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Places, Please!
<p>Growing up in the American South as the daughter of a scenic designer, I frequently found myself on both the physical stage of the theatre and the metaphorical stage of gender performance. Through immersive oil paintings, I seek to visually represent where these two experiences merge, depicting …
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Healing Places
The earth and its inhabitants are experiencing a rapid decline in physical, mental, social, and environmental health. The built environment directly affects each of these factors, and therefore has the ability to improve them. Baltimore City, Maryland is a clear example of the dialectic …
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Resting places
Ancient humans stored family remains under their houses as we have surely stored memories in our attics. As civilization progressed, ashes were placed in urns which often replicated the house where one lived on earth. Eventually more elaborate and stylized monuments housed the remains. Recent …
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Assembling Places
… interplay, while retaining their identity. The places resulting from these boundaries assert their presence and function in view of the character bestowed by the form of their enclosure. The choice of material, assembly, texture and color in unique correspondence to each boundary's usefulness, …
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Our Hiding Places
I am creating this body of work based on how we as a society interact and utilize our every day valuable possessions. These would consist of personal items such as our keys, wallets and purses, As well as how well we are able to hide them from strangers, insofar as to where we personally choose to …
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Spaces between places
In a fast-forwarded Brooklyn, the over-building of luxury towers leads to a real estate bubble burst. Waterfront rents stagnate, and entire buildings sit abandoned. In a city defined by divisions, a social movement emerges. An architect and her band of social subversives descend on an empty tower. …
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Assiniboine Places and Belonging
<p>Assiniboines are American Indian and First Nation people belonging to tribes with reservations in Northeastern Montana, on the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Reservation, west of there on the Fort Belknap Reservation, and in Canada, where they are sometimes known as the Stoney, on small …
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Neighbor based dwelling places
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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Places to walk, places to walk to : adapting the built environment to promote health
This thesis examines the role the built environment plays in promoting active transportation (AT) in order to reduce obesity rates. Through original identification and analysis methods, this thesis argues that current AT planning fails to recognize high-priority (high obesity prevalence) areas for …
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Inspirational Journey: People and Places
My paintings are inspired by the places I have seen, as well as the people God has placed in my path. The individuals in my portraits are some of the people with whom I have shared a special bond. Upon reflection, they have been instrumental in deepening my faith. Their love, prayers, support, and …
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Speaking from Places: A Phenomenological Deconstructive Study of Children’s Places, Child-Centric Methods, and Politics.
… and researchers’ stances towards children’s places and worlds. During the <em>Embedded Walk, children led their parents through </em>their play spaces and they collaboratively documented the childrens’ experiences of the places through drawings and written descriptions (ensemble voices). …
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Places of Purpose, Purposeful Places: An Exploration of the Physical Environment of Primary Level Classrooms
<p>The physical environment of the classroom impacts teachers and students. In many settings teachers are given some autonomy but little guidance in the establishment of the physical environment of the classroom. Relatively few studies examine issues related to the totality of the physical …
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Places publiques de proconsulaire : catalogue raisonné des places publiques de douze villes d'Afrique proconsulaire.
Cette these est un catalogue raisonne des places publiques de douze villes d'Afrique Proconsulaire. Le travail est divise en deux parties. La premiere, qui comprend les chapitres 1 et 2, est une analyse des donnees archeologiques et historiques que nous possedons de ces places publiques. Le …
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Essays on new Internet market places
… to examine the behaviour of agents in new marketplaces that have formed on the Internet. It is divided into three chapters, each focusing upon a different aspect of market behaviour. I begin in chapter 2 by building a simultaneous, unit demand, heterogeneous good, ascending auction model, which I …
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Creating water sensitive places in Hangberg
The neighbourhood of Hangberg has had a long and intimate relationship with water, the neighbourhood is located around the Hout Bay harbour where the fishing industry provides the main source of employment and residents depend on clean water for their daily needs. This relationship has however been …
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