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Showing 1 to 20 of 338 for “"Urban Space"”.
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Dissipative urban space
… applied. at the microscopic level. upon the urban environment. At the urban scale of design. The internationally accepted manifestations of the Chart of Athens have been projecting dogmatic patterns of development: The ''ideal" definitions of uses and "orderliness", inside and outside the …
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Zozobra: the tensions of urban space
… remain largely unexplored. I focus on the built space and the emotions in an attempt to alter the perspective from which questions are asked, and to problematise the questioning process itself. Questions of method are integral to this thesis. The story told is that of the barrio of La Cienaga. It …
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The total use of urban space.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1966. M.Arch.
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Creating Life in an Urban Space
Towns contain spaces defined by human interaction with their surroundings. In any town, certain places seem inviting while others seem cold and unfriendly. This is the result of subtle design decisions that directly effect the character of a place. This investigation focuses on the interaction of …
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Glocal securitization of urban space in Turkey
Contemporary securitization of space has been globally intensified across cities since the events of 9/11, involving authoritarian and violent national security, a new paradigm for engaging with terror. This thesis explores, examines and exposes conflicts and contradictions of securitization of …
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Transience and durability in Japanese urban space
… is transient and what endures within Japanese urban space” by taking the material constructed form of one Japanese city as a primary text and object of analysis. Chiba-shi is a port and administrative centre in southern Kanto, the largest city in the eastern part of the Tokyo Metropolitan …
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Louis Sebastien Mercier's Representation of Urban Space
… effort to individually affect the physical space of the city for the collective good through his actions and his writings. I also show that Mercier's urban chronicles are of historical and literary value: not only does he capture the Zeitgeist of his time by representing the moral …
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Advancing accessibility : public transport and urban space
After decades of academic research, urban accessibility metrics are beginning to see adoption in transportation and metropolitan planning practice. Such metrics capture the potential for reaching destinations enabled by transport (e.g. number of jobs available within a given commute time), not just …
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Blockchain for civic initiatives in the urban space
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Street media : ambient messages in an urban space
… modalities consumed primarily in the domestic space, particularly television, radio, major newspapers, and the Internet. Studies of media in everyday life typically address these mass media, passing over ambient street media for any detailed examination. By examining both the explicit and …
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Evaluation of cross-cultural cognition of an urban space
Typescript (photocopy).
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Visuality and the transnational urban space: Koreatown, Los Angeles
… and countervisuality influence the transnational urban space of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Based on Nicholas Mirzoeff’s (2011) concepts of visuality and countervisuality, and by incorporating perspectives of globalization, specifically treatment of cities under globalization, the study shows how the …
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Aesthetics, Politics, and the Urban Space in Postcolonial British Literature
… alternative forms of community and recuperative spaces for marginalized communities in 20th and 21st century Britain. While giving voice to marginalized communities, however, Emecheta, Rushdie, and Smith each account for their own places in the global literary marketplace, and acknowledge their …
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Challenges and opportunities in the reuse of abandoned urban space.
… cities have emerged as a result of diverse urban and architectural transformations, new interventions and redevelopment, as well as through a cycle of abandonment and regeneration. New categories of resulting spaces are generated through these processes. Simultaneously, generic spaces are …
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Differentiating Small Urban Space as a Type and an Idea
As population trends continue toward increased urbanisation, a number of cities are addressing rapid urban growth with popular management strategies, which call for compacting outward expansion and intensifying urban densities. However, though widely recognised as essential, urban spaces under such …
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Urban Ethnicity in Santiago de Chile. Mapuche Migration and Urban Space
Das urbane Phänomen ist im Wandel. In den vergangenen Jahren tauchten neue Modelle und Formen von Urbanität auf. Die Einführung neoliberaler Politik als auch eine etablierte Globalisierung in Lateinamerika wirken sich nicht nur auf die Ausdehnung des Kommunikations- und Informationsflusses, sondern …
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Ausonius’ cities: perception of the urban space in fourth-century Gaul
This thesis aimed at studying fourth-century Gallic cities throught he lens of one of its most gifted poet, Ausonius. Born in 310, Ausonius was an Aquitanian nobleman who rose in the service of emperors Valentinian I and Gratian. First of all, it was demonstrated that the poet’s ideal city was …
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