equitable Metropolitan Cape Town
… a lack of functionality and a generally poor urban experience The city is plagued by the shortcomings of modernist planning and Apartheid spatial segregation which translate in a city which is devoid of appropriate located activity and a separation of land uses and people. Therefore, the …
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Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press
… press and the magazine's complex conceptions of urban life. It argues that Drum's non-fiction promoted a cosmopolitan identity for its urban readers, in direct opposition to the efforts by the apartheid government to "retribralise" black urban residents, but also reflected anxieties about the …
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Location linked information
… the system provides two functions for its urban users: 1) the retrieval of information about their surroundings, and 2) the optional annotation of location for communal benefit. Having the ability to link physical location with arbitrary information is an essential function to building …
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Incremental housing at the receding suburban fringe
… inefficient homes on the periphery of the suburban fringe. This thesis proposes a new model for high-density, low-rise urban housing that provides an environmentally responsive infrastructural framework upon which homeowners can readily expand to suit their needs and desires. Such an …
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The initial unemployment duration of immigrants to Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain
… to Cape Town are driven by the perception of urban opportunities for employment and a better life. This paper serves to broaden the understanding of the assimilation of immigrants to the Cape Town labour market by means of a discrete-time duration analysis of the time taken to find work after …
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Transit-oriented development and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail : shaping urban design patterns in northern New Jersey
… the influence of a new transit system on mature urban environments. The confluence of evolving socio-economic trends, cultural travel behaviors, and existing urban contexts, is changing how cities develop. The added value of convenient transit access provides unique urban design opportunities. …
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
Literary Urbanism and the Symbolist Aesthetic argues that the modern city influences urban writers to develop particular literary-visual practices that translate urban experience into poetry and prose. Chapter one considers how urban planning in Paris during the Second Empire inspired Charles …
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Maximizing the benefits of mass transit stations : amenities, services, and the improvement of urban space within spaces
… is an integral part of daily life and their urban experience. Beyond being simply a piece of infrastructure offering mobility throughout a city, transit stations are an important part of the daily morning and evening rituals for many transit riders in cities with such rapid transit systems. …
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Urban perceptual modeling : a speculative framework for artistic intervention/
… impact or manage the perceptual and behavioral experience of human beings. Recent discussions primarily in urban planning, architecture, and the environmental humanities have pointed towards the ways in which contemporary cities are generating increasingly complex images, deploying a range of …
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The city design and the new Urban Revolution : conceptualizing catalytic, sustainable development in Mexico's second tier
… Technology (ICT) - in facilitating sustainable urbanism in the developing world? Technological advancements are altering consumer demand and behavior, transforming the products, services, entertainment and information consumed as well processes related to consumption. Technical change is further …
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Amazon here
… and take on projects that address urban issues. Uber rethinks public transit; Google Sidewalk Labs designs Toronto's waterfront with integrated mobility system; Elon Musk's Boring Company privately funds a rapid transit line from O'Hare Airport to downtown; Amazon provides CIA data …
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Duality of Ground: Re-envisioning Space of Death in New York City
… as a constant reminder of the mutability of urban ground and its profound notion of impermanence and perpetuity. Cemeteries, nonetheless, reveal as much about the living as they do about the dead. Today, their relevance has been challenged by the spatial constraints and the ever-changing …
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