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Lombard, Melanie Brigid. "Making a place in the city : place-making in urban informal settlements in Mexico." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14961/.
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Observers from a variety of disciplines agree that informal settlements account for the majority of housing in cities of the global South. Urban informal settlements, usually defined by certain criteria such as self-build housing, sub-standard services, and residents' low incomes, are often seen as problematic, due to associations with poverty, irregularity and marginalisation. In particular, despite years of research showing otherwise, policy and academic discourses continue to emphasise a division between the 'formal' and 'informal' city, meaning that informal settlements are often treated as outside 'normal' urban considerations. This thesis argues that the discursive construction of urban informal settlements in this way may contribute to their marginalisation, with material effects for residents, including displacement and eviction. Moving beyond static, binary characterisations of urban informal settlements, it aims to use a place-making approach to explore the discursive, spatial, social, cultural and political construction of place in this context, in order to unsettle some of the assumptions underlying these marginalising discourses. Research was carried out using a qualitative, ethnographic methodology in two case study neighbourhoods in Xalapa, Mexico. Mexico offers fertile ground to explore these issues. Despite an extensive regularisation programme, around 50 per cent of urban dwellers live in colonias populares, neighbourhoods with informal characteristics. The research found that local discourses reveal complex and ambivalent views of colonias populares, which both reproduce and undermine binary categorisations relating to 'informality'. In particular, local policies construct colonias populares in certain ways which may perpetuate their marginalisation, but also reveal the complexities of power relations affecting neighbourhoods within the city. However, it is a focus on residents' own place-making activities that hints at prospects for rethinking urban informal settlements. By capturing these messy, dynamic and contextualised processes that construct urban informal settlements as places, the analytical lens of place-making offers a view of the multiple influences which frame them. Informed by perspectives from critical social geography which seek to unsettle binaries and capture the 'ordinary' nature of cities, this thesis suggests imagining urban informal settlements differently, in order to re-evaluate their potential contribution to the city as a whole.
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Yeh, Ting-Fun A. "Place-making in traditional China." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14989.
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by Ting-Fun A. Yeh.
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Moore, James C. "Making a place of gathering." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53405.
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"Architecture exists because of man's desire to express meaning in the shaping of his environment, i.e., to express himself, his innate humanness in the making of built spaces that can accommodate the events of his life with ease and grace." David C.S. Polk makes this statement in his essay "The Expression of Meaning and the Necessity of Integration," and further expresses that one of the most fundamental of human desires is to feel at home in the world. Christian Norberg—Shultz illuminates this same desire when he uses the term "existential foothold" to define the need man has to feel connected with the environment, the need to feel a certain "groundedness" in existence. Man, therefore, makes to affirm his existence and to establish a world of meaning which will bring him closer to existing as part of the world, of being in harmony with other living things. A link is thus established between the things that exist among men, and man himself.
How is one to find meaning in the built environment that will serve to offer a sense of "groundedness?" The two dimensions that provide meaning to any system, according to Husserl, are the formal, or syntactic dimension, and the transcendental, or semantic dimension. While the semantic dimension concerns itself with the historical, or symbolic aspect of each element of a system, the syntactic dimension is based on an internal system of rules which govern the order of the elements without regard to external significance. (1) This thesis concerns itself primarily with the syntactic dimension, and the qualities inherent in the material aspect of architecture. As Kenneth Frampton proposes in his essay, "Rappel A L'Order: The Case for the Tectonic" architecture can be deemed valuable in its own right as a structural and constructional form. Rafael Moneo states that "architecture arrives when our thoughts about it acquire the real condition that only materials can provide." Architecture is therefore inherently about form, the material aspect of a work and the dialogue that exists among physical elements.
The idea of structure, the overall ordering principle that guides the design towards material reality, is the starting point. Prior to structure, however, is the idea that requires structuring, the idea that supplies what is to be ordered. Rudolf Arnheim calls this the "anabolic creation of a structural theme which establishes what the thing is about."(2) This is not to say that all aspects of a work of architecture must be rationally justified through the structural theme. What is provided is a framework through which the energy of material can be hamesses into the manifestation of a built work, one that can come into being as a "thing", ontological rather than representational. (3)
Through the effort of carrying through an idea of something into a built manifestation of it tension develops. The idea may be as much influenced by the nature of the structural and constructive aspects of the work as it is in influencing such aspect. This dialogue can be found at many levels, including the site, in the tension of the structural idea and the nature of material, between various materials that come together to form a whole. The dialogue that results through any relational condition is a strong opportunity for architecture.
When architectural elements come together, whether to support a load or delineate space, the physical manifestation that takes place offers an architectural opportunity. There is a governance of general rules pertaining to an internal order of the elements, principles the elements follow which will maintain a certain cohesiveness when being considered together as part of a whole.
The rules are not so restrictive, however, that they completely relegate the formation of the parts to mere elements in complete service to the whole. To quote Herman Hertzberger, "While the elements may follow a set of rules governing the whole, it is important that there is a possibility for transformation, or growth in richness in the whole which is a result of the elements. It is in a dialogue between these two aspects, parts and whole, that growth occurs." (4)
The richness that results from the interplay of parts and whole can provide meaning in the built environment. It is in being open to richness and diversity while being guided by a structural idea that architecture can emerge.
1. Alberto Perez—Gomez, Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, (The MIT Press, 1983)
2. Rudolf Arnheim, Entropy and Art, p. 49.
3. Kenneth Frampton, "Rappel A L'Ordre: A Case for the Tectonic." published in A & D
4. Herman Hertzberger, Lessons for Students in Architecture (Rotterdam, 1991), p. 249.Master of Architecture
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Swanepoel, Simone. "Minimal means of making place." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22981.
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This dissertation introduced a minimal means approach to architectural interventions in the landscape of the Western Cape. Learning from land artists such as Robert Smithson and Robert Morris, an intervention is powerful when experienced in isolation. The intervention supercharges the landscape, enabling the participant to notice things they might have overlooked otherwise. Simultaneously, when there are too many interventions, the dialogue they have with their surrounding environment becomes diluted. It proposed the idea that architecture is a means with which people interact with their environment. People make place by using what the land has Io offer and curate a place in relation to the surrounding landscape. Looking at the way people lay claim to the land, and in particular make place with boundaries, lies at the heart of the research. The place-making theories of Martin Heidegger and Christian Norberg-Schulz were not negated, but rather reconsidered in the landscape of the Western Cape, outside of the metropole. This research focuses on Kleinmond, a small-scale fishing town along the Western Cape coastline, which originated with fishermen settling along a small indent in the coastline, where conditions invite fishing activities. It was suggested that the land could only be exploited to a certain extent that is determined by the constitution thereof. The manner in which the urban fabric in Kleinmond has developed over the years has deprived civilians of a dialogue with the ocean. The project sought to redefine this relationship by making place through physical and implied boundaries with minimal means of intervention. The existing rhythms present in this environment: the fishermen's daily routine, the rhythm of the tides, the seasonality of the wetland water as well as the coming and going of visitors, were informants to the approach to the site. It was sought to redefine Kleinmond as a place worth dwelling in by proposing a building that acts as an end towards the harbour, as well as an edge for the slipway while offering amenity to an under-utilised site.
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Atkinson, Stephen Dwight. "Making of place: the wall." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53280.
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The thesis of this project focuses on the making of place in architecture. The erection of a wall is the initial act in the creation of a sense of place. Three walls separate the homogeneous world of the countryside to establish a zone for a winery complex.Master of Architecture
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Crivellaro, Clara. "HCI and re-making place." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3761.
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In recent years, technology, design and computing have been increasingly considered in public, media, and academic discourses as playing a significant role in supporting people affecting change in the places and communities in which they live. Drawing from three case studies that developed in North Tyneside’s Tynemouth, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Oreth in South East London, this dissertation shows how cross-disciplinary methodological perspectives—combining ontological politics, discourse and public work philosophy—can be used to understand the role of technology in everyday political processes, and drive the design of processes and socio-technical tools to open up spaces of contestation and dialogue in the everyday politics of place. The argument put forward in this dissertation is that in order to produce spatial processes that are more just and democratic, we must attend to people’s mundane communicative exchanges as forms of political action both conceptually and in practice; we must also recognize the heterogeneous actors and power dynamics involved, as well as the interpersonal and political work that contribute to forging and shaping these spatial processes. Vernacular rhetoric—the conception of everyday communicative exchanges as political action—forms the basis of this thesis. It is first utilised to understand the appropriation of a Facebook page by a group of residents concerned with the development of a derelict swimming pool. The perspective is then used to drive the design of processes that employed digitally supported urban walks to involve city residents in political discussions and reenvisioning of places in and about the city. The third case study explores how such participatory processes might be used to support a group of residents concerned with ‘rebuilding’ their community and wishing to create a digital walking trail in and about their housing estate undergoing urban regeneration. Finally, learning from the three studies is synthesized in a discussion on the relationship between vernacular politics, technologies and issues of spatial justice, and the role that HCI research, designed tools and participatory processes can play in supporting spaces of contestation and dialogue and the development of capacities to formulate collective rights towards the re-making of the places that matter to us.
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Haren, Sam, and sam@theborderproject com. "Falling in Place: Place and its Imaginary in Making Performance." Flinders University. Humanities, 2008. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20090224.142202.
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This study began with a personal recognition of the importance of space in my creative process. As a theatre director, I need to see and feel the space for a work before I know how to direct or create the performance. Once I know what the space is everything falls into place. This fascination with space in my creative process has triggered a larger investigation into the operations of place in the making of contemporary performance.
The first part of the thesis embarks on a series of theoretical and creative journeys to learn more about place and how it is positioned within contemporary performance. It journeys
through contemporary theory on place in the work of Gaston Bachelard, Edward S. Casey, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Marc Auge. These theorists think about place as a product of human dwelling and social production, and its conceived dimensions as psychic structures for a culture that embodies the fantasies, desires and visions of our places.
The thesis traces my physical journey from Australia to the Wooster Group in New York City and Forced Entertainment in Sheffield where I observed and worked with two significant contemporary performance companies, each in their own place. The Wooster Group has maintained an ongoing osmotic relationship with SoHo, absorbing the underground experimentations of performance makers in the 1960s, to the retail experimentations of Prada today in the now gentrified district. Similarly, Forced Entertainment has lived through a rejuvenation of Sheffield, which is examined in relation to a shift in the companys aesthetic and style. I also encountered these
companies and another, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, at festivals in Australia. Societas Raffaello Sanzio avoid endless repetition on tour with Tragedia Endogonidia a project that creates a new work for each place it performs in balancing the desires of the international performing arts market with a portable strategy towards place.
The second part of the thesis returns to examine the imaginaries of Australia and Adelaide, the nation and city in which I work. It considers the impact of these imaginaries in a performance laboratory called The Rope Project, which explores Adelaides myth of The Family and Alfred Hitchcocks Rope. Lacans notion of the imaginary is used to examine the national imaginary of Australia as place where people disappear, an imaginary maintained by representations that imbue the Australian landscape with a hostile agency. The thesis argues that the erasure implicit in the colonial concept of terra nullius has informed a national imaginary obsessed with disappearance. A dossier of The Rope Project reveals the myth of The Family explored as a representation in the performance laboratory. The Family is the result of two competing imaginaries connected to the city of Adelaide: its founding utopian imaginary, the Athens of the South, and its horror-inverse, The Worlds Murder Capital. This mythology was generated as a conservative backlash to the social reforms of Premier Don Dunstan and maintains a perceived connection between homosexuality and deviance. The thesis offers in conclusion fresh insights into the use of the imaginary and lived aspects of place in the creation of new performance works.
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White, Melissa Ann. "Earthworks, the specifics of place-making." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ63565.pdf.
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Hsu, P. H. "3D information place : architecture for virtual place-making and information navigation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604679.
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Performing activities together in online information environments is not unusual. It is functionally possible for shared information environments to become ‘virtual places’ in which social activities take place. Such environments, however, are traditionally designed based on the concept of digital documents accessed remotely from the outside, rather than on the concept of places. This thesis argues that shared information environments can be designed to allow multi-user navigation to take place inside the space, and suggests they should be designed as places, supporting and reflecting social interaction. A concept called 3D Information Place is proposed. A 3D information place is a 3D navigable virtual environment which provides a socio-spatial organisation of information. Its structures and formal attributes have an impact on users’ information-seeking activities, and they adapt to reflect patterns of such activities. Such a concept is based on the concept of place and the context of digital information environments, and leads to a theoretical framework consisting of four major elements: space, information, social factors and digital mediation. It is a fundamental hypothesis of this thesis that combining the four elements into a coherent system can lead to positive effects not only on users’ navigation experience and social interaction, but also on the performance of information environments for the purpose of information-seeking. In order to develop the four-element theoretical framework, this thesis investigates fields including architecture, information visualisation, virtual environments, and theories of hypothesis. The framework is developed in a few steps. Firstly, fundamental relations between information and space are investigated. Secondly, the concept of place is investigated and re-examined based on the context of 3D information environments, leading to the concept of 3D information place. Thirdly, principles of designing a 3D information place are developed based on an anatomical analysis of 3D virtual environments.
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Epstein, Jennifer R. "Philadelphia| People, Place, Memory| Place-Making and Connection through Historic Sites." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10277159.
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Place is shaped by history, culture, and memory. Each person who enters a place experiences it uniquely. The city is the embodiment of place. Contained within it are the memories and stories of people passed, “nothing is experienced by itself, but always in relation to its surroundings, the sequence of events leading up to it, the memory of past experiences”. The city is a combination of places strung together by individual experiences. But when the memories of these places are lost, so too is their power of place. A place that seems routine today may have been a place of passion a hundred years ago. People attempt to mark these places, but their significance is still lost on the everyday person, if only because the mark shows no power or passion.
In order to counter the effect (or lack of effect) of the current day historic site, one must reach into the past and bring it jarringly into the present consciousness. It is not enough to have a text or graphic panel explaining what significant historical event happened at some location, there needs to be experience attached to it. The historic marker often highlights more than just a location; it can mark an event or a person who has contributed greatly to the story of that place. Place making has been around for centuries, but it only seems to be creating places of the present. Historic markers in cities have become mundane street furniture, when they should be beacons and pathways to the past.
The design proposal for creating relevance and significance at historic places is not an easy one. By using a city that is already filled with historic sites, Philadelphia, the common historic marker can be revolutionized to create significant places and human connection. The case study of Philadelphia, with its deep and colorful history, creates a basis for implementation in myriad cities. This city is already filled with markers making note of important people and places of the past. These markers are mostly inconspicuous, blue and gold metal signs too high to read unless you are fifteen feet away. This proposal takes a handful of the significant places in Philadelphia and weaves them together to tell the story of life in the city throughout the 19th Century. These stories connect people of the present with the stories and people of the past in innovative ways.
The stories focus on three different aspects of history: Arts & Commerce, People & History, and Industry & Technology. The sites are located where significant buildings once stood, and use various layers of design to create a unique sense of place. Graphics, story, and experience unify the sites. The environmental interventions include kiosk structures, projections, paving, and signage, as well as lighting and aural solutions. The installations are created for the people who live and work in the city. This audience already has a connection with the place; the markers serve as a tool to strengthen this connection. They allow the city and its residents to “move into the future without abandoning the past”.
In order to keep up with current trends, a mobile application will be developed to accompany the physical interventions. The application serves as an additional layer of design by using video and augmented reality formats. The application is a database for all the markers and allows the user to chart their progress on their journey to the sites. It allows users to explore additional content related to the sites and interaction with their environment in a unique way.
This proposal creates a new way of experiencing historic sites within Philadelphia, but its implications are worldwide. The visitors to the sites become more aware of their surroundings and gain a stronger connection with their city’s history and the people of the past. It allows residents of the city to experience Philadelphia in ways that could not have been imagined before. By creating places for history to come alive and renewing memories long forgotten, the site interventions create spaces that link personal stories to the city, pushing its histories into the present, and perhaps finally answering the question, “Do people make place, or does place make people?”
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Bromley, Michael Stuart. "Making local news : journalism, culture and place." Thesis, City University London, 2005. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8484/.
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In the closing decade of the twentieth century Joümalism was perceived to be in crisis, as profit-driven, corporatized media conglomerates seemed to enforce market driven editorial approaches. What debate there was about such matters in the UK tended to focus on the national news media, particularly that section of the press colloquially known as `Fleet Street'. Yet the impact of these tendencies was also apparently evident among local newspapers, which Tunstall (1996) said had suffered `meltdown'. These titles supposedly contained less news and more newszak (Franklin 1997). One of the most notable consequences of this trend , was an apparent decline in the amount of political information published. Yet at the end of the 1990s more politics was introduced into the UK with the establishment of devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Drawing on descriptions and analyses of the local press in the USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, as well as other parts of the UK, this study explores the contemporary making of local news by taking a snapshot of the local press in south-east Wales at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and against the backdrop of the introduction of the National Assembly for Wales. Interviews with a group of local newspaper editors and with a number of journalism educators; documentary and data analysis; post factor participant observation and a short non-participant observation, and thematic textual analysis of a time-based sample of fourteen English-language weekly, two evening, one morning and one Sunday newspapers were undertaken. Specific attention was paid to the reporting of politics. The persistent idea of proximity - the role of constructs of territorial and cognitive place - in journalism was taken as a starting point to utilize the work of Aldridge (2003), Griffin (2002), Hartley (1998), Law (2001), Rossow and Dunwoody (1991) and Temple (2004) to suggest forms of journalism which were banal, precise, enabling and affiliated. These indicated that what was called `news' was routinely scoped, mobilizing identity, utility and association, around what was believed to constitute territorial and cognitive belonging. Moreover, senses of belonging were often complementary rather than conflicting. These ideas challenge the orthodoxy that news is primarily scaled (from `small' to `big') and that journalism is essentially competitive. While it was found that these conditions were not exclusive to the local press, the ways in which they were configured were specific. The key aspect was the preparedness of journalists to concede their `professional' claims to news-making to contributing members of the public. That this occurred far more readily in the local press led to the conclusion that local journalism was not merely a minor variant of journalism practised elsewhere, but a distinct emergent form more ambivalently related to press commercialism. Furthermore, it is suggested that formal press structures and the accepted hierarchies of journalism no longer express as precisely as they were once assumed to such distinctions in contemporary editorial approaches.
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Robinson, Emma-Jane. "Making sense of place identity : characterisation approaches." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020567/.
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Carden, Siún Margaret Tobin. "Place-making from the periphery : reimagining place and culture in Belfast's gaeltacht quarter." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534639.
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Berrens, Karla. "Ensounded bodies, making place in London's East End." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/327588.
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En aquest projecte, estic investigant la relació entre el so urbà i fer lloc a l'Est de Londres. Exploro com 'ensounding' el nostre cos (Ingold 2007) i una escolta participativa del so urbà pot posar el nostre cos emocional i sensorial al primer pla de la nostra experiència urbana. Examino la unió entre les discussions sobre lloc, emoció i so urbà, posant el 'cos sentient' com a pivot articulant-les des del seu centre. Els sentits són una manera important d'adquirir informació, de desxifrar els significats que es despleguen al nostre voltant a través de miríades de manifestacions. Per tant, argumento per a una metodologia sensorial que permeti fer una cartografia de la ciutat que creix des dels cossos cap enfora i també per a la seva fluïdesa. Una metodologia inclusiva que convidi a realçar la permeabilitat de les membranes al voltant dels Estudis Urbans i a incloure als sentits dins el que es considera recerca acadèmica.En este proyecto, investigo la relación entre el sonido urbano y hacer lugar en el Este de Londres. Exploro como el 'ensounding' de nuestro cuerpo (Ingold 2007) en conjunto con una escucha participativa puede situar nuestro cuerpo emocional y sensorial en el primer plano de nuestra experiencia urbana. Examino la unión entre las discusiones sobre lugar, emoción y sonido urbano, poniendo el 'cuerpo que siente' como el pivote central que las articula. Los sentidos son una forma importante de adquirir información, de descifrar los significados que se despliegan a nuestro alrededor a través de una multitud de manifestaciones. Por lo tanto, argumento por una metodología sensorial que permita hacer una cartografía de la ciudad que crezca desde nuestros cuerpos hacia el exterior y también por su fluidez. Una metodología inclusiva que invite a realzar la permeabilidad de las membranas alrededor de los Estudios Urbanos y a incluir los sentidos dentro de lo que se considera investigación académica.
In this research, I investigate the relationship between the urban soundscape and the making of place in London's East End. I explore the ways in which ensounding our bodies (Ingold 2007) and listening participatively to the soundscape can bring our sensuous and emotional bodies back to the forefront of our urban experience. In doing so, I examine the junction between the discussion around place, emotion and the soundscape, placing the sensuous body at its centre as its articulating pivot. The senses are an important way of gathering information, of deciphering the meanings that unfold around us through a myriad of different manifestations. Therefore, I am arguing for a sensuous methodology for the making of a cartography of the city, growing from the bodies outwards and for this methodology to be as fluid as sound can be. An inclusive methodology that, in turn, will enhance the permeability of the membranes around Urban Studies and invite the senses into what is considered a scholar way of researching.
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Moore, Madeline Jane. "Making place : community tourism at Xat'sull Heritage Village." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53031.
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Scholars often frame cultural tourism in terms of a host/guest relationship between communities and the tourists who visit them. In this thesis, I explore the relevance of the host/guest framework when discussing tourism at Xat’sull Heritage Village (XHV), a small community-based cultural tourism site located in the interior Cariboo region of British Columbia and managed by the Xat’sull First Nation. Throughout, I work to complicate the host/guest dynamic, arguing that a nuanced understanding of tourism at XHV requires acknowledging the role of the land, and in particular the site of XHV itself, as agentive. Ultimately, this thesis examines the notion of Xat’sull Heritage Village as a site where connections between people are made, but also as a site that is in itself inherently powerful and connected to the people who inhabit it. I argue that acknowledging human connections to the land in a tourism setting can be a powerful act, facilitating cross-cultural understandings and helping to correct the damage done by the centuries of colonial violence and oppression First Nations communities have endured.Arts, Faculty of
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Wungpatcharapon, Supreeya. "Participation and place-making : the case of Thailand." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578006.
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During the last few decades, Thailand and its places have been dramatically transformed by the economic-oriented policies in order to support the rapid growth of the nation and to compete with other countries at the international level. Most of the recent projects and place-making approaches are driven by capitalist interests and dominated by the vision and prospects of the powerful. They tend to undervalue the everyday lived spaces of the ordinary; as a result, several old neighbourhoods and their underprivileged inhabitants have been struggling to survive. This research is, therefore, an attempt to search for more democratic ways of making place within architectural and urban practice. Recent studies argue that the practice of place-making should shift to a participatory practice of placemaking which essentially engages those who are marginalised and are also, most of the time, the inhabitants and users of those places. Since the participatory practice is still emerging and has been insufficiently studied in Thailand, this study aims to achieve a better understanding of how participation could become a democratic tool of place-making in Thailand. Following key theorists such as Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey, this research study focuses on place as socially and politically constructed. The theory of participation and democracy is employed to analyse multiple case studies, i.e. the Porn Mahakan community, the Bang Bua community and the Samchuk market community from central Thailand. To gain essential information about the selected case studies, an in-depth investigation was conducted through a combination of methods, such as documentation research, in-depth interviews, direct observation, mapping and diagramming. The findings of this study demonstrate that the achievement of the higher level of participation depends on; to what extent participatory place-making can be transformed into a state of 'agonism', and to what extent the practice can transform the power structure into horizontal politics. Furthermore, participatory place-making is a social and political process that not only transforms the place physically, but also empowers the inhabitants. People's participation in the making of place could also become a platform for their exercise of political power and democratic actions from below, at the local level.
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Gryboyianni, Christina. "PLACES : experiencing and making a place in Athens." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74332.
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PLACE is a concept that addresses fundamental aspects of human existence; the external bonds of man with the world. It rests upon shared ways of life and knowledge which enable its physical expression into coherent and live environments. In our time, when the common languages and the processes that support them have broken down, it has become increasingly difficult for architects to set the ground for new PLACES. The lost order of organic evolution has been replaced by a new order based on control. Through the present study I intend to draw from my understanding of the physical environment and its transformations over time, in order to formulate a conceptual basis that can help me form a complete picture of the complex issue of PLACE. The use of a specific place - the immigrants' neighborhood in Kessariani, Athens, - which will shortly undergo a process of demolition and rebuilding, will serve as a background for testing the previous concepts through the experience of its space and through an attempt to design the physical conditions for its reemergence as a new place -an alternative to the design of control, reintroducing change. The study is also an exploration of the link between conceptual and formal expression, as processes that reinforce, perfect and are tested against each other.
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Paton, David Anthony. "The quarry as sculpture : the place of making." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18899.
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Practices of sculpture and geography have collaborated ever since Stone Age humans hoisted up rocks to point them into the air. The ephemerality of life was rendered in a circle of forms and mass that celebrated the union of sky, earth and dwelling. Through the manipulation of stone, the land became a place, it became a home, it became situated and navigable. As millennia unfolded, the land was written with the story of itself. The creativity woven into the story of place is an evolution of material collaborations. In recent decades, academic geographers have explored the realms of creativity in their work, and sculptors have critically engaged with the nature of place. I have united these disciplines in the exploration of a truth of materials. The aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between making and place. The structure of my PhD focussed on the development of a transdisciplinary research environment that could host a range of creative practices around stone-working. I developed a long-term relationship with Trenoweth Dimension Granite Quarry, working as an apprentice sawman and mason. Here, I examined the everyday practices of labour and skill development, from which emerged deeper material and human interactions, that went on to inform my sculpture and modes of making. Arguing that granite has threads of relational agency embedded within its matrix, I initiated a series of practices that made use of my emerging knowledge as a granite-quarry worker, cast within experimental sculpture, texts, performance, photography and film. By formulating my methods around the vibrancy of matter, I disclosed new materialisms and more-than-human relations. This assemblage of documentation and artwork records and reflects on a series of practices and processes in tension. This productive tension arises from a re-rendering of artisanal practice as a research method; ushering in modes of representation as loops of experience and interpretation take place across different sites, spaces and times of mediation. The objective for the PhD research was to present a critically informed practice of sculpture-as-ethnography that could not only provide a model for practice-based research in general, but also significantly expand what might be meant by stone-work. This PhD by alternative submission is presented as a Commentary with an accompanying Digital Archive website.
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Bidgood, Lee. "Place, Space, and Genre: Making Bluegrass Boundaries Czech." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1101.
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Bluegrass music was formed, in part, to be part of the soundtrack of emigration from the American South to industrial centers. The texts of some widely enjoyed bluegrass songs express the losses in this transition, often in longing for far-off, idealized places. Through a decade of ethnographic research on bluegrass in the Czech Republic, I have found Czech bluegrass - related music makers articulate a more globally expanded experience of dislocation and desire. Czech fans and musicians alike (bluegrassers") have blurred some genre and style boundaries as they have adapted American forms for local usage. Infusing the European landscape with "far away" ideas and tropes, Czech bluegrassers create "country" spaces that have flourished and diversified through political and social changes since the introduction of the music in the 1950s. These idealized “real-imaginary” spaces allow participants to reinterpret and reshape their social and natural environments. Part of today¹s global bluegrass scene, Czech bluegrass projects also connect with local folk and folklore milieus, as well as Czech musical and political history. Balancing a sense of locality with cosmopolitan elements bluegrassers shape the particular ‘country’ in which their music resounds. Following Melinda Reidinger and Ruth Gruber in addressing questions of self-realization through "real-imaginary" recreation in the Czech lands, I describe how bluegrass-related music-making has persisted, flourishing, through political and social changes, affording participants a way of interpreting and reshaping their physical and social environments through the idealized soundscapes connected to American music."
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Tsai, Bill. "Taiwanese 'place making' in Brisbane: the Sunnybank region." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/226970/1/T%28BE%26E%29%202788_Tsai_2001.pdf.
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Since 1985, the area of Sunnybank has been a region selected by many Taiwanese
migrants as a place to settle. Their "place-making" is now affecting the urban design
of the Sunnybank district and has rejuvenated many residential areas. No research has
been conducted to identify reasons why Taiwanese people chose the area of
Sunnybank in which to placemake. They have been careful not to reconstruct another
"China Town". Rather they have integrated their culture with the existing Australian
culture. More migrants arrive every month and the placemaking has accelerated since
1985 to clearly identifiable visual evidence currently existing in the region. What
initially attracted them to the area? What factors caused them to spend millions of
dollars to redevelop, reconstruct and plan old and new residential, retail, commercial
and industrial ventures? Further, is the attraction today the same reasons as the initial
attraction first noticed in 1985? No data is currently available to accurately determine
exactly how many Taiwanese live in the region or the spread pattern of where they
live. Therefore, primary data was collected using surveys and direct interviews with
Taiwanese (predominantly) and some Australians. Statistical and demographical data
available from 1996 and prior to 1996 has been combined with the new primary data
and extrapolated to provide some suggested answers to the aforegoing questions.
Although the results are possibly skewed, they provide useful preliminary data to
guide further research. The main reasons for Taiwanese placemaking in Sunnybank
were found to be due to the name "Sunnybank", weather/climate, family already
residing in region and feng-shui principles. Further intrinsic reasons are inferred as
Taiwanese identity (from China) and the Australian Immigration Policy (indirectly).
These are areas suggested for further research.
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Dewey, Povoledo Susanne. "Winnipeg downtown design decision-making, the potential for institutionalizing collective place-making practices." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0012/MQ41656.pdf.
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Stefanovics, Nicolai. "The making of a new downtown : urban place-making in HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20992.
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This study inspects how an urban place is made in HafenCity, Hamburg, currently one of Europe’s largest urban development projects. This process is illustrated as a co-production of residential initiative and planners' facilitation in developing a nascent urban district into a self-sustained community. The qualitative approach draws on interviews with 55 residents, interviews with planning agents and participant observation. Planners' agendas and policies are set in relation to residents' local activities, to display how physical engineering and social appropriation are moments conjoined in urban place-making. Newly-built riverside developments have commonly been characterised as enclaves of private affluence with weak attachments of their residents to the local area. Middle class professionals enjoy a ready-made lifestyle marked by private consumption and domestic services that enable them to socially disengage from their surrounding neighbourhood. HafenCity bucks this trend in regard to its dynamic neighbourhood life unfolding among its residents. It is argued that the situation of first-time occupation of a neighbourhood spurs the development of residential relationships and their intensification more readily than in established neighbourhoods. An initial merely aesthetic identification of incoming residents with the lures of their chosen destination is a precondition for the generation of farther reaching identifications, epitomised in engagements with place as something valorised in its own right. The facilitation of such associations is grounded in the intersection of two important factors. As a residential site, HafenCity selectively attracts educated middle class cohorts, implying that cultural capital concentrates within a very confined geographical setting that characterised HafenCity at its earliest stage. The personal identification of many incomers with HafenCity as a place of desire and their resulting optimism after arrival translates into a shared positive sense of place among individuals feeling similarly. This 'community in the mind' facilitates familiarisation among residents and the transition of neighbourly interactions into more meaningful voluntary associations serving needs of sociability, cultural indulgence, economic wellbeing, and most prominently, political engagement seeking to make HafenCity's official planning policy more foreseeable and accountable. In essence, the abundance of cultural capital at the neighbourhood scale acts as a favourable condition for its conversion into social capital for the advancement of a new area into a community of strong residential ties marked by attentiveness to one another's needs. The spatial situation of 'under-construction' encourages residents to voluntary engagement in HafenCity’s development policy. While the planning authority itself stimulates such participative mechanisms, they are at the same time concessions made to legitimise and reinforce the power held by this authority. As a consequence, participation in the development process becomes an ambiguous amalgam of volunteering and institutional intervention. While participation facilitates dialogical structures between residents and planners, it does not increase residents’ actual influence in urban policy making. Through their facilitation of residents' place-making, planners can credit themselves with treating the issue of planning in a foresighted way that refutes notions of technocratic blindness to human needs. Such active promotion of residents' attachments to their place however has its limits. While planners have a vested interest in an active residential community they can showcase as a testimonial to the reasonability of their agenda, they are unable to resolve conflicts of interests among residents that thwart the project of joint place-making. The scope of planners in collaborative place-making is circumscribed by the competencies of an authority that de-legitimises the actual engineering of interpersonal relationships at the neighbourhood level.
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Durmaz, S. Bahar. "Creative clusters and place-making : analysing the quality of place in Soho and Beyoglu." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12720/.
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During the last decade creativity has become one of the buzz concepts of urban practice and research, and new concepts such as the creative city, creative economy, the creative class, creative industries and creative clusters have emerged (Florida, 2002; Landry, 2000). There are studies in economics and cultural geography, sociology and, to some extent in urban planning, exploring the creative city phenomenon. To date, however, there have only been a limited number of studies on understanding the dynamics and factors of the spatial conditions of the creativity debate in the discipline of urban design. The growing body of literature in these disciplines emphasises the need to identify and define the preferences and tendencies of creative industries, and also clustering activities. Hence, the characteristics of cities that attract and retain the creative industries and creative types have become important; this concept is termed quality of place (Florida, 2002). In this context this research focuses on the morphological analyses of film industry-based inner-city creative clusters and explores the dynamics between creative clusters, quality of place and place-making processes. It aims to understand the spatial conditions and factors relating to the emergence, sustainability and growth of creative clusters, focusing on the location decisions of creative types (i.e. companies and people involved in creative production). This exploratory, cross-national case study is conducted in Soho-London and Beyoglu-Istanbul. They are the inner-city locations where creative industries, in particular the film industry, and creative people cluster. The study applies qualitative and quantitative research techniques such as interviews, questionnaires, observations, and cognitive and cluster mapping. The research concludes that there are three main factors contributing to the emergence, growth and sustainability of creative clusters; these are economics of clustering, location and quality of place, and face to face interactions. The research suggests a tentative analytical framework for understanding the quality of place for the film industry-based inner-city creative clusters and for mapping the creativity potential of places. The overall quality of place involves the process of place-making of a particular location, not just the product it represents. Walkability and permeability are identified as the key performance criteria of urban place, providing the movement and interaction which are the necessary conditions for clustering. Permeability of urban form enhanced with interactive micro urban public places plays a major role in facilitating the social interactions which collectively comprise the key aspect of urban and individual creativity, as people are inspired by each other. In addition, these complex layers, juxtaposed with urban form and land-use activities, are also interlinked with the socio-cultural setting and hence café culture, sense of community, and image also appear to be other factors contributing to clustering. Participatory planning enhanced by community leadership and the involvement of landowners, creative entrepreneur-led initiatives and other informal processes related to the organic spatial dynamics of the place contributes to clustering; particularly the small-scale interventions. In addition to these organic approaches, research suggests that urban design and planning could contribute to sustainability of these clusters through ensuring the right scale of intervention, through controlling mechanisms and place-management strategies. Key words: Creative clusters, quality of place, place-making, the film industry, Soho, Beyoglu.
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Saegusa, K. "Our dwelling place : the making of a sense of place in semi-rural England." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.661519.
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This thesis focuses on a place making process in semi-rural England. ‘Place’ in this thesis means personally meaningful environment. The thesis describes and analyses various efforts made by residents in two parishes in West Midlands to connect themselves with their immediate environment. Most of the agents appear in this thesis are immigrants of various lengths of residency. Unlike those who were born and bred there, those who moved in later in their lives cannot claim the ‘natural’ relationship to the environment. Their relationship to the environment is not given by birth. They have to build up the relationship consciously. The thesis examines what elements are mobilised in the process and how. The general ethnographic details of two sites are given in Part I. Part I also plays the role of the introductory section to the discussion to be developed in Part II. The highlighted points are different in two sites. In Dymock part, a history of the parish and people’s activities generated around the history are described in detail. In Colwall part, on the other hand, a planning issue and a debate caused by a proposed housing development are followed in detail. Part II is organised by a theme rather than a location. The first chapter in this part is dedicated to the issue of history and memory. How the elements of time and past is deployed in the process of place making is examined. More specifically, the chapter focuses on the passion for recording the history in the forms of document and performance. The second chapter examines a regulatory framework of space, or the space management system, in England and the way people negotiate with the system to form or maintain the ideal place. The chapter also considers a class element involved with the process. Throughout Part II, the desire of control and the sense of ownership are considered. People in both Dymock and Colwall often mention that they live in the country side, which has a special meaning for them. Living in the countryside forms the crucial part of their sense of place. In the final part, the thesis examines this heavily culturally value-laden space of English country side. Part III describes the recent debate over the fox-hunting with dogs which reveals various sentiments that are not always accessible or acceptable for those who are described in previous Parts. This Part also examines the idea of stewardship of the country side as a compromise to create a sense of shared ownership of the place.
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Watson, Matthew Thomas. "Knowledge, practice and materiality : making place in nature reserves." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288943.
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Campion, Karis. "Making mixed race : time, place and identities in Birmingham." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/making-mixed-race-time-place-and-identities-in-birmingham(9e0f3a3d-667c-4970-8197-f0a4a6ae7557).html.
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This thesis explores the identity-making practices of Mixed White and Black Caribbean people by drawing on qualitative interviews with 37 respondents aged between 20 and 56 years old. Much of the current literature on mixed race tends to focus upon individual socio-psychological accounts of mixed race identity. Whilst this thesis does borrow from this approach, it firmly situates individual accounts of mixedness in relation to the broader structural constraints and/or possibilities that continuously frame mixed race experiences. The thesis conceptualises structural contexts in terms of space and time, to unpack the external negotiations that are made by mixed race subjects in place and through different periods. The study takes place in Birmingham, a city that has long been regarded as a raced space. By analysing how the different spaces and layers of the city are utilised in identity making, the thesis contends that ethnicity is not the defining aspect of mixed race identities like is often assumed. It proposes that research on mixed race that treats place as a backdrop fails to recognise how it produces different scales of belonging for mixed race subjects and how place functions as a major point of reference for ethnic identifications. The thesis identifies and accounts for a historical gap in the narrative of mixed race in Britain, by moving away from the common present-tense conceptualisations of mixedness and charting the historical trajectories of mixed race identities throughout post-1945 Britain. By analysing mixed race through an historical lens it does the important work of dislodging it from the current celebratory moment and takes account of how Britainâs social histories and dominant systems of race thinking have consistently impacted upon generations of mixed race subjects. In the coming analysis the personal, individual aspects of mixed race identity and experience in relation to the family, peers and sexual partners are explored only once the structural questions regarding place and social generation are considered. I argue that the micro-politics of mixed race cannot be understood without first tracing the macro-politics which make mixed race as an identity, and as a social category, possible in the first place. The thesis contends that acknowledgment of the spatial and temporal aspects of mixed race identity by broadening the analysis away from the individual emphasises the dialectical nature of mixed race identity, which is critical to the project of theorising mixed race.
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Hannaway, Timothy P. "Seeing. Feeling. Remembering: The Making of an Appalachian Place." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35559.
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Three houses are sited in the New River Valley of Southwestern Virginia in 1996. Each house is designed to provide the essential utilitarian resources necessary for habitation in modern Appalachia. The relative context within which to make each house has been found within the unique character of the individual sites. Each house exists within the current moment and place, so they therefore associate with a modern version of the Appalachian material palette: milled lumber, concrete and concrete block, raw and galvanized structural steel and roofing. The re-seeing of material is enabled through an understanding of the physical and metaphorical characteristics of chosen materials: chemical and physical properties, appearance, composition, regional presence, interaction with climate, structural capacity, manufacturing process, adaptability of form to standard construction and detail, etc.Master of Architecture
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Shafer, Claire G. "Making Place For Ritual: Creating Connection Through Communal Meals." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337084659.
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Dzinotyiweyi, Gwinyai. "Making place through urban restructuring : the case of Mthatha." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7511.
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This dissertation explores the notion of using design in a manner that (re)embraces and (re)amplifies the unique qualities that define the South African city, in this case – Mthatha. I emphasize "(re)" as over the last 80 years, South Africa's cities have been structured and restructured according to the dictates of the Modern Movement whose ideas are rooted in the separation of the functions of "live, work and play" (Athens Charter 1933). Its most ardent propagators also argued that humanity's habitual needs could be accommodated for through the triumphs of industry and technology. It was also held that the sensitive consideration of the unique characteristics of a particular place be consigned to the dust-bin of history. This was in favour of a universal design language that would homogenize space. These ideas arrived in South Africa almost as soon as they were formulated in Europe through the links that academic architects such as Rex Martienssen had CIAM (Parnell and Marbin 2000). The institutionalisation of apartheid in 1948 also found in Modernism the appropriate tools of separation with which to carry out its ideology spatially. My analysis and evaluation of Mthatha, presented here after 3 visits to the city, confirms that the city is currently structured and continues to grow in a manner that ignores its unique qualities giving rise to a feeling of placelessness. Moreover, the influence of global capital has facilitated its commodification in the form of shopping malls and supermarkets which negatively manipulate its local economy and exacerbate this feeling. It is within this context that I propose the restructuring of Mthatha, informed by ideas drawn from Place Theory, Contextualism and Collage City as well as Dynamic City/ Minimalism. Through these propositions, I show that it is possible to regain the qualities of a place through minimalist design interventions that clarify city structure in a manner that informs the growth of the city along a trajectory that respects and embraces that which defines its uniqueness.
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Becker, Micaela. "Non-Place (Making): The Big Box De-form-ed." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623167599704667.
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Harney, Marion. "Place-making for the imagination : Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill." Thesis, University of Bath, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.545337.
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Strawberry Hill, the Gothic villa and associated landscape, seat of Horace Walpole (1717-97), is without doubt mandatory in any assessment of eighteenth-century British architecture, yet the reasons for its creation have never been adequately explained or fully understood. This thesis asserts, for the first time, that Walpole’s ideas which informed Strawberry Hill are inspired by theories that stimulate ‘The Pleasures of the Imagination’ as articulated in essays by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) published in the Spectator (1712). The thesis argues that Walpole’s reasons for choosing Gothic have been misunderstood and that he valued this ‘true’ style of British architecture for its associative and imaginative connotations and as a means of expressing historical interpretation through material objects. It affirms that Strawberry Hill expressed the idea that it was based on monastic foundations using architectural quotations from Gothic tombs, representing visual links to historical figures and events. The thesis, moreover, develops an argument as to how Walpole’s theories expressed in Anecdotes of Painting (1762-71) and The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening (1780) became manifest at Strawberry Hill. Avoiding the straightforward architectural description of previous texts, the thesis demonstrates Strawberry Hill to be a sequence of theatrical spaces playing with scale, colour and atmosphere, specifically designed to create surprise and wonder in order to stimulate the imagination. A series of sensory effects and moods, based on contemporary landscape theory, create a background to Walpole’s collection of cultural and historical artefacts – each ‘singular,’ ‘unique,’ or ‘rare’ - artfully displayed to produce their own narrative. Unlike previous studies, the villa and landscape are evaluated as an entity, a structured essay in associative, imaginative thought. Finally, the dissertation reconstructs Strawberry Hill as it existed in Horace Walpole’s time, leading the reader on an integrative virtual tour of buildings, gardens, emblematic models and associative inspirations.
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Pitt, Emmie. "Growing together : an ethnography of community gardening as place making." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53953/.
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This research examines relationships between people and place at three community gardens in Wales by studying processes of place making. Ethnographic methods explored gardeners’ feelings, doings, and interactions with nonhumans to bring a critical perspective to the study of community gardens which better reflects their complexity and vitality. By expanding the range of gardens researched I show that urban and rural community gardens are not categorically distinct, challenging the narrative that city dwellers seek community gardens to reconnect with people and nature. The opportunity to feel good motivates participation but achieving this depends on the degree of control available to gardeners which varies with how a garden is made. I contribute to relational theories of place an empirically grounded discussion which brings them into dialogue with notions of community, arguing that places are not wholly unpredictable as spatial processes can be deliberately directed and interact with feelings. Where Massey suggests places thrown together (2005) I propose a theory of place making as bringing movements together, guided by skill and feelings as we work to achieve goals and pull towards those we have affinity with. I demonstrate how a more dynamic sense of place can be conceived through attention to qualities of motion as the appreciation of a place’s particular constellation of movements and feeling comfortable moving with these rhythms. The case studies show that people find comfort in feeling they belong somewhere but this is a dynamic sense of belonging as moving with others. Garden communities are not determined in place but form through making place, sharing experiences through which gardeners feel at home together. Finally, I question whether new relationships formed through gardening extend across time and space, suggesting that participation in garden life will not necessarily cultivate an ethic of care for others.
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Kebede, Samson. "The Making of a Place: "Appeal to an Architectural Order"." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36218.
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This thesis project stems from the need of an architectural order, which will understand the historical genesis of the site and also help convey a clear meaning of its transformation process. At the same time, an attempt will be made to explore traditional Ethiopian design motifs and bring them into a modern reality.Master of Architecture
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Wood, Bethany Laranda. "Sited: place and memory in the making of intimate objects." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5683.
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Barzegaran, Marieh. "Evaluating the impact of neighborhood attributes on residents' place attachment." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/201670/1/Marieh_Barzegaran_Thesis.pdf.
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In the era of rapid technological advances, there is a concern that people suffer from a sense of placeless-ness within their neighbourhoods. Place attachment, the residents' meaningful bonds, to their living place, results from its environmental, socio-cultural and economic make-up. Thus, this study aims to investigate the different range of neighbourhood characteristics that affect the development of residents' connection to their neighbourhoods. The study contributes to the theoretical, methodological and practical application of research in this field, the outcome of which can be of use in the planning and designing of new housing patterns and urban development issues.
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Cravens, Amanda. "Storytelling, Histories, and Place-making: Te Wāhipounamu South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2785.
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This thesis tells two intertwined stories about stories about nature. One, theoretical, asks what stories and histories do and why storytelling matters in place-making and policy-making. The second questions the effect of narratives of pristine nature on place-meanings in southwest New Zealand, serving as a case study to illustrate the abstract relationships of the first. Throughout reflexive consideration of my research journey as academic storytelling contributes to my theoretical arguments. Narratives help humans make sense of time and their place in the world. Stories and histories both shape new and reflect current understandings of the world. Thus narratives of nature and place are historically, geographically, and culturally specific. Place-meanings result from the geography of stories layered over time on a physical location. In the iterative process of continually re-presenting landscapes in specific places, negotiation between storytellers with variable power shapes physical environments and future place-meanings. This thesis uses the pristine story to explore these links between stories and histories, place-meanings, and policy decisions. From the arrival of New Zealand's first colonists to today's perceived "clean green" landscape, narratives distinguishing timeless nature from human culture have influenced policy-making in multiple ways. Focusing specifically on understandings of the conservation lands now listed by UNESCO as Te Wāhipounamu South-West World Heritage Area, I trace the origins and evolution of three dominant narrative strands - world heritage, national parks, and Ngāi Tahu cultural significance. Using post-colonial understandings of conservation as cultural colonization, I consider how the pristine narrative obscured Ngāi Tahu understandings of the area. I explore how the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 has begun to shift place-meanings by altering power-geometries between storytellers. Participant-observation in Department of Conservation visitor centres, however, illustrates that legislated stories and storytelling processes are expressed differently in representations of land in specific locations
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Huang, Sining. "Memory and Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89929.
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Proper and dignified care for an aging population, especially those with Stage IandII Alzheimer's disease is a challenge. To stay and live in one place as conditions progress irreversibly is perhaps one of the areas where architecture could make a contribution. In addition to patients, the needs of caretakers and visiting family members play a role in the program for a new facility. As an architectural premise, the focus is directed toward an environment that is memorable, provides basic comfort, and instills a sense of belonging. Essentially, the proposal advocates an architecture made operational by providing spaces that enable deep archaic memories which seem to remain present in the psyche of Alzheimer's patients even in advanced stages.Master of Architecture
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Onyango, John Odhiambo. "Becoming place : analysis of impacts of urban laboratories on place making in western tradition of urban design." Thesis, Glasgow School of Art, 2012. http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/4921/.
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The importance of high quality urban design in place-making can be seen by the increased interest in design control tools such as design guides and policy statements. In addition, there has been an increase in the number of organizations known as the Urban Design Laboratories that promote and campaign for better place-making. Fundamental to the approach of the urban lab is the utilitarian idea that design becomes the vehicle for transforming the social and economic conditions of the citizens and also provide the panopticon to continuously look at the performance of the built environment and related spheres as well come up with solutions collaboratively with other professionals. There are arguments to whether these organizations are effective vehicles in promoting the production of high quality built places through training of designers and empowering of communities. There is thus the need for evidence to support their claims in theory, policy and practice. This dissertation is an examination of how urban laboratories as vehicles of knowledge generation contribute to an enhanced place creation process in the built environments. It begins by looking at what historical circumstances fostered the constitution of urban design laboratories since the 1960s, followed by examination of the reasons for their inception in the USA and continental Europe. A time-line illustrating their developments and relationships was carried out to identify three established and active laboratories in the western world and their corresponding predominant theories and examined in detail. Four themes were used: the historical contexts; the participatory design processes; the strategies and tactics and the consequences of their methodologies, and what role the laboratories take in the training of architects, students and community. In addition a correlation if any to some of the ethical issues that rise out of participation in the design processes and policy decisions were interrogated and how these affects outcomes of the projects so undertaken. The study revealed that the historical, economic, and political events were not as important to the formation of the urban laboratories as had been assumed, however, their methodologies and tactics developed from the local contexts. The ethical role of a designer as a citizen as well as the citizen as an expert in the local contextual knowledge was crucial hence training of future designers on the role of advocacy was important. It also revealed that participatory process does not need to be explicitly embedded in the process as a strategy to result in better-designed communities, however, community empowerment has ethical connotations as it bring the participants to the recognition that actions that affect them should be informed by knowledge and understanding of the causes that are locational and contextual.
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THOPPIL, GINCY OUSEPH. "THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SPACE IN PLACE MAKING: A CASE-STUDY APPROACH." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1022759843.
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Clarke, Daniel Wade. "The social poetics of place making : challenging the control/dichotomous perspective." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/692.
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Wood, Sandra Dawn. "Making a third place : the science and the poetry of husbandry." Thesis, Abertay University, 2008. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/766e30a8-2e9b-480c-bfdd-349e50656d1d.
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It locally contains or heaven, or hell; There’s no third place in’t. (Webster 1993) Husbandry in its original sense is a ‘being together’, based on dwelling in a particular place. There is an intricate connection between modern science and industrialised agriculture, both of which developed on the basis of particular values associated with Good Husbandry – those which focused on individual innovation, profit-related productivity, quantitative measurement, objective, ‘puritan’ truth and control of nature. Ideals of the earth as a ‘commonwealth’, and of traditional stewardship, were down-played. The writings of Francis Bacon provide an example of a positivist, pioneering attitude which has continued to underpin modern science. In retrospect, however, these ideals sound rather one-sided. Nature herself is not well represented in the modern science relationship. In this thesis, Virgil’s Georgics and Lucretius’ de rerum natura are used to derive a poetics of Being and of Husbandry, which applies not only to the world of poetry, but to events which underlie scientific research. Virgil’s use of verbs verifies that life’s activities are shared by all living things. Lucretius asserts that even inanimate atoms both exist in themselves and are creative. ‘To be’ can be visualised as a dynamic, balancing act between striving to stay in being and longing to engage creatively with another. The basis of this thesis is that a shaping of research towards good husbandry involves a fair relationship with nature, which in turn involves the acknowledgement in writing that nature is active, dynamic and a good collaborator. Husbandry defined as a continually unfolding third place between extremes or between self and other – this holistic, concentric definition – applies at all scales, all levels of experience. This work was derived from practice-led research involving the writing of poetry and therefore the findings exist in parallel as a sequence of poems.
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Cheung, Chin-Nang. "Place-making and spatial transformation : a case study of Taipei, Taiwan." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1081.
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This thesis presents a study of the spatial transformation of the past and present city centres in Taipei, Taiwan to address the issues of place-making. The main objective is to explore the interactive relations between spatial configurations and daily life patterns in order to gain an understanding of the mechanism of spatial transformation and the underlying structure of urban pattern in association with the socio-cultural meaning. The study of these relations, mechanisms and the demystification of the underlying structure employs an integrated pluralistic approach which includes both quantitative and qualitative research strategies, and synchronic and diachronic investigations. This thesis uses a comparative case-study method to appreciate the relationship between everyday life and the cultural meaning of urban form and the variation in spatio-culture within a historical context, which together are understood as vital to the promotion of place-making. A morphological analysis is conducted to trace the city's spatial evolution over time. The analysis ranges from the city's macro-level to the urban quarter's micro-level, using the graph-theoretical techniques of space syntax and statistics. The analysis is strengthened by field research designed to gather a variety of interrelated data for the in-depth analyses of two urban centres: the old Hsimenting quarter and the new urban Dinghou quarter. The thesis identifies four major aspects. First, there is a strong correlation between the movement pattern of people and certain occupational uses such as the mixed use of commercial and institutional sectors. Second, the traditional and contemporary quarters differ in their syntactic values which indicate variations in the ordering of spatial configurations in the city. Third, the prime cultural features of the old and new urban centres are formed as a historical conjuncture of colonial and post-colonial products that are reflected in different types of spatial forms. Fourth, the genotype of the old urban centre arises from the articulation of temple space with narrow market streets, and its configuration has a deeper structure relative to the whole. In contrast, the spatial configuration of the new urban centre is distinguished by its shallow grid pattern. Its genotype is composed of the modern mega shopping mall and grand street which have a shallower depth value relative to other urban spaces of the city and converge to become the new spatial centre in Taipei today. The outcome is a specifically cultural understanding of place-making, rather than general knowledge of spatial transformation. In particular, this way of `reading' the underlying structure provides resources for characterizing the identity that gives meaning to place-making. The study also shows that the change of underlying rules, meanings and functions of urban spatial forms is in accordance with the modification of activity patterns, which is encouraged by specific groups. Thus, place-making is the result of the constant interplay of culture and tradition, which is necessarily articulated with the current situation of the spatial environment, but the validity of this interplay and articulation can only be evaluated by some form of concrete practice.
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Brick, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph). "Digital domains : the understanding and making of a "place" in cyberspace." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64899.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 36).
The information age has provided exciting challenges for designers and users to interact and work in virtual environments. This has resulted in new interpretations to the representation of places as they begin to develop, interact and communicate their ideas in this medium. Can designers shape the many sites that are beginning to form and can the sites serve as places for interaction/communication linked only through this virtual world? How can designers react to such a landscape? Can we begin to create this environment so that an effective communication between the environment and user can take place How should this environment be represented to the user? Finally, can we begin to "experience" the virtual artifact in a way that is flexible enough in its representation to allow for simultaneous communication of the physical space and the perceptual representation of that place. These will be some of the main issues addressed in the thesis. My investigation seeks to develop a virtual interface for communication of an architectural artifact, that designers can use as a representation to assist them in contextualizing their understanding of that place and to facilitate an environment that aids in communicating within a virtual setting? The artifact created are the virtual design spaces here at MIT and the site for the project will be the World Wide Web. The thesis addresses three main issues. The first will discuss navigating through the artifact. The second issue will endeavor to coalesce the fragmented views of representation though a simulation. The third will explore supplementing current representations into a experiential model to better understand the spaces and the ideas that generated them.
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Sriratana, Verita. ""Making room" for one's own : Virginia Woolf and technology of place." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3458.
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This thesis offers an analysis of selected works by Virginia Woolf through the theoretical framework of technology of place. The term “technology”, meaning both a finished product and an ongoing production process, a mode of concealment and unconcealment in Martin Heidegger's sense, is used as part of this thesis's argument that place can be understood through constant negotiations of concrete place perceived through the senses, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “earth”, and abstract place perceived in the imagination, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “world”. The term “technology of place”, coined by Irvin C. Schick in The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse (1999), is appropriated and re-interpreted as part of this thesis's adoption and adaptation of Woolf's notion of ideal biographical writing as an amalgamation of “granite” biographical facts and “rainbow” internal life. Woolf's granite and rainbow dichotomy is used as a foreground to this thesis's proposed theoretical framework, through which questions of space/place can be examined. My analysis of Flush (1933) demonstrates that place is a technology which can be taken at face value and, at the same time, appropriated to challenge the ideology of its construction. My analysis of Orlando (1928) demonstrates that Woolf's idea of utopia exemplifies the technological “coming together”, in Heidegger's term, of concrete social reality and abstract artistic fantasy. My analysis of The Years (1937) demonstrates that sense of place as well as sense of identity is ambivalent and constantly changing like the weather, reflecting place's Janus-faced function as both concealment and unconcealment. Lastly, my analysis of Woolf's selected essays and marginalia illustrates that writing can serve as a revolutionary “place-making” technology through which one can mentally “make room” for (re-)imagining the lives of “the obscure”, often placed in oblivion throughout the course of history.
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BAKER, BRIAN J. "AMERICAN SPORT IN THE CITY: THE MAKING OF AN URBAN PLACE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082659154.
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Baker, Brian J. "American sport in the city the making of an urban place /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1082659154.
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Low, Matthew Michael. "Prairie survivance: language, narrative, and place-making in the American Midwest." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2572.
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The prairie ecosystem of the American Midwest has long been depicted as a "lost landscape." Two-hundred years of Euro-American settlement has degraded the ecological prairie through systematic removal of native grasses and forbs, replacement with nonnative and invasive plant species, disruption of longstanding disturbance regimes (such as prairie fires), and the fragmentation of ecosystem connectivity. The prairie's depiction in art, literature, history, politics, and our national environmental discourse, collectively referred to in this study as the "cultural prairie," has not fared much better. Beginning in the early nineteenth-century, explorers and soldiers, writers and artists, settlers and promoters perpetuated an image of the "vanishing prairie" in travel narratives prolifically published for consumption by a burgeoning American readership. As the "vanishing prairie" emerged as the accepted image of the prairie, narratives depicting its disappearance from the landscape became self-fulfilling prophecies. Language, and narrative in particular, thus contributed to the degradation of the ecological prairie.
Narratives of the "vanishing prairie" are characterized by what Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor terms "absence, nihility, and victimry." One remedy to these fatalistic narratives is Vizenor's notion of "survivance," which he defines as "an active sense of presence over absence, deracination, and oblivion; survivance is the continuance of stories" ("Aesthetics of Survivance," in Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, ed. Gerald Vizenor [Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008], 1). Though Vizenor uses the term survivance principally to recover the stories, traditions, and identities of Native American cultures from Euro-American "simulations of dominance," his critical inquiries are more broadly applicable to the exploitation of the environment by many of the same policies, agents, strategies, and technologies that were put to use to propagate and promote state-sponsored ideologies of uniformity, homogeneity, and monoculturalism throughout the American Midwest. "Prairie survivance" is thus an attempt to make the prairie a presence, not an absence, in mainstream environmental discourse and debate, including the study of American literature and the fields of environmental criticism (or ecocriticism), place studies, and cultural geography.
My argument begins with a critique of Euro-American travel narratives popularized throughout the nineteenth-century by the likes of Washington Irving, George Catlin, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and others. These travel narratives perpetuated the trope of the "vanishing prairie" by employing stock images and narrative techniques, none more pervasive than the bison hunt. Specifically, the dramatic hunt sequences of these travel narratives reinforced the eradication of the bison from the ecological prairie. However, the consequences of these narratives are not limited to the time of their writing; instead, the "lost landscape" image of the prairie remains persistent to this day as a direct result of its misrepresentation in the travel literature of the nineteenth century. The second half of my argument entails a reading of counternarratives that envision a much different past, present, and future for the prairie. The bison's recovery in narratives by Luther Standing Bear, James Welch, N. Scott Momaday, and Mary Oliver is one example in which the fate of the prairie is not limited to its inevitable demise. Moreover, I have coined the term "aesthetics of restoration" to describe the prairie's presence in the work of Aldo Leopold, Paul Gruchow, Annie Proulx, and Linda Hogan (among others), each of whom overturns nihilistic images of the prairie as a "lost landscape" by writing about its restoration and permanent return to the landscapes of the American Midwest. Narrative's potential for healing is realized in these examples, a cornerstone of narrative ethics.
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Ward-Lambert, Missy. "Old Roots: Place-Making and Hybrid Landscapes of Refugee Urban Farmers." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3298.
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This research project was designed to analyze the relevance of place and the physical environment to the adjustment processes of refugees. This dissertation contains the results of qualitative research with a group of 30 refugee urban farmers living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Seventeen of these individuals—from Burundi, Sudan, Bhutan, the Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Cuba—participated in interviews and a photography project focused on their experiences with agriculture in their home countries and since their arrival in Utah. The results of the research show the connection between the refugees’ work as farmers and their sense of place since arriving in the United States. Participants reported material and emotional benefits from their farming work, as well as challenges. The research results also provide insight into the process of cultural hybridization and cross-cultural exchange experienced by the participants. A discussion of some challenges inherent in doing research with refugees is included, and policy implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.
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Wolff, Paul John III. "Making places, making learners| Place-based approaches to designing learning environments in the Age of the Infobahn." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3721080.
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The miniaturization of electronics, the commodification of information, and the growing domination of communications technology have created a culture characterized by a compressed sense of time and space. In this realm, technology allows immediate contact with people anywhere around the globe. Computers and smartphones collapse multiple geographies into one, with a touch of a button, by allowing real-time communication from any place. In this Age of the Infobahn, there are no physical buildings, landscapes, or bodies of water. Residents are likely to be avatars (digital representations of a people) whose sense of continuity and belonging is derived from being networked to the widely scattered people and places they care about. Functions that were once served by architecture, furniture, and fixed equipment are now shifting to portable devices. Places are constructed with bits (of information) and electronic glue.
Although making places for human habitation long has been the domain of architects, landscape architects, and urban planners, the realm of cyberspace does not yet utilize the theories, experiences, and practices that have guided the design of physical spaces for centuries. Just as there is a need for public parks and squares to be pleasant and welcoming to a diverse population in order to function effectively, so must the interfaces and places in cyberspace be. Just as there are architecturally significant places in the physical world, there also must be significant places in the virtual world. Thus, architectural frameworks are important for facilitating functional, enduring, and aesthetically pleasing virtual places where real people may interact with each other and with the place. This dissertation explores the similarities and differences of physical and virtual placemaking, and the extent to which the approach may impact the learning experience for students and/or the shape of learning spaces in the future.
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Foster, Paul J. "Cambodia in the Mill City: The Place-Making Influence of an Urban Ethnic Enclave." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/geosciences_theses/54.
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In Lowell, Massachusetts, a city with a long history of serving as a magnet for immigrants, the Cambodian community is both the most recent and most populous immigrant group that has helped transformed this postindustrial city into one of the most ethnically diverse in New England. This research seeks to explore the ways in which the development and growth of an ethnic community can influence the place-making process and built environment of cities. Specifically, this thesis conducts a case study of the Cambodian community in Lowell, Massachusetts, and examines the ways in which the development of this specific urban ethnic community has helped to shape the post-industrial city in which it is found, and how Lowell has influenced Cambodian-American ethnic identity.