Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"townscape"”.
-
Towards a middle townscape
Urbanism and its associated architecture not only takes place in designated city areas but also in the Realm of the Middle Landscape. Although it is hardly possible to invent a new architecture, the necessity remains to think about questions of urbanism and its built structures in the context of …
-
Declaring urban conservation areas: the Art Deco townscape of Vredehoek, Cape Town
… was explored through an assessment of the townscape of Vredehoek, an informally(1) proposed conservation area in Cape Town where there is a relatively high concentration of Art Deco buildings. The selection of Vredehoek as a laboratory within which to ask this question is due to the …
-
The Kelburn connection : this study [dissertation] has been carried out in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Diploma of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
… observer sees - his composite mental image - is townscape. Townscape is a schematic perception of the city if the elements which make up the city are easy to assimilate. e.g. there is visual interest but not confusion, contrast but not visual anarchy, then the townscape will have 'imageability'. …
-
Local Amenity Societies - Participation and Power: A case study on the St Marylebone Society 1948 - 2021
… have had on planning policy, conservation and townscape since World War II. It is based on a single case study of the St Marylebone Society (SMS), an amenity society founded in 1948 to protect the townscape of Marylebone in central London. It describes how they established, increased membership …
-
Shaping "The Second Half Century" : the Architectural Review, 1947-1971
… intervention, known under the rubric of "Townscape." The scope of this program, however, was far larger than the mere urban design methodology that "Townscape" stands for today. It was linked to a project of cultural continuity and renewal. The reinterpretation of British romanticism …
-
The use of Cape vernacular architecture in gated communities in the Stellenbosch area
… is a historical student and tourist town with a townscape that reflects various colonial architectural styles. It is especially well known for its Cape Dutch architecture. It is also a town strongly associated with enduring white Afrikaner privilege and economic power. The history of the use and …
-
Vernacular buildings and urban social practice – Wood and people in Early Modern Swedish society
… major components of the early modern Swedish townscape. Yet, today these buildings have largely disappeared due to fires, demolition and modernity. The main themes of the thesis are the study of what kind of wooden building techniques were used within the urban environment. The research …
-
Tradition and conviction :architecture in context
… building to the streetscape or in some cases the townscape in which it will be seen. In doing so a sense of place so vital within the urban environment can be maintained. There are several ways to design a new building so that it is sympathetic to its architectural context. On the one hand one may …
-
Kultūros paveldo kontrolė 1990 – 2006 metais /
… there was founded a Department of cultural townscape, however it influenced the administration of analyzing function negatively. Whereas in 2005 a new control department of Cultural heritage has been established. Presently it coordinates a work with territorial subdivisions of the …
-
The effectiveness of heritage policy and practice from the perspective of liveability : the case of Kuala Lumpur
… on the topic. The analysis is complemented using townscape appraisal to capture the experience of place through rigorous visual interpretation to support the initial claim and findings from the first and secondary data. The findings reveal several issues associated with the current policies, …
-
Festival modernism : downtown plans & pedestrian malls, 1956-1974
… and an expression of a "festival" or "townscape" modernism that represented a middle ground between the oppositional paradigms of clearance and preservation. Pedestrian malls reveal the humanism embedded within aspects of late modernism, and the modernism cloaked by the historicized …
-
Regional Spatial Development Framework for Saldanha Bay Municipality: Pursuing a more Ecologically Integrated Future
… framework consists of the strategies of townscape, reduce point source pollution and sustainable human settlements. These strategies focus on the local sense of place and predominantly the upgrading of infrastructure within settlements in the region. They are placed within a phasing …
-
4 Theatres…
… reduced to a larger-than-life object within the townscape. The new object rests on the platform of Blacksburg during its own construction stage. While not within the scope of this project, it is entirely legitimate that the veil itself could be designed through a local competition. The purpose is …
-
'Our way': social space and the geography of land allocation practice on the southern gulf lowlands of Cape York Peninsula
… of social space onto the physical spaces of the townscapes and landscapes of the southern Gulf Lowlands. The topology of social space is reproduced at three levels of emplacement in patterns of household residency in the townscape; in land use and homeland affiliation in the landscape, and in …
-
La città come. Storia dell'idea di paesaggio urbano
… scorso, la nascita in Inghilterra del cosiddetto Townscape movement, di cui Il paesaggio urbano di Gordon Cullen è solitamente – sebbene erroneamente – considerato la massima espressione teorica. Infine, il titolo. La città è il luogo per eccellenza in cui si sono formati, e in cui hanno …