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Showing 1 to 20 of 835 for “"the built environment"”.
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Research, practice and education in the built environment
This thesis consists of two parts: the body of published work is presented as a portfolio of10 publications and forms Part II. Part I consists of a critical review of those publications.In the context of the built environment sector, the overarching themes of the publishedworks are the …
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Usurping architecture : sculptural resistance to the built environment
… is a study in three parts. Part One explores the historical and theoretical basis that has informed my body of work. In this section, I explore the perfection of the depiction of the three-dimensional structure on a two-dimensional plane. This is specifically related to architecture. I then …
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Light and form : perception in the built environment
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how light and form affect the experience of place--that is, influence human response--and to understand some principles of manipulating light and form to achieve these responses. The thesis is a journey through many paths and places; some are literal in …
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Komorebi : embedding dappled sunlight in the built environment
… to human beings in many aspects. Researches in environmental psychology and public health have shown the positive impacts of nature connections for people's happiness, concentration, and restoration. In creating the living environment with the connectedness to nature, various researches have …
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Public policy instruments for designing the built environment
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Flux: Creating Dynamic Systems Within the Built Environment
In order to create landscapes able to adapt to the constantly shifting demands placed upon it by human and ecological processes, there is a need to incorporate the flux of these human and ecological processes into a physical and dynamic share of the built environment. This will require a perceptual …
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Visualizing space: Designing discoursive tools for the built environment
… a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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The Bauenswelt: toward an ontology of the 'built environment.'
… Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. M.C.P.
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Machine Learning Simulation of Pedestrians Exploring the Built Environment
… human navigational behavior when engaging with the built environment, with the intent of informing architectural design. A computational process is proposed to produce a generalizable Agent that navigates and explores novel complex environments while interacting with its surroundings. Current …
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Heat Vulnerability and Risk Analytics for The Built Environment
Climate change risks are considered one of the major global concerns that face humankind in the 21st century. Heatwaves have been identified as one of the deadliest climate hazards, especially in urban areas. Also, extreme heat events have been growing in intensity, duration, and frequency; more …
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NAVIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: READING BERENICE ABBOTT’S CHANGING NEW YORK
My thesis seeks to broaden the framework of conversation surrounding Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York. Much scholarship regarding Changing New York has focused on the individual photographs, examined and analyzed as independent of the meticulously arranged whole. My thesis considers the complete …
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Interpretive Communities at work and play in the built environment
… investigations this programme of studies applies the related concepts of ‘interpretive communities’ (Fish 1980) and ‘communities of practice’ (Wenger 1998) to the contemplation of, and interaction with, a variety of seemingly mundane places and structures within the built environment (principally …
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Comparing Spatial Measures of the Built Environment for Health Research
Research on the association between health and the built environment often delineates environmental exposure using different spatial forms and distances surrounding points of interest, such as residences or schools. Examples from the literature include Euclidian and network buffers, administrative …
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Serial Architectures: Nonfiction Film and the Built Environment, 1896-1920
… was used to observe, analyze, and understand the built environment in the United States between 1896 and 1920. By focusing on the seriality of film and contemporary visual media, it shows how the introduction of the new medium altered the configuration of knowledge and practice related to …
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Discover Uptown: Using the Built Environment to Interpret Local History
<p>The downtown commercial district of Columbus, Georgia, becomes an outdoor classroom in this project which uses the built environment to interpret local history. Developed for use by the Columbus Museum Uptown as а guide for a walking tour by eighth-grade students, the project surveyed selected …
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Middle Woodland hilltop enclosures: The built environment, construction and function
This dissertation examines the structure and function of Middle Woodland period (200 B.C.-A.D. 400) hilltop enclosures in the Ohio Valley. It describes the physical structure and temporal development of hilltop enclosure architecture and analyzes the associated activity areas. The concept of the …
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