Dissertations / Theses: 'Space. places and Landscape'

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Forssman, Timothy Robin. "The spaces between places : a landscape study of foragers on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape, southern Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:11823954-08f8-4c0a-ae8d-77d7a8a855a3.

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Our understanding of the Later Stone Age (LSA) on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape has until now been fairly limited. However, it is a landscape upon which foragers witnessed and partook in agriculturalist state formation between AD 900 and 1300, altering their cultural behaviour to suit their changing social and political topography. Nowhere else in southern Africa were foragers part of such developments. For this project a landscape approach was used to study the various changes in the regional LSA record as well as the way in which foragers interacted with farmers. In order to address these issues, data were obtained from an archaeological survey followed by an excavation of seven sites in north-eastern Botswana, part of the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape. These finds indicate that the local forager record varies chronologically and spatially, which had not previously been recorded. Foragers also used a variety of site types and in each a different forager expression was deposited, providing indications of their changing settlement pattern. Notably, this included a gradual movement into agriculturalist homesteads beginning by at least AD 1000 and concluding by AD 1300, when the Mapungubwe capital was abandoned. Thus, interactions, at least in some cases, led to assimilation. There is also clear evidence of exchange with agriculturalists at many of the excavated sites, but this does not always seem to be related to their proximity with one another. Performing a landscape study has also made it possible to make two general conclusions with regard to LSA research. First, these data challenge ethnography, displaying its limitations particularly with linking modern Bushman practices, such as aggregation and dispersal patterns or hxaro gift exchange, to LSA foragers. Second, a full landscape understanding combines the archaeology of multiple cultural landscapes and in this case also crosses national borders, two themes often neglected in southern African archaeological studies.

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Noussia, Julia Antonia. "Constructing spaces, representing places : a comparative analysis of open air museums in England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264662.

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Collier, Mishkah. "Represencing place: the assembly of a vertical landscape from in-between space." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28023.

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This project began with a personal attachment to place. An attachment to the Bo-Kaap as the embedded landscape of my spatial memory and cultural identity. My family holds a deep place attachment to the Bo-Kaap. It's the inscribed space of my forefathers and the only place that they've known as 'home'. Since the abolition of slavery in 1834, my family has come to reside in the Bo-Kaap, an uncovering that was discovered through my research at the beginning of the year. After the abolition of slavery, my grandfather's great grandfather purchased the property on the corner of Castle Street and Maxwell Lane, where his family lived for 3 generations until their home was expropriated under the Slums Area Act in 1934. His great-grandchildren later came to purchase available land towards the top of Longmarket Street, which was not affected by the Slums Area Act. This is where my family continues to live till this day. Having grown up in the Bo-kaap, I've witnessed its constant state of flux and the urban pressures that continue to disrupt its historical urban fabric and social character. This realisation has prompted my interest in the Bo-Kaap as both a physical and social space of past and present contestation.

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Thomas, Nicola. "Landscape, space and place in English- and German-language poetry, 1960-1975." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41884/.

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This thesis examines representations of space, place and landscape in English and German-language poetry of the period 1960-1975, a key transitional phase between modernity and postmodernity. It proposes that the impact certain transnational spatial revolutions had on contemporary poetry can only be fully grasped with recourse to comparative methodologies which look across national borders. This is demonstrated by a series of paired case studies which examine the work of J. H. Prynne and Paul Celan, Sarah Kirsch and Derek Mahon, and Ernst Jandl and Edwin Morgan. Prynne and Celan’s 'Sprachskepsis' is the starting point for a post-structuralist analysis of meta-textual space in their work, including how poetry’s complex tectonics addresses multifaceted crises of representation. Mahon and Kirsch’s work is read in the context of spatial division, and it is argued that both use representations of landscape, space and place to express political engagement, and to negotiate fraught ideas of home, community and world. Jandl and Morgan’s representations of space and place, which often depend on experimental lyric subjectivity, are examined: it is argued that poetic subject(s) which speak from multiple perspectives (or none) serve as a means of reconfiguring poetry’s relationship to space at a time when social, literary and political boundaries were being redefined. The thesis thus highlights hitherto underexplored connections between a range of poets working across the two language areas, making clear that space and place is a vital critical category for understanding poetry of this period, including both experimental and non-experimental work. It reveals weaknesses in existing critical taxonomies, arguing for the use of ‘late modernist’ as category with cross-cultural relevance, and promotes methodological exchange between the Anglophone and German traditions of landscape, space and place-oriented poetry scholarship, to the benefit of both.

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Irving, Brook Alys. "Ruination as invention: reconstructions of space and time in a deindustrial landscape." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1640.

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This dissertation argues that the symbolic force of deindustrial Rust Belt decline is expressed through patterns of rhetorical invention, what I call ruination rhetorics. Ruination, I argue, works to construct divergent orientations toward space and time in representations of the Rust Belt. I trace these orientations as a way of charting the contours of how we understand domestic urban decay in our contemporary political and economic climate. This project argues that ruination's inventive force hints at a number of thematics including: ruination as urban waste; ruination as a claim to forms of nostalgia and authenticity; ruination as a linkage between temporal configurations of the past and the present; and ruination as a narrative form enabling what I call a "melancholic" rhetorical style. In all of these instances, ruination supports differentiated orientations toward time and space, creating temporal and geographical connections and boundaries through rhetorical manipulations. In this way, the times and spaces of and for industrial ruination shift, and in so doing, their discursive manifestations elucidate the diversity and instability of spatio-temporal structures. Conceptually, I argue that ruination shapes an understanding of space and time as fluid concepts, rather than stagnant or pre-determined categories. And by unpacking the ways that ruination traffics in representations of Rust Belt geographies and citizens, we discover an increasingly complex discursive field out of which meaningful relationships to decay and renewal might be forged. In this way, ruination does not weave a cohesive narrative of what the Rust Belt is, where the Rust Belt is, or who does or does not lay claim to its political realities and challenges. Rather, its divergent and contradictory modes of rhetorical invention suggest ruination expresses the incoherencies and compatibilities constitutive of an everyday life lived in the ebbs and flows of a material space that is always-already a site of ongoing decay and renewal.

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Barrett, Kirby. "Place, Space and Community: Enhancing community identity in Winona, Kansas." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9187.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Eric A. Bernard
The sub-rural Kansas community of Winona stands at a critical crossroad. The dilemma of rural population decline, fueled largely by technological advances in communication, transportation, and agriculture is devastating rural economies and the centers of community social life – namely the local school(s) and main street(s). The physical infrastructure, spatial character and unique identity of rural places is slowly diminished in the process. While great potential exists for the landscape architecture and planning professions to address the patterns of rural decline, the limited market for such services and the lack of regulations requiring those services precludes their effective implementation within rural communities. Within Winona, a long-standing stormwater problem provides an opportunity to address both the stormwater problem and the larger dilemma in a holistic landscape architecture approach. How can contemporary landscape architecture engage rural communities in planning and design solutions aimed at mitigating stormwater issues while addressing community identity loss resulting from population and economic decline? The Place, Space, Community (PSC) Framework developed can determine distinctive qualities and characteristics and illuminate community identity which serves as the creative genesis for stormwater mitigation, and more importantly, the development of social capital critical to economic and population stability and growth. Successful development of social capital and enhanced community identity is dependent on design solutions anchored in the sense of place inherent in the residents of Winona. Landscape architects are uniquely qualified to provide solutions to the stormwater problem which respond to place in ways influencing the identity and social capital of Winona’s residents in dramatically positive ways. This initial focus on a holistic, place-based approach to increased social capital provides a strong foundation for future economic, social and environmental stability and growth into the future. Winona can indeed enjoy a bright and prosperous future with a Place, Space, Community approach.

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Thompson, Sara Kathleen. "From sacred space to commercial place : a landscape interpretation of Mount Pleasant Cemetery." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/928.

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Grogan, Heather. "St. Louis MetroLink: reframing public transit space." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8622.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Mary C. Kingery-Page
People often move through public transit space only recognizing the functional qualities. In such an environment we become faceless bodies moving through the landscape. As our environments become increasingly functional, so do humans—we cycle anonymously between work and home with little spontaneous interaction occurring in between. The daily routine is executed in nonplace: “Where once there were places we now find nonplaces. In real places the human being is a person. He or she is an individual, unique and possessing a character. In nonplaces, individuality disappears. In nonplaces, character is irrelevant and one is only the customer or shopper, client or patients, a body to be seated, and address to be billed, a car to be parked” (Oldenburg 1989, 205). The Maplewood light rail station in St. Louis County, Missouri is an example of nonplace. Although functional, the landscape lacks character. In order to combat nonplace sociologist Ray Oldenburg suggests that we cultivate third places—liminal spheres between home and work that facilitate informal social interaction. A major component of third place is user accessibility. Therefore, the ability to physically and mentally access public transit space will be investigated as a design dilemma. Through the reframing of physical and mental accessibility the Maplewood MetroLink station will evolve into a third place capable of supporting informal social interaction. In order to understand the factors influencing social interaction in public transit space, five precedents were examined using the Project for Public Spaces definition of “place.” Characteristics found to promote social activity include linkages, flexibility, imageability and social infrastructure. The factors were further defined as ‘mental’ or ‘physical’ accessibility which were then used to analyze the Maplewood MetroLink station. After examining physical and mental accessibility at the Maplewood MetroLink station, a design solution was proposed. The design encourages users to pause and interact with each other and the landscape in a highly mobile environment.

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Papas, Maria. "Familiar places — (Re)creating “home”: an exegesis." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2376.

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My thesis — a novel and an accompanying exegesis — addresses the question: what is ‘home’? What are the ways in which it has been and can be understood? And in particular, how can it be represented in narrative fiction so as to take into account its many intricate facets? Framed by my understanding of the relationship between mental inscapes and outward landscapes, I propose that ‘home’ is not so much a geographical space as it is an interpretation of that space, and that, in prose, this interpretation is based on the subjective viewpoint of a narrative focaliser.This said, in my creative practice I explore experiences of ‘home’ through two alternate focalisations. I represent ‘home’ in several ways: as the tension point between nurture and neglect; as a space of transience and fluidity; as an experience of familiarity; and as part of the everyday process of the creation of self. Drawing upon the landscape, culture and community of the places I have lived in — Bunbury, Albany and Perth — and the years I have spent traversing the roads within and between, this is a novel in which the sense of home (or the homelike moment) is constructed out of movement, communication and sociality. This is a novel in which ‘home’ is not just a place; it is an activity.Relative to my creative practice, my exegesis details how the construction of my novel was based on a triangulate relationship between personal experience, theoretical readings and the exemplar of fiction. Each chapter examines ‘home’ from a certain theoretical point of view, and in turn the representational applications of these points of view are studied via a close reading of Thea Astley’s A Descant for Gossips and in my own work. Finally, it is this understanding — point of view, perception, focalisation — that forms the basis of both my creative and theoretical work.

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Gefreh, Tasha Michelle. "Place, space and time : Iona's early medieval high crosses in the natural and liturgical landscape." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21121.

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The island of Iona had the primacy of the Columban familia from the foundation of the monastery by St Columba in the sixth century until Viking invasions led to a transfer of primacy to Kells in the ninth century. Though located off the coast of western Scotland, it was not isolated from the Insular and Christian world. Surviving documents demonstrate the learning and outlook of the monks on Iona. The Abbot Adomnán, who died in 704, in particular was known for his travels and varied writings. The titles of theologian, lawmaker and peacemaker can be applied to him. Not only was Iona a religious centre for the community and pilgrims, it was also politically associated with the ruling families of Dál Riata (Scotland) and Ireland. Iona is credited with the production of such seminal artworks as the Book of Durrow and Book of Kells. The high crosses of Iona were either the first or among the first of the Insular stone tradition. The crosses are monumental, free-standing crosses carved in relief with ornament and figural imagery. The Insular monumental stone tradition has created enduring symbols—the Irish high crosses, Pictish cross-slabs and Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. This dissertation offers an innovative interpretation of the iconographic programme of the high crosses of Iona by emphasizing their natural and liturgical landscape and environment. Previous studies have looked at individual panels and motifs such as the Virgin and Child panels and the snake-boss motif: the whole programme across the four crosses has not been attempted. The ritualised usage of the crosses can be gleaned through analysing the crosses as a whole project meant to complement each other in the environment of Iona the island and monastic settlement, over the eighth and ninth centuries. Close scrutiny of the crosses in a variety of contexts, both on Iona and when they were removed for conservation, has allowed for the analysis of the individual crosses. The crosses were erected in the physical landscape where the sun directs how and when the programme is to be accessed. The sun elucidates some of the iconographic conundrums. Additionally, the placement of the crosses was in a liturgical landscape, where the crosses were approached in complement to certain devotions. The programme of light enhances the liturgical day, particularly assisting in devotion to the Divine Office. The four crosses were erected as a spiritual tool, part of the ritualised, virtual pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Iona as a pilgrimage destination was more accessible than Rome and Jerusalem. Whereas the Lindisfarne Gospels were commissioned for the translation of the relics of St Cuthbert, the translation of the corporeal relics of St Columba, founder of Iona’s monastery, led to the commission of a cross that acts as a crux gemmata and cross-reliquary.

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Lee, Eun Young. "The Rhetorical Landscape of Itaewon: Negotiating New Transcultural Identities in South Korea." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429226367.

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Rogers, Karen L. "Checkerboard grids principles and practices of spatial order in the Americas and the making of place in New Mexico /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.

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Olstad, Tyra A. "Zen of the plains: discovering space, place and self." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13520.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Geography
Kevin Blake
With their windswept ridges and wind-rent skies, prairies and plains have often been denigrated as nothing but nothing—empty, meaningless, valueless space. Mountains and forests, oceans and deserts have been praised and protected while vast expanses of undulating grasslands have been plowed under, grazed over, used, abused, maligned. Once the largest ecosystem on the North American continent, wild prairies now persist mainly in overlooked or unwanted fragments. In part, it’s a matter of psychology; some people see plains as visually unpleasing (too big, too boring) or physically alienating (too dry, too exposed). It’s also part economics; prairies seem more productive, more valuable as anything but tangles of grass and sage. But at heart, it’s a matter of sociocultural and individual biases; people seeking bucolic or sublime landscapes find “empty,” treeless skyscapes flat and dull, forgettable. Scientific, social, and especially aesthetic appreciation for plains requires a different perspective—a pause in place—an exploration of the horizon as well as an examination of the minutiae, few people have strived to understand and appreciate undifferentiated, untrammeled space. This research seeks to change that by example, using conscientious, systematic reflection on first-hand experience to explore questions fundamental to phenomenology and geography—how do people experience the world? How do we shape places and how do places shape us?—in the context of plains landscapes. Written and illustrated from the perspective of a newcomer, a scholar, a National Park Service ranger, a walker, a watcher, a person wholly and unabashedly in love with wild places, the creative non-fiction narratives, photoessays, and hand-drawn maps address themes of landscape aesthetics, sense of place, and place-identity by tracing the natural, cultural, and managerial histories of and personal relationships with Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, Kansas’s Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological Research Station, and Wyoming’s Fossil Butte National Monument. Prosaic and photographic meditations on wildness and wilderness, travel and tourism, preservation and conservation, days and seasons, expectations and acceptance, even dreams and reality intertwine to evoke and illuminate the inspiring aesthetic of spacious places—Zen of the plains.

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Palhinhas, Alexandre Galrito. "Landscape and energy: from planning to landscape integration of infrastructures for renewable energy production." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15525.

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Esta dissertação é uma reflexão sobre os distúrbios climáticos devido à actividade humana e sua dependência histórica dos combustíveis fósseis para produzir energia. Chama a atenção para a necessidade do uso de energia renovável e que medidas podem ser tomadas para tal, respondendo a algumas questões neste contexto: que tipo de estruturas existem para produzir diferentes tipos de energia renovável? E no caso específico dos parques eólicos: que impactos podem ter na paisagem? O objectivo da tese é identificar os critérios mais importantes a considerar no planeamento de áreas destinadas à instalação de parques eólicos. Assumindo que a produção de energia renovável exige a instalação de estruturas, é importante uma análise cuidada no planeamento destas áreas. A tese não estabelece regras aplicáveis a todos os casos. Cada paisagem tem as suas próprias características e é percebida de forma diferente por cada pessoa; ABSTRACT:The study is a reflection on the climate disturbances due to human activity and its historic dependence on fossil fuels to produce energy. It notes the need for the use of renewable energy and what steps can be taken for such, addressing some issues in this context: what kind of structures exists to produce different types of renewable energy? And in the specific case of wind farms: what impacts have in the landscape? The aim of this thesis is to identify the most important criteria to consider when thinking about planning an area for a wind farm installation. Assuming that the production of renewable energy requires the installation of structures, is important to care on the planning of these places. The thesis does not establish any formula that applies anywhere. Each landscape has its own characteristics and is perceived differently by the people.

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Hume, Lindy. "A bigger picture: Toward a landscape-oriented arts practice." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/225930/1/Lindy_Hume_Thesis.pdf.

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The thesis proposes an orientation shift from portrait to landscape as a metaphor for the rearrangement of aesthetic, cultural and social values between metropolitan and regional milieus. Emerging from an analysis of three spheres and their intersections (Artist as Citizen, Practice and Process and the Creative Environment) is a recurring theme of horizontality and a design for a landscape-oriented arts practice. As a way of reframing the arts narrative from a contemporary regional Australian perspective, this new conceptual paradigm offers theorists and practitioners an expansive alternative vista of the national cultural landscape.

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Al-Obaidi, Mohammed F. R. "My landscape is a hand with no lines : representations of space in the poetry of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27992.

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This thesis is the first study using contemporary spatial theory, including cultural geography and its precursors, to examine and compare representations of space in the poetry of three mid-twentieth century American poets: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. Because of the autobiographical content often foregrounded in their work, these poets have been labelled Confessional. Previous criticism has focused primarily on the ways in which they narrate (or draw on) their personal lives, treating accompanying descriptions of their surroundings primarily as backdrops. However, these poets frequently manifest their affective states by using the pathetic fallacy within structures of metaphor that form a textual mapping of the physical space they describe. This mapping can be temporal as well as spatial; the specific spaces mapped in the poem s present are often linked to memories of earlier life or family. These spaces include psychiatric, general, and penal institutions, parks and gardens, nature (especially coastal settings), and the home (almost always a place of tension or conflict). Each poet addresses these broad types of space differently according to their evolving subjective relationship to them. These relationships are in turn strongly influenced by their social class and gender: for the two women, their experience of their own bodies as prescribed space, in relation to the restrictive and objectifying female role that was imposed on them, is critical. Also, critical in shaping the poets experience of space are post-World-War II socio-cultural and demographic changes in the United States, notably suburbanisation, consumerisation and the consolidation of a therapeutic culture . Interwoven with these influences are major political concerns of the period such as the Cold War with its accompanying surveillance and conformism and the threat of nuclear annihilation. In the work of all three poets, awareness of these modern fears fused with traditional Gothic motifs to permeate their descriptions of spaces with anxiety, bitterness, and even dread in a rejection of the synthetic optimism of the American Century and commercial culture. Other criticism has touched on many of these themes in relation to one or another of the poets, but this study, by way of the theme of space, offers comparison and synthesis that aims to shed new light on their work and its relation to the period during which they wrote.

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Nkwocha, Allison. "Play in Place: The Role of Site-Specific Playgrounds in Community Space." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/140.

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Playgrounds do not have to be static sites, but safety standards should not be the only force that guides their evolution over time. Just as the ongoing transformation of any city is a product of many interwoven factors, the collection of smaller sites that delineates one city from another should reflect the same holistic influences. This is not an argument for the abandonment of the safety standards that influence playground design. Instead, it is an argument for the adoption of and stronger adherence to community standards that influence city design. This paper argues that a park area (and more generally, any public space) that is relevant and unique to a community will be well-used by the community and, thus, a successful space; it is in a city’s best interest to create such spaces where they are lacking and protect them where they already exist. The first chapter provides a land-centric history of the growth and development of the Los Angeles region, which is especially deficient in public green space. I argue that transportation technology and infrastructure was the great shaping force of the urban environment during the 19th and 20th centuries, and discuss the Olmsted-Bartholomew “Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region” report that was presented to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1930. The second chapter covers the design communication of American playgrounds since their beginnings in the late 19th century. I also analyze the parallel between Progressive Era playground supervision and the present-day safety standard obsession that has created an equally rigid playscape. The third chapter is a case study of the ongoing historical preservation treatment of La Laguna playground at Vincent Lugo Park in San Gabriel, CA and a discussion of the value of site-specificity.

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Očadlíková, Veronika. "Architektura domova." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-377193.

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The thesis is based on monitoring how one represents, creating an environment, how one completes it, or how the human environment is created. When we ask ourselves what our home means for us, we knew we could give it the shape of space. We could describe it as a place where we like to be. Some questions arise. If there is any idea of living at home, if it is as personal, how does each of us perceive home in his intimacy as well? How did it become the architecture itself? The goal of the work is to translate the understanding of the home through a specific situation. I choose a village in Slovakia, Čechynce, which has more than 1000 inhabitants. The architectural design itself does not adapt to the creation of a home as a house. He wants to point out that the home is not in an isolated system of walls, but in an ability of distence and in a chance to return again.

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Vieira, Margareth Acosta. "Uma rua chamada Gruppelli : memórias reveladas pela fotografia." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2009. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/2825.

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Este trabalho constitui uma investigação sobre a reconstituição da memória da Localidade Gruppelli, situada na Colônia Municipal, 7º Distrito de Pelotas, com ênfase nas antigas propriedades da família Gruppelli, origem do núcleo colonial, e nas instituições de uso coletivo, contempladas pela fotografia da década de 1920 aos dias atuais. A reconstrução de processos de produção e natureza desses ambientes, através de documentos visuais, permitiu a identificação de manutenções e transformações produzidas, nesse período, por diferentes gerações. Como se tratam de ações, que foram depositadas materialmente na paisagem, ao longo do século XX, por essas sociedades, surgem em registros fotográficos como índices de uma existência física situada temporal e geograficamente. São documentos visuais, conservados como comprovantes biográficos de indivíduos e instituições que fornecem referências espaço-temporais e permitem instituir elos entre gerações. Trata-se de uma busca de caráter histórico, um diálogo entre temporalidades, em que o passado é abordado a partir do presente, permitindo a identificação de um tempo histórico e de seus processos sócio-econômico-culturais correlatos. O binômio indissociável - lugar e fotografia do lugar - ao expor uma realidade particularizada, possibilitou que a trajetória desse lugar pudesse ser vislumbrada nas diversas seqüências de imagens criadas, ao longo do tempo, por fotógrafos amadores e profissionais. Imagens que, ao serem esquadrinhadas, acabaram revelando, mais que a passagem do tempo, a própria expressão do lugar nesse contexto colonial.
This study is an investigation about the reconstitution of Gruppelli’s place memory, located at Municipal Colony, 7th District of Pelotas, with emphasis on Gruppelli’s ancient family estates, origin of the colonial core, and institutions for collective use, covered by the photography of the decade from 1920 until today. The reconstruction of production processes and nature of these environments, through visual documents, allowed the identification of maintenance and changes produced in this period by different generations. Wherein deal with actions, which were deposited material in the landscape throughout the twentieth century, these societies appear in photographic records as indicators of a physical existence situated in time and place. They are visual documents, preserved as proof sketches of individuals and institutions that provide references space-temporal and allow establishing links among generations. This is a search of historical character, a dialogue between temporalities, in which the past is approached from the present, allowing the identification of historical time and its socio-economic processes and cultural correlates. The inseparable combination - place and photography of the place - exposing an individualized reality, allowed that place trajectory could be glimpsed in different images sequences created over time by amateur and professional photographers. Images that, when scanned, turned out more than the passage of time, but the proper expression of place in the colonial context.

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Maxlhaieie, Pelágio Julião. "Patrimônio e desenvolvimento do turismo : percepções sobre o espaço turístico do município de Inhambane em Moçambique." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/128943.

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A dissertação versa sobre o patrimônio e desenvolvimento do Turismo no Município de Inhambane (MI) em Moçambique. Por meio da abordagem interdisciplinar, nosso principal objetivo consistiu em estudar os elementos que compõem o patrimônio natural e cultural do lugar, a fim de propor alternativas inseridas no Turismo Criativo que enalteçam a valorização do espaço turístico desde a percepção dos atores/sujeitos do Turismo, nomeadamente: turista e população residente. Com o auxílio do Paradigma da Complexidade, e da unidade entre os princípios dialógico, recursivo e hologramático, nossa trilha investigativa baseou-se na Pesquisa Qualitativa. Primeiramente, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, desde as quais foram definidas as categorias e subcategorias operacionais da pesquisa. Na sequência, o trabalho de campo desenvolveu-se por meio da observação sistemática não-participante, de questionários e de entrevistas semiestruturadas, sobretudo, na base da amostragem não probabilística para turistas, e probabilística para os residentes locais. A última fase metodológica consistiu na análise e interpretação de dados, através da triangulação dos métodos descritivo, comparativo e estatístico. Em nossas indagações constatamos que o MI possui uma rica e diversificada oferta patrimonial de ordem natural, - a mais procurada pelos visitantes -, distribuída sobretudo ao longo das praias; e de influência histórico-cultural, localizada principalmente na sua área urbana. É através da apropriação deste patrimônio pelo Turismo que se produz a paisagem turística do MI. Esta paisagem, ao ser contemplada pelo sujeito turista, no momento, apesar de estruturar uma relação de ordem estética e afetiva, resulta ainda de valorações negativas. Cenário similar verifica-se na atitude dos residentes locais face ao desenvolvimento do Turismo. Apesar de apoiarem o Turismo, ao perceberem os benefícios econômicos imediatos, gradualmente, os residentes começam a ter algumas reservas a esse desenvolvimento, por causa dos custos socioambientais gerados pela atividade turística no seu espaço de lugar. Contudo, pensamos que um novo modelo de Turismo deva emergir no MI, que ao ir além das determinações do Turismo industrial, possibilite seu desenvolvimento de forma criativa, sobretudo quanto à preservação do patrimônio do lugar, e quanto à participação ativa das comunidades locais e seus integrantes neste desenvolvimento.
This dissertation is about heritage and Tourism development in Inhambane Municipality (IM) in Mozambique. Through an interdisciplinary approach, our aim was to study the elements that compose the place’s natural and cultural heritage, in order to propose alternatives based on Creative Tourism that emphasizes the value of the tourist space, from the perception of the Tourism actors, in particular: tourists and local population. With help of the Complexity Paradigm, and of the unity among the dialogic, recursive and hologrammatic principles, our research trail based on Qualitative Research, with the following methodological procedures. Firstly, a documents and literature review was done, from which the operational categories and subcategories of the research were defined. Following, there was a fieldwork operated by: non-participant systematic observation, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, above all, based on non-probabilistic sampling for tourists, and probabilistic for the local residents. The last methodological step was the data analysis and interpretation, by triangulating descriptive, comparative and statistical methods. In our investigations, we found that the IM has a rich and diverse heritage supply of natural order - the most popular with visitors - mainly distributed along the beaches; and historical-cultural influence, mostly located in the urban area of the municipality. It is through the appropriation of this heritage by Tourism that the touristic landscape of IM is produced. Although this landscape is structured in a relation between the aesthetic and affective feelings, there are negative valuations. Similar scenario is found in the attitude of local residents towards Tourism development. Although the majority endorses the Tourism development, due to the perceived economic benefits, gradually, residents are beginning to question this development, due to the social and environmental costs it has generated. However, we believe that a new Tourism model should emerge in IM. One that goes beyond the determinations of Tourism development as an industrial model enables a Tourism development as a creative model, especially concerning the place’s heritage preservation, and the active participation of the local communities and their members.

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Baranes, Angela. "La formation d'un paysage chrétien au Danemark viking et médiéval : Logiques spatiales et pratiques sociales (VIIIe-XIIIe siècles)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Côte d'Azur, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024COAZ2001.

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La thèse propose d'étudier la formation d'un paysage chrétien au Danemark au cours de la christianisation (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle), en croisant les sources textuelles, matérielles, toponomastiques et cartographiques. La transition religieuse s'est déroulée de manière graduelle, non imposée par les voisins chrétiens et par l'adhésion progressive des élites. Elle implique des transformations sociales qui ont aussi des traductions spatiales, modifiant la forme, la pratique et la conception des espaces, des lieux et des paysages. La recherche menée propose d'en faire l'analyse de manière systémique, à petite échelle, c'est-à-dire avec un regard porté sur l'ensemble du Danemark historique, et en rompant les bornes chronologiques et disciplinaires (Protohistoire et Moyen Âge ; histoire, archéologie et géographie) maintenues dans la recherche. Divisée en trois parties chrono-thématiques (période missionnaire, « conversion officielle » et institutionnalisation), la thèse s'attache à comprendre les mécanismes et l'évolution de l'implantation et la sacralisation des lieux cultuels et funéraires, dont les formes sont variables d'une période à l'autre, ainsi que de l'élaboration de territoires pastoraux. In fine, il s'agit de déterminer si les expressions spatiales et monumentales de la christianisation s'inscrivent dans une continuité ou une rupture avec la période païenne antérieure et si elles trouvent des similitudes avec les christianisations réalisées en Europe aux siècles précédents. Ce travail repose sur l'élaboration de plusieurs corpus de sources textuelles et d'inventaires de monuments, d'objets et de sites (sites ecclésiaux et funéraires, mobilier liturgique, pierres runiques à caractères chrétiens, sources saintes, lieux de culte païens, habitats) jusque-là discutés séparément. L'ensemble est visualisé et analysé par le biais de productions cartographiques et d'outils SIG qui réintègrent les sites dans leur contexte (occupation biophysique du sol et occupation humaine, routes, toponymes)
The aim of this thesis is to study the making of a Christian landscape in Denmark during the period of Christianisation (8th-13th century), using a combination of textual, material, toponomastic and cartographic sources. The religious transition took place gradually, not imposed by the Christian neighbours, but by the gradual acceptance of the Christian faith by the elites. It involved social transformations that also had spatial consequences, modifying the form, practice and conception of spaces, places and landscapes. The aim of this research is to carry out a systemic analysis on a small scale, looking at historical Denmark in its entirety and breaking down the chronological and disciplinary boundaries (Protohistory and the Middle Ages; history, archaeology and geography) hitherto maintained in research. Divided into three chrono-thematic parts (missionary period, 'official conversion' and institutionalisation), the thesis sets out to understand the mechanisms and evolution of the establishment and sacralisation of places of worship and funerary sites, the forms of which vary from one period to another, as well as the development of pastoral territories. Ultimately, the aim is to determine whether the spatial and monumental expressions of Christianisation form part of a continuity or a break with the earlier pagan period, and whether there are similarities with the Christianisations carried out in Europe in previous centuries. This work is based on the development of several corpus of textual sources and inventories of monuments, objects and sites (ecclesiastical and funerary sites, liturgical objects, runestones with Christian characteristics, using cartographic production and GIS tools that place the sites in their context (biophysical occupation of the land and human occupation, roads, place names)

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Shirtcliff, Benjamin A. "Deep play, urban space, adolescent place: a multi-sited study of the effects of settings on adolescent risk/reward behavior." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1481.

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The extant literature on the play behavior of youth normalizes adolescent behavior in public space as transgressional, resistant, and in need of social control. The dissertation counters this trend by looking to see if physical qualities, peer effects, and neighborhood context of settings play a deeper role in youth behavior. The study documented urban context, peer effects, physical features, and play behavior across 21 urban settings in New Orleans. Unobtrusive observations employed a highly innovative technique based on YouTube videos and analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling. Coded observations of risk-taking and prosocial behavior demonstrated some stability in behavior amongst adolescents—“youth” ages 12-19—within each site, suggesting that site-specific factors can constrain youth behavior. Yet, more interesting, teens appropriated sites. Specifically, the study found that (a) adolescents consistently adapt play behavior due to settings and (b) that adolescents adapt sites to support play behavior. The latter finding is novel and diverges from normative theory on adolescent behavior by suggesting that teens exercise interdependence when engaging in urban environments away from home and school. Interdependence is a term derived from economics that means mutual dependence upon others for some needs. That adolescents display increased risk-taking behavior in environments with low appropriation and increased prosocial behavior in environments with high appropriation advocates for cities to support adolescent appropriation of urban space.

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De, Vriese Hannes. "Mobilités écopoétiques et écritures de la nature : espace et paysage dans la littérature contemporaine en français." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20070.

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Cette étude s’interroge sur l’écriture de la nature dans la littérature contemporaine en français. À partir d’un corpus de textes pris dans la littérature européenne (Chevillard, Michon, Mingarelli, Ollier, Réda, Rouaud, Simon, Tesson, Trassard) et antillaise (Chamoiseau, Glissant, Maximin), l’auteur examine comment la menace écologique influe sur la géographie littéraire et plus généralement sur la représentation de l’espace. Le cadre théorique utilisé à cet effet se nourrit, d’une part, de l’écocritique nord-américaine et s’inscrit, d’autre part, dans l’écopoétique, plus à même de rendre compte de la littérature en français. La recherche démontre que la conscience écologique va de pair avec une nouvelle conception du monde qui met à mal les représentations traditionnelles de l’espace. L’exploration de l’espace sauvage ne conduit dès lors pas à une célébration d’un paysage sublime, mais associe les découvertes du voyageur tout au plus à un sublime suspendu, tremblé et par là provisoire. De même, le récit préhistorique ne recourt pas aux stratégies littéraires du roman préhistorique traditionnel. Plutôt que de procéder comme ce dernier à la représentation du temps préhistorique et que de montrer l’arrivée triomphante de l’homme, le récit contemporain se livre, au contraire, à une enquête incertaine autour de la trace humaine dans l’espace. Il apparaît ainsi un décalage entre la relativité de l’histoire humaine et la permanence du temps géologique. La littérature met en avant la nécessaire reconfiguration des représentations traditionnelles de l’espace et remet en cause la place centrale que l’homme s’attribue. Il s’agit pour les textes de montrer en quoi la géographie apparaît comme une entité plastique et mobile, comme en témoigne par exemple le motif du jardin qui réconcilie les efforts d’aménagement de l’homme et l’énergie désordonnée de la nature. L’esthétique contemporaine relève alors d’une mobilité écopoétique en signe d'une nouvelle empathie avec le monde
This dissertation reflects on nature writing in French-speaking contemporary literature. Drawing on a corpus of literary texts from Europe (Chevillard, Michon, Mingarelli, Ollier, Réda, Rouaud, Simon, Tesson, Trassard) and the Caribbean (Chamoiseau, Glissant, Maximin), the author examines how awareness of ecological peril determines literary geographies and the representation of space more generally. North-American ecocriticism offers a part of the theoretical framework, but recent findings in European ecopoetics prove to be more suitable to analyse literature in French. The study shows that ecological awareness entails a new worldview that invalidates pre-existing representations of space. Thus, exploring the wilderness does not longer lead the observer to celebrate the sublime landscapes that nature offers him. On the contrary, the encounter with the wilderness tends to be unsuccessful, and if it entails any sublime experience, it is equally a temporary and a fragile one. Likewise, the prehistoric narrative does not longer rely on the literary strategies of the traditional prehistoric novel: rather than to reconstruct a prehistoric time and to show the triumphant arrival of humankind as does the latter, the contemporary narrative conducts in the present an uncertain and troubled investigation regarding the significance of prehistoric human traces. Literary texts thus show the discrepancy between the relativity of human history and the permanence of geological time. They underline the need to reconfigure traditional representations of space and question the central position that humankind attributes to himself. Literature then promotes space as a plastic and mobile entity. The garden more precisely appears to be a motive that reconciles human efforts of planning and managing with the disorderly energy of nature. Contemporary literary aesthetics appear then to be determined by an ecopoetic mobility that signals a new empathy with the world
In deze studie wordt het natuurschrijven (nature writing) in de hedendaagse Franssprekende literatuur ondervraagdUitgaand van een corpus van Europese (Chevillard, Michon, Mingarelli, Ollier, Réda, Rouaud, Simon, Tesson, Trassard) en Caribische teksten (Chamoiseau, Glissant, Maximin), bestudeert de auteur hoe de bewustwording van de ecologische crisis de literaire afbeelding van plaats beïnvloedt. Het theoretisch kader wordt deels door de Noord-Amerikaanse ecokritiek verschaft, maar de recente ondervindingen van de Europese ecopoetiek blijken nog beter aangepast aan de Franstalige literatuur. Het onderzoek toont aan dat de ecologische crisis een nieuw wereldbeeld meebrengt dat de traditionele weergave van plaats in vraag stelt. De verkenning van de wildernis leidt bijvoorbeeld niet tot een sublimering van het natuurlandschap, maar de ontdekkingen van de reiziger blijven beperkt tot een gedempt subliem, een tijdelijke gebeurtenis die op elk ogenblik onderbroken kan worden. Het prehistorisch verhaal vernieuwt evenzeer de literaire structuren van de traditionele prehistorische roman. Daar waar deze laatste de prehistorische tijd getrouw weergeeft en de triomf van de mensheid in beeld brengt, vertelt het prehistorische verhaal veeleer een twijfelende en angstig zoektocht omtrent de prehistorische sporen van de mensheid in het landschap. De relatieve historische tijd van de mens contrasteert zo met de ononderbroken eeuwigheid van de geologische tijd. Wat de literatuur dan naar voor brengt, is de nood om de bestaande verwoordingen van ruimtegevoel te herzien en om de mens te doen afzien van de centrale plaats die hij zich gewoonlijk toekent. Plaats is dan, zoals de teksten aantonen, een plastisch en mobiel gegeven. Zo blijkt de tuin een plek te zijn die de menselijke zin voor ordening en vormgeving verzoent met de ontembare energie van de natuur. De esthetische weergave van plaats in de hedendaagse literatuur beantwoordt zo aan een ecopoëtische beweeglijkheid als teken van een vernieuwde overeenstemming met de wereld

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Liste, Erika. "Orders of Geo-Kinetic Manifestation in Ivan Doig´s The Sea Runners." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-86913.

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This phenomenological study presents a map of spatial forces in Ivan Doig’s The Sea Runners. The investigation calls attention to forms of space-experience that come across as a sense of embeddedness in environment. Events, places, feelings, and moods materialize as being nested within greater events and places that are likewise nested in even larger ones. The study shows that experience, place, memory, hope, and narrative have nested structures. The embedding of narrated realities within larger realities is identified as a mode of organization central to the text’s complexity. Even the smallest acts, events, moods, and feelings are set within larger ones with greater scope, reach, or extension. The literary force of The Sea Runners is made possible by a sustained presentation of complexly interlocking orders of embedding. These orders are co-ordinated and synchronized in terms of movement. The study shows how kinetic systems of circulation, vanishing, encircling, and transformation overlap and reinforce each other so as to create a comprehensive co-ordination effect that colours the presentation of landscape and travel. Movement is highlighted in the essay as a factor that makes it possible for these kinetic structures to be fused in various patterns of co-ordination. In The Sea Runners, place and motion complexly combine to shape the narrated flow of lived experience. In its various orders of fluctuation, space-experience flows in intimate association with life-feeling and movement-sensation. Certain basic kinetic categories are delineated as being at the heart of the text’s overall structure. The study brings its findings to a conclusion by discussing these kinetic categories of lived space as running parallel to categories of lived temporality.

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Reig, Alejandro. "When the forest world is not wide enough we open up many clearings : the making of landscape, place and people among the Shitari Yanomami of the upper Ocamo basin, Venezuela." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669819.

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Whitmore, Alice Georgina. "A landscape study of medieval Icelandic assembly places." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283941.

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Rader, Julianne. "Squares : a network of places." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1495.

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Rejeb, Bouzgarrou Asma. "Analyse des formes morpho-fonctionnelles urbaines : mise en place d'un indicateur de mutations paysagères de la ville de Monastir entre 1956 et 2013." Thesis, Brest, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BRES0004/document.

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Le paysage urbain contemporain tunisien, caractérisé par une forte hétérogénéité paysagère s’interroge quant aux facteurs de son émergence. La ville de Monastir en constitue un bon exemple d’analyse des transformations urbaines. Elle se caractérise, notamment, par un taux d’urbanisation élevée de 100% et une croissance différentielle dans le temps et dans l’espace. Cette recherche s’intègre dans les domaines de l’architecture, de l’urbanisme, de la syntaxe spatiale et de la planification territoriale. Elle s’interroge sur l’évolution du paysage urbain de la commune de Monastir (de 1956 à 2013). Le but est de chercher des indicateurs de visibilité quant à la dynamique de la commune dans son contexte d’hétérogénéité morpho-fonctionnelle. Ce travail a entrepris une logique progressive d’appréhension de l’ensemble de l’environnement urbain et de sa continuité culturelle. La mise en place d’une approche globale de la structure spatiale de la commune de Monastir qui porte, d’une part, sur l’analyse diachronique, et d’autre part, sur l’analyse synchronique, a permis de dégager plusieurs faits de paysages urbains. Ils se matérialisent, notamment, par l’identification de la genèse des centralités diffuses associée à des formes non hiérarchisées socio-spatiales. Ces disparités phénoménologues urbaines nous ont conduit à adapter la syntaxe spatiale pour mieux cerner la réalité de l’environnement de la commune de Monastir dans sa totalité où la médiation paysagère y prédomine
The contemporary Tunisian urban landscape, characterized by a strong heterogeneity, wonders about the factors of its emergence. The city of Monastir is an excellent example of the analysis of urban transformations. This city is characterized, especially, by a high urbanization rate of 100% and differential growth in time and space. This research lies into the fields of architecture, urbanism, space syntax and territorial planning. This work questions the evolution of the urban landscape of the municipality of Monastir from 1956 to 2013. An objective is to search for a series of visibility indices on the city dynamics in its context of morphofunctional heterogeneity. This work undertook a gradual logic of apprehension of the urban environment and its cultural continuity.The establishment of a global approach to the spatial structure of the municipality of Monastir, on the diachronic analysis, and on the synchronic analysis, respectively, allowed us to model several facts of urban landscapes. This materializes, in particular, by identifying the genesis of diffuse centralities associated with non-hierarchical socio-spatial forms. These urban phenomenologists’ disparities have led us to adapt current spatial syntax measures in order to provide a better understanding of the reality of the whole environment of the municipality of Monastir, and where the landscape mediation dominates

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John, Helen Catherine. "Bodies, spirits, and the living landscape : interpreting the Bible in Owamboland, Namibia." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21589.

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This study explores the relationship between Christianity and autochthonous (indigenous, pre-Christian) worldviews and practices amongst the Aandonga of Owamboland, Northern Namibia. Using participant contributions from a series of Contextual Bible Study (CBS) sessions (with groups of men, women, and children), and supplemented by ethnographic contextualisation, it challenges the oft-contended notion that Christian worldviews and practices have erased the significance of African Traditional Religion for Ndonga (or wider Owambo) communities. The enduring significance of autochthonous worldviews and practices is explored using responses to six biblical texts, each of which relates to at least one of three themes: bodies, spirits, and landscapes. The study examines feasting bodies (The Parable of the Wedding Banquet), bleeding bodies (The Haemorrhaging Woman), and possessed bodies (Legion). It considers possession spirits (Legion), natural spirits (the so-called ‘Nature Miracles’), and ancestor spirits (Resurrection appearances). Perspectives on landscapes are highlighted particularly in relation to aspects of the natural environment (the ‘Nature Miracles’) and the locations explored by an itinerant demoniac (Legion). Responses to the texts engender, inter alia, discussions of contemporary perspectives on diviner-healers (oonganga), witchcraft (uulodhi), the homestead (egumbo), burial grounds (omayendo, oompampa), spirits (iiluli, oompwidhuli), ancestors (aathithi), material agency (for example, apotropaic amulets), and the ‘traditional’ wedding (ohango). Having analysed the ways in which autochthonous worldviews informed participants’ interpretations of the particular texts considered (Matthew 22:1-14 & Luke 14:7-11; Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:26-39; Mark 4:35-41 & 6:45-52; Luke 24), each set of interpretations is brought into conversation with professional biblical scholarship. The study therefore highlights the ways in which these grassroots, ‘contextual’ interpretations might nuance New Testament interpretations returned by the Academy, particularly by highlighting the highly contextual nature of the latter.

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Ferreira, Carolina Peixoto. "Percepção Ambiental na Estação Ecológica de Jureia - Itatins." Universidade de São Paulo, 2005. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/90/90131/tde-01122008-154923/.

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A Estação Ecológica de Juréia -Itatins (EEJI) é uma unidade de conservação de Proteção Integral. Tal categoria objetiva a preservação da natureza e a realização de pesquisas científicas, sendo a visitação pública consentida apenas quando destinada a atividades educacionais. Embora a lei proíba a ocupação humana no interior das Estações Ecológicas, a EEJI já comportava residentes no ato de sua criação em 1986, que em 1991 totalizavam 1531 pessoas. Conseqüentemente, a EEJI apresenta conflitos sociais decorrentes das restrições provenientes da política ambiental que passou a fazer parte da vida desses moradores. Nesse contexto, esta dissertação de mestrado quer verificar se há correlação entre a existência desses conflitos e as diferentes percepções ambientais de cinco grupos sócio -culturais envolvidos na gestão ambiental deste território comum, quais sejam: (i) os funcionários da administração, (ii) os guarda-parques, (iii) as entidades da sociedade civil organizada, (iv) os pesquisadores e (v) os moradores. Por intermédio de entrevistas de questões abertas e de observações indiretas feitas em campo sobre as relações humanas e suas interações com o espaço, analisaram-se os significados, as atitudes e as valorações desses grupos diante do ambiente natural e construído da EEJI e identificaram-se as suas expectativas em relação à gestão ambiental desta unidade de conservação. Os resultados da pesquisa indicaram que as diferentes percepções ambientais de fato estão atreladas aos conflitos, mas também destacaram vários pontos de convergência nessas alteridades perceptivas. Há abertura a uma gestão mais democrática que concilie a conservação das riquezas naturais e culturais da Estação. Existe a percepção de que a centralização do poder nas mãos do Órgão Público responsável pela EEJI apresenta uma maior probabilidade de ocorrência de conflitos. A ordem inversa, que contemple e conheça as dinâmicas sociais e ambientais do lugar e que assegure a participação dos grupos envolvidos, é reconhecida pelos entrevistados como um caminho mais eficaz e justo para a resolução desses impasses. Nesse sentido, o estudo de percepção ambiental, mostra-se como uma importante ferramenta política, uma vez que revela e contextualiza a realidade local, fornecendo subsídios ao planejamento e à gestão, evitando ou minimizando os conflitos provenientes de ações incoerentes com as realidades. Conceitos geográficos como espaço, paisagem, território e lugar amparam as discussões realizadas neste estudo.
The Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins (EEJI) is a fully protected conservation unit. Such category aims to preserve nature and the fulfillment of scientific researches, being public visitation consented only for educational purposes. In spite of the fact that the law prohibits human occupation in such units, when EEJI was set up in 1986 it already had some residents, summing up to 1,531 people in 1991. Consequently the EEJI presents social conflicts as a result of the restrictions proceeding from the environmental policy which started to integrate the life of those people. In this context, this master essay wants to verify if there is a correlation between the existence of these conflicts and the different environmental perceptions of the five socio-cultural groups involved in the environmental management of this commonplace territory, known as: (i) the administration staff, (ii) park keepers , (iii) the entities of the organized civilian society, (iv) the researchers, and (v) the residents. Through open questioning interviews and indirect observations made in the field about the human relations and their interactions with the space, an analysis was made of the meanings, the attitudes and the value judgments of these groups concerning both the natural and constructed environments in the EEJI. Their expectations in relation to the environmental management of this conservation unit were also identified. The results of this research not only indicated that the different environmental perceptions are in fact bound by the conflicts but also pointed out several convergence points in these perceptual alterities. There is openness to a more democratic management that conciliates the conservation of natural and cultural wealth of the EEJI. There is the perception that the power concentrated in the hands of the Governmental Department responsible for EEJI presents a greater chance of conflicts taking place. The reverse order, that contemplates and knows the social and environmental dynamics of the place and that assures the participation of the groups involved is recognized by the interviewees as a fairer and more efficient way of settling the impasse. In this sense, the study of the environmental perception shows itself as an important political tool, once it reveals and contextualizes the local reality, supplying subsidies to the planning and managing, avoiding or minimizing the conflicts that arise from the incoherent actions taken. Geographical concepts of space, landscape, territory and place support the arguments accomplished in this study.

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Withrow, Leigh Ann. "Inspirational Journey: People and Places." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1898.

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Margeson, Scott (Scott Cedric). "Programmable places : mobile games for improving public space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111390.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-58).
The public realm is an important element of any city. Urban design theorists like Allan Jacobs have described in detail how public spaces can serve city inhabitants with physical comfort and social amenities. Meanwhile, urban political theorists like Henri LeFebvre have pointed out that public space is a crucial platform for the establishment of a democratic and equitable public sphere. What happens to these functions when physical public space is overlaid by a virtual dimension accessible only through digital devices? The huge popularity of Pokemon Go, a mobile smartphone game released in 2016, shows how significantly an urban place can be changed by a digital game. At that time, a flood of news reports and anecdotes from the US and around the world described a sudden army of urban explorers filling previously underutilized parks and having serendipitous encounters with friends and strangers. This thesis explores in detail how the physical and political functions of urban public space were impacted by the release of Pokemon Go. This is important in order for urban planners and public officials to fully understand the positive and negative implications of virtual worlds that interact with the "real" world, and may be widespread in the future. Performing a survey of public-space-related behaviors and attitudes among Pokemon Go players, this research set out to test whether Pokemon Go helped to further the environmental and political functions of public space. The results show that Pokemon Go's effects vary considerably depending on the specific location and on the attitude of the individual. Nevertheless, it is shown that Pokemon Go's release caused significant positive and negative changes in peoples' use of public space, with a particularly pronounced effect on players. Furthermore, deliberate interventions using the game have the potential to make cities more equitable and their citizens more engaged.
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Pinto, Flávia Alexandra Pereira. "ESPAÇO E IDENTIDADE: a percepção da paisagem na produção literária de José Saramago." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2012. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/23.

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This thesis aims to study the primordial identities of the characters from the configurations of space and perception of the landscape in the story titled The Tale of the unknown island (1998) and the novel Blindness (1995), by José Saramago. This analysis promotes a dialogue between Literature, Cultural Studies and Cultural Geography Humanist. To this end, the research points to the need to reflect on the concepts of identity, space, place and landscape, from the contributions of cultural studies and geography Cultural Humanist, respectively, which allows to analyze how the constitution of identities takes place in geographical space, according to the experience and perception of the characters, and understand the representations of the landscape by the author and his relationship with the dilemmas in contemporary man. It is in this light it is intended to situate the work of José Saramago, Portuguese writer who seeks consistency with the reality of his country and of the contemporary world, which depicts a man in search of finding a world that often does not allow the meeting can not even same.
Estudo das identidades das personagens a partir das configurações de espaço e da percepção da paisagem no conto intitulado O conto da ilha desconhecida (1998) e no romance Ensaio sobre a cegueira (1995), de José Saramago. Tal análise promove um diálogo entre a Literatura, os Estudos Culturais e a Geografia Humanista Cultural. Para tanto, a pesquisa aponta para a necessidade de se refletir sobre os conceitos de identidade, espaço, lugar e paisagem, a partir das contribuições da Geografia Humanista Cultural e dos Estudos Culturais, respectivamente, o que possibilita analisar como a constituição das identidades se processa no espaço geográfico, segundo a experiência e percepção das personagens, além de compreender as representações da paisagem construídas pelo autor e sua relação com os dilemas vividos pelo homem na contemporaneidade. É sob essa ótica que se pretende situar a obra de José Saramago, escritor português que busca compreender a realidade de seu país e do mundo contemporâneo, que retrata um sujeito na busca de se encontrar num mundo que muitas vezes não permite o encontro nem consigo mesmo.

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Fan, Junchuan. "Modeling space-time activities and places for a smart space —a semantic approach." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5752.

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The rapid advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) has dramatically changed the way people conduct daily activities. One of the reasons for such advances is the pervasiveness of location-aware devices, and people’s ability to publish and receive information about their surrounding environment. The organization, integration, and analysis of these crowdsensed geographic information is an important task for GIScience research, especially for better understanding place characteristics as well as human activities and movement dynamics in different spaces. In this dissertation research, a semantic modeling and analytic framework based on semantic web technologies is designed to handle information related with human space-time activities (e.g., information about human activities, movement, and surrounding places) for a smart space. Domain ontology for space-time activities and places that captures the essential entities in a spatial domain, and the relationships among them. Based on the developed domain ontology, a Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model is proposed that integrates spatial, temporal and semantic dimensions of space-time activities and places. Three different types of scheduled space-time activities (SXTF, SFTX, SXTX) and their potential spatiotemporal interactions are formalized with OWL and SWRL rules. Using a university campus as an example spatial domain, a RDF knowledgebase is created that integrates scheduled course activities and tweet activities in the campus area. Human movement dynamics for the campus area is analyzed from spatial, temporal, and people’s perspectives using semantic query approach. The ontological knowledge in RDF knowledgebase is further fused with place affordance knowledge learned through training deep learning model on place review data. The integration of place affordance knowledge with people’s intended activities allows the semantic analytic framework to make more personalized location recommendations for people’s daily activities.

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Mews, Gregor Helmut. "Producing spaces, changing places : The role of play." Thesis, University of Canberra, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199894/8/50176183_SHOTZ_Thesis.pdf.

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Public spaces in cities offer a diversity of experiences, as well as the possibility to produce a variety of spaces. In the pursuit of the increased liveability of cities, these spaces are subject to targeted design interventions that are often based on instrumental functions. However, non-instrumental and informal encounters among strangers in urban life account for the dominant type of human social interactions. Arguably, play, as a type of informal and non-instrumental activity, can reveal the potential held by public spaces. Stevens’ (2007) research on ‘The Ludic City’ provides the theoretical foundation for the urban analysis of public space through play as an activity in comparison to established public life studies. This thesis fills a gap around the empirical application of play in public spaces to facilitate the understanding of public spaces through an activity as a form of spatial practice that makes up part of people’s everyday lives in urban core areas. The aim of the thesis is to develop and test a novel framework, labelled as PLAY framework, which allows researchers to comprehensively understand public spaces in a different way. Thus, the present thesis argues that the PLAY framework reveals certain qualities and dynamics in public spaces that are produced by play activities. The thesis uses two case study sites: Canberra, Australia and Potsdam, Germany. After testing and refinement of the PLAY framework, it will be compared to another public space study in Canberra, which uses established methods without an articulated focus on play. The case study in Potsdam functions as a validation case of the PLAY framework, allowing its potential for replicability in an intercultural context to be investigated. The thesis interrogates three sets of data:

1) data obtained through observational research in Garema Place, Canberra, derived from established methods;

2) data collected via mixed methods relating to the PLAY framework in the same location in Canberra, and;

3) data collected via this same PLAY framework in Potsdam, Germany.

The discussion formulates a response to the research questions, including a reflection on related theory regarding both the PLAY framework and the hypothesis. Overall, the data produced lateral findings that open up additional avenues for further research.

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Harambat, Emmanuelle. "Creating places : landscape, memory and identity in the mid-Zambezi valley." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433359.

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Bäckström, Nina. "Situated Commonism in the landscape of Umeå : Claiming and Sharing Places." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108588.

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This is about acting from a situation, a place, its conditions and its actors. It is an attempt to understand the ongoing transformations of the city of Umeå, to grasp how it functions and gain the knowledge to be able to act within and suggest new possible futures. By looking at Umeå and the current situation with the parking lot as an index, a tool, a laboratory, and a possible new common, new ways of building the city while living within it will be suggested. The non place of the parking lot with its singular purpose is part of the mechanisms that makes our city, at the same time it is the effect of this city making and it is also a great place to start a change of such system. The 2.5x5 meters that makes a parking lot is small in comparison with the city, and even more so in comparison with the country or the world, but the size also makes it possible to grasp, touch and inhabit. The smallness makes it seem rather innocent and without much importance but the power lies within its multiplicity. A change within a parking lot might not be much, but the possibility of spreading throughout the city and the world makes the parking lot a very powerful place. Since humans can sometimes be creatures of habit, I believe that it is extremely important to keep on questioning the way we inhabit the world together. Widely spread and accepted habits can start acting like dysfunctional natural laws steering us in a direction we might not have chosen if alternatives were presented to us. By investigating and testing the possibilities of such a bland and unquestioned place as the parking lot, I am looking to find glimpses of alternative ways of making the world while living it.

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Arceño, Mark Anthony. "Changing [Vitivini]Cultures in Ohio, USA, and Alsace, France: An Ethnographic Study of Terroir and the Taste of Place." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1610041972377958.

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Petrakou, Alexandra. "Design for Places of Collaboration." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-15960.

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This thesis reports a research effort that comprises six papers and a cover paper. In essence, the thesis contributes to the understanding of collaborative settings by introducing the perspective of ‘places of collaboration’. This perspective is particularly important when designing computer-based technologies that support collaborative settings. The starting point and overall research aim is to understand people’s efforts to configure their current context for the purposes of collaboration. The cover paper of the thesis comprises a theoretical reflection and examination of four collaborative settings. The settings have been studied in situ through ethnographic inquiry and the results are reported in the six papers enclosed in the thesis. In my theoretical reflection, the concepts of ‘place’, ‘space’ and ‘boundary objects’ are central. The studies revealed that people’s efforts to configure the current context create and reflect a ‘place of collaboration’. In other words, the effort to configure the context results in a practice characterized by an understanding of how to cooperate; a collaborative practice that constitutes a ‘place of collaboration’. During this configuration, the space and the use of materiality in this space are important parts in the creation of a place of collaboration. In addition, people configure collaborative contexts of intersecting practices by creating boundary objects. Boundary objects serve as mediators in a place-making process for the integration of places into a ‘place of collaboration’ for several practices. What is more, the dynamics of a place of collaboration may affect changes in existing modes of working and in computer-based tools that have been introduced into the workplace. The people and practices that constitute the place will in turn re-configure the place of collaboration, including the space and objects available due to the new circumstances. People’s configuration of their current context reveals crucial aspects about the place of collaboration that must be considered also when designing to support this setting. However, this configuration may not necessarily equal efficiency and effectiveness, as evaluated by actors external to this context. The conclusion of this thesis is that future research and design should consider how to support people in their own effort to configure their collaborative context.

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Weilguni, Marina. "Streets, Spaces and Places : Three Pompeiian Movement Axes Analysed." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-153425.

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This study is an urban analysis of Roman Pompeii. It explores the spatial structure of the town just before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 72, and how public space was used for movement, activity and interaction between people. For this, Space Syntax was used, a topological method developed in the 1980s to analyse and plan modern urban contexts, based on the configuration of spatial systems in the axial and in the convex dimension, representing movement and “place” respectively. This method was used to establish an axial map of Pompeii, and to analyse the spatial configuration of three specific movement axes. The axial map strengthens one of the hypotheses discussed in current research about Pompeii, namely that of an older town nucleus in the west part of Pompeii. One part of the thesis is a hypothetical reconstruction of a town-wide traffic system for wheel-borne traffic. The routes were reconstructed to fit the archaeological evidence and meet certain other criteria, and were then independently checked against the axial analysis. As a conclusion, a regulated traffic system could be seen to have existed. A good case was made for how it could have worked. Another part of the thesis deals with the relation between public and interior space. The different types of interior spatial units lining the three chosen movement axes were investigated. The aim was to see how differences in both density of doorways and type of interface gave rise to different urban environments. It was found that commerce and a concomitant dense interface with many street doors largely followed the dimension of movement. The segmentation of public space along the movement axes was explored in order to gain an insight into which segments of space held specific functions, and how how these functions related to dense and less dense interfaces between public and interior space. This segmentation emphasizes official buildings and monuments, which are allowed to disrupt what is otherwise the norm for the permeable interface between exterior and interior space. As a result, the picture of a town with two different types of interaction between people emerges. On the one hand, both fleeting and more intense interaction was facilitated in those spaces where official buildings and monuments were prominent, and where group identity was stressed. On the other hand, the more unregulated interaction largely took place “along the road” between these spaces.

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Brown, Anne L. "The unfolding of geologic space /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11329.

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Shields, Rob. "Images of spaces and places : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235561.

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Cross, Sarah. "Changing places : landscape and mortuary practice in the Irish Middle Bronze Age /." *McMaster only, 2000.

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Stoffle, Richard W., Vlack Kathleen Van, Alex K. Carroll, Fletcher Chmara-Huff, and Aja Martinez. "Yanawant: Paiute Places and Landscape in the Arizona Strip: Presentation of Findings." University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290901.

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Tsouni, Danai. "MusicFootprints: designing interactions for outdoor places." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21394.

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This thesis is a research on how people can create a stronger connection to a place through the music that they are listening to in the specific place. It is about making a place’s identity stronger through social interactions based on people’s musical choices. A theoretical research on social interactions in public places and on the field of urban computing and urban interaction design has contributed to the formation of this thesis. Additionally, a study of design examples that have already been implemented by others and are possessed with common characteristics to the subject, as well as a set of design methodologies in terms of Research through Design process, all lead to the design of the final concept of MusicFootprints service.MusicFootprints focuses on the design quality of “imageability” and on the experimental techniques of the Situationists “dérive and détournement” in order to show that it is the way of interactivity and the position of the system in the outdoor environment that matters. Finally, it leads to the creation of a music-living archive interactive system and opens a discussion about a connection between past, present and future’s peoples’ music choices.

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Moffat, Ben Lawrence. "Traditional places and modernist spaces, regional geography and northwestern landscapes of power in Canada, 1850-1990." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0032/NQ63960.pdf.

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Moore, Peter R. "Photography & rephotography : repetition and places in time." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230713.

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Little research has been undertaken into the rapidly expanding genre of rephotography, where many developments have taken place in response to advancing technology. This thesis is practice-based and incorporates long-term fieldwork in Scotland. The primary rephotographic projects undertaken by practitioners in North America are reviewed and their innovative presentation of material to interpret changes to space and place through time, are assessed and analysed. This study considers the application of some of these practices in a Scottish context. The research sets out to collate and explore repetition through the construction of visual narratives and to better understand the representation of change in people and places over time. The narratives unintentionally formed when places are photographed and rephotographed by multiple practitioners are considered along with the establishment and consequences of iconicity. In a Scottish context, the research identifies three major sources of photographs: the closely aligned nineteenth century tourism-generated catalogues of George Washington Wilson and Valentines of Dundee and the Catalogue of the Countryside of Scotland created by Robert Moyes Adam. The overall picture that emerges from the research is one of opportunity with increasing democratic application, improved accuracy and greater ability to present and share results. Rephotography is known to be a powerful tool for the discernment and measurement of visible change and suggests avenues that might inform the interpretation and utility of repeated images. This research provides an overview from which limitations can be assessed or innovative application devised. While comparative monitoring may remain a primary application, projects – some sentimental and reflective - that explore personal experience, memory and loss can be explored with rephotography.

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Lin, Chun-Nan. "Life space and place landscapes of ethnic groups in rural Taiwan : a study of Wanluan Township." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438391.

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Bowen, Sarah. "Landscape as transitional space in film practice." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2015. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/3781ef60-cbd2-4606-bcd8-e96d5c32630d.

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Haddad, Ma'in Kamal. "Jerash : the landscape, urban space, and architecture." FIU Digital Commons, 1995. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3969.

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The peculiarities of Roman architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture are visible in many of the empire's remaining cities. However, evaluation of the landscapes; and analysis of the urban fabric, spatial compositions, and the concepts and characteristics of its open spaces are missing for Jerash (Gerasa in antiquity) in Jordan. Those missing elements will be discussed in this work, as an example of an urban arrangement that survived through different civilizations in history. To address the characteristics of the exterior spaces in Jerash, a study of the major concepts of planning in Classical Antiquity will be conducted, followed by a comparative analysis of the quality of space and architectural composition in Jerash. Through intensive investigation of data available for the area under study, the historical method used in this paper illustrates the uniqueness of the site's urban morphology and architectural disposition. An analysis will be performed to compare the design composition of the landscape, urban fabric, and open space of Jerash as a provincial Roman city with its existing excavated remains. Such an analysis will provide new information about the role these factors and their relationships played in determining the design layout of the city. Information, such as the relationship between void and solid, space shaping, the ground and ceiling, the composition of city elements, the ancient landscapes, and the relationship between the land and architecture, will be acquired. A computer simulation for a portion of the city will be developed to enable researchers, students and citizens interested in Jordan's past to visualize more clearly what the city looked like in its prime. Such a simulation could result in the revival of the old city of Jerash and help promote its tourism.

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