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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"building history"”.
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Building history : learning with archival photographs
In many classrooms, learning about history means memorizing facts from textbooks, films, and other media. It is rare for students to engage in authentic historical activities - analyzing multiple documents to look for similarities and variations and ultimately assembling interpretations of past …
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The metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800-1914: a building history
… of Battersea</i> is a study of the process of building development in a London parish during the nineteenth century. Part I reviews existing literature on the subject and looks at the physical and pre-urban background. It also provides a brief overview of the creation of the essential …
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Reconfiguring the Republic Dream: New Equitable Housing Types in Post-Socialist Tbilisi
… and cosmopolitan character. Traditional building types demonstrate the confluence of cultures and the inhabitants’ open social ideals, as gradients of privacy blend between private, public, and semiprivate. The Art Nouveau courtyard house embodies these values as its internal composition …
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Charity, architecture and urban development in post-Tridentine Rome : the hospital of the SS.ma Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1548-1680)
… the institutional, architectural and urban history of charitable institutions in Rome from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. It highlights the previously ignored central role that these institutions played in the consolidation of papal power and the political administration of the …
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existence and continuity
History is a narrative of interdependent events or a series of events clustering about some idea which weaves them together. History gathers individually occurring events along the datum of such an idea and absorbs it into a realm of simultaneity. Similarly, this thesis attempts to amplify the …
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Manpower development and nation-building : Singapore's experience
… and wealthier nation. Singapore's brief nation-building history justifies the emphasis accorded to the importance of good quality human resources and manpower development in economic and socio-political developments. As a tiny island-state with a poor natural resource base, Singapore's long-term …
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Politics of Nation Building & Belonging: Democratization, Revolution, Civil War, & the Modern Salvadoran
… cooperation. My study of the Salvadoran nation building process is essential for understanding both distrust of the state and social polarization because democracy without constitutional constraint infringes on freedom, prosperity, peace and in a broader context contributes to the erosion of a …
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Richard Seifert, Denys Lasdun & the Power of the Press: Critical Responses to the Architects' Building & Their Reputational Impact
… within expressive forms, attitudes to their buildings remain radically different. The research examines how media commentary helped to define perceptions of their work and played an important role in shaping Seifert’s and Lasdun’s reputations, while taking into account potential influences …