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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"community construction"”.
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Chinese urban community construction as a grassroots governance strategy: social capital with Chinese characteristics.
… decline the CCP organised a grassroots form of community-based response, titled the Community Construction Project in urban China. This was a top-down project designed to solve or at least ease many social problems caused by rapid urbanisation, the decline in the welfare policies associated with …
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Balancing Flavors, Constructing Identities, and Building a Community: Rethinking Diaspora and Migration Through the Foodways of a Thai Community in Washington, D.C.
… into the processes of adjustment and community construction among relocated people is now more necessary to understand the effects of these processes on cultural ideology and behavior. My focus on a temporary migrant population of Thais in Washington, DC offers a new way to …
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Drapers Meadows, a community designed and landscaped for living
… to be the design of Draper’s meadows, a community designed and landscaped for living, to provide housing for some members of the faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia. A review of literature dealing with community design from the l860’s to the present time, was …
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Brand Community
… one of the most essential notions in sociology, community, to branding in order to guide an exploration of the socially situated nature of brands. Data were collected in two distinct spheres: face-to-face (FtF), and Computer Mediated Environments (CMEs). The findings of this dissertation support …
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Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s east German art
… search for alternative modes of identity and community construction in the midst of the polarizing system of the Cold War period. GDR artists’ works reinterpreting ancient myths also engage with the concept of das Mutterrecht, a primitive form of matriarchy which informed foundational …
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Shaping density : how can high density form yield good urban places?
… physical and social behaviors. It should nurture community, walkability, amenity, social interaction, life and activity. Environments should engage the inhabitants and enhance the experience of those contained within its fabric in much the same way as good architecture enhances the lives of its …
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Edifying Design-Build: Towards a Practice and Place based Architectural Education
Architecture in its primitive form enacted a relationship of making between intentions and outcome. Post- industrialized modernization has created a multiplication of complexities, resulting in a profession that has disengaged theory and practice through the specialization of the architect and the …