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Harrigan, Neil Patrick. "An urban intervention : enabling frameworks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66753.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (p. 89).
The relationship between design and the idea of a framework is essentially an attitude about ordering. A framework is an Intellectual proposition which can support a variety ideas, and in doing so, it provides a resolution to these intersections. The framework may be thought of as a mechanism, a jOint, for bringing together these things, that enables other levels of intervention to occur.
by Neil Patrick Harrigan.
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Rochat, Olivier. "An urban intervention in Milan." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03172010-020725/.
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Shovlin, Natalie. "ReVITALize urban intervention in Akron's Highland Square /." Connect to resource, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32130.
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Green, Danny. "West End 2000 : urban design analysis and intervention." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23800.
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Gallagher, Richard. "Contextus: A Modern Intervention in the Urban Fabric." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34586.
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The word "context" originates in "contextus", which is Latin for "weaving." An architectural question arises as to how a building can so integrate itself with a community that is it truly woven into the urban fabric.
The Shaw Neighborhood branch of the District of Columbia Public Library system closed in 2004. The building at the intersection of 7th Street and Rhode Island Avenue could no longer serve the needs of the community, and shall be replaced by a new facility on the same site. What are the needs of the community that should be addressed, and by what methods? As a civic building, what role will the new library play beyond that of a place to find books? What are the contexts that the new architecture will confront, and how does this building transcend the contexts of the present to endure as something equally valuable in the future?Master of Architecture
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Sentelle, Julie A. "A multicomponent behavioral intervention for an urban classroom." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1061358241.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 136 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Antoinette Miranda, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-125).
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Lewin, Anya Adele. "Performing a practice : narrative • translation • live installation • urban intervention." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1136.
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This is a practice based PhD which follows several different lines of inquiry in order to pursue the ideas and territories which the practical works themselves lead to rather than imposing a question which the practical work had to speak to. The practical works ore as much a port of the submission as the text and each chapter includes a DVD with either the work, or if it was site specific, the documentation. The text never seeks to explain the work but to expand and contextualise it. Although each chapter of the document is specific to a particular inquiry - mistranslation through subtitling, representations of the self through performance, art in public space, and artist-run exhibition initiatives, there are also threads that run throughout. Questions of identity can be read into all the work whether it be in the costumed performance or through questions about the identity of on artist or on audience within particular systems of distribution and in education. Although some of the work has been shown in a traditional gallery setting there is a concern for alternative modalities for presenting art and much of the work is situational and responsive to opportunity. This PhD is really on examination of how an artist thinks through practice and in the end I hove sought to approach areas of interest and to open up questions without too much concern for finding closure in answers.
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Latim, O. Timothy. "The plant project : an urban agricultural intervention in Marabastad." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45291.
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The dissertation investigates the notion of resilience in the urban environment. The potential for architecture to adapt to the changing contexts. The study focuses on regenerating decayed urban environments using a relationship between architecture and the landscape.Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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O'Brien, Michael Thomas. "Natural remnants in urban environments : a Marott Park design intervention." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1230605.
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The processes by which urban areas come to be and evolve create outdoor spaces that experience different uses and have different characteristics over a period of time. For example, a space previously used for industrial purposes may presently be used as a community park. In some cases, a significant area of land may become a kind of leftover or remnant space whose uses are unclear, undefined, or unprogrammed, but exhibits natural characteristics. The purpose of this study is to utilize one of these natural remnants, Marott Park, in the cultural arts district of Broad Ripple in Indianapolis, Indiana as the basis for a design effort that provides access to the site while retaining both its site-specific and contextual characteristics. The intent of this effort is to enhance the community/pedestrian recreational, educational, and cultural experience through a detailed design for a portion of Marott Park. A set of recommendations also addresses the potential for connections between the site and other features such as existing open space, schools, and cultural features in the Indianapolis area.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Meadows, Emily Amiah. "Behavioral and Academic Outcomes Following Implementation of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in an Urban Public School." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1540982942450755.
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Lesh, Jennifer J. "Response to intervention| Beliefs, practices, and skills in urban secondary staff." Thesis, Barry University - Adrian Dominican School of Education, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3571738.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary school staff’s beliefs, practices, and skills concerning Response to Intervention (RtI), now known as multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). The majority of research in RtI/MTSS has focused on the elementary level; however, little research has addressed its implementation at the secondary level. Using an exploratory mixed method design, this study explored the beliefs and perceptions of over 300 secondary school staff currently implementing RtI/MTSS in a large urban district in south Florida. The first phase, a quantitative research design, used three surveys developed and vetted by the Florida Statewide Problem Solving and Response to Intervention Project. The surveys assessed the RtI/MTSS beliefs of four secondary school groups: administrators, professional support staff, general education and special education teachers, and measured their perceptions about their RtI/MTSS skills and practices. The second phase of the study utilized a qualitative design that included four homogeneous focus groups to address in depth the issues that had emerged in the quantitative survey phase. In order to reduce the possibility of Type I error, only statistically significant findings at p <.001 were reported as there were multiple tests of significance conducted. MANOVA results showed that secondary special education teachers and administrators had significantly higher RtI/MTSS beliefs and perceptions of their RtI/MTSS skills than the other two groups, while secondary general education teachers had the lowest beliefs and perceptions about their RtI/MTSS skills. There were no significant differences in perceptions of practices among the four groups of participants. Major themes that emerged from the focus groups included the need for reorganization of urban secondary school structure, for extensive and intensive professional development, for authentic collaboration to build trust, for delineation of role clarity, and for improved knowledge of the RtI/MTSS framework.
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Hanmer, Hugh James. "Unintended consequences : how human intervention affects the ecology of urban birds." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/74256/.
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Urbanisation is an ever-growing threat to global wildlife. Nevertheless, urban areas around the world hold significant wild bird populations and urban birds provide a key connection between people and wildlife. Many people provide supplementary resources, such as food and nesting sites. However, even apparently beneficial actions may have unintended negative consequences. This work explores some of these direct and indirect effects. Grey Squirrels Sciurus carolinensis are a widespread, introduced species in the UK, acting both as a competitor for resources with birds and predator of their nests. When present, Grey Squirrels effectively excluded birds from supplementary feeding stations. Allowing them unrestricted access both supports their energy requirements and reduces its availability to target taxa, through both behavioural exclusion and food consumption. In addition, nest predation was higher in artificial nests adjacent to filled bird feeders which were frequented by potential nest predators and the exclusion of these predators did not significantly reduce nest predation. Providing point attractants during the breeding season may therefore depress local urban bird breeding success in addition to directly supporting predator/competitor populations. Garden supplementary feeding stations may also represent a threat to wild bird and human health through pathogen transmission. Bacterial communities were found to differ between two bird feeder types but there was little association between feeder usage by animals and bacterial load or pathogen presence in a typical UK suburban garden bird-feeding setting. Nest boxes are commonly provided for cavity nesting urban birds as an additional supplementary resource. Nest box using Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus and Great Tits Parus major differed in their use of anthropogenic material. Anthropogenic nest material was associated with lower arthropod diversity and ectoparasite predator abundance but higher ectoparasite loads. Higher arthropod diversity was linked to lower flea numbers, implying more complex arthropod communities depressed ectoparasite abundance though no direct link was found between these factors with breeding success. Domestic cats Felis catus are the most abundant predator in many urban ecosystems. Cat home ranges varied with level of urbanisation and they ranged significantly further during the night. To reduce the probability of Domestic Cats entering local protected areas a management zone of 300-400m from the nearest housing was estimated to be of management value and must be adjusted to the local landscape to ensure effectiveness. Despite the various negative effects highlighted in this thesis, the findings suggest that many of them can be mitigated, to ensure that our best intentions do effectively benefit urban birds.
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Jankiewicz, Phillip Michael. "In Search of Forms in the Design of an Urban Intervention." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83458.
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Urban Interventions are too often regarded by long-time inhabitants of city neighborhoods as a means to displace them from their homes to make room for expensive chain stores and exclusive residential buildings - gentrification. This view is unfortunately correct more often than not.
An intervention should instead aim to improve the physical environment, public space. It will allow equal access to all residents. The street will shift from automobile centered to people-centered. The introduction of vegetation to the urban environment in an intervention not only improves air and water quality and reduces urban heat, but offers long lasting positive effects on the general well-being of residents by providing psychological relief.
The forms that shape this urban intervention will take the above mentioned items into consideration, and in addition possess qualities that spur interactions that shape memory of the place. Undulations, extrusions that provide shade and shelter, bridging features - allow an urban scene to unfold. Careful placement of vertical planes will provide a sense of enclosure and a place for respite from the hectic activity beyond.Master of Architecture
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Brinda, Amy. "The effectiveness of the Scott Foresman reading intervention with urban kindergarten students identified by Dibels as needing intervention." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1412938236.
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Ritter, John. "Infrastructure, Intervention, and ConnectivityExploring Urban Architecture through the Integration of Infrastructure and LandscapeCincinnati's Central Parkway." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377872420.
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André, Carminda Mendes. "O teatro pós-dramático na escola." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-05062007-092024/.
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Com a publicação da Lei Nº9.394/96, que transforma as atividades de artes em área de conhecimento no currículo escolar, surge a necessidade de se pensar um ensino de teatro mais afinado às condições da cultura na contemporaneidade. Esta pesquisa teórico-prática, de cunho artístico-educacional, trata de uma possível maneira de articular certa tendência teatral a discursos pedagógicos, levando em consideração o contexto da escola pública brasileira. Enfatiza a importância de se pensar um ensino que possa ser exercido para além da sala de aula, interagindo no ambiente, fazendo da atividade teatral também uma ação cultural. O trabalho propõe que, no campo do ensino do teatro, as metodologias adotadas ainda estão presas a modelos estéticos que se mostram cada vez mais insuficientes para enfrentar as constantes mudanças processadas no contexto cultural, principalmente naquilo que diz respeito às questões da recepção. O modo proposto para o enfrentamento de tal contexto é o de tornar as artes aliadas, mas independentes, dos discursos pedagógicos. Dessa maneira, acredita-se que os processos artísticos possam tornar-se também educacionais, proporcionando aos participantes a experiência de mudar o valor das coisas. Propõe-se ainda uma atitude docente que se diferencia de uma simples metodologia por suas finalidades; enquanto nessa trabalha-se a partir de um projeto, com diagnósticos e um objeto a ser alcançado, a atitude aqui proposta não sistematiza previamente, é uma ação que somente tem valor pelo efeito que provoca: o de mudar o curso do sentido daquilo em que atua. Com base em algumas referências teóricas, como Foucault, Lyotard e De Certeau, a tese indica um modo de pensar o ensino que enfatiza uma abordagem do presente que pode transformar o teatro em uma atuação nesse presente, no espaço da escola e no ensino de arte. Tal atitude pode ser observada nas proposições artísticas filiadas às ações do happening, da performance e das intervenções urbanas que, em conjunto, formam o que aqui é denominado teatro pós-drámatico.With the publication of the law Nº9.394/96 in Brazil, which one transforms artistic activities in knowledge area of the school curriculum, appears the necessity of thinking about a theater learning accordingly with the contemporary culture. This research theoretical-practical, in essence artistic-educational, look for a way of articulate a specific theater tendency with the pedagogical speech, considering for this the context of Brazilian public school. Emphasize the importance of thinking over a learning that can be done beyond the classroom, interacting with the social environment and making this theater activity also a cultural action. This work proposes, in the field of theater learning, that the adopted methodologies are still arrested to esthetic models, which show themselves each time more insufficient to face the constant changes processed in the cultural context; mainly about the message receiving questions. The way proposed to face this context is to make the arts allied, but independents from the pedagogical speeches. In this way, we believe that the artistic processes could be educational too, providing to the participants the experience of change the value of the things. Still proposes a teaching attitude that is different from a simple methodology by their objectives; while in this we work starting from a project, with diagnostics and a goal to be reached, here the proposed attitude do not systematizes previously, because it is an action that only have value by the effect it causes: the change of the path of the meaning from that is acting over. Well-grounded in some theoretical references, as Foucault, Lyotard and De Certeau, the thesis indicates a way of thinking about a teaching that emphasizes an approach to the present that can transform theater in an acting in this present, in the school space and in the art teaching. This attitude can be observed in the artistic proposals linked to the action of happening, of performance and of urban intervention that, together, form what we call here as post-dramatic theater.
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Sharma, Jyoti P. "Colonial intervention and urban transformation : a case study of Shahjahanabad/Old Delhi." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4916.
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This study addresses issues that pertain to the urban transformation of the builtenvironment of a pre-colonial city of the Indian sub continent following British occupation. The research centres on the city of Shahjahanabad / Old Delhi as the recipient of change that transformed the architecture and urban form of the 17`h century city built by the Mughals to conform to the British vision of urbanism shaped by political needs and belief in the superiority of European civilization. The study extends the past scholarship on the city by presenting a total picture of Shahjahanabad / Old Delhi's built-environment and the transformation of its urban form at macro and micro levels as one culture made way for the next. The study acknowledges the presence of political considerations, both in their direct manifestation and as an undercurrent, in all architectural interventions, given the colonial relationship between the city and its British occupants. The Mutiny was the fulcrum about which two architecturally distinct approaches towards addressing the city's urban form can be discerned. The year 1911, when the politically significant decision to transfer the capital of British India to Delhi was announced, also had a bearing on the relationship between the British and the city. As the British attention was diverted towards building New Delhi interventions in the older city, now referred to as Old Delhi, were directed to make it a presentable neighbour of New Delhi. The study explores how British architecture, planning and urban design inputs contributed towards the creation of a British identity, in the backdrop of the political climate, by transforming the urban landscape of 17th century Shahjahanabad from the early I 9th century to the early 20th century. It is concluded that the degree of interventions made in the built-environment of Shahjahanabad / Old Delhi was the outcome of contemporaneous political developments. The interventions were directed to make Shahjahanabad / Old Delhi habitable for the resident European community and to create a British identity. The study draws attention to the difference in the pre-Mutiny and post- Mutiny architectural scenario as well as to the post-1911 neglect of the city. The following themes are scrutinised in a chronological sequence: (i) the development of the built-environment of Shahjahanabad under the Mughals, from Emperor Shahjahan and his successors, till its British occupation, (ii) the British response to Delhi's Mughal institutions and built-form types as rulers of the city and subsequent introduction of European institutions to forge their own identity in an alien cultural milieu. This is discussed as two distinct sets of reactions underpinned by the Mutiny, as in pre-Mutiny and post-Mutiny scenarios, (iii) the contributions of the institution of the durbar (court) with its transient trappings of ceremony, festivity and cardboard architecture as harbingers of a permanent identity, (iv) the building of a new capital as a symbol of the permanence of British Raj (rule) and the concomitant diversion of attention to the New Delhi project leading to the neglect of Shahjahanabad / Old Delhi. The outcomes of this research, based on the interpretation and description of empirical data and documentary sources, are presented in two parts. Part-I builds the picture of the city at the macro level as it traces the evolution of the builtenvironment of the city as a whole. Part-II delves into the city fabric to present the micro level architectural scenario as it examines case studies of various built-form precincts whose urban form was transformed following British intervention.
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Higgins, Averill Orla. "One Urban School's Implementation of a Systemic Response-to-Intervention (RTI) Framework." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3772.
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Thesis advisor: David ScanlonSchool districts have been attempting to implement the response-to-intervention (RTI) framework in an effort both to comply with federal legislation (i.e., IDEA 2004) and to improve teaching for all students. Extant research on this framework has focused on exploring assessment practices across tiers and the efficacy of specific interventions, providing an overly simplistic view of RTI and overlooking the complexities involved in sustainable school-wide implementation. In September 2010, a large urban school district in the eastern United States began implementation of a reform effort premised on the RTI framework that was intended to provide a systematic, research-based, and collaborative framework for teaching all students. Drawing on a theoretical orientation that situates reform as a co-constructed process (Datnow, Hubbard, and Mehan, 1998), this qualitative single case study explored how educators at one urban K-8 school interpreted and implemented a district reform effort premised on the RTI framework. This research employed a qualitative case study approach, utilizing interviews, observations and document analysis, to: a) chronicle the sequence of events and process of decision-making in the school's development of RTI; b) explore factors supporting and hindering implementation; and c) understand how school staff responded to the implementation. Findings revealed that although the school adopted the model developed by the district, its implementation at the school, and particularly across grade levels, reflected a co-constructed and evolving approach shaped mainly by the school culture and community, individual teachers' beliefs and practices, and the variable availability and use of technical infrastructures. Results may be useful to school districts and educator preparation programs as they consider how to prepare and support educators in implementing an RTI framework. In particular, several implications emerged related to schools' implementation of RTI: a) self-assessment is critical to promoting quality, fidelity and sustainability; b) school leadership should share power and encourage co-construction; c) resources matter; d) elementary and middle school implementation must occur differently; e) culture and beliefs matter; and f) RTI implementation must seriously attend to issues of educational equity
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction
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Steyer, Matthew August. "Planning across distance : remote housing and government intervention in Australia's Northern Territory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73827.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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At the time of its inception in 2008, the Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP) was the largest indigenous housing program in Australia's history. SIHIP represented a $672million investment by the Australian and Northern Territory governments to improve housing in 73 remote and widely scattered indigenous communities in the Territory. Emerging at a time when indigenous issues shot to the forefront of national politics, SIHIP was billed as a response to the widespread overcrowding, poor housing quality, and lack of job opportunities that has come to define many remote communities in the Territory. Faltering out of the gate, SIHIP quickly came under criticism and became a symbol of government excess and ineptitude. A review of the program refocused SIHIP, which has since met its housing and employment targets. However, this thesis will demonstrate that these targets do not reflect the overall impact of SIHIP on target communities. This thesis will look at SIHIP in a new light and illustrate that, beneath a seemingly straightforward construction project, are tremendous underlying forces of distance and control. SIHIP's legacy will not be reduced overcrowding and improved housing outcomes, rather, it will be the reshaping and condensing of indigenous settlement patterns and an unprecedented increase in government control over indigenous housing. Not only is it a break with indigenous housing policy over the last 40 years, SIHIP also follows the larger historic pattern of providing housing and services as a means to control indigenous settlement. This thesis will tell the story of SIHIP through the two lenses of distance and control and analyze the role of these forces in shaping SIHIP, its impact on the ground, and its legacy. Through reframing the debate around SIHIP, this thesis will draw broader planning lessons about the challenges of planning across distance and the complex dynamics that influence large, government-driven initiatives. Furthermore, it will illuminate key opportunities that have emerged through SIHIP, many of which have received little public attention. Through this analysis the core assumption of SIHIP is challenged, leaving the question: is housing provision the best way to improve living conditions for Australia's indigenous population?
by Matthew August Steyer.
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Vasquez, Cherrye S. "The perceptions of intervention assistance teams (IATS) in reducing special education referrals in urban elementary schools." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3219.
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This was a quantitative study of 100 educators from various job codes within
the intervention assistance teams (IATs) of 16 schools. This study examined the
perceptions of IAT members of factors impacting referrals to special education.
The results of this study yielded the following as it related to the perceptions
and self-reported behaviors of IAT members in an urban school district:
1. Intervention assistance team members perceived that four factors impacted
referrals: intervention strategies, team contribution, teacher efficacy, and
coping strategies.
2. Analyses of data did not support differences by position among IAT
members in their perceptions of factors impacting referrals as being
dependent on schools. The teachers, administrators, and other (support staff)
in all of the 16 sample schools perceived each factor similarly. 3. IAT members exhibited mixed perceptions concerning their job code duties
as relative to team efficacy.
4. Behaviors of IAT members were inconsistent in making routine visits to the
classroom to observe candidates and inspecting samples of student work
prior to meeting with the IAT and graphing progress and results of IAT.
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Grollman, Lisa Ruth. "Homeless prevention of AFDC families : local housing market dynamics and public intervention strategies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74334.
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Gonçalves, André Vinicius Martinez. "Manifestações e contradições da metrópole de São Paulo no antigo bairro de Santana: a paisagem, o valor da terra, a intervenção urbana e o fenômeno da deterioração urbana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-18062007-150254/.
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Esta dissertação parte da tese que o avanço da Metrópole de São Paulo em direção ao antigo bairro de Santana, em especial, a partir dos anos de 1950, gerou ao espaço geográfico local, uma considerável diversidade espacial, implicando hoje, um mosaico de ealidades, tanto no aspecto de ocupação e uso do solo, como em relação às práticas sócio-espaciais. Essas realidades instauradas em Santana, na perspectiva do presente estudo são refletidas, sobretudo, a partir de duas questões: as intervenções urbanas, uma parcialmente efetivada nos anos de 1970, denominada Plano Cura Piloto de Santana, e outra em curso, intitulada Operação Urbana Vila Maria - Campo de Marte; e o fenômeno da deterioração urbana em Santana, fenômeno este, entendido como uma das contradições geradas a partir da reprodução do espaço urbano sob égide do sistema capitalista.This report based on the thesis that the growth of São Paulo city towards the old neighborhood Santana, mostly from the fifties on brought to the geographical locus a great deal of landscape diversity. Such diversity led the city to look like a huge mosaic composed of so many different realities both regarding land occupation and usage and social visual specially lifestyles. As for the research herein presented, the differences that are established from two issuer: the urban interventions; one partially effective in the seventies called Plano CURA Piloto Santana and another one named Operação Urbana Vila Maria - Campo de Marte, and the phenomenon is know as one of the conceived contradictions from the reproductions of the urban lifestyle the capitalism system.
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Hanket, Jennifer A. "Program Evaluation of the Social Skills Intervention Program with Urban, African-American Kindergartners." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1382972008.
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Aldrete-Haas, José A. "The decline of the Mexican state? : the case of state housing intervention (1917-1988)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13985.
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Kohn, Amy J. (Amy Jennifer). "The struggle for vibrancy : a study of local government intervention in Detroit's inner suburbs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33411.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-138).
Today, many communities located on the periphery of central cities confront traditionally "urban" problems. Detroit's inner suburbs struggle with aging infrastructure, limited governmental capacity, commercial disinvestment, population decline, poverty, failing schools, and racial and ethnic tensions. These challenges are compounded by growing fiscal difficulties fueled by shrinking revenues and increasing costs. This thesis asks what strategies an inner suburban government facing population decline, economic disinvestment, and fiscal constraints can use to retain local vibrancy. Focusing on three inner suburban communities, I describe how metro Detroit local governments are attempting to: redefine their community's identity; provide "good government" for residents; facilitate redevelopment; wage promotional campaigns; engage in inter-jurisdictional collaboration; and attempt annexation. I conclude that local government intervention can be a powerful catalyst for positive change in inner suburbs but that structural constraints limit success.
by Amy J. Kohn.
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Silva, Alan Beserra Toledo da. "Paisagem urbana: frestas, fricções e descaminhos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27159/tde-21022019-144621/.
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Esta dissertação reflete sobre a criação de um conjunto de operações poéticas realizadas no espaço urbano, cujo intuito é problematizar as influências que o \"corpo da cidade\" exerce sobre os corpos de seus habitantes e os processos de subjetivação subsequentes. Tem a cartografia como procedimento investigativo-base, que articula a pesquisa em três modos processuais: 1) o caminhar no espaço urbano de maneira errática, com o objetivo de formular e absorver questões que os múltiplos ambientes suscitam; 2) a produção de intervenções artísticas em espaços públicos, com vistas a interpelar locais e transeuntes, desviando-os da rotina prático-funcional através da abertura de \"frestas sensíveis\" no cotidiano das cidades; 3) produzir deslocamentos das questões do espaço público para espaços privados, por meio de acontecimentos estéticos que utilizam recursos principalmente da fotografia, do vídeo e da performance, para discutir reciprocidades afetivas entre sujeito e paisagem urbana.This dissertation reflects on the creation of a set of poetic operations performed in urban space, whose purpose is to problematize the influences that the \"body of the city\" exerts on the bodies of its inhabitants and the subsequent subjectivation processes. It has the cartography as basic investigative procedure, which articulates research in three procedural modes: 1) walking in urban space in an erratic way, with the objective of formulating and absorbing questions that the multiple environments raise; 2) the production of artistic interventions in public spaces, with a aim of questioning local and passers-by, diverting them from the practical-functional routine by opening \"sensitive gaps\" in the daily life of the cities; 3) to produce shifts from public space issues to private spaces, through aesthetic events, that use resources mainly of photography, video and performance, to discuss affective reciprocities between subject and urban landscape.
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Winicki, Paula. "Development for whom? : an analysis of a rural intervention and its interaction with agricultural policies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79204.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-79).
This thesis examines the means and ends of development by addressing two main questions: 1) How does the Colombian state's neoliberal understanding of development affect the socio economic conditions of small farmers? And 2) How do nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that embrace the neoliberal approach to development interact with local communities in their land struggles? To explore these questions, this thesis focuses on a rural intervention by the organization Entrepreneurial Rural Development (ERD), in the Afro-Colombian correginiento of Las Marías (pseudonyms). I focus on this area because it embodies the contradictions in Colombia's agricultural policies: while government-supported programs such as ERD aim to ignite the social and economic development of small farmers, operating concurrently neoliberal policies curtail it. I first analyze how the ERD depoliticized its intervention, and how at the same time its activities have led to the emergence of new leadership in the community. Moreover, I investigate how socio political conditions within the community have significantly limited the success of the ERD's intended process of shaping the peasants with whom they work as small entrepreneurs. I also consider the extent to which the technologically and culturally oriented approach to the community's issues espoused by many of the organization's workers limited their understanding of the farmers' (already) entrepreneurial behavior. Micro-level interventions such as ERD cannot be studied in isolation. Rather, they need to be set in the context of the macro policies that either hinder or encourage the development of small farmers. In a country such as Colombia, which exhibits highly concentrated land ownership and wealth, I argue that neoliberal restructuring and the forms it has taken in the government's agricultural policies have shown a class bias toward large farmers. This bias has led to exclusionary growth, which undercut both access to land and employment for small farmers. The thesis concludes by outlining reforms to address these structural challenges.
by Paula Winicki.
M.C.P.
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Searson, Aaron. "THE PROSPECT FOR COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION INTO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT POLICY FOR LOW-SKILLED URBAN POPULATIONS." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/69878.
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Urban StudiesM.A.
This case study documents the experience of the Opportunities Industrialization Center of America (OICA) during the transition to and implementation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). It explores the potential of maintaining a community-based workforce development model for low-skilled urban populations in changing policy contexts that rupture existing frameworks linking people to work. Community-based organizations with unique service delivery models, including OICA, were given less direct funding and influence in workforce development provision and production under CETA. I explore to what extent the government and OICA promoted community-based leadership in planning and ideal implementation of workforce development for low-skilled populations in this milieu. I analyzed archival data documenting correspondence between OICA and government and within OICA from the enactment of CETA in 1973 through 1977. OICA was instrumental in adopting context-specific orientations towards government and other service providers to maintain a voice and to garner funding, and also had internal strife over how to expand and prioritize community input within CETA's regulations. More consistent funding and a sincere commitment to community representation in workforce development provision and production by both the state and organizations like OICA is essential to promoting ideal workforce development for spatially and economically isolated urban communities. Support for and implementation of rigorous internal evaluation, with participation of all stakeholders, would also improve processes and outcomes for an organization looking to both promote community empowerment and expand nationally.
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Funderburk, Joshua A. "Intervention of Performance: Applications of Parametric Studies on Connective Design in Public Interaction." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617109690521955.
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Näsänen-Gilmore, S. P. K. "Health effect of household fuel pollution on young children in semi-urban and urban areas of Bangladesh." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16692.
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Household fuel pollution from the use of low quality biomass fuels is considered as a risk factor for respiratory tract infections (RTI) in women and children. Inhalation of fuel-derived pulmonary toxins (e.g. particulate matter (PM2.5μm) , and carbon monoxide (CO) can harm the lungs of young children, due to their under-developed immune defences. In Bangladesh acute respiratory infections (ARI) are the leading cause of child mortality (< 5 years of age). This thesis aimed to examine the relationship between RTI and household fuel pollution exposure using measured pollution data and medical diagnoses. During an 18-month longitudinal health intervention in northern Bangladesh households (n=408) were interviewed (3 times) on cooking/fuel-use practices and child health. Anthropometric data (height/weight) and finger-prick blood samples for analysis of immune status (c-reactive protein, alpha-1-acidglycoprotein (AGP) and albumin) were collected (n=321 < 5 years of age). All unwell children (62.4%) were medically examined. Household pollution levels (particulate matter (PM2.5μm) and carbon monoxide (CO) were monitored for a 24-hour period (n=61). Moderate/ severe RTI was common (24.8%) (youngest child only n=213). Poor child growth (stunted: 43.8%, underweight=66.7%, wasted: 38.4%) and immunity were detected. 98% of the households used inefficient chimneyless mud stoves and low quality biomass fuels (wood, golden, dung). The measured indoor pollution levels exceeded the WHO safety thresholds (PM2.5 μm range: 85 to 3020 μg/m³ CO range: 0-16 ppm) (PM2.5 μm>25 μm/m³, CO>9ppm). Longitudinal multivariate GLM showed that cooking practices were associated with child immune status: haemoglobin levels (F= 1.555, p=NS) were significantly associated with Bihari ethnicity and a fixed stove use (F=3.718 and F=3.716, p<0.05 respectively). Elevated log₁₀-AGP levels were found (F=4.371, p<0.05) in Saidpur in households using a fixed stove (F=4.123, F=3.780, p<0.05). The patterns in child growth z-scores were due to age only (stunting: F=7.413, p<0.01, underweight F=5.787, p<0.05). Interestingly, poorer change score for weight-for-age (F=34.893, p<0.01) was associated with low age and more frequent cooking (F=6.441 and, F=6.553, p<0.05 respectively). Logistic regression (healthy vs. RTI) identified the presence of child by the stove during cooking as the sole risk factor for RTI (absent OR= 0.257, 95% CI: 0.097 - 0.676, p<0.01). Indoor cooking and the use of a fixed stove were associated with low SES. Education may help to reduce behaviours associated with high household fuel pollution exposure via the introduction of simple healthy cooking practices.
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Santos, Rossendo Rodrigues dos. "Ecopoética : o performer e a busca por poéticas de sustentabilidade no ambiente urban." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/147627.
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Essa pesquisa se propõe a refletir sobre o potencial da arte de performance como ferramenta para instaurar poéticas de sustentabilidade no ambiente urbano, atentando para as possíveis contribuições das artes da cena na formação/informação de culturas e estéticas de sustentabilidade, tão necessárias no panorama civilizacional contemporâneo. Considerando o desenvolvimento de três performances realizadas ao longo de 2014 e 2015, em Porto Alegre (Brasil), afirmo a gestualidade do performer como fio condutor na composição de imagens de dissidência, imagens que estabeleçam a quebra da lógica de uso do ambiente urbano. Tais imagens traduzem ações performativas, estabelecendo diálogo com perspectivas da performance arte, da intervenção urbana, da dança e do teatro. As ações foram realizadas em ecossistemas aquáticos urbanos em situação de degradação, em afirmação a um posicionamento poético e político de ativação desses espaços.This essay is ment to be a reflection about some highlights on the performance art's potential as a tool to establish the poetics of sustainability in the urban environment. It is also a post investigation analyses of the possible contributions of the performing arts to the culture construction and to the development of the aesthetics of sustainability, so necessary in the current context of a global civilization crisis. Considering the process of development of three scenic performances during the bienial of 2014 and 2015, in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, it is proposed that the conception of the gesture of the performer can be a conducting wire in the composition of dissent images, that can establish the breakdown of logic in the human conception of life inside urban environments. These images were also a translation of performative actions, establishing dialogues with prospects of performance art, urban intervention, dance and theater. The performances took place at degradated urban aquatic ecosystems that have been left in poor conditions of conservation, considering a poetic and political proposal of bringing these places back to life.
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Crow, Maartje Gezina Seinen. "Police intervention under the Mental Health Act: A comparison of rural and urban approaches." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10106.
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Description of research. This thesis explores how police intervene with clientele signalled as mentally ill, or acting in such a way that the presence of a mental health problem is perceived. Officers were interviewed in rural and urban detachments and forces in neighbouring jurisdictions in Eastern Ontario. All of the officers interviewed were bound by the same legislation and guidelines with respect to mental health and to policing, described in the theoretical framework of this thesis. Rural and urban perceptions are compared to determine differences in the areas explored: available information, general knowledge, descriptions of incidents, causes of disturbed behaviour, police actions, and interactions with community or health authorities to whom clients may be referred for further mental health interventions. Research method. The thesis compares non-directive interview material for differences in and within themes addressed. Seven interviews, all with male officers, are analyzed. Three interviews were conducted in urban stations; four in rural detachments. In both of the compared groups, one officer is a senior officer and all others are constables. The choices of topic, research subject, and other features of the methodology are defended based on feminist and other critical analyses of traditional sociological research. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Mason, Wendy. "Intervention Strategies to Decrease Discipline Issues in an Urban pre-K-8 Public School." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1447.
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Intervention Strategies to Decrease Discipline Issues
in an Urban pre-K-8 Public School
by
Wendy A. Mason
MEd, Walden University, 2005
BA, Kean University, 1979
Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Education
Walden University
October 2015
The educational problem addressed in this study was the lack of empirically grounded evidence of the intervention strategies an urban school in the northeast region of the United States used to decrease school discipline problems. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify, explore, and understand the strategies used by school personnel to decrease discipline problems. The conceptual framework was anchored in social learning and communities of practice theories. The research questions focused on identifying the types of student discipline problems, the strategies developed and deployed to decrease the discipline problems, and the outcomes of the strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 participants: 1 administrator, 10 teachers, and 1 counselor. Archival documents such as incident reports, discipline referral forms, the school's year-end report, and district suspensions reports were also examined for discipline patterns. Data analysis strategies included transcribing interview data, identifying patterns, and data triangulation. Results indicated that disrespect, noncompliant behavior, willful disobedience, fighting, and bullying were major discipline problems at the school. A multiplicity of strategies such as in-school and out-of-school suspension and character education effectively decreased discipline issues. Recommendations include a regular review of prevention strategies to determine which strategies are effective at reducing discipline. Positive social change implications include implementing invention strategies that create safe learning environments for students and staff in which all students can achieve academic success that leads to timely graduation and productive and responsible citizenship in the communities in which students live.
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Burger, Julia. "Health Literacy, its Effect on Emergency Department Utilization, and a Smartphone-based Intervention." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/531766.
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Urban BioethicsM.A.
Health literacy is not only the ability to read, but also the ability of an individual to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions. Over time the concept of health literacy has evolved from considering it a risk factor to be managed to considering it an asset which can be continually built upon. With this in mind health professionals should continue to communicate in simple language, but should also provide their patients with high-quality educational materials and aid them in making the best choices about their health. One way to do this could be with the use of symptom-checking and decision-aiding smartphone apps. In this study, the primary caretakers of children aged 30 months and younger with publicly funded health insurance will be randomized to receive a pediatric symptom-checking smartphone app or a developmental milestone smartphone app. Caretaker health literacy will be measured, and data will be collected on emergency department and primary care office sick visits. It is hypothesized that the use of the pediatric symptom-checking smartphone app will decrease non-urgent visits to the pediatric emergency department.
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Laird, Alexandra Kahnda. "Children who witness their mothers being beaten : the need for child protective services intervention and policies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76015.
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Santos, Margarida Antunes da Silva. "Intervenções cirúrgicas no território e a revitalização urbana das cidades conemporâneas : caso de estudo: Achada de Santo António em Cabo Verde." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7767.
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Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Urbanismo, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitetura.No contexto global da crise estrutural que assistimos, o desenvolvimento urbano, focado nos actores e na criação de oportunidades para a transformação do ambiente construído e a mitigação das alterações climáticas, é proposto numa aproximação às formas de vida quotidiana, pela compreensão dos fenómenos urbanos que ela gera. Baseado nos casos dos países desenvolvidos e na análise crítica do ambiente construído, o objectivo principal é o de reforçar o papel da Intervenção Cirúrgica nas cidades já feitas e introduzir o desafio desta forma de intervir para o caso das cidades com níveis de urbanidade menos desenvolvidos. O caso de estudo da Achada de Santo António, na cidade da Praia em Cabo Verde, está associado a um sistema político fragilizado, apresenta níveis consideráveis de informalidade social, física e económica, e foi alvo de uma acção cirúrgica, integrada nas estratégias do município para combater a segregação social e melhorar a qualidade de vida da população residente. A partir da hipótese de que o desenvolvimento urbano se relaciona tanto com as componentes físicas e sociais do processo de transformação, como com as estratégias e acções de iniciativa bottom-up ou top-down, públicas ou privadas, introduzimos a Intervenção Cirúrgica como catalisador urbano, num duplo papel de estimular e intermediar o desenvolvimento físico e social, com propensão para desbloquear a prosperidade económica local. A revitalização urbana tende a ser uma questão de conteúdo da vida urbana, pela valorização do ambiente construído, integrando estratégias globais de sustentabilidade e tácticas operativas de revitalização, numa relação com maiores impactos sobre a dinâmica da cidade e prosperidade do contexto urbano. Nesse pressuposto as Intervenções Cirúrgicas representam uma resposta criativa à crise global dos valores económicos e sociais, com o desafio de transformar as cidades para as pessoas e adaptar a condição urbana às novas formas contemporâneas de viver.
ABSTRACT: The enigma on the critical crisis of the global environment is focused on the way urban actors catalyse important achievements to the resilience of cities and the mitigation to climate changes by rethinking the global and particularly local concerns on urban matters. Based on developed countries and a critical analysis on the built environment, the main goal is to strengthen the role of Surgical Interventions in contemporary cities, introducing the challenge of urban revitalization in less developed countries, under vulnerable conditions of urbanity. The neighbourhood’s case study in Achada de Santo António, city of Praia in Cape Verde, is associated to a fragile political system and high levels of social, physical and economic informality, and was the focus of a surgical action that took place as one of the municipality strategies to reduce social segregation and improve the residents’ quality of life. By increasing local connectivity and stimulating public participation in the process of local revitalization, Surgical Interventions are considered to be one of the urban catalysts capable to stimulate and intermediate physic, social, internal and external components by carefully integrating the new informal ways of life and potentiating transformation process of the built environment and society regarding collective contexts for the domains of public life on a broader scale or level instigated on the Surgical Intervention. Urban revitalization tend thus to be a matter of content of the built environment, associated to particular ways of relating global strategies and local interventions with larger impacts on the urban dynamics and city context transformation. Surgical Interventions reflect a creative response to the global crisis of economic and social values, with the challenge to transform cities for people and rediscover the urban condition on the contemporary new ways of living.
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Charlesworth, Julie Anne. "Local authority intervention in the local economy : the case of the A1 corridor campaign." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332836.
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Bartalini, Marina Mayumi 1984. "A cidade, a arte e a educação : a experiência das derivas urbanas e sua potencialidade educativa." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/322431.
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Orientadores: Elisa Angotti Kossovitch, Renata Sieiro FernandesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: De que maneira nossa vivência na cidade pode ser menos monótona para gerar experiências significativas que nos façam produzir novos sentidos para seus usos e novas maneiras de habitá-la? Como a arte pode ser usada para nos expressarmos em meio ao caos urbano? De que maneira as experiências na arte, na cidade e na educação, podem interagir entre si, configurando um pensamento em todos estes campos que possam inspirar educadores e artistas em seus processos? A presente pesquisa envereda por possíveis caminhos que levem à reflexão destas perguntas por meio do relato de experiências em diversas cidades por onde passei, relacionando às práticas educativas em espaços de educação não formal situados na cidade de Campinas, São Paulo, especificamente nos bairros Jardim São Marcos e Satélite Íris I. A presente dissertação transcorre por experiências que ora são de mapeamento, que orientam os percursos quanto aos pontos de partidas e chegadas, ora são labirínticas, que visam a desorientação por meio de derivas por caminhos incertos que são feitos para perder-se. Busco a partir do mapa ou labirinto, relacionar as experiências de viagem, de trabalho, de vivências nas cidades onde morei, com proposições de atividades no campo da educação. As derivas, as intervenções urbanas e os mapeamentos foram as práticas utilizadas para potencializar e inspirar processos educativos que levem em conta a cidade como um campo de experimentações e aprendizagens valiosas
Abstract: How our living experience in a city could be less monotonic so that relevant facts enable us to produce new senses, feelungs or even new ways to live in such context? How could art be expressed in such caothic environment? How could the experiences in art, city and education interact together in order to structure thoughts that could inspire educators and artists in their processes? The current research is based on possible alternatives to make people think about such questions through experienced facts in several cities I've lived in and relating them to educational practices in p laces where no formal education happens, for example, Campinas, São Paulo, specifically in boroughs Jardim São Marcos and Satélite Íris I. This essay also goes by experiences that are related either to mapping strategies, which guide the route from start to end, or to labyrinthine strategies, which aim to disorient people by derive to uncertain paths that are build with the purpose to make people feel disoriented. Herewith I seek for the map or labyrinth, taking into consideration, travel, business, living experiences in the cities where I lived, with the proposal for educational activities. Derivé, Urban Intervention and Maps were the chosen practice to potencialize and also inspire educational processes in which the city is regarded as an experiment field and valuable learning experiences
Mestrado
Ciencias Sociais na Educação
Mestra em Educação
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Mello, Ana Paula Chaves. "Elogio à dispersão: o coletivo mesa e os percursos urbanos como uma experiência estético-política na cidade de Fortaleza." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4035.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorEsta dissertação apresenta uma reflexão sobre os processos que levaram os artistas a atuarem em formações grupais e/ou coletivas e os desdobramentos que essas práticas produziram na arte. A partir de diferentes contextos, o estudo analisa algumas concepções sobre grupo e coletivo e em que medida a arte envolve-se em regras e organizações correlativas as que governam as estruturas de uma sociedade. Analisamos a produção dos artistas nos grupos, uns respondendo à lógica mercantil e outros se organizando em torno das questões sociais e políticas dos seus respectivos contextos a fim de produzir diferentes reflexões e intervenções. Ao pensarmos na cidade como território para essa discussão, analisamos o Coletivo Mesa que utiliza como método de trabalho a lógica da dispersão, assumindo a noção de coletivo como ação, movimento, fluxo de entrada e saída de diferentes saberes e concepções no espaço urbano. Apresentamos o projeto Percursos Urbanos que funciona como uma plataforma volante de investigação e convivência que se estrutura a partir de um ônibus comum, um mediador e passageiros que juntos realizam uma partilha de experiências e saberes, lançando novas descobertas e olhares sobre a cidade de Fortaleza/CE. Buscamos ampliar a partir da pesquisa, a possibilidade de incluir na história da cidade, aspectos que não obedeçam somente o caminho traçado pelos monumentos, mas o exercício da flânerie como experiência estética e o discurso como dispositivo mediático
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Castro, Panmela Silva e. "A arte de Anarkia Boladona e outras questões sobre o graffiti." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2013. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6119.
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De caráter político, feminista e autobiográfico, a ideia que conduz esta dissertação é a abordagem do percurso traçado desde a minha infância, passando pela relação problemática com minha mãe, pelas experiências com a pichação, pelo redescobrimento no graffiti, até chegar à produção artística atual, compondo, desta forma, a persona Anarkia Boladona. O processo de pesquisa foi ordenado por visitas, criadas ao acaso, por cidades do globo, onde as diferenças culturais chocam-se de forma a me fazer compreender quem sou, o porquê desta minha construção e como ela se reflete em meu processo artístico. São oito anos completos de graffiti, treze de pichação, quinze como professora e vinte dois de desenho, mas uma vida toda pensando e produzindo arteThis dissertation is driven by political, feminist, and autobiographical ideas. It proposes to address the path I followed since childhood beginning with my problematic relationship with my mother, experimentation with graffiti, and rediscovering graffiti, to my current work as an artist, thus forming the persona Anarkia Boladona. The research process was developed at random by visiting cities around the globe where cultural differences collide in order to understand who I am, why I built this, and how it is reflected in my artistic process. Eight years of graffiti, thirteen years of pichação, fifteen years as a professor, and twenty-two as a drawing teacher, but truly a lifetime of thinking about and producing art
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Yurick, Amanda L. "The effectiveness of an instructional assistant led supplemental early reading intervention with urban kindergarten students." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1154636538.
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Lopes, Domingos Manuel Mendes. "The public lanscape evaluation as a tool for improving urban landscape intervention challenges and constraints." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23454.
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A estrutura verde urbana é fundamental para estabelecer espaços urbanos de
qualidade. A definição de políticas de Ordenamento do Território tem
obrigatoriamente de considerar a valorização da estrutura verde urbana. Com este
trabalho, baseado num caso de estudo, pretende-se refletir e testar metodologias
que permitam envolver o público em geral na avaliação da perceção sobre as
diferentes tipologias de estrutura, retirando o ónus exclusivamente de visões
técnicas de peritos, visando assim a recolha de informação útil a quem define
políticas de Ordenamento do Território. Foram efetuados inquéritos à população da
Lousã avaliando a perceção sobre fotografias representativas das tipologias de
estrutura verde identificadas. Foram detetados os pontos forte e pontos fracos de
todos os contextos em análise, que possibilitam a reflexão do poder público, no
sentido de salvaguardar esta estrutura. Foi feita a reflexão de como pode ser esta
informação útil em contexto de Ordenamento do Território; The public Landscape evaluation as a tool for improving public participation
on Landscape planning: challenges and constraints
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Green urban infrastructure is extremely important to improve the quality urban
spaces. Thus, the definition of land planning policies must necessarily consider the
valuation of this green structure. This thesis, based on a case study, intends to
reflect and test methodologies that allow the participation of the general public to be
in the evaluation of their perception about different typologies of green infrastructure,
removing the burden exclusively from expert technical visions, aiming at the
collection of useful information to those who define land planning policies. Surveys
were carried out in the population of Lousã, evaluating their perception based on
representative photographs of the identified green structure typologies. The
strengths and weaknesses of all contexts under analysis were detected, which allow
a reflection of the public institutions, in the sense of safeguarding this structure. A
consideration was made on how this information can be useful in the context of
Spatial Planning.
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Mitchell, Johanna Kate. "Reconsidering the logic and practice of urban housing intervention: An exploration of urban consolidation policy narratives and their implications for sustainability and equity." Thesis, Curtin University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85188.
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This thesis examines the rhetoric and reality of urban consolidation policy as it is applied in Australia. Focusing on housing innovations implemented in an exemplar sustainable greyfields redevelopment precinct in Fremantle, Western Australia, the research considers the extent to which ‘actually existing’ sustainability and affordability are achieved in practice. The findings reveal the way the current logic and practice of urban housing intervention functions to advance business-as-usual trends and maintain unsustainable and inequitable outcomes.
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Manenzhe, Thiathu Darriyl. "A critical review of the housing policy and the State's intervention in mining towns in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29485.
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Since 2012, there has been increasing government interest in mining towns. This interest was occasioned by the Marikana shooting. This interest, led by the presidency through Inter-ministerial Committee on the Revitalisation of Distressed Mining Towns and Communities has had impact on human settlements. This dissertation provides an overview of the Mining Towns Programme and its evolution, identify some of the major pitfalls and assumptions of the programme, and propose an alternative. It also provides and reflects a sustained critique of the approach of the state in the creation of human settlements and the provision of housing in mining towns. Furthermore, the dissertation attempts to assess the efficacy of human settlements approach to mining towns. In doing this, I argue that despite the increased interest, the approach adopted has fundamental weaknesses. These weaknesses range from the fundamental departure from the original intention and focus of the programme, the over-reliance on the existing but inappropriate human settlements delivery instruments and the ignorance of and the weakened role of local government in the programme. In its reliance on the existing human settlements delivery instruments, the implementation and delivery of houses has not addressed the problems faced by mineworkers. Moreover, the state has also overlooked the deep historical challenges of mining towns, both in terms of context and practice and this has undermined the effective implementation of the programme. There are also other institutional and socioeconomic problems associated with mining towns and this has not been properly assessed. The dissertation critically evaluates the approach and the shortcomings of the Mining Towns Programme against these challenges and posits some alternatives.
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Melo, José Arnaldo Fonseca de. "Cidade&Saúde." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-01072014-113510/.
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A tese apresenta e analisa os conteúdos programáticos e a trajetória administrativa, entre 2005 e 2013, do projeto urbanístico Nova Luz, elaborado pela Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo para o antigo bairro de Santa Ifigênia, localizado no centro da cidade. Duas hipóteses principais e complementares são aqui verificadas. A primeira insere o projeto na tradição das intervenções saneadoras e embelezadoras do urbanismo moderno, tipificadas pelas intervenções de Haussmann na Paris da segunda metade do século XIX ou no Rio de Janeiro e em São Paulo no início do XX, supondo que, tal como nesses paradigmas, o aprimoramento físico do local combinar--se--ia com a expulsão dos antigos moradores pobres em favor da valorização imobiliária e de usos elitistas do patrimônio arquitetônico da região. O saneamento físico, neste caso, implicaria doença social e degradação em outras partes da cidade. A segunda hipótese leva em conta diferenças significativas nos contextos histórico e social dos dois períodos tratados, exigindo o exame de alternativas que considerem o momento atual, ou seja, as relações entre sociedade civil e Estado no Brasil, a situação da gestão pública urbana após a Constituinte de 1988 e, particularmente, as formas de participação popular em projetos públicos constatadas na cidade de São Paulo nos últimos anos. Assim, as condições atuais da legislação sobre planejamento urbano, suas relações com políticas neoliberais aplicadas às cidades e a fiscalização pela população no encaminhamento do Nova Luz estariam impedindo o desfecho do projeto e as consequências esperadas pela primeira hipótese. A tese defende que o conceito de salubridade aplicado sob a rubrica de modernização já não encontra o mesmo apoio e terreno limpo do passado. Vitórias palpáveis de organização popular contra o Nova Luz fazem crer que o direito à cidade não mais constitui um ideal inalcançável para as classes populares no Brasil, ou pelo menos em sua maior metrópole. Nesse sentido, o conceito de saúde é ampliado para saúde política, pela maior participação e conquista de direitos às condições urbanas de vida digna pelo conjunto da população.The thesis presentes and analyzes the planning and administrative trajectory of the Nova Luz (New Light) city planning Project in the period between 2005 and 2013, undertaken by the Municipality of São Paulo for the old Santa Ifigênia neighborhood, located in the city center. Two main and complementary hypotheses are verified here. The first inserts the Project in the tradition of beautifying and sanitizing interventions of modern urbanism, typified by Haussmann\'s interventions in the Paris of the second half of the nineteenth century or in the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo of the early twentieth, assuming that such as in these paradigms, the physical improvement of the place would combine with the expulsion of the former poor residentes favoring real estate valuation and elitist uses of the architectural heritage of the region. The physical sanitation in this case would imply social illness and degradation in other parts of the city. The second hypothesis takes into account significant diferences in the historical and social contexts of the two periods discussed, requiring an examination of alternatives that take into account the presente moment, that is, the relationship between civil society and the state in Brazil, the situation of urban public management after Constituent Assembly of 1988, and particularly the forms of popular participation in public projects found in the City of São Paulo in recente years. Therefore, the current conditions of the legislation on urban planning, its relations with neoliberal policies applied to cities and monitoring by the population of the execution of the Nova Luz Project would be preventing the conclusion of the Project and the expected consequences of the first hypothesis. The thesis argues that the concept of wholesomeness applied under the rubric of modernization no longer meets the same support and free range it had in the past. Tangible victories of grassroots organizing against the Nova Luz Project lead do believe that the right to the city is no longer an unattainable ideal for the popular classes in Brazil, or at least in its largest metropolis. In this sense, the concept of health is extended to political health, for greater participation and achievement of rights to decente urban living conditions for the whole population.
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Salgado, Ricardo Botini. "Projeção de luz como intervenção artística urbana." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/1827.
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The proposition of this paper is to investigate the use of light and image projection as urban art intervention. A guide to the evolution of projective devices and techniques is presented at the beginning. Given that the focus of this study is on projections in urban environment, aesthetic proposals that explore non-institutional spaces are appointed as places for artistic action. A selection of well-known artists works is presented as an instance of the results obtained through the use of light and image projection in urban environment. Practical experiments obtained by means of intervention acts using digital projection, performed in São Paulo City, are presented in the end
A proposta deste trabalho de pesquisa é investigar a utilização de projeção de luz e de imagens como intervenção artística urbana. Inicialmente é realizado um roteiro da evolução de dispositivos e técnicas projetivas. Como o foco da pesquisa está nas projeções no ambiente urbano, são apontadas propostas estéticas que exploram os espaços não-institucionais como locais de ação artística. Uma seleção de obras de artistas reconhecidos é apresentada para ilustrar os resultados obtidos pelo uso de projeção de luz e de imagens em ambiente urbano. Por fim, são colocadas experiências práticas obtidas com ações de intervenção com projetores digitais na cidade de São Paulo
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Tan, Yew-Hoe. "Formal intervention in the urban landscape : designing a culturally-responsive framework for housing in Mexico City." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78089.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165).
This thesis explores an alternate approach to designing affordable housing. Housing is presented not just as physical shelter but as part of a larger socio-economic and cultural context. Implicit in this thesis is the belief that who builds is just as important as what is built. When people are involved in the act of building their homes and their living environment, whether directly or indirectly, a richer and healthier urban environment will result. There are two main parts to this thesis. The first is an exploration into the urban context of Mexico City and an analysis of dwelling transformations in a low-income neighborhood. The attempt is to observe and understand the patterns of dwelling transformation as clues to successful and culturally-appropriate housing. The analysis serves a base of understanding and informs the second part of the thesis. The second part explores and proposes of a physical support framework for a specific site. The framework is meant to allow the· user over time to build incrementally using the design "clues" as a reference. The built framework is a formal manifestation of different levels of control by the designer corresponding to the opportunities and specific circumstances which the site presents. Also proposed are design interventions in which architects can have more control such as the design of a neighborhood church , a commercial-residential complex and a design intervention in the street.
by Yew-Hoe Tan.
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Sweet, Laura Louise. "The Impact of an Urban Intervention to Mediate Indoor Environmental Hazards on Asthma Outcomes in Children." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343509149.
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Kershner, Erin. "A Program Evaluation of an After-School Reading Intervention Program in a Small Urban Elementary School." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153927.
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The purpose of this study was to conduct a program evaluation of an after-school reading intervention program for reluctant readers. The program is part of a school district initiative to help young students establish positive, productive habits and dispositions toward reading. Program participants included teachers in the after-school program and parents of students who participated for two years. The evaluation questions were designed to assess the perceptions of those stakeholders on the benefit of the program for student participants. Both teachers and parents perceived that the program benefited students' receptive vocabularies. Teachers found that the program significantly improved students' ability to read independently for longer and longer periods of time. Likewise, parents noticed that their children were more willing to initiate reading at home, while many also found that their children would persist at independent reading because they were enjoying it more. The program was credited with improving elements of students' self-efficacy in reading, such as confidence, persistence, and positive emotional responses to challenging tasks. Goal-setting, as a subset of self-efficacy, was a less obvious outcome of the program. Small, relaxed and supportive after-school learning environments where students developed strong relationships with peers and their after-school teacher helped to make the program enjoyable for students and optimized outcomes. Recommendations for further study on the program outcomes at other schools and quantitative outcomes after more years of program implementation are included.
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Tremonte, Fabio Rogerio de Mello. "Redflag: caminhadas e territórios." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27159/tde-17052013-164441/.
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Durante o processo de desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, uma série de trabalhos intitulada Redflag foi produzida. Esse grupo torna-se, então, o eixo principal da dissertação. É composta por trabalhos que lidam com a vivência no espaço urbano, principalmente, através de caminhadas e a criação de territórios, e, a partir disso, colocando em pauta questões que permeiam a configuração da cidade. Concomitantemente, são apresentados textos e trabalhos de artistas e de outros autores que relacionam-se diretamente com o tema da pesquisa, (Werner Herzog, Francis Alÿs, Robert Smithson, Hélio Oiticia, entre outros) propondo um percurso onde algumas veredas da arte contemporânea e da literatura abertas pela prática da caminhada se encontram, se bifurcam e se distanciam, tornando a chegada, o ponto de partida.During the development process of this research, a serie of artwork called Redflag was produced. This group becomes then the main shaft of the dissertation. It is composed of artworks that deal with living in urban areas, mainly through walkings and creating territories, and, from there, putting on the agenda issues that permeate the city configuration. Concomitantly, presented texts and works of artists and other authors that relate directly to the subject of the research, (Werner Herzog, Francis Alÿs, Robert Smithson, Helio Oiticia, among others) proposed a course where some paths of contemporary art and literature were opened for practicing walking meet, bifurcate and move away, making arrival, the starting point.