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Recreation land sales for cottaging have recently taken on a new form, that of marketing lots on a large scale in communities which incorporate on-site recreational and community facilities. The study examines those characteristics of the communities which could create a potential for permanent settlement to occur. Seventeen major developments in the Pacific Northwest were studied, together with a review of other surveys dealing with cottaging. It was found that lots had similar service levels to regular subdivisions, and that this plus the close proximity of commercial and social facilities supplying daily needs makes the communities amenable to permanent settlement. 29 percent of the homes in the communities are occupied permanently. A full assessment of the impacts such permanency would have on regional development is premature. Possible impacts are long term diseconomies, the establishment of new settlement nodes and the subsequent dispersal of government services. The provision of land for recreational cottaging has taken on a new aspect in recent years. The concept of marketing lots in large scale second home recreational communities has been introduced into the Pacific Northwest by major developers. The integration of recreation opportunity with the home follows changing life style trends in North America. The second home recreational community has been developed as a means of tapping a growing market. The marketing requirements of these large scale land sales operations determines in part the nature of the community, and this in turn attracts a different consumer than traditional cottaging does. The communities not only cater to ‘weekend’ recreational demands, but are also providing permanent home sites. This study examines the special features that contribute to a potential for permanent settlement. The impact on regional development is the guiding rationale for undertaking the study of the potential for permanency. Seventeen major communities in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon are investigated, with data gathered from interviews, mailed questionnaires, observation, publicity brochures and government filed prospectuses. In addition, a comparative survey of other cottaging studies was undertaken. Due to constraints of time and logistics, property owners were not contacted. Second home communities are characterized by the large number of lots, high levels of lot service and on site recreation and commercial facilities. It was found that the provision of services and lots similar to those of a regular subdivision, plus the close proximity of commercial and social facilities for everyday needs makes the communities amenable to permanent settlement. Furthermore, it was found that homes built in the communities are also similar to regular homes. 29 percent of homes built in the developments are occupied permanently, and it is estimated by developers that permanency is a growing force. An assessment of the impacts that such permanency would have on regional development is premature as nearly all the communities are less than two years old. The implications for regional planning are discussed briefly. They are the possible long range local diseconomies, the establishment of new settlement nodes and the subsequent dispersal of government services. Public policy alternatives and control measures are suggested, together with further research required. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

Thesis (Rev). / S. Cortellaro, Italian architect. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, 2004. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-314).

Leung Chi Sing. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78). / Chapter 1. --- Thesis Statement --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Trip Study --- p.2 / Background --- p.2 / Material Available --- p.5 / Construction --- p.6 / Houses Analysis --- p.7 / Chapter 3. --- Traditional Element and Pattern --- p.18 / Chapter 4. --- Space Study --- p.24 / Chapter 5. --- Wall and Slab Organization --- p.27 / Chapter 6. --- Brick Study --- p.36 / Brick Organization --- p.36 / Brick Parameters --- p.39 / Brick Accompanied other uses --- p.44 / Chapter 7. --- Construction Detail --- p.46 / Chapter 8. --- Design Project --- p.55 / Concept --- p.55 / Strategy for Structure and Non-Structure --- p.63 / Bonding Study for Non-Structure --- p.64 / Material and Spatial Expression --- p.65 / Layout Plan --- p.66 / Construction Detail --- p.67 / Interior Subdivision --- p.68 / Building Envelope --- p.69 / Other Type 1 --- p.70 / Other Type 2 --- p.74 / Chapter 9. --- Bibliography --- p.78

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This study discusses the evolution of the English country-house poem from its inception by Ben Jonson in "To Penshurst" to the present. It shows that in addition to stylistic and thematic borrowings primarily from Horace and Martial, traditional English values associated with the great hall and comitatus ideal helped define features of the English country-house poem, to which Jonson added the metonymical use of architecture. In the Jonsonian country-house poem, the country estate, exemplified by Penshurst, is a microcosm of the ideal English social organization characterized by interdependence, simplicity, service, hospitality, and balance between the active and contemplative life. Those poems which depart from the Jonsonian ideal are characterized by disequilibrium between the active and contemplative life, resulting in the predominance of artifice, subordination of nature, and isolation of art from the community, as exemplified by Thomas Carew's "To Saxham" and Richard Lovelace's "Amyntor's Grove." Architectural features of the English country house are examined to explain the absence of the Jonsonian country-house poem in the eighteenth century. The building tradition praised by Jonson gradually gave way to aesthetic considerations fostered by the professional architect and Palladian architecture, architectural patronage by the middle class, and change in identity of the country house as center of an interdependent community. The country-house poem was revived by W. B. Yeats in his poems in praise of Coole Park. In them Yeats reaffirms Jonsonian values. In contrast to the poems of Yeats, the country-house poems of Sacheverell Sitwell and John Hollander convey a sense of irretrievable loss of the Jonsonian ideal and isolation of the poet. Changing social patterns, ethical values, and aesthetics threaten the survival of the country-house poem, although the ideal continues to reflect a basic longing of humanity for a pastoral retreat where life is simple and innocent.

The grand houses of nineteenth century Victoria have been given only superficial consideration in the literature on Australian architectural history, and it has been assumed that the colonial houses in Victoria simply copied British models. However houses are always designed to accommodate the values, beliefs and customs of the society for which they are built, and their spaces must be arranged to accommodate a variety of both utilitarian and social functions. It might therefore be expected that the different physical, economic and social conditions in Victoria would result in variations from the British models which more closely reflected their colonial context. / This thesis seeks to document, analyse and explain the planning of the grand houses of nineteenth century Victoria. It demonstrates that the form and planning of these grand houses in Victoria did indeed resemble the British models in many ways. This is because both the settlers in Victoria and colonial society were predominantly British, and the settlers could only aspire to respectability, and establish a position in the newly developing social hierarchies, by conformity with British norms. The possession of an appropriate house played an important role in this, and the houses therefore were always based on British models. There was conformity with British practice in the specialization and segregation of functions and spaces in the houses, and in the invariable use of closed corridor planning. However although these British planning conventions were observed, the houses differed in significant ways from those in Britain. This was largely because the colonial upper classes differed significantly from the old upper classes in Britain. A higher proportion of the upper classes in Victoria were new rich, and their houses reflect not only the greater informality of colonial society but also the tendency of the new rich towards ostentation. Their houses were built for maximum effect, even when this at times was in conflict with accepted British attitudes towards ostentation and privacy. This resulted in differences from British norms in the arrangement of the spaces in the houses, which more closely reflected the colonial context. The grand houses in Victoria were not therefore purely British, but were always a colonial hybrid.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references and abstracts.

Yu Wai Ching. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-206). / Thesis Statement --- p.5 / Study Method --- p.9 / "Phenomenon, Principle & Appearance" --- p.11 / Study Area --- p.15 / Precedent study --- p.17 / Chapter - --- Chinese character --- p.19 / Chapter - --- Platonic solid --- p.35 / Chapter - --- Crystal --- p.43 / Architectural example study --- p.59 / Chapter - --- Phenomenon - simple but interesting subdivision --- p.61 / Chapter - --- Principle - subdivision --- p.71 / Chapter - --- envelope arrangment --- p.115 / Chapter - --- opening --- p.127 / Chapter - --- space extension --- p.135 / Chapter - --- Reading examples with principles --- p.145 / Testing on site --- p.155 / Site context --- p.157 / Site planning --- p.163 / Testing on village houses --- p.177 / Housing types --- p.179 / Floor units --- p.183 / House unit --- p.189 / Bibliography --- p.203