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Boxall, Peter. "Negative geography : fictional space in Beckett's prose." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360553.
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Rogers, Donna Marie. "Space, place and mammography utilization /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487948807585408.
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Merrifield, Andrew K. "The dialectrics of urban space." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358509.
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Corumluoglu, Oszen. "GPS-aerotriangulation : in observation space." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/200.
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The research completed on UPS-aerial triangulation has been focused on combining of UPS and photogrammetric data in the way using GPS derived antenna coordinates, so called as "combination in position space". Thus, these antenna coordinates are used, or replaced with the normal control points on the ground, as control points which have been moved into the air. It was noticed that it is necessary to use crossing strips and introduce drift parameters into the analytical aerial triangulation estimation to compensate the shifts which are seen in these coordinates, probably caused by cycle slips in the UPS data. UPS offered a good opportunity to supplement, or completely replace, the ground control required by aerial triangulation procedures by determining the positions of an antenna onboard the aircraft, at each moment of exposure, quickly, cheaply and accurately but with crossing strips, drift parameters and stand-by GPS data, postprocessed GPS data as UPS derived antenna coordinates. This thesis offers a new method which is based on a combination of GPS dual frequency phase observations and photogrammetric measurements in a bundle estimation process, so called as "combination in observation space". Thus the new method leads to the solution of the redundancy problem facing the GPS users if the ambiguities and the point coordinates (or coordinate differences) together with the other parameters are to be solved for simultaneously. It also removes the need for cioss strips to compensate for shifts in the antenna coordinates and provides a good basis for the determination of integer ambiguities and cycle slips thereby saving a lot of effort and time. To explain this concept, the thesis reviews the UPS double differencing processes based upon phase observations and analytical aerial triangulation estimation method with emphasis being laid upon estimation using bundles. Alongside these, error sources that are likely to affect the UPS and bundle measurements are discussed and the new combination method is explained. The ability of the combined system to solve for the perspective center coordinates and the attitude of the camera onboard the aircraft, the coordinates of object points and integer ambiguities and to determine cycle slips in the way it propagates several random errors were the focus of the simulated tests carried out. The tests revealed the high potential of the combined system in relation to this. Although the system may be regarded as a reasonably sensitive method to solve for these parameters simultaneously as there are some cases where some of these parameters, especially integer ambiguities, cannot be solved for correctly or cycle slips cannot be detected. This is thought not to be a disadvantage of the method itself, but is rather due to weak geornetly or insufficient observations with the small sample used. The main conclusion from this work is that a combination of GPS and photogramrnetiy is indeed possible in observation space. The advantage in that cycle slips and integer ambiguities can be solved for (i.e. photogrammetry is contributing to GPS - not just the other way around as in the usual case) and additional photogrammetric data (in the form of cross strips) is not needed. The method has been to be successful even in the presence of severe multipath (up to 5 cm).
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Martin, Craig. "Containing (dis)order : a cultural geography of distributive space." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/1ae71202-579b-8e3e-a33d-5782d8535b77/7/.
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This thesis focuses on the significance of distributive space for understanding capitalist forms of spatio-temporality. It argues that the distributive phase of commodity mobilities has remained a relatively under-represented aspect of social theory, especially in the context of cultural and social geography. The extant work that has focused on distribution tends to be confined to the areas of economic and transport geography. The thesis aims to address the importance of this space for understanding the formations of late capitalist modernity, particularly its role as a specific, but networked space between production and consumption. Significantly the work addresses the 'construction' of this space by focus sing on the substantive case study of containerisation. In doing so it engages with global commodity mobilities in the form of intermodal shipping containers, and their attendant logistical infrastructure. The research critically considers the spatial and temporal apparatuses that have been developed to organise and order the mobilities of the containers; including the design and development of the object itself, alongside a range of logistics and supply chain management strategies. In theoretical terms an important influence on the research has been Michel Serres' work on the interlacing of order and disorder. Given this, a simultaneous focus of the research deals with the immanent presence of disorder in these systemic environments; thus reflecting an intellectual engagement with theoretical work in the areas of turbulence, complexity theory, assemblage theory and Serres' work on the parasite. Substantively this aspect of the research has been determined by considering the place of the accident within networks and systems, alongside the 'tactical-logistics' of smuggling practices. 3
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Lyster, Rosa Frances. "Space and censorship in Nadine Gordimer : a literary geography." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13942.
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In South Africa, questions of space and censorship are inseparable. It is impossible to discuss one without discussing the other. The apartheid censors set themselves up as "guardians of the literary", purporting to create a protected space where a particularly South African literature could flourish. In this thesis, my argument is that to be a "guardian of the literary" meant to be a guardian of space in literature, the way it was represented and the way characters moved through it. In order explore this argument I have focused on the censors' response to one writer in particular, Nadine Gordimer. My argument will show that in Gordimer, some spaces seem to be more acceptable than others, as evidenced by the censors' response to her work. Six of her novels were submitted for scrutiny by the Censorship Board. Three were banned, and three were passed. In The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences, Peter McDonald asks "If all her novels ... engaged with the historical circumstances of apartheid South Africa in especially powerful and critical ways, then why were they not all deemed equally threatening to the established order?" My argument is that while it is difficult to provide a definitive answer, it is possible to make sense of the censors' decisions regarding her work by undertaking an analysis of the novels' literary geography. Focusing on the prevalence of certain spaces and the absence of others, and the way that characters move through these spaces, it is clear that they represent differing degrees of threat to the established order. In the censors' reports on Gordimer's work, crossing a physical boundary was the equivalent of crossing a moral boundary. Both the apartheid planners and the censors were fixated on boundaries and borders, on the importance of keeping some people in and more people out. My argument is that what the architects of apartheid tried to do in reality, the censors tried to do in fiction. Their attempt to police the borders of the imaginary meant that some spaces were more acceptable than others, that some stories were told while others were ignored. In my final chapter, I argue that the effects of this can still be seen in contemporary novels written about South Africa. The censors had such a powerful hand in "deforming" literature that their fingerprints can still be detected today. A close analysis of certain elements of Patrick Flanery's Absolution (2012) will show that the structure and form of the novel corresponds in interesting ways with the apartheid censors' ideas of what literature should do and be.
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Lee, Jinhyung. "Building Ladders of Opportunity: Understanding the Impacts of New Mobility Services on Space-time Accessibility." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1589496154927058.
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Audet, Emily. ""White" Space: The Racialization of Claremont, California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/920.
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The City of Claremont, California—a suburb of Los Angeles and the home of the Claremont Colleges—stands out as disproportionately non-Hispanic white in comparison to neighboring cities and counties. This research employs the concept of racialization of place to examine how Claremont has been racialized as “white.” Through an analysis of land-use regulations and descriptions of the city, this research analyzes the structural and ideological processes that racialized the city. The city government used exclusionary zoning ordinances and private citizens employed racially restrictive housing covenants to maintain Claremont’s majority-white status. The city government and local organizations and businesses also implicitly assert Claremont’s white identity through maintaining that Claremont residents are unique among the area and through relating Claremont to New England. The city government and local organizations also frame the city as peaceful and principled, which is typical of places racialized as “white.” This research focuses on the process of Claremont acquiring a “white” identity, but further research should examine how this identity facilitates disproportionate resource capture.
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Billing, Chloe Ashton. "Satellites, rockets and services : a place for space in geography?" Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7159/.
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Despite the importance of satellite-enabled applications to society, geographical discussions of the space sector have been dominated by accounts of the geopolitics ‘up there’, without due consideration of the industry driving the use of space ‘down here’. As a result, the geography of the space sector, and the interactions between the agents and institutions involved, have been overlooked in the academic literature. To address this ‘silence’, this thesis explores the competitiveness, organisation and governance of the UK space sector. The primary method of data collection for this thesis was eighty semi-structured interviews with representatives from the UK space sector. The conceptual framework integrated economic and geopolitical concepts on competitiveness, organisation and governance. Key findings of this thesis include: (i) orbital slots and frequency spectrum are competitive assets, which highlight the verticality of our economy; (ii) heritage is a source of competitiveness, which can cause technological lock-in; (iii) different segments within the UK space sector manage their own production projects, which are linked by buyer-supplier relationships (BSRs); (iv) BSRs are influenced by buyers, contracts, technology, time and geography; and (v) the governance of the UK space sector is multi-centric, with a dominance of regulatory forms.
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Terret, Morgane. "Cultural events in public open space." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Social and Economic Geography, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-114163.
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Gokariksel, Pervin Banu. "Situated modernities : geographies of identity, urban space and globalization /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5655.
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Poorthuis, Ate. "Social Space and Social Media: Analyzing Urban Space with Big Data." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/41.
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This dissertation focuses on the key role that big data can play in minimizing the perceived disconnect between social theory and quantitative methods in the discipline of geography. It takes as its starting point the geographic concept of space, which is conceptualized very differently in social theory versus quantitative methodology. Contrary to this disparity, an examination of the disciplinary history reveals a number of historic precedents and potential pathways for a rapprochement, especially when combined with some of the new possibilities of big data. This dissertation also proposes solutions to two common barriers to the adoption of big data in the social sciences: accessing and collecting such data and, subsequently, meaningful analysis. These methods and the theoretical foundation are combined in three case studies that show the successful integration of a quantitative research methodology with social theories on space. The case studies demonstrate how such an approach can create new and alternative understandings of urban space. In doing so it answers three specific research questions: (1) How can big data facilitate the integration of social theory on space with quantitative research methodology? (2) What are the practical challenges and solutions to moving “beyond the geotag” when utilizing big data in geographical research? (3) How can the quantitative analysis of big data provide new and useful insight in the complex character of social space? More specifically, what insights does such an analysis of relational social space provide about urban mobility and cognitive neighborhoods?
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Carroll, Siobhan. "The blank spaces of the Earth a typical space in the Romantic Century, 1750-1850 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3373497.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 6, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3862. Advisers: Deidre Lynch; Nicholas Williams.
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Lewis, Robert David. "Industry and space : the making of Montreal's industrial geography, 1850-1918." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39790.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore several issues regarding the industrial geography of the North American city between 1850 and 1918, using Montreal as a case-study. The two dominant locational theories (Weberian and transactional) are critiqued and three problems are identified: their reliance on simplistic conceptions of industrial organization; their inability to take account of cycles of investment; and their neglect of the social construction of the built environment. A reformulation of urban industrial geography is presented which stresses the diversity of productive strategies open to industries; the relationship of these strategies to rhythms of changes to technology, the labour process, and the organizational structure of firms; and the actions of local growth machines in the making of industrial space. These claims are developed through an empirical examination of Montreal. Using the municipal tax assessment rolls a description of the location of Montreal's manufacturing firms in 1861 and 1890 establishes the context for a discussion of the key dynamics of the city's industrial geography through histories of selected industries (clothing, metal, cotton, and baking) and industrial districts (Saint-Ann and Saint-Henri).
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Himiyama, Yukio. "A comparative study of culture space in Japan and Britain." Tokyo : Taga Shuppan, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/20473975.html.
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Binnie, Jonathan Robert. "A geography of urban desires : sexual culture in the city." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263257.
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Yang, Xining. "Exploring the World with Volunteered Geographic Information: Space, Place and People." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429609791.
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Song, Ying. "Green Accessibility: Estimating the Environmental Costs of Space-time Prisms for Sustainable Transportation Planning." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437344275.
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Gwanas, Bethan. "Constructing body space : gender, sport and body image in adolescence." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288204.
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Ingham, James. "Sound worlds and everyday space." Thesis, University of East London, 1999. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1251/.
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The starting point for this project was my MPhil thesis (University of Leeds, 1995) Aural Geographies. An Investigation of Sound In Everyday Space, which has as its subject matter the concept of sound in everyday space. The MPhil thesis argued that in considering everyday space more attention should be paid to the aural experience. The argument did not try to `bolt on' what is heard to what is seen. Rather it contemplated the intricate relationships between the visual and aural senses within everyday space. Following from the work which was undertaken for the MPhil it became clear that further and more substantial research into the area of sound and space was merited. This research has been carried out at the University of East London as a PhD programme, under the supervision of Professor Andrew Blake, who introduced me to numerous aspects of music analysis. The thesis acknowledges and expands upon the work on sound carried out by the limited number of social theorists who have addressed this issue such as Adorno, Attali and in particular Schafer and his work on soundscapes. There is discussion throughout of the inspirational ideas of John Cage. The aim of the thesis, which is explored through many inter-related pieces of analysis and empirical work, is to expand upon our knowledge of the role of sound in everyday life. The thesis contributes towards knowledge by providing many new insights about the soundworld and its place in human experience. As befits a thesis which centres on the aural, the research methods are also innovatory allowing the readers/listeners themselves to experience sound worlds. The thesis therefore relies 111 heavily on newly-developed new recording/mapping techniques, using high quality audio recordings which are then used to produce digital sound maps in the form of hypermedia made available on a CD-ROM. The thesis demonstrates how these maps enable us to comprehend some of the complex sensory processes associated with sound worlds. Sound worlds are the main focus here, and in particular the way in which sound worlds are constructed by individuals. Where the MPhil examined sound in public spaces, this thesis further reflects on that investigation before going on to investigate the sound worlds generated in the living room (a key everyday space). This enables us to hear/see how the sound worlds associated with the living room link up with other everyday spaces. The contention is that sound is crucial for the organisation and operation of everyday space Though the thesis is persuasive in indicating the importance of the aural in everyday life, the question arises as to how the relationship between the aural and the visual can be represented in academic work, and especially in the discipline of geography. This question is addressed in the thesis by the presentation of a number of specially developed aural terms, such as `sonic order' and `sound maps'. The thesis describes how people organise their activities around sonic order, and explains how conflicts arise over sonic order. The thesis concludes that sound maps are present in everyday space and that people use them to navigate everyday space. This sensitivity to sound spaces generates geographical (aur/imagin)ations, which are in turn subject to study from within the discipline of geography.
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Milligan, Christine. "Towards a restructured geography of care : space, place and the voluntary sector." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366965.
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Begum, Halima. "Commodifying multicultures : urban regeneration and the politics of space in Spitalfields." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2004. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1779.
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Spitalfields, within close distance to the City of London. has been subject to intense regeneration and gentrification in recent years. This thesis investigates the use of culture in promoting urban regeneration. This thesis analyses the role of multiculturally based regeneration in Spitalfields and assesses the possibilities for civic engagement in a number of recent regeneration initiatives. I argue that regeneration in Spitalfields has taken a cultural turn, and that a new set of discourses is present in regeneration practices. These new forms of regeneration practices demand a different kind of interpretation. This distinctiveness in policy consists of the use and mobilisation of 'culture' and 'multicultural capital' as tools for regeneration. Most notably the study's timing during a phase of intense change sets it apart as one of the few studies undertaken of the complex relationship between the new cultural industries, multicultural capital and the practice of selling places. The study's theoretical framework draws from a range of inter-disciplinary literature on urban space. cultural politics and feminist theory. In capturing a series of moments that took place between 2000 and 2003,1 analyse a range of regeneration initiatives but focus closely on three case studies: the construction of Banglatown in Brick Lane, the Rich Mix Centre for London, and the annual street festivals/melas that took place in 2001 and 2002. I focused on two sets of respondents - young people and young Muslim women whose experiences of regeneration raise unsettling questions of inclusion and exclusion in/through space. Cumulatively these sites are key examples of Spitalfields' multi-cultural spaces. They extend a sense of promise to all its residents in the hope of a cosmopolitan future or progressive city politics. The tensions from these cultural strategies pose challenges for thinking about the place of citizenship in urban multicultures. The research findings point to a sophisticated understanding of the relationship of ethnicity, gender, commerce and public space.
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Olson, Jeffrey L. "The Evolution of Urban-Rural Space." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1376926850.
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Sleeman, Matthew. "Geography and the Ascension narrative in Acts /." Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780521509626.
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Popplewell, Rowan. "Creating spaces for peace? : civil society, political space, and peacebuilding in post-war Burundi." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:de8ceecd-10b6-435e-9b1c-0747fcb3b335.
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This thesis examines civil society, political space, and peacebuilding in post-war Burundi by critically engaging with international discourses and considering the extent to which they reflect the experiences and perspectives of activists on the ground. It is based on qualitative research with civil society groups and the individuals that work for them in Burundi. Fieldwork took place over five months between July 2014 and April 2015. This was a period of crisis in which civil society faced mounting restrictions, from the introduction of legislation that banned public gatherings, to the harassment and intimidation of prominent activists. The thesis analyses the extent to which civil society groups were able to navigate these constraints to create and maintain spaces for peace that transform dominant social norms which produce violence and repression. It also considers the factors that frustrated these efforts, from the sustained influence of past violence and trauma, to the climate of fear and uncertainty that emerged following the 2015 elections, and the divisive elite politics that continues to disrupt everyday peace in Burundi. It finds that emerging policy discourses on political space fail to engage with the historical, political, and discursive nature of government restrictions in Burundi, and the temporal and relational dimensions of violence, especially the ways in which it shapes the everyday lives of activists and their ability to challenge the institutions and structures within which violence is reproduced. The research situates these experiences in historical context â a process that enables it to consider broader questions about the evolution of civil society and the extent to which it becomes embedded in post-conflict contexts once international funding and attention decreases and external peacebuilding activities conclude. Civil society groups in Burundi received significant support from the international community in the post-war years, yet increasing restrictions suggest that the Burundian government has not accepted the presence of certain organisations which it views as a threat to its political authority and legitimacy. This leads the thesis to argue that curbs on civil society should be seen as part of a broader pattern of resistance to international peacebuilding in Burundi.
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Fortney, Christopher. ""Who Made You The Graffiti Police?": Graffiti, Public Space, and Resistance." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1400074289.
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Chow, Man-hong. "An evaluation of existing open space in Hong Kong : GIS & location allocation modeling approach /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14015699.
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Holloway, Julian James. "Sacred space : a study of the New Age movement." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266902.
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Mele, Marcela. "Transition stories : politics of urban living space in Tirana city region, Albania." Thesis, University of Hull, 2010. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5804.
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This thesis contributes to the geography of urban transition and to the expansion of knowledge of the post socialist city. Although many cities in transitional countries have inherited similar forms of housing and infrastructure provision and urban development from communist regime, there are important differences in the ways in which the recent decentralization and deregulation of urban development has impacted on, and activated, suburban land development interests and processes. There are different 'transition stories' yet to be revealed about urban development patterns, processes and politics in particular countries. A case in point is the process of suburban development in the capital city-region of Albania, Tirana, which exhibits some unique regulatory conflicts as it moves towards an ostensibly more liberal, free-market and decentralized urban development system. By focusing on the case of Tirana, this thesis provides an example of such multiple 'transition stories' of post-socialist urban development and its politics. This thesis aims to contribute to the limited literature on the politics of urban development in Albania during the transition period. It forms the context for the empirical analysis of local transition stories in Tirana city region, examined from the perspective of property rights and livelihood strategies. It concerns the underpinning role of property knowledge in shaping livelihood strategies in the post socialist city. One key argument that transcends all research questions is that local politics in the living urban space of the Tirana city region is not yet competitive (of a city and suburban area), but remains fundamentally contested. An explanatory analysis is presented of contemporary policy based on secondary and primary data about not only the regulation of new urban spaces, especially in suburban areas of Tirana, but also local property knowledge as it has evolved and is shared between different actors in Tirana city region. This will reveal how transition stories intersect and interact with the new socio-political context. This thesis was written between 2006 and 2010 and used a triangulation of qualitative approach through semi structure interviews, focus groups, and direct observation of local officials in Tirana city region.
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Watkins, Helen. "Fridge space : journeys of the domestic refrigerator." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/969.
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My dissertation emerges from a curiosity about the mundane objects and machines with which we live and it pauses in Britain’s kitchens to ask what we might learn from looking in the fridge. Considered by many to be a rather ordinary and unremarkable appliance, the refrigerator forms a virtually ubiquitous backdrop to routine activities of feeding, provisioning and storing, but rarely is it brought into explicit focus.
This study traces the ‘career’ of the mechanical refrigerator and is based upon interviews and archival work in Britain. I unravel intersecting histories and geographies of cooling, discuss a global trade in ice, explore changing understanding of the nature of heat and cold and show how varied ideas and technologies contributed to achieving the creation of artificial cold. The means by which these techniques were translated into the home is central to my discussion and I show how the domestication of refrigeration also played a role in the reconfiguration of associated practices, such as freezing, shopping and eating. I consider the process of normalisation through which refrigerators shifted category from novel products to essential appliances and argue that in many ways the refrigerator has now become integral to the constitution of domestic space.
My research follows the lifecourse of the refrigerator and its journeys through multiple sites and spaces, enabling me to analyse diverse refrigerator knowledges and practices from repair shops and recycling facilities to scrap yards and museums, in addition to the home. Although using a refrigerator is frequently dismissed as something ‘self-evident’ or ‘obvious,’ I argue that fridge practices are not innate but learned. I explore ways in which these knowledges travel and pay particular attention to the translation of scientific and technical knowledges into domestic contexts. The ‘reach’ of the domestic refrigerator is considerable and I use one of the more notorious moments in its career, when refrigerators were implicated in global climate change, as a way to show how day to day activities like chilling milk and lettuce can have far-reaching effects at a range of scales.
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Heyman, Richard. "Locating civil society : knowledge, pedagogy, and the production of public space /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5610.
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Maier, Gunther, and Partick Lehner. "Does Space Finally Matter? The Position of New Economic Geography in Economic Journals." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2001. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6099/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2001_01.pdf.
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This paper presents an empirical analysis about the position new economic geography plays in economics. In a theoretical review we discuss recent developments in economics, like new trade theory, endogenous growth theory, and new economic geography and analyze their implications for spatial structure. The paper presents the basic components of these theories and points out their commonalties. This shows that all these theories are based on assumptions that lead to spatial structure, i.e. differences in the spatial allocation of economic activities.
In the empirical investigation we use the Social Science Citation Index to analyze citations of seminal contributions in various types of journals and the rate with which geographical content appears in economic journals. As we show, spatial topics still play only a marginal role in economics. Economists it seems are still reluctant to accept the spatial implications of their own theoretical models.Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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Halvorsen, S. T. "Subverting space in Occupy London : rethinking territoriality and the geography of social movements." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1462587/.
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This thesis argues that territoriality is a crucial yet underexplored spatiality of social movements and rethinks it as a dialectical process of struggle, in light of the 2011 wave of occupation-based uprisings. It argues that dominant understandings of territoriality remain trapped within definitions of hierarchical strategies to control people and things in space. Moreover, it is suggested that the predominance of network-based approaches to theorising social movements has provided little room for a detailed engagement with territoriality. The thesis starts by opening up territoriality to the dialectical thought of Henri Lefebvre and John Holloway, and reorients it towards the antagonisms of power-to-against-power-over and the appropriation-against- domination of space. Rather than a top-down strategy of exerting power-over, the thesis argues that territoriality should be seen as inherently dialectical in character, part of an ongoing process of subverting space towards new social relations and values. Based on militant research with Occupy London - consisting of a seven-month ethnography, forty-three in-depth interviews, and archival analysis – the thesis then maps out and explores the ways in which this movement produced territoriality as a key spatiality of its politics. The thesis argues that territoriality was produced through four core sets of practices: taking space; encountering space; holding space; and losing space. It deals with each territorial practice in turn, exploring how they are productive of territoriality, and drawing out central antagonisms. It then argues that paying attention to these practices not only allows us to rethink territoriality as a spatiality of relevance to radical social change, but that it makes us alert to the contradictions and tensions that underlie social movements and the possibilities for negotiating them. In this way the thesis speaks not only to theoretical debates on the geography of social movements but also to practical concerns of contemporary activism.
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Klein, John. "Mississippian Space and Place| A Geographical Study of Archaeological Site Data in the American Bottom." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10275281.
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This paper investigates geographical conditions that may have helped the establishment of settlements throughout the American Bottom Region of the Middle Mississippi River Valley dating to the Mississippian Period. Archaeological sites and various geographical variables are obtained from many sources, including the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency central database, LiDAR digital elevation models, reconstructed pre Columbian landscape landform assemblage maps, soils data compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture, and geographic proximity models generated using a GIS. The known archaeological sites are pooled with a sample of non-sites from the study area. The entire sample of sites and non-sites is modelled in a logistical regression to distinguish sites from non-sites through qualitative and quantitative geographical variables. This analysis reveals that people living in the American Bottom region at the time of the establishment of the Mississippian period appear to have settled in areas that were relatively higher in elevation on the landscape, that were suitable for farming, and were possibly in the nearby vicinity of natural resources including access to fresh water and minerals.
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Nolan, Laura-Jane. "Space, politics and community : the case of Kinning Park Complex." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6771/.
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This thesis is about space, politics and the community. It examines how spatial politics constitutes a community through time. It explores the way that urban governance interacts with community politics, and more importantly, how people can rework politics through spatial practices. The thesis scales down to focus on a case study of Kinning Park Complex (KPC), an independently run community centre that was saved from closure by building users in 1996 following a 55 day sit-in. I track the trajectory of this space since 1996, to investigate the resourcefulness of the community to withstand multiple crises at local and national levels. KPC is a valuable social and political space that continues to exist in, against, and beyond neoliberalism. I focus on the paradoxical nature of KPC, as the space appears in-line with the current government plans to expand third sector projects in a context of austerity, whilst simultaneously striving to function as a non-hierarchical and not-for profit space. It is both an important site of social of reproduction and a symbolic community space. Through participatory methods and ethnographic observations, I have explored the social practices at KPC to investigate what they reveal about social relations and the structural problems that independent spaces face in the context of austerity. I draw upon the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière to elucidate the contradictions in their theoretical disagreement by relating their ideas to the rich empirical material that I gathered at KPC. Finally, I draw upon Doreen Massey to bridge this theoretical divide and to provide an essential spatial context to my work. The thesis brings to light the complexities, contradictions and tangible forms of labour involved in simultaneously struggling against, and providing services autonomously from, the state during austere times.
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Mysak, Mark. "The Environmental is Political: Exploring the Geography of Environmental Justice." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30497/.
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The dissertation is a philosophical approach to politicizing place and space, or environments broadly construed, that is motivated by three questions. How can geography be employed to analyze the spatialities of environmental justice? How do spatial concepts inform understandings of environmentalism? And, how can geography help overcome social/political philosophy's redistribution-recognition debate in a way that accounts for the multiscalar dimensions of environmental justice? Accordingly, the dissertation's objective is threefold. First, I develop a critical geography framework that explores the spatialities of environmental injustices as they pertain to economic marginalization across spaces of inequitable distribution, cultural subordination in places of misrecognition, and political exclusion from public places of deliberation and policy. Place and space are relationally constituted by intricate networks of social relations, cultural practices, socioecological flows, and political-economic processes, and I contend that urban and natural environments are best represented as "places-in-space." Second, I argue that spatial frameworks and environmental discourses interlock because conceptualizations of place and space affect how environments are perceived, serve as framing devices to identify environmental issues, and entail different solutions to problems. In the midst of demonstrating how the racialization of place upholds inequitable distributions of pollution burdens, I introduce notions of "social location" and "white privilege" to account for the conflicting agendas of the mainstream environmental movement and the environmental justice movement, and consequent accusations of discriminatory environmentalism. Third, I outline a bivalent environmental justice theory that deals with the spatialities of environmental injustices. The theory synergizes distributive justice and the politics of social equality with recognition justice and the politics of identity and difference, therefore connecting cultural issues to a broader materialist analysis concerned with economic issues that extend across space. In doing so, I provide a justice framework that assesses critically the particularities of place and concurrently identifies commonalities to diverse social struggles, thus spatializing the geography of place-based political praxis.
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Laws, Ben. "Emotions in prison : an exploration of space, emotion regulation and expression." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/280669.
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Emotions remain notably underexplored in both criminology and prisons research. This thesis sets out to address this problem by centralizing the importance of emotions in prison: especially the way prisoners express and regulate their affective states. To collect the data, 25 male and 25 female prisoners were 'shadowed', observed and interviewed across two prisons (HMP Send and HMP Ranby). Based on these findings, this thesis describes the emotional world of prisoners and their various 'affective' strategies. The three substantive chapters reveal the textured layers and various emotional states experienced by prisoners: first, at the level of the self (psychological); second, as existing between groups (social emotions); and, third, in relation to the physical environment (spatial). An individual substantive chapter is dedicated to each of these three levels of analysis. A primary finding was the prevalence of a wide range of 'emotion management' strategies among prisoners. One such strategy was emotion suppression, which was extremely salient among both men and women. While this emotion suppression was, in part, a product of pre-prison experiences it was also strongly influenced by institutional practices. Importantly, there was a strong correlation between prisoners who suppressed emotions and who were subsequently involved in violence (towards others, or inflicted upon themselves). A second key finding was the wide range of emotions that exist within, and are shaped by, different prison spaces-previous accounts have described prison as emotionally sterile, or characterised by anxiety and fear but this study develops the idea that prisons have an 'emotional geography' or affective 'map'. The study findings have implications for the 'emotional survivability' of our prisons; the need to open legitimate channels for emotional expression; and designing prisoners that are supportive, safe and secure establishments for prisoners to live in.
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Yeboah, Godwin. "Understanding urban cycling behaviours in space and time." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2014. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/21611/.
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The aim of this research thesis was to understand how the urban built environment interacts with utility cycling behaviours in space and time. Using mixed methods entrenched in the philosophy of pragmatism, the research contributed to an as yet under-developed research evidence-base within the British context by addressing the gap in knowledge relating to: the usability of spacetime and action space theories within visual analytics context in facilitating the knowledge discovery process from spatio-temporal datasets; empirical evidence on perceived and actual movement behaviour of urban utility cyclists; methodological advancement in collecting, refining, analysing and visualising detailed utility cycling behaviours in a British urban environment. Findings suggest that 57.4% of cyclists’ bike trips were found on the cycle network and with 42.6% of cyclists still cycling outside the designated cycle network; it is therefore imperative that policy initiatives aimed towards strategic investment in cycling behavioural research and infrastructure. The findings also showed a higher concentration of cycling uptake around the south-eastern part of Newcastle upon Tyne suggesting this area may need more investment than other areas in Tyne and Wear. Systematic comparison of GPS data and travel diary data suggest 8.4% under reporting of the former. The null hypothesis that urban transport network restrictions do not have any significant influence on movement of commuter cyclists was rejected upon examination and it was found that observed routes tend to be significantly longer than their shortest path counterparts. Profiling activity spaces of utility cyclists utilising different geographies was found to be useful in the examination of cycling behaviours for the purpose of providing visual aid for planners and policy makers to identify areas for improvement and informed investment in support of sustainable transport. Several efforts were being made to enhance data availability to inform policy strategies, and facilitation of feasible solutions for improving the urban cycling infrastructure and encouraging more people to cycle as part of their daily commute, for which this research aimed to contribute by providing evidence on the use of the area’s cycling infrastructure by utility cyclists and spatial variability of cycling in space and time.
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Sjöquist, Rafiqui Pernilla. "Evolving economic landscapes : institutions and localized economies in time and space." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Samhällsekonomi (S), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-958.
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Rush, Johnathan F. "A Visualization Strategy for Analyzing High Volumes of Space-time Activity Data." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253550799.
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Waters, Jacken. "Producing space and reproducing capital in London's Olympic Park : an ethnography of actually-existing abstract space." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65087/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between the production of urban space and the reproduction of capital. Taking the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a case study, I conducted ethnographic research during the London 2012 Olympics and the Park's first 'Legacy' year. My research proceeded from an embodied walking practice (which prompted reflection on my transgender presentation as a complicating factor), and also included interviews and archival research. My analysis centres on Henri Lefebvre, situating his work on space within a concern for the relationship between everyday life and the concrete abstractions constituted therein. Taking this relationship as essential to the reproduction of capital, I explore the production of the Olympic Park as an actually-existing abstract space that mirrors the dual character of the value form. I open my account of this production with the Olympic festival, a total social moment mobilised towards the realisation of value. I then examine each of Lefebvre's three formants of abstract space in turn. I present the construction of the Park as the materialisation of an abstractly conceived space designed to incorporate a disordered post-industrial space into a new mode of accumulation. I frame the inhabitation of the Park in its Legacy era as a temporalisation of empty space, arguing that abstract time is co-constituted with abstract space in internally contradictory everyday practice. And I address the incorporation of the Park into a set of post-industrial, anti-urban, and leisureoriented spaces that form a representational space reflective of the movement of capital in its ascendant, financialised, form. I conclude with a discussion of the Olympic Park as 'catalyst', securing the reproduction of capital by encouraging further redevelopment, but also sharpening capital's contradictions as an abstract space in conflict with its own concrete content, predicated on the subsumption of the utopian potential of everyday life.
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Williams, Alison Jean. "Aviation technogeopolitics and the materialisation of the Pacific as United States space, 1918-1941." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:13608.
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This thesis develops a new concept - the 'technogeopolitical project' - that analyses the processes and mechanisms through which the existence of the recursive relationship between a chosen technology and geopolitics can be understood. The chosen case study is the US Government's desire to materialise the Pacific as US space during the interwar period. Several processes and mechanisms are analysed and discussed under the auspices of this 'project'. They include the development of military war plans, the planning and construction of Pan American Airways' transpacific commercial air routes, the drafting and implementation of various legislative documents, and the undertaking of surveys of numerous Pacific locations to site aviation facilities. Taken together, these processes constituted the technogeopolitical project that territorialised the Pacific Ocean as US space in the interwar years.
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Schreyer, Nadine B. "Space, Place, and Self: The Art of How Environment Shapes Us." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1228821690.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Kent State University, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 21, 2010). Advisor: Isabel Farnsworth. Keywords: Cognitive mapping; self and place; sculpture and geography; sculpture; geography. Includes bibliographical references (p. 20-21).
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Cao, Yinghui. "MAPPING THE ECOLOGICAL INTERVIEW: GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION FOR EXPLORING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ACTIVITY SPACE DATA." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/88265.
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There is ever greater recognition in the social and health sciences that neighborhood context should be incorporated in studying human behavior. In terms of analyzing urban human behavior, activity space data (i.e. data associated with an individual's home and routine activity locations) can offer diverse information. However, it is challenging to explore and interpret activity space data, which often involve qualitative and quantitative variables describing both the environment and people's travel-activities. This paper will present a prototype software environment to visualize qualitative and quantitative urban activity space data. A system is developed to visualize the data generated by the Ecological Interview, a method for collecting activity space data, social network data, and perception of place data. This application integrates data on adolescents' travel behaviors, as well as their individual, social and community resources, by mapping subjects' activity spaces using multiple visual attributes (e.g. symbolization, color). Users can investigate the activity space data through an interactive interface developed using a commercial GIS software package. The case studies show how the visualization assists in the exploratory studies of activity space data. The visualization can also be used in post-modeling analysis through in-depth investigation of the multiple attributes for the best-fit and worst-fit cases.
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Protsiv, Sergiy. "Attraction and repulsion : modelling interfirm interactions in geographical space." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Marknadsföring och strategi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2154.
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More than three quarters of the world’s economic activity is concentrated in cities. But what drives people and firms to agglomerate in urban areas? Clearly, some places may offer inherent benefits due to the location itself, such as a mild climate or the presence of natural harbours, but that does not tell the whole story. Rather urban areas also offer spaces for interaction among people and firms as well as the proximity to potential partners, customers, and competitors, which could have a significant impact on the appeal of a location for a firm. Using multiple novel methods based on a unique detailed geographical dataset, this dissertation explores how a location’s attractiveness is impacted by the presence of nearby firms in three studies. The first study explores the influence of the density of economic activity on wages at a given location and attempts to disentangle the separate mechanisms that could be at work. The second study is concerned with the locations of foreign-owned firms and more specifically whether foreign-owned firms are more influenced by agglomeration benefits than domestic firms. The final study switches from modelling the effects of location to modelling the location patterns themselves using economic theory-based spatial point processes. The results of these studies make significant contributions to empirical research both in economic geography and international business as a set of theoretical propositions are tested on a very detailed dataset using an advanced methodology. The results could also be of interest for practitioners as the importance of location decisions is further reinforced, as well as for policymakers as the analyses explore not only the benefits but also the detriments of agglomeration. Sergiy Protsiv is a researcher at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics. He participated in several projects on clusters and regional development, most notably the European Cluster Observatory.Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2012
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Neubauer, Eric C. "Deconcentration, time-space convergence, and metropolitan dominance : the spatial reorganization of the U.S. urban system, 1940-1990 /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486398528557756.
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Fan, Junchuan. "Modeling space-time activities and places for a smart space —a semantic approach." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5752.
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The rapid advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) has dramatically changed the way people conduct daily activities. One of the reasons for such advances is the pervasiveness of location-aware devices, and people’s ability to publish and receive information about their surrounding environment. The organization, integration, and analysis of these crowdsensed geographic information is an important task for GIScience research, especially for better understanding place characteristics as well as human activities and movement dynamics in different spaces. In this dissertation research, a semantic modeling and analytic framework based on semantic web technologies is designed to handle information related with human space-time activities (e.g., information about human activities, movement, and surrounding places) for a smart space. Domain ontology for space-time activities and places that captures the essential entities in a spatial domain, and the relationships among them. Based on the developed domain ontology, a Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model is proposed that integrates spatial, temporal and semantic dimensions of space-time activities and places. Three different types of scheduled space-time activities (SXTF, SFTX, SXTX) and their potential spatiotemporal interactions are formalized with OWL and SWRL rules. Using a university campus as an example spatial domain, a RDF knowledgebase is created that integrates scheduled course activities and tweet activities in the campus area. Human movement dynamics for the campus area is analyzed from spatial, temporal, and people’s perspectives using semantic query approach. The ontological knowledge in RDF knowledgebase is further fused with place affordance knowledge learned through training deep learning model on place review data. The integration of place affordance knowledge with people’s intended activities allows the semantic analytic framework to make more personalized location recommendations for people’s daily activities.
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Kaiser, Natalie. "La Habana es La Habana: tourism, heritage and symbolic space in Havana, Cuba." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95050.
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After more than fifty years, the Cuban socialist regime continues to survive against steep odds. The transition that Cuba has had to face since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 has led to the implementation of a number of policies that have drastically altered the social, cultural, political and economic landscape of the country. My research focuses on the fundamental contradiction that exists between Cuba's socialist political system and the market capitalism of the tourism industry in Havana, Cuba. I am especially interested in how the State attempts to resolve this contradiction. Drawing on qualitative research, I argue that the Cuban state creates visual and discursive narratives through which it manages these contradictions. I show how imaginaries created through tourist maps and through restoration policies in Old Havana consist of highly malleable symbolic landscapes that the Cuban state utilizes in order to maintain the status quo in the face of an uncertain future.Après plus de cinquante ans d'existence, le régime socialiste Cubain continue de survivre malgré d'innombrables obstacles. Cuba a dû faire face à plusieurs changements depuis la chute de l'URSS en 1989, et ceci a contribué à l'inauguration de plusieurs politiques qui ont grandement changé l'espace politique, social et économique du pays. Ma recherche porte sur la contradiction fondamentale qui existe à Cuba entre le système politique socialiste et le système économique qui est aujourd'hui axé sur des principes capitalistes. Me basant sur des techniques de recherche qualitatives, je démontre que l'état Cubain gère ces contradictions en créant des espaces discursifs et visuels. Ces espaces, notamment présents à travers des cartes touristiques et des politiques de restauration de la vielle Havane, sont des espaces symboliques hautement flexibles utilisés par l'état Cubain dans un effort de maintenir le statut quo face à un futur incertain.
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Ostgaard, Gayra. "For "women only" understanding the cultural space of a women's gym through feminist geography /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1155218461.
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Ostgaard, Gayra Dee. "FOR “WOMEN ONLY”: UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURAL SPACE OF A WOMEN’S GYM THROUGH FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1155218461.
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