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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"arcades"”.
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Urban sunspaces : ecology of atria and arcades
… and with the ending 18th century, atria and arcades merged to a period of architectural highlights of glass covered interiors in steel and glass. Passages, hotels and public buildings of an emerging industrial society in Europe and Northern States spurred the evolution of the "Great Indoors" …
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Arcades, let's plays, and avant-gardes: perspectives for analysing and developing videogame exhibitions for arts audiences
While debate over videogames’ cultural status can still become contentious, the contemporary exhibition form is a route into art history, and exhibitions of videogames and their display choices have already drawn videogames into the discursive construction of the history of art. Over the past 30 …
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The Value of Classical Allusions in Six of Milton’s Minor Poems (L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Cornus, Lycldas, Samson Agonistes, and Arcades)
Classical allusions form so integral a part of Milton's poetry that one can scarcely conceive of the poems without them. Deprived of these allusions, the poetry would lose a large part of its charm; certainly it would lose its most characteristic feature. In many instances the classical allusions …
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Public scale : the arcade as an urban phenomenon, its urban implications, and how it can be used today
… a primary room from secondary ones using arcades and squares. An arcade, composed of pillars and arches, was one of the primary elements to enclose public space. The arcade acts as a path and secondary space to the central space. It is gradually disappearing in contemporary architecture. …
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The Equilibria, Stability and Nonlinear Dynamics of Magnetically Sheared Atmospheres With Applications to the Solar Environment
… and the structure and disruption of magnetic arcades of the sun. To begin this study, two families of analytical solutions describing isothermal magnetostatic atmospheres in uniform gravity are presented that are characterized by magnetic shear. Both families of solutions vary in two Cartesian …
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The Public Library as Past Become Space
… Walter Benjamin’s historical materialism in The Arcades Project to critique contemporary notions related to the understanding of the public library as a place. My critical theoretical approach, grounded in historical research and Benjamin’s theories of modernity, highlights contemporary aspects …
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Mall re-imagined reconsidering a Cape Town shopping centre
… their surroundings by creating inward-facing arcades. This is observed as the only profitable way to deal with shop fronts in shopping malls which results in the creation of large blank facades on the exterior.
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Study of magnetic helicity in solar active regions and its relationship with solar eruptions
… related to 46 CMEs and two active-region coronal arcades building up to CMEs. The main findings in this dissertation are as follows: (1) the study of magnetic helicity for active regions producing major flares and CMEs indicates that there is always a significant helicity injection of 1042--1043 …
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Film and architecture : archive cinema complex
… by public transport, pedestrianised streets and arcades. The objective of the design was to celebrate cinema and the collective heritage embodied in film. The programme was positioned in an existing building envelope, and it was allowed to partially occupy the roofscape, becoming a display to the …
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… I engage with the historical object(s) (e.g., arcades, fashion, technological reproductions etc.) not as “object(s) of experience” but as a “participant(s) in historical experience” (Caygill 2004, 90). Challenging the progressive notion of history, I argue that within the objective …
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Characteristic distribution of peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer oedema in acute methanol-induced optic neuropathy
… from the optic disc and followed the vascular arcades but spared the nasal and temporal areas. In three cases, this correlated with a distinctive pattern of superior and inferior quadrant RNFL thickening on OCT with relative sparing of the nasal and temporal quadrants. Conclusion: Our study is …
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Cary Cortona: an alternative development model for the Research Triangle Area
… walls and columns that began to form a city of arcades and courtyards. On that night the inhabitants walked the streets and alleys and the fragments of a dream became the very real elements of a living town. The subconscious residue of that dream flowed together as expressions of order, …
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Press Start: Narrative Integration in 16-bit Video Game Music
Ever since Pong graced the screens of video arcades, one of the most influential interactions between technology and sound has been the video game console. Over the past decade, scholars have begun to recognize this interaction with the steady growth of scholarship on video game sound; however, one …
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Anthropology of nostalgia : primitivism and the antimodern vision in the American Southwest, 1880-1930
… zoos, picturesque gardens, or Parisian shopping arcades. And yet, I would like to argue, the evanescent afterimages of these places--the ways of being and relating that they nurtured and expressed--appear before and behind the crystalline pictures of snow-blanketed desert and azure sky, the lines …
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Technologies and Utopias: the cyberflâneur and the experience of being online
… reference point for the thesis: Benjamin and his Arcades Project (and within that: cyberflAnerie). Benjamin's project emphasises the analysis of fragments, which are juxtaposed to illuminate an otherwise invisible meaning. Similar structures are seen to exist online. These shape the particularity …
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The sociocultural context of the video game experience
… ethnographic research conducted in video arcades. The evolution of coin-operated video games is also examined and the games themselves are analyzed as cultural texts which embody both traditional and emerging cultural themes. The major thrust of the dissertation involves the question of …
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Movement in the architecture of the city: a study in environmental diversity
… city. An extensive survey campaign of existing arcades allows for the discussion of their environmental performance according to certain property-ratios. The arcade type, which preceded the mechanisation of architecture and movement, stands as a clear example of the ability of architecture to …
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Environmental factors that influence preference and price perceptions of commercial landscapes and storefronts
… environments. Storefronts that utilize angles, arcades, porticos, towers, and other forms of facade articulation were preferred. Likewise, visually rich and well . textured materials, such as brick, interlocking pavers and stamped concrete increased preference for commercial landscapes. …
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Mixed use property development and its place in UK urban policy
… theoretical and policy contentions. In his ‘Arcades Project' Walter Benjamin extrapolates from a particular example of the built environment to draw wider social conclusions and this thesis argues that exploring the theoretical, policy and physical character of Mixed Use can produce similar …
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Structuring public place through the design of access systems : the design of urban public place, an addition to the "New Market" of Calcutta, India
… 'street-like' built spaces-covered street-edge arcades and the· 'interior streets' of the city's covered markets still function as public places, creating a civic collective realm. An analysis of these public places shows that rather than a static conception of public place as open 'plaza' or …
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