Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes special report study entitled : The role of public art in urban regeneration. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University at Normal, 1966. / Title from title page screen, viewed Aug. 5, 2004. Dissertation committee: F. Louis Hoover (chair), Donald M. Prince, Perry M. Ragouzis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 331-334). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-177).

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled: Public, art, space : a sensory experience. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled : Public, art, space : a sensory experience. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

This thesis uses insight drawn from fieldwork among people developing a civic parade in Manchester over 2011-12 to analyse what happens in the translation of ideas into entities for display. It argues for creativity as an adaptive process, a responsive, dynamic activity manifested by parade makers, as they sought to realise the imagined event. It traces the roles that underpinned parade production and how people made sense and use of allocated responsibilities, while working within and through organisational boundaries. It situates the parade as an ‘art object’ (Gell 1998), constituted of assemblages at different scales (De Landa 2006), each embedded in a web of relationships to show how: a civic attempt to bring a public into being provides insight on the constituting organisational structures; the operational style of the arts organisation commissioned to produce the parade, led to imagining it into existence; and how two community groups responded to the parade parameters according to their own social dynamics. The thesis builds on ethnographic analyses of collaborative activities to consider how organisational shapes combine and how their constitutions substantially affect evolving entities. Situating creativity as an adaptive process separates creative activities from art practices by emphasising how supporting people to respond productively to changing circumstances encourages them to be creative. This thesis makes an original contribution to anthropology by showing through ethnography how creativity is a process, enacted through purposeful adaptation to circumstances in order to realise something tangible. It also encourages the development of a comparative framework for contemplating the extent to which different cultural contexts enable adaptive endeavours.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes special study report entitled: Media art : space. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes special study report entitled : Media art : space. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Public spaces play essential roles in urban life for the city, the public and individuals, by setting strong relations between urban space and social and cultural values. Public spaces and their essential components have multi-dimensional impacts on people. Public art, as a constituent of public space, includes a wide range of artworks, activities and outcomes, contributing to the significance of the places in a variety of ways. However, each culture, country and city, has diverse policies and outcomes of public art based on different perspectives. Focusing on the public art policies in Ankara over the last two decades, this thesis seeks to examine how far the recent policies have contributed to the city. By carrying out in-depth investigation on the public art work interventions and policies of the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, the thesis assesses the multi-dimensional contributions of these policies and interventions. It seeks to discuss how far the public artwork policies of localities are crucial for creating genuine public spaces of cities.