Thesis--Paris. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2005. / Title from title screen (viewed January 28, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Indian Subcontinental Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

This thesis is part of a larger continuous study which deals with the concept of "Life Style" as a force mapping segments of the urban society into reasonably distinct areas within a metropolitan district. This paper then uses the concept of the "Life Style" as a starting point. The life style chosen here for study is connected with those people who select to live in the dense residential environments associated with the urban core. By examining such an area, its context within the metropolis is found, and the elements constituting it and their interconnections are identified. From the form giving forces generated by this information, a residential system is developed that reflects and reinforces the life style of the population under study. The system is evolved in a “model' abstract area that exhibits characteristics and constraints common to many metropoli, and later applied to a real situation in a particular city to test the efficacy of the system under typical conditions. For the sake of the thesis, I have called the model "Intropolis". It is suggested that new skills and new methods will need to be devised to describe the specific segments of the metropolitan area. To describe Intropolis I have asked a number of questions. The necessary information to answer these questions has been found from census data, from our own observations, and from a sample attitude test undertaken in the West End of Vancouver. The questions are as follows: 1. Who are the people that congregate in a specific area and what are their characteristics and attitudes? Here I have described families in the model area, the households, and the attitudes of members of the household to each other. I was also concerned with household economics and its influence on choices; the sources of family income and the kind of work that procured it seemed to have an influence on values and choices made. 2. How is time used? Observation of activities and their position in space and time becomes as important to the environmental designers as the more normal census data. 3. What are the important forms and tools of communication between people? The urban area is often defined as a system of contacts, and it is suggested that the pattern of place and space may influence the nature of contacts, and vice versa that the nature of the contacts will influence the needs of space. New forms of communication have been a great influence on urban form. I found that these tools must however not be taken for granted as they are not equally available to all groups within the community. After completing the description of the model area, information was perceived as a form giving force from which some of the factors which determine the character of the area can be deduced. These are described in the second part of the thesis. They include a) A basic movement system b) A system of relationships of housing to institutions such as schools, hospitals, churches, public and social services, and commercial and business needs. c) A system of contacts and separations within the area, including open and enclosed spaces. d) A range of choice and a range of densities of housing types. The thesis concludes by integrating these forces into a diagrammatic whole on the model area. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

A knowledge of the characteristics of a town situation should make some contribution to the understanding of small town life. A survey of a particular town should unfold somewhat the way towns function, the way social controls operate, and especially the saga of social change. The purpose of this study is to present a systematic account of the life of one of the oldest Virginia towns west of the Blue Ridge Mountains; a town established on the frontier by people who had a purpose for coming into the wilderness. Evidence will be presented to show how environment has influenced the growth and behavior of the population. The town's establishment, development, and decline will be traced along with stories of men and women whose records shine brightly in Fincastle's long history from 1772 to 1942... / Master of Science

Among the major interests of students of urbanism and urbanization in the United States have been the understanding and explication of differences between urban and rural segments of American society. Coupled with this has been an attempt to theoretically delineate the effects of these differences on the social psychological adjustment of urban and rural inhabitants. The culmination of this work in sociology is to be found in Wirth's (1938) essay "Urbanism as a Way of Life." Wirth identified three major differences between urban and rural lifestyles which have been the impetus for considerable research and controversy. The three major differences identified by Wirth are: 1. the weakening of primary relationships, 2. the development of a distinctly urban personality characterized by rationality, utility and adaptability, and 3. the development of a community based on interest rather than locality. Research has, to date, been equivocal in its support or rejection of these differences. This dissertation represents another attempt to test what might be called the "Wirthian hypotheses II but with a major departure from other attempts. Rather than using current urban or rural residence as the major independent variables, urban or rural residences at age 16 are used. The research was conducted using data from two sample surveys, one a national sample (the "General Social Survey" conducted by NORC in the Spring of 1975), and one a sample of Portland, Oregon's 65 and over population (the "Supplementary Security Income Survey" conducted by the Institute on Aging in 1975). The research was limited to older persons 60 years of age and over. This dissertation, then, is an attempt to gauge the effects of residential history on the three central hypotheses derived from the earlier formulations of Louis Wirth. The three research hypotheses are: 1. Lifelong urban residents are likely to exhibit less intense primary group/ties than are lifelong rural residents or urban migrants. 2. Lifelong urban residents are more likely to develop adaptable and individualistic personality structures than are lifelong rural residents or urban migrants. 3. Lifelong urban residents are less likely to maintain a community based upon proximity than are lifelong rural residents or urban migrants.

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Chu Chi Man, Jip. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2006-2007, design report."

Tang Wing Yin, Grace. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2006-2007, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 127). / Semester 1 / Chapter Part A: --- Thesis Topic / Chapter 0. --- Thesis Abstract --- p.1 / Chapter 1. --- Thesis Statement / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Current Phenomenon --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Standpoint --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- Key Issues / Chapter 2.1 --- Station - City Relation --- p.5-7 / Chapter 2.2 --- Station - Urban Living Relation --- p.8-9 / Chapter 3. --- Methodology / Chapter 3.1 --- Site Selection and Site Study --- p.11-13 / Chapter 3.2 --- Urban Living Study --- p.14 / Chapter 3.3 --- Typology Study --- p.15-16 / Chapter Part B: --- Body of Research / Chapter 4. --- Research Studies / Chapter 4.1 --- Site Study --- p.17-38 / Chapter 4.2 --- Urban Living Study --- p.39-47 / Chapter 4.3 --- Typology Study --- p.48-65 / Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusion --- p.66 / Chapter 5. --- Architectural Strategies / Chapter 5.1 --- Urban Strategy --- p.67-69 / Chapter 5.2 --- Program Strategy --- p.70-71 / Chapter 5.3 --- Urban Form Strategy --- p.72-75 / Chapter 5.4 --- Design Approach --- p.76-77 / Semester 2 / Chapter Part C: --- Design Research Page No. / Thesis Statement (Modified) --- p.78-80 / Chapter 6. --- Site Challenge & Potential --- p.81-84 / Chapter 7. --- Urban Strategy / Chapter 7. 1 --- Strategy Testing 1 - Urban Life Spine Creation between KCR and MTR Stations --- p.85-96 / Chapter 7. 2 --- Strategy Testing 2 - Urban Life Spine Creation between KCR Station and Existing Town Hall --- p.97-101 / Chapter 8. --- Design Process --- p.102-110 / Chapter 9. --- Final Design --- p.111-126 / Chapter 10. --- Reference --- p.127 / Chapter 11. --- Appendix --- p.128-129

In contemporary life, more and more people move to live in urban city. Urban life is drastically different from rural life. In urban city, works are highly diversified and repetitive; people are fast-paced, efficiency-oriented and packed in very limited space for movement. The mode of living is tailor-made to the development of the city instead to the individuals who are living in it. Unsurprisingly, 100% of Hong Kong population is living in the urban area. Everyday we are trapped in this mismatch setting of time and space. It is the repressed emotion and desire that revealed by the miscommunication and disconnection among crowds of people, fostered and nurtured the unique practice of Hong Kong Artists. / In this essay entitled Fill in the Blanks - Art of the Disconnection in Urban Daily Life, I attempt to rethink and present an overall image of the body of my artistic work, while studying a series of theoretical and artistic references from the field of contemporary art and cultural studies. / This essay is divided in three main sections: the transformation from observation in urban daily life to conceptualization, the struggle between the artistic intention to execution in specific medium and the conveyance of meanings in artwork by the artist to audience comprehension and interpretation. It also includes the reflections on my thesis work We each walked 2000 kilometers to say good-bye. Through this exegesis, I would like to bridge the ‘blanks’ between my artistic practice, academic studies and daily life experience to draw a bigger picture, in the hope that my works could trigger more possibilities of discussion and interpretation. / Fong, Sum Yu. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leave 34). / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1 --- The blanks / Chapter 1.2 --- Fill in the blanks / Chapter 1.3 --- In Urban Daily Life / Chapter 1.4 --- Art of Disconnection / Chapter 2 --- Observation to Conceptualization in urban daily life --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1 --- Literature Review: Marvel of a Floating City / Chapter 2.2 --- Literature Review: Man of the Crowd / Chapter 3 --- Intention - Conveyance Interpretation --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Rational against Emotional / Chapter 3.2 --- Work Example: The Memory Series / Chapter 4 --- The Medium and its application --- p.23 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Documentary Value / Chapter 4.2 --- Personality in Working with Video / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Points of Concern and Ways of Presentation / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Montage / Chapter 5 --- Final Work: Love and Story --- p.31 / Chapter 5.1 --- Previous Related Work: Writing to reach you / Chapter 5.2 --- We Each Walked 2000 kilometers to say good-bye / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.33