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Showing 1 to 20 of 533 for “"commons"”.
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The Blacksburg Commons
… Park, and the site will be called the Blacksburg Commons. The recreation building will serve as the vehicle for an investigation into the basis of architecture and the design process. This thesis is a documentation of that investigation.
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Intellectual Commons: The Normative Perspective
… the moral significance of the intellectual commons and proposes appropriate modes for their regulation with the aim of accommodating their social potential. In the course of exploring their normative aspects, the thesis proceeds successively by analysing (i) the ontological characteristics …
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The governance of local climate commons
… and private interests, represent a local climate commons that provides climate adaptation benefits such as heat regulation to residents, visitors and ecological communities. Drawing on empirical evidence of community attitudes, document analysis and a review of adaptation literature, this thesis …
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Arctci-tecture for the global commons
… scientific value, and legal status as a Global Commons, is a site that cannot be understood in any way other than through its relationship to a larger global environmental system. This reality, when combined with the continent's mystique, creates an unparalleled opportunity for architectural …
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Commedia: Rhetoric And Technology In The Media Commons
<p>This dissertation analyzes the organization of individuals through online social media applications and other community-building websites, such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and online classrooms, using the Aristotelian rhetorical concept of the commonplaces as well as political, …
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Europe's liquid commons : towards a public territorial infrastructure
… as a means to create a symbolic and operative commons between the East and West of Europe. A historical perspective on the physical transformations of Rhine is used to illustrate the seminal role they played in the formation of transnational diplomacy and economic collaborations in the West of …
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Commons: The Role of Public Space in Reinvention
Urban space is, at its most basic, composed of nodes of activity and the paths that connect them. These nodes and paths form a complex urban web. The success of this fabric is determined by increasing connections and avoiding the isolation of nodes. Access to nature and pedestrian spaces form the …
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Crafting the commons : modern approaches to music as product
In this dissertation, modern approaches to record labels, music as product, and copyright in the music industry were investigated. The possibility of successfully creating, implementing, and operating an independent, not‐for‐profit, commercial record label that services the needs of the South …
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Business models for information commons in the pharmaceutical industry
The pharmaceutical industry needs new modes of innovation. The industry's innovation system - based on massive investments in R&D protected by intellectual property rights - has worked well for many years, providing incentives for pharmaceutical firms to invest in developing drugs across a wide …
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The living commons : a spatial theory for biological design
Biological design is as ancient as human civilization. For thousands of years, living systems and natural processes have been manipulated by humans and their biological outcomes have been customized for different purposes. While the idea of biological design has always been prevalent throughout …
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Participatory Design For Community Energy - Designing the Renewable Energy Commons
… and (ii) the advantages and disadvantages of a commons based approach to renewable energy management on the development and empowerment of local communities. First will be presented how a participatory design process opens a new space for citizen participation to design as an alternative energy …
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Information commons service model and community colleges in New Jersey
… determine if characteristics of the information commons model were being adopted by community college libraries in New Jersey. The study examined how closely these characteristics matched the models represented in the current four-year college and university literature. Email questionnaires were …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
… have as its goal the exposure and defense of the commons while its very articulation must posit a tabula rasa to be enclosed, improved, and defended? This question lies at the heart of my own project. I investigate and critique a series of moments that mobilize the twin concepts of utopia and …
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Reclaiming the commons : art and activism in the neoliberal city
… the seemingly archaic terms "enclosure" and "the commons." Parts 2 and 3 update these terms for the twenty-first century, addressing the "new enclosures" of neoliberalism and the emergence of the alterglobalization movement. In parts 4 and 5, I describe the conditions of the neoliberal city and …
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Individual and social motivations to contribute to commons-based peer production.
… driving certain Internet users to contribute to commons-based peer production. The study combines the literature of volunteerism, uses and gratifications, and social identity theory as the theoretical framework. Findings from the preliminary in-depth interviews were combined with that of prior …
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A CONFUCIAN ROLE ETHICS APPROACH TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
… Role Ethics (CRE) approach to the Tragedy of the Commons (TOC). While technical and legislative approaches are necessary, a more comprehensive and enduring solution would require addressing the TOC as a moral problem. Instead of operating with Hardin’s assumed conception of rationality, CRE …
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A framework for analyzing the sustainability of peer produced science commons
… single centralized authority. A third model, the commons, mixes elements of both the market and the state in providing a broad framework for cooperative resource sharing. The commons has proven to be an effective governance strategy for sustaining shared environmental resource systems, such as …
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