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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"place image"”.
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The effect of place image on the uses of public space : the Cheonggye Stream case
… buildings and landmarks increase the imageability of the place and therefore the level of familiarity. By contrast, a lack of landmarks, similar skylines, and complicated paths enforce the disconnected feeling, and hence people feel that those areas' paths are very long and tiring, …
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CREATING AN IMAGE, SHAPING A DESTINATION IN CHACHAPOYAS, PERU
This thesis examines the place image of the Chachapoyas region in northern Peru by identifying themes found in tourism guidebooks and websites. Photographs and written descriptions of Chachapoyas were found to emphasize certain features of the region while avoiding or hiding others. To further …
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CREATING AN IMAGE, SHAPING A DESTINATION IN CHACHAPOYAS, PERU
This thesis examines the place image of the Chachapoyas region in northern Peru by identifying themes found in tourism guidebooks and websites. Photographs and written descriptions of Chachapoyas were found to emphasize certain features of the region while avoiding or hiding others. To further …
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"There is a place where the dreams live" : portrayals of the South Sea in German language tourist brochures
The promotion of places for tourism involves the projection of selective sets of images. Destinations often shape their cultural realities to match successful marketing images. Tourism and its promotion, therefore, generate transformations of a physical and symbolic nature. Beyond their …
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Place promotion, place protection and development planning
This is an exploration of how an understanding of place, sense of place and belongingness is affected by place promotion. Case study research captures the unique experience of a town in Cornwall, part of a WHS and SSSI, geographically close to the tourist resort of St Ives,yet devalorised and with …
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PERFECTION, WRETCHED, NORMAL, AND NOWHERE: A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN TELEVISION SETTINGS
Drawing inspiration from numerous place image studies in geography and other social sciences, this dissertation examines the senses of place and regional identity shaped by more than seven hundred American television series that aired from 1947 to 2007. Each state's relative share of these programs …
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A study of image: Maillardville British Columbia
… result of my curiosity about what makes urban places special and memorable. I believe that if the various physical components distinguishing urban places are identified and analyzed, we can develop principles and policies to preserve and enhance them. I chose Maillardville as the study area …
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An urban field of dreams: professional baseball and the fruition of new - old Denver
… on the ballpark's connection to the process of "placemaking" as it unfolded between two adjacent "Old Denver" neighborhoods: North Larimer - a multicultural enclave that became the "Ballpark Neighborhood" - and the Lower Downtown historic district, whose founders bemoaned Denver's subsequent …
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Tourism Development and Women in Under Crises Destinations: A Case Study of Chilas, Pakistan.
… factors which have significant impact on a place and local community that is under natural and anthropogenic crises. For this research Chilas- a valley situated on the Silk Road under the control of the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan is being used as a case study. The main purpose of …
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Visual Place Recognition for Autonomous Robots
… robotics community, this problem is termed as place recognition. Place recognition using only visual input is termed as Visual Place Recognition (VPR) and refers to the ability of an autonomous system to recall a previously visited place using only visual input, under changing viewpoint, …
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Investigating the Future and Image of Leesburg, VA
… regional-scale growth dynamics, governance, and place-making, as well as their intersections with local economic development. This thesis seeks to understand the methods by which Leesburg navigates the challenge to retain a unique and distinctive character while acknowledging the new spatial …
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Reimaging the city : the impact of sport initiatives on tourists' images of urban destinations
<p>The contemporary city is notably image-conscious. Indeed, several commentators suggest that cities are consciously attempting to manufacture images and identities by manipulating a range of myths, traditions, lifestyles and urban cultures. The need to develop appealing city images is a …
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A domain independent adaptive imaging system for visual inspection
… the scene, or indeed aid in the analysis of the image. The construction of a symbolic description of a scene from a digitised image is a difficult problem. A symbolic interpretation of an image can be viewed as a mapping from the image pixels to an identification of the semantically relevant …