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Showing 1 to 20 of 200 for “"post-industrial"”.
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Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal
Over the past five decades, the American urban industrial landscape has become marginalized as the expanding global economy has sought international markets for manufacturing. At the agency of the user-as-investor, this proposal seeks to re-manufacture the post-industrial site to explore the …
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Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
… water quality and water consumption. Reusing post-industrial sites is the strategy for applying the theoretical frameworks and research on the region. The concept of Landscape Infrastructure informs the project's approach of creating multifunctional infrastructure systems. When considering the …
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Layering Connections: Reclaiming Abandoned Post Industrial Infrastructure
Industrial Infrastructure fueled the birth and growth of countless small towns and cities throughout the United States. In many instances, the railroad served as the main source of employment. Local economies were often tied to the continued success of the railroad industry and mirrored their …
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Reconnecting man with nature : post industrial landscape development
… consumer culture we experience every day. This industrial development all over the world has disregarded apparent and non-apparent relationships that humans have within nature, resulting in the connection between humans and nature to become estranged, leaving humankind searching for identity and …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… into the practices, nature and theory of post-industrial cultural work and the humanities- and arts-based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an …
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Planning for post-industrial society : a theoretical framework
This research stems from the proposition that important qualitative changes are occurring within Western Society, and that these changes call for new forms of individual and organisational adaptation. Planning is a pre-eminently suitable way of adapting in an appropriate fashion to the complexities …
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Housing the student population in the post-industrial university city
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Fun Mills: The Interactive Adaptation of a Post-Industrial Economy
… intends to revive the economy of the declining post-industrial town, Burnley, UK. Taking influence from Cedric Price’s proposed Fun Palace, this thesis explores how architecture might continue to flourish through society’s dependence on digital technology. Burnley was once England’s centre of …
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Productive Landscape - Revitalizing a Post-industrial District with Slow Economy
… to outlying districts, for the same reason, post-industrial sites near the centers of growing cities are emerging as a highly valuable land resource. The integration of “productivity” into post-industrial sites is important to the practice of landscape architecture professionals. In some …
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When the cows come home : post post-industrial urban agriculture
Over the past few decades, the industrialization of food has become increasingly influenced by the consolidation of its controlling corporations. This consolidation has isolated meat processing facilities from small farmers, favoring corporations who have built enormous processing facilities to …
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The reconsidered river : strategies for connections in post-industrial Buffalo
… to connect two isolated neighborhoods within the post-industrial city of Buffalo, NY. The design strategy capitalizes on existing opportunities in Silo City, a neighborhood of abandoned grain elevators that attracts visitors with intermittent activities and seasonal events; and the Old First Ward, …
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Transforming the "world factory" : designing for a [post]industrial Shenzhen
… This has led to a vastly sprawled, monotonous industrial urbanism, where urban environment has become a spatial product rather than a living city. However, just as Western post-industrial cities have experienced, some Chinese cities are currently going through a deindustrialization process due …
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Ethnic Identity of Mexican American Children in the Post Industrial Age
Ethnic identity of Mexican American children under the current socio-political climate was studied. Mexican American children were expected to display symptoms of ethnic ambivalence and self-rejection. Using the Kenneth and Mamie Clark (1947) Brown doll/White doll experiment as a model, data were …
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"Make no little plans." : big moves for the post-industrial city
… as to the appropriateness of such designs for post-industrial North American cities. It seeks to occupy and explore the 'taboo' which lies at the heart of the paradox of the urban proposition today.
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FOOD JUSTICE IN POST-INDUSTRIAL US CITIES: THE ROLE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
… dissertation were to (i) assess and identify post-industrial urban neighborhoods with food-insecure and vulnerable populations, and (ii) explore and analyze the role of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in addressing place-based food insecurity. The study used mixed-methods, including qualitative …
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Redesigning Main Street in post-industrial communities: The case of Galesburg, Illinois
After World War II, cities in the Mid-western United States widened their streets to demonstrate that their towns were progressive, economically strong and vital places. But now, cities are finding that wider streets are not all that desirable after all. By today’s standards, these wide streets are …
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Towards heuristic systems methods for generating new knowledge in post-industrial business
… of the current work is to appropriate aspects of post-modern philosophy into systems methods that support new knowledge creation in post-industrial business. The author has developed a three-part model of the organization as a knowledge system: The first component is the formative system, which …
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An electronic laager: a sculptural interpretation of post-industrial society's cybernetic order
… laager: A sculptural interpretation of post-industrial society's cybernetic order, forms a concise description, and 'key' to an interpretation and understanding of the various issues which have amalgamated to inform my iconography, and the way in which these issues have been transformed …
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Power at Battersea : understanding post-industrial Britain through an art deco monolith
… the early 20th century, Britain has seen its industrially-fuelled empire collapse and its international standing fall. The rise and fall of Battersea can help trace Britain's national anxieties over the course of this post-industrial age. In so doing, Battersea Power Station indicates the …
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