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Lv, Lin. "Walking into history : experiencing Tang city wall /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34612464.
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Lü, Lin, and 呂琳. "Walking into history: experiencing Tang city wall." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009636.
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Slattery, Maureen L. (Maureen Louise). "Walking in the city--an operational theater." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70285.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81).
The city is to be considered a site of power. Privileged, gendered, uneven, the city exercises authority and control over its inhabitants. What masks as public, in truth, is private. Its space and structures are fixed by its economic and political operations, impenetrable to the lived practices of its inhabitants. To transgress boundaries is to reclaim urban space for its residents. Urbanism is recast as a space of social production; the city is a contested site. The city as theatre reveals a totalizing impulse. The theatrical city suggests a scopic tendency, an image of the city grasped as a whole. Theatre itself is much more elusive; its definitions multiply. As scenography, it reasserts authority; as performance it infiltrates; as spectacle; it alienates; as drama, it contests. Theatre in the city operates at this intersection; its stage is mutable, its architecture muted. This thesis is then a strategy of inhabiting the city. Normal conceptions of the public city are set aside, the definition is appraised anew. To construct a momentary encounter that interrupts the familiar, reclaims territory. Occupying the unknown, viewing from below are tactics to remap the city. The program is a constructed theatre, sited and re-sited in New York City. To be assembled in place, the project intends to appropriate given public space and redefine it as a public space for performance. The inherent transmutive qualities of the stage and performance are appropriated for the building. The question becomes: How does a theatre operate in the city?
by Maureen L. Slattery.
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Coffee, Neil. "Constructing an objective index of walkability /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2005. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armc674.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies, 2005?Title from screen page (viewed February 24, 2006). Bibliography: leaves 151-159. Also available in electronic version.
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Lundmark, Alexander. "Walking in the Contemporary City : Thames Explorer Club." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-133163.
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Morris, Brian John. "Journeys in extraordinary everyday culture : walking in the contemporary city /." Connect to thesis, 2001. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00002256.
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Rose, Morag. "Women walking Manchester : desire lines through the original modern city." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19889/.
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Flora, Jason W. "What makes a community walkable? mapping walkability indicators in central Indiana /." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/701.
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Bornioli, A. "The influence of city centre environments on the affective walking experience." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2018. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33016/.
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The current PhD thesis explores the influence of the built environment on the affective walking experience. In fact, while urbanisation trends are increasing, levels of walking in urban settings are decreasing, despite to the important health, social, and environmental benefits of walking. However, while there is a rich body of research indicating that walking in natural spaces supports psychological wellbeing, there is a general lack of literature on the potential benefits of walking in urban settings specifically. A novel theoretical framework is applied, combining two main disciplines: environmental psychology literature on environmental affect and restoration, and geographical literature on walking and mobilities. The following questions are addressed: - In what ways can walking in urban environments support affect? What is the role of motor traffic and architectural styles on the affective walking experience? - What are enablers and barriers to a positive affective walking experience in urban contexts other than presence of natural elements? - To what extent does the affective walking experience influence walking intentions? A mixed-methods strategy was adopted. First, an online experiment with residents of Bristol (UK) (n=385) compared affective outcomes of walking in five settings in Bristol city centre following a video-simulated walk. Second, a sub-sample of 14 participants was involved in photo and video-elicited interviews based on a real walk. Quantitative results showed that simulated walks in pedestrianised areas without green elements were associated with affective benefits, as opposed to a commercial area with traffic. Building on these findings, the qualitative phase showed that motor traffic, poor aesthetics, and city busyness have a negative impact on affect. On the other hand, presence of nature and a connection with place supported affect. Specifically, it emerged that such connection is enabled by personal associations, historic elements, and sense of community. This thesis offers the following main contributions. First, it offers a novel empirical assessment of the affective outcomes of walking in different urban settings and reveals that some urban walking settings support psychological wellbeing. Second, it offers a systematic, empirically-based characterisation of barriers and enablers of a positive affective walking experience in built settings. Finally, it shows how theories of environmental affect can inform active travel policies by revealing that a positive affective and restorative walking experience can encourage walking.
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Cleminson, Julie. "Walking in London : the fiction of Neil Bartlett, Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4356.
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This thesis examines the fiction of Neil Bartlett, Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, considering how they write missing voices of sexuality, gender and class back into history through re-imagining the city space. It examines the ways in which traditional, linear narratives and the notion of objectivity in historical discourse are challenged when history is presented through fiction.Waters, Bartlett and Hollinghurst are writing the past from the perspective of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, both employing and subverting traditional narrative genres. They all depict London as a symbolic, liminal space which allows for the voices of marginalized groups to flourish. Their London is a physical but also an imagined city, both grand and squalid, where the official boundaries between public and private space are often blurred.Through depicting their protagonists mapping their own ways around London, the authors all disrupt and destabilize traditional accounts of past events and city dwellers, foregrounding the imagination in the re-telling of history‘s excluded stories.
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Bouchard, Marc. "Walking in the City of Ottawa: Pedestrian Volume and its Relationship with Walkability." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38872.
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Walkability indices are currently used for a wide range of research and commercial applications. Few studies have examined the relationship between walkability indices and measured pedestrian volume or walking rates, nor explored moderators of pedestrian volume such as weather. With 14 years of traffic study data from the City of Ottawa, a spatial auto-regressive (SAR) multi-level model (MLM) was used to understand the proportion of variance in walking explained by the commercial Walk Score® index and selected weather variables. Modeling revealed that a significant proportion of pedestrian volume at a given location in Ottawa, including its spatial lag, was explained by the corresponding Walk Score® value and its spatial lag (51.45%). Furthermore, weather expressed as a combination of ‘felt’ temperature, presence or absence of precipitation, and percent cloud cover, accounted for 2.79% of the variance in walking. These findings indicate that walkability indices may provide value as cost-effective engineering and urban planning tools.
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Lourenço-Lindell, Ilda. "Walking the tight rope informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city /." Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/49995507.html.
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Lourenço-Lindell, Ilda. "Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1385.
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Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. Policies of liberalisation and structural adjustment are both changing the conditions under which urban dwellers make a living and encouraging states to abdicate from responsibilities for popular welfare. In this context, urbanites increasingly rely on informal ways of income earning and of social security provisioning. This book is about processes of ‘informalization’ in the West African city of Bissau in Guinea-Bissau. It begins with a historical account of the way conditions of informality have evolved through the encounter of locally specific forms of informal relations with colonialism and the socialist era. This is followed by an analysis of how disadvantaged groups who rely on informal ways of provisioning are faring in the context of contemporary changes. The study looks at both the informal income-generating activities and the social networks that urbanites engage in to sustain their income activities and their consumption. It seeks to assess whether these groups are coping with these wider changes or are becoming marginalised from networks of assistance and from activities that provide sufficient incomes. The social relations pervading access to support and livelihood resources as well as the informal rules governing such access are in focus. Forms of regulation in the informal sphere are also discussed.This thesis won the prize of “Best doctoral thesis in the Social Sciences at Stockholm University in 2001-2002”. Författaren är numera verksam vid Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
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Ramos, Isabella. "Walking in The City: Koji Nakano’s Reimagining and Re-Sounding of The Tale Of Genji." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1037.
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Imagined Sceneries is a work written by composer Dr. Koji Nakano of Burapha University, Thailand for two sopranos, koto, light percussion, narrations, soundscapes recorded in Kyoto, Japan in December 2015, and digital projections of Ebina Masao’s 1953 print series Tale of Genji. Imagined Sceneries’ reimagining and “re-sounding” of Heian Kyoto relies on a balance between what is imagined and what is experienced in performance. Its many elements collectively explore multiple layers of Japanese histories, soundscapes, environments, and sensibilities. Using Michel de Certeau’s concepts of the city, this thesis journeys through Nakano’s imagined spaces.
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Carlegrim, Sara. "GIS analysis of walking and bicycle paths in the new city quarters of Östra Saltängen, Norrköping." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-110574.
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Norrköpings kommun håller just nu på med ett stadsomvandlingsprojekt i Östra Saltängen. I dag bedrivs industri- och hamnverksamhet i området, vilka påverkas av de nya planerna och planerar flytten av sin verksamhet parallellt. Examensarbetets syfte var att planera och utforma GC-nätet för det nya området genom en GIS-modell, samt att analysera genhetskvoten från och till bostads- och målpunkter. GIS-modellen upprättades i programmet MapInfo Professional 12.0 där tilläggsprogrammet RouteFinder lades till för att utföra nätverksanalysen. Resultatet från nätverksanalysen användes sedan för att beräkna genhetkvoten. Fyra olika GC-nät togs fram för att analyseras i RouteFinder. Detta för att se vad nätens olika utformning hade för betydelse för genheten. JA bestod av ett GC-nät utifrån Norrköpings kommuns planskiss. UA1 bestod av ett GC-nät med normal maskvidd, UA2 av ett GC-nät med tät maskvidd och UA3 av ett GC-nät med dubbel diagonal. Därefter utfördes en tidsanalys och en diskussion kring broplacering. Till tiden från punkt A till B lades även en tidsrelaterad korsningsfördröjning på för att göra resultatet mera verklighetsbaserat. Diskussionen kring broplaceringen utfördes som en förbättringsåtgärd då en samverkan mellan broplacering och rutter med dålig genhetskvot upptäcktes. Resultatet av de olika analyserna är att en kombination av UA2 och UA3 är det bästa GC-nätet, med avseende på genhet- och tidsaspekten. Med avseende på broarna, bör Skeppsbron ersätta Hamnbron och ”GC-bro 2” byggas.
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Psarras, Vasileios. "Emotive terrains : exploring the emotional geographies of city through walking as art, senses and embodied technologies." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/11460/.
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Walking has always been the nexus between humans and the city, constituting an expression with artistic, cultural, performative and sensorial implications for an array of artistic and intellectual voices. This thesis investigates the personal and shared emotional geographies of the city (e.g. streets, tube stations) through performative and aesthetic considerations of walking, senses, metaphors and embodied technologies. Three areas primarily inform this thesis and shape its chapters: i) contemporary urban walking theories and artistic spatial practices (e.g. flaneur, psychogeography), ii) sensory/technological aspects of walking and of contemporary city and iii) the investigation of emotional geographies. The research has opened up new dialogues within the 21st century city by highlighting the sensory and social importance of walking as art and the flaneur in the production and exploration of emotional geographies. Consequently, it proposes a hybrid walking as art method, which is pursued through a trialectic of actions, senses and selected metaphors (e.g. “botanizing”, “weaving”, “tuning”, “orchestrating”) amplified by technologies. The core inventive method and methodology is personal or shared walking, shaped by the qualitative sub-methods of talking whilst walking, embodied audiovisual/GPS tools, metaphors and online blogging. These methods contribute to a live reflection and documentation of sensory and emotional attentiveness. Outputs of this research include a series of fully documented walking artworks in London and Athens, presented through audiovisual means and maps. This thesis argues that the trialectic of actions, senses and metaphors through technologies extends our understanding of walking and flaneur as a hybrid method of production and analysis. Consequently, it re-contextualises the concept of flaneur in the 21st century city by proposing the one of the hybrid flaneur/flaneuse through a merging of artistic, sensorial, sociological and geographical standpoints. Therefore, the thesis offers new and distinctive insights into the practices and theories of walking, regarding interdisciplinary explorations of emotional geographies of the city.
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Learnihan, Vincent B. "The physical environment as an influence of walking in the neighbourhood : objective measurement and validation." University of Western Australia. School of Population Health, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0033.
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Over the last decade, there has been rapid growth in research into the influence of the physical environment on physical activity. Previously, individual and social factors dominated research into the influences of physical activity. This new area of study has been built on the understanding that the physical environment may create an opportunity or a barrier to engagement in physical activity behaviours (Sallis & Owen, 1997). This research develops objectively measured features of the physical environment in order to investigate relationships with walking behaviour. Public health research of this nature is still at a preliminary stage, although research expertise outside of public health including transportation, urban planning and geographic information science has much to contribute to this emerging field. This study investigated walking in the neighbourhood in a sample of adults residing in Perth, Western Australia. Objective measurement of the physical environment using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was conducted including measurement of street connectivity, residential density, land use mix and retail floor area ratio at three different geographic scales (suburb, census collection district, 15 minute walk from a survey participants home). These measures were then combined into an index known as a walkability index and validated against survey participant reported data on walking within the neighbourhood using binary logistic regression. Among other findings, the evidence presented shows that depending on which geographic scale the physical environment is measured at and what type of walking in the neighbourhood is reported, the strength of relationship varies between an objectively measured walkability index and walking behaviour in the neighbourhood. These findings highlight the need to differentiate between walking for transport and walking for recreation, health and exercise when investigating the relationship between physical activity and the environment. These findings also show the importance of geographic scale of measurement in the relationship between physical activity and the physical environment, and the need for current high quality geographic data in this type of research.
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MacPherson, Sandra. "From Spectator to Citizen: Urban Walking in Canadian Literature, Performance Art and Culture." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37321.
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This dissertation examines urban walking in Canada as it deviates from a largely male peripatetic tradition associated with the flâneur. This new incarnation of the walker—differentiated by gender, race, class, and/or sexual orientation—reshapes the urban imaginary and shifts the act of walking from what is generally theorized as an individualistic or simply transgressive act to a relational and transformative practice. While the walkers in this study are diverse, the majority of them are women: writers Dionne Brand, Daphne Marlatt, Régine Robin, Gail Scott, and Lisa Robertson and performance artists Kinga Araya, Stephanie Marshall, and Camille Turner all challenge the dualism inscribed by the dominant (masculine) gaze under the project of modernity that abstracts and objectifies the other. Yet, although sexual difference is often the first step toward rethinking identities and relationships to others and the city, it is not the last. I argue that poet Bud Osborn, the play The Postman, the projects Ogimaa Mikana, [murmur] and Walking With Our Sisters, and community initiatives such as Jane’s Walk, also invite all readers and pedestrians to question the equality, official history and inhabitability of Canadian cities. As these peripatetic works emphasize, how, where and why we choose to walk is a significant commentary on the nature of public space and democracy in contemporary urban Canada. This interdisciplinary study focuses on Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, cities where there has been not only some of the greatest social and economic change in Canada under neoliberalism but also the greatest concentration of affective, peripatetic practices that react to these changes. The nineteenth-century flâneur’s pursuit of knowledge is no longer adequate to approach the everyday reality of the local and contingent effects of global capitalism. As these walkers reject an oversimplified and romanticized notion of belonging to a city or nation based on normative identity categories, they recognize the vulnerability of others and demand that cities be more than locations of precarity and economic growth. This dissertation critically engages diverse Canadian peripatetic perspectives notably absent in theories of urban walking and extends them in new directions. Although the topic of walking suggests an anthropocentrism that contradicts the turn to posthumanism in literary and cultural studies, the walkers in this study open the peripatetic up to non-anthropocentric notions as the autonomous subject of liberal individualism often associated with the male urban walking tradition is displaced by a new focus on the interdependent, affective relation of self and city and on attending to others, to the care of and responsibility for others and the city.
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Lima, Theo Soares de. "Ensaio sobre a vida cotidiana : passos e tropeços de uma pesquisa psicogeográfica." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/128940.
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A presente pesquisa é decorrência de uma curiosidade que começou com o Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso. Em grande medida é a continuação das perguntas deixadas por esse trabalho que a precedeu. Tentou-se realizar, partindo das ideias da Internacional Situacionista (IS), uma pesquisa psicogeográfica no bairro Centro Histórico de Porto Alegre/RS. A partir disso foram agregados elementos que compusessem um escopo mais denso para a metodologia, através dos conceitos de caminhar, corpo, urbe/cidade. Para tal, foram realizados diversos trabalhos de campo na área de estudo, resultando em materiais diversos: uma narrativa, dezenas de fotos e dois mapas.The present research comes from a curiosity that started in the work made for the conclusion of the graduation course. In large measure is the following of the questions left behind by this previous work. Beginning with the ideas of the International Situacionist (IS), a psycogeographical investigation were attempted, in the historical district of Porto Alegre/RS. From this, where aggregated elements to compose a heavier scope for the methodology, trough the concepts of walking, body and urbe/city. For such, were made a series of field works, resulting in multiple products: a narrative, dozens of pictures and two maps.
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Tsao, Chia-Lin. "A street life project : walking on main streets in Hsin-Chu City Centre, Taiwan : a socio-cultural approach." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490489.
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Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle. "Amidst slums and skyscrapers the politics of walking and the ideology of open space in East Asian global cities /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2001. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3051067.
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Veloso, Verônica Gonçalves. "Percorrer a cidade a pé: ações teatrais e performativas no contexto urbano." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27155/tde-29082017-143339/.
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A presente pesquisa visa observar o modo de operar da arte contemporânea fundada no caminhar e investigar o quanto ela se faz acessível ao espectador, o quanto ela é inclusiva, relacional e horizontal. Contrariamente a um entendimento de que a arte contemporânea é de difícil acesso, nosso objetivo é relacionar a dissolução de certos estatutos da cena contemporânea com a aproximação do espectador de sua estrutura de funcionamento, a ponto de ele se tornar mais indispensável para sua realização do que o próprio artista. No primeiro capítulo, apresento esse contexto de dissolução (como linhas invisíveis do mapa), inicialmente no campo do teatro e, posteriormente, na configuração das performances, campo no qual as noções de cena, encenação e espectador já não operam. No segundo capítulo apresento o ato de caminhar em relação ao pensar e ao criar; uma prática estética e política a ser desdobrada nos três capítulos seguintes. Desse modo, do segundo ao quinto capítulo observo modalidades do caminhar: passeios, derivas, fugas, perseguições e travessias realizadas por artistas de diversas procedências (do teatro à land art, da dança à arte conceitual, da performance ao real) e, em alguns casos, por espectadores ou passantes. Todas essas ações, sobretudo as performances, resultam em outras materialidades (fotografias, vídeos, desenhos e narrativas) que são igualmente compartilhadas com espectadores ausentes do ato de sua execução. No último capítulo, trato desses rastros ou vestígios - bem como do acesso aos programas dessas ações - como um importante material para os espectadores, que conhecendo os \"modos de fazer\" dessas modalidades artísticas, compreendem seus \"modos de usar\". Assim, caminhar como prática estética configura-se como um ato de transgressão do sistema vigente, uma vez que se trata não apenas de uma ação, mas de uma atitude ao alcance de toda e qualquer pessoa. Ao ocupar o contexto urbano por sua dimensão mais baixa, o chão, o sujeito que caminha experimenta outras formas de sociabilidade e outras configurações para o real, inventando micro-poéticas do devir.This research aims to observe the way contemporary art founded on walking works and to investigate how much it is accessible to the public, how much it is inclusive, relational and horizontal. Contrary to an understanding that contemporary art is difficult to access, our goal is to relate the dissolution of certain contemporary scenes statutes with the spectator\'s approach of its functional structure, to the point that he becomes more indispensable for its accomplishment than the artist himself. In the first chapter, I present this context of dissolution (as invisible lines of the map) initially in the theater field and, posteriorly, in the configuration of the performances, a field in which the notions of scene, staging and spectator no longer operate. In the second chapter, I present the act of walking in relation to thinking and creating; an aesthetic and political practice to be deployed in the three following chapters. Thus, from the second to the fifth chapters, I observe walking modalities: strolls, drifts, escapes, persecutions and crossings by artists of different origins (from theater to land art, from dance to conceptual art, from performance to real) and, in some cases, by spectators or bystanders. All these actions, particularly the performances, result in other materialities (photographs, videos, drawings and narratives) which are equally shared with spectators absent from the act of its realization. In the last chapter, I deal with these traces or vestiges - as well as the access to the programs of these actions - as an important material for the spectators, who getting to know the \"ways of doing\" of these artistic modalities, understand their \"ways of using\". Therefore, walking as an aesthetic practice configures itself as an act of transgression of the current system, since it is not only an action, but an attitude within the reach of any person. By occupying the urban context in its lower dimension, the ground, the subject who walks experiences other forms of sociability and other settings for the real, inventing micro-poetics of devenir.
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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.
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Schmitz, Lisa. "A comparative study of tracking methods for a guided walking city tour in outdoor spaces for tourists through AR on smartphones." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-215328.
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Recent advancements in mobile phone technology have al- lowed mobile augmented reality (MAR) to become feasible. Today’s mobile phones have enough computing power to dis- play augmented reality content and new frameworks make MAR development more accessible. It is no surprise that one of the most popular areas of applications are city tours as this has been a target field since the early days of aug- mented reality (AR) [8]. Without altering the appearance of the city, virtual content can be placed to bring hidden information, such as the city’s history, closer to tourists. The most common choice of the tracking method for this type of application is location-based tracking. Relying only on the GPS signal and sensors like the accelerometer and the gyroscope, the position of the phone is tracked. The location of the digital content in the real world is given by geospatial coordinates. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the sensors is insu⇥cient for accurate placement. Furthermore, the technology’s main advantage over other techniques, such as marker-based tracking, is that the application does not require any change in the city environment. In contrast to that, the other leading technique, marker-based tracking, is a computer vision technology that requires visual clues to work. Marker images would have to be placed in the city for the marker-based tracking technology to function. How- ever, location-based tracking can cause erratic behaviour of the virtual objects, which decreases the quality of the ex- perience. This paper compares location-based and marker- based tracking to show the user experience strengths and weaknesses of both methods to provide design guidelines for choosing the most suitable tracking technology when de- veloping an outdoor walking application. In order to un- cover the strengths and weaknesses, one experimental proto- types for each tracking technology has been developed. The analysis of the results of a controlled user study highlights the comparative strengths and weaknesses of each technol- ogy, location-based and marker-based tracking. The mea- sured user experience di⇤erences demonstrate that for scenes where AR application designers and city o⇥cials are lead- ing to incorporate visual markers, visual-based tracking will outperform location-based tracking.En jämförande studie av spårningsmetoder för en utomhusapplikation för guidade stadsresor genom AR på mobiltelefoner. Nya tekniska framsteg för mobiltelefoner har gjort Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) genomförbart. Dagens mobiltelefoner har tillräcklig beräknings-förmåga för att visa Augmented Reality (AR) innehåll och nya frameworks gör MAR- utveckling mer tillgänglig. Det är ingen överraskning att ett av de mest populära användningsområdena är stadsresor eftersom det har varit ett fokus sedan de första dagarna av AR. Utan att ändra utseendet av staden kan virtuellt innehåll placeras för att föra gömd information, till exempel stadens historia, närmare turisterna. Det vanligaste valet av spårningsmetod för dessa AR- applikationer är platsbaserad spårning. Genom endast förlitande på GPS-signaloch sensorer som accelerometern och gyroskop spåras positionen och rotationenav telefonen, och platsen av det digitala innehållet i den verkliga världen ges av geospatiala koordinater. Tyvärr är noggrannheten hos sensorerna ej tillräcklig för korrekt placering. Teknikens största fördel jämfört med andra tekniker, till exempel markörbaserad spårning, är att applikationen inte kräver förändringar i stadsmiljön. I kontrast till det är den andra ledande tekniken,markörbaserad spårning, en datasynteknik som kräver visuella indikationer för att fungera. Markörbilder skulle behöva placeras i staden för att den markörbaserade spårtekniken ska fungera. Emellertid kan platsbaserad spårning orsaka oregelbundet beteende hos de virtuella objekten, vilket minskar kvaliteten på upplevelsen. I denna rapport jämförs platsbaserad och markörbaserad spårning för att visa styrkor och svageter med användarupplevelsen i båda metoderna. Detta görs i syfte av att ge designriktlinjer för att välja den mest lämpliga spårningstekniken för utveckling av en utomhusapplikation. För att finna dessa styrkor och svagheter implementerades en experimentell prototyp för varje spårningsteknik. Analysen av användarstudieren framhäver de motsvarande styrkorna och svagheterna hos platsbaserad och markörbaserad spårning. De mättaskillnaderna inom användarupplevelsen visar att för scener där AR-applikationsdesigners och stadens tjänstemän är villiga att införa visuella markörer så är markörbaserad spårning bättre än platsbaserad spårning.
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Alabdullah, Montasir Masoud. "Reclaiming urban streets for walking in a hot and humid region : the case of Dammam city, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25909.
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Due to the current practices of street design in countries with hot and humid climates that prioritise air-conditioned cars as the favoured mode of transport, the physical and spatial characteristics of the street space have failed to retain much or any user-friendliness for walking or for sustaining street life. Moreover, particularly in Saudi Arabia, the increasingly sedentary lifestyle is leading to significant health problems and prevalence of lifestyle diseases. However, there has been limited research conducted on the use of urban streets under hot and humid conditions, and even less is known about the impact of certain sociocultural aspects in, for example, Muslim countries, on the design of streets for walking. Such a situation poses challenges to the urban space researcher and designer interested in gaining a better understanding of how walking can be restored into the street space. This thesis contributes to the advancement of knowledge in this area by integrating three influential factors connected to walking in a single study; an approach which has not been elaborated previously. This thesis aimed to broaden the understanding of pedestrians’ requirements, attitudes and preferences in order to identify ways in which the neglected street space can be reclaimed for walking under hot-humid climatic conditions and to inform decision-making into improved street design. The scope of this research centred on combining an understanding of pedestrians’ thermal comfort in a hot and humid urban environment, that of the city of Dammam in Saudi Arabia, where the problem is particularly acute, coupled with exploration into the socio-cultural aspects through which behaviour such as undertaking increased physical activity is governed. The research postulated an interactive relationship between the existing conditions of the street space and these two factors. Owing to the multifaceted nature of the factors affecting an individual’s choice to walk, there are few accepted theoretical frameworks, hence studying the cause-and-effect relationship between street design and walking is challenging. Following the literature review and analysis of existing street characteristics; the strategy of mixed-method data collection combining participant observation with interviews and a questionnaire was conducted. The findings revealed the dual impact of key street characteristics on pedestrians’ reluctance to walk on streets and this led to two levels of simultaneous interventions being suggested: physical and spatial. The analytical process (1) identified the upper thermal comfort limit for pedestrians by application of the Physiological Equivalent Temperature index, ‘PET’, through use of the RayMan Software; (2) revealed that physical proximity to other people while on the street is the most sensitive socio-cultural issue in the outdoor spaces of Saudi, particularly between the opposite sexes, and that the existing pavements are generally too narrow to accommodate the preferred personal distance; (3) identified appropriate design interventions at the microscale of the street space to introduce improved shading and create air movement to reduce the impact of solar radiation and humidity and thus to contribute towards encouraging more use of streets for walking; and (4) marking the pavement to indicate distance walked along with high quality streetscape elements was shown to attract pedestrians effectively. Such findings have significant implications for restoring the place of walking on streets in hot and humid cities and the research concludes by emphasising: (1) it is the design of the street space in climatically responsive and socio-culturally compatible ways, rather than the configuration of the urban form that is most associated with increasing physical activity; (2) there is a crucial need to redistribute the street space away from cars and towards pedestrians by widening the existing pavements both for satisfying the average personal comfort distance between pedestrians and for incorporating appropriate streetscape elements.
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Parhizgar, Shahameh. "Towards a Sustainable Neighbourhood : Turning the Vision into Reality." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-212484.
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Climate change is currently identified as one of the most challenging global issues, which makes low-carbon development an increasingly popular topic that needs serious consideration. Therefore, the way cities are planned, managed, and use energy will play a vital role in mitigating climate change and its impact on the environment. Some simple city facilities such as pedestrian walkways, safe bikeways, and different modes of transportations, as well as sustainable policies and action programs, could reduce automobile dependency and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in many cities. This project will explore such sufficient and practical rules and policies to redesign neighborhoods to create more sustainable, livable, and low-carbon cities, which will be accessible and attractive for all groups of people. This study reviews, compares, and analyzes different sustainable urbanism principles under three pillars of the sustainable development concept, including environmental, economical, and social. It also analyzes similar successful projects in Europe to find the appropriate and practical rules that are compatible with community requirements. The results show that all the sustainable principles should work together to create a sustainable community with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is everyone’s responsibility to care about the future. It is necessary for urban planners, architects, and any related divisions of government to follow the proper rules to make cities a better place to live and also to increase residents’ awareness of both climate change issues and practical solutions. Urban planners are responsible for inviting people to be involved in making decisions and sharing their ideas to enrich communication, with the purpose of making a better city to live in.
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Arovah, Novita Intan. "Exploring the effectiveness and the feasibility of a social cognitive theory-based physical activity intervention in type 2 diabetes patients in Yogyakarta City Indonesia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/118193/2/Novita%20Intan%20Arovah%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis evaluated the effectiveness and feasibility of a low contact pedometer-based physical activity intervention which involved social cognitive theory-based support through text messaging and workbook activities for type 2 diabetes patients in Indonesia. The findings showed that the provision of pedometers improved physical activity at levels sufficient to improve glycaemic control. However, to achieve recommended and long-term improvements, the findings suggest that additional supports may be warranted. In conclusion, the intervention offers a low-contact physical activity program that may be feasible to offer at hospitals constrained by limited resources.
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Paese, Celma. "Caminhando : o caminhar e a cidade." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/8777.
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Esta dissertação trata dos conceitos ligados ao caminhar urbano, ao ato de caminhar e às diferenças de leitura de tempo e espaço entre nômades e sedentários na civilização urbana. A compreensão das diversas maneiras de caminhar como um ato de ler e escrever o espaço urbano auxilia na compreensão dos processos que transformaram a cidade e à sua arquitetura através dos tempos, até o surgimento das mídias eletrônicas e o advento do ciberespaço.This study is on the several linked concepts to the action of urban walking and the understanding of the differences of reading of time and space among nomads and sedentary. The comprehension of walking as an action of to read and to write on the urban space it aids in the understanding of the processes of transformations of the city and of her architecture through the times, until the appearance of the electronic medias and the coming of the cyberspace.
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Stibe, Anna. ""I am walking in my city" : The Production of Locality in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-32160.
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At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but haunted by a troubled past that is brought to the present by a dissenting professor of history. The Bombay of Love and Longing in Bombay is also a haunted city, but is primarily imagined as a narrative locality in which storytelling is central to both the narrative and the city. The Calcutta of Freedom Song is explored through a resident family, blurring the distinctions between the home and the city. The three novels all negotiate an increasingly sectarian environment. The three cities of the novels are explored through the framework of anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s concept of the production of locality, which sees place as a value and a dimension of social life. By approaching the cities in the novels through locality, it is possible to discern how the authors construct place as meaningful. This study thus extends the anthropological concept of locality into literature, addressing the specific strategies through which the authors portray and create their respective cities. Key concepts explored in the novels include agency, haunting, storytelling, and memory.Baksidestext At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but also haunted by a troubled past. The Bombay of Love and Longing in Bombay is primarily imagined as a narrative locality in which storytelling is central. The Calcutta of Freedom Song is explored through a resident family, blurring the distinctions between the home and the city. The three novels all negotiate an increasingly sectarian environment. The three cities of the novels are explored through the framework of anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s concept of the production of locality, which sees place as a value and a dimension of social life. By approaching the cities through locality, it is possible to discern how the authors construct place as meaningful. This study thus extends the anthropological concept of locality into literature, addressing the specific strategies through which the authors portray and create their respective cities. Key concepts explored in the novels include agency, haunting, storytelling, and memory.
Denna avhandling behandlar tre indiska romaner vilka utspelar sig i städer och fokuserar på de politiska och sociala konflikterna under 1990-talet: Githa Hariharans In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandras Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) och Amit Chaudhuris Freedom Song (1998). Delhi i In Times of Siege porträtteras som en politisk stad hemsökt av det förflutna vilket påverkar nutiden. Bombay i Love and Longing in Bombay är också delvis hemsökt, men framförallt framställt som en stad i vilken berättandet är centralt. I Freedom Song blir gränsen mellan hem och stad diffus genom det sätt på vilket en familj gestaltar Calcutta. De tre romanerna behandlar alla en alltmer sekteristisk tid. Avhandlingens analys bygger på antropologen Arjun Appadurais begrepp the production of locality, dvs. hur känslan av plats skapas. ”Locality” är ett begrepp som täcker in en plats kapacitet att också ha ett värde och vara en social konstruktion. Genom att använda the production of locality är det möjligt att utforska hur författarna konstruerar plats som något meningsbärande. Denna avhandling vidgar det antropologiska begreppets användningsområde till att innefatta litteratur och används för att identifiera de strategier genom vilka författarna porträtterar och skapar sina respektive städer. Dessa strategier bygger på nyckelbegreppen agens, hemsökelse, berättande och minne.
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Schinkler, Jenny. "A public walking landscape between the closed and the open. : Public space in relation to the commercial space and how to use the city like fluid boundary between private and public." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146314.
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I have made a site specific project, a public walking landscape between the closed and the open.This period of 100 days of work has included research addressed to the social infrastructure and the history of the site.The result has become a landscape intervention for urban space.A public landscape formed as a walkway through an existing space, a block consisting of a shopping centre and residences where the parkway moves between the buildings and creates new space.In a critical point of view, the neighborhood has a shortage of high quality public spaces and lack the ability to pass through blocks and inner yards, different alternatives of streets and a choice between the commercial and non-commercial space .The landscape is formed as an open deck and incorporated within the neighborhood. It offers a choice for the pedestrians to choose between the commercial and the non-shopping space when moving through the block. The project also creates new public spaces in between the existing space and the proposal.This proposal is both an investigation of the city and a proposal of possibilities to this specific site.Jag har gjort ett plats-specifikt projekt, ett publikt landskap mellan den slutna och öppna.Denna period av 100 dagar av arbete har inkluderat forskning inom social infrastruktur och platsens historia.Resultatet har blivit ett publikt landskap för stadsrummet.En offentligt parklandskap genom en befintlig plats, ett kvarter bestående av ett köpcentrum och bostäder där det offentliga parklandskapet rör sig mellan byggnaderna och skapar nytt utrymme.I en kritisk synvinkel, har området en brist på högkvalitativa offentliga platser och saknar förmågan att passera genom kvarter och innergårdar, olika alternativ av gator och ett val mellan det kommersiella och icke-kommersiella lokaler.Landskapet är utformad som ett öppet däck och införlivas i grannskapet. Det erbjuder ett val för de gående att välja mellan kommersiella och icke-kommersiella utrymmen när du rör dig genom kvarteret. Projektet skapar också nya offentliga utrymmen i mellan det befintliga utrymmet och förslaget.Detta förslag är både en undersökning av staden och ett förslag om möjligheter till just denna specifika plats.
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Tejkal, David. "Přestavba křižovatky Pisárecká – Veslařská v Brně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227315.
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The main reason of doing this master thesis is reconstruction crossroad Pisarecka – Veslarska in Brno with growing traffic intensity up every year. Obviously had to be observed the best safety draw around the walking and bicycle area. This crossroad is using like transfer place. The result of this work is to elaborate of the situation including charasteristic cut sections and longitudinal profile of main road. Part of this work is an estimate of the financial cost to realize this building.
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Sá, Thiago Hérick de. "Como estamos indo? Estudo do deslocamento ativo no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/6/6138/tde-04032016-135433/.
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Introdução: O deslocamento ativo tem estreita relação com problemas de saúde pública da atualidade e sua promoção pode contribuir para melhorias quanto à mobilidade urbana, estado de saúde e proteção do meio ambiente. Entretanto, a maior parte das pesquisas sobre o tema tem sido desenvolvida em países de renda alta. A presente tese busca ampliar a investigação sobre o deslocamento ativo no Brasil. Objetivos: i) Descrever a frequência, a distribuição e a variação temporal de indicadores do deslocamento ativo em populações brasileiras; ii) Avaliar o impacto de mudanças no padrão de transporte da população sobre o deslocamento ativo, o tempo sedentário e desfechos de saúde em populações brasileiras. Métodos: Tese composta por sete manuscritos. O primeiro apresenta revisão sistemática de estudos com informações sobre a prática de deslocamento ativo na América Latina e Caribe; o segundo descreve estimativas representativas da população brasileira sobre a prática de deslocamento ativo para o trabalho; o terceiro e o quarto descrevem a frequência e tendência temporal do deslocamento ativo na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (ciclistas e escolares); o quinto discute a questão da mobilidade urbana e do direito à cidade em São Paulo; o sexto e o sétimo avaliam o impacto de mudanças no padrão de mobilidade da metrópole paulistana sobre a prática de deslocamento ativo, tempo não-ativo de deslocamento e tempo total de deslocamento, bem como sobre a poluição do ar e saúde da população. Resultados: A prevalência mediana de deslocamento ativo encontrada em diferentes locais do Brasil foi de 12 por cento , variando entre 5,1 por cento em Palmas (Tocantins) a 58,9 por cento em Rio Claro (São Paulo) (Manuscrito 1). Um terço dos homens e das mulheres desloca-se a pé ou de bicicleta de casa para o trabalho no país. Em ambos os sexos, esta proporção diminui com o aumento da renda e da escolaridade e é maior entre os mais jovens, entre os que residem em áreas rurais, e na região Nordeste. Em todas as regiões metropolitanas estudadas, o quinto das pessoas de menor renda apresenta uma maior frequência de deslocamento ativo (Manuscrito 2). Entre os anos de 2007 e 2012, observamos redução no número de ciclistas em São Paulo e diferenças expressivas na proporção de ciclistas entre homens e mulheres (9,7 por mil habitantes versus 1,4 por mil habitantes em 2012) (Manuscrito 3). Também verificamos uma queda na proporção de crianças que se deslocam ativamente para a escola entre os anos de 1997 e 2012 (Manuscrito 4). O cenário epidemiológico do deslocamento ativo no país é resultante da disputa pelo direito à cidade, com repercussões na transição de mobilidade humana e na saúde e qualidade de vida da população, como podemos observar no caso de São Paulo (Manuscrito 5). A construção de uma São Paulo mais inclusiva, com menores distâncias para os deslocamentos cotidianos e maior frequência de caminhada e bicicleta, levaria à substancial redução do tempo total e do tempo sedentário despendidos nos deslocamentos, sem diminuir a duração do deslocamento ativo (Manuscrito 6). Traria também ganhos à saúde da população, sobretudo pelo aumento da prática de atividade física e da redução da poluição do ar (Manuscrito 7). Conclusões: A prática de deslocamento ativo no Brasil apresenta marcadas diferenças segundo região e características sociodemográficas. De um modo geral, esta prática vem diminuindo no país, o que deve contribuir negativamente para a saúde da população. A promoção de cidades mais inclusivas e compactas, com o favorecimento a modos ativos de deslocamento, pode contribuir para reverter esta preocupante tendência.Introduction: Active commuting is closely related to current public health issues and its promotion can contribute to improvements in urban mobility, health and environmental protection. However, research on the subject is largely concentrated in high-income countries. This thesis aims to expand research on active commuting in Brazil. Objectives: i) To describe the frequency, distribution and time trend of active commuting indicators in Brazilian populations; ii) To assess the impact of travel pattern changes on active commuting, sedentary time and health outcomes in Brazilian populations. Methods: The thesis consists of seven manuscripts. The first manuscript is a systematic review of studies with information on active commuting practice in Latin America and the Caribbean; the second describes nationally representative estimates about active commuting to work in Brazil; the third and fourth describe active commuting frequency and time trends in São Paulo metropolitan area (cyclists and schoolchildren); the fifth discusses the issue of urban mobility and the right to the city of São Paulo; the sixth and seventh assess the impact of changes in São Paulo travel pattern on active commuting, non-active commuting and total travel time as well on air pollution and population health. Results: The median prevalence of active commuting found in Brazilian settings was 12 per cent , ranging from 5.1 per cent in Palmas (Tocantins) to 58.9 per cent in Rio Claro (Sao Paulo) (Manuscript 1). One-third of men and women walk or cycle for commuting to work in Brazil. In both sexes, this proportion decreases with increasing income and education and is higher among younger people, those living in rural areas, and in the Northeast. In all Brazilian metropolitan areas studies, people in the lowest quintile of income had a higher frequency of active commuting (Manuscript 2). Between 2007 and 2012, we observed a decreasing number of cyclists in São Paulo and marked sex differences in the proportion of cyclists (9.7 per thousand inhabitants for men versus 1.4 per thousand inhabitants for women in 2012) (Manuscript 3). We also found a decrease in the proportion of children who are actively commuting to school between 1997 and 2012 (Manuscript 4). The epidemiological scenario of active commuting in Brazil is the result of a historical dispute for the right to the city, with repercussions for human mobility transition and people\'s health and quality of life, as can be seen in the case of São Paulo (Manuscript 5). Building a more inclusive São Paulo, with shorter distances and more walking and cycling, would lead to substantial reductions of total and sedentary commuting time, without reducing active commuting time (Manuscript 6). It would also result in improvements for peoples health, particularly due to the increasing physical activity and decreasing air pollution (Manuscript 7). Conclusions: Active commuting in Brazil shows marked regional and socioeconomic contrasts. Overall, this practice has decreased, which should contribute negatively to the health of Brazilians. The promotion of more inclusive and compact cities, favoring active travel, can help reverse this worrying trend.
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Rofes, Vernhes Anna. "Itinerarios urbanos en la Barcelona de postguerra : Los enunciados peatonales en Nada, Luna lunera y El país del alma." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för spanska, portugisiska och latinamerikastudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-92836.
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As of the 19th C up until our present day, big cities have set the stage for many literary works, and Barcelona is no exception to this occurrence. This study aims to address the urban imagery of a postwar Barcelona through the walks described in three novels, written by Spanish women writers. Each one will be analyzed both individually and contrastively. The necessary comparisons will be established and we will further prove the suitability of the theories of Certau, Lefebvre and Lynch. Finally, we will establish the appropriate conclusions derived from our investigation.Las grandes metrópolis han sido escenario de multitud de narraciones desde el s. XIX hasta la actualidad y Barcelona no es ninguna excepción de ello. Este estudio se aborda el imaginario urbano de la Barcelona de postguerra en los paseos descritos en tres novelas de escritoras españolas, analizándolas individual y contrastivamente. Se procede a establecer las comparaciones necesarias y se observa la idoneidad de algunas teorías de Certeau, Lefebvre y de Lynch. Se aportan, por fin, las conclusiones pertinentes
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Lafontaine, Simon. "Mobilité et action humaine :une approche phénoménologique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/288312/3/pgtitre.pdf.
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Adoptant la langue des flux et des fluides, la théorie sociologique caractérisent aujourd’hui les acteurs sociaux comme des êtres composites, prédisposés à changer et capables d’agencements feuilletés. Alors que l’importance de la mobilité pour penser et analyser le social contemporain est généralement reconnue, rare sont les travaux qui se consacre à en développer les modalités fondamentales. L’objectif de cette thèse est de développer une approche plus différenciée et gradualiste des mobilités que celle proposée par les principales options théoriques en vigueur, sans pour autant abandonner la dimension fluctuante, non linéaire et imprévisible du mouvement sur laquelle elles attirent l’attention. Qu’est-ce qu’être mobile ?Une théorie de l’expérience, en l’occurrence celle proposée par la phénoménologie, offrirait-elle des ressources critiques susceptibles d’ouvrir à l’approfondissement des mobilités comme elles sont vécues ?À titre d’hypothèse, cette thèse pose qu’un ensemble de phénomènes demeurent énigmatiques à l’intérieur de la conception généralement admise du social contemporain et qu’une articulation plus explicite du thème de la mobilité à celui de l’action humaine permet d’approfondir les processus du déplacement dans l’espace des sociétés, du passage du temps impliqué par le déplacement et du changement social. Comment émerge du nouveau dans le cours d’actions ?Qu’est-ce que pouvoir agir ?Quelle est la source du changement ?À partir d’une enquête inédite sur des voyageurs se rendant quotidiennement à Bruxelles et des personnages de romans de route étatsuniens, l’auteur explore des questions de fond portant sur l’expérience du transport, autour de l’éloignement des choses et des personnes aimées, du vide du temps d’attente, des aléas aussi insignifiants qu’irritants, de l’étrangeté des rencontres, de la décision de prendre la route et de choisir une orientation nouvelle. Ces moments de vacillation sont importants, soutient l’auteur, car ils nous ramènent aux motivations fondamentales et aux buts ultimes de nos déplacements les plus quotidiens. À une époque marquée par un idéal de mouvement fluide et sans accrocs, cette thèse éclaire ce qui se passe dans l’expérience des mobilités. Elle incite à une réflexion sur ce que nous éprouvons sur la route et aux possibles que cette expérience fait émerger.Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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Spurná, Tereza. "Intenzivní dům v Brně." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-394016.
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The diploma project designs architectural study of Intensive Urban Housing in the city of Brno, district Veveří. Its proposed a building of complex form on vacant site desined by Veveří, Kounicova, Pekárenská and Sokolská Streets which used to be a military grounds. Intensive Urban Housing includes wide community amenities and dwelling for different social groups. As it is located on within walking distance to services which makes the complex self-sufficient, the transport demands are reduced. The proposal works with differentiation of public space, main buildings volumes and facade arrangement that create a lovely city environment and new atractive location in the city of Brno.
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Bezerra, Daniel Almeida. "Arte de caminhar na cidade: educando o olhar geográfico em andanças no centro de Campina Grande-PB." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2017. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9754.
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It is in the contact of our body with the body of the city that, in a oriented and disoriented way, we construct the geographic knowledge. We construct it from readings - from books, from our contact with the theoretically systematized knowledge, but, eminently, we construct it through our daily spacial practices held in the geographical space of the city. The walks allow us to build a way of feeling, looking and thinking about the city. By walking, we learn to read the city, that is, to uncover its socio-spatial and playful dynamics. In these wanderings, if, in a deft mode, from the perspective of geographic research, we seek to reveal the city through excursions and the description of its space, in the erratic way, we reveal it through the urban narratives: of Cordel Literature, short film, chronicles, songs and poetry, composing together corpographic images of the city. In this horizon, we ask: How do the excursions and the drifting walk, in the city, contribute to the education of the geographic looking of teachers and students, and also, in the construction of a geographic-educational environment in the city center of Campina Grande-PB? How do these walking modalities exercise a dialogic function in the articulation between Geography Teaching and Geographic Education, between science and art, between ethics and politics, in the context of our urbanity put in check here? How do these walks in the city articulate themselves to the strategies of teaching and learning, of Geography and, at the same time, the urban game, of the walk adrift? How does drifting walk distinguish and, at the same time, articulate itself with the procedural concepts of geographic research? In these terms, we aim to investigate and understand the geographic space of Campina Grande-PB, together with the teachers and students of the Licensure degree in Geography (undergraduate and graduate) at UEPB and UFPB, from itinerant and errant walks in the city center, so that we propose its transformation - psychogeographical and corpographic - in a geographic-educational environment. Considering the articulation of these two movements from looking and walking, deft and erratic, we conducted an action research expressed in a set of five walks through the center of the city of Campina Grande-PB: four geographic expeditions and a drifting walk. Through them, we walked through squares, parks, streets and avenues, in a sort of dialogue with the speeches of the looking of teachers and students in a process of establishing a geographic-educational environment in this geographical space. In order to carry out these analytic-critical dialogues with the discourses of the other's looking, we use the Discourse Analysis theory in semi-structured interviews with the teachers, and for the discourses of the students‘ looking, we use the critical and dialogical analysis of their fieldnotes. We walk between science and art in the construction of a proposal of education of the geographic looking in the city. Therefore, we articulate elements of aesthetics, science, ethics and politics to compose new ways of being in the city - expressions of our urbanity and our own civility put into construction.
É no contato de nosso corpo com o corpo da cidade que, de modo orientado e desorientado, construímos o conhecimento geográfico. Nós o construímos a partir de leituras – de livros, do nosso contato com o saber teoricamente sistematizado, mas, eminentemente, o construímos através de nossas práticas espaciais cotidianas realizadas no espaço geográfico da cidade. As caminhadas nos possibilitam construir um modo de sentir, de olhar e pensar a cidade. Caminhando aprendemos a ler a cidade, isto é, a descortinar sua dinâmica sócio-espacial e lúdica. Nestas andanças, se, de modo destro, na perspectiva da pesquisa geográfica, procuramos revelar a cidade através de excursões e da descrição do seu espaço, no modo errático, a revelamos através das narrativas urbanas: da Literatura de Cordel, curta-metragem, crônicas, músicas e poesias, compondo juntos imagens corpográficas da cidade. Nesse horizonte, indagamos: Como as excursões e a caminhada à deriva, na cidade, contribuem para a educação do olhar geográfico de docentes e discentes e, também, na construção de uma ambiência geográfico-educativa no centro da cidade de Campina Grande-PB? Como estas modalidades de caminhada exercem uma função dialógica na articulação entre o Ensino de Geografia e a Educação Geográfica, entre a ciência e a arte, entre a ética e a política, no contexto de nossa urbanidade, aqui posta em xeque? Como estas caminhadas na cidade se articulam às estratégias de ensino e aprendizagem, da Geografia e, ao mesmo tempo, ao jogo urbano, da caminhada à deriva? Como a caminhada à deriva se distingue e, ao mesmo tempo, articula-se aos conceitos procedimentais da pesquisa geográfica? Nestes termos, objetivamos investigar e compreender o espaço geográfico de Campina Grande-PB, juntamente com os docentes e discentes do Curso de Licenciatura e Pós-Graduação em Geografia da UEPB e da UFPB, a partir de caminhadas itinerantes e errantes no centro da cidade, para assim propormos sua transformação – psicogeográfica e corpográfica – numa ambiência geográfico-educativa. Considerando a articulação desses dois movimentos do olhar e do caminhar, destros e erráticos, realizamos uma pesquisa-ação expressa num conjunto de cinco caminhadas pelo centro da cidade de Campina Grande-PB: quatro excursões geográficas e uma andança à deriva. Através delas, caminhamos por praças, parques, ruas e avenidas, em diálogo com os discursos do olhar dos docentes e discentes num processo de instauração de uma ambiência geográfico-educativa neste espaço geográfico. Para a realização destes diálogos analítico-críticos com os discursos do olhar do outro, recorremos à teoria da Análise do Discurso em entrevistas semiestruturadas com os docentes, e, para os discursos do olhar discente, valemo-nos da análise crítica e dialógica dos seus cadernos de campo. Caminhamos entre a ciência e a arte na construção de uma proposta de educação do olhar geográfico na cidade. Portanto, articulamos elementos da estética, da ciência, da ética e da política para compor novas formas de ser e estar na cidade – expressões de nossa urbanidade e de nossa própria politicidade posta em construção.
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Johansson, Sara. "Rytmen bor i mina steg : En rytmanalytisk studie om kropp, stad och kunskap." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-204630.
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This thesis brings together a fascination with the city and a keen interest in the knowledge process. The point of departure is the bodily, sensory and emotional experience. That the author uses her own perceptions and experiences and is preoccupied with her own knowledge process means that she writes herself into an autoethnographic context. She also experiments with the writing and allows it to take on a more literary form as she writes about her own sensory impressions and feelings. The term rhythmanalysis is employed as a way of assessing, exploring, interpreting and understanding the world that embraces the embodied experience. Human beings are embodied beings, a claim we can make by referring to our own experiences as well as how we perceive, communicate and interact. The study delves into two aspects of rhythmanalysis, first as a way of describing the knowledge process as rhythm-analytical, which implies that bodily experiences are equally important as intellectual ones, and secondly as a way of talking about the city as polyrhythmic. It follows upon the latter that embodied rhythmanalysis of the city is possible. The rhythmanalysis may ultimately be seen as a project aimed at overthrowing the Cartesian dualism between body and mind. That we are embodied has a methodological consequence that is as simple as it is essential: the scholar exists in the world she studies. The researcher is not a neutral observer. She is a co-creator. She is a body, placed in time, space and history. She is situated, which means that her knowledge is also situated. Thus, the rhythmanalysis encompasses the body, the senses and feelings, and can be described with one key word: movement. It finds support in theories that acknowledge the fluid, the becoming, the situated, the performative, the relational, the dynamic, the material. It seeks methods that experiment, that focus on practices rather than discourses, that are preoccupied with a movable world rather than a static one.
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"Walking city." 2001. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890976.
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Hui Mei Ling Florence."Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-01, design report."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction
Pedestrian Environment
In Hong Kong
Footbridge and Subways
Pedestrianization
"Mid-level Escalator, Central"
Elevated Walkway in Housing Estates
In Foreign Places
"Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy"
Frankfurt Centre Competition
Civic Space / City Centre
"Central, Hong kong"
"Largo de Senado, Macau"
The New Tokyo City Hall Complex
Civic and Cultural District in Singapore
Objectives of Study
Objective
Issues
Environment of Pedestrians
Walking Experience
Values to Society
Sense of Community
Permanence and Transience
Site Selection Criteria
Potential Sites
Mong Kok
Central
"Tung Chung, NWNT"
Site Selection
Central
Site Analysis
Macro Site Studies
History of Central District
Significance of Site
Reclamation
Land uses
Significant Buildings
Existing Pedestrian Environment
Micro Site Studies
Pedestrian Flow
Transportation
Activities & Urban Setting
User Groups
Site Opportunities
Site Constraints
Program
Programs
Justification
Schedule of Accommodation
Design Development
Stage 1 (1st Semester)
Stage 2 (2nd Semester)
Final Design / Presentation
Contribution of Thesis
Appendix
Interviews
Reviews
Summary on Design Guideline for Pedestrian
Newspaper Cutting
Research Sources
Acknowledgments
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Particelli, Brice. "The Spectral City: Walking the Literary Landscapes of New York City." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC30HW.
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This dissertation focuses on the intersections of theories of place, space, and story. It is part ethnographic, part literary studies, and dives deeply into American history and literature, beginning with the industrial revolution in the 19th Century. It steps into theories and literature surrounding how we story ourselves into the world, focused in large part on the literary archetype that grows from the concept of the flâneur--Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin's urban wanderer who walks both the city streets and art and literature to explore meaning and purpose of city and story, and to fight against a sometimes alienating place. My dissertation expands some of those notions, and explores the ways we expand and investigate our own literary geographies.
Each chapter merges theory and practice in various ways of reading and writing space and story--from a walk across the city and its waterfront where I chronicle the history of the flâneur alongside the history of the economic and physical development of New York City; to a sit in a neighborhood café where I theorize how we layer (or "write") history, personal experience, and literature into familiar places; to a 24-hour ride along the 1-line subway, which becomes an extended metaphor that problematizes "meaning" in literature as I loop through a supposedly static space, barely moving from my seat from 8am to 8am. Each of these investigations intentionally blurs the lines between reading and writing, space and story, and theory and practice, in order to expand theoretical approaches to place and literature.
Through this dissertation I hope to add to the theoretical body of work in studies of place, literature, and urban studies, and to challenge the ways that we discuss literary theory by offering approaches to these discussions in ways that situate them in a different sort of action.
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Capstick, Andrea, and John Chatwin. "Re-Walking the City: People with Dementia Remember." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5559.
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noIn recent years walking interviews have emerged as a valuable alternative to the standard research interview, particularly in studies related to place, community, and the urban environment (Clark and Emmel 2010). Although there is little literature on the use of walking interviews with people who have dementia, the method is particularly appropriate for this participant group, due to the strong memories for place and past events that are usually retained by people with dementia, even when short term memory deteriorates (Chaudhury 2008). Narrative biography work with people who have dementia shows a repeated tendency to use geographical markers as ¿signposts¿ to particular memories (Bryce et al 2010). In 2010 the authors piloted the use of walking interviews with three people with dementia within a care home environment. The film record of the process suggests that the combination of physical movement and reminiscence which was involved both facilitated and enhanced communication for people with dementia. These findings led to the present work which is based on walking interviews with people who have dementia in places which have particular meaning for them, such as the street where they grew up; the school they attended; a former workplace; public park; sports ground or other familiar space. The oral presentation will include film clips, contrasting ¿static¿ communication with each participant, with his or her verbal production, or non-verbal communication, in response to environmental prompts and recovered sights and sounds. In addition, we will draw on the film data to explore a series of thought-provoking questions related to changing inner and outer landscapes, the vagaries of memory, and the psychogeography of dementia. Can the frequently pathologised ¿wandering¿ of people with dementia in time and space be rehabilitated using situationist concepts such as the dérive and the flaneur?
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Capstick, Andrea. "Re-Walking the City: People with Dementia Remember." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7082.
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yesWithin the dominant biomedical discourse, late-life dementia is regarded as a pathological condition characterised by short-term memory loss, word finding difficulties and ‘problem behaviours’ such as ‘wandering and ‘repetitive questioning’. As its title suggests, one of the main purposes of this chapter is to shift the focus from what people with late-life dementia forget to what they remember, particularly as this relates to places they have known much earlier in life. A central part of my argument is that dementia, often somewhat crudely represented as wholesale memory loss, might better be regarded as a form of spatio-temporal disruption; a disruption which intersects with the theoretical territory of psychogeography.
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Yu, Ying-Chuan, and 尤英權. "Walking into the City─Ying-Chuan Yu's Painting Discourse." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2d7bd5.
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碩士東海大學
美術學系
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(The first paragraph)Following the course work to fulfill the degree requirements — “I Live near a Water Tower” — when I was in college, the topic of “Walking into the City” was set. By depicting Taichung — the city where the author lives, the author “Tower Man” wants to introduce this beautiful city to everyone while he can better understand his living environment and highlight his great deal of pride in this city. He organizes his life experience as a source for his creation and builds an environment where he can grow more skilled as well as experienced in painting. Then, he lets the paintbrush to lead him into the city and explore his own life — an observation that becomes a basis for him as an artist and indicates his preliminary direction. In terms of research methods for this thesis, he adopts observational method, historical research, comparative method and experimental research to write this thesis. (The second paragraph)This thesis introduces several famous artists in art history and the places appearing in their well-known artworks, including Cezanne and Mont Sainte-Victoire, Monet and the water lily pond in Giverny, Van Gogh and Arles, Gauguin and Tahiti, and Maurice Utrillo and Montmartre. These places were of great importance to these great artists, and are good examples explaining the case that Tower Man also has a place that he considers important — Taichung City, where he was born and grew up. By choosing this city, which Tower Man has deep affection for and is intimately acquainted with, as the theme of his creation, Tower Man can discover appropriate scenery in the city and produce images for his artworks, making the efforts to fulfill his degree requirements a meaningful and wonderful task and therefore creating extraordinary artworks. (The third paragraph)The artwork “Walking into the City” guides the audience from a lonely water tower into the Taichung metropolis — one of the best cities for people to live in — and unfolds beautiful landscapes comprising mountains and rivers as a whole. Moreover, Taichung is nowadays a “cultural city” filled with a lot of art events. From an architectural perspective, a city can be deemed as an artwork which is so close to us but very easily ignored by people. Furthermore, architecture can fulfill dreams and build a more harmonious relationship between man and nature. Besides, by appreciating the surroundings in a spiritual way and experiencing the life from a bathroom to a bedroom (Le nid), then from a bedroom to a hut (La coquille), and finally from a hut to the entire city, Tower Man cherishes a dream of being an artist. (The fourth paragraph)This thesis describes and analyzes Tower Man’s artworks, then interprets his artworks created in the later stage of his graduate studies by examining series of his artworks, and finally goes through a profound discussion into the city where he lives. It is expected to illustrate a scenario that Tower Man talks to himself silently in the middle of the city and imagines that his thoughts can be heard by close friends — these actions are to express himself to people for whom he cares.
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Czypyha, Shane. "Walking City: The transformative role of pedestrians in public space." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4955.
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Vancouver’s downtown peninsula symbolically describes the sense of place unique to the city as a whole. It is a livable city with a
strong connection to its natural surroundings, witnessed in its very active population. This sense of place, however, has far more to do with its relationships to its natural setting, the mountains and ocean, than its urban spaces or architecture. Most of the central public spaces are quite ordinary. Although the temperate climate
is ideal for inhabiting streets and squares, the majority of the city’s prominent public spaces exist along the water’s edge. Ultimately locals and visitors gravitate to the periphery and the nearby wilderness, conditioning them to look outward on the natural setting as opposed to reflecting inward on the city. Vancouver’s iconic identity exists primarily on the panoramic level. Great cities throughout the world exist without the splendour of mountains
and ocean and Vancouver must stop relying on these to constitute its important public spaces.
This thesis makes a proposal for a series of large scale urban interventions on the downtown peninsula that serve to augment
Vancouver’s sense of place. The first intervention will replace unnecessary car space with public space, in order to incrementally create, over a number of years, an extensive pedestrian network that links its public spaces. This will incorporate characteristics of successful urban systems found in Barcelona, Bogota, Copenhagen, Curitiba and Portland, treating the street not just as a transportation corridor but
also as a public space, and a democratic forum. The second intervention will remove many low to mid-density ‘underperforming’ residential buildings, creating a diagonal pedestrian and transit boulevard that bisects the downtown peninsula, linking major public spaces such as English Bay Beach, Robson Square, and Waterfront Station. Along this diagonal, new high density mixed-use development will offer an increased number of residential, commercial and cultural facilities. The new public spaces and developments created by the proposed
diagonal boulevard will provide Vancouver with a civic realm better connected than it has ever been. Vancouver will become a city of great pedestrian public spaces, strongly linked to natural surroundings that serve an active and environmentally conscious population.
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Lai, Hsu-Lin, and 賴絮伶. "Quantitative survey of walking environment for arcades – New Taipei City as example." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9btxt5.
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營建工程系
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One of the most commonly used passageways for the pedestrians in Taiwan is the arcades. Nonetheless, it is observed that the inconvenience of walking on the arcades is caused by the width of the passageways and the height difference. Consequently, realizing what influences the efficiency and safety of the arcades is worth exploring. This study is conducted by quantitative assessment so as to understand the pedestrians’ flow by establishing simulated scenario with controlling factors and evacuating the pedestrians walking on different leveling of the arcades and the width of the passageway with Pathfinder. Eventually, the analog output of the total walking period and the observation of 3D dynamic analog image are analyzed and evaluated on the arcades walking space so as to identify the obstacles on the passageways and provide further information for the authority concerned. As far as the current regulations and service conditions are concerned, there still leaves some rooms for improvement on achieving the thorough clearance on the arcades in Taiwan. As a result, this study brings forward the recommended arcades reconfiguration without affecting the efficiency and safety for the pedestrians in order to meet the precise situation and demand on providing the reference to promote the policies for the authorities concerned.
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Tzu-YuChen and 陳姿予. "Explore the Development and Management of Cultural Heritage Walking Trails in Tainan City." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4wgbdz.
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碩士國立成功大學
創意產業設計研究所
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This is a regional research, which aims to figure out the process behind planning trails in Tainan City. Recently, the tourism trend focuses more on the in-depth and half-day travelling. Speaking of in-depth travelling, which is the best way to experience the beauty of Tainan, many people like to walk through alleys to find out historical sites and some unique stores. Tainan City Government has provided some free walking tour guiding for tourists to join. The name of the service is called “Tainan Michelin Three-star Touring”. Actually, there are another private organizations providing walking trails, which is different from the government service. In addition, National Cheng Kung University sets up a course called “Exploring Tainan”, which provides a medium for students to realize the culture of place. Based on preceding organizations’ trails, the author wants to conduct some in-depth interviews to find out potential factors in terms of planners’ point of view, which would be divided into three directions, including the authority, the private organization and the academia. After analyzing the data, it comes out that the role of the heritage walking trail is so different in varied fields. Heritage walking trail can be a medium to facilitating universities, be a medium to pass down history and memory of ancestors, be a nutrient to operate a company, etc. In conclusion, the walking trail can be a bridge in different situations to help connect varied things and there are also other extended issue which can be deeply explored in the future.
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Perry, Alison Marretta. "Jay-walking in the city : violence against women, urban space, and pedestrian acts of resistance." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24339.
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From its distinction during the 1920s as the hub of black culture and commerce in America to its later reputation as the unmitigated manifestation of inner city decay, Harlem evokes an urban palimpsest, a lived geographic space onto which collective desires and fears are written and overwritten. Because of the symbolic place Harlem occupies in the national imaginary, my dissertation focuses on this central public site. Jay-Walking in the City: Violence Against Women, Urban Space, and Pedestrian Acts of Resistance advocates an investigation of textual histories of abusive domestic experiences in this neighborhood in order to underline the importance of public spheres in redressing trauma. As part of the larger archive of Harlem literature, the novels I investigate in this dissertation offer counter-narratives to those circulating in post-war America concerning the safety of this neighborhood’s streets and the character of its residents. Ann Petry’s The Street (1946), Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place (1980), Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Sapphire’s Push (1996) all contain episodes of domestic or sexual violence against women perpetrated in the Harlem households where the protagonists of these novels live. This dissertation focuses on the moments when Harlemites whom these women encounter in the public sphere intervene in the violent conditions of these primary characters’ lives. These interposal episodes within each novel challenge the pervasive cultural dichotomy that extols the American home as a stronghold of social and national security and lambastes the inner city as a volatile space of danger and fear.text
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Tsai, Hsiu-li, and 蔡秀娳. "A Study of Physical Fitness-Based Policy on Promoting Daily Walking Program in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51709250775136678801.
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碩士義守大學
管理研究所碩士班
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Good body health is considered as one of basic human rights, so the government should be responsible for providing services to keep the health of the public. The healthcare government agency is actively working on a health promotion policy and its performance and outcome deserves careful study. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of “Walking Promotion Program” of the Department of Health, Kaohsiung City Government, comparing the physical fitness between those having joined the program and those not. The findings are as follows: 1) there is a significant difference in fitness indices between those who were not exercise lovers but have joined the program (below 20 and between 21 and 40) and those who have not joined the program; 2) the fitness of those who have been exercise lovers undergoes no significant change; 3) the health promotion policy helps people to improve their life style, but it depends upon the self-discipline of the people and they have to take the responsibility for the result ultimately; 4) souvenirs can help motivate the public to join the program; participants tend to identify themselves with the program; the location for the walking exercise should be proximate to home.
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Araya, Kinga. "Walking in the city : the motif of exile in performances by Krzysztof Wodiczko and Adrian Piper." Thesis, 2004. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/7975/1/NQ90374.pdf.
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This thesis investigates two art performances involving walking in the city that are conceptualized as exilic works of art: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Vehicle performed in 1973 in Warsaw; and Adrian Piper's Catalysis performed from 1970 to 1971 in New York. My contention is that Wodiczko's and Piper's walks in the city can be examined by applying a threefold understanding of exile. First, these important performative artworks made manifest in the form of artistic walks are marginalized within, or exiled from, an institutionalized mainstream art. Second, the artists themselves communicate either personal or metaphorical states of exile. Third, the phenomena of contemporary metropolises, as diverse as the communist Warsaw and the capitalist New York of the 1970s are analyzed as alienating and exilic social dwellings par excellence in which most of the inhabitants do not feel "at home". This paper also summarizes a much longer and more intense conflation of my personal and professional experience with walking. I, myself, am an exile, who literally walked away from a student trip in Florence, Italy. Since that crucial event, I have developed a very special relationship with walking, this most humble human activity that I no longer take for granted. In order to make my writing more conversational I traveled to Poland and the United States to walk the same streets that Wodiczko and Piper walked during their performances with my photo and video cameras. My visual and textual retracing of the artists' steps form a creative part of this dissertation. Since I wanted to exhaust the richness of these two exilic art works and to connect them to the contemporary urban experience, I employ my personal writing style and juxtapose it with the photographs I took in Warsaw and New York. These creative reflections on walking that enrich the academic form of expression are enclosed in two attachments following the chapters in which I theoretically analyze Wodiczko's and Piper's walking performance artworks
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Guillaume, Philippe. "A Study of Photography and Walking through the City in Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary Canadian Art." Thesis, 2012. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/974684/4/Guillaume_MA_F2012.pdf.
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Wang, Yi-Fang, and 王怡方. "Analyzing the relationship among walking, cycling and Healthy Policies—a case study of Children in Tainan City." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65398540762551413822.
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碩士國立成功大學
交通管理學系碩博士班
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Using motor vehicle as the moving way could cause huge external cost on society. Like environmental pollution and the security, could affect populace’s healthy in mind and body. Moreover, most people do not have the habits of being engaged in regularly physical activity, and the situation of lacking physical activity is tied up with many diseases. If people did suitable exercises, they can be prevented from obesity and promote the bodily function. Although there are lots of advantages of regularly physical activity, people always have excuse for not exercising. Then physical activity would hardly become their habits. However, transportation is people’s necessary activity everyday, and this research will discuss how to exercise by walking and cycling. The questionnaire is designed for discussing whether the promoting walking/cycling policy of government would improve the using willingness of particular objects. The research framework is built on the walking/cycling condition of junior high school and elementary school students in Tainan. The walking/cycling benefits model could be divided into three parts, including calories expense, calories surplus and weight decreasing. The most attractive policy of students cycling to school is the policy of “Adding the pathways and bicycle lanes,” and the most attractive policy of walking is the policy of “Tree planting on the wayside.” According the result of research, walking or cycling to school everyday would expense calories, increase students’ activities and decrease their weight. The research result shows a characteristic that for walking or cycling students the higher policy supportability causes the more left shaped distance of BMI after promoting policy.