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Johansen, Hans. "Techtonic space out of place." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Dellinger, Ryan Douglas. "Transcendence as Space and Place." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34278.
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This thesis project is an exploration of the sensory experiences through which one passes in the removal from the outside world toward introspection and mental clarity. The program consists of one large meeting space and four smaller meeting spaces sited in the Virginia Tech Duck Pond.Master of Architecture
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Rogers, Donna Marie. "Space, place and mammography utilization /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487948807585408.
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Barker, Jesse. "No place like home : virtual space, local places and Nocilla fictions." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33138.
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This thesis is the first sustained study of a new wave of Spanish writers. Known in the press as the “Nocilla Generation”, after Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Project trilogy, the work of these authors responds to changing relations between urban subjects, virtual spaces and local places. This study portrays a broad group of writers, but it focuses on four texts: Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Dream, Javier Calvo’s “Una belleza rusa” [“A Russian Beauty”], Gabi Martínez’s Ático [Top Floor Apartment] and Esther García Llovet’s Coda. The new wave authors have been described as belonging to a new digital consciousness wholly shaped by audiovisual media and the Internet. I argue instead that their narrative represents an effort to assimilate global and virtual space with local and physical places. Their varied texts converge around the theme of how subjects locate themselves within a fragmented and interconnected world. They create hybrid fictional spaces where social practices and meaning are produced through a continuous negotiation of the physical and virtual realms.
Within this overall theme I delineate two general tendencies. The first emphasizes the subject’s immersion in a global sphere of networked relations, portraying what Roland Robertson defines as a world space where “the local is merely a ‘micro’ manifestation of the global”. The second focuses on the subject’s relation to the particular places where this global space is manifested. However, while each text can be placed closer to one or the other conceptions, both these ideas are present to some degree in all of these narratives. This creates a persistent dialectic tension and shows the difficulty of reconciling the superimposed physical and cultural contexts that shape subjectivity in the contemporary world.
What drives these narratives is the search for new subjectivities, open to the plurality of today’s interconnected and fluctuating spaces. However, the hypothetical or metaphorical character of the new fluid subjectivities presented in these fictions underlines the ambiguities involved in seeking this new way of inhabiting the world. These fictions do not present or reflect new subjectivities but rather participate in an ongoing societal dialogue about how to confront a changing cultural environment.
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Libera, Chara Dalla. "FROM NON-PLACE TO PLACE: A STUDY OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPACE AS A SPACE OF IDENTITY." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e humanas, universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/6035.
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Crossways in European HumanitiesThe objective of this dissertation is to analyse the role of public places, in its literal sense, in modern society and to identify the processes that relate people to these settings. The dissertation will be divided into three parts and each one will develop independently an aspect of the topic under analysis, even though they are all in relation one with the other, as a theoretical evolution of the inspiring idea that I will attempt to demonstrate. First of all, I will consider the studies undertaken by sociologists and anthropologists who investigated the concept of space in what concerns its characteristics and its relation with society. I will take a general theoretical view of the studies about the different interpretations in the definition of space, and then I will focus specifically on these theories in relation with public space and with the correspondent social context. In fact, one assumption underlying this study is that public places reflect the dynamics that constitute society, so that their fundamental characteristics change with the evolution of society. The social context under consideration is the contemporary one, which with its specificities, led to a redefinition of the concept of public places and to the production of new ones. The transformation in the habits and in the paradigms of reference of contemporary society have produced a major change in the role and in the perception of public space. The use of sociological and anthropological analysis will contribute to define the historical framework and to outline the determining elements that produced these mutations in the structure of contemporary society. The implications of globalization and the shift in the notions of space and time will be two relevant aspects to be considered and investigated
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Holloway, Sarah Lousie. "Space, place and geographies of childcare." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397033.
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Milsom, Zoe. "Interwar headmistresses : gender, identity, space-place." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.560576.
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This thesis examines the gendered professional identities of six headmistresses who were president of the Association of Headmistresses (AHM) during the interwar period and who taught in four London schools using the concepts of space-place. It explores the way headmistresses situated space-place as a central part of their professional identities. The study makes extensive use of a range of published and unpublished sources, including photographs, diaries, school magazines, newspapers, annual reports and minutes of the AHM to understand how headmistresses used concepts of space-place to confirm and enhance their professional lives in keeping with more general gendered discourses of the time. Three major recurrent themes run throughout the thesis. First is the importance of space-place, as part of our identities. Influenced by the work of Doreen Massey the thesis discusses space-place as a meeting up of social interactions, a sphere of possibility. Each archival chapter discusses space-place in relation to a spatial model used as a lens through which to analyse the professional lives of the six headmistresses. The first archival chapter examines the space-place of the Association and the headmistresses’ corporate identity leading on to a further three main chapters structured successively around the spatial arenas of home, nation and the transnational. These three chapters begin with a discussion of the way in which these spatial arenas are performed within the headmistresses’ schools. Second the chapters reflect on the identity of the headmistresses themselves both individually and collectively. Finally the chapters analyse the way in which the education offered by the headmistresses aimed to construct the model citizen in-line with the discourses and social practices associated with that spatial arena. Drawing together the array of materials and the synthesis of feminist geo-political, historical theories this thesis argues that each headmistress drew on different spatial models to varying extents to legitimise their professional identity. In doing so the thesis highlights the symbiotic relation between space-place and identity.
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Kim, Y. C. "Space, place and home : an integrative theory of architectural space." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356402.
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Filmer, Andrew Robert. "Backstage Space: The Place of the Performer." Arts, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1415.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis presents a systematic investigation of the backstage spaces of theatres in the city of Sydney, Australia, combining the documentation of eight specific theatre buildings with ethnographic accounts of performers’ activities within them. As the title of the thesis suggests, my focus throughout is to better understand the ‘place’ of performers, the ways in which performers inhabit certain physical, social, and imaginative realms. Through this thesis I assess the impact of backstage spaces on performers’ work processes, their performances, and their own understandings of what it is to be a performer. To undertake this assessment I conduct a tripartite survey of the backstage spaces afforded performers, taking into consideration ‘perceived’ space (space as it is empirically measured), ‘conceived’ space (space as it is represented), and ‘lived’ space (space as it is experienced). Approaching this survey via Edward Casey’s understanding of ‘place,’ my analysis is informed by a range of theories, notably, spatial syntax analysis, discourse analysis, and phenomenology. Through this thesis I develop two overarching and interconnected arguments. The first is that theatrical performance is profoundly affected by the features of backstage support spaces and by performers’ backstage practices. Building on this, the second is that a study of backstage spaces offers a particularly apposite approach to further understanding the ‘place’ of theatrical performers. I contend that the backstage spaces performers inhabit can be characterised by their very poverty and that these poor conditions testify to a widespread ignorance and ambivalence on the part of society at large towards performers’ needs. Furthermore, noting the way in which performers valorise their own abilities to compromise and adapt, I argue that backstage areas largely inform performers’ dominant discourses of professionalism and worth. Ultimately, I identify the ‘place’ of the performer as one of flux that necessitates the constant negotiation of significant tensions. [Please note: The photographic documentation and building plans referred to in the text of this thesis are not available online. Please contact the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney or the Sydney eScholarship Repository.]
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Dyer, Peter James. "Space and place in the THORP controversy." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285398.
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Whitton, Peter David. "The new university : space, place and identity." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/620806/.
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Over the last two decades, campus redevelopment in the UK and worldwide has accelerated. University building activity is frequently justified by architects and managers as responding to 'market forces'. These claims are reflected in institutional discourses about campus redesign and a growing academic and media interest in the organisational space of universities. Discourses often emphasise the positive transformative effects of redevelopment without considering the wider impact on the everyday life of the university. This thesis explores the relationship between institutional space and the construction of individual, social and professional identities, using a case study describing a ten-year campus transformation project at Manchester Metropolitan University. Over this period, the university aimed to: consolidate the number of individual campuses from seven to two; provide new 'world-class' facilities for staff and students; create opportunities for 'improved' teaching and research activity; and develop the university brand. In real terms, this meant closing existing campus locations and relocating staff and students to an 'iconic' new building containing open plan academic offices and flexible student pods. The management discourse around this ambitious building project revealed a deterministic stance, predicting a variety of 'improvements' to academic working practices, student satisfaction and efficiency as a result of these environmental changes. Viewed as a whole, these spatial manipulations were intended to influence internal and external perceptions of identity and act as an indicator of successful change management. Three interpretive approaches are used to examine the social production of a new university space: thematic; visual; and dispositive analysis. The analysis uses the work of Lefebvre, Foucault, and de Certeau to argue that specific discursive, non-discursive and material/spatial techniques are bound together in the imaginations of university management. These techniques are then employed to dismantle 'outdated' working practices in an attempt to 'spatially fix' particular new conceptions of academic labour and professional identity that fit with the neo-liberal university project. Lefebvre's spatial triad is used to structure the discussion around three research questions that focus on the creation of identities via the conceived space of institutional designers, the perceived space of work activities and the emotionally lived space of university life in the new building. The research revealed a conceptual void apparent in the design of university buildings where spatial aesthetics are appropriated from other sectors to 'fix' the problems inherent in academic capitalism. The data show how particular spatial arrangements are used to discipline academic labour and encourage particular managerially sanctioned working practices. The thesis also demonstrates the lack of recognition given to physical artefacts and personalisation of space in the design of academic offices and the detrimental effect that this has on staff identity.
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Hoskyns, T. "The empty place : democracy and public space." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1331886/.
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What is the role of physical public space in democracy? This thesis explores this question from different perspectives in theory – political philosophy and spatial theory – and through three participatory spatial practices – architectural, feminist and political democratic. The research questions whether increasingly representative democratic practice is appropriate for diverse and complex modern cities and examines the effects of representation and participation on public space, exploring possibilities for democratisation. As a theoretical basis, section 1 examines the rise of representative democracy and investigates contemporary theories for the future of democracy, focusing on the agonistic model advocated by Chantal Mouffe and the civil society model theorised by Jürgen Habermas. I argue that these models of participatory democracy can co-exist, are necessarily spatial and identify types of democratic space seen in ancient Athens, where the roles of the theatre (agon), the market place (agora) and the assembly formed a tri-partate model of democracy. Section 2 provides diverse perspectives on how the role of physical public space is articulated through three modes of participatory spatial practice. The first focuses on issues of participation in architectural practice through a set of projects exploring the ‘open spaces’ of a postwar housing estate in Euston. The second practice examines the role of space in the construction of democratic identity through the feminist architecture/art collective taking place, producing space through writing, performance and events. The third explores participatory political democratic practice through social forums at world, European and city levels. I discuss different conceptions of democracy practiced within the social forums, expressed in the discussion of the World Social Forum as a space or a movement. I conclude by arguing that participatory democracy requires a conception of public space as the empy place, which allows different models and practices of democracy to co-exist.
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Van, der Westhuizen Lourette. "The waiting place : creating social gathering space." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23325.
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This dissertation takes the opportunity to explore an existing building in need of change owing to changing environments. The proposed project is situated within the city context of Pretoria and aims to address the unavoidable nature of architecture, which involves the degradation of buildings over time. The main focus of this study is the concept of waiting, where the city dweller has to endure spending time in everyday surroundings in a built environment. The study attempts to understand the deeper psychological meaning of waiting better in order to provide places that are sympathetic to the waiting person. The aim of this dissertation is to justify the importance of the waiting place and to investigate waiting places in everyday environments, in order to determine physical factors that influence the experience of people while waiting. These factors inform decisions to provide improved facilities within an informal transport system, while generating new functions in response to the behaviour of people in a transit environment. The principles of waiting are exploited to create an environment where the building acts as generator for new infill parts to serve the user. The project envisages a fresh approach to reunite the waiting place and architecture to create a social gathering space. The project’s main goal is to consider the waiting space as one that serves as a transition place for travellers, providing the commuter with the opportunity to orientate and recover from tiring daily activities. The proposed project addresses the needs of the city dweller by means of a renewed building intervention. The changing context required a site related function that serves the user and acts as a support system in the city, facilitating future growth.Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Mhabak, Wasfie. "Shakespeare's tragic spaces : the poetics of place and space in Shakespearean tragedy." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569246.
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This thesis examines the significance of 'place' and 'space' in seven of Shakespeare's tragedies - Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus - through two inter-related approaches: on the one hand, by exploring how 'space' implants what might be labelled a spatial anxiety in Shakespeare's protagonists, an anxiety that complicates a tragic hero's response to a play's physical and psychological distinctiveness, and, on the other, by reading the spatial structure of each tragedy on geographical, historical, and political levels. This thesis thus tackles 'place' /'space' as a prominent agent in influencing the construction of the Shakespearean tragic hero who comes to be, this thesis argues, spatially destined. The Shakespearean tragic protagonists' relationships with 'space' /'place' in the plays will be shown to serve as a threshold to a network of issues, from questions of interiority and sexuality, gender and nationalism, political power and cultural hegemony to those of the tragic hero's relationship with self and others. Rather than remaining merely a passive container of a play's events, 'space' for Shakespeare becomes an active agent within the tragedies, adding to the tragic discourse of any play in key ways. When the spatial framework in Othello, for instance, moves from the wide scale of the city of Venice to the narrower space of the island of Cyprus before finally ending in the confines of a single bedchamber, such a spatial arrangement enhances the suffocating mental realm of the hero in the constrictive snare of jealousy. Shakespeare, by having the scenes of Hamlet restricted to the chambers of the court in Elsinore, emphasises the claustrophobic realm of Hamlet's 'distracted globe'. The movement of the characters from one locale to another in ancient Britain similarly intensifies the menacing realm of King Lear and cements the tragic sense of human vanity in the play. Such is the spatial machinery of Shakespearean tragedy, in which spatial organisation is not accidental to the plot of the play, but rather generated by it. Space, indeed, proves to be, in each Shakespearean tragedy addressed in this thesis, the blueprint which marks the nature and the tempo of events, the tragic hero's inward struggle, and the overall tragic sense of the play. Romeo and Juliet is thus structured around a network of public places imbued with social feuding and of private spaces in which privacy is denied and invaded, rendering the lovers not just 'star-' but also 'space-crossed' figures. In these terms, King Lear becomes a tragedy in which dislocation is equated with the loss of personal and national identity and relocation paralleled with selfhood and national belonging. Hamlet comes to be a play of utter confinement, be it conceptually through Hamlet's mental 'nutshell' of 'bad dreams', or materially in the close quarters of the King's court. Shakespeare invests in Macbeth both a spatial liminality, between the realms of witchcraft and reality, and a psychic liminality in Macbeth's restless fear and eventual tyranny. Likewise, in Antony and Cleopatra, Antony's spatial identity wavers between Roman and the Egyptian sensibilities just as the play's scenes sweep us geographically from Rome to Egypt and back again. By contrast, two approaches to the concept of the 'city' prevail in Coriolanus - again, conceptual and material - as shown by the hero and the various classes represented in Shakespeare's Republican Rome: both contribute influentially to the political struggle in the play. In short, space in Shakespearean tragedy signals the topographical equivalence both of a character's inward struggles and of a play's more exterior conflicts.
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Cimei, Christopher Yo. "Troubling spaces : the representation of space and place in Troubles-era Northern Irish drama." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25945.
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Troubling Spaces explores the relationship between the representation of space and place on the Northern Irish stage and the production of space that occurs within Northern Irish society during the Troubles. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space, I examine how Nationalists and Unionists produced a series of communal narratives which allowed them to reorder Northern Irish space and its social relations. Additionally, I examine how these communal ideologies create divergent concepts of Northern Irish place which Doreen Massey refers to as negative and enclosed concepts of place. This not only reinforces the dualistic binary between Nationalism and Unionism, it also incites tribal associations and allegiances. Moving on from this, I conduct a close reading of three Troubles plays, Stewart Parker’s Northern Star and Pentecost and Christina Reid’s Tea in a China Cup, to examine how their dramatic narratives intersect and interact with non-traditional stage space to produce dramatic environments which provide compelling commentaries on Northern Irish spatiality. My examination of Northern Star traces the development of the ideological structures which shape Northern Irish spatiality; in Pentecost, I explore how its liminal domestic space is perfectly suited to illustrate the dynamic conceptualisation of place Massey argues for; and, finally, in Tea in a China Cup, I develop the distinction between private domestic spaces and public social spaces further by examining matrilineal narratives in relation to communal symbols within a female-coded domestic space. Through these close readings, I will demonstrate that a dialogical relationship can be discerned between the production of space and place that occurs within Northern Irish society and the representation of it on the Northern Irish stage. While many plays have the potential to act as an endorsement of the restrictive and enclosed concepts of space and place in the ideological frameworks of Nationalism and Unionism, the three that I have chosen provide important counterpoints during the Troubles that actively resist their cultural hegemony.
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Machado, Miguel. "A palimpsest-image : place, space and film geographies." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2016. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q15xz/a-palimpsest-image-place-space-and-film-geographies.
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This thesis argues that landscape, place and the material image can be an emotional and narrative catalyst in the context of essay/documentary/art house films. It proposes the notion of the palimpsest-image as an orbit around three gravitational vectors: the relationship between place and space in film, the association of different art forms in the creation and interpretation of an image, and the simultaneity of discourses involving complex combinations of memory, history and imagination. Not necessarily present all the time, these three vectors interact, whether in the interpretation and organization of the theoretical discourse, or in the consideration of the practical work in its artistic and conceptual dimensions. The core research addresses the possibility of forming film geographies through the arrangement of film space and its interpretation of place. The theoretical framework draws on history, geography, art history, film studies and the work of contemporary filmmakers, photographers and painters. This framework is related to the practical research centred on a film made with images recorded in the seven capital cities of countries from the former Yugoslavia. These cities are a platform for two objective ideas: first, to discuss questions of identity, memory, history and place in the context of an imaginary city, Novi (2012-2015), portrayed as a spectral topography between past and present, symbolism and triviality; and second, to delineate a cinematic place that proposes the notion of film geography as a concept that surpasses the mere identification of geographic realism in films.
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Backman, Fredrick. "Making Place for Space : a History of 'Space Town' Kiruna 1943-2000." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-101725.
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Science and technology have a tendency to clump together in places where they spawn other forms of societal activities. Sometimes these places become famous through processes known as place-making, or the social construction of place. Because the scientific and technological activities affect the places, and the places conversely affect the science and technology, it is relevant to study how and why these connections emerge. This dissertation examines the particular case of the northern Swedish town of Kiruna, which has become known for being a `space town' because of its scientific, technological, and other activities that relate to the near space around the earth. The overall objective is to analyse the processes underlying the making of Kiruna as a space town in the period 1943--2000. Five parts make up the study. First is an examination of how the development of space physics research in Kiruna led to the setting up of a scientific observatory. The second part studies how the Swedish participation in the European Space Research Organisationmade Kiruna the place for a rocket base. Next follows an analysis of how local business efforts contributed to forming a new satellite technology business and the Space House office building. The fourth part concerns how the visions to establish a space `university' eventually led to the emergence of the Space Campus. Last is an epilogue that briefly analyses the space tourism efforts in Kiruna. A central finding is that the space town has emerged as the result of entwined processes where, on the one hand, ideas about the near space around the earth have led to new activities and physical structures, and, on the other hand, these new activities and built structures conversely have inspired to new ideas. Of importance is also the geographical place where these developments have occurred. Here, a reoccurring argument to placing the activities and structures in Kiruna was the town's geographically favourable location for specific scientific and technological activities. Another finding is that the development has gradually led to the emergence of a kind of identity or notion of Kiruna as a particular place for space activities. Although this form of place-making has occurred largely through spontaneous processes, it was also the result of intentional efforts. Together, these different place-making processes have formed the `space town' of Kiruna.
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Cashdan, Elisabeth M. "A space for women? : space and place in women's novels, 1790-1820." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2004. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19429/.
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This study examines the emergence of the novel as a writing site for women writers and traces the ways in which women novelists between 1790 and 1820 represented space within their novels. It identifies how women used both the space afforded by the novel, and the representations of space in the novel, to enter the public sphere. Chapter 1 examines theories of the novel to show how it both reflects society and can become an agent for change in society. The chapter examines how important this was for women since the novel might enable them to establish a viewpoint that was distinct from the supposed universal viewpoint adopted by male society. The chapter also examines theories describing the growth of the public sphere, and explores how far women might use the novel as their way of entering the public sphere. Chapter 2 examines novels by women writers where one of the characters is a woman who writes. I argue that in general women novelists took more risks as writers than they allowed their heroines to do, since the heroines usually relinquished their writing careers on getting married. Chapter 3 examines the role of the epistolary novel in women novelists' attempts to capitalise on the site afforded by the novel. If heroines were restricted in their novel writing, they did not need to be restricted in their letter writing. Thus the letter form allowed women novelists an opportunity to voice a wide range of viewpoints, both female and male, on such subjects as marriage, education, slavery, war and peace. Chapter 4 examines the use made by women novelists of the preface and interventions in the text, both to defend themselves as novel writers and to express their views on a wide variety of subjects. It analyses the extensive references to other writers, books and libraries, particularly the circulating libraries. Chapter 5 moves into an analysis of space within the novel, especially the house as the domestic space proper to women. It explores novels where the representation of women's position in their childhood or marital homes reflects their position in society in general. Chapter 6 analyses the difficulties which women encountered in real life when moving beyond the confines of the house and shows how these difficulties were represented in novels by women. The study concludes by suggesting that the novel was an important writing site for women where they could enter the public sphere and stake a claim to cultural capital. It suggests, however, that although this claim was often weakened by certain women novelists who were determined to repudiate the radical views, in particular, of women such as Mary Wollstonecraft, it was nevertheless partly redeemed by the approach of others who succeeded in being both radical and Christian at the same time.
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Karaman, Ozan. "Deterritorialization And New Approaches To Urban Space." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1104926/index.pdf.
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Klainbaum, Daniel. "Place and Digital Media." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/10554.
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As interactors we often allude to a sense of presence, of being there, when experiencing interactive artifacts. Digital technologies can create a sense of presence within a synthetic environment, that of being in a technologically mediated space. As a result, ideas of space and place are fundamental to the use of digital media. Related metaphors pervade our language and use of technology; we explore virtual worlds, surf online, and chat in rooms.
The field of humanist geography can be used to examine digital media practice across several domains. Exploring the concept of place in relationship to a video game, website, or mixed reality environments question contemporary definitions of presence. As a result, a theoretical foundation for the design of artifacts may create a strong sense of place, and thus enhance our understanding of presence.
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Olstad, Tyra A. "Desert dimensions attachment to a place of space /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1313912621&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Martin, Paul. "Space and place as expressive categories in videogames." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6406.
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This thesis sets out to explore some of the ways in which videogames use space as a means of expression. This expression takes place in two registers: representation and embodiment. Representation is understood as a form of expression in which messages and ideas are communicated. Embodiment is understood as a form of expression in which the player is encouraged to take up a particular position in relation to the game. This distinction between representation and embodiment is useful analytically but the thesis attempts to synthesise these modes in order to account for the experience of playing videogames, where representation and embodiment are constantly happening and constantly influencing and shaping each other. Several methods are developed to analyse games in a way that brings these two modes to the fore. The thesis attempts to arrive at a number of spatial aesthetics of videogames by adapting methods from game studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, onomastics (the study of names), cartographic theory, choreography and architectural and urban formation analysis.
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Peyrefitte, Magali. "Diasporic trajectories of suburbanisation : ethnicity, space and place." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546705.
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Stead, Sarah. "PLACE, SPACE, AND FORM CAPTURED THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDITATION." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4193.
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Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, the photographic series Architectural Zen attempts to beautify banal and pragmatic architecture through limiting and preexisting artificial light conditions. The selective illumination of artificial light eliminates the non-essential details and enhances the pure forms and saturated color presented by the camera lens. This encourages the photographer and the viewer to enter a state of meditation. The resulting process is similar to a Zen approach to image making. The ancient Zen artist s compositions are strengthened by a meditation on form and subsequent elimination of the non-essential elements of the subject. Through embracing this Zen mentality and mindfulness,aspects of Eastern aesthetic and balance also appear through the work. The warm glow of artificial lights, long recessed shadows, and surreal colors contribute to the feeling of rest, contemplation, isolation, and solitude. Although the work in Architectural Zen is not directly about Buddhist doctrines, the process of creating the art parallels the ideas and practices of Zen Buddhism and meditation, finding the Buddha nature of typically unappealing architectural forms during a different time of day.M.F.A.
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Smethurst, Paul. "Space, time and place in the postmodern novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309297.
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Finkelberg, Amanda (Amanda Suzanne). "Space, place, and database : layers of digital cartography." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39155.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-68).
This paper addresses the changes in cartography since digitization and widespread popular dissemination. Cybercartography, an emergent system of maps, mapmaking tools, and mapmakers, forces a rethinking of spatial representations. The implicit distinction in digital media enables a new type of map user or neo-geographer that creates layers of expressions based on subjective experience. This paper argues that the neo-geographer signifies a new cartographic behavior that affords a complex subjectivity. This behavior is further exhibited in the practice of navigable maps and virtual globes which lead the way to a paradigmatic change in the way we represent and interact with space. It is divided into three parts: Part I addresses the role of digitization in maps and lays out framework and vocabulary. Part II examines layers of spatial representations in historical context. Part III opens room for future study in the quickly developing inhabitable cartographic spaces of virtual globes and virtual worlds.
by Amanda Finkelberg.
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Consuegra, Cadavid Nicolás. "A site without a place is a space :." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118658.
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Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged student-submitted from PDF version of thesis. "June 2018."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-66).
This thesis analyzes a series of art works, institutions and art programs in Colombia that have shaped site-specific works since the 1980s. Due to the fact that site-specific projects in Colombia have not evolved at the same pace--or with similar theoretical, and/or critical support--as other contexts (e.g. North America or Europe,) this is an attempt to contextualize a series of predicaments in the production (and reproduction) of site-specific works in the country. This thesis also lays out the methodology I implemented in order to develop the project The Space of Place. The Place of Space: an installation I presented in mid 2017, which connects my research on site-specificity with my creative work as a visual artist.
by Nicolás Consuegra Cadavid.
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Pafilis, Vassilis. "Drawing worlds : reflections on space, place and placelessness." Thesis, University of East London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533013.
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In the summer of 2001, intending to perfect my technique and further myself as an artist, I traveled to England and enrolled to study for an MA degree in Fine Art at the University of East London (UEL). This was a productive time with new ideas regarding landscape and seascape motifs. With the intention of exploring further these ideas, I successfully submitted a proposal to join the Professional Doctorate programme at UEL (2003). This report outlines the cultural and artistic tensions that have fuelled my work and accounts of the six years of part-time study mainly occupied with theoretical research, studio practice and professional practice. (i) Theoretical Research I carried out an extensive literature survey in an attempt to identify artists and theories relevant to my ideas about the materiality of paint and its limits. Initially, I focused on the expressive power of drawing as a prime vehicle of meaning and expression. I studied the theoretical approach of Charles Peirce, because I believe the semiotics in philosophy and art intersect. I discovered the studies by Lucy Lippard and Melanie Smith and their theories on art and culture. Other, important influences were Edward Relph and his theory of place and placelessness, and John Urry in relation to the theory of tourism. I also studied and tried to establish a "dialogue" with contemporary artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Antoni Tapies, and Basil Beattie. Each of them has influenced my work in different ways. I explored the act of image-making from within the Greek aesthetic heritage and spiritual context in relation to postmodern influences. In addition, the research around the themes of tourism, natural environment, indexical abstraction and place (and placelessness) has enriched my "vocabulary" and has added new dimensions to my work. (ii) Studio Practice The space and resources provided by the UEL enabled me to realize my creative potential by experimenting with different forms and techniques, and receiving constructive feedback. This is reflected on the composition of larger and bolder drawings and canvases around a more consistent theme. The opportunity to debate with other artists about the subject matter and the artist's role in society (as social activist and educator) has also enhanced my ability to view critically my creative practice. My work gradually evolved from mark-making to figurative suggestion, from the abstract form to the depth of matter. A recurrent theme in my work is the sea and coastline, deploying deep spatial illusionism and a range of painterly techniques. The content of these paintings is the interaction of man-made forms such as parasols -a remnant of human activity - with the seascapes and the primordial, elemental natural environment. Parasols alone, despite the absence of human figures, evoke a human presence. They represent the transience of man-made forms and are an example of man's relationship with fragile nature. (iii) Professional practice. During my studies at UEL, I had the opportunity to visit a number of important art exhibitions in London and elsewhere, which have contributed to my development as an artist and inspired my work. In particular, the Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye at the Hayward Gallery (2005), and Impressionists by the Sea at the Royal Academy of Arts (2007) have greatly inspired my recent work. In this period, I participated in several group exhibitions, and one solo show, in London and Greece, culminating in my participation in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2009) with the painting Coastlines which was sold to a private collection. In 2009, 1 also contributed with an article on the role of the artist in a postmodern society to the art supplement of a Greek daily newspaper. Being exposed to the multi-ethnic environment of London has enhanced my understanding of image-making in relation to different expressions of cultural heritage and identity. I believe this rich cultural, artistic and professional experience will serve as a platform to further advance my career as an artist. Finally, the title of this Report was partly inspired by T. J. Barnes and J. S. Duncan's book: Writing Worlds, Discourse, Text & Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape, and Melanie Smith's chapter: Space, Place, and Placelessness in the Culturally Regenerated City, within Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives edited by G. Richards, which voiced concern about the degrading effect of mass tourism on the landscape.
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Tyrrell, Thomas. "Remapping Milton : space, place and influence, 1700-1800." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/111233/.
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In my examination of the influence of John Milton’s poetry on eighteenth century literature, I argue that eighteenth-century writers engage with ideas of space and place as they seek to transform Miltonic verse into a suitable medium for describing the Newtonian astronomy and imperial geography of their day. My first chapter examines John Philips’s Cyder and John Dyer’s The Fleece alongside county maps and commercial atlases, as part of a study of how their verse appropriates Milton’s politics and revises his geography. In my second chapter, I use digital mapping technology to explore the different viewing perspectives James Thomson uses in The Seasons, how they derive from Milton, and how they support his project to describe a harmonious, providential global geography. My third chapter investigates adaptations of Milton’s A Mask Performed at Ludlow Castle (1634). Across the eighteenth century, A Mask generated an opera, a play and a novel, and I examine how the meaning of each adaptation changes due to the altered place and context of performance. In my last two chapters, I argue that the female tradition of astronomical poetry seeks to reconcile Miltonic verse with Newtonian science whilst also critiquing it from a devotional perspective. Finally, I claim that Ann Yearsley and Charlotte Smith used Milton’s influence as a means to usurp the exclusively male territory of the eighteenth-century prospect poem, through poetry written from Clifton Hill in Bristol and Beachy Head on the South Downs. In my coda on William Wordsworth I conclude that to view him as the culmination of eighteenth-century engagement with Milton is to bias our understanding of both authors. Reconsidering Milton’s eighteenth-century influence is a vital part not only of understanding the worldview of the age, but also of distinguishing Milton himself from what the eighteenth century made of him.
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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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Lagerman, Julia. "Queering Space in a Place Within a Place? : Geographical Imaginations of Swedish Pride Festivals." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354148.
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I have used Massey’s (1995) concept of Geographical Imaginations together with Ahmed’s (2006) Queer Phenomenology to research the different meanings attached to Pride festivals in Stockholm and Gothenburg. In this thesis, Pride is defined as a contested place, which is held in places. To research perceptions of Pride and its hosting cities, I have interviewed people with experiences from the Pride festivals and city council employees involved with them. I have also analysed communication and marketing material related to Pride and LGBTQ tourism in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The interviews and the published material showed that Pride as a place sometimes queers parts of the city space by changing them temporarily, making LGBTQ performances more visible. Meanwhile, the articulations of Pride made by city officials, employees and tourist marketing materials showed how LGBTQ rights were understood as dependent on space and time, where both the cities and Sweden were conceptualised as “ahead” in time compared to other places, defining human rights as a Swedish national trait and a tourist commodity.
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Hallett, Lawrie. "The space between : defining the place for Community Radio." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2015. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q321y/the-space-between-defining-the-place-for-community-radio.
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This thesis examines the emergence of Community Radio in the United Kingdom. It places the sector within an historical context dominated by the BBC and strongly influenced by the subsequent arrival of commercial radio broadcasting. Understanding this historical context, which includes consideration of the role played by unlicensed 'pirate' radio operators, is, in the opinion of the author, a critical prerequisite necessary for assessing how and why current Community Radio practice has developed in the way it has. Primary research for this thesis includes a variety of semi-structured interviews with campaigners, practitioners and regulators and, whilst primarily focused on the emergence of the Community Radio sector within the British context, it does not ignore wider international perspectives. Recognising that, well before Community Radio began to emerge in the UK, much of the early conceptual development of the sector took place in other jurisdictions, the author also draws upon a number of international sources, including some primary research in the Republic of Ireland, Norway and the United States of America. The influence of two key factors, those of regulation and technology, are central to this research, the author arguing that these in particular have helped define (and constrain) the current position and future opportunities available to Community Radio within the United Kingdom. Legislation and regulation may have defined clear, and in some instances unique, operational objectives for British Community Radio, but when defining such objectives they have also had to take into account limited broadcast spectrum availability, constraining the scope and scale of the sector as a result. Beyond a consideration of the historical and of present day practice, this thesis also looks towards the future, examining current developments in digital broadcasting which offer the potential to counter such current capacity constraints and provide opportunities for additional community-based services in future.
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Cole, Carli. "Transcending space." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Watkins, Lelania Ottoboni. "Writing Space, Righting Place: Language as a Heterotopic Space in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/143.
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Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa may have had abolitionist motivations when writing The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself, but the function of the text is much different and self-serving. Specifically, in looking closely at the wording of the text, with its language of we versus they, in group versus out group, ours versus theirs, Equiano clearly feels he at no time belongs fully to any specific group or place; rather, he only partially belongs anywhere, and thus, creates this work of autobiography and appropriation of fiction and oral tradition to negotiate and cultivate his own liminal, or even heterotopic, space. In other words, I suggest he may have used the writing of this text to define his sense of self, creating a space in which he was both in control and fully belonged.
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Fägerstam, Emilia. "Space and Place : Perspectives on outdoor teaching and learning." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-81318.
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This thesis aims to explore teachers’ and students’ experience and perception of outdoor teaching and learning. Further, it aims to explore influences of outdoor teaching on academic performance in biology and mathematics. The contexts for the thesis are a Swedish high school and Australian environmental education centres. The empirical material comprises student and teacher interviews, and questionnaires and tests answered by students. Theoretical frames of reference are theory of place and three dimensions of learning: content, social and emotional dimensions of learning. The results reveal that the extended physical space had the potential to improve social relations and increase participation, collaboration and on-task communication. However, teachers witnessed a period of up to three months before the students adjusted to outdoor teaching. During that time disciplinary issues were a concern. Teaches’ perceptions were that experience of specific places such as local natural environment was fundamental to forming a sense of belonging and environmental concern. However, teachers described children and students as unfamiliar with local natural environments. Teacher’s perceptions were that media provides knowledge about nature rather than direct experience and children and students were often uncomfortable or afraid in nature. Mathematics followed by language education were the subjects most regularly taught outdoors. Two studies compared classroom education with partly outdoor education in biology and mathematics. Results reveal that students’ performance was equally good, or more developed as a consequence of outdoor teaching. An overarching conclusion is that the possibility to appeal to cognitive, social and emotional dimensions of learning all at the same time has the potential to concretize and broaden the often theoretical approach of high school education, and to contribute to long term episodic memories and a desire to learn.Denna avhandling syftar till att utforska lärares och elevers erfarenheter av, och uppfattningar om undervisning och lärande utomhus. Vidare syftar den till att undersöka vilken inverkan undervisning utomhus har på elevers resultat i biologi och matematik. Studierna är utförda i en svensk högstadieskola samt vid australiska miljöutbildningscentra. Det empiriska materialet består av elev- och lärarintervjuer samt enkäter och tester besvarade av elever. Det teoretiska ramverket utgår från platsteori samt ett lärandeperspektiv inkluderande tre dimensioner: innehållsliga, sociala och emotionella dimensioner av lärande. Resultaten visar att utemiljöns utvidgade fysiska rum har potential att förändra sociala relationer positivt och leda till ökat deltagande, samarbete, och kommunikation i ämnet Lärares erfarenhet var dock att det tog upp till tre månader innan eleverna var helt införstådda med utomhusundervisningens innebörd. Under den tiden var oordning i klassen ett hinder. Erfarenhet av specifika platser såsom lokal natur sågs av lärarna som väsentligt för elevernas platstillhörighet och miljöengagemang. Lärare vittnade dock om många elevers främlingskap inför lokala naturmiljöer. Kunskaper om naturen härstammade snarare från media än från egna erfarenheter och eleverna var ofta obekväma eller rädda i naturen. Matematik följt av språk var de ämnen som med störst regelbundenhet undervisades utomhus. I två delstudier jämfördes klassrumsundervisning med undervisning delvis utomhus i biologi och matematik. Resultaten visar på likvärdiga, eller mer utvecklade kunskaper som en följd av utomhusundervisning. En övergripande slutsats är att utomhusundervisningens möjligheter att samtidigt appellera till kognitiva, sociala och emotionella dimensioner av lärande kan konkretisera och vidga högstadieundervisningens teoretiskt inriktade innehåll samt bidra till långlivade episodiska minnen och en lust till lärande.
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Kossoff, Adam. "On Terra Firma : Space, Place and the Moving Image." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503030.
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Kyriakou, Aristea. "Schoolisizing our Schoolyards: from a space to our place." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-109063.
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This study has been conducted in the context of the master program in Outdoor Environmental Education and Outdoor Life, of Linköping University. It aspires to investigate a specific part of outdoor environments: the schoolyards. Particularly, the aim of the study is to investigate how the use of the school grounds as an educational resource is influenced by their environments -rural or urban. The research compares the school communities’ (principals’, teachers’ and students’) perceptions about the use of their school grounds during the educational process. The research sample consists of 10 Swedish elementary schools, from which the five are in rural and five are in urban environments. The participants are in total 10 principals, 51 teachers and 295 students. Alongside, an observation recorded in a list and photographs enhance the comparison between the rural and urban schools’ infrastructures. From the 1268 photos taken, a selection is included in the study and constitutes the observation part. The study negotiates four controversial issues about school grounds’ capacities: space or place; good or bad; rural or urban; grounds of a school or grounds of a curriculum. The results, after all, reject the contradictions and the sections become respectively: a place for all seasons; neither good nor bad, just unique! ; Ideality stands for ideas; grounds for cooperation. It also becomes visible that even though the analysis of the responses confirms that the urban teachers hold the stereotypical idea that there are differences between rural and urban environments; the infrastructures of both environments do not appear different. However, the teachers’ different opinions and beliefs have a significant impact on the students’ responses. Specifically, significant differences are reported by students which align with the teachers’ differences. The rural and urban principals do not report significant differences, and in the great majority their opinions also align with their teachers’ opinions. Finally, a model which is unfolded through this study has central role, namely the schoolyard circle. This model aims to facilitate a process that I introduce as schoolisization, in which school grounds are used to extend the stereotypical learning environment by adapting the curriculum to a school’s needs. Consequently, the schoolyards’ transformation from a space to our place can be finally proved an outdoor education approach that “bridges contradictions” and promises better educational results.
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Massey, Joanne. "The changing public face, space and place of Manchester." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435621.
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Olstad, Tyra A. "Zen of the plains: discovering space, place and self." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13520.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Geography
Kevin Blake
With their windswept ridges and wind-rent skies, prairies and plains have often been denigrated as nothing but nothing—empty, meaningless, valueless space. Mountains and forests, oceans and deserts have been praised and protected while vast expanses of undulating grasslands have been plowed under, grazed over, used, abused, maligned. Once the largest ecosystem on the North American continent, wild prairies now persist mainly in overlooked or unwanted fragments. In part, it’s a matter of psychology; some people see plains as visually unpleasing (too big, too boring) or physically alienating (too dry, too exposed). It’s also part economics; prairies seem more productive, more valuable as anything but tangles of grass and sage. But at heart, it’s a matter of sociocultural and individual biases; people seeking bucolic or sublime landscapes find “empty,” treeless skyscapes flat and dull, forgettable. Scientific, social, and especially aesthetic appreciation for plains requires a different perspective—a pause in place—an exploration of the horizon as well as an examination of the minutiae, few people have strived to understand and appreciate undifferentiated, untrammeled space. This research seeks to change that by example, using conscientious, systematic reflection on first-hand experience to explore questions fundamental to phenomenology and geography—how do people experience the world? How do we shape places and how do places shape us?—in the context of plains landscapes. Written and illustrated from the perspective of a newcomer, a scholar, a National Park Service ranger, a walker, a watcher, a person wholly and unabashedly in love with wild places, the creative non-fiction narratives, photoessays, and hand-drawn maps address themes of landscape aesthetics, sense of place, and place-identity by tracing the natural, cultural, and managerial histories of and personal relationships with Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, Kansas’s Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological Research Station, and Wyoming’s Fossil Butte National Monument. Prosaic and photographic meditations on wildness and wilderness, travel and tourism, preservation and conservation, days and seasons, expectations and acceptance, even dreams and reality intertwine to evoke and illuminate the inspiring aesthetic of spacious places—Zen of the plains.
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Davidson, Neil. "Space, place and policing in Scotland's night-time economy." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2011. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/866cdd5f-8501-43a5-ba2b-03b856324b74.
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There is a growing political discourse in Scotland acknowledging alcohol to be a significant contributor to crime. A significant portion of this is directly related to the evening and night-time drinking based leisure industry i.e. the night-time economy (NTE). The NTE is often characterised by violent and disorderly behaviour concentrated in and around pubs and nightclubs (‘hotspots’) on weekend nights presenting considerable public health, criminal justice and urban management issues. Recently the political rhetoric has been backed up by new legislation in an attempt to counterbalance what was previously a market-driven economy. There now exists various crime reduction partnerships and situational crime prevention technologies to restrict and control certain behaviours and the presence and movements of persons and groups. This research project has specifically focussed on the role of police in this rapidly changing regulatory NTE context. Combining data gathered from participant observation sessions with front-line police and in-depth interviews with multiple NTE stakeholders in a multi-site comparison study across Scotland, this research project provides a robust evidential base from which to analyse and interpret policing of the NTE at the national and local scales using various conceptual frameworks of contemporary policing in western societies. What my findings have shown is that front-line officers have adapted their police work in order to suit the specific context within which they are operating. I have termed this specific variation on traditional understandings of ‘cop culture’ as being the ‘street craft of policing the NTE’. Furthermore, while this street craft was evident across all three case study areas, the extremely tangled and convoluted nature of local security provision at the local scale necessitates that front-line officers adapt this street craft to meet the local specificities of their respective NTEs.
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Gantner, Eszter. "Barbara E. Mann: Space and Place in Jewish Studies." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2014. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35021.
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Tonucci, Romina Florencia. "The place of time in the fragments of space." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2004. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Jonietz, David [Verfasser], and Sabine [Akademischer Betreuer] Timpf. "From Space to Place: A Computational Model of Functional Place / David Jonietz. Betreuer: Sabine Timpf." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1101345292/34.
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Ahrfeldt, Cecilia. "Space and Infelicitous Place in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62615.
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Sylvia Plath’s poetry has received considerable critical attention with respect to a wide range of themes and critical approaches. Variously labeled feminist, political, mythical and suicidal, Plath has been subject to enormous biographical scrutiny but the critical responses available today offer increasingly nuanced understandings of Plath’s work. However, sufficient attention has not been given to the significant prevalence of images of places and spaces in Plath’s poetry. With particular focus on a selection of poems from The Collected Poems, this thesis argues that the personae in the poems confront “infelicitous places” and that the poems resonate with a tension between place (here referring to a space that is delimited by certain values) and space (in the sense of an expansion without the restrictions of place). What I here refer to as infelicitous place can be understood as an inversion of Gaston Bachelard’s conception of “felicitous space” and accounts for the way in which places in Plath’s poetry are marred with anxiety and ambivalence as opposed to Bachelard’s benevolent, protective spaces. The places and spaces in the poems are dealt with in relation to the notion of infelicitous place, as well as the significance of walls and the affinity between place and poetics.
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Bennett, Greg. "Architecture and the sense of place." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23424.
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Yılmaz, Ebru. "Determination of the place concept in reproduction process of built environment: process of built environment: Kordon, İzmir as a Case Study/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2004. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezler/doktora/mimarlik/T000486.doc.
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Zellmeyer, Stephan. "A place in space : the history of Swiss participation in European space programmes, 1960-1987 /." Paris : Beauchesne, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9782701015323.
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Morgan, Ceri Mair. "'There's no place like home' : space, place and identity in the contemporary francophone novel in Quebec." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302030.
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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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Wilson, Krista. "Human urbanism immersion into place /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2010. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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