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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"rural character"”.
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Farm Status: Exploring Relational Dimensions of Rural Values and Character on Southern Vancouver Island, Canada
In Canada's Pacific Northwest, coastal high-value rural communities face acute, conflicting challenges relating to housing supply and affordability, loss of agricultural land, and environmental change. On Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, grassroots organizations have formed around the …
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Imagining The Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature
… of Mankind, actually use representatives of the rural classes as primary characters who exhibit the beliefs and lives of the rural population. Anne Middleton's distinction between public-the readership an author imagined-and audience-the readership a work achieved-allows modern critics to discuss …
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The ‘Suburban Imaginary’: Restructuring the rural village in Ireland and France
… concern regarding the fate of the indigenous rural community. The central concern of this thesis is to investigate how the rural community is adapting to the presence of the outsider as both a temporary and permanent resident, by examining the interaction between local and outsider resident in …
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Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000
… of the state’s traditional ranching heritage and rural character, and a preference for local control versus a desire for more comprehensive regional solutions to the problems of growth.</p> <p>The pace and type of suburban growth and development in metropolitan Denver emerged neither from …
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PERCEPTION & ROLE OF 3-D VISUALIZATIONS IN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE SCENIC BYWAY'S VIEWSHED PROTECTION & VISUALIZATION PROJECT
… this study where age, technical ability, and the rural character of the communities played an influential role, the use of 3-D was not appropriate.
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PERCEPTION & ROLE OF 3-D VISUALIZATIONS IN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE SCENIC BYWAY'S VIEWSHED PROTECTION & VISUALIZATION PROJECT
… this study where age, technical ability, and the rural character of the communities played an influential role, the use of 3-D was not appropriate.
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Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: Rural Civic Ethos from the Rhapsodes to Water Rights
The general definition of ethos as moral character, as an indication of acute or contextual morality, treats the appeal as an individual endeavor, as a strategy that applies solely to or is constructed solely by an individual rhetor. That individualistic understanding is a modern interpretation …
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Physical activity referral schemes : socio-demographic patterning of exposure, uptake and attendance
… level (measured by the Townsend score) and urban-rural character of their area of residence were used to make socio-demographic comparisons with the county population as a whole. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis difference tests were used to compare socio-economic characteristics. Binary logistic …
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Safety Effects Of Traffic Signal Installations On State Road Intersections In Northeast Florida
… Smaller roads, with low AADT, fewer lanes, and a rural character were found to benefit from signalization more than busier urbanized roads, in terms of crash rate reduction. The AADT, roadway cross section, number of lanes, medians, speed limit and left turn volume were all found to be important …
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Open space preservation in rural residential development
… of open space as a necessary component of rural residential development and to establish a set of criteria that are fundamental to open space design. Concerns for developers, planners, and homeowners in response to the open space preservation movement are identified and addressed. In …