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Showing 1 to 20 of 497 for “"refuge"”.
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Threshold of Refuge
… dislodged mass, there is memory left in void. As refugees, the Rohingya resettling in the United States have been displaced out of time and place. This project proposal aims to reconnect persons to place and community. Surrounded on all sides by remnant chestnut oak forest, the "rock oak" of the …
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Refuge in Belen Valley
… in a peruvian landscape. On one hand, 'Refuge in Belen Valley' is a thesis about discovering the ideal conditions that architecture should meet in a landscape, conditions that approach the idea of an offering of man rather than a conditioning for man. On the other, it is a thesis about …
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A place of refuge
… and generative principles for achieving refuge by varying the architectural character of spaces along a processional path to generate a subtle progression from the public to private domains. Following this, a design for a residence is presented which explores the potentials of the …
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Making Space: Refuge to Home
… What does it mean to leave home and to seek refuge? And how do we find home again? Throughout history and today, communities across the globe have either suffered in or been plagued with a refugee crisis in some form. Laos is the most bombed country per capita in history. During the American …
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The violence of refuge in Ecuador
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Prospect and refuge : shelter in Roxbury
… to use the concept of juxtaposed prospect and refuge to design shelter on a large urban site (92,000 square feet). The broad range of scales stretches the applicability of prospect and refuge as a design tool, yet also forges a varied understanding of related (and sometimes synonymous) …
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Habitat Characteristics of Refuge Wetlands and Taro Lo'I Used By Endangered Waterbirds At Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge, Hawai'i
Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge (HNWR) was established to protect habitat for the endangered Hawaiian common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis), Hawaiian coot (Fulica alai), Hawaiian duck or Koloa (Anas wyvilliana), and Hawaiian stilt (Himantopus mexicanus knudseni). I studied two major …
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A cross-cultural study of prospect-refuge theory
… perspective to landscape perception-- prospect-refuge theory. The theory postulates that landscapes with opportunities to see (prospect) and places to hide (refuge) are aesthetically pleasurable as they satisfy humans’ basic survival needs. Landscape paintings of different historical periods in …
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Refuge and Ecofeminism: The Possibility of a Strategic Essentialism
… thesis reads Terry Tempest Williams's <italic>Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place</italic> as a literary mobilization of the argument presented in the first chapter. I consider <italic>Refuge</italic> a topical representation of ecofeminist politics as the narrative contains …
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Snapping Turtle Life History on Lacreek Refuge, South Dakota
… turtle population on Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge in south-central South Dakota were conducted during 1965-67. Turtles captured by trapping, “hooking”, boxing nests and catching nesting females were measured, marked and released. Turtles were marked by toe-clipping, routing, flagging, and …
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Crafting a Place of Transition: From Refuge to Reconnection
… a variety of spaces that cultivate a sense of refuge, a sense of community and ultimately a sense of independence. It needs to be a place that nurtures and holds the body, but also acclimatizes and engages, to prepare people for whatever circumstances they may face when they leave. A …
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Temporary Refuge as a Response to Large - Scale Refugee Influxes
… analyses the concept and practice of temporary refuge in relation to large-scale refugee influxes. It combines contextual and legal analyses and examines the topic lex lata. It presents a unique insight into the topic by critically considering some conventional assumptions in the field, and …
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An environmental research laboratory for Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge
… on Back Bay, in the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The problems and possibilities associated with building on the barrier islands have been analyzed. and design solutions applicable to this and other sites have been presented. In the final design, the structure has been located in the bay, …
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The Home as Refuge: Locating Homeplace Theory Within the Afrocentric Paradigm
This project will expand and extend the current concept of homeplace, as offered by cultural critic and scholar bell hooks. In doing so, it will assess the various ways that home has been constructed by persons of African descent, and suggests that homeplace is a form of maroonage that is …
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Barbed Wire Fever: On Seeking and Providing Refuge (Creative Non-Fiction)
Barbed Wire Fever: On Seeking and Providing Refuge is a work of creative nonfiction that explores my father’s memories of his years as a Holocaust survivor and refugee during the Second World War, my memory of how my father tried to articulate those memories, and how non-refugees responded to and …
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Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective
<p>Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective</p> <p>This dissertation documents the resettlement experiences of Bosnian Muslims relocated to two urban locales in the north of New York State during and after the Bosnian War in the Balkans. To do so, it relies on …
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Gender, Body, and Wilderness: searching for refuge, connection, and ecological belonging
… body, feelings of connectedness, wilderness as refuge from normative gender, vulnerability, and the wilderness setting. In this story, we find that participants can experience wilderness as a refuge from normative gender because wilderness is unpatrollable and because wild places can offer …
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Gender, Body, and Wilderness: searching for refuge, connection, and ecological belonging
… body, feelings of connectedness, wilderness as refuge from normative gender, vulnerability, and the wilderness setting. In this story, we find that participants can experience wilderness as a refuge from normative gender because wilderness is unpatrollable and because wild places can offer …
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The distressed ship: her right of refuge and the coastal state
… seagoing nations is the right of a ship to seek refuge in a foreign state's sheltered waters. It means effectively that ships can travel the world knowing that should the need occur, they will due to reasons of force majeure, be able, not only to seek refuge in sheltered waters, but will also …
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Applications of Biological Integrity within the National Wildlife Refuge System Region 5
The passage of the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 (NWRSIA) and subsequent implementation of 601 FW 3: Biological Integrity, Diversity and Environmental Health Policy (hereafter, the “Integrity Policy”) represented a groundbreaking paradigm shift for refuge management. …
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