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Webster, Daniel Joseph. "Experiencing the World of Franklin: The Making of an Immersive and Interactive Historical Exhibit". Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5562.
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M.A.
Masters
History
Arts and Humanities
History; Public History
Bell, Gregory Jason. "In defense of Colonel Richard P. Roberts, Commanding Officer of the Pennsylvania 140th Regiment". Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2004. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=419.
Texto completo da fontePitts, Terence. "WILLIAM BELL: PHILADELPHIA PHOTOGRAPHER (PENNSYLVANIA)". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292050.
Texto completo da fonteWood, John Perry. "Hanna's Town: A Frontier Town in Western Pennsylvania". W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625852.
Texto completo da fonteHarvey, Sean Patrick. "Commonwealth: Republican Rhetoric in the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1837-38". W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626367.
Texto completo da fonteGirard, Edward J. "Organizational reform a study of contrasts on improvements to processes involving the Unites [sic] States Coast Guard and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks /". Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2001. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
Texto completo da fonteSource: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2941. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).
Bergendahl, Lisa Kay. "Colonial Women in the Pennsylvania and Virginia Gazettes". W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625950.
Texto completo da fontePreston, David L. "The texture of contact: Indians and settlers in the Pennsylvania backcountry, 1718-1755". W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626135.
Texto completo da fonteWard, Matthew Charles. "La guerre sauvage: The Seven Years' War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier". W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623829.
Texto completo da fonteGrunenberg, Christoph. "The politics of presentation : museums, galleries and exhibitions in New York, 1929-1947". Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283893.
Texto completo da fonteGunnels, Jesse Lewis. "The black river| Deposits of coal silt along the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania". Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556516.
Texto completo da fonteDeposits of coal silt are significant because they provide archaeologists a baseline for investigating changes in pre-industrial and post-industrial landscapes in Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 1790s, miners extracted coal from seams near the surface with a pick and shovel. Over the next 120 years, coal mining evolved into a booming industry. In 1917, production peaked at over 100 million tons. By 1950, geologists discovered reserves of crude oil and natural gas, leading to the overall decline of the anthracite coal industry. Today, coal is no longer a dominant part of the local economy. Coal mining generated enormous quantities of waste, including small pieces of unburnt coal and other non-economic materials. Waste from mines entered the Susquehanna River, mixed with naturally occurring sediments, and formed deposits of coal silt along the banks and mid-channel islands of the river. To understand the effect of coal silt on the river, I use processual archaeology to characterize and examine the Anthropocene - an informal geologic era defined by human induced changes to Earth's ecosystems. What led to unburnt coal in the Susquehanna River? When did unburnt coal enter the Susquehanna River? I use data collected during a ten-week internship to answer these questions and define the occurrence and chronology of deposits of coal silt along the river. Archaeologists generally agree deposits of coal silt date to the late nineteenth century, but fine-tuning the date of deposition is not easy (Stinchcomb et al. 2013). To help solve the problem, I investigated two archaeological sites along the river - Fort Halifax and Calver Island. This thesis highlights reasons why archaeologists should take deposits of coal silt seriously. Considering the importance of energy to human economic and social life and the urgency of addressing contemporary energy problems, this thesis draws on evidence from the stratigraphic record to incorporate anthropological and archaeological perspectives for studying the past, present, and future of energy development and industrialization.
Frawley, Jason Mann. "Marching through Pennsylvania the story of soldiers and civilians during the Gettysburg campaign /". [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2008. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04132008-140127/unrestricted/frawley.pdf.
Texto completo da fonteBama, Mathias Che. "Comparison of local government structure in Cameroon and the United States of America (Pennsylvania)". Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1992. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
Texto completo da fonteDowning, Charles Michael. "Robert Hunter Morris and the Politics of Indian Affairs in Pennsylvania, 1754-1755". W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626005.
Texto completo da fonteSpady, James O'Neil. "Friendly Meetings: The Art of Conquest and the Mythical Origins of Pennsylvania, Ca 1620-1771". W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626285.
Texto completo da fonteUchill, Rebecca 1978. "Developing experience : Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions, from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100327.
Texto completo da fonteCD-ROM contains PDF of Addenda section, quarterly report and 5 PDFs of images for thesis.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Pages 237 to 428 of original thesis for Addenda section are removed and copied onto CD-ROM.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-446).
Following the work of German-American curator Alexander Dorner (1893-1957) from his early curatorial career in Niedersachsen to professorships in New England, this dissertation explores the intersections of Euro-American modernism and developing ideations of experience within aesthetic philosophy. Dorner's work was formulated in deep engagement with (and often intentional contradiction to) the art theory being incubated in contemporaneous art institutions, pedagogies, and practices. His written texts and museum praxis responded to emerging notions of subjectivity, restoration, and perception in the aesthetic theory of Alois Riegl and Erwin Panofsky, art restoration mandates advocated by German museum leaders such as Max Sauerlandt and Kurt Karl Eberlein, and the artistic productions of El Lissitzky and Herbert Bayer. Against shifting expressions of democracy in Weimar Germany and the mid-century United States, Dorner's polemical focus on museum experience was, in effect, an attempt to train citizens for collective but heterogeneous social life.
by Rebecca K. Uchill.
Ph. D. in History and Theory of Art
Ridner, Judith A. ""A handsomely improved place" : economic, social, and gender-role development in a backcountry town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810". W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623849.
Texto completo da fonteMcMahon, Cliff Getty. "The sublime in Rothko, Newman and Still". Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11002.
Texto completo da fonteRoeber, Catharine Christie Dann. "Building and Planting: The Material World, Memory, and the Making of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726". W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623350.
Texto completo da fonteHealey, R. G. "Object-oriented simulation of evolving regional economic systems : a case study of mining development in the anthracite coalfields of Pennsylvania during the post-bellum period". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240954.
Texto completo da fonteBogansky, Amy Elizabeth. "The Devil's servants satire in colonial America and the visual language of conflict (Pennsylvania) /". Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 1.51 Mb., p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1435863.
Texto completo da fonteHolland, Nicole Murphy. "Worlds on view visual art exhibitions and state identity in the late Cold War /". Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3397171.
Texto completo da fonteTitle from first page of PDF file (viewed March 30, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
Morrison, Mark Joseph. ""PRACTICALLY IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES": THE 1ST REGIMENT, NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1903-1912". Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/493676.
Texto completo da fonteM.A.
In the early twentieth century, reformers within the U.S. War Department attempted to create a more robust and formalized reserve system to augment the regular army. While many regular officers advocated a federalized reserve, they were opposed by members of the National Guard Association, who insisted that state troops remain the nation’s second line of defense. In 1903, Congress passed the Dick Act, which stipulated that militia and National Guard units would continue to serve as the primary reserve to the regular army. To ensure Guardsmen were up to the task, Congress also required that state units conform to the regular army’s organization, armament, and discipline. This thesis examines the changes facilitated by the Dick Act within Pennsylvania’s National Guard, by focusing specifically on a single unit- the 1st Regiment of Infantry. It begins by exploring failed efforts by federal and state officials to change the 1st Regiment by 1908. It then examines the effects of increased federal funding and oversight on the regiment after 1908, and how these factors led to changes in the way the unit trained. Annual reports from the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania and the Chief of the Division of Militia Affairs provided the majority of the information for this thesis. Contemporary periodicals and documents maintained in the First Regiment Infantry Museum also helped to shed light on the activities of the 1st Regiment between 1903 and 1912. This thesis concludes that by 1912 the 1st Regiment achieved relative parity with the regulars in terms of organization and equipment, the type of field training it conducted, and the type of training its officers attended.
Temple University--Theses
Grundy, Martha Paxson. "“In the world but not of it”: Quaker faith and the dominant culture, Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1850". Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1058985472.
Texto completo da fonteWalker, Ben. "Neither pro-war nor pro-peace Sydney George Fisher, John and Leo Faller, and their perspectives on Civil War Pennsylvania /". Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3594.
Texto completo da fonteCooks, Bridget Rochelle. "Seen and not seen : a history of Black representation and self-representation in art exhibitions in the United States, 1893-1998". Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Coll_Diss_02.
Texto completo da fonteKozuskanich, Nathan R. "“For the Security and Protection of the Community:” the frontier and the makings of Pennsylvanian Constitutionalism". The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1133196585.
Texto completo da fonteAdams, James Hugo. "The Problem of the Ages: Prostitution in the Philadelphia Imagination, 1880-1940". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/71127.
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An ever-present figure throughout much of the nineteenth century, the prostitute existed in a state divorced from "traditional" womanhood as a shadowy yet "necessary" evil, and was largely seen as a static element of the city. The archetypes of the "endangered maiden" and the "fallen woman" were discursive creations evolving from an inchoate form to a more sharply defined state that were designed to explain the prostitute's continued existence despite the moral objections voiced by religious and social reformers. These archetypes functioned in an agrarian/proto-industrial society; however, under pressures of urbanization, industrialization, and population mobility, these archetypes were gradually supplanted by sharper, more emotionally loaded archetypes such as the "White Slave" and the trope of the "Vice Syndicate" to explain the prostitute. In this manner Progressive-Era social and moral reformers could interpret prostitution in general and the prostitute in particular within the framework of their understanding of a contentious social environment. In moving away from a religious framework towards a more scientific interpretation, the concept of prostitution evolved from a moral failing to a status analogous to a disease that infected the social body of the state. However, because the White Slave and the Vice Syndicate were discursive creations based upon anecdotal interpretations of prostitution as a predatory economic system, their nebulous nature encouraged a crisis mentality that could not survive a concrete examination of their "problem." Realities of race, class, and gender, as well as the fluid nature of the urban environment as well as non-moral concerns rendered the new archetypes and tropes slippery, and applicable to any reform-oriented argument. By the later years of the Progressive Era anti-vice discourse ceased to advocate moral arguments calling for the rescue of the prostitute and instead became a vehicle to articulate non-moral concerns such as political reform, social order, and female economic suffrage. After the First World War, the archetype of the White Slave collapsed in the face of women's suffrage and sexual agency, and the prostitute once more reverted to a state analogous to pre-Progressive cultural interpretations of prostitution.
Temple University--Theses
TROTTER, BENNETT. "Pore Pressure Prediction in the Point Pleasant Formation in the Appalachian Basin, in parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, United States of America". The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524213528591632.
Texto completo da fonteSilva, Rene J. "Pennsylvania's Loyalists and Disaffected in the Age of Revolution: Defining the Terrain of Reintegration, 1765-1800". FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3670.
Texto completo da fonteTomescu, Alexandru Mihail Florian. "Late Ordovician - Early Silurian terrestrial biotas of Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania : an investigation into the early colonization of land /". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1108479418.
Texto completo da fonteKahan, Paul. "Seminary of Virtue: The Ideology and Practice of Inmate Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829-1971". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/50421.
Texto completo da fontePh.D.
This study is an analysis of the role educational programming has played in reforming inmates in American correctional institutions between the Jacksonian era and the 1970s. A case study, "Seminary of Virtue" focuses on the educational curriculum at Philadelphia's famed Eastern State Penitentiary, a cutting-edge institution that originated the Pennsylvania System of penal discipline. "Seminary of Virtue" argues that Eastern State Penitentiary's extensive and aggressive educational program reflected a general American belief that correctional institutions should educate inmates as a way of reducing recidivism and thereby "reforming" them. While Americans remained committed to educating inmates, Eastern State's curriculum evolved during its century and a half institutional life. As its emphasis shifted from the religiously oriented "reform" of prisoners in the early nineteenth-century to a medical model of "rehabilitation" a half century later, Eastern State's educational program evolved, shifting from a curriculum of rudimentary literacy skills, religious instruction and an apprenticeship of sorts to industrial education in the mid-nineteenth century and then finally to a traditional academic curriculum in the first third of the twentieth century.
Temple University--Theses
Lincoln, Margaret L. "The Online and the Onsite Holocaust Museum Exhibition as an Informational Resource". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5407/.
Texto completo da fonteBurlage, G. Rachel. "The Undue Burden Standard: The Effects of Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) on State Abortion Laws". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5326/.
Texto completo da fonteAtique, Fernando. "Arquitetando a \"Boa Vizinhança\": a sociedade urbana do Brasil e a recepção do mundo norte-americano, 1876 - 1945". Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-19112010-154556/.
Texto completo da fonteThis thesis explains the making of a relationship between Brazil and the United States. The period of study begins in 1876 when Pedro de Alcantara, the Brazilian emperor, went to the United States to participate of the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia. The final temporal mark of this study is the year of 1945, when the World War II was finished, and the presence of the goods, equipments and the way of life from the United States got the most relevant levels in the whole world. The thesiss object of research can be understood like a plural one: not only the architecture, but also the whole urban environment and the classes that lived in that space. Trying to develop a particular narrative about the process of Americanization of the architecture and the city in Brazil, the thesis shows four ways of this attitude. The first one is concentrate on considerations about politics and diplomatic relations concerning of a group of professionals (architects, engineers etc) called as spatial artisans. The second way treats the references and the representations of the United States that had changed the domesticity and the form of the Brazilian way of life. In addition of these two, the work shows the discovers made in the United States about the Brazilians alumni from University of Pennsylvania that had came back to Brazil to increase the Americanizations process by the architecture. With a special focus about the pan Americanism the thesis studies the reception and dissemination of the Mission Style architecture in Brazil. The importance of this discussion is great and unfolds a process called as constructing the Good Neighborhood.
Grefe, Christiana Morgan. "Museums of order : 'truth', politics, and the interpretation of America's historic prisons /". View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174613.
Texto completo da fonteLindley, Anne Hollinger. "Relating to relational aesthetics". Pomona College, 2009. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,74.
Texto completo da fontePotot, Charlotte. "Les féminismes de Lucy Lippard en quatre expositions (1966-1977)". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021PA080119.
Texto completo da fonteLucy Lippard produced her first exhibition, Eccentric Abstraction, in 1966. From that moment on, the North American curator never stopped questioning the modalities of what the exhibition had to offer artists in terms of expression, experience and political action. Lucy Lippard first helped to think critically about a particular conceptual moment in art. Concurrently, her political commitments developed through protest against the Vietnam war, support for artist communities, revealing discriminatory institutional policies, and creating a little-documented connection between conceptual and political art. We explore how Lucy Lippard developed diverse feminist issues by organizing exhibitions, echoing the theories that emerged during this period. It is through her work as a curator that we see her feminism in action. Four exhibitions structure our trajectory: Eccentric Abstraction (1966) in New York, 955,000 (1971) in Vancouver, c'7500 (1973) in Valencia, California and other itinerant locations, and Strata (1977) in Vancouver. By imagining the works in these four exhibitions their situated character emerges. There are three key axis: a historical approach to the context of exhibitions and social struggles related to the personal journey of Lucy Lippard and a phenomenological approach to the works presented in the four exhibitions, allowing an aprehension of the last axis, a feminist approach to these exhibition events. The redescription of works that were not immediately associated with feminism, although belonging to the curator's corpus, will allow us to think of another reception for these exhibitions
Hoffman, Susan A. "The ties that bind: Consumerism, gender, and the family in colonial and revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1683--1783". 2006. 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:3248143.
Texto completo da fonteBeeghley, James R. "An examination of the use of digital historical resources for the teaching of the Civil War in south central Pennsylvania public schools". 2008. http://cdm256101.cdmhost.com/cdm-p256101coll31/document.php?CISOROOT=/p256101coll31&CISOPTR=91660.
Texto completo da fonteStelowska-Morgulec, Diana. "Art exhibitions as a tool of American Cultural Diplomacy Towards Poland, 1956-2016". Doctoral thesis, 2017. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/2848.
Texto completo da fonteDyplomacja kulturalna stanowi zaniedbane narzędzie dyplomacji publicznej, zarówno w teorii, jak i w praktyce. Stany Zjednocznone doskonale wykorzystały kulturę i sztukę w ramach propagandy podczas drugiej wojny światowej oraz zimnej wojny, jednak po jej zakończeniu obcięły dotacje na działania kulturalne za granicą. Dyplomacja kulturalna USA została zbadana w sferach muzyki oraz filmu, natomiast wykorzystanie sztuki jako narzędzia dyplomacji kulturalnej jest obszarem, który stanowi lukę badawaczą. W czasie, gdy dyplomacja kutluralna cieszy się coraz większym zainteresowaniem, zarówno badaczy, jak i praktyków, szczególnie istotna jest analiza dotychczasowych działań w tym zakresie, by odpowiednio zaplanować inicjatywy w przyszłości. Celem autorki było zbadanie w jaki sposób Stany Zjednoczone wykorzystały sztukę (w formie wystaw) jako narzędzie dyplomacji kulturalnej wobec Polski w latach 1956-2016 oraz próba wykrycia prawidłowości w procesie decyzyjnym zachodzącym przy organizacji tychże wystaw. Zakres badań obejmuje wszystkie wystawy sztuki amerykańskiej w Polsce oraz szczegółowo analizuje sześć z tych wystaw: Dwieście lat malarstwa amerykańskiego, (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 1976), Willem de Kooning & Robert Rauschenberg, (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie i Krakowie, 1978) oraz wystawa Lata 70-te: Nowe malarstwo amerykańskie, (galeria BWA w Toruniu, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 1980/81), Twarze Ameryki: Portrety z kolekcji Terra Foundation for American Art 1770-1940 (Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury, Kraków, 2006), American Dream - Amerykański Sen, jako część projektu muzealnego zatytuowanego Ameryka, Ameryka… (Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, 2009) oraz Frank Stella i polskie synagogi, (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich, POLIN, Warszawa, 2016).
St-Louis, Katherine Anne. "Saint-Domingue Refugees and their Enslaved Property : Abolition Societies and the Enforcement of Gradual Emancipation in Pennsylvania and New York". Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16136.
Texto completo da fonteBeerval, Ravichandra Kavya Urs. "Spatiotemporal analysis of extreme heat events in Indianapolis and Philadelphia for the years 2010 and 2011". Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4083.
Texto completo da fonteOver the past two decades, northern parts of the United States have experienced extreme heat conditions. Some of the notable heat wave impacts have occurred in Chicago in 1995 with over 600 reported deaths and in Philadelphia in 1993 with over 180 reported deaths. The distribution of extreme heat events in Indianapolis has varied since the year 2000. The Urban Heat Island effect has caused the temperatures to rise unusually high during the summer months. Although the number of reported deaths in Indianapolis is smaller when compared to Chicago and Philadelphia, the heat wave in the year 2010 affected primarily the vulnerable population comprised of the elderly and the lower socio-economic groups. Studying the spatial distribution of high temperatures in the vulnerable areas helps determine not only the extent of the heat affected areas, but also to devise strategies and methods to plan, mitigate, and tackle extreme heat. In addition, examining spatial patterns of vulnerability can aid in development of a heat warning system to alert the populations at risk during extreme heat events. This study focuses on the qualitative and quantitative methods used to measure extreme heat events. Land surface temperatures obtained from the Landsat TM images provide useful means by which the spatial distribution of temperatures can be studied in relation to the temporal changes and socioeconomic vulnerability. The percentile method used, helps to determine the vulnerable areas and their extents. The maximum temperatures measured using LST conversion of the original digital number values of the Landsat TM images is reliable in terms of identifying the heat-affected regions.