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Eldrenkamp, Kristina E. (Kristina Eva). "Spaces between places." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108936.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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In a fast-forwarded Brooklyn, the over-building of luxury towers leads to a real estate bubble burst. Waterfront rents stagnate, and entire buildings sit abandoned. In a city defined by divisions, a social movement emerges. An architect and her band of social subversives descend on an empty tower. They begin altering their living spaces with deviant acts of connection. United by an opposition to divisions, they wage a war on the party wall. The ideology of the existing plan is at odds with the ideology of its occupants. The plan relies on privacy and separation, leaving social programs near the street and far from everyday living spaces. The social subversives are wary of the intolerance produced by the echo chambers of their Twitter feeds and believe that home can be a space of resistance to neo-tribalism, if daily ritual is interrupted by interactions with the other. Their manifesto reads, "We aim to reveal, to conceal, to upend the everyday through a new set of architectural operations." The operations take on the redundancies of side-by-side private programs and elicit new types of social interaction. An opening in the wall above a dining room table, for example, allows neighbors to momentarily become company for a meal. The manipulation of the interior imbues the minutiae of domestic life with unexpected social forms. Over time, as markets shift and members of the group move on and out, the afterlives of these interventions vary. Some new neighbors accept them as idiosyncrasies of the city's housing stock. Most fight to undo them, but the acts have already been committed. However short-lived, they have already produced their intended effect, a disruption of the everyday.
by Kristina E. Eldrenkamp.
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Ko, Donghwan. "Domestic spaces in temporary places." Thesis, University of East London, 2017. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/6364/.
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I am interested in exploring the spaces that I have occupied in my past and the space I occupy in the present. How do I locate myself between opposing thresholds? How do I transition from one physical/psychological space to another? What is private and public? What is inside and outside? What should be revealed and what should be concealed? The space of the home is the most personal and private space; it is comfortable and it separates me from the outside world. But for me, a home is not a fixed space, but an imperfect space that changes or moves along with time. It is a temporary space that requires settlement and adaptation. Also a home is paradoxically comfortable, warm, complex, limited, temporary, divided, and empty. The spaces I have stayed in for a period of time have all become home to me, both psychologically or physically. I have thought about finding the meaning of the space I inhabit and considered what home means to me. As an artist living in an era where one moves around and has to remain flexible while staying for varying lengths of time in different accommodations and cultures, adapting to the role of the migratory citizen of this contemporary world.
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von, Bredow Kathryn Wing. "Gathering Spaces: Designing Places for Adolescents." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32954.
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Research shows that adolescents use places in the natural environment much differently from the general population. Research also shows that, when asked, adolescents express environmental preferences that reflect these differences. These differences in use and preference reflect new design challenges. This paper and design project explores how to begin designing places that address the unique needs and preferences of adolescents.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Fahey, Diane. "Places and spaces of the writing life /." View thesis, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030903.125424/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1999."An enquiry into the relationship between place and space, and the writiing life, with reference to journals and poetry written by Diane Fahey, and to works by Eavan Boland, Annie Dillard, and May Sarton" -- p. ii. Thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Media Studies, University of Western Sydney, Nepean. Bibliography : p. 259-264.
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Lagerman, Julia. "Queering Space in a Place Within a Place? : Geographical Imaginations of Swedish Pride Festivals." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354148.
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I have used Massey’s (1995) concept of Geographical Imaginations together with Ahmed’s (2006) Queer Phenomenology to research the different meanings attached to Pride festivals in Stockholm and Gothenburg. In this thesis, Pride is defined as a contested place, which is held in places. To research perceptions of Pride and its hosting cities, I have interviewed people with experiences from the Pride festivals and city council employees involved with them. I have also analysed communication and marketing material related to Pride and LGBTQ tourism in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The interviews and the published material showed that Pride as a place sometimes queers parts of the city space by changing them temporarily, making LGBTQ performances more visible. Meanwhile, the articulations of Pride made by city officials, employees and tourist marketing materials showed how LGBTQ rights were understood as dependent on space and time, where both the cities and Sweden were conceptualised as “ahead” in time compared to other places, defining human rights as a Swedish national trait and a tourist commodity.
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McDermid, Heather Jean. "Improvising spaces : places, spaces, and do-it-yourself performance in Vancouver, BC." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27921.
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This thesis examines and documents the performance and arts culture emerging from underground and off-the-grid arts spaces in Vancouver, BC. This study examines a small cross-section of the city’s underground performance culture, and places it in the context of its time and place to inquire into why and how it is developing, and the impact that it is having on the individuals and communities who shape it. This study makes use of both arts-based and qualitative research methods to collect and analyze information about the practical, social and political influences that are contributing to the emergence of this section of underground culture. This study has roots in my own work as an artist and participant in underground cultural activities, and has required that I consider my role as both an insider (artist) and outsider (researcher). The written portion of this thesis examines three interconnected aspects: what kind of art is being developed in these spaces? How might it be understood as a product of its ‘environment’? And what sort of impact is this form of art-making having on the individuals who take part and on the wider community? The analysis suggests that artists’, organizers’ and participants’ experiences with and perceptions of regulations and enforcement agencies, their material limitations, and social/political values and intentions play significant roles in defining the character of underground spaces, what kinds of artistic activity takes place and how it is organized. The artist book that accompanies this thesis aims to document the creative practices that are taking place, and to reflect them back to the people who are contributing to creating this cultural landscape. With this study and artist book I hope to both capture a snapshot of what is currently taking place in a section of the underground art scene, as well as produce a work that serves as an example of research-as-art.
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Shields, Rob. "Images of spaces and places : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235561.
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Eskandari, Maryam S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Women places and spaces in contemporary American mosque." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65546.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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There is an ever-present demand for Mosques in American cities to accommodate the more than 8 percent of the American population that are Muslims; the majority of which are American-born Muslims or American converts. However, Muslim-American communities have implemented the same architectural vocabulary of mosques seen in the Middle East into their American neighborhoods. Nevertheless, this architectural transplantation from the Middle East to America does not come without problems. The weaving of Middle Eastern architectural culture with an American application of Islam, which is prominent within Modern American society, gives rise to internal tensions felt within the community, in particular to the issue of Muslim women's' place in community mosques. Through the numerous case studies and investigations of the American Mosques that I documented, it is clear that the community does not provide adequate spaces for their women members. My thesis explores the process of modifying and developing a new architectural vocabulary for the American mosques within the confinements and boundaries in Islam, in particular, creating an adequate space for women. A lack of attention to the needs of American Muslim women in the states has caused a gender conflict over the adequacy of spaces for Muslim women within American mosques. For example, in the 2006 controversial documentary titled the "Mosque of Morgantown"1 , located in West Virginia, a significant dilemma was created dividing the Muslim community residing in the United States. The "Mosque of Morgantown" set the social precedent for some Muslim women to question some of the religious rulings regarding prayers and set the tone for numerous other protests, of which the most recent occurred at the Islamic Center of Washington DC. In early part of 2010, the Islamic Center of Washington D.C.2 had an outburst of escalating tensions between genders. Thirty Washington D.C. women united in protest and refused to pray in the basement of the mosque, which was their designated area of worship. Instead they decided to attend prayers under the same roof as the men during worship. This seemingly simple act of protest was frowned upon. The Imam of the mosque declared that the allocated rows were for men only. The presence of women in the rows resulted in the delay of the obligatory Friday prayer that is mandatory for men in Islam. Through these incidences, it is clear that an investigation of a new architectural expression, within the confinement of the religion, for women-driven spaces needs to be conducted.
by Maryam Eskandari.
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Lazley, Christopher Paul. "Spaces and places in Zakes Mda : two novesl." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8945.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92).The notion of place as something at once geographic, socio-cultural and psychological is a ubiquitous concern in the novels of Zakes Mda. It is surely not by chance that Mda's interest in the novelistic form, which materialised in the publication of Ways of Dying in 1995, was roughly coincident with South Africa's fledgling democracy a year earlier. The end of apartheid meant the opportunity of exploring new forms of cultural discourse untrammeled by the intense politicisation of art that had tended to collapse the literary with the didactic in rather one-dimensional ways. Mda's consideration of place, this thesis argues, is one instance of such an exploration. More specifically, it examines the intersection of the social and the spatial in two of his novels: Ways of Dying and The Heart of Redness. Starting at the junction of race, politics and literature, it moves into how the country's changing physical and political boundary lines have effected new ways of relating to its spaces. The focus of the Ways of Dying chapter is on urban space, where migrants and settled urbanites must reconcile the rather fragmented and cosmopolitan character of the city.
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Mews, Gregor Helmut. "Producing spaces, changing places : The role of play." Thesis, University of Canberra, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199894/8/50176183_SHOTZ_Thesis.pdf.
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Public spaces in cities offer a diversity of experiences, as well as the possibility to produce a variety of spaces. In the pursuit of the increased liveability of cities, these spaces are subject to targeted design interventions that are often based on instrumental functions. However, non-instrumental and informal encounters among strangers in urban life account for the dominant type of human social interactions. Arguably, play, as a type of informal and non-instrumental activity, can reveal the potential held by public spaces. Stevens’ (2007) research on ‘The Ludic City’ provides the theoretical foundation for the urban analysis of public space through play as an activity in comparison to established public life studies. This thesis fills a gap around the empirical application of play in public spaces to facilitate the understanding of public spaces through an activity as a form of spatial practice that makes up part of people’s everyday lives in urban core areas. The aim of the thesis is to develop and test a novel framework, labelled as PLAY framework, which allows researchers to comprehensively understand public spaces in a different way. Thus, the present thesis argues that the PLAY framework reveals certain qualities and dynamics in public spaces that are produced by play activities. The thesis uses two case study sites: Canberra, Australia and Potsdam, Germany. After testing and refinement of the PLAY framework, it will be compared to another public space study in Canberra, which uses established methods without an articulated focus on play. The case study in Potsdam functions as a validation case of the PLAY framework, allowing its potential for replicability in an intercultural context to be investigated. The thesis interrogates three sets of data: 1) data obtained through observational research in Garema Place, Canberra, derived from established methods;
2) data collected via mixed methods relating to the PLAY framework in the same location in Canberra, and;
3) data collected via this same PLAY framework in Potsdam, Germany.
The discussion formulates a response to the research questions, including a reflection on related theory regarding both the PLAY framework and the hypothesis. Overall, the data produced lateral findings that open up additional avenues for further research.
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Weilguni, Marina. "Streets, Spaces and Places : Three Pompeiian Movement Axes Analysed." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-153425.
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This study is an urban analysis of Roman Pompeii. It explores the spatial structure of the town just before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 72, and how public space was used for movement, activity and interaction between people. For this, Space Syntax was used, a topological method developed in the 1980s to analyse and plan modern urban contexts, based on the configuration of spatial systems in the axial and in the convex dimension, representing movement and “place” respectively. This method was used to establish an axial map of Pompeii, and to analyse the spatial configuration of three specific movement axes. The axial map strengthens one of the hypotheses discussed in current research about Pompeii, namely that of an older town nucleus in the west part of Pompeii. One part of the thesis is a hypothetical reconstruction of a town-wide traffic system for wheel-borne traffic. The routes were reconstructed to fit the archaeological evidence and meet certain other criteria, and were then independently checked against the axial analysis. As a conclusion, a regulated traffic system could be seen to have existed. A good case was made for how it could have worked. Another part of the thesis deals with the relation between public and interior space. The different types of interior spatial units lining the three chosen movement axes were investigated. The aim was to see how differences in both density of doorways and type of interface gave rise to different urban environments. It was found that commerce and a concomitant dense interface with many street doors largely followed the dimension of movement. The segmentation of public space along the movement axes was explored in order to gain an insight into which segments of space held specific functions, and how how these functions related to dense and less dense interfaces between public and interior space. This segmentation emphasizes official buildings and monuments, which are allowed to disrupt what is otherwise the norm for the permeable interface between exterior and interior space. As a result, the picture of a town with two different types of interaction between people emerges. On the one hand, both fleeting and more intense interaction was facilitated in those spaces where official buildings and monuments were prominent, and where group identity was stressed. On the other hand, the more unregulated interaction largely took place “along the road” between these spaces.
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Kleinhans, Erika. "Train : from spaces of potential to places of interaction." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31582.
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This dissertation investigates the role of Architecture in promoting participation, interaction and awareness of the public in sporting activities, specifically with regard to the underprivileged community of Hammanskraal. The problems with the existing sports facilities are the following: * the location of the facilities; and * the fact that even though they are public facilities, they do not necessarily act as public spaces. They are fenced off and cover a vast area of land without providing proper shade for the players and spectators. The proposed intervention addresses these problems through the introduction of sports facilities into the public realm. This is achieved through locating of these facilities next to a new railway station and pedestrian and vehicle route that crosses over the railway line (Fig 3). The proposal intends to create a threshold space for members of the community in which to interact through sport, trade, social and cultural activities. The programme will provide sports training fields, a multi -functional hall, a gymnasium, a station and retail facilities. The architectural response is informed by the following : * the amalgamation of sports facilities with the public space; * programmatic requirements; and * responses to contextual conditions.Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Peiris, T. D. H. "Public places in and around buildings and its impact on physical setting." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25799733.
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Egner, Justine E. "An Intersectional Examination of Disability and LGBTQ+ Identities In Virtual Spaces." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7149.
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This dissertation is a multi-methodological project that examines the experiences of being both LGBTQ+ and disabled from an intersectional perspective through narratives constructed in virtual spaces. In this project, I address the question ‘how do individuals who identify as both disabled/chronically ill and LGBTQ+ negotiate these often contradictory identities?’ I also complexify this intersectional analysis by examining how LGBTQ+/disabled identities are constructed in relation to race, class, and gender. Additionally, by conducting virtual ethnography as the primary method of data collection, I explore questions pertaining to how members of LBGTQ+ and disability online communities engage in virtual identity construction and virtual community building. Through these projects I seek to bring disability and LGBTQ+ identities into the intersectionality literature and discourse that has frequently excluded, and at times even ignored, these positionalities.
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Hutchinson, Laura. "From spaces to places : strategies of embodiment in modern art." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553715.
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White, Allen. "Legal spaces: resettled places : geographies of asylum in the UK." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312263.
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Evdoxia, Tsaousi. "Girlhood through film representation : Reconstructing spaces and places for girls." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183372.
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There is a scholar consensus that girls have been marginalized in childhood studies. Taking into account the gender effect in constructing different childhoods for boys and girls this thesis explores the frontiers of girlhood. Girlhood as being abandoned and not perceived in the here and now is constructed only in the future, namely in the frames of femininity and womanhood. This initiates pathology in the lives of girls. This thesis through film representation explored new constructions of girlhood. Two films Barbie as Rapunzel and Tangled based in the fairy tale of Rapunzel were explored through Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. The discursive constructions, the “preppy” girl and the “alternative” girl emerged accordingly as the versions of the “authentic” girl that is searching for her identity and leading to the “self-regulated” girl discourse as a way to reconstruct girlhood.These discursive constructions can be used in the reorientation of girlhood as they unravel the necessities that exist in girl studies.
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Guitner, Staci J. "Valued Spaces of Adolescents in a Rural Community." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36598.
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This study was conducted with the recognition that adolescence is a developmental stage in the human life cycle and that during this stage adolescents have unique outdoor needs and preferences. In general, the social and emotional needs of adolescents require that their environments provide opportunity for companionship. Within this context, the purpose of this study was to provide designers with information that can be used to assess environmental preferences. With this information at hand, a landscape architect can begin to understand the intricacies of designing a place for adolescents that supports their developmental needs and will be a place that they enjoy.
This study was a partial replication of a study Venues and Values conducted by Patsy Eubanks Owens (1987) in which the valued spaces of suburban teens in California were explored. Rather than studying suburban adolescents, this study focuses on rural adolescents in a southwest Virginia town. Adolescents at a local high school are used as the subjects for this study. They were asked to take photographs of their two most valued outdoor spaces. A questionnaire was then given to each student to gain information about characteristics of each valued space.
This study was a partial replication of a study Venues and Values conducted by Patsy Eubanks Owens (1987) in which the valued spaces of suburban teens in California were explored. Rather than studying suburban adolescents, this study focuses on rural adolescents in a southwest Virginia town. Adolescents at a local high school are used as the subjects for this study. They were asked to take photographs of their two most valued outdoor spaces. A questionnaire was then given to each student to gain information about characteristics of each valued space.Master of Landscape Architecture
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abdulkarim, dina. "The Restorative Effects of Livable Spaces." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338328457.
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Schröder, Nicole. "Spaces and places in motion spatial concepts in contemporary American literature." Tübingen Narr, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2820977&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Pazioni-Kalli, A. "Spaces of resistance – places of transformative learning : women's metamorphosis and empowerment?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.660473.
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The research reported on here is an investigation of the relations of Transformative Learning and Transformative Spaces. It is an interdisciplinary study aimed at exploring the interplay between space, culture, memory and identity in learning. In particular, it seeks a) to understand how our individual and social identities are determined by space and movement within/in-between/across/beyond space(s), and b) to establish a dialogic formation between and among concepts of social, spatial, gendered learning environments and their interaction with time in the production of collective action, democracy, and freedom. In this respect, its aims are to contribute to understandings of different power relations that influence knowledge construction, and about what can be learnt when people struggle for a more equitable society. In so doing, it draws from a very broad array of theorists but also from empirical investigation conducted in two ways: a) through a case study of a particular place (Greece), focusing on a social (political) movement emerged in the years of Greece’s military dictatorship, 1967-1974 and b) through a life history/biographical narrative study of four particular (Greek) women. The dissertation will bring to the fore a cultural analysis of the emergence of the movement as well as of the construction of gender identities within and beyond that movement. It will challenge views that seek only structural exegeses of social phenomena and relations by arguing that a social phenomenon cannot be analysed detached from the space and time that brought it about, thus pointing out the importance of context, in addition to aspirations, emotions, contradictory feelings and imagination in the processes associate with the concept of transformative learning.
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Durso, Holly Bellocchio. "Subway spaces as public places : politics and perceptions of Boston's T." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66801.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Subways play crucial transportation roles in our cities, but they also act as unique public spaces, distinguished by specific design characteristics, governed by powerful state-run institutions, and subject to intense public scrutiny and social debate. This thesis takes the case of the United States' oldest subway system-Boston's T-and explores how and why its spaces and regulations over their appropriate use have changed over time in response to public perceptions, political battles, and broader social forces. I use data collected from historical newspaper archives, published reports, and official agency records to detail how the city's subway authorities-first the Boston Elevated Railway Company, then the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), and presently the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)-have sought to manage and shape these unique underground spaces and simultaneously maintain an image of order and control within them. My research reveals and more closely examines three major factors that have influenced the changing controls over subway space usage in Boston: (1) the highly specific design constraints and unique physical aspects of the city's subway spaces; (2) evolving values and ideologies embedded within the transit agencies that are continuously seeking to promote a positive image of themselves; and (3) persisting public perceptions of subway spaces, many of which revolve around historical fears of the unknown and unfamiliar. By highlighting these complex hidden processes at work within Boston's underground realm, this thesis promotes a careful reexamination of a heavily used yet underappreciated urban space for the purposes of better understanding our experiences with and connections to the city.
by Holly Bellocchio Durso.
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Melvin, Jane. "Digital tools, spaces and places as mediators of youth work practice." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2017. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/36e798f8-8bde-4a6c-96ba-3ba41a787f07.
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In the context of English youth and community work, this research project investigates digital tools, spaces and places as mediators of youth work practice, and proposes a model formulated through the identification of expansive drivers to guide both professional conduct and curriculum-based practice. The lives of English young people today are shaped by technologies which make interaction in a variety of digital spaces and places possible, yet there are divided views within the youth work community of practice about the place of digital tools, spaces and places as mediators of informal learning in a discipline traditionally focused on association, relationships and critical dialogue. Supported by the conceptual framework of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), Developmental Work Research (DWR) techniques have been used to gather data from four English youth and community work practitioners through a workshop-based approach framed by CHAT pre-suppositions and the first three stages of Engestrom’s expansive learning cycle. The data analysis uses the four areas where contradictions can manifest within CHAT activity systems to examine how the use of digital tools, spaces and places aligns with youth work values and principles, and to examine how they can mediate informal learning opportunities with young people. The contribution to knowledge comprises the identification of four ‘spaces’ which are named as safety, production, information and communication, and which form the basis of a model to scaffold the professional use of digital tools, spaces and places as mediators of youth work practice. Expansive drivers, defined as the forces for learning, development and change, are identified within each of the spaces within the model and examined using continuum-based representations portraying professional practice and curriculum-based priorities. Metaphors of digital space and place emerging from within the DWR process are also appraised as a means to situate the work. The model is underpinned firstly by the premise that a youth worker’s choice of digital tool, space or place needs to be based on the needs and input of young people. Secondly, that using digital tools, spaces and places as mediators of youth work practice is most effective as an extension to existing face-to-face youth work where relationships between young people and youth workers have already been formed.
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Holley, Deborah Lindsey. "Spaces and places : negotiating learning in the context of new technology." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019304/.
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The need for a deeper understanding of students' experiences of e-learning, particularly amongst widening access students, forms the motivation for this work. The three key themes of higher education policy, tech nology- enhanced learning, and student personal space were used to develop a framework for analysing the match (or mismatch) between the potential learner's circumstances and how these circumstances impact on the ability of the learner to create their own unique learning environment. To enable a more intimate insight into student classroom and out-ofclassroom learning experiences, interviews using the 'Biographic- Narrative- Interpretative Method (BNIM)' were undertaken (Wengraf, 2001). These narratives enable personal and individual accounts of behaviour, and place the work within the phenomenological tradition. The findings reveal how students draw upon their life experiences outside of the university to 'colonise' their learning spaces, and to construct their view of 'self' as student. Further, their creation of this space impacts on those around them; control over one space seems to permit flexibility elsewhere. Students from deprived backgrounds face more complex challenges in trying to combine and prioritise the competing demands of education, work and family life. The implications from this study are that, in the context of a new managerialist agenda, government and university policy should incorporate a vision of the learning spaces offered to students, and take account of diverse student voices. Inside and outside of the formal classroom, tutors need to change their perceptions as to what is valued as meaningful knowledge construction. Furthermore, differing student experiences need to be acknowledged when designing appropriate and meaningful learning environments - including online environments.
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Gazzard, A. "Paths, players, places : towards an understanding of mazes and spaces in videogames." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/4804.
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This thesis contributes to the field of academic game studies by reworking and updating the established theories of Espen Aarseth, Janet Murray and Marie-Laure Ryan in understanding the path in videogames. It also draws upon the more recent theoretical discussions of figures such as Jesper Juul, Lev Manovich, Frans Mäyrä and James Newman in order to explore the player’s experience along these paths in the gameworld. By defining a vocabulary of routes through space, the thesis uses the maze in particular as a way of understanding the paths of videogames. The research starts by examining our cultural understanding of the maze within videogames. Various mazes around the UK were walked in order to understand their design and how this may translate into the virtual world of the videogame. The thesis examines the uses of real world mazes through the work of Penelope Doob, and Herman Kern to discuss how the videogame may rework our cultural understanding of the maze due to its increasingly ubiquitous nature. This enables a discussion of maze-paths found within many videogames that are not necessarily categorised by what is often discussed as the maze genre of games. A morphology of maze-paths is devised through comparing the mazes of the real world and the virtual mazes of the videogame. This is achieved by breaking down the maze into separate path types and shows how these paths may link to one another. The thesis argues that the paths of the videogame are generated by the player’s actions. Therefore the focus of this thesis is on the player’s experience along these paths and the objects found at points on them. In acknowledging how to overcome obstacles along the path it is also possible to understand the role of the path in the player’s learning and mastery of the gameworld. This leads to discussions of different types of play experienced by the player in the videogame. Play is separated into what I term purposeful play, being the activities intended by the designer, and appropriated play which is the play formed out of the player’s exploration of the game system. These two terms help to understand player’s incentives for playing along the ruled paths of the gameworld as well as exploring the game’s system further to find new types of play outside of the pre-determined rules. As this thesis is concerned with videogames involving the player’s avatar having a direct relationship with the path, the research also investigates what happens when certain devices break these paths. It was discovered that warp devices reconstruct both temporal and narrative elements within the gamespace, and cause the player’s avatar to temporarily move on tracks through the gameworld. In defining a vocabulary of movement through space on a fixed track, as opposed to a player-determined path, there is a further understanding of the player experience related to each type of route taken in the game. Through an understanding of the maze and defining a vocabulary of maze-paths, tracks and objects found along them, this thesis adds a new contribution to knowledge. It also acknowledges the importance of different types of play within videogames and how these can shape the player experience along the paths of the game.
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Parvu, Raluca. "Spaces of representation, places of identity : the case of post-communist Romania." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2005. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2246/.
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Feldman, Eric E. (Eric Evans) 1973. "From linear spaces to linear places : recycling rail corridors in urban areas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65992.
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To date, the reuse of abandoned railroad rights-of-way has occurred primarily in suburban and rural areas. However, a new generation of urban rail corridor conversions appears to be underway. More urban in more places than prior rail-to-trail projects, the next generation of rail corridor conversions reflects a broader and more complex notion of rail-to-trail projects. These urban projects are more likely to begin with goals and assumptions that look beyond the traditional emphasis on recreation and commuting. They also tend to be more sensitive to changing contexts along a single right-of-way, can serve as focal points or catalysts for other development efforts and involve a wide range of actors and funding sources. The unique opportunities and challenges of disused urban rail corridors suggest the need for new ways of designing and interpreting urban linear space, as well as the need for an expanded technical and financial resource base to support these efforts. This thesis pursues multiple objectives. Chapter 2 reflects on the basic characteristics of urban rail corridors, the linear attributes that make them desirable for reuse and the potential challenges of working in a linear landscape. The second part of this chapter describes the history and evolution of rail corridor conversions as a planning and urban design concept and surveys relevant literature on the subject. Chapter 3 considers existing urban rail-to-trail precedents and describes the most recent generation of urban rail-to-trail projects, drawing on the experience of five ongoing rail-to-trail conversion projects in Boston, Gainesville, Minneapolis, New York City and the District of Columbia. It identifies six typologies for thinking about urban rail-to-trail projects and highlights specific issues encountered in the planning and design of such projects. Chapter 4 contains a more detailed case study of efforts to convert the New Haven, Connecticut segment of the Farmington Canal rail corridor into a greenway. Chapter 5 concludes with a set of guiding principles and action items for future work in this area, as well as proposed directions for further research.
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Cowell, Gillian. "Curating places : civic action, civic learning, and the construction of public spaces." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/13062.
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This research involves understanding the civic learning that emerged from the ways individuals in two civic action groups, Greenhill Historical Society (GHS) in Bonnybridge, a deindustrialised location, and Cumbernauld Village Action for the Community (CVAC) in Cumbernauld Village, a Conservation Area, enacted their citizenship through the spatial (geographical) and temporal (historical) characteristics of their place. I use a citizenship-as-practice conceptualisation, where citizenship is not a status ‘given’ to individuals who have successfully displayed pre-requisite outcomes, but is a continuous and indeterminate practice through exposure to real challenges. To understand the learning occurring for, from and through their practices, I used Biesta’s theory of civic learning (Biesta, 2011). It involves a socialisation conception of civic learning as the adoption of existing civic identities, where individuals adapt to a given political order, and a subjectification conception which focuses on how political agency is achieved. The theory connects learning and action together, where Biesta argues socialisation involves the individual requiring to learn something in order to carry out the ‘correct’ actions in the future; however, subjectification involves action preceding learning, where learning comes second, if at all. I used a case study design and a psychogeographic mapping methodology involving secondary data analysis, psychogeographic mapping interviews and observations. Civic action emerged as a more central component than civic learning through my empirical analysis. The civic actions of GHS emerged as a case of reconsideration (redefining, re-meaning their location through interventions in public), and CVAC of reconfiguration (actions physically altering the landscape). These actions concerning space and time involved spatial shifts from mapreading to mapmaking, and temporal shifts from histories ‘of’ and ‘for’ the public, towards histories ‘by’ the public. Respondents became ‘curators’ of their places: from spectators to participants in making and representing spaces and histories that opened their locations to interruptions of the continuities of time. Attending to practices of citizens with space and time contains possibilities for public pedagogies that work ‘with’ context rather than just ‘in’, towards opening up opportunities for citizens to ‘become public’ as practices that trouble pre-existing arrangements and configurations.
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Tyrrell, Brenda Sue. "Imagining Other Spaces and Places: A Crip Genealogy of Early Science Fiction." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1624898363601246.
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Noussia, Julia Antonia. "Constructing spaces, representing places : a comparative analysis of open air museums in England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264662.
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Chan, Julie M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Beyond the white box : creating innovative art spaces that transform people and places." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66880.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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In the past few decades, arts organizations have played an increasingly significant role in the development of vibrant spaces that improve the livelihoods of people and transform the quality of the urban environment. Innovative art spaces - ones that devise new methods of approaching the creation of space using familiar elements - are gaining attention because of their ability to navigate the challenges of developing affordable and usable art space. These new models of art space, whether they are repurposed storefronts or sustainable buildings, have far-reaching effects on the physical, social, and economic fabric of their surrounding communities. This thesis examines four innovative art spaces in New York City, Boston, and the greater Los Angeles area. Each case study features unique approaches to space, programming, community engagement, cross-sector partnerships, funding, and sustainability. My focus is on the following questions: (1) What are the factors that make an art space innovative and transformative? (2) What are the successes and challenges in the development of these art spaces? (3) How can cities cultivate these types of art spaces? Through site visits, interviews with organizational leaders, funders, and other stakeholders, and research with secondary sources, I explore these questions and identify major themes that add to our understanding of how successful and innovative art spaces are conceived. This thesis offers recommendations for city planners, policymakers, arts organizations, and artist entrepreneurs on how to approach the development of art space, including adapting successful elements of these models in their own contexts.
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Kreston, Nicholas Alexander. "Post-Keynesian financial spaces, places, and flows : geographies of finance and financial crisis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ea77af2-650c-456a-a4c2-5ee67c83d293.
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This dissertation is a reaction to the public policy failures that culminated in, prolonged, and exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis in the United States. Between the winter of 2007 and the summer of 2009, the US private economy contracted severely. As of the summer of 2014, after a five-year recovery period, employment losses have been restored, but employment growth has not returned the US to its pre-crisis trend. This outcome is not the effect of a transient deviation that regularly happens as the economy moves through the business cycle; nor should the troubles in the US financial sector appear historically anomalous. The world's premier capitalist economy is prone to bouts of financial dysfunction. This feature is not simply a matter of the irrational exuberance of its investors, the euphoria of its speculators, or the folly of its bankers. I argue here that political-economic choices structure the distribution of financial crises at multiple scales. Broadly speaking, I find that the effects of financial crises on growth are uneven, affected by institutional structure, and carry important ramifications for the direction of change in the provision of financial services and its regulatory system. The thesis features four empirical chapters. In the first, I perform an econometric analysis of the effects of a wide variety of financial crises on employment growth by economic sector, for a sample of countries over a thirty-year period. The final three chapters are a case study of the US experience with the 2008 banking crisis and asset market crash, focusing on the role of the banking regulatory system in allocating losses over territory, on the economic performance of metropolitan areas, and on the distribution of losses within the financial sector in two major financial centers, Los Angeles and San Francisco. I reach my conclusions by using standard methodological tools within the sub-field of economic-geography and conceptual insights from the sub-field of financial-geography.
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Mattila, Heidi M. "The social construction of stay-at-home fathering across social spaces and places." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10250983.
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Stay-at-home fathers, male primary caretakers of their children, represent an emergent form of fatherhood challenging gendered stereotypes related to breadwinning, caretaking, and parenting. This study explores, from a social constructionist and feminist perspective informed by critical men’s studies, social psychology, and psychoanalysis, how stay-at- home fathering is socially constructed across gendered everyday social spaces and places. More specifically, the focus is on how the social dynamics within the everyday spaces and places of these men are shaped by cultural stereotypes and gendered interactions. Nine White, middle-class, college-educated, heterosexual stay-at-home fathers taking care of at least one child under the age of 12 and married to a breadwinning wife were interviewed. The transcribed interviews were coded using an inductive thematic analysis applying a narrative methodology. A typology of five social spaces and places is proposed and theorized. Each gendered space and place identified is associated with distinct affective experiences by the stay-at-home fathers and gendered social dynamics that oppress, affirm, or validate the men’s identity as male caretakers. The gendered stereotypes of “The Hero,” “The Pervert of the Playground,” “The Unwelcome Intruder,” “The Man Among Men,” and “The Communal Father” are proposed. Conceptually, gender dualism, the repertoire of possible male caretaker identities, and the challenges of embodied masculine caretaking are discussed. Stay-at-home fathers struggle with documented loneliness and social isolation; the findings presented have important clinical implications for counselors and therapists working with stay-at-home fathers.
Key words: stay-at-home father, identity, loneliness, isolation, stereotype, social interaction, gendered space, social geography, public spaces, private spaces, social dynamics, social constructionism, doing gender, masculine care, emergent masculinity, playground, playgroup, volunteering.
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Pierce, Monica Schaap. "Holy spaces and empty places a feminist pneumatology of the cross and resurrection /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p035-0108.
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Carpenter, Russell. "Political Spaces and Remediated Places: Rearticulating the Role of Technology in the Writing Center." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2190.
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Writing center directors (WCDs) often situate their programs in physical and virtual spaces without fully studying the pedagogical and political implications of their decisions. Without intense study, writing centers risk building programs within spaces that undermine their missions and philosophies. In The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre argues that "From the analytic standpoint, the spatial practice of a society is revealed through the deciphering of its space" (38). The study of space also reveals important political and financial priorities within the institution. Furthermore, the positioning of buildings and the spatial layout of a campus display the institution's priorities and attitudes toward writing center work. Theorizing the Online Writing Lab (OWL) through the lens of cultural and political geographies, it becomes apparent that the physical spaces of many writing centers are not as sustainable as WCDs might like, and in many ways, they are marginalized within the larger institution. This dissertation prompts a rearticulation of place and space in the writing center. In this dissertation, I argue that in an attempt to rethink current practices, the virtual space of the writing center should perpetuate, extend, and improve the social practices employed in our physical spaces. I draw from mapping exercises to inform my critique in an attempt to advance our understanding of writing center physical and virtual spaces. The changing geographical and cultural landscape of the institution demands that writing centers pay close attention to spatial implications as they employ technology to create dynamic virtual resources and more sustainable spaces. I rearticulate writing center spaces through cognitive and digital mapping, urban planning, and architectural theories. I make several contributions through this work: theoretical, to rearticulate the physical and virtual space of writing center work; political, to understand the constructions of the writing center's pedagogical spaces; and pedagogical, to understand best practices for creating virtual spaces that enhance learning, unlike those we have seen before or have had available in the writing center.Ph.D.
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Smith, Jill Marie. "(Un)Working Binaries, (Un)Doing Privilege: Narratives of Teachers Who Make Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Students." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338392562.
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Roark, Kendall L. "Authenticity, Citizenship and Accommodation: LGBT Rights in a Red State." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/168269.
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"Authenticity, Citizenship and Accommodation: LGBT Rights in a Red State" examines the discourse around volunteerism, exceptionalism, and queer citizenship that emerged within the context of a statewide (anti-gay) ballot initiative campaign in the American Southwest. I argue that the ways in which local volunteers and activists define themselves and their attempts to defeat the ballot initiative is tied to the struggle over the authority to represent local LGBT organizational culture and an emergent New West identity. In such a way, local debates over authentic western lifestyles that divide regional communities intertwine with intergenerational debates over gay liberation and rights frameworks, and the polarized discourse on blue and red states which have dominated the U.S. political climate of the past decade. While statewide campaign leaders with a base in Phoenix (the state capital) focused on polling data and messaging in order to stop the passage of the amendment, many Tucson activists and organizational leaders tied to the LGBT community center sought to strategize a long-term grassroots approach to change hearts and minds. Within this debate over campaign strategy and internal decision-making, both groups drew attention to the differences between the metropolitan areas. This regional example speaks to the ways in which established theoretical frameworks anthropologists utilize to understand social movements may prove insufficient for understanding the diversity that exists within the everyday processes of collective action. The internal messaging war that spilled outside of the confines of the campaign steering committee meetings into the pages of the statewide gossip and newspaper editorial sections also speaks to the ways in which official declarations of ideological stance should not be taken as the actual intent of those seeking change. One may shape one's personal story to be on message, choose to defy those constraints, or use the rhetorical strategy of the message without actually committing to the underlying premise. The broader national concerns are localized symbolically in the notion of blue and red counties, but also take on a regional flavor in the satirical call to statehood for the Southern Arizona. Here issues of authenticity emerge not only within the context of the campaign disputes around messaging, and by extension, who has the right to speak for and about the LGBT organizational community, but also in the realm of derisive banter that travels back and forth between the two major metropolitan areas over what it means to live an authentic western lifestyle. Within the southern metropolis, this discourse is framed by the notion that the western desert is a different sort of place, with a different sort of people and way of life that is threatened by snowbirds, retirees, Midwestern lifestyles and corporate interests. Often Phoenix to the north is seen as a representation of all these negative influences. In addition, Center-based activists and volunteers, describe their southern city in idealistic terms as an oasis for LGBT community, artists, activists, migrants, refugees, and all manner of progressive politics. Memory enacted through the telling of one's story at a Coming Out Day testimonial, political rallies and in dialogue with an anthropologist are shaped by these notions of difference. These notions of difference also emerge as a pattern in the narrative construction of space, violence and memory within activist life histories. These life histories in turn reveal a fragment of local LGBT organizational culture, in which the process of professionalization transforms the meaning of community, and the act of representation transforms the role of activist into that of the citizen volunteer. The community center in this sense is a memorialization of community and movement culture, and by idealizing what came before it masks material conditions at the same time that it offers up the potential of a more radical present/future. While the community center, Tucson and Pima County are coded as oases of safety, this image is continually disrupted by counter narratives, including the state-wide campaign to stop the marriage amendment; local support for the Protect Marriage and anti-immigrant amendments; and evidence of on-going violence directed against racial, ethnic and religious minorities and those who transgress hetero and gender normative expectations. These disruptions however appear to be cyclical in that they allow both professionals and concerned community members (citizen volunteers) to rally together in a show of strength and solidarity and in so doing represent the authentic, legitimate community. However, these disruptions may also allow for counter narratives to enter into public discourse, thereby offering up a more radical envisioning of community beyond the limits of LGBT organizational culture.
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Janiec, Grygo Milena Urszula. "Situating Migrants in Contemporary Japan: From Public Spaces to Personal Experiences." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6267.
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Within the broader literature on migration, Japan is often portrayed as straddling two categories, one of a homogenous country and another of a multicultural society. The arguments on both sides are supported through the historical evidence, analysis of media resources, as well as narratives of Japanese residents. This inquiry seeks to highlight voices of migrants within these debates. This dissertation focuses on the urban – rural residential experiences of international migrants in Kanto and Tohoku regions. This inquiry treats international migration processes in terms of moving between the contexts of different countries as well as between urban – rural locations. These global – local experiences of migrants are set within broader milieu of the social and spatial stratifications created through neoliberal competition. The theoretical framework for this analysis is based on post-structural understandings of identity, migration, and economy. This study draws on qualitative methods, including, ethnographic data, interviews, content and textual analysis of job advertisements, as well as cognitive mapping. These sources allow us to create a unique portrait of migrant subjectivity that pulls from different contexts of fluid, spatial identities which mediate migrants’ interpretations of living and working in neoliberal Japan. The findings of this dissertation support the thesis that intersectional social identities such as gender, ethnicity, and social class, have a spatial component.
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Moffat, Ben Lawrence. "Traditional places and modernist spaces, regional geography and northwestern landscapes of power in Canada, 1850-1990." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0032/NQ63960.pdf.
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Dackiw, Vladimir Nicholas. "Just spaces, just places : towards a theory of justice for human action in time and space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73265.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-166).
The public role of effectively guiding, evaluating and prescribing the physical places, patterns and forms we produce and live in according to commonly held external socio-political ideals has been extremely constrained by our limited knowledge of the significance and consequences of the physical environments we produce and live in, and by incomplete social and planning theories that isolate intentions from actions, processes from ideals, individuals from institutions, and space from society . Central to all of these limits of knowledge and fragments of theory is an inadequately developed theory of human act, acting, and action in space and time. We are unable to identify the significant patterns of human activity , in their forms and consequences, and we are unable to do so in an easily understandable way. Action is confused with acts and acting. For there to be an effective, significant and qualitative public debate we must first extend our knowledge of the significance and consequences of the environments we produce and live in, to include a theory of human action in these environments. Only after this theory has been developed can we effectively debate the forms that we produce according to commonly held socio-political ideals. Justice can exist in environments, and environments do contribute to justice. They can and do if we understand environments as structures of human action in time and space, and if we understand justice as a complex ideal consisting of aspects of equality, liberty, opportunity, participation, and difference.
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Forssman, Timothy Robin. "The spaces between places : a landscape study of foragers on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape, southern Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:11823954-08f8-4c0a-ae8d-77d7a8a855a3.
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Our understanding of the Later Stone Age (LSA) on the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape has until now been fairly limited. However, it is a landscape upon which foragers witnessed and partook in agriculturalist state formation between AD 900 and 1300, altering their cultural behaviour to suit their changing social and political topography. Nowhere else in southern Africa were foragers part of such developments. For this project a landscape approach was used to study the various changes in the regional LSA record as well as the way in which foragers interacted with farmers. In order to address these issues, data were obtained from an archaeological survey followed by an excavation of seven sites in north-eastern Botswana, part of the Greater Mapungubwe Landscape. These finds indicate that the local forager record varies chronologically and spatially, which had not previously been recorded. Foragers also used a variety of site types and in each a different forager expression was deposited, providing indications of their changing settlement pattern. Notably, this included a gradual movement into agriculturalist homesteads beginning by at least AD 1000 and concluding by AD 1300, when the Mapungubwe capital was abandoned. Thus, interactions, at least in some cases, led to assimilation. There is also clear evidence of exchange with agriculturalists at many of the excavated sites, but this does not always seem to be related to their proximity with one another. Performing a landscape study has also made it possible to make two general conclusions with regard to LSA research. First, these data challenge ethnography, displaying its limitations particularly with linking modern Bushman practices, such as aggregation and dispersal patterns or hxaro gift exchange, to LSA foragers. Second, a full landscape understanding combines the archaeology of multiple cultural landscapes and in this case also crosses national borders, two themes often neglected in southern African archaeological studies.
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Kilgore, Clinton Travis. "Familiar Places in Global Spaces: Networking and Place-making of American English Teachers in Sanlitun, Beijing." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1308074052.
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Boroughs, Jon Jason. "Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology of a Chesapeake Neighborhood through Enslavement and Emancipation, 1775--1905." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623359.
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This study is a community-level analysis of an African American plantation neighborhood grounded in archaeological excavations at the Quarterpath Site (44WB0124), an antebellum quartering complex and post-Emancipation tenant residence occupied circa 1840s-1905 in lower James City County, Virginia. It asserts that the Quarterpath domestic quarter was a gathering place, a locus of social interaction in a vibrant and long established Chesapeake plantation neighborhood complex.;By the antebellum period, as marriage "abroad," or off-plantation, became the most common form of long term social union within plantation communities, enslaved social and kin ties in the Chesapeake region were typically geographically dispersed, enjoining multiple domestic areas across dynamic rural plantation neighborhoods. Such neighborhoods came to comprise 1) Sets of interrelated places common across virtually all large Chesapeake plantations, and 2) Sets of social relationships that transcended plantation borders, becoming invested and embedded in local places over time.;This work examines the ways in which structures of community became embedded in a variety of familiar places across the Quarterpath neighborhood as enslaved persons appropriated plantation landscapes through habitual practices and meaningful bodily orientations. It expands the frame of reference beyond the core domestic homesites to embrace the other grounds and places where residents spent much of their time, places in which relationships were built with neighbors performing common tasks on familiar grounds. It offers new insights to archaeological analyses concerning African American domestic sites throughout the African Atlantic diaspora, envisioning home grounds as dynamic social configurations embedded within mosaics of local places that came to embody community, family, and roots. It is an archaeology of a community in transition but it is also an archaeology of landscapes. It adopts a methodologically innovative approach intended to address often overlooked interpretive contexts and horizons of meaning, exploring mechanisms of community development and associated processes of place-making in a pre- and post-Emancipation African American community.
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Molina, Jennifer Rose. "Public spaces or private places? Outdoor Advertising and the Commercialisation of Public Space in Christchurch, New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Political Science and Communication, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/935.
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This thesis examines the impact of outdoor advertising on public space, by situating outdoor advertising within arguments about global corporate domination. I argue that the implosion of commercial messages into ever-increasing amounts of public space has repercussions for our ability to relate to each other as anything other than commercial beings. Outdoor advertising necessitates the use of stereotypes to communicate with its audience. The regulatory mechanisms for advertising sanction this use of stereotypes, which puts commercial needs and rights to free speech before the public's right to distance itself from commercial messages and values. The discourses of advertising and its progenitors reinforce hegemonic conceptions of gender, class and ethnicity thereby imbuing space with values which do not encourage diversity but promote narrow and limiting options for the self. By carefully examining the 'entrepreneurial adexec' and 'public interest' discourses that surround outdoor advertising, I argue that its global privatising power has been able to continue without challenge, as potential criticisms are silenced before they are even articulated. It will be shown how the various regulatory mechanisms operating under discourses of 'public accountability' actually serve commercial interests rather than public interests by supporting private-public partnerships and focussing narrowly on the implicit meaning in ads. Particularly problematic representations of gender, class and ethnicity in outdoor ads will be analysed to discern the various ways these impose certain values on public spaces in Christchurch through the process of commercialisation. Finally, graffiti and billboard liberation as forms of cultural resistance to this commercialisation will be examined.
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Knox, Jay K. "Maneuvering Global Spaces by Marketing Local Places: The Process and Practice of Downtown Revitalization in Columbus, Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308318908.
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El, Haddad Marie. "Barcelona: Small-Scale Public Spaces." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/455143.
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Small-scale public spaces form an essential part of Barcelona’s urban development. During the beginning of the democratic era, Oriol Bohigas began the reconstruction of the city by creating small-scale public spaces of quality with the purpose of “higienizar el centro y monumentalizar la periferia”. They were applied in all the districts of Barcelona, with the intent of compensating for the loss of open spaces and segregation caused during the dictatorship. Thus, the city gained a series of small public spaces that recovered its urban fabric and provided a better quality of life and coexistence.
The means of creating these small-scale public spaces is through the ‘esponjamiento’ of the urban fabric, that involved a selective destruction of specific deteriorated sites and the redevelopment of residual spaces.
The study of the historic framework of these operations in Barcelona demonstrates that the creation of small public spaces through ‘esponjamiento’ is attributed to the GATCPAC’s sanitation plan for the old town, and the interventions of Adolf Florensa in the city.
This method originated from the concerns of urban hygiene in the 19th century. European industrial cities were suffering from epidemics, overpopulation and insalubrity, and the first measures of urban hygiene were through the ‘eventrement’ of the city, opening it up with large straight axes that crossed though its urban fabric eliminating everything in their path.
In Barcelona, the first initiative was by tearing down its walls and expanding into the Plain. Ildefons Cerdà drafted his expansion plan focusing a great deal on hygiene and ventilation and provided the blocks in his grid with small-scale interior courtyards.
As for the old town, early measures were taken through the ‘eventrement’ of the old fabric initially proposed by Cerdà and later redeveloped by Àngel Baixeras. Thus, began the opening of the Via Laietana that resulted in the loss of large amounts of historic and monumental buildings.
From that moment, the creation of small-scale public spaces through ‘esponjamiento’ was born as an alternative solution to large-scale demolitions and expropriations. And thanks to this procedure Barcelona gained a network of small-scale public spaces that still play an important role in our present day.Los espacios públicos de pequeña escala forman una parte esencial del desarrollo urbano de Barcelona. Al inicio de la era democrática, Oriol Bohigas empezó la reconstrucción de la ciudad creando espacios públicos de pequeña escala pero de gran calidad con el objetivo de “higienizar el centro y monumentalizar la periferia”. Estas intervenciones tuvieron lugar en todos los distritos de Barcelona, intentando así compensar la pérdida de espacios abiertos y la segregación causada durante la dictadura. De esa forma, la ciudad ganó una serie de espacios públicos de pequeña escala que contribuyeron a recuperar el tejido urbano y mejoraron la calidad de vida y la coexistencia. El medio para crear dichos espacios públicos de pequeña escala es el “esponjamiento” del tejido urbano, que implicaba una selección destructiva de zonas específicas deterioradas así como del desarrollo de espacios residuales. El estudio del marco histórico de estas operaciones en Barcelona demuestra que la creación de espacios públicos de pequeña escala a través del “esponjamiento” es atribuido al plan de higiene para la ciudad vieja de GATPAC y a las intervenciones de Adolfo Florensa en la ciduad. Este método tuvo su origen en la preocupación por la higiene urbana del siglo XIX. Las ciudades industriales europeas sufrían de epidemias, sobrepoblación e insalubridad general, Las primeras medidas de higiene urbana se llevaron a cabo a través del “eventrement” de la ciudad, abriendo largos ejes rectos que cruzaban el tejido urbano eliminando todo a su paso. En Barcelona, la primera iniciativa implicó la destrucción de las murallas y la extensión hacia el Llano. Ildefons Cerdà esbozó su plan de expansión centrándose en gran parte en la higiene y la ventilación y equipando los diferentes bloques de jardines interiores de pequeña escala. Con respecto a la ciudad vieja, se tomaron una serie de medidas iniciales mediante el “eventrement” del tejido antiguo propuesto inicialmente por Cerdà y luego reedificado por Àngel Baixeras. De esta forma, se empezó con la apertura de la Via Laietana que resultó en la pérdida de grandes cantidades de edificios históricos y monumentales. Desde ese momento, la creación de espacios públicos de pequeña escala mediante el “esponjamiento” se constituyó como una solución alternativa a las demoliciones y expropiaciones a gran escala. Y gracias a este proceso, Barcelona ganó una red de espacios públicos de pequeña escala que todavía juegan un rol importante a día de hoy.
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Knight, Kelvin. "Real places and impossible spaces : Foucault's heterotopia in the fiction of James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/50585/.
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This thesis looks to restore Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia to its literary origins, and to examine its changing status as a literary motif through the course of twentieth-century fiction. Initially described as an impossible space, representable only in language, the term has found a wider audience in its definition as a kind of real place that exists outside of all other space. Examples of these semi-mythical sites include the prison, the theatre, the garden, the library, the museum, the brothel, the ship, and the mirror. Here, however, I argue that the heterotopia was never intended as a tool for the study of real urban places, but rather pertains to fictional representations of these sites, which allow authors to open up unthinkable configurations of space. Specifically, I focus on three writers whose work contains numerous examples of these places, and who shared the circumstance of spending the majority of their lives in exile: James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald. In each case, I argue that these sites figure the experience of exteriority constituted by exile, providing these authors with an alternative perspective from which to perform a particular kind of contestation. In Ulysses, I argue, they allow Joyce to interrogate the notion of a unified Irish identity by bringing into question the space that constitutes the common locus upon which the nation is founded. In Nabokov’s Ada, they help the author to create a world that transcends the discontinuities of his transnational biography, but also serve to contest this unreal world. In Sebald’s fiction, finally, we find a critique of Foucault’s concept. In relation to the Holocaust, he questions the validity of the heterotopia by bringing into doubt the equation of space and thought upon which it is established.
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Hensley, Billy J. "Seeking Safe Spaces: The Impact of Campus Climate on College Choice." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1242669308.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.Advisor: Miriam B. Raider-Roth. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 3, 2009). Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Admissions; College Choice; Campus Climate; LGBTQ Studies; Queer Studies; Relational Development. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Holmstrand, Karin. "Co-working in Västerbotten : Exploring the potential of co-working places in sparsely populated areas in Northern Sweden." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184642.
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Over the past decades, the concept of ‘co-working’ has spread rapidly across the globe – however, mainly in urban areas. By contrast, this study focusses on the potential of co-working places in sparsely populated inland municipalities in Västerbotten, a region in northern Sweden with uneven population patterns. Aiming to explore whether co-working places would have the potential to contribute to altering the negative population trends by increasingly attracting teleworkers and by decreasing the need for long-distance commuting, the study is based on three research questions, concerning: 1) the potential of co-working places as an alternative workplace from the perspective of large organisations; 2) the potential of co-working places as a strategy for local development from the perspective of sparse municipalities; and 3) the potential of co-working places to contribute to the various aspects of sustainability. Nine semi-structured interviews were carried out with respondents from municipalities, large organisations and existing co-working places. Although the literature supports the theoretical merits of co-working places in sparse areas, the interviews show that the potential of co-working places in practice heavily depends on the number of potential co-working users, local conditions and time-specific trends in the society, including the Covid-19 pandemic. Ultimately, this exploratory study demonstrates that co-working places in sparsely populated areas is an increasingly relevant research area that deserves further attention.Under de senaste decennierna har begreppet ”co-working” spridit sig snabbt över världen, vilket också avspeglas i den akademiska litteraturen. Arbetshubbar, eller co-working places som de i studien kallas, förekommer dock främst i urbana områden. Denna studie fokuserade i stället på potentialen hos arbetshubbar i glesbefolkade inlandskommuner i Västerbotten – en region som sedan länge upplevt ojämn befolkningsutveckling. Syftet med studien var att undersöka huruvida arbetshubbar dels har potential att bidra till att vända de negativa befolkningsmönstren genom att göra glesbygdskommunerna till ett mer attraktivt alternativ för den växande gruppen distansarbetare, dels har potential att bidra till ökad hållbarhet, exempelvis genom att minska pendlingsberoendet. De frågeställningar som studien utgick från var följande: 1) Kan arbetshubbar ses som ett alternativ till den ordinarie arbetsplatsen bland stora arbetsgivare i Västerbotten, och i så fall, under vilka förutsättningar? 2) Har arbetshubbar potential att bidra till lokal utveckling i glesbygdskommuner i Västerbotten, och i så fall, under vilka förutsättningar? 3) Har arbetshubbar potential att bidra till att de olika hållbarhetsmålen nås? Eftersom det inte var de befintliga strukturerna som utvärderades, utan snarare potentialen hos en alternativ arbetsplatslösning, antog studien en utforskande form för vilken en kvalitativ metod bedömdes som den mest lämpliga. Nio semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med företrädare för tre inlandskommuner, fyra större organisationer och två befintliga arbetshubbsprojekt utanför Västerbottens inland. I likhet med tidigare studier pekar intervjuerna på att arbetshubbar på flertalet sätt kan bidra till ökad hållbarhet. I synnerhet finns fördelar ur ett hälsoperspektiv, där arbetshubbar å ena sidan motverkar pendlingens negativa hälsoeffekter och å andra sidan minskar risken för social isolering kopplad till hemarbete, samt fördelar ur ett inkluderingsperspektiv, där arbetshubbar kan främja inkluderande tillväxt genom att göra det lättare att bo och verka i glesbygden. Dessutom har arbete från lokala hubbar troligen klimatfördelar tack vare minskat pendlingsberoende, även om denna aspekt endast berördes flyktigt i intervjuerna. Vidare kan arbetshubbar gynna företag genom att vara en plattform för kunskapsöverföring, men troligen främst om hubbens användare har liknande kompetens. Väl så viktigt ur ett företagsperspektiv är det förmodligen att vara lyhörd på vilka arbetssätt som medarbetarna efterfrågar, eftersom detta har påverkan på företagets roll som attraktiv arbetsgivare. Trots att såväl dessa intervjuer som tidigare studier pekar ut många teoretiska möjligheter med arbetshubbar i glesbygden, blir den sammanvägda bilden från intervjuerna att arbetshubbarnas potential i hög grad beror på det potentiella användarunderlaget lokalt, kommunernas specifika förutsättningar och pågående samtidstrender. Flera kommuner var intresserade av att satsa på en lokal arbetshubb, men menade samtidigt att osäkerheten kring hur stort intresset bland lokalbefolkningen var fick dem att tveka. Att en arbetshubb bör anpassas till de lokala förutsättningarna var de tillfrågade överens om. Enligt tidigare studier kan arbetshubbar förekomma i många olika former, vilket dels bekräftades av kommunernas olika bild av hur en eventuell arbetshubb skulle se ut i deras kommun, dels exemplifierades av företrädarna från de två arbetshubbsprojekten. Arbetshubbarnas potential påverkas också av andra trender och händelser i samhället, exempelvis digitalisering, distansarbete till följd av en pandemi och ruraliseringstrender. Bland länets stora arbetsgivare diskuterades främst frågan om distansarbetets vara eller icke-vara vid en återgång till ”det normala” efter Covid-19-pandemin. Ingen av de tillfrågade organisationerna hade gjort något offentligt ställningstagande angående arbetshubbar: flera menade att frågan om huruvida de anställda distansarbetade hemifrån eller från en arbetshubb hade mindre betydelse, så länge arbetsmiljön var tillfredsställande och de anställda var nöjda. Däremot vittnade organisationerna om att pandemin för dem inneburit en testperiod för distansarbete, som på det stora hela hade fallit väl ut. I studien diskuterades också om arbetshubbar i glesbygden behövs eller om ökningen av distansarbete är tillräcklig för att fler ska överväga att bo kvar i, eller flytta till, glesbygden. För att svara på den frågan krävs vidare undersökningar av hur medborgarna ställer sig till distansarbete, samt om deras inställning påverkas av om distansarbetet bedrivs hemifrån eller från en delad arbetsplats. Vidare konstateras att även om tillgången till arbetshubbar och distansarbete generellt skulle göra glesbygden till ett möjligt boendealternativ för fler, är det inte givet att den negativa befolkningsutvecklingen vänder – detta är till syvende och sist en fråga om ifall människor föredrar att bo i täta eller glesa miljöer. Slutligen visar denna studie att arbetshubbar i glesbygden är ett forskningsområde som blir alltmer relevant och förtjänar uppmärksamhet därefter.
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Mattsson, Henrik. "Locating Biotech Innovation : Places, Flows and Unruly Processes." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Department of Social and Economic Geography, [Kulturgeografiska institutionen], 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7827.
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