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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"special places"”.
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Place Attachment: Grade 2 Students' Special Places at their Schools
… transform different spaces into their own special places by interacting with the physical and social environment (Hart, 1979; Rasmussen, 2004; Sobel, 1993/2002). Special place research has focused largely on children’s place–making in neighbourhoods, including the process of finding and …
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A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence
<p>This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate …
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Urban Children's Experience of a Natural Place Outside of Denver
… The children created photo-story maps of the special places in their lives, which I incorporated into follow-up photo-elicitation interviews, and characterized their experience through a qualitative content analysis. I found that most children enjoyed outdoor activities at the summer camp, …
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Places for people: housing in historical context in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
… needs of the collective, or simply: to create places where people would wish to dwell. "Houses must be special places within places, separately the center of the world for their inhabitants, yet carefully related to the larger place in which they belong."¹
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Using Place Attachment to Determine the Acceptability of Restoring Fire to Its Natural Role in Wilderness Ecosystems
… four different meanings people attach to places: (1) inherent/aesthetic, (2) instrumental/goal-directed, (3) cultural/symbolic and (4) individual/expressive meanings. The goal of each interview was to determine the meaning each individual attached to special places and whether they find …
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Using Place Attachment to Determine the Acceptability of Restoring Fire to Its Natural Role in Wilderness Ecosystems
… four different meanings people attach to places: (1) inherent/aesthetic, (2) instrumental/goal-directed, (3) cultural/symbolic and (4) individual/expressive meanings. The goal of each interview was to determine the meaning each individual attached to special places and whether they find …
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Exploring the interactive element in architecture: a children's discovery museum for Washington, D.C.
… approach to the architecture which houses these special places. Just as the "exhibits" at the children's museums invite a new relationship between the visitor and the museum collection, so too should the architecture encourage a new interaction between the individual and the built structure, …
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Ceremonial music of Japan
… in Japan is a type of music used to celebrate special occasions in special places, e.g., to honor the Emperor on his birthday, or for other special celebrations at a shrine.</p><p>In Japanese, the character for ceremonial music is written 雅楽 (pronounced Gagaku). The character 雅 (ga) means …
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Animated props for responsive playspaces
Playgrounds are special places within the urban landscape specially designed for children. Here, they encounter the outdoors and the physical properties of large spaces through play, which allows children to develop their physical skills, explore the natural and built environment as well as …
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Boston's urban wilds : the persistence of an idea over time
… wishing to create decentralized networks of special places and for Boston's urban wilds advocates as they move into the next period of urban wilds advocacy.
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Architecture for Cyborgs : laptops and spatial use at MIT
… must be accomplished within a particular set of places or "life spaces." What is the role of the laptop in defining these life spaces and patterns and how does it either enable or constrain an individual from acting out their life pattern within a particular life space? This study uses a variety …
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Place Attachment as an Interactional Process: A Case Study of Isle au Haut, Maine
By listening to peoples' constructed stories of special places, the average person begins to understand why and how attachments to places form. This study concerns the attachments residents of Isle au Haut, Maine possess on the remote island, which borders part of Acadia National Park. The purpose …
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An Exploration of Developed Forest Camping Experiences and Meanings in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area
… rest, escape, and recovery), family functioning, special places, self-identity, social interaction, experiencing nature, association of God and nature, novelty, and the opportunity for children to learn. Restoration was the most commonly expressed meaning across all three campground types. The …
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Fire in My Backyard: Place Meanings and Landowner Views on Fire and Fuels Management on the Kootenai National Forest, MT
… are deemed appropriate for use in specific places. Such knowledge could aid managers in anticipating which management actions will be met with contention or approval. Findings indicate that landowners’ relationships to places are connected to their views on fire and fuels management. …
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Fire in My Backyard: Place Meanings and Landowner Views on Fire and Fuels Management on the Kootenai National Forest, MT
… are deemed appropriate for use in specific places. Such knowledge could aid managers in anticipating which management actions will be met with contention or approval. Findings indicate that landowners’ relationships to places are connected to their views on fire and fuels management. …
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The desert city within : notions about urban form for Phoenix, Arizona
… the malls; gives re lief from the grid and cool places we can achieve an urban desert architecture. The project will be the design of an urbane space linking an existing shopping mall to an existing neighborhood . . The act of digging in, the act of finding a cooler place, will be expressed in …
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Designing the superblock : a model for Taipei redevelopment
… itself, the thesis argues that making streets special "places", is a powerful organizing principle for urban design. Good paths, especially streets, do not only carry the function of traffic circulation, but also foster social interactions, commercial activities, and surprises that enrich the …
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Reconciling biodiversity preservation and local sustainable development : the role of the "MAB biosphere reserves" in the South-Eastern European countries
… (2002) of the book entitled 'Biosphere Reserves: special places for Nature and People'. The volume intended to comprehensively summarise the main steps of the Programme's history, as well as the conceptual evolution of its main implementation tools: the Biosphere Reserves (BRs). <br> <br>The first …