Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 219 for “"countryside"”.
-
Minnetonka countryside : a retirement community
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
-
Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish countryside
The countryside has undergone major transformations over recent decades as a result of global economic restructuring, state intervention in agriculture, and changing demographies. These changes are often contested and the source of conflict and tensions, which in Ireland have manifested in the …
-
Mapping the countryside: information for policy and management
… highlighted would appear to be met by the Countryside Survey (CS) initiative. Despite offering potentially suitable data, with a combination of an environmental stratification (the ITE land class system), field survey and remotely sensed data, this source was little used. Thus, the study …
-
The Maoist Message in the Chinese Countryside, 1949–1978
… the mindscapes and landscapes of the Chinese countryside during the Mao era. Geographically focused on Southeast Shanxi, it explores how this cohort functioned as the nucleus of Mao’s rural propaganda machine, how they empowered themselves with valuable opportunities and upward social …
-
Body Double: Mythmaking and Identity in a Virtual Countryside
… at how the romanticized image of the American countryside has shifted over the last century. By tracing a lineage of mediation through different mediums (print, television, internet), we argue that there has never been a pure rural condition. Currently, the countryside is undergoing new changes …
-
Young girls in the countryside: growing up in South Northamptonshire
Although there has been a surge of interest in a geographical approach to the study of children, there is a pro-urban bias in much childhood research. Childhood is seemingly assumed to be an entirely metropolitan experience; there is a paucity of research on rural childhoods. Few studies have …
-
Interactive media in distance learning for UK farmers: the countryside disc
… a number of UK farmers benefited from using the Countryside Disc, one of the few examples available of an interactive training program aimed at farmers. The Disc, which is a computer-controlled laser vision videodisc, required the farmers to act in a complex simulated world (of a farm and its …
-
Brightening the Countryside - The Library Service in Rural Ireland, 1902 - 1935.
… the belief that books could rehabilitate the countryside and revive the National spirit gained rural libraries the support of agricultural co-operators and cultural nationalists. The Public Library Act of 1902 enabled Rural District Councils to raise a library rate. Between 1902 and 1914 a …
-
Villages of Delhi : towards inclusivity and plurality in the urbanizing countryside
… economic values in the new developments in the countryside. Approaching the project at multiple scales, these village collectives would operate at the scale of districts in Delhi that plan and accommodate for new growth and sustain life forms of the villages as well.
-
Agri-industrial park : strategies for transformation of Linpan countryside of Chengdu plain, China
… the biggest challenges of today's China. Large countryside area with distinctive landscape is dying because of poor living conditions and fewer job opportunities. At the same time, the frenzy of Industry Park and Office Park developments, which started in the 1990s, is taking vast farmland from …
-
The production of rurality : social and spatial transformations in the Tamil countryside 1915-65
… marked by greater market penetration into the countryside, democratization and regime change, and the reorganization of community relations at multiple scales. The argument is developed in three inter-related but self-contained chapters.
-
Urbanizing The Countryside? The Governance Of Rural Restructuring In Bancroft And North Hastings County, Ontario
This dissertation comprises a case study of local governance in the Town of Bancroft, Ontario, and the surrounding municipalities of North Hastings County. The capacity for strategic agency by local governance actors, regarding economic development initiatives and mitigation of inequality, is the …
-
Countryside Architecture: A Study on the Academic-Education-Practice Integration Model of Contemporary Chinese Rural Architects
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
-
Soviet Peasants and the "Test of War": Food Politics and the Second World War in the Soviet Countryside, 1939-1945
… is the first archive-based study of the Soviet countryside during the Second World War in English (or French). It is about life, death, and survival on the collective farms between 1939 and 1945. Problematically neglected in Western historiography, the story of how the majority of the Soviet …
-
The social and political determinants in the formation and implementation of habitat conservation policy : the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
… for the protection of habitats in the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 in order to explain its existence and form and also its effectiveness. The identification of the determinants involves consideration of a number of hypotheses. A positive proof shows why the voluntary approach was chosen. A …
-
Relational rural geographies, resilience, and narratives of small-scale fruit farming in the metropolitan countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
… affected small-scale farming in the metropolitan countryside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an area where land-use, economic and environmental policies and urban land speculation have prompted increasing competition between agricultural, industrial, residential and conservation land uses within a …
Page 1 of 11