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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"waterscapes"”.
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Submergence as emergence : expanding social waterscapes in a shrinking city
This thesis seeks to reclaim spaces of urban disinvestment by developing alternative forms of contact and connectivity across urban water systems. Framing water as a mode of gathering, this project connects myriad urban realities, peoples, and practices. Alternative forms of linkages provide users …
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The Role of the State in Urban Development: The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt
This dissertation explores the making of infrastructure in Middle East cities in the face of rising urban inequalities and grassroots mobilisation efforts. National governments and international donors continue to provide apolitical technical explanations to infrastructural failures in Cairo, but …
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Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America
… literary representations of transforming waterscapes. I use the term “waterworks” to describe the experimental novels, stories, and poems that result from empirical engagements with industrialized water bodies. Through case studies of Mary Austin, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorine Niedecker, C. …
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Developing a Digital Sustainability Framework for Interior Construction Projects: A Stakeholder-Centred Digital Platform for Sustainable Decision-Making and Biophilic Integration
… a between-subjects design exposed to one of nine waterscapes that varied in water dynamics and visible wildlife following a stress induction task. Physiological measures (heart rate, blood pressure, heart rate variability, skin conductance) and psychological outcomes (affect, perceived …