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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"local traditions"”.
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The Role of Local Traditions in Participatory Planning for Successful Development Projects in Rural Egypt
… rural Egypt, which was deemed successful by the local people. The purpose is to identify elements that caused these projects to be perceived successful. Using the normative participatory planning theory that is usually used in the West as a theoretical context, the research examined three …
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Bridging the education gap: an exploratory study of education in low-income rural and informal settlements in Namibia
… to education reform. Socio-economic challenges, local traditions, and cultural factors shape community expectations but are often overlooked in policy design and implementation. Bureaucratic inefficiencies were also cited as barriers to effective policy execution, and resource gaps, particularly …
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Experiment and Tradition: A Builder's Thoughts
… the architect's conceptual understanding of the traditions of the region in which the project exists, informed by local traditions yet not illustrating a revivalist form of vernacular construction.
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Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires
… and socio-cultural spaces and about how diverse local knowledge traditions came to shape global knowledge in the age of colonialism. I explore these issues through the lens of the career of the Jesuit pharmacist Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706) and the communications of medical and natural …
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Dematerializing the City
The project is a local cultural center located in Gulou area in the old city center of Beijing, China. This urban intervention establishes a series of harmonious relationships between the city and the architecture, between the urban and the autonomous and between the old and the new . The pattern …
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"Unique By Nature, Traditional By Choice": Music Initiatives and Social Change in a Rural Appalachian Community
… demonstrate the tension between preserving local traditions and embracing diversity. Employing practice theory, concepts of globalization, and an applied ethnomusicological approach, three music initiatives--a historical performance hall, public school music education, and the local …
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A new town hall for Norwich, Vermont
… make an architectural statement that synthesizes local traditions and modem techniques. The actual form of the building was further influenced by its prominent corner site, the programmatic requirements, and the organizational relationships of the various parts.
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Ekistics, architecture and environmental politics, 1945-1976 : a prehistory of sustainable development by Panayiota I. Pyla.
… and Hassan Fathy, who operated as a proponent of local "traditions" in the midst of the Ekistics group.
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The Orientalism of Edgar Allan Poe: The Allure of the Middle East in Al-Aaraaf
… Middle Eastern geography, ancient cities, local traditions, and intertextual relationships. The body of the thesis is mainly made up of three parts. The first part gives a brief survey of the definition of Orientalism and the role it played in the relationship between the West and the East …
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“Because We Are Catholic”: Music as a Bridge Between Identities Within the Catholic Community of South India
… Karnatak musical styles, practices, and traditions as distinctively Catholic rather than Indian or Hindu. Thus, Indian cultures are recontextualized within a Catholic paradigm, as these practices are regarded as Catholic regardless of their historical, cultural, or religious origin. These …
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"We ain't terrorists, but we droppin' bombs": Language use and localization of hip hop in Egypt
In this thesis I explore the localization of hip hop in the context of Egypt. I examine the process of localization in terms of the content (issues and topics), forms (language forms) and musical styles that are used in the cases of four Egyptian groups, MTM, Arabian Knightz, Y-Crew and Asfalt. I …
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Essaouria, Morocco : redevelopment through the introduction of a university
… built and natural, habits of people and local traditions, all attributes which play a vital role in the development of a design strategy. Interestingly when context becomes culturally unfamiliar architects struggle to characterize the attributes which define that specific context. In …
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Barcelona's Public Market System: Bridging the Gap Between the Global and the Local
… to both global influences as well as the local traditions of trade and consumption. This global/local balance keeps the markets relevant to contemporary consumers and allows them to have a well-rounded experience as they shop. In this paper, I trace the history and previous incarnations of …
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Rescaling the State: The Politics of Educational Decentralization in Catalonia
… and hermetically sealed space, national or local, but is influenced by inputs arising from a range of different sources; and that endogenous and exogenous processes intersect in a number of complicated ways. It shows that policy makers in Catalonia have to take into account and negotiate not …
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Corporate social responsibility and reporting by multinational corporations in Bangladesh: an exploration
… social responsibility are found to be limited to local traditions of philanthropy similar to the South Asian trend. The main reason for practicing CSR by corporations in Bangladesh is found to be to manage certain stakeholders’ perceptions for corporations’ own interests. It appears that a single …
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On the Periphery of a Great "Empire": Secondary Formation of States and Their Material Basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1000-500 B.C.E
… region of diverse landscape and complex cultural traditions during the Late Bronze-Age (1000-500 BCE). In this research, the developmental trajectories of three different types of secondary states are examined. The first type is the regional states established by the Zhou court; the second type is …
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French taste: food and national identity in post-colonial France
… a more relevant gastronomic identity rooted in local traditions and terroirs. Chapters 1 and 2 trace the distancing of Frenchness from universalism, rationalism, and modernization in the dramatic rise and fall of “nouvelle cuisine” in the 1970s and the debates about “American” fast food in the …
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Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
… thesis, however, pays greater attention to the local contingencies and contests which shaped the ‘knowledge’ which missionaries produced. In both Hawai‘i and the Philippines, Protestant mission accompanied the 1898 arrival of formal U.S. empire, though in very different ways. In Hawai‘i, …
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Acute pancreatitis - severity classification, complications and outcome
… treatment options available and varying local traditions. V) In long-term follow-up after acute pancreatitis, impairment was mainly seen in the endocrine pancreatic function, and especially after severe disease. The time to rehabilitation and return to work and normal life was long, and …
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From Tsonga to Moçambicanidade: civil religious dynamics in Mozambican nationalism
… ritual performances, the expropriation of traditions and symbols, and the creation of sacred spaces. Formed as a linguistic, cultural, religious and tribal unity, the Tsonga provided a historical genealogy and structural template for the emergence of Moçambicanidade as a civil religion. …
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