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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"spatial practice"”.
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Spatial Practice : The politics of "activating" public space in the State of Kuwait
My thesis examines the socio-spatial dialectics that unfold throughout the development of public spaces in Kuwait. In my thesis, public space is understood as a space of urban dialogue between the state, the city, and the people. This dialogue can be understood by examining the spatial dynamics …
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Constructions of cinematic space : spatial practice at the intersection of film and theory
… threefold critique of the city, set forth in The practices of Everyday Life, structures a comparative analysis of six primary films, aired as follows, with one air for each of three chapters-Jacques Tati's lay Time and Edward Yang's Yi Yi, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and Wang Xiaoshuai's …
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On Globalization and Civil Society: Mediating Spatial Practice in Twenty-first-century Latin America
“On Globalization and Civil Society: Mediating Spatial Practice in Twenty-first-century Latin America” explores the tensions between globalization and civil society from a multi-geographical and multidisciplinary angle. The dissertation is informed by theories of space, power, identity, …
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Rethinking the Community as Temple: Discourse and Spatial Practice in the Community Rule (1QS)
<p>This project is a spatial reading of the Community Rule (1QS) that examines how space is used as a response to the perceived defilement of the Jerusalem Temple and how it addresses the problems of atonement and priestly authority for a community without a physical temple. Edward Soja’s concept …
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A study of walking and walkability through a spatial justice/spatial practice framework, in Maylands, Western Australia
… observations on walking as a distinct spatial practice (J. Lee & Ingold, 2006), there is a paucity of studies that investigate the ways in which walkers and space interact. Most importantly, there has been a distinct lack of attention to pedestrian perspectives and experiences in theory …
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Re-presenting Cape Town through landscapes of social identity and exclusion : an interpretation of three power shifts and their modifications from 1652-1994
Colonial practice informed the development of the built environment in Cape Town and resulted in the production of a landscape that represented the hegemony of colonial power. Where the over-arching concern is the relationship of power and space, the process followed locates the inquiry in issues …
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Knot/Knotting Practice in Craft and Space
Knot/knotting Practice in Craft and Space is a three part research-creation project that used a study of knotting techniques to locate craft in an expanded field of spatial practice. The first part consisted of practical, studio based exercises in which I worked with various natural and synthetic …
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Decolonising the Informal: Discourse, Everyday Life, and the Politics of Urbanisation in Windhoek, Namibia
… times. All the while, conventional professional spatial practices remain structurally elitist and seem ineffectual in settings of ‘urban informality’, which largely overlap with the lived experience of the black urban poor. Urban theory continues to reinforce a binary conceptualisation in which …
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Commodifying urban space : the case of branded housing projects in Istanbul, Turkey
… (2010) stress that different neoliberalization practices share the ambition “to intensify commodification in all realms of social life” (Aalbers 2013, 1054). In addition, prominent critical scholars including Lefebvre, Harvey and Castells agree upon the fact that “capitalist cities are not only …
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On the Shores of Education: Urban Bodies, Architectural Repetitions, and the Mythic Space of End Times
… and historical roots and forward to the spatial aesthetics of "occupation" and "No Child Left Behind," to trace the enduring connection between philosophies and practices of education and sacrificial journeys of descent and emergence. This thematic work of repetition, birth and death, is …
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Urban re-vision: Philippi market space
… is to propose an architecture that allows the spatial practice of the migrant, as it relates to food production, to become visible as a function of the city.
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Spatial Practices of Icarian Communism
… in Cabet's book, and tracks the group's actual spatial practice over the next seventeen years. During this period, thousands of Icarians led by Cabet attempted to establish an actual colony in the wilderness of the United States. Eventually settling in the recently abandoned Mormon enclave of …
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Mouth-pieces of the limit: liminal spatial praxis in Israel / Palestine and Northern Ireland
… the established boundaries of knowledges, practices and places. It stems from the observation that the production of urban/architectural/public spaces in contested contexts often evinces a disjuncture between those so-called experts who possess a rarefied and theoretical knowledge about …
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Urban design for small town regeneration: A socio-ecological approach
… heritage and culture and with their own unique spatial character. Unfortunately, most small towns are in distress. The focus of investment to bring about spatial transformation has typically been in either cities, or villages; i.e. urban or rural. However, Arndt, Davies and Thurlow (2018) …
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Hustadt, Inshallah : Learning from a participatory art project in a trans-local neighbourhood
… relationships between contemporary art and spatial practices It emphasising the creation of platforms for public participation as interventions into urban regeneration processes. The project has two essential objectives: a. To identify the potential within contemporary art for a critical …
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The forum and the city: rethinking centrality in Rome and Pompeii (3rd century B.C. - 2nd century A.D.)
… second century A.D. It is a diachronic study of spatial practice and the representation of space, based on archaeological evidence for infrastructures of movement and textual evidence for the articulation of spatial concepts. Having asserted the importance of movement in shaping the perception of …
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Walking and talking : topographies of memory in Kingston-upon-Hull
… the past that are encountered through everyday spatial practice. Using in-depth empirical research from Kingston-upon-Hull; a modern, post-industrial British city, the thesis argues that the city's everyday spaces should be seen as part of wider topographies of memory. It goes on to explore how …
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A Creative workspace in the City
… that prioritises the pursuit of prioritizing spatiality in the project of architecture today and aims to define space less as a quantifiable object and more as an idea, a way of seeing, act of making and way of engaging culture and society. It is a reflective and critical process of …
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Gendered political spaces in international relations : the case of NGO use of information & communication technologies (ICTs)
The thesis contributes to evolving debates on spatial theorising in the discipline of International Relations (IR). It argues that spatial interpretation in the discipline is both gendered, through its focus on public institutions of politics, and state-centric, through a neo/Realist hegemony of …
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