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Suppia, Alfredo Luiz Paes de Oliveira 1975. "A metropole replicante de metropolis a Blade Runner." [s.n.], 2002. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285071.
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Orientador: Lucia NagibDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Metropolís, dirigido por Fritz Lang em 1926, é um filme fundador que criou uma estética própria e influenciou inúmeras realizações posteriores. Blade Runner, dirigido por Ridley Scott em 1982, cita e reelabora diversos elementos de Metropolís, ao mesmo tempo em que se apresenta como um dos filmes mais representativos da década de 80. Esta dissertação de mestrado realiza uma minuciosa análise dos dois filmes e suas inter-relações, partindo do princípio de que Blade Runner apresenta características estéticas, narrativas e ideológicas já tratadas no Metropolis de Lang, em 1926, mas com "fôlego" redimensionado aos anos 80. A dissertação se organiza em torno de três eixos principais: a cidade, a metalinguagem e as alegorias. No 1° capítulo da dissertação são analisadas as fontes estéticas que deram origem às metrópoles futuristas de Fritz Lang e RidIey Scott. O foco se dirige para a arquitetura, elemento relevante em ambos os filmes, a ponto de a cidade ganhar status de protagonista. A reflexão sobre a articulação entre tempo e espaço na metrópole dá ensejo a meditações sobre elementos como o gótico, o kitsch, o expressionismo,o futurismo, o film noir, etc. No 2º capítulo, "Os Olhos da Metrópole ou As Mídias dentro da Mídia", emerge o tema da metalinguagem, ou como são tratadas as questões da mídia e das tecnologias de comunicação (fotografia, cinema e vídeo), tanto por Lang quanto por Scott. Neste capítulo ganha destaque a discussão acerca dos simulacros, tema presente em ambos os filmes estudados. No 3º e último capítulo, o foco incide sobre como se constroem as lendas de Metropolis e Blade Runner, com o propósito de identificar o discurso ideológico ou a crítica social contidos nos personagens e na ação desses dois fIlmes, dos quais, sobressaem aspectos como a religião, o tema do duplo e discursos político raciais. Na conclusão são amarradas as proposições levantadas nos capítulos anteriores, com vistas a associar Metropolis e Blade Runner a projetos respectivamente moderno e pós-moderno de sociedades do futuro
Abstract: Metropolís, directed by Fritz Lang in 1925-6, is a foundational film which launched a new aesthtetics and became extremely influencial. Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott in 1982, quotes and re-elaborates several elements of Metropolis, becoming one of the most representative movies of the 80's. This Master's dissertation cames on a detailed analysis of both films and their inter-relations, departing from the idea that Blade Runner presents aesthetic, narrative and ideological issues already approached by Lang in 1926, but under a perspective of the 80's. This dissertation is structured around three axes: the city, the metalanguage and the allegories. Thus, in the 1st chapter of the thesis, "The Architecture of the Metropolis: Metropolis, 2026; Los Angeles, 2019", the aesthetic sources of Lang's and Scott's futuristic metropolis are analysed. In focus is the architecture, an element so relevant in both films that the city acquires the status of protagonist. The reflection on the articulation between time and space in the metropolis is followed by meditations on elements such as the gothic, the kitsch, the expressionism, the futurism, the film noir, etc. The 2nd chapter, "The Eyes of the Metropolis or The Media inside the Mediun", deals with the issue of the metalanguage, lookíng at how the media and communication technologies (photography, cinema and video) are approached by Lang and Scott. Special attention is given to the discussion on simulacra, present in both the films. The 3rd chapter, "Constructing the Legend", explains how the legends of Metropolis and Blade Runner are constructed. The aim is to identify the ideological discourse and the social critique suggested by the characters and the action of both fIlms, taking into consideration aspects such as religion, the double and racial and political speeches. The conclusion ties up the arguments raised in the previous chapters, finally associating Metropolis and Blade Runner respectively to modem and postmodern projects of future societies
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Dixon, John. "Metropolis afflatus/." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/artsp/28.
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Thesis (B.F.A.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.Project advisor: Kathryn McCormick. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Jan. 21, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Bird, Lawrence David. "«Saving Metropolis»: body and city in the «Metropolis» tales." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40706.
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The image of the destruction of the city has a long history, and resonates disturbingly with current events. It seems to question the very possibility of creating an architecture – that is, of giving the world a form and thereby a meaning. This thesis charts mutations of that imagery as it emerges in three visual narratives punctuating the last century: the "Metropolis" tales. These are Fritz Lang's film of 1926, Tezuka Osamu's manga or graphic novel of 1949, and the 2001 work of anime or Japanese animated film by director Rintarô. Despite their differences, these tales exhibit a fundamental overlap of concern: each deals in its own way with crises in modern conditions of life, crises articulated not only in the imagery of the city but also in that of the broken bodies central to it. The thesis argues that this imagery, hovering at the brink of and ultimately passing beyond the line of apocalypse, articulates an undiminished human yearning to engage in a life project. In our time this yearning, this desire, takes on a new form in which the city and the body adopt a precarious and problematic relationship to their image. But perhaps the seeming instability of this condition as articulated in disrupted bodies and cities is a more faithful reflection of the fundamental human anxiety reflected in myth, and the more foundational destructuring involved in our perception and making of the world, than any whole and healthy body, than any utopia.L'image de la destruction de la ville a une longue histoire et évoque aussi malheureusement des événements récents de l’actualité. Cette thèse retrace les transformations de cette imagerie dans trois récits visuels qui ont marqués le siècle dernier :
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Reid, Margaret. "Melodrama : metropolis : modernity." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2011. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6541/.
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The principal aim of this thesis is to extend current understandings of the dynamics of stage melodrama, as it was practised on the stages of the minor theatres in London during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, specifically by exploring the ways in which the genre represented, mediated, inflected, processed and systematised the experience of life in the new metropolis. A critical methodology has been employed in this study that is best described as hybrid, combining elements of cultural materialist analysis with a more performance-oriented mode of textual analysis. Where appropriate, reference is made to surviving publicity surrounding original productions such as playbills and reviews and, in order to locate the work within a concrete culture of production and consumption, to available data on the minor theatres in which it was performed. The theoretical underpinning of this study draws on a range of existing arguments surrounding the relationship between melodrama and modernity, but also on the work of urban theorists and cultural historians who have identified the metropolis as a significant catalyst in the formation of modernity. After outlining the conceptual framework and reviewing existing literature in the field, chapters continue with discussions of the emergence of proletarian protagonists in melodrama and their relationship with developing notions of metropolitan class consciousness; melodramatic representations of metropolitan space and the dynamics of movement through that space; nostalgic stagings of the rural past; melodrama’s relationship to Simmelian notions of metropolitan ‘mental life’; and the synergies between melodrama, the spectacular, and metropolitan culture. The overall aim is to add to current understanding of how melodrama interpreted the shifting physical forms and subjective and social experience of the early nineteenth-century city, but also how the city itself shaped, limited and enabled the forms of expression adopted by melodramatists.
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Vana, Gerhard. "Metropolis : Modell und Mimesis /." Berlin : Mann, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/33178727x.pdf.
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Hott, Robert Shawn. "Re-tooling an American metropolis." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2010. http://digital.lib.usf.edu/?e14.3368.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of South Florida, 2010.Title from PDF of title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 155 pages. The content of this file may cause problems when attempting to access it through some versions of the Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. Recommended browsers for accessing this file are Internet Explorer 8, Opera, Safari, or Chrome on Windows; Firefox, Opera, or Safari on Macs. Includes bibliographical references.
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Seethala, Mallik. "Experimental evaluation of Enhanced Metropolis Sampling /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1251897121&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Dahlin, Johan, Fredrik Lindsten, and Thomas B. Schön. "Particle Metropolis Hastings using Langevin Dynamics." Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-93699.
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Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo (PMCMC) samplers allow for routine inference of parameters and states in challenging nonlinear problems. A common choice for the parameter proposal is a simple random walk sampler, which can scale poorly with the number of parameters. In this paper, we propose to use log-likelihood gradients, i.e. the score, in the construction of the proposal, akin to the Langevin Monte Carlo method, but adapted to the PMCMC framework. This can be thought of as a way to guide a random walk proposal by using drift terms that are proportional to the score function. The method is successfully applied to a stochastic volatility model and the drift term exhibits intuitive behaviour.CADICS, CNDS
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Ahn, Soo H. "Metropolis : music score for the film directed by Fritz Lang ; Scoring Metropolis : the development of my compositional practice." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2017. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/31449/.
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This commentary documents the compositional process of writing film music for the classic expressionist silent film Metropolis (Lang, 1927), using MIDI-based orchestral sound resources. Metropolis was chosen from within other possibilities, such as Battleship Potemkin or Nosferatu, not only due to the belief that the film’s surreal eerie mood and machine-like characters could be represented well by the Second Viennese School’s musical style that I intended to adopt, but also due to a judgment that leitmotivic transformation and use of themes as character links fit into a work so rich with characters’ showing subtle psychological states. I set out to compose an original orchestral score for Metropolis with the idea in mind, that film music should contribute to the audience’s integration with the drama and reinforcement of dramatic tensions by strategically supporting the film’s plot and narrative, and that an agreeable conceptual blending between film and music would be crucial to a successful composition. For this task, a thorough review of the leitmotif and related literature about music semiotics and meanings, together with a brief discussion of the MIDI sampler orchestra, proved to be necessary. Metropolis, a pioneering masterpiece of sci-fi, which contains a gloomy portrait of the futuristic world, encouraged me to experiment with the diverse possibilities not only of the leitmotif, but also of kaleidoscopic sound originating from various combinations of virtual instruments of the MIDI sampler orchestra and ultimately to show my musical process. The document traces the leitmotif as a primary compositional device for thematic manoeuvre in both film composers’ scores and major scholars’ discussions; it also incorporates current scholarly research about music semiotics and meanings, which has guided choices in each stage of my compositional process. I have revealed how I applied such lessons as Ennio Morricone’s microcell technique, Danny Elfman’s transformation approaches to thematic material, Howard Shore’s reflection of meaning onto music, and Ilan Eshkeri’s use of themes as character links to my Metropolis. I organized the main character’s associate themes using microcell and transformation techniques and contextualised them as character links. For instance, I produced tunes for cold-hearted characters, such as Rotwang, robot Maria, and high buildings, with the twelve-tone technique, poignant dissonances through interval-classes 1 and 6, recursive rhythmic patterns, or their combinations; I also adopted two distinct types of an octatonic scale to describe contrasting personalities of the two characters and a chord based on 2nd intervals to express the moment when Rotwang’s evil reaches its zenith. Metropolis serves not only as an artistic repository for numerous symbols, but also as a web of leitmotifs towards musical and filmic unity.
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Alturk, Emre. "Xxl, Metropolis As The Object Of Architecture." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604898/index.pdf.
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Beginning with its historical setting, architectural discourse conceived city as its ultimate object, as the ultimate extension of the composition: the largest building. It relentlessly aimed to link its &ldquopure&rdquo
object&mdash
building&mdash
to the city either by locating the two within the general processes of material production or through analogies. Yet, despite such continuity, architecture&rsquo
s relationship with the city was conceived as the projection of an internal economy onto the city and remained unilateral. Architecture operated from the small scale to the large scale, radiating its &lsquo
specificity&rsquo
through the city via building. It became obvious in the late 20th century that it was not the &lsquo
architectural specificity&rsquo
to penetrate into modern metropolis but vice versa. Being a complex agglomeration of cultural systems&mdash
including design itself&mdash
metropolitan multiplicity resists the determination of significance of built environment through the specific codes of any institutionalized practice. Acknowledging such a complex system of relationships, namely &ldquo
metropolitan non-design,&rdquo
this study offers a reassessment of &lsquo
architectural design&rsquo
within the contemporary &lsquo
metropolitan condition.&rsquo
Departing from the disjunction(s) between the significance attributed through design and its appropriation through metropolitan non-design, work at hand aims to elaborate a new mode of &lsquo
architectural intervention&rsquo
compatible with the metropolitan instability. Through a cross-examination of Rem Koolhaas&rsquo
s &lsquo
Delirious New York&rsquo
and OMA&rsquo
s &lsquo
Parc de la Villette,&rsquo
concepts such as &lsquo
program,&rsquo
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void,&rdquo
&ldquo
Bigness&rdquo
and &lsquo
architectural scale&rsquo
will be reassessed. Moreover, the goal is to replace the conception of architecture-metropolis relationship that is formulated through a duality with one that is conceived in terms of interacting, contiguous signifying structures.
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Williams, Anthony Ronald. "Dramatic interpretations of the metropolis, 1821-1881." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298108.
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Griffiths, C. C. "Prosecuting fraud in the metropolis, 1760-1820." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3012313/.
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The inspiration for this thesis comes from a recognition of the problems in prosecuting financial crime in the modern day. In exploring how fraud was prosecuted from 1760 to 1820, this thesis seeks to contextualise modern prosecutorial failings into a longer history of the struggles to define and address fraud and deceptive practices. It also seeks to contribute to existing research into historical financial crime by providing a detailed history of fraud offences and the settings in which these offences had been previously enforced. This thesis will answer three central questions: what offences made up ‘fraud’ by the early nineteenth century? – Who was prosecuting these offences? – and, how was fraud being prosecuted at this time? The first of these questions seeks, for the first time in the literature, to identify and trace fraud offences to the nineteenth century. This thesis will then identify who was prosecuting fraud, and then how they prosecuted fraud in order to explain how fraud offences were shaped through enforcement and how this impacted upon the development of fraud offences. In asking these three central questions, this thesis will provide a lens through which to explain how, and for whom, the criminal justice system operated in the eighteenth century. This thesis explores and categorises all fraud trials heard at the Old Bailey between 1760 and 1820 and builds on these records by using a range of greater and lesser known sources including City of London officials’ notes, government financial records, and more obscure materials of contemporary practitioners. By tracing the prosecution of fraud from the lowest to the highest criminal courts in London, this thesis provides an holistic overview of the choices available to prosecutors of fraud, and explains why so many fraud trials were heard within the senior courts rather than the summary courts. This explanation is made possible by the application of structuralist theories which explain why particular social and economic groups prosecuted fraud offences at such a high level, and how the criminal justice system operated to assist such prosecutions.
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MacCarroll, Christian D. (Christian David). "Micro-home ownership in a mega-metropolis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33063.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-51).
As a means to keep pace with today's globally networked society, the home is reconceived as a portable, transformable device that adapts and reconfigures itself to coexist within a range of changing terrains. Ownership will no longer act as a geographical constraint limiting world-wide, long-term travel. Mobile housing affords one the means to explore the landscape without sacrificing the sense of place and permanence provided by "home". Analogous to the work of Archigram, "homes" of the future will have the ability to migrate according to the needs and desires of their populations. This thesis explores the possibilities of transformational, mobile architecture that delivers a diverse range of settlement options. As a means of demonstrating the flexibility of this concept, this micro-home will be incorporated into the social and technological framework of the modem metropolis and examined at both the urban scale of the city and at the micro-scale of the individual.
Christian D. MacCarroll.
M.Arch.
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Kessler, Frank. ""Metropolis" de Fritz Lang esthétique ou esthétiques ? /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37606487t.
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Stevens, Nicholas John. "Land use planning and the airport metropolis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60298/1/Nicholas_Stevens_Thesis.pdf.
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Australian airports have emerged as important urban activity centres over the past decade as a result of privatisation. A range of reciprocal airport and regional impacts now pose considerable challenges for both airport operation and the surrounding urban and regional environment. The airport can no longer be managed solely as a specialised transport entity in isolation from the metropolis that it serves.
In 2007 a multidisciplinary Australian Research Council Linkage Project (LP 0775225) was funded to investigate the changing role of airports in Australia. This thesis is but one component of this collaborative research effort. Here the issues surrounding the policy and practice of airport and regional land use planning are explored, analysed and detailed.
This research, for the first time, assembles a distinct progression of the wider social, economic, technological and environmental roles of the airport within the Australian airport literature from 1914 – 2011. It recognises that while the list of airport and regional impacts has grown through time, treatment within practice and the literature has largely remained highly specialised and contained within disciplinary paradigms.
The first publication of the thesis (Chapter 2) acknowledges that the changing role of airports demands the establishment of new models of airport planning and development. It argues that practice and research requires a better understanding of the reciprocal impacts of airports and their urban catchments.
The second publication (Chapter 3) highlights that there is ad hoc examination and media attention of high profile airport and regional conflict, but little empirical analysis or understanding of the extent to which all privatised Australian airports are intending to develop. The conceptual and methodological significance of this research is the development of a national land use classification system for on-airport development. This paper establishes the extent of on-airport development in Australia, providing insight into the changing land use and economic roles of privatised airports.
The third publication (Chapter 4) details new and significant interdependencies for airport and regional development in consideration of the progression of airports as activity centres. Here the model of an ‘airport metropolis’ is offered as an organising device and theoretical contribution for comprehending the complexity and planning of airport and regional development. It delivers a conceptual framework for both research and policy, which acknowledges the reciprocal impacts of economic development, land use, infrastructure and governance ‘interfaces’.
In a timely and significant concurrence with this research the Australian Government announced and delivered a National Aviation Policy Review (2008 – 2009). As such the fourth publication (Chapter 5) focuses on the airport and urban planning aspects of the review. This paper also highlights the overall policy intention of facilitating broader airport and regional collaborative processes. This communicative turn in airport policy is significant in light of the communicative theoretical framework of the thesis.
The fifth paper of the thesis (Chapter 6) examines three Australian case studies (Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra) to detail the context of airport and regional land use planning and to apply the airport metropolis model as a framework for research. Through the use of Land Use Forums, over 120 airport and regional stakeholders are brought together to detail their perspectives and interactions with airport and regional land use planning. An inductive thematic analysis of the results identifies three significant themes which contribute to the fragmentation of airport and regional and land use planning: 1) inadequate coordination and disjointed decision-making; 2) current legislative and policy frameworks; and 3) competing stakeholder priorities and interests.
Building on this new knowledge, Chapter 7 details the perceptions of airport and local, state and territory government stakeholders to land use relationships, processes and outcomes. A series of semi-structured interviews are undertaken in each of the case studies to inform this research. The potential implications for ongoing communicative practice are discussed in conclusion.
The following thesis represents an incremental and cumulative research process which delivers new knowledge for the practical understanding and research interpretation of airport and regional land use planning practice and policy. It has developed and applied a robust conceptual framework which delivers significant direction for all stakeholders to better comprehend the relevance of airports in the urban character and design of our cities.
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Killoran, John B. "The virtual squatter, homesteading in the electronic metropolis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0017/NQ38247.pdf.
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Laliberté, Michèle. "Le Metropolis de Lang-Moroder : examen d'une rencontre." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61669.
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Epp, Eduard. "The Arcadian metropolis : towards a sustainable urban form." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69773.
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Our own American past has an invaluable lesson to teach us: a coherent, workable landscape evolves where there is a coherent definition not of man but of man's relation to the world and his fellow man. sk{81} rm John Brinckerhof JacksonThis thesis endeavors to give evidence of the Arcadian vision, of a synthetic view of nature and humanity, as it has been understood in the evolving settlement patterns of American civilization over the last 350 years. This thesis suggests that the Arcadian vision is still very much a part of the American psyche and awaits reinterpretation. Evidence is given of how this reinterpretation is already taking place in the urban landscape of America. It also suggests how the Arcadian vision may provide significant clues to realizing meaningful urban and suburban growth into the 21st century expressed in a sustainable urban landscape.
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Simke, Ann-Christine. "Berlinische Dramaturgien : dramaturgical practices in the German metropolis." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8194/.
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This thesis consists of three substantial case studies exploring the work of dramaturgy departments at three different theatres in Berlin during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: at the Deutsches Theater Berlin under the directorship of Max Reinhardt at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer under the directorship of Peter Stein during the 1960s and 1970s, and at the Maxim Gorki Theater in the first season of Shermin Langhoff and Jens Hillje’s directorship in 2013/14. The study locates dramaturgical practices within a wider cultural and political field – from metropolitan culture in Wilhelmine Berlin to the anti-authoritarian theatre movement in West Germany and finally to contemporary debates on postmigrant theatre and cosmopolitanism in the reunified Germany of the twenty-first century. It applies a mixed-methods approach that focuses equally on performance analyses as well as analyses of historical documents such as theatre journals and theatre programmes. In its holistic approach to the practice of dramaturgy, it seeks to make a contribution to scholarship on dramaturgy in historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
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Rowlings, Andrew J. "Sustainable energy options for the future airport metropolis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/93363/1/Andrew_Rowlings_Thesis.pdf.
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Growth in aviation has resulted in large airports that can be described as Airport Metropolises. This thesis reviews a variety of sustainable energy options that are suitable for such airports, and presents a decision support framework that can be used to guide decision makers towards the adoption of sound sustainable energy projects and practices. The thesis demonstrates use of the decision support framework via a number of case studies and outlines a methodology which could be incorporated within a Decision Support System.
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Kusi-Mensah, Kwaku. "Challenges encountered by functionally illiterate consumers in the Kumasi metropolis, Ghana." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359229.
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This study is concerned with how illiteracy impact consumers when navigating through the market place to have their needs met.These effects are researched in the Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The overall goal of the thesis is to investigate the problems that functionally illiterate consumers encounter when navigating through the Marketplace.The results show that functionally illiterate consumers at the Kumasi metropolis do face problems when navigating through the market place and that these problems are related to the retail marketing mix such as product, price, place, people, promotion and process.
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Bryant, Emi. ""I am Michi!" identity politics in Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2006. http://thesis.haverford.edu/174/01/2006BryantE.pdf.
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Westgate, J. Chris. "Staging the metropolis : theater, politics, & the American city /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Hess, Christian A. "From colonial jewel to socialist metropolis Dalian 1895-1955 /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3237564.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed December 13, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-443).
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Sjåstad, Julie Anne. "”Den sköna metropolis” : En studie om upplevelse av Berlin." Thesis, Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-56694.
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En stad är i konstant rörelse och förändring. Staden kan handla om känslor, intryck och upplevelser. Upplevelsen av en metropolis kan vara en behaglig resa, men det kan även innebära ett mentalt slag i magen på grund av dess historia som kan vara så oerhört tragiskt och otäck att den rör dig till tårar. Eventuellt kan en stads historia även få människor att se världen med nya och mer öppna ögon. I det här fallet handlar det om en av världens metropolstäder, Berlin.
Varför är Berlin så speciellt? Staden är varken känd för sin skönhet eller bevarandet av staden. Berlin är fascinerande på det sättet att den lever, andas och när sig på konst och kultur. Det är en av de yngre europeiska huvudstäderna, men det finns ingen annan stad som har lämnat lika mycket spår och ärr efter sig. Dess byggnader och ruiner vacklar under smärtsamma minnen. Berlin förkroppsligar mycket av Europas moderna historia. Den var centrum för expressionismen i slutet av 1800-talet och under 1920-talet var staden varietéernas, kabaréscenernas, dekadensens och avantgardekulturens2 lockande metropol.
Tysklands öppna sår finns fortfarande i Berlin sedan andra världskriget. Staden hade en betydande roll under andra världskriget och blev en måltavla för de allierade länderna. Efter andra världskrigets slut delades staden mellan öst och väst och muren blev en symbol för Sovjetunionens tryck på Östeuropa. När muren föll 1989 blev det startskottet för kommunismens fall och även en nystart för Berlin.
Återföreningen av Berlin och hela Tyskland (1990) har tvingat berlinarna att fatta många beslut om vad man ska bygga och vad man ska bevara i staden. Påföljderna för att bevara eller förstöra delar av staden är djupt rotade i stadens historiska identitet. Mycket pengar lades ner för att återställa det gamla Berlins paradgator och torg ochäven för att sudda ut de gamla gränserna mellan öst och väst.
Varje epok i Berlins historia har lämnat dess egna monument, synliga och ihågkomna, planerade och oavsiktliga. Var och en av dessa epoker har gett staden en tydlig identitet, som kunglig bostad, som en industristad, som huvudstad för nazismen, som det kalla krigets slagfält och som den återförenade huvudstaden.
Berlin är en stad som måste upptäckas av varje ny generation och återupptäckas av varje äldre generation. Det är en metropolis som attraherar miljoner människor från hela världen.
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Scheidt, Emma Camille. "The Gesamtkunstwerk of a Reunifying Metropolis: Berlin’s Kunsthaus Tacheles." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/54.
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city of Berlin was faced with the challenge to reunify in both political and cultural realms. Berlin is noted throughout history as a metropolis that is characterized by flux; the Post-Wende [Post-Wall] era is another remarkable transitional phase in Berlin’s history. During this era, the city was extremely porous and susceptible to cultural forces that could easily define the city’s malleable future. This essay discusses such forces and events that were planned by the city government, as well as an organic grassroots force that was especially significant in the cultural reunification. This force is the squatting culture that was spurred by the excess of unused and unclaimed buildings in the center of Berlin. Many of the squatters are coalitions of artists who embody the renitente Kultur [unruly culture] that characterizes Berlin.
Analyzed in this essay is a group of squatting artists, known as “Gruppe Tacheles das Kunsthaus” who inhabited the ruins of a historical building in the Mitte neighborhood located in the center of Berlin. The creators of Tacheles breathed life back into the ruins by establishing ateliers, a restaurant, a club, a movie theatre, a sculpture garden, and a bar in the building that became an artists’ haven with international fame. Artists, both residential and visiting, have treated the crumbling building like a makeshift giant canvas and it is now covered in layers of graffiti and stands as the Gesamtkunstwerk [total and universal ideal work of art] of the reunifying Berlin that has become an international hub for artists.
Due to escalation in property value, an effective owner of the property on which Tacheles stands has stepped forward and taken actions to evict the artists and demolish the building in order to build luxury offices. Most of the artists have left the site, leaving it as a ghostly shell of the bustling community it once was. Near twenty artists remain and protest the actions to destroy their work of art that had come to live symbiotically with the city. At this point, there is one appropriate event to occur next in the lifeline of the site: the building must be demolished in a ceremonious explosion to mark the passing of its vitality, so that its legacy can live on untainted in the future phases of Berlin’s culture.
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Maxted, Julia. "Race and class in a transforming metropolis : Los Angeles." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321867.
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Kilgallon, Mark Christopher. "Contested control : an ethnographic study of policing a metropolis." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407857.
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Vogrinc, Jure. "Poisson equation and weak approximation for Metropolis-Hastings chains." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/56621.
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The work presented investigates speeding up MCMC methods by introducing control variates based on approximate solutions of the Poisson equation. In the setting of Metropolis-Hastings chains in Rd two scalable approaches of approximately solving the Poisson equation are discussed. In both cases an underlying weakly convergent sequence of related Markov chains, enumerated by a scaling parameter, is identi ed and results, asymptotic in the scaling parameter, are given for the achieved improvement. In the rst approach control variates are constructed according to a sequence of ner and ner partitions of the state-space of the Metropolis-Hastings chain, with the mesh of the partition serving as the scaling parameter. In this context it is shown, that as the mesh reduces arbitrarily, so does the asymptotic variance in the Central limit theorem associated with the control variate given by the partition. The second approach assumes a target density of a product type and scales the dimension of the state-space and the variance of the proposal simultaneously. The resulting weakly convergent sequence converges to a Langevin di usion, which is then used to construct control variates for the Metropolis-Hastings chains in the sequence. The bounds obtained in this context suggest the improvement achieved by this approach grows almost linearly in dimension.
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Freemark, Yonah(Yonah Slifkin). "Mobility politics : local ideologies in the multi-jurisdictional metropolis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129039.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Urban and Regional Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-444).
What is the interplay between local politics and metropolitan infrastructure planning in the context of the multi-jurisdictional governance of contemporary urban regions? I interrogate, first, how cities make policy when many governmental organizations are involved in city planning. And I ask, second, how politics--in the form of partisan affiliations and personal ideologies--influences political officials' decisions and ultimately the designs of new transportation projects and adjacent development. I develop a new theory for how regional planning works. I first show that, even when deprived de jure jurisdiction over transportation projects and land-use planning, local governments harness their perceived democratic legitimacy to exert de facto power over planning. Second, I demonstrate that they expand this power through alliances with other localities, structured on the concept of mutual deference.
Third, I offer new evidence that local action on land-use and transportation planning is differentiated by partisanship, beyond typical explanations of municipal choices being based on demographics or economics. Fourth, I develop a typology of land-use ideologies held by local officials and structured both by differences in views on the left/right spectrum and preferences for the scale of new spatial development, that I use to further explain heterogeneous local action. Finally, I show how actors representing multiple jurisdictions and with contrasting ideological viewpoints coalesce around a single regional transit project by adjusting for these ideologies in the planning process. I examine six transit infrastructure projects in France and the United States. For each, I conduct interviews and archival research.
My comparative research approach--which operates across country and project levels--allows the deciphering of common and distinctive traits within each, allowing me to detect how officials promote goals independently and through alliances, and to identify the influence of partisanship and officials' ideologies on outcomes.
by Yonah S. Freemark.
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Yeates, Robert Anthony. "Zombie cities : post-apocalyptic science fiction and the metropolis." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24934.
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This thesis looks at how cities are portrayed in British and American post-apocalyptic science fiction, from the rise of the modern city to the present day. Conceptualized as “zombie cities,” the thesis suggests these are locations caught between life and death, in which humanity is at risk of being eaten away. Uncanny doubles haunting the contemporary, ordered, and modernized city, such fictional projections frequently present manifestations of contemporary urban concerns. The four historical sections of this thesis track the shifting focus of urban representations in post-apocalyptic science fiction from the threats of reckless modernization and aerial warfare to the hope of radical reinvention of broken cities and even the joyful exploration of their ruins. The project presents this urban fixation as connected to the history of science fiction and the development of media, suggesting that post-apocalyptic science fiction in particular is the ideal form to address the piecing together of the broken and fragmented into the experimental and new. By looking at adaptations, sequels, and re-imaginings it is possible to see that history of urban representations in post-apocalyptic science fiction is connected to a history of evolving urban anxieties. Creating a space of contact between urban studies, the study of ruins, the uncanny, science fiction studies, apocalypse studies, academic study of the zombie, and media history, the thesis proposes the value of the new term of zombie cities to each field, and aims to initiate further endeavours that follow similar methods.
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Edström, Filip. "Parametrization of Reactive Force Field using Metropolis Monte Carlo." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161972.
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Costa, Arkana Kelly Silva. "Loteamentos fechados e serviços ambientais = a apropriação da natureza em empreendimentos de alta renda na região metropolitana de Campinas." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/258549.
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Orientador: Simone Narciso LessaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo
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Resumo: Os loteamentos fechados são uma das formas de ocupação do território que mais têm se repetido na expansão das cidades brasileiras. Estes empreendimentos oferecidos, por vezes de forma ilegal, têm representado cada vez mais uma promessa de melhor qualidade de vida urbana a partir da adoção de um estilo de vida exclusivo e justificado por uma eventual fuga da violência urbana. Diante deste quadro nos questionamos sobre a dimensão do impacto ambiental destas estruturas urbanas no território e meio ambiente das cidades. Esta pesquisa baseia-se na hipótese de que o impacto da proliferação dos loteamentos fechados nas áreas metropolitanas interfere tanto nas áreas urbanas quanto nas rurbanas em sua sustentabilidade. Baseado nisto, temos como objetivos específicos: analisar os loteamentos fechados como um produto do mercado; tipificar como esses empreendimentos interferem na estrutura territorial da região metropolitana de Campinas; observar como se dá a oferta de serviços ambientais e quais substitutos são gerados no processo de apropriação da natureza. Com isso busca-se identificar de que forma as diferentes tipologias destes empreendimentos, estabelecem relações entre si formando um mosaico no território e como estas relações interferem na sustentabilidade dos serviços ambientais. Para a obtenção destes objetivos a metodologia utilizada foi descritiva e analítica, com a realização de uma caracterização dos loteamentos fechados instalados na RMC, bem como uma análise que foi elaborada seguindo três escalas distintas de investigação: metrópole, municípios e condomínios
Abstract: The gated communities are one type of territory occupation that more have been repeated in expansion of Brazilian cities. These housing development, have represented, each time more, a promise of better quality of urban life with adoption of a life style exclusive, that are justified by an eventual escape of the urban violence. This research is based on hypothesis that the impact of the proliferation of gated communities interferes in urban and rurbans areas of metropolitans territory. This thesis have as objectives: to analyze the gated communities as product of market; to observe how these enterprises intervene with the territorial structure of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas- MRC, state of São Paulo - Brasil; to observe like the environment services are offered and how substitutes services are generated in the process of appropriation of the nature. Had used like methodology one descriptive and analytical process, with the accomplishment of a characterization of the gated communities installed in the MRC, as well as an analysis that was elaborated following three distinct scales of inquiry: metropolis, cities and gated communities
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Arican, Tunca. "Metropolis, Techno-culture, Digitilized Musical Genres And Clubbing In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1044585/index.pdf.
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This thesis will analyze the social life in metropolises in terms of technological changes and social transformations with their effects on everyday practices especially musical genres. This thesis also aims to understand the relationships between techno-culture, contemporary musical genres and clubbing as a subculture that reflects the aspects of techno-culture with its life style especially musical tendencies. The thesis will also make some illustrations of the features and life style of clubbers in Turkey. So, this study is composed of both theoretical and empirical structures. In order to make a comparative study, clubbing will be compared with the other subcultures appeared after the Second World War like Jazz, Punk or Acid House. The aspects of everyday life like drug use, consumption or appearance of those subcultures will be the base of this comparison.
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Sani, Hassan. "Impact of urban management on residential mobility in Jos Metropolis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522350.
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Dritsas, Lawrence. "The Zambesi Expedition : African nature in the British scientific metropolis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2161.
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This thesis investigates the geography in and of Victorian scientific practice by examining the Zambesi Expedition (1858-1864), which was led by the Scottish explorer David Livingstone. A team of assistants accompanied Livingstone: Dr. John Kirk, Dr. Charles Meller, Thomas Baines, Richard Thornton and Charles Livingstone. The official purposes of this expedition, funded by the British Foreign Office, were to catalogue the natural resources of the regions adjacent to the Zambezi River in order to identify new sources of raw materials for British industry and to introduce commercial markets to supplant the slave trade. The scientific results of the Zambesi Expedition have never been catalogued. Only limited attention has been paid to the ways in which science was made in the field and how it returned to Britain In order to address these issues, a survey was made of relevant scientific literature to identify published analyses of the data and specimen collections produced by the Expedition’s staff. Extant specimen collections were located and examined along with archival records and correspondence. The combined manuscript and material evidence reveals that scientific concerns were an important justification for the Expedition. Fieldwork practices are examined in depth and an ideology of technology, expressed in different ways, is shown to have structured the encounters between the British and the locals. The Expedition’s members based their assumed superiority upon technological skill, especially their abilities to understand the environment and to command power—in terms of steam navigation, instrumental authority and the naming of natural productions. Power differentials were apparent in the field when the information possessed by local informants was required for the success of the scientific goals of the expedition. Credibility in the field became a tenuous quality negotiated between local informants, explorers and the metropolitan scientific community. The expedition’s members, as interpreters, were required to navigate the social and physical spaces of the field and the metropolis in order to produce and present credible knowledge. The thesis examines for the first time elements of the reception of the expedition by considering the publication of its scientific results. Critics’ voices are used to uncover those attitudes of the time that judged explorers—and this expedition—according to their prior experiences, social connections and field skills. The work of the Expedition, then, was performed in different spaces and at different scales; operating within and between the field and metropolis and actively linking local practices to global networks. These multivalent practices enabled and circumscribed a British construction of African nature.
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Neale, Alexa Hannah Leah. "Capital domicide : home and murder in the mid-century metropolis." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/62393/.
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This thesis examines experiences in domestic spaces in London 1930 to 1970 on a case-study basis, and through them explores the meanings of home more generally in the period. This study is unique in using case files for murder trials at the Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey, as a source for this topic, archive documents that include photographs and plans alongside rich descriptions of everyday domestic and urban life and the use of home spaces. This is an area notoriously difficult to study because of the scarcity of sources that combine visual and descriptive information, particularly sources that can be described as ‘actual' rather than ‘ideal' or ‘aspirational'. It focuses on the urban and suburban areas of the capital, specifically the area under the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court and Metropolitan Police, the producers of the sources used. Informed by Social and Cultural Historical and Geographical approaches, this thesis concentrates on the ways homes were interpreted by the authors of the documents and their relationship to ideas about home in wider society. It argues that a circular relationship existed in which assumptions by police and judiciary about class, gender, ‘race' and sexuality influenced the ways people's homes were ‘read' and the way evidence was collected from domestic crime scenes. These readings informed perceptions of residents' capability for respectable domestic life, and of the culpability of victims, the guilt of defendants, and the veracity of witnesses' evidence. Further, verdicts and sentencing were then reported on and shared in ways that had impact on later crimes, homes, and their interpretation. By analysing the processes that created the archived documents, this thesis challenges the assumptions embedded within them. It finds that social, cultural and economic capital were used by people to negotiate privacy, comfort and domesticity in their homes. In these ways, this thesis both makes an original contribution to studies of home, and describes and justifies a method and approach to crime sources that can be applied to a variety of other topics.
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Chritaro, Gustavo Rocha 1978. "Metropolis : o uso do jazz no cinema de animação japones." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284026.
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Orientador: Claudiney Rodrigues CarrascoAcompanha 1 DVD-R DL Recordable
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem como proposta analisar o uso do jazz no cinema de animação japonês, através de um estudo de caso que tem como objetivo o longa-metragem de animação "Metrópolis" (2001), dirigido por Rintaro, com roteiro de Katsuhiro Otomo, e música de Toshiyuki Honda. A metodologia que escolhemos foi a de estabelecer conexões com a literatura específica da área de trilhas sonoras, e dialogar com o pensamneto de outras áreas, como a filosofia e a crítica literária Além disso, foram feitas exposições formais sobre a parte técnica da trilha musical e a partir de então, foram realizadas uma síntese entre a literatura e o procedimento de análise
Abstract: This work intents to analyse the use of jazz music in the Japanese animated cinema , trough a case study that has as object the feature-film "Metropolis" (2001),direct by Rintaro, screen-played by Katsuhiro Otomo , and underscored by Toshiyuki Honda. The methodology we have chosen was that of establishing connections with the film music specific writings, and dialoging with the thinking of other areas, such as philosophy and literary criticism. Formal exposition about the form music technical characteristics was also made, and then a synthesis was made between the literature and the analyses procedure
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Kayode, Oluremi. "Analysis of household energy consumption in Ibadan Metropolis of Nigeria." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2016. http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/1800/.
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Energy including electricity plays a significant role in the economic development of a country as it enhances the productivity of capital and labour. Many of the developing countries are plagued with energy problems: predominantly by their over dependence on low quality, traditional fuel and the over reliance on imported commercial fuel-oil. Some of the problems associated with energy forecasting in developing countries may include lack/insufficient data. This study was conducted in two phases and begun with the reviewing of literature on energy and the different determinants of energy in a developing nation. Access to electricity is particularly crucial to human development as electricity is, in practice, indispensable for certain basic activities, such as lighting, refrigeration and the running of household appliances, and cannot easily be replaced by other forms of energy. Yet, many developing countries are faced with the challenge of providing adequate and modern energy services to its communities, which in turn is expected to improve the standards of living through increased income and employment generation. The second phase of this research was developing and modelling demand for residential electricity using secondary data. This task was challenged by the inadequacies in the quality and availability of data on the one hand and the unrealistic assumptions of many existing models used to predict energy consumption in developing countries on the other. The contribution of this thesis here was also to consider a wider set of factors that are traditionally used in energy modelling. Many previous studies had been focusing on income as a determining factor affecting demand for energy (for example, the energy ladder theory). However, this study found that there are many other factors such as the informal economy (activities within the economy that is not declared or included in the gross domestic product of a nation), urbanisation and transformation from rural to urban areas that may have a significant impact on how energy in the residential sector is demanded. It was therefore important to exceed beyond unquestioned assumptions of the orthodox belief and to focus on the processes of urbanisation and change as realities facing many developing countries. In order to develop a deeper understanding and analysis of the residential energy sector, this research offered a thorough examination of the literature on modelling techniques, their underlying theories and assumptions and the choice of variables and measurements. This led to the selection and identification of the factors influencing energy demand and helped determine the modelling techniques finally used in the thesis. In order to achieve the aims of the study, a mixed method approach was adopted. The use of quantitative (secondary and primary) data as well as qualitative (case studies, face-to-face interviews and semi-structured questionnaires) helped the researcher to test a number of established hypotheses and offer a deeper understanding of the questions in hand. Through using various statistical techniques the study was able to examine the relationship between different selected variables which can help forecast the demand for residential energy. Furthermore, with the use of a structured questionnaire survey of the households, socio-economic data were collected from 501 households in Ibadan metropolis in Nigeria which provided the premise for understanding factors other than income that are responsible for determining the type and level of energy consumed in households. The analysis involved the use of ordinal regression as households neither use the same fuel in the same combination or at the same level. In sum the thesis made the following contributions: i) a better understanding of households energy consumption which have implications for a successful energy analysis for households in Nigeria as well as other developing countries; ii) a tested methodology for analysing the determinants of household energy. The results showed that household income and price of energy do not have a significant effect on the consumption of energy in the household. It was rather factors such as the location of the property, the ownership status of the property and the expenditure spent on energy that seemed to be more relevant in determining the consumption of energy in the households. The evidence from the study suggests that there is divergence in the energy need of households and hence the different determinants for various fuels. The concept of energy ladder as suggested by earlier researchers was not confirmed by the findings. Instead the study supported the work carried out by Heltberg (2003) and confirmed that income alone may not be sufficient to determine the consumption of energy by a household. It was rather factors such as the location of the property, the ownership status of the property and the expenditure spent on energy that seemed to be more relevant in determining the consumption of energy in the households. This research also highlighted the importance of the various socio-cultural factors that affects the consumption of energy within the household, and in the same vein, it showed that economic contribution is not the sole determinant in the choice of fuel energy.
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Miller, Mark Michael. "Managing the maelstrom: Decentralization planning for the Mexico City metropolis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184549.
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From a current population near 19 million, the Mexico City metropolis may exceed 27 million by the year 2000. The many problems associated with this massive level of urban concentration include severe levels of air pollution, paralyzing congestion, and increasing costs of urban services provision. Meanwhile, the nation's periphery continues to suffer from severe economic and social underdevelopment relative to the nation's capital. Regional policies and plans to address these problems have been dominated by the concept of decentralizing the nation's urban-industrial system: i.e., dispersing urban and industrial growth from the metropolitan core to the national periphery. Mexican regional policy makers and planners have failed to adequately evaluate these proposed policies and plans for decentralization in a critical and rigorous manner. This evaluation must be made in terms of three critical criteria. The first is effectiveness: will a proposed plan genuinely return the benefits which are expected or hoped for? The second is efficiency: among several possible planning alternatives, which will return the greatest social benefits for the smallest social costs? The third is equity: which regional interest groups will be affected, and how will the costs and benefits be distributed among these groups? Research is based on three principal data sources: Mexico's National Development Plan: 1983-1988, which has predominantly determined the nation's sectoral, social, and regional policies during the de la Madrid administration; a plan prepared for the quasi-governmental Commission for the Conurbation of the Nation's Center, for urban-industrial deconcentration from Mexico City into the nation's Central Region; and extensive fieldwork in Mexico City and several other Mexican urban centers, concerned with the actual practice of regional economic development in Mexico today. Based on this research, a regionally disaggregated cost-benefit framework is proposed for policy and planning evaluation, and particularly to facilitate conflict resolution, negotiation, and other forms of adjustment among the many powerful interest groups which compete for scarce regional development resources.
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Wolfe, John Frederick Jr. "Berlin as metropolis: an exploration of Weimar Berlin's metropolitan culture." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27801.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Roy, Sinjini. "Life of the middleclass aged in Kolkata metropolis: a sociological enquiry." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2567.
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Mumuni, Thompson. "Teachers' practices in kindergarten classrooms within the Cape Coast metropolis, Ghana." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62153.
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Barnes, Felicity. "New Zealand's London : the metropolis and New Zealand's culture, 1890-1940 /." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/3344.
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The role of London in forming New Zealand’s culture and identity is a significant feature of New Zealand’s cultural history that has, until now, been overlooked. Ties with London and with ‘Home’ generally, have received little study, and ‘Britishness’ in New Zealand is largely considered a legacy of demography to be eventually outgrown. This thesis suggests something different. During the period 1890-1940, technology changed cultural perceptions of time and space, and it changed the relationship between metropole and former colony too. These technologies drew New Zealand and London closer together. London was constructed as an active part of the New Zealand cultural landscape, rather than as a nostalgic remnant of a predominantly British-born settler population. London was New Zealand’s metropolis too, with consequences for the way New Zealand culture was shaped. This thesis considers the cultural impact of London using four tropes linked to those changing perceptions of time and space. ‘Greater New Zealand’ is concerned with space, whilst ‘“New” New Zealand’ is concerned with time. ‘London’s Farm’ and the ‘Imaginative Hinterland’ consider propinquity and simultaneity respectively. Each theme draws from different bases of evidence in order to suggest London’s broad impact. Collectively, they argue for a shift away from a core and periphery relationship, towards one better described as a city and hinterland relationship. This approach draws upon existing national, imperial, and cultural historiography, whilst at the same time questioning some of their conventions and conceptions. New Zealand as hinterland challenges the conceptual borders of ‘national history’, exploring the transnational nature of cultural formations that otherwise have been considered as autochthonous New Zealand (or for that matter, British) developments. At the same time, whilst hinterlands may exist as part of empire, they are not necessarily products of it. Nor are they necessarily formed in opposition to the metropole, even though alterity is often used to explain colonial relationships. ‘New Zealand’s London’ is, instead a reciprocal creation. Its shared cultural landscape is specific, but at the same time, it offers an alternative means for understanding other white settler colonies. Like New Zealand, their cultural histories may be more complex cultural constructions than national or imperial stories allow.Whole document restricted, but available by request, use the feedback form to request access.
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Mansell, James G. "Sounds modern : perils and possibilities in the audible metropolis, 1889-1939." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493670.
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Building upon recent innovations in the study of auditory culture, Sounds Modern presents a history of ideas produced in reaction to the twentieth-century SoundScape. The audible vibrations of new technologies, mechanised warfare and mass culture set in motion a perceptual revolution either side of the Great War in which sound took centre-stage. Hosting and inspiring this revolution, London and Paris, the case-studies upon which the thesis is based, drew in a generation of sound-sensitive thinkers who were keen to explore the aural dimensions of urban experience.
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Ohashi, H. "Suburban fortunes : urban policies, planning and suburban transformation in Tokyo metropolis." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10049534/.
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Over recent decades, Tokyo’s suburban territory has experienced new path-dependent, multifaceted restructuring in the context of stagnation and/or decline, which has been materialised by interactions among urban policies, economic restructuring and socio-demographic transformation. In this process, Tokyo’s suburban territory has been increasingly isolated in political and administrative, economic and socio-demographic terms, incorporating the multi-dimensional divergence of outer suburban municipalities. Consequently, municipal governments and other local actors have been left to tackle suburban shrinkage alone under the retreat of upper-level governmental entities and global economic actors. Exploring underlying mechanisms, this research reveals that the multi-dimensional suburban isolation has been created by the metropolitan-wide dynamics of inter-governmental, inter-sectoral and inter-actor dynamics. It also reveals that the multi-dimensional outer suburban divergence has been created by local-wide differentiations of these metropolitan-wide dynamics, resulting in the difficulty of inter-municipal collaboration especially for industrial and commercial promotion. Consequently, Tokyo’s suburban territory has been degenerating from ‘post-suburban’ spaces to balkanised spaces with less diverse activities. Especially, its economy has been increasingly localised with weakened linkages to external territories including global economic circuits. Now, integrated suburban economic development is crucial for the future suburban sustainability and regeneration of Tokyo Metropolis. In this vein, this research proposes a new approach of integrated urban-suburban economic development that ensures multi-dimensional urban-suburban linkages to create new platforms for collaborations among different actors for suburban economic development. This approach can be established by creating new modes of inter-governmental, inter-sectoral and inter-actor dynamics. Through this approach, Tokyo’s suburban territory would be re-positioned within vertically and horizontally integrated economic spaces under inter-governmental and intra-governmental integrations. Then, on the basis of Tokyo’s empirical evidences, this research concludes the importance of evolutionary perspective-based investigations into active and latent dynamics within various suburban transformations worldwide, as well as proposes policy and planning implications for other large metropolises.
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Elshahed, Mohamed (Mohamed Kamal). "Facades of modernity : image, performance, and transformation in the Egyptian metropolis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39305.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-72).
Shifting political, social and cultural landscapes in contemporary Cairo with the triumph of Neolibralism are defining the city's modem heritage. In order to create a narrative of transformation of architectural production and its entanglement in different social, cultural and political contexts within the city's history, I will focus on the epicenter of the modem city, wust-el-balad, Downtown. It has recently been appropriated through a dual process of asserting the city's modem heritage. The first part of this process utilizes popular media such as period-based soap operas, photography exhibitions, literature and film. The second part of the process is through preservation of Cairo's modem buildings and the drafting of legislation to protect them. Architectural style, ornamentation of frontages (facades), is central to this process of shaping 'modem' Cairo. The criteria for inclusion into this heritage as practiced by the various committees and authorities explicitly place facades and aesthetics at the top of their selection process. Thus the process of heritization is inscribing a certain image of modernity in Cairo by selective inclusion of certain architectural styles. This thesis traces the constantly shifting image of modernity throughout downtown's history from its origin in the nineteenth century to its present state in the twenty-first century.
(cont.) In response to the hyper-functional architecture of the 1970s and 1980s accommodating population growth of the capital, architectural trends in the 1990s in Cairo heavily relied on historicism. According to Ashraf Salama, Professor of Architecture at Al-Azhar University, "historicism has been materialized with a strong reference to three main Egyptian cultures: the Pharaonic, the Coptic, and the Islamic." However, in the last decade a new architectural trend is growing in popularity that historicizes an alternative era in Egyptian history, the modern period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Thus the study of the state of architectural practice in contemporary Cairo is directly related to the city's modern origins in the 19th" century. In this thesis I will narrate the making of an architectural and urban aesthetic that is later forgotten by processes of damnation of memory and is recently being nostalgically appropriated by the middle class for the making of new architecture. These processes of making, forgetting and remembering are reflective of the cultural identities of those active in them.
by Mohamed Elshahed.
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Krishnan, Shekhar Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86283.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The thesis utilises newly available legal and municipal archives to study the historical geography of colonial Bombay through five interlocking themes and periods from 1870-1930. This spans the period between the boom and bust in the cotton trade during and after the American Civil War - when Bombay was a colonial mercantile port - to its emergence as of one of India and Asia's largest industrial cities after the First World War. Separate chapters explore the history of railway and telegraph networks, standardisation and time-keeping, land acquisition and valuation, cadastral surveying and property registration, and the urban built environment. From the perspective of the colonial city, the history of these formations looks less like the smooth unfolding of singular standards of money, time or space, than a protracted war of position fought out across a century by experts, elites and the masses. This thesis seeks to deepen the social and political history of urbanization in South Asia beyond concepts of colonial technology transfer or nationalist resistance by examining the everyday politics of stock and real estate speculation, public clocks, land and private property, maps and topographical surveys, and buildings and streets in colonial Bombay. These "modern" technologies of calculation, coordination and control in the urban environment both created and depended on new scales of power and capital accumulation, or particular configurations of industrial technologies, civic institutions and urban space.
by Shekhar Krishnan.
Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
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Muhktar, Bichi Ado. "Land accessibility and implications for housing development in Kano Metropolis, Nigeria." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14550/.
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The thesis explores access to land with particular reference to implications for housing development in Kano metropolitan area, Nigeria. It specifically addresses access for the urban low-income groups who are more likely to experience housing difficulties because of their socioeconomic disadvantages. The thesis provides an in-depth empirical and theoretical analysis of policy formulation and implementation with respect to land and housing in Nigeria. Two research methods are utilised to generate the required data for the study; a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews. The thesis is divided into two parts; the first part addresses the philosophical and methodological issues employed in the research and introduces the contextual background of the study. The second part presents the major empirical findings of the study. Chapter Five discusses past and present access to land in Kano metropolis. It explores how policies relate to the operation of an illegal land market and explains the implications of this for the proliferation of informal settlements. Analysis has shown that state policies have benefited most members of the Kano community. Chapter Six discusses the policy process concerning land and housing in Kano and considers the interface between policy guidelines, policy implementation and the success of the state housing programmes especially in the metropolitan area. The chapter shows that there is a wide gap between policy formulation and policy implementation, a reason that has affected the success of government land housing policies in Kano. Lapses in policy formulation, unnecessary bureaucracy, government officials playing the role of 'gatekeepers', corruption and shortages of basic working equipment were identified as major obstacles to achieving effective and efficient land allocation and housing development in Kano. Chapter Seven unravels the housing experiences of Kano residents concerning how they acquired or built their residences, the type of moral or financial assistance they utilised and their satisfaction with facilities in their respective residences. It shows how residential and neighbourhood satisfaction varies among different socio-economic groups and among households residing in different neighbourhoods. The study notes a general dissatisfaction with the government's provision of services and infrastructure in the entire metropolis.
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Ngara, Kudzayi Munyaradzi. "Imagining and imaging the city – Ivan Vladislavić and the postcolonial metropolis." University of Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3353.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis thesis undertakes an analysis of how six published works by the South African writer Ivan Vladislavić form the perspective of writing the city – Johannesburg – into being. Beginning from the basis that Vladislavić’s writing constitutes what I have coined dialogic postcolonialism, the thesis engages with both broader contemporary urban and postcolonial theory in order to show the liminal imaginative space that the author occupies in his narrations of Johannesburg. Underlining the notion of postcolonialism being a “work in progress” my thesis problematises the issue of representation of the postcolonial city through different aspects like space, urbanity, identity and the self, and thus locates each of the texts under consideration at a particular locus in Vladislavić’s representational continuum of the continually transforming city of Johannesburg. Until the recent appearance of Mariginal Spaces – Reading Vladislavić (2011) the extant critical literature and research on the writing of Ivan Vladislavić has, as far as I can tell, not engaged with his work as a body of creative consideration and close analysis of the city of Johannesburg. Even this latest text largely consists of previously published reviews and articles by disparate critics and academics. The trend has therefore largely been to analyse the texts separately, without treating them as the building blocks to an ongoing and perhaps unending project of imaginatively bringing the city into being. Such readings have thus been unable to decipher and characterise the threads which have emerged over the period of the writer’s literary engagement with and representation of Johannesburg. I suggest that, as individual texts and as a collection or body of work, Ivan Vladislavić’s Missing Persons (1989), The Folly (1993), Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996), The Restless Supermarket (2006 – first published in 2001), The Exploded View (2004) and Portrait with Keys: Joburg & what-what (2006), are engaged in framing representations of the postcolonial city, representations which can in my view best be analysed through the prism of deconstructive engagement. To this end, the thesis examines contemporary South African urbanity or the post-apartheid metropolitan space (as epitomised by the fictive Johannesburg) and how it is represented in literature as changing, and in the process of becoming. As a consequence, the main conclusion I arrive at is on how the irresolvable nature of the city is reflected in the totality of Ivan Vladislavić’s writing. In that way, it was possible to treat every text in its own right (rather than forcing it to conform to an overarching thesis). This central insight allowed for the effective application of urban theory to the close readings of the texts.