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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"relationship to place"”.
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Thieves' Nest
… of separation, detachment, landscape, and displacement. The collection is divided into three sections that mark different phases of the speaker's life, as experienced primarily through the speaker's relationship to place.'</p>
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Common Place: collective housing in the bluegrass
… The housing complex deals with architecture's relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex deals with place through a connection to the regional built and natural context. By …
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On PlaceMark: Collaborative Authoring, Place, and Identity
Mobile, digital technologies are thought to augment and transcend the limits of our places, yet they raise the issue of what our places are. PlaceMark is a simple, distributed collaborative authoring environment constructed in conjunction with a site-specific writing activity. This system is …
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Fire in My Backyard: Place Meanings and Landowner Views on Fire and Fuels Management on the Kootenai National Forest, MT
… land management agencies are currently striving to become more democratic and open to citizen participation in decision-making. Recently, the build-up of hazardous forest fuels and ensuing increase in high-intensity wildland fire events across the western U.S. has led to growing interest in …
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Fire in My Backyard: Place Meanings and Landowner Views on Fire and Fuels Management on the Kootenai National Forest, MT
… land management agencies are currently striving to become more democratic and open to citizen participation in decision-making. Recently, the build-up of hazardous forest fuels and ensuing increase in high-intensity wildland fire events across the western U.S. has led to growing interest in …
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The Impact of Teacher Identity on Curriculum Design
… iterative process of identity building that educators experience in the broader expanse of their lives directly impacts their pedagogical decisions and preferences. In addition, educators' relationship to place can be a significant factor in curriculum design in how they make connections between …
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Sense of place, identity and attachment : entering university.
Sense of Place is a topic that has attracted considerable interest of late; how people relate to their location and how this bond can increase or decrease can have considerable bearing on levels of well-being and adjustment. Place attachment can also be strengthened through social interplay and …
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Wild woman: representations of female 'deviance' in modern and contemporary Italian fiction
… cultural context of nineteenth-century Italy up to that of the present day, I consider the figures of the ugly woman, prostitute and female terrorist in selected texts by nine Italian writers in order to map the delineation of such characters over time. Pivotal to my argument is the recognition …
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Social-ecological systems resilience in changing rural landscapes of the Midwestern United States
… interactions and the limited sphere of influence to deliberately affect social-ecological systems. Human and natural processes are interlinked, non-linear, and emergent. This dissertation has explored the application of resilience thinking to sense of place as a conceptual basis for envisioning …
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Connective development : recognizing the networked city in forming a progressive urban economic development strategy
… the broader economy, successful efforts to accelerate innovation will have the greatest overall effect. However, these innovation actors are no longer located in just one geographical location, and the money and resources that support their endeavors are spread across multiple cities, and …
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Haunted spaces: Visualising the witch in expanded comics
… new ways of engaging with narratives of witch histories. Specifically, it explores the ways that site-specific stories of folkloric witches can be told using papercut as form of expanded comics, using walking and collaboration as creative process. The two papercut stories in the creative output …
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Place of death correlated to socio-demographic factors in a South African hospice
… the view that home remains the preferred place of death of most patients with terminal illness. However, it also reports that in many countries, palliative care patients sometimes change their minds with regard to this preference. A variety of factors appears to intervene preventing …