Lee Kwong Wai Thomas. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1996-97, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Contents --- p.i / Chapter Part I: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1 --- Personal Design Objectives --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1 --- Personal Design Objectives --- p.2 / Chapter 2 --- Project Selection --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- Description of Subject --- p.3 / Chapter 2.2 --- Description of Clients and Users --- p.3 / Chapter 2.3 --- Description of Site and Context --- p.3 / Chapter Part II: --- Project Analysis --- p.4 / Chapter 3 --- Subject Analysis --- p.5 / Chapter 3.1 --- Brief Formation --- p.5 / Chapter 3.2 --- Precedents --- p.5 / Chapter 3.3 --- Relevant Forms and Typologies --- p.6 / Chapter 3.4 --- Appropriate Technologies --- p.6 / Chapter 3.5 --- Architectural Language --- p.6 / Chapter 4 --- Client/User Analysis --- p.7 / Chapter 4.1 --- Functional Relationships --- p.7 / Chapter 4.2 --- Organizational Hierarchies --- p.7 / Chapter 4.3 --- Activities --- p.7 / Chapter 4.4 --- Social Patterns --- p.7 / Chapter 4.5 --- Schedule of Accomodation --- p.8 / Chapter 5 --- Site/Context Analysis --- p.11 / Chapter 5.1 --- Location --- p.11 / Chapter 5.2 --- Climate --- p.11 / Chapter 5.3 --- Landscape --- p.11 / Chapter 5.4 --- Adjacent Buildings --- p.11 / Chapter 5.5 --- Infrastructure --- p.11 / Chapter 5.6 --- Ground Conditions --- p.12 / Chapter 5.7 --- Access and Transportation --- p.12 / Chapter 5.8 --- Zoning and Codes --- p.12 / Chapter Part III: --- Process --- p.13 / Chapter 6 --- Urban Design Process --- p.14 / Chapter 6.1 --- 01 Oct 96 Review --- p.14 / Chapter 6.2 --- Process... --- p.15 / Chapter 6.3 --- 22 Nov 96 Review --- p.16 / Chapter 6.4 --- Process... --- p.18 / Chapter 6.5 --- 14 Dec 96 Final Review of Urban Design --- p.19 / Chapter 7 --- Building & Places Design Process --- p.21 / Chapter 7.1 --- 08 Jan 97 Review --- p.21 / Chapter 7.2 --- Process… --- p.22 / Chapter 7.3 --- Process... --- p.23 / Chapter 7.4 --- 27 Jan 97 Review --- p.24 / Chapter 7.5 --- Process... --- p.26 / Chapter 7.6 --- 17 Feb 97 Intermediate Review --- p.27 / Chapter 7.7 --- Process… --- p.29 / Chapter Part IV: --- Final Project --- p.31 / Chapter 8 --- Final Project --- p.32

If a school is valued, it will inspire pride of ownership among students, staff, and community members. A sustainable campus beautification effort can be a source of inspiration. The purpose of this study was to determine if campus beautification projects made a positive impact on student behavior and academic performance. This study was based on qualitative research methods. Theoretical applications compared the results of a case study involving five middle/junior high schools in Region VI of the Statewide System of School Support for the Delta/Sierra Region. Interviews measured the perceptions of one administrator and three teachers at each school site. Interview responses were coded and analyzed to discover emerging themes in the data. In general, the teachers and the administrators agreed that campus beautification projects had positively impacted student behavior and academic performance. Teachers stated that involving students in the process of improving the quality of their school environment taught pride of ownership, community spirit, and leadership skills. Students who took part in campus beautification continued to seek experiences in campus improvement. Administrators reported a positive change in student behaviors and that beautification experience benefited students from all academic levels and behavioral backgrounds. The majority of the interviewees expressed that students benefited most directly from campus beautification. Others stated that the staff was most positively affected. In either case, interviewees' overall perceptions were that campus beautification improved student behavior and academic performance. Campus beautification projects should be investigated at every school level. Projects provide a simple solution to the rising problem of aging school facilities. Schools should pursue campus beautification as a means of improving staff and student morale. District office and site administrations should support beautification efforts and allow students the opportunity to improve their campus environment. Schools should enlist parents and community members to participate in beautification projects. Recommendations for further study include the impact of beautification at the elementary and high school levels, on urban, suburban and rural schools, and into how school administrations and district administrations can best support beautification efforts.

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.

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Urban green space plays a vital role in the stability of the environment. Green spaces are increasingly becoming an integral part of the efforts to promote sustainability because of the different areas of benefits they provide. Sustainable city ranking systems were used to identify the most sustainable urban extents within the US. Landsat TM 4-5 imagery and textural classification are used as techniques in identifying, classifying and analyzing urban green spaces within nineteen urban extents. Patch analyst was used to analyze the location, structure and fragmentation green spaces within each urban extent. The aim is to determine to what degree urban green spaces can be considered to be an integral part of the sustainability of sustainable urban extents across the US and ascertain whether or not more sustainable urban extents do have more urban green spaces. The results of the study have shown that urban extents that are ranked highly v on sustainable ranking systems do not necessarily have to have large proportion of green spaces. Results have also shown that urban extents that are ranked high on sustainable rankings will not necessarily be affected by increase in population or decrease in urban green space. Finally human modified green spaces have simple geometric shapes compared to natural unaltered green spaces that have more complex geometric shapes. / by Gillian Bloise. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Grasiele Sousa.pdf: 2196263 bytes, checksum: 6114ca6dbe9c2b9792b31056632382a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-26 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research proposes an analysis of amateur videos on beautification practices posted on the YouTube platform placed in the Internet. The authors of these videos are women of different ages and various social classes. They share their opinions on the strategies and beautification products in a very personal way in front of the camera. This all happens in a homemade movie set, usually in their sleeping room. Other places can also be the set, so that all things can be done in an informal atmosphere, more suitable to a direct and friendly conversation with the audience . YouTube is a platform for sharing videos that became popular in a short period. Since the mid 2000s it won thousands of users across the globe. Something comparable to the range of previous forms of communication for the purpose of audiovisual broadcasting and television, except for the fact that now we are talking about a type of interaction in which we are all potentially transmitters and receivers of information. In this work, we will give attention to some aspects of the way these videos are being produced and what seemed, to some extent: be related to an inherited experience of communication on television; happen as a way to update beautification practices of the past (like the so called beauty meetings ); be a way to produce subjectivities through a "self-editing process." The research grows from a sampling of the videos (more qualitative than quantitative) the construction of a logbook and a survey on the literature of the history of YouTube, the language of video, television and today's consumer society / A presente pesquisa baseia-se na análise de vídeos amadores sobre práticas de embelezamento postados na plataforma YouTube. Mulheres de idades e classes sociais variadas são as autoras desses vídeos. Diante da câmera, elas compartilham suas opiniões acerca das estratégias e produtos do embelezamento de forma bastante pessoal. Isso tudo acontece, num set de filmagem caseiro, geralmente no quarto. Outros lugares também podem servir de cenário, contanto que tudo possa ser realizado num clima informal, mais propício a uma conversa direta e amigável com a audiência. O YouTube é uma plataforma de postagem e compartilhamento de vídeos que popularizou-se em pouco tempo. Desde meados dos anos 2000, ele conquistou milhares de usuários pelo globo, algo comparável ao alcance de formas anteriores de comunicação com propósito de difusão audiovisual como a televisão. Só que agora, estamos falando de um tipo de interação em que somos todos potencialmente emissores e receptores de informação. Neste trabalho, daremos atenção a alguns aspectos relacionados ao modo como esses vídeos vem sendo produzidos e que nos pareceu, em alguma medida: ter relação com uma experiência herdada da comunicação pela televisão; acontecer como uma forma de atualização de práticas de embelezamento de antigamente (como os encontros de beleza); ser uma forma de fabricar subjetividades por meio de uma edição de si . A pesquisa se desenvolve a partir de uma amostragem dos vídeos, (mais qualitativa que quantitativa) da construção de um diário de bordo e de uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre a história do YouTube, da linguagem do vídeo, da televisão e da atual sociedade de consumo

Este trabalho resultou de uma investigação que objetivou verificar e analisar, do ponto de vista de trabalhadoras que se submeteram a cirurgia plástica estética, se e de que modo o embelezamento físico se mostra como requisito da gestão gerencialista para o exercício do trabalho imaterial. Para tanto a revisão da literatura abrangeu trabalho imaterial, através de autores como Gorz, Grisci e Pelbart, gestão gerencialista, através de autores como Gaulejac e Chanlat, e embelezamento físico, através de autores como Mansano, Bauman e Lipovetsky. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa e exploratória, e, para sua realização foram entrevistados seis cirurgiões plásticos e seis trabalhadoras, indicadas por estes, que se submeteram a cirurgia plástica estética. As entrevistas ocorreram em três cidades do Rio Grande do Sul. A análise dos dados deu-se segundo os parâmetros de Minayo (2001). As evidências empíricas mostraram que, no caso das trabalhadoras entrevistadas, o embelezamento físico pode ser considerado requisito da gestão gerencialista para o exercício do trabalho imaterial. Além disso, mostraram que características da gestão gerencialista e do trabalho imaterial encontravam-se na narrativa das trabalhadoras estudadas. Mostraram ainda que os cirurgiões plásticos estéticos entrevistados, confirmam a tese de que, no caso, das trabalhadoras analisadas, a cirurgia plástica estética pode ser considerada um elemento de embelezamento físico utilizado a fim de se conseguir retorno no trabalho de cada uma. Por fim, as narrativas revelaram que a cirurgia plástica estética é também um artifício utilizado pelas trabalhadoras entrevistadas na tentativa de manter-se dentro de um determinado padrão de embelezamento físico que pode gerar rendimentos ao trabalho imaterial. / This paper is the result of a study that aimed to verify and analyze, from the point of view of workers that underwent cosmetic plastic surgery, if and how physical beautification is a requirement of managerialism to perform immaterial labor. The literature review included immaterial labor, through authors such as Gorz, Grisci and Pelbart, managerialism, through authors such as Gaulejac and Chanlat, and physical beautification, through authors such as Mansano, Bauman and Lipovetsky. This is a qualitative and exploratory research, and six plastic surgeons and six female workers were interviewed, workers who were referred by the surgeons and had undergone plastic surgery. The interviews took place in three cities of Rio Grande do Sul. Data analysis was performed according to Minayo’s parameters (2001). Empirical evidence has shown that, in the case of female workers interviewed, physical beautification may be considered a requirement of managerial management for the exercise of immaterial labor. In addition, they showed that characteristics of managerialist management and immaterial work were found in the narrative of the workers studied. They also showed that the aesthetic plastic surgeons interviewed confirm the thesis that, in the case of the workers analyzed, cosmetic plastic surgery can be considered as a physical embellishment element used in order to achieve a return in the work of each one. Finally, the narratives revealed that cosmetic plastic surgery is also an artifice used by the workers interviewed in an attempt to keep within a certain pattern of physical beautification that can generate income for immaterial labor.

Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography : leaf 121. / by Cheryl A. Amisial. / M.Arch.A.S.