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Showing 1 to 20 of 316 for “"sense of place"”.
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A Sense of Place.
<p>Concerned with anxiety and displacement, the artist explores a sense of place within the self. Personal experiences are presented as an accumulation of fragmented symbols, textures and pattern. Symbolic imagery is being created, influenced by a devaluation of established norms and a …
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A sense of place
The thesis argues that a sense of place is one of the most fundamentally important quality of architecture and cities and attempts to show that legibility and latency are the aspects of the environment which contribute most to creating sense of place. Further it discusses various design tools which …
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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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A Travellers' Sense of Place in the City
… their ‘nomadic mind-set’ and non-sedentary uses of land, do not have a sense of place. This thesis presents an ethnographic account of an extra-legal camp in Southeast London, to argue that its Traveller inhabitants do have a sense of place, which is founded in the camp’s environment and …
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Sense-of-place ideals in small town planning
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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A Measure of Time A Sense of Place
Sustainable design is often conceived of only in terms of applied technologies, without a concern for quality of life of residents. This thesis is an investigation of sustainable design that meets standards of quality of life for residents. The study focuses on balancing the needs for integration …
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Returning to the city : sense of place in urban neighborhoods
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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The Elwha River Restoration: Landscape Change, Salmon, and Sense of Place
<p>Removal of the Elwha River dams to restore the ecosystem and salmon fisheries is the largest project of its kind in the history of the United States. Spanning decades and affecting generations, this project has changed and will continue to change the landscape. This research examined the …
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An Awakened Sense of Place: Thoreauvian Patterns in Willa Cather's Fiction
<p>The recent "greening" of Willa Cather Scholarship has initiated new conversations about Cather's use of and dependence on landscape in her fiction. Scholars have frequently noted Cather's reliance on landscape imagery, but this thesis suggests parallels between Cather's and Henry David …
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A process for describing the perception of a sense of place
The research hypothesis of this study states that when individuals are asked to rank order certain places (environments) in terms of preference, then relationships can be measured between that rank ordering and relevant contextual adjective descriptors that indicate a person's perception of those …
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Mobile nodes: mobile and locative media, everyday life and sense of place
This thesis presents an analysis of the relationship that exists between the use of place-specific information in mobile communication technologies and the different aspects of place-making and self-presentation in London. Through a study of empirical data collected from seven focus groups, during …
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Paper Towns: Sense of Place in Industrial, Small-Town New England, 1869-1927
… New England. In the late 1860s, the introduction of wood pulp paper technology transformed formerly small market and manufacturing communities into centers of heavy industry. This dissertation is a study of this transformation. It focuses on three communities: Bellows Falls, Vermont, Franklin, New …
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Sense of place visualization for the whaling station remains of South Georgia Island
The art practice of this PhD seeks to promote understanding of the historical context and cultural heritage of the whaling industry of South Georgia Island through a gallery based exhibition of a combination of digital art, olfactory installation, and theatrical performance concerning South Georgia …
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Learning from the city : toward a better sense of place in information space
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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A reinterpretation of "sense of place" : a study of the Stone Town of Zanzibar
This thesis attempts to understand the evolution of the Stone Town of Zanzibar, an urban fabric that had undergone a phase of upheaval that was brought about by a brief period of rapid change in its political, social and economic structure. The relevance of the investigation lies mainly in the …
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Shovel ready : razing hopes, history, and a sense of place : rethinking Schenectady's downtown strategies
… crippling. This decline, coupled with the flight of retail, service, and other jobs to the outlying suburbs as well as a loss in upper- and middle-income residents to those same areas, has left many cities decimated. Perhaps nowhere has the effect of this been more apparent than in the downtown …
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