The basis for this dissertation is to seek and develop a sustainable model that will encourage social sectors to thrive and be re-energised into sustainable, selfsufficient entities. It will explore the role architecture plays in creating resilient societies as well as how, through positive interventions, architects can become re-generative catalysts to provide stability, security, healthy environments and overall well-being. The aim is to design a catalytic educational development in an under-developed area to test how when planning holistically, Architects and their architecture, can inject growth and development in challenged social environments. Using Resilience as a focal lens, ideas of Place Making, Education and Society, encapsulated in Economy, this dissertation will demonstrate how a positive intervention can ultimately lead to a homogeneous resilient place and society.

Kong Pui Chuen Castor. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2003-2004, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 10). / Chapter A --- Research / Chapter 1.0 --- Memetics Theory / Chapter 1.1 --- Analogy-meme and gene / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Darwin's mutation and natural selection / Chapter 1.2 --- Niches Construction / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Beaver's dam / Chapter 1.3 --- Culture / Chapter 2.0 --- Transmission Cycle / Chapter 2.1 --- Encoding and decoding / Chapter 2.2 --- Vector and host / Chapter 3.0 --- Tipping Point / Chapter 3.1 --- Definition - Tipping Point / Chapter 3.2 --- "The laws of the few: connectors, mavens, and salesmen" / Chapter 3.3 --- The stickiness factor / Chapter 3.4 --- The power of context / Chapter 3.5 --- 010703 demonstration / Chapter 3.5.1 --- The law of the few / Chapter 3.5.2 --- The stickiness factor / Chapter 3.5.3 --- The power of context / Chapter 3.5.4 --- Demographic survey / Chapter 4.0 --- Means of transmission / Chapter 4.1 --- Asocial learning / Chapter 4.2 --- Social learning / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Vertical / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Horizontal / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Local enhancement / Chapter 5.0 --- Social consequences / Chapter 5.1 --- Urban Legend / Chapter 5.2 --- Rumor / Chapter 6.0 --- Darwinian Process and Meme in Architecture: A Memetic Theory of Modernism / Chapter 6.1 --- Abandonment of humanistic design / Chapter 6.2 --- "Simplicity, novelty, utility, and formality" / Chapter 7.0 --- Architectural Implication / Chapter 7.1 --- People as vector / Chapter 7.2 --- Architecture as Host / Chapter 7.3 --- Architecture and complexity / Chapter 7.4 --- Asocial leaning in the digital age / Chapter 8.0 --- Conceptual programming / Chapter 8.1 --- Radio station/urban episode observatory / Chapter 8.2 --- Urban foyer for gossip / Chapter 8.3 --- Record/ Rumor Archive / Chapter 9.0 --- Site study - Causeway Bay / Chapter 9.1 --- Horizontal study of Causeway Bay / Chapter 9.1.1 --- Site plan / Chapter 9.1.2 --- Figure and ground / Chapter 9.1.3 --- Sidewalk / Chapter 9.1.4 --- Malls and sidewalks / Chapter 9.1.5 --- "Pedestrianized public space - A network of ""piazzas""" / Chapter 9.1.6 --- "Street feeding to the ""piazzas""" / Chapter 9.1.7 --- Hinge of the network of piazzas / Chapter 9.2 --- Facade as directory - Labyrinth of signification / Chapter 9.3 --- Site Strategy / Chapter 10.0 --- Precedent study - The symbol of a tower / Chapter 10.1 --- Semiology notion of Eiffel Tower (Roland Barthes) / Chapter 10.2 --- "Piazza Del Compo, Siena" / Chapter 10.3 --- "St Mark's Square, Venice" / Chapter 10.4 --- "Time Square, New York City" / Chapter 11.0 --- Precedent study - radio station / Chapter 11.1 --- Radio frequency allocation / Chapter 11.2 --- Radio station frequencies / Chapter 11.3 --- Radio Television (RTHK) / Chapter 11.3.1 --- Location and institution / Chapter 11.4 --- Commercial Radio / Chapter 11.5 --- Metro Radio / Chapter 12 --- Conceptualization / Chapter 13 --- References / Chapter B --- Design

Over the course of the nineteenth century, while many towns and cities grew at a remarkable rate, interest in architectural design, planning, and the quality of urban landscapes also increased. By the close of the century a number of associations had been established that were concerned with promoting the care of ancient buildings, the protection of open spaces, or the quality of future urban growth. During the twentieth century associational activity concerned with the quality of urban space has proliferated. Many, if not most, towns and cities in Britain have an organized body dedicated to campaigning and acting for the interests of local identity, development and heritage. Sometimes these are called Preservation Trusts (as in St Andrews or Cambridge), sometimes they are simply named after the city to which they belong (The London Society or The Warwick Society), most commonly they are known as Civic Societies. Regardless of name, they share key objectives: the promotion of high standards in planning and architecture; the preservation of historically or aesthetically significant buildings; the education of the public in the history, geography, and architecture of the local environment. In the early twentieth century these organizations provided a focus for discussions about the nature of urban space and approaches to shaping the development of towns and cities. They brought together a range of individuals, including planners, architects, reformers, academics, artists and politicians, who shared a concern for the landscape of Britain’s cities. Through their discussions and activities emerged an approach to urban development that emphasised socio-scientific methods and ideas in combination with an argument about the affective bonds that connect individuals to a place. The approach was often called civics and the agenda pressed forward by civic associations and their members forms the focus for this study. This work explores the continuities between philanthropic experiment in the later nineteenth century and the civic movement of the twentieth century by demonstrating the connections between earlier and later activities, and emphasising the continued involvement of a number of key individuals and families. It makes a contribution to understanding professional development in the fields of planning, architecture and urban studies. Key figures in the history of British planning, such as Patrick Abercrombie, Raymond Unwin and George Pepler, formed their early professional networks through civic groups, while architects including Charles Reilly and Aston Webb developed their collaborations through their involvement with the civic movement. Furthermore, individuals whose role in British urban sociology, most notably Patrick Geddes, has influenced the ways in which we study our urban areas first promoted their ideas and methods through the network of civic associations that developed over the course of early twentieth century. Through the analysis this thesis draws in theoretically informed questions. Firstly these relate to the role of voluntary associations and networks in structuring the development of professions, circulating their bodies of specialist knowledge and securing wider participation in urban policy. Secondly, the thesis considers the manner in which spaces come to hold the meaning and memories of particular groups, the significance and power of representations of place and the emerging tradition of spatial history that privileges the micro-processes through which places are created and sustained.

Includes bibliographies / 2 v. : ill ; 31 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 1987

Texte remanié de : Dissertation : Kunstgeschichte? : Berlin, Technische Universiẗat : 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 615-621.

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