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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"suburban life"”.
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A Journey of Tears: What They Don't Tell You About America, a memoir
… different themes ranging from bureaucracy to suburban life, from popularity of guns in the South to suburban life and metal fandom, both borrowing ideas from scholars who have done research on these subjects before as well as employing different experiences of mine as an international student, …
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Variations on Suburbia: Integrating People-Oriented Design
Suburban development in Canada has grown increasingly dense in recent decades. Despite this, however, most new subdivisions continue to follow the picturesque planning principles of their lower-density predecessors. Garages dominate looping streets of compact semis and rowhouses, producing enclaves …
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of fiction and faction: Cultivating a Revolution in Suburbia
… complicating familiar notions of Canadian suburban life while foretelling possible futures.
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Multiplexing of Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Optical Fiber Sensors for Strain Measurements
… a necessary component of the modern urban and suburban life. The guide rails the car and counterweight move on are the most sensitive parts when it comes to de-habilitating damage that can be caused by an earthquake. Conventional sensors are becoming obsolete in sensing for today's multistory …
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The great American garage
How does one explore the suburban home? Go in through the garage, of course. Sales, bands, suicides, and business startups: The suburban garage is the most culturally flexible space in the entire American domestic environment. In this flexibility, it stands opposed to many of the established …
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The family contracts
… of the suburbs and their place in American life and motherhood. It interrogates the demands of motherhood and the ways in which motherhood is shaped by family inheritance. The manuscript attempt to marry ecopoetics with a feminist perspective to recognize the damage that American suburban …
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Jewish women in Glasgow c1880-1950: gender ethnicity and the immigrant experience
… it endeavours to analyse aspects of Jewish suburban life in Glasgow that were shaped and expressed through changes in gender relations. There is also a thematic element to the analysis that includes the following topics: Jewish settlement in Glasgow; ways of making a living; domesticity; …
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Weathering the storms : new suburban typology for coastal cities through a case study on Winthrop, MA
… a new building typology that can appeal to suburban life style, be implemented incrementally, and, most importantly, protect people and properties from the dangers of coastal flooding.
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Second Story Television: Multi-Camera Sitcom Spaces, Objects, and the Suburban Spatial Imaginary
This project investigates the concept of the suburban spatial imaginary with regard to multi-camera sitcoms from the 1990s. I contend that the physical flatness of the multi-camera set construction is tied to the ideological presentation of suburban life. Through a textual analysis of moments in …
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A study of the relationships between housing patterns, social class and political attitudes in three Auckland electorates
… suburbs of the north, middle class beliefs and life styles would develop. Suburban life, in areas of new housing containing those who most notably benefited from these changes, would provide mutual reinforcements for the evolution of a much more consciously middle class way of life. Many of the …
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Beyond the milk carton: strategies for creating and allowing a space for engaging with personal narratives from family members about missing persons
… way her disappearance had punctured their suburban life forever. Very few other cases of missing children have garnered the kind of media attention that allows parents of missing children to reflect in such a way. Most newspapers in South Africa at present barely report a child missing; let …