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Lindgren, Edmonds Ann-Louise. "Mixed Messages within The Buddha of Suburbia." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1933.

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The mixed messages provided in The Buddha of Suburbia together with its prevalent use of humour are the focal point for this essay. The aim is to defend my thesis statement that humour provides a justifiable forum for the critique and presentation of society, enabling the facilitation of serious, effective and powerful perspectives. As critical standpoints a mixture of Postcolonial and Marxist theories are applied together with Bakhtin’s theory of carnevalesque. By comparing historic facts with the portrayed environment depicted in the novel, a message is delivered that a change of a different worldview is required. This message is displayed with various uses of humour, wit and satire, which provide an allegorical veil for its seriousness. This analysis shows that there are no seeming changes in the lives of the characters, but it highlights that a need for a change of views is important.

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Onmus, Selime. "Hybrid Identities In The Buddha Of Suburbia By Hanif Kureishi And The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615065/index.pdf.

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This thesis studies two novels: The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. There are characters with hybrid qualities in each novel and they tend to use or encouraged to use mimicry to find their identities and establish themselves in the cultures they live. Hence, the result of mimicry is ambivalence on both sides, the colonizer and the colonized. The first chapter is dedicated to explaining the theory of hybridity based on the ideas of leading theoreticians like, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young and others. The situation, problems and the coping strategies of character are studied in detail, in individual sections. The final chapter is dedicated to the comparison of the hybrid situations of the second generation male and female characters. Eventually it is seen that all hybrid characters, especially the second generation immigrants use mimicry to create their own &lsquo
Third Space&rsquo
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Yousofi, Zehra Ahmed. "No Country for Diasporic Men: The Psychological Development of South Asian Masculinities in The Buddha of Suburbia and The Mimic Man." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1612.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the psychological development of South Asian masculinity in a diaspora that is depicted in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men. Together, Kureishi and Naipaul construct a complete understanding of masculinity through childhood, adolescent, young adult, and adulthood. Chapter 1 explores the need to displace their father’s masculinity and seek better masculine models that align with the social norms of the diaspora. Chapter 2 establishes the motivation behind seeking peers to define the meaning of masculinity in a diaspora and the disadvantage of this pathway. Chapter 3 demonstrates two possible outcomes for South Asian men attempting to construct a secure masculinity. The difficulties these characters encounter when developing their identity is both a product of their diasporic environment and the lingering effect of colonization through the presence of hegemonic masculinity. They attempt to rectify the inadequacies in their masculinity by refuting a portion of their identity tied to being South Asian in order to better assimilate to the ideals of their diaspora. Ultimately, there are two possible consequences for South Asian men in a diaspora: one is to attempt to negotiate their position as a mixture of both the ideals of the diaspora and South Asian culture and the second is to continue to live a fragmented life of denying aspects of their identity tied to either the diaspora or South Asian culture.

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Vickers, Kathleen. ""This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06182009-160955/.

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This thesis considers how contemporary British literature helps us negotiate better ways of being in an increasingly diverse world. Britain understood itself as a relatively homogenous white society and reacted badly when commonwealth citizens unexpectedly began to return following World War II. Colonial migrants increasingly large presence, particularly as many settled and had children, challenged the myth of a pure Anglo-Saxon Britain and forced a re-conceiving of what it is to be British. This thesis particularly examines how colonial immigrants found ways to (re)negotiate their identities as British in the face of hostility in their mother country. Chapter One looks at how Sam Selvons The Lonely Londoners depicts ways early West Indian immigrants found to endure in immediate post-war, nationalist, Britain. I argue that while working class migrants found ways to survive, they did so at the expense of personal growth. Nevertheless, their tenacity laid down the foundations of a new Britishness on which future generations could build. Chapter Two examines Hanif Kureishis The Buddha of Suburbia. I argue that Kureishis novel indicates how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form their identities differently to their immigrant parents. They negotiate ways of being British via their heritage and immediate family, but also with peers, and across various boundaries including those of class, gender, and culture. Chapter Three considers Zadie Smiths White Teeth. I argue that this novel suggests how immigrants negotiate their identities across even more boundaries and increasingly take advantage of the changing circumstances of life in Britain. This literature indicates reasons for some minority groups disaffection and subsequent behavior and so helps us to better understand and negotiate difference. In the Afterword, I reiterate that, starting from Britains nationalistic fear of hybridity in the 1950s, the novels in this study show the trajectory of how colonial immigrants found ways of being accepted as British. While it must remain vigilant to possible peril, Britains social imaginary has expanded to understand the benefits of multiculturalism and of valuing all citizens as equal.

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Reivant, Olausson Torbjörn. "Satire in Service of Postcolonialism : An Analysis of Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28217.

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Khan, Shoukat Yaseen. "History, culture and identity in the novels of Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee and Hanif Kureishi." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2018/document.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier trois romans écrits par des auteurs anglophones du Pakistan ou de l'Inde, à savoir Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee et Hanif Kureishi. On pourrait être tenté de placer les trois écrivains de cette étude dans la catégorie «littérature des immigrants». Ils écrivent tous à un moment de migration de masse lorsque l'idée de «choc culturel» parmi les peuples occidentaux commence à être plus évidente. Les trois écrivains sont affectés par des thèmes qui apparaissent seulement de manière marginale dans le débat évoqué ci-dessus, l'accent étant principalement mis sur les difficultés culturelles et sociales des femmes dans la société indo-pakistanaise. Quant à Kureishi, la polarisation mentionnée ci-dessus suppose un accent très différent, impliquant la situation d'un Asiatique né et élevé dans la société occidentale. Dans cette évaluation globale du contexte idéologique et historique commun aux trois écrivains, il sera important d'examiner les attitudes spécifiques adoptées par chaque écrivain par rapport à son expérience personnelle. L'objectif principal de cette étude sera donc thématique, en se concentrant sur les préoccupations spécifiques de ces écrivains et sur la manière dont cela se manifeste dans leur représentation particulière des tensions en jeu
The objective of this thesis is to study three novels written by English-speaking authors of Pakistan or India, namely Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee and Hanif Kureishi. One might be tempted to place the three writers of this study in the category of "literature of immigrants." They all write at a time of mass migration when the idea of "cultural shock" among Western peoples begins to be more evident. All three writers are affected by themes which appear only marginally in the debate evoked above, much of the emphasis being on the cultural and social difficulties of women in Indo-Pakistani society. As for Kureishi, the polarization mentioned above assumes a very different emphasis, involving the situation of an Asian born and brought up inside Western society. Within this overall assessment of the ideological and historical context common to all three writers, it will thus be important to examine the specific attitudes adopted by each writer in relation to his or her own personal experience. The main focus of this study will therefore be thematic, centering on these writers’ specific preoccupations and the way this is seen in their peculiar depiction of the tensions at stake

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Anderson, Katie Elizabeth 1970. "Civilizing suburbia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62948.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 33).
When I began my study of architecture ten years ago, I honestly believed that architecture could change the world. As I look back at how the American landscape has changed since then I realize that architecture has changed the world, but not necessarily in the way I imagined. As our population has grown architecture has reflected the increasing emphasis on consumerism, a decreased interest in public life and even less interest in the natural environment. Consequently terms like suburban sprawl have adequately been coined to describe the spreading wave of decentralized settlement that characterizes our landscape. Even though over 80% of the new homes schools and shopping facilities are now located in the suburbs, many designers still do not consider the suburbs to be within the field of architectural practice. I do not hold to this view and believe that this is where architecture can make the biggest difference and where the greatest opportunity for architects to shape the world may be found. What defines architecture today is not just a question of good or bad aesthetics, but is how the design impacts our culture. With each building, landscape or urban plan we create we have the opportunity to reinforce current values or to establish new values which can lead us to explore more sustainable solutions. This thesis looks at a site in suburban Miami and demonstrates how we can redirect our growth toward the protection of our natural resources and contribute important public space that celebrates the value of our environment.
Katie Elizabeth Anderson.
M.Arch.

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Clevenger, Corey Robert. "Inverting Suburbia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78231.

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Suburban sprawl fuels the need for automobiles and is preventing cities in the United States from providing adequate places for pedestrians. Tysons Corner, Virginia is one of these sprawling cities that is a metropolitan suburb of Washington D.C. The way these cities have sprawled prevents them from being as accessible to pedestrians as they should be. Building dense housing near access to multiple modes of transportation can start to reduce the dependance on personal vehicles. By living near a bike route, bus route, or metro station, a pedestrian can break their reliance on cars and utilize more sustainable modes of transportation. Tysons Corner began as a business hub full of commuters and continues to be today. The city has no place for pedestrians because of all the high rises and parking garages. By designing a place for people to live and pedestrians to interact, a new place can emerge for Tysons that will give access to multiple modes of transportation that combat the car.
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Albert, Laura. "Redefining Suburbia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85614.

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Suburban housing is a building type and form of development that has been neglected by many architects. Architects are responsible for designing only two percent of suburban residences. This means that the profession has largely ceded the best opportunity to be relevant and useful to ordinary people. The name itself, sub-urban, implies that the suburbs are less than or secondary to the urban typology. Suburban can also be used as an adjective to describe something which is dull and ordinary. And yet, more and more people continue to move to the suburbs each year. Since 1970, a greater percentage of the population has lived in the suburbs than in central cities or rural areas. This thesis examines why people want to live in the suburbs and the impact of suburban development on the economy, the environment and social institutions. The conclusions of this investigation are then used to redefine the current concept of suburbia as it relates to nature, community and diversity. These concepts are in turn incorporated into a prototype for a suburban housing development. The prototype is a 38 unit residential housing development on a 2-acre wooded site in a suburb 16 miles west of Washington, DC.
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Patterson, Lauren. "Walkability in Suburbia." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18256.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Hyung Jin Kim
Walkability is a challenge for most suburban metropolitan areas. Specifically, the Kansas City suburban cities of Overland Park, Olathe, Leawood, and South KCMO have sprawled and disconnected urban patterns and a low average walkability score of 37 out of 100 (Walk Score, 2013, https://www.redfin.com/how-walk-score-works/). The Indian Creek Trail, an existing recreational trail that extends throughout the southern Kansas City neighborhoods, has the potential to improve walkability. It connects major destinations, including residential communities, businesses, and commercial districts throughout the suburban neighborhoods. Many studies have analyzed suburban sprawl and walkability, but few studies have identified the possibility of enhancing existing trail systems to provide for greater mobility, connectivity, and activity. The study examines the feasibility of reusing an existing trail system to act as a catalyst to promote walkability in the Kansas City suburbs. The goal of the project to create a paradigm shift in the way people think about transport and development. The purpose is to identify how centering walkable strategies around an active transportation network can promote walkability in sprawled suburban areas. The question: How can focusing improvement around existing trail infrastructure enhance walkability in suburban areas? has guided the project and helped define strategies for improvement. This project identifies the Indian Creek Trail’s current and potential uses from an in depth community and spatial analysis. Surveys, interviews, and observations were conducted within 13 major destination areas along the Indian Creek Trail. The results were then analyzed to create an evidence‐based design framework that will address walkable concerns. The project results showed there were three primary causes for walkable limitations along the trail network: current transportation trends, suburban development patterns, and social perceptions. Understanding these important aspects of walkability helped identify a framework for improvement. The findings from the analysis determined the site restrictions and prospects of creating a walkable environment along the Indian Creek Trail. The results identified primary locations of needed intervention and revealed major opportunities for connection. The design then applied walkable components based on analysis findings to create nodes of complete communities. Design decisions were tailored to amend community needs and alter traditional transport perceptions. The objective of the designs was to address specific walkable limitations to create reasonable solutions in suburban areas. The project identifies 5 primary components of walkability that can be used to create a walkable plan. Future studies would revolve around implementing the designs and analyzing the effectiveness to create a model that can be applied to enhance walkability for other suburban areas. Ultimately, the results could establish how improved walkability can promote multi‐modal transportation opportunities where population, density, diversity, and funding do not allow for typical transportation or development enhancements.

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Sackenheim, Jeffrey Alan. "Learning from suburbia transforming successful elements of suburbia to spur urban /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1115205716.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.
Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Dec. 14, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: Urban Renewal, Suburbia, Urban Sprawl, City Centers, Revitalization. Includes bibliographical references.

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SACKENHEIM, JEFFREY ALAN. "LEARNING FROM SUBURBIA: TRANSFORMING SUCCESSFUL ELEMENTS OF SUBURBIA TO SPUR URBAN REVITALIZATION IN CINCINNATI." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1115205716.

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Rahn, Cornelia. "Restriktionen und Optionen in Suburbia." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16388.

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In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird am Beispiel des Berliner Umlandes der Frage nachgegangen, ob ein Wohnort im suburbanen Raum trotz postfordistischer und postsozialistischer gesellschaftlicher Einflüsse einschränkend auf den Alltag von Frauen wirkt. Die Annahme genderspezifischer Differenzen ergibt sich vor dem Hintergrund eines „frauenfeindlichen“ Images, welches dem Umland von Städten seit Jahrzehnten anhaftet. Es wird für Bewohnerinnen herausgestellt, ob und in welchem Maße ihnen Handlungsressourcen zur Verfügung stehen, welche sie den möglichen Begrenzungen entgegensetzen können. Die Ergebnisse der empirischen Analyse zeigen, dass die Kombination einer geringen Ausstattung mit wohnortnahen Arbeitsstätten mit der vorrangigen Zuständigkeit von Frauen für Reproduktionsarbeit(smobilität) dazu führen, dass die Mehrheit der Umlandbewohnerinnen eindeutig constraints ausgesetzt ist. Die Arbeitsteilung gilt hierbei nach wie vor als stark Geschlechterrollen determinierend. Neben der räumlichen Ausstattung mit Erwerbsarbeitsmöglichkeiten übt die Verfügbarkeit von Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen einen Einfluss auf den weiblichen Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt aus. Wie für den Bereich der Arbeit kann auch für den der Mobilität dem Differenzierungsmerkmal der Sozialisation eine maßgebliche Bedeutung beigemessen werden, da ost- und westdeutsch sozialisierte Personen immer noch den jeweiligen, sie prägenden Gesellschaftsmodellen der beiden deutschen Staaten verhaftet scheinen. Den mit Arbeit und Mobilität verbundenen Einschränkungen können Frauen jedoch nicht in kompensierendem Umfang die Ressource des Sozialkapitals entgegensetzen, da sie ihre „typisch suburbane“ Lebensweise an der Entwicklung eines gemeinschaftlichen Lösungsansatzes hindert. Aus den dargestellten Ergebnissen leitet sich die Aufforderung ab, die Herausforderung der Gestaltung suburbaner Räume anzunehmen und durch die genaue Kenntnis spezifischer Teilräume eine gendergerechte Planung zu ermöglichen.
This thesis examines the question if residence in a suburban area – region surrounding Berlin taken as an example – imposes constraints on women’s day-to-day life despite the social impact of post-Fordism and post-Socialism. One can assume gender-specific differences since suburban residential areas have been labelled as “women-unfriendly” for decades. Ten study areas have been chosen with the objective to establish if any and what particular course of action is available to female residents to compensate the likely constraints. The empirical analysis proves that the lack of employment sites available for women in the vicinity of the place of their residence comes into collision with women’s paramount role in reproductive labour (mobility) and results in evident constraints imposed on the majority of female suburban residents. The division of labour is assumed to strongly determine gender roles to this day. The availability of paid work in a given area along with the access to childcare institutions determines women’s chances at the job market. Different patterns of socialisation were found to play an essential role in the work as well as in the mobility practices, since people of the East- or the West German origin seem still to be shaped by the respective society models. The constraints on work and mobility can hardly be compensated through the resources of social capital since women’s “typically suburban” art of living hinders a cooperative search for solutions. The results presented in this thesis urge to rise to the challenge of designing the suburban areas and, with the help of better knowledge of specific area divisions, to facilitate suburban planning which would better meet the needs of both men and women.

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Woods, Luke. "Suburban revision rethinking suburbia through modification /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Moran, James Joseph Jr. "The public realm : urban design within Suburbia." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23140.

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Hounanian, Claudine. "Containers of place, the house in suburbia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ31587.pdf.

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Kazebee, Richard S. "Process of building: a school in suburbia." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/56207.

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Architecture lies in the synthesis of place, purpose and process. Place and purpose are of course important however the focus of this thesis is process. This thesis is an inquiry into the opportunities and limitations inherent in typical building processes. I wish to more fully know essential concerns of building, concerns such as spanning, laying, draining and protecting. I wish to know, the filigree of steel trusses, the order of a masonry wall, and the memory of concrete. Knowledge of building process reveals opportunities to raise building into architecture. For the following design a pallet of building processes were assumed from typical high school construction, including: The leveling of the site. The pouring of a concrete floor. The laying of block walls veneered in brick. The placement of steel trusses. The following project is an attempt at bringing these typical conditions of construction alive, at revealing their qualities and ultimately raising them into architecture.
Master of Architecture

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Persson, Lovis. "Buddha på burk : En religionssociologisk studie av Rituals reklamfilm "The Ritual of Laughing Buddha"." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444117.

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This study has three aims. The first one is to review which Buddhist symbols are used in Rituals commercial “The Ritual of Laughing Buddha”, where Rituals is a cosmetic company, with a main focus on skin care. The second aim with my study is to examine how semiotic resources are used to depict Buddhist symbols based on multimodal critical discourse analysis, and the third aim is to examine how the concept of banal religion in the theory of mediatization can contribute to the understanding of the representation of Buddhist symbols. This paper will use a multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the commercial and then analyze the material in relation to the theory of mediatization as described by Hjarvard. The semiotic resources made the Buddhist symbols appear explicitly and since several Buddhist symbols were found in the material, the concept of banal religion could be used as a theoretical focus and contribute to an understandning of how Buddhist symbols are used in the commercial. The results show that the commercial is not intended to convey a religious message, but was mainly used to connote emotions such as happiness, warmth and extravagance. Representation of religion is thus found in the commercial, but the Buddhist symbols are used in a different way, and are in a new context than from institutionalized religion.

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Middleton, Andrew. "The Barossa Valley : rural getaway or suburbia extended? /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09armm628.pdf.

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Bowles, Katherine. "Representing suburbia : strategies of looking at Australian suburbanisation." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390128.

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Zhao, Ningshuang. "Don’t take photos of the Buddha!" Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6351.

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This body of work stems from the feeling of paradox between what I learned and how I feel about religion in China. I express these complex feelings through painting, drawing, printmaking, as well as the experimenting of light and dark in the exhibition gallery.

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Griffith, Dana Gregory. "Collected Toons of the Blues Buddha." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1214920403.

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Oberreiterová, Barbara. "Marketingová komunikace hotelu Buddha Bar Prague." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-17424.

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The aim of this thesis is to define the term of marketing mix and followingly in its frame of communication to determine specifically the marketing communication. The part of this thesis is the application of the theory on the practical example of Buddha-Bar Hotel Prague. The benefits of this thesis will be the suggestions how to improve the communication and make it more intensive with other subjets, clients and media.

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Shabangu, Mohammad. "In search of the comprador: self-exoticisation in selected texts from the South Asian and Middle Eastern diasporas." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017770.

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This thesis is concerned with transnational literature and writers of the Middle Eastern and South Asian diasporas. It argues that the diasporic position of the authors enables their roles as comprador subjects. The thesis maintains that the figure of the comprador is always acted upon by its ontological predisposition, so that diasporic positionality often involves a single subject which straddles and speaks from two or more different subject positions. Comprador authors can be said to be co-opted by Western metropolitan publishing companies who stand to benefit by marketing the apparent marginality of the homelands about which these authors write. The thesis therefore proceeds from the notion that such a diasporic position is the paradoxical condition of the transnational subject or writer. I submit that there is, to some degree, a questionable element in the common political and cultural suggestions that emerge upon closer evaluation of diasporic literature. Indeed, a charge of complicity has been levelled against authors who write, apparently, to service two distinct entities – the wish to speak on behalf of a minority collective, as well as the imperial ‘centre’ which is the intended interlocutor of the comprador author. However, it is this difference, the implied otherness or marginality of the outsider within, which I argue is sometimes used by diasporic writers as a way of articulating with ‘authenticity’ the cultures and politics of their erstwhile localities. This thesis is concerned, therefore, with the representation of ‘the East’ in four novels by diasporic, specifically comprador writers, namely Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I suggest that the ‘third-world’ and transnational literature can also be a selling point for the transnational subject, whose representations may at times pander to preconceived ideas about ‘the Orient’ and its people. As an illustration of this double-bind, I offer a close reading of all the novels to suggest that on the one hand, the comprador author writes within the paradigm of the ‘writing back’ movement, as a counter-discourse to the Orientalist representations of the homeland. However, the corollary is that such an attempt to ‘write back’, in a sense, re-inscribes the very discourse it wishes to subvert, especially because the literature is aimed at a ‘Western’ audience. Moreover, the template of the comprador could be used to explain how a transnational post-9/11 text from an Afghan-American, for instance, may be put to the service of the imperial machine, and read, therefore, as a supporting document to the U.S. policy on Afghanistan.

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Cheung, Esther. "Transforming Suburbia : The Networked Pedestrian Village of Bayview Hills." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/817.

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The ubiquitous North American suburban model has created devastating challenges for successful community life in the twenty-first century. This thesis addresses those challenges through the transformation of the existing suburban model into networked pedestrian villages. The urban and architectural design strategies of the networked village reintegrate community programs, workplaces, and residences to create self-sustaining, socially integrated community life for the twenty first century. The specific suburban town of Richmond Hill was chosen to study how greater densification and mixed-use zoning are necessary at the regional scale. Within Richmond Hill, the neighbourhood of Bayview Hills is adapted through changes in building types, setbacks, street definition, and a central public space. The creation of the new village hall and community telecentre are necessary to define the central public space and to generate the successful urban transformation from suburban neighbourhood to networked village.

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Cheung, Esther Sze-Wing. "Transforming suburbia the networked pedestrian village of Bayview Hills /." Waterloo, Ont. : University of Waterloo, 2004. http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/escheung2005.pdf.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Waterloo, 2004.
"A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Architecture in Architecture." Includes bibliographical references.

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Korinek, Valerie Joyce. "Roughing it in suburbia, reading Chatelaine magazine, 1950-1969." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ27792.pdf.

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Thacker, Jay. "Stepping in Suburbia: Designing Pedestrian Spaces in Suburban Settings." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1222999192.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.
Advisor: Jay Chatterjee. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 27, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: pedestrian; suburban; pedestrian oriented; urbanism. Includes bibliographical references.

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Zhao, Wen [Verfasser], and Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Lehnert. "The conceptions of seeing the Buddha and Buddha embodiments in early Prajñāpāramitā literature / Wen Zhao ; Betreuer: Martin Lehnert." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1170582710/34.

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李健生 and Kin-sang Lee. "The early Chinese theories of Buddha-Nature." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31221257.

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Phillips, Jessica. "Biotopia : an interdisciplinary connection between ecology, suburbia, and the city." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003173.

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Chung, Esther J. "Public space in suburbia : water infrastructure as a community catalyst." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61201.

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Thesis (S.B. in Art and Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, June 2009.
"May 22, 2009." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 35).
The phenomenon of Los Angeles, an aggressive thriving metropolis sprawling across the Mojave Desert to the Pacific Coast, is inseparable from its complex history of purchasing, transporting and consuming what is arguably the city's most sensitive need: water. For almost a century, the physical artifacts that were invented as a means to secure, manage and protect this supply have successfully distributed water throughout Los Angeles. However, the increasingly pervasive presence of water infrastructure has also had negative impacts on the quality of public space in LA's suburbs. In scale, shape and tectonics, water infrastructure alienates the human experience of the public realm. The presence of water infrastructure in Los Angeles suburbs, which already carry the stigma of monotonous architecture and bland public space, only aggravates the problem of a landscape that is hostile to the pedestrian. Water infrastructure in suburbia must be recognized for what it is-a critical element for the growth and support of human settlements, but also a source of further estrangement of the very people meant to benefit from it. This thesis proposes a solution that mediates the spatial divide, infuses multi-use of the actual artifact and raises awareness of ecological and economic issues in an effort to reinvent water infrastructure as a catalyst for engagement, education and community.
by Esther J. Chung.
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Niemi, Michael Frederick Hart. "REMAKING REPUBLICANISM: JOBS, TAXES AND SUBURBIA IN MICHIGAN, 1954-1962." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470302817.

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Brostedt, Love. "Restructuring Suburbia : Introducing Social Space in a Spatially Disperse Neighbourhood." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-139207.

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Density is more about an experienced nearness to functions and activities than buildingsbeing physically close to each other. Density is interaction, and the intensity of itdepends on accessibility to the functions and activities of the built environment. The current planning, continuing the thoughts of the modernist, are a threat to publichealth and the environment, as sprawling settlements demand more resources forinfrastructure and time spent commuting between home and work, taking up the timeto spend with family and friends. The suburban planning principles of the Swedish housing estate unit have graduallytransformed the suburban neighbourhoods into dispersed, disconnected islands, wheresocial life is inhibited in the mere configuration of space. Legibility of the urban environment is important regarding orientation and navigation,but also to understand the underlying meanings of spaces and places. The urbanstructure should be easily read to be understandable in the choices of everyday life. How we understand the boundaries and transitions of our surrounding affects howspaces are used. Unclear territorial interfaces, like the open space landscape ofmodernist planning feels too exposed to be appropriated. If activities should take placein the outdoor environment, there must be a certain quality to the spaces that areinviting and promote interaction between people. The suburban housing estate neighbourhoods can be developed to promote thisinteraction, providing spaces where the different layers of social life can take place, fromthe private home – through mediating interfaces of front yards, indoor collective spaceand collective gardens – to the public realm of the streets, pathways and parks. The thesis studies the suburban neighbourhood Årsta in eastern Uppsala, whichshows the signs of a disperse suburban housing estate in its configuration of buildings,withdrawn from the streets, turning inward away from the public spaces. By adding built volume within the existing structure of the open yards, the boundariesbetween the public and the private spaces can be clearly defined and new activatedspaces can be created. Many fronts towards the streets and paths make people meet inevery-day life and new types of spaces can be used to set a framework for interactionbetween residents as well as outsiders. Such spaces can also work as a buffer betweenpublic life and the private dwelling, e.g. a collective garden mediates the space inbetween a pedestrian path and an inner yard.

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Görgl, Peter Johannes. "Die Amerikanisierung der Wiener Suburbia? der Wohnpark Fontana ; eine sozialgeographische Studie." Wiesbaden VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss, 2008. http://d-nb.info/985942142/04.

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Knapp, Marian Leah Gilbert. "Aging in place in suburbia a qualitative study of older women /." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=antioch1235750837.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Antioch University New England, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 19, 2009). "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England 2009"--The title page. Advisor: K. Heidi Watts, Ph. D. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-160).

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Coon, David Roger. "Re-writing the American dream suburbia in contemporary film and television /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3332468.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2008.
Title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3363. Adviser: Christopher Anderson.

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Knapp, Marian L. "Aging in Place in Suburbia: A Qualitative Study of Older Women." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1235750837.

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Schweitzer, Lindsay. "Abandoned Shopping Malls: An Opportunity for Affordable, Supportive Housing in Suburbia." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120564514838.

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Revire, Nicolas. "The Enthroned Buddha in Majesty : an Iconological Study." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA157/document.

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Cette thèse étudie en détail un type particulier de représentation du Bouddha où il est représenté assis sur un trône prééminent, le bhadrapīṭha ou bhadrāsana, dans une posture majestueuse avec les deux jambes pendantes, c’est-à-dire assis en bhadrāsana ou dans l’attitude « de bon augure ». Cette iconographie, étroitement associée à l’imagerie du trône, se retrouve largement représentée dans l’art de l’Asie du Sud, de l’Est et du Sud-Est, et est, en règle générale, intimement liée aux modèles de la royauté, de la fertilité, et même du divin. Plusieurs implications notables ressortent de cet examen iconologique concernant les origines, la diffusion, et le développement de l’art bouddhique dans ces contrées, particulièrement au cours du premier millénaire de notre ère
This dissertation provides a detailed study of a particular representation of the Buddha, in which he sits on a prominent throne, i.e. a bhadrapīṭha or bhadrāsana, in a majestic posture with two legs pendant, that is, in bhadrāsana or the “auspicious pose.” This pendant-legged imagery, generally associated with the throne, has been found widely depicted in South, East, and Southeast Asian art and is, as a rule, mostly associated with kingship, fertility, and even divinity. The results of this iconological examination have wide implications for understanding the origins, spread, and development of Buddhist art in those lands, particularly during the first millennium CE

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Benton, Justin Richard. "Suburban Heights." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/202.

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Kraus, Joshua I. "Heralding post-modelism: causes, effects and resolutions of suburban sprawl." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27691.

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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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Kotila, Ryan. "Inner City Suburbia: A hybrid solution to sustainable urban middle-income housing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1274195125.

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Bonnington, Colin. "Squirrels in suburbia : the avian impacts of urban grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4933/.

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Titus, Andrew. "Sweet mother prophesy, a Buddha for an abominable age." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0005/MQ35535.pdf.

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Cowe, Jennifer. "Killing the Buddha : Henry Miller's long journey to Satori." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/.

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The aim of this thesis to is explore the relationship between Henry Miller, Zen Buddhism and how this may offer new ways of reading Miller. By exploring the life-long interest of Miller in Eastern Philosophy I hope to show that far from being the misogynistic, sexual miscreant of legend, he was in fact a deeply spiritual man who wished his work to inspire and motivate readers rather than be a form of titillation. My attempt here is not to rehabilitate Miller’s reputation in regards to race, religion or gender, but rather to examine his work through a more spiritual lens. In the process I will attempt to use a more complete selection of Miller’s works than is commonly utilized by critics, although particular attention will be given to Tropic of Cancer, I will show how later, more spiritual works illuminate Miller’s Zen Buddhist beliefs. By using novels, essays, letters and pamphlets I hope to provide a wide-ranging examination of Miller’s oeuvre both chronologically and spiritually. Two key words that will be found to re-occur throughout the thesis are ‘journey’ and ‘progression’. Journey in the sense that Miller saw his own life in Zen Buddhist terms; he existed to evolve and gain awareness though his life experiences through the writing and re-writing them until he could move beyond them. Progression in the sense that movement is crucial to the development of spirituality, the mind and heart must be open to new knowledge and understanding. I will show that Miller came to conceptualise both his life and work through the Zen Buddhist teaching of The Four Noble Truths and Miller’s daily implementation of The Eight Fold Path. I will start by arguing that it is impossible to understand Miller’s journey without first examining the process by which he came to shape his own life narrative. The Zen peace of Miller’s later years was hard fought and gained at considerable price to both him and those close to him. Miller first had to develop a conceptualisation of creativity before he could be open to meaningful spiritual change. This thesis will examine the lasting influence of both Otto Rank and Henri Bergson on Miller’s idea of what it meant to be a writer, how reality in relation to his life experiences was malleable and how this provided Miller with the foundation on which to explore his spirituality. I will show how Miller’s close relationship to Surrealism caused him to re-think some of his positions in relation to language, style and freedom, yet ultimately why he felt impelled to continue on his journey to Zen Buddhism enlightenment.

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Morrison, Robert Gerard. "Nihilism and Nietzsche's Buddha : a study of ironic affinities." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333890.

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Ismail, Hanadi. "Suburbia and the inner-city : patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446042.

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Bindner, Matthew J. (Matthew James). "Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65542.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-61).
America's Midwest experienced its most rapid growth after the age of industrialization, stretching the suburban landscape beyond our wildest imagination, to a state of ubiquity. In the case of Iowa, this suburbanization comes at the sacrifice of the most valuable virgin agricultural land. In the midst of this vast expansion of suburban sprawl, we arrive at the critical moment to end this recklessness. Simultaneously, the Internet's pervasiveness perpetuates the gross expansion of the metropolis, appending the city with enormous big boxes to house the world's digital information. Central Iowa is now home to enormous buildings by Google and Microsoft, consuming an exponentially growing amount of Iowa's renewable energy as it exhausts the waste heat into Iowa's rural flatlands. This thesis offers a design proposal for an aggregated suburbia,augmenting the suburban landscape by capitalizing on the trend of enormous data center expansion and, simultaneously,subverting the trend of suburban sprawl. The synthesis of data centers and a new dense suburban center allows the reuse of otherwise wasted energy while calling awareness to the Internet's monumental physical footprint and output of waste heat. The mile-long data center is used as a "microclimate platform" for cultural activities and space for the public collective, providing suburbs with a public identity and heralding a new age of industrialization.
by Matthew J. Bindner.
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Seay, Nancy Parker. "Urban African American Adolescents’ Transitions to Schools in White Suburbia: A Phenomenological Study." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1431422959.

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