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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"american city"”.
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Demolition in American city planning
… the lens of each, it looks at the history of American demolition and points out the flawed reasoning that justifies demolition today. It focuses especially on the history of Boston, Massachusetts. It proposes that demolition does not serve a legitimate function in city planning, and offers a …
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Reimagining an American City where People without a House can Subsist
… are multifaceted, but it is evident that the city does not provide appropriate resources for these individuals to exist humanely. This study aims to comprehend the primary needs of a houseless person and determine how urban design solutions might provide resources to address those needs. For …
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Bottoms, Hollows, and Flats : making and remaking the lower section of the American city
… an urban environmental history of the low-lying American slum. Using qualitative research methods, I investigate the historical phenomenon of topographically based, socio-economic segregation in cities, and how urban actors first created these places then remade them. I examine six low-lying …
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Indigenous Detroit: indigeneity, modernity, and racial and gender formation in a modern American city, 1871-2000
… people reasserted their presence in the Motor City, challenging longstanding definitions of indigeneity. In the first two chapters, I argue that, in a quest to bolster both white masculinity and Detroit’s urban standing, elite white men both memorialized and erased Detroit’s indigenous past. …
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The transformation of the ideal wilderness : a case study of Springfield, Missouri and the mid-size American city
This thesis explores the mid-size American city and examines the deeply nuanced relationship between city form, landscape and culture. Using Springfield Missouri as a representative case study, the city is viewed as a process of transformation, a reading which is used to build a layered spatial …
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A historical consideration of value formation in the American city planning experience : the reflection of values in professional roles and the political interests which they served
Thesis (M.U.P.)--Michigan State University. School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, 1973
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The loss of place
The current crisis of the “American City”, stems from the notion of “The Loss of Place.” This concept of “Place” is defined and a specific project study demonstrating this concept of “Place” is presented. By utilizing new technologies available for methods and means of construction to produce …
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A mosque for Brooklyn
… of the urban mosque within the context of the American city. It cngagcs ideas about the typology of the mosque, its functional and religious requirements as well as its cultural variations, and looks at how these are translated and merged across cultures. It traces the history of the mosque in …
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Cecilian reform in Baltimore, 1868-1903
… least researched phases. Focusing on a single American city illustrates how a portion of the ethnically diverse, rapidly growing American Catholic church responded to the importation of a liturgical music aesthetic approved and eventually legislated by the Vatican. Baltimore, the first …
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urban order + space
… condition of urban texture of the modern city. If we want to fix that urban wilderness of the American City, we have to redraw its outlines and redefine its spaces.
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Distributed Dionysia
Public space in the American city is in a state of social and spatial indeterminacy. Situated within a sprawling aggregation of suburban back lawns, the redundant green space of the park appears as an absurd deformity in the Mega-Grid. Moreover, the myriad access points for mass media within the …
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Containers : project for a new urbanism
… which have become a significant feature of the American city. It is a search for a hybrid typology of habitation and production for these neglected fields. The project starts with a research on urban industrial landscapes of major American cities in order to extract common features, then focuses …
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Place In The Middle Landscape
… coupled with the vast expansiveness of the American landscape have led to settlement patterns within the urban environment that are distinctively American and non-traditional. The continual tension between principles of collective majority rule and rights of individual equality has led to an …
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American Verismo?: insights into The Padrone, and opera by George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 - 4 April 1931)
… Chadwick (13 November 1854 – 4 April 1931) to American music comes in many forms: composer, teacher, conductor, pianist and organist. A leading figure of the Second School of New England composers, Chadwick was also largely responsible for the effective reorganization of the New England …
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Rising from the bricks: the historical development of East St. Louis State Community College, 1969-2004
… educational prospects of the residents and the city of East St. Louis. It looks at the ways in which the residents of the predominantly poor, African American city of East St. Louis showed tremendous agency and forethought in fighting to establish this institution. This history traces the …
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Towards a new real estate : innovative financing for a better built environment
… the largest and most important asset classes in American investment. Yet this evolution has also produced a system of development that has grown to compromise rather than facilitate the creation of places of enduring value. First, this thesis explores how the evolution of the industry led to this …
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Regime Theory Revisited: The Role Of Nonprofit Organizations In Urban Policymaking
… outcomes in selected policy arenas in a major American city (Detroit) during the first decade of the 21st century, my research assesses the degree to which the nonprofit sector plays a collaborative and leadership role in urban policymaking.</p>
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A School for the Chinese Martial Arts
… of an architecture appropriate to a modern American city. The goal of this thesis is to design a new school for training in kung fu, specifically the hung-fut system. This system teaches traditional kung fu, lion and dragon dancing, tai-chi, and sparring. Students of the Chinese system of …
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