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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"restrooms"”.
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Lavender@MIT: The Case for an All-Gender Restroom Paradigm on the MIT Campus
… history and recent progress around all-gender restrooms at MIT, and showing that MIT students have a vested interest in and thoughts about both all-gender restrooms and institutional restroom design in general. Parts I and II offer an account of my personal journey interacting with all-gender …
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House Bill 2 and the Myth of the Bathroom Predator: Exploring Gendered Assumptions in the Context of "Livable Lives" in Policy Making
… and not their physical anatomy when using public restrooms. The popular argument that circulated as to why the Charlotte Ordinance was a bad idea, both in the House Floor debate and in the media, was that “biological men” would invade women’s restrooms to commit harm to them under the guise of …
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Examining the male restroom as a site of visual and material culture in the twenty-first century
… aesthetic theories with an investigation of male restrooms, I investigate the integration of the aestheticization of the male restroom into everyday life, touch on the relationship between aestheticization of male restrooms and the construction of meaning and identity, and consider the possibility …
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On the Shithouse Wall: The Communicative Value of Latrinalia
… value of latrinalia as found in the men's restrooms of a medium-sized university. For this study, restrooms in 17 buildings were visited and a total of 965 instances of graffiti were recorded and codified into 14 different categories. The four most common categories of latrinalia were …
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Locavore Exploring the Sustainable Table: A Restaurant in Tobacco Row
… places to store,prepare, and eat the food, and restrooms. Yet the design of the space also helps answerthe following questions: How does sustainable differ from organic? Is local necessarily better than foreign? How does a restaurant embody community?
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Apparent Preferences of Beach Users at Virginia Beach Resort Zone
… close to three needs: public parking, public restrooms, and inexpensive refreshments. This pattern shows the apparent preferences of many beach users for certain amenities.
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Restroom usage in selected public buildings and facilities: a comparison of females and males
… having to stand in line in order to use public restrooms. The primary purpose of this exploratory study was to determine the number and types of activities performed in the restroom, along with the amount of time spent in the restroom, as these factors might influence the revision of plumbing …
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Light in Architecture: Smithsonian Museum of Photography
… to support the building including a cafeteria, restrooms, a gift shop, as well as indoor and outdoor gathering spaces. The building site is in DC. When choosing a site I consulted with the National Capital Planning Commission's urban plan of Washington. They have published on their website a …
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ACED: Automatic Concourse Event Detection
… the wait times for different restaurants and restrooms. ACED collects and stores this information in a database, which could be used to present fans with up-to-date arena information in a live dashboard to assist them in their in-game decision making. This would improve the overall fan …
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Texas Timber-Frame Porch
… a humidor, a library, a bar, a locker room, restrooms, and storage. The form became a long, gradually curving hallway responding to the shape of the island. Rooms expand off of the hallway at both the beginning and the end. A heavy timber truss was designed so that it could be adapted to …
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Between Earth and Sky
… tower, a classroom, conference / exhibit hall, restrooms and office space, the in-between becomes a primitive observatory plaza marking the winter and summer solstice as well as the equinox sunrise, it is a place for gathering and teaching. The secondary focus is that of process, many …
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Application of Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment to Domestic Hygiene
… adjusting the toilet seat. For single toilet restrooms (i.e., home, small workplace, family public restrooms, hospitals), adjusting the toilet seat is more likely to be a necessity. Hand-to-toilet transfer of MS-2 coliphage was highest with the MEM of highest protein content (American Society …
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Expansiveness and Security Through Materials and Design
… shower floors designated for men with designated restrooms located on each berthing floor.
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Ourhouse: Gender-Inclusive Student Housing
… gender within those spaces. Single-user restrooms are also available to those who may find that more comfortable. The variety of sizes, privacy levels, and porosity makes the residences agreeable and functional for anyone who lives there. It also retains the sense of community that …
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Mount San Jacinto State Park Visitor Attributes, Preferences, and Perceptions
… encounters of large groups on a trail and restrooms needing cleaning to be more of a problem than was perceived by Long Valley visitors. Worn trails, side trails, and erosion along trails were the conditions most noticed by the subjects. Significantly more Wilderness visitors than Long …
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Crime Legends in Old and New Media
… and the abduction of children from theme park restrooms. Current versions circulating in Internet newsgroups and via electronic mail lists were collected. Discussions in Internet newsgroups were examined and twenty regular newsgroup participants were interviewed. The public newsgroup …
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Safe School Building Characteristics in Virginia's Elementary Schools: Architect and Principal Perspectives
… to school safety. The groups also identified restrooms and locker rooms as the two most problematic areas of a school building due to inability to supervise. Data for the study were gathered through qualitative methods and utilized a phenomenological approach to exploring data. Principals from …
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Exploring inclusion and accessibility: The design process as a user/expert
This is an in-depth study exploring accessibility and inclusion in airport restroom facilities and the design process as a user/expert. Industrial design and several of the design processes including the generic, user-centered, and empathic approaches are discussed, as is the history and definition …
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Chinese culture, tourism and a television series: Grand View Gardens, Beijing
… the low quality performances, unhygienic restrooms, and the lack of maintenance. Many visitors complained about the expensive ticket prices, and the high prices further caused ‘scalper ticket’ problems. However, the Garden’s Administration defended the expensive prices, saying that ticket …
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