Chow Pui-ha. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-219). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Prologue --- p.1-3 / Chapter Ch. 1 --- "Theorizing Space, Body,ower andlay" --- p.4 / Chapter I. --- The Interrelations of Space and Body --- p.5-13 / Chapter II. --- Theower oflay and Leisure --- p.13-19 / Chapter III. --- Leisure in Modernity --- p.19-21 / Chapter IV. --- Researchroblematic: Leisure andowerlay --- p.21-22 / Chapter Ch. 2 --- Operationalisation --- p.23 / Chapter I. --- The Site of Study: Hong Kong Cultural Centre --- p.24-30 / Chapter II. --- Institutionalower at Cultural Centre --- p.30-33 / Chapter III --- Theoretical Framework --- p.34-38 / Chapter IV --- Research Questions --- p.39-41 / Chapter V. --- Methodology --- p.41-46 / Chapter VI. --- Research Implications --- p.46-48 / Chapter Ch. 3 --- hallocratic Bodyspace --- p.49 / Chapter I. --- The Representational Spaces: Aublic Toilet or a Culturalalace? --- p.50-61 / Chapter II. --- Spatialractices:erforming Arts/erformative Culture --- p.62-70 / Chapter III --- Performative Leisure and Disenchanted body --- p.71-78 / Chapter IV. --- olitical Economy of the Body andolitical Economy of Music --- p.78-80 / Chapter V. --- Enchanted Body in the Center?. --- p.81 -83 / Chapter VI. --- The Representation of Space: Elitist Discourse --- p.84-87 / Chapter VII. --- Thehallocartic Bodyspace of the Elitist Culturalalace --- p.87-91 / Chapter CH. 4 --- Embryonic Bodyspace --- p.92 / Chapter I. --- Representational Space: the Garden and the Open Theatre --- p.93-97 / Chapter II. --- Spatialractices: Compositionalerformances --- p.98-109 / Chapter III. --- Re-created Body and Leisure Societies --- p.109-121 / Chapter IV. --- Embryonic Bodyspace --- p.122-126 / Chapter V. --- The Representation of Space: the Repression of Revolution --- p.126-129 / Chapter VI. --- Institutionalised Embryonic Bodyspace --- p.129-136 / Chapter CH. 5 --- Contested Bodyspace --- p.137 / Chapter I. --- Sectioned Lifeworlds --- p.138-141 / Chapter II. --- Civility as the Logic of Centrality --- p.141-149 / Chapter III. --- Dialectic of Order and Disorder and the Logic of Civility --- p.149-153 / Chapter IV. --- ower atlay --- p.153-155 / Chapter CH. 6 --- Body-City and City Spectacle --- p.156 / Chapter I. --- The Logic of Civility and City Imaginary --- p.157-159 / Chapter II. --- Spectacularization of City --- p.159-162 / Chapter III. --- Event Capital and Hong Kong Identity --- p.163-173 / Chapter IV. --- Mainland Tourists as the City Spectacle of Hong Kong --- p.173-181 / Chapter V. --- "City spectacle, Spatial Order andower Negotiation" --- p.181-184 / Chapter CH. 7 --- Conclusion:olitics oflay on Body-City --- p.185 / Chapter I. --- lay as Tactic --- p.186-187 / Chapter II. --- hallocratic and Embryonic Bodyspaces --- p.188-190 / Chapter III. --- Leisure Relations --- p.190-191 / Chapter IV. --- Creative City and City Citizenshi --- p.191 -200 / Chapter VI. --- lay as Lifeolitics --- p.200-207 / Chapter VII. --- Conclusion --- p.207-208 / Appendix 1: Renowned artists and groupsresented in HK Cultural Centre --- p.209-210 / Appendix 2: The Meaning of the Eighteen Buildings Presented in a Symphony of Lights --- p.211-212 / Bibliography --- p.213-219

Located just off of Sixteenth Street NW in Washington, D.C., the Meridian International Center complex sits on an elevated, crescent-shaped swath of land opposite Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. On the site are two neoclassical residences, both designed by John Russel Pope in the early 20th century. Initially designed as diplomatic residences, when Meridian International Center purchased the site in 1960, the houses were converted into facilities for the organization. Today, having recently undergone extensive renovations the buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Meridian International Center is devoted to the exchange of people, ideas, and art. The organization aims to promote international understanding through diplomatic exchanges, arts programs, lecture series, and educational programs. The majority of operations is devoted to the International Visitors Program, however in recent years, the organization has expressed a desire to expand their other programs, specifically the Arts & Culture and World Affairs divisions. A primary intention of Meridian International Center is to open its doors to the city, to invite and engage the public in international matters through a variety of expositions. Currently lacking sufficient space to accommodate such programs, this thesis proposes a new facility for Meridian International Center's building complex. This facility is to function as a Contemporary Culture Center. With the intention of opening the institution to the public, both literally and figuratively, the building is to act as a beacon in the city for the sharing and mixing of cultures. / Master of Architecture

My thesis project is about designing a building that culturally actives Flemingsberg, a suburb in the south of Stockholm, and makes a meeting place for all its people. Flemingsberg has a specific structure that assembles and at the same time divides it socially and geographically. People work, study, travel, and live here. Flemingsberg is developing towards becoming a center of southern Stockholm. Yet, the culture does not take enough space within that plan as I believe it should do. My building elevates above train platforms and captures an enormous amount of people that circulate there every day. The placement of my design embraces people to daily encounter culture and be a part of it, which they aren’t today.

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Parallax is integral to the conception of movement in modern architectural space. This research examines the role of architectural parallax in creating dynamic spaces that champion the primacy of perception to reinforce a conceptual narrative. The study is contextualized in the cinematic context of Miami Beach to understand the dynamic quality of its public spaces. An analysis of these spaces studies the role of parallax in reinforcing the city???s scopophiliac meta-narrative of Seeing and being Seen. A final design project is situated within the shifting sociocultural context of Miami Beach today as it strives to reinvent itself into a cultural destination for the high Arts. The chosen site is a historically significant site that has remained as a municipal parking lot for over 70 years, and may not be developed for commercial purposes. The design proposes Collins Cultural Center that draws from the exhibitionist Beach culture of the city and fuses it with the high Arts culture. The aim is to use parallax as an architectural strategy to create a dynamic space for cultural production and exchange. Reframing the cultural imagination of residents and visitors fuels Miami Beach???s momentum towards becoming a future cultural destination for the Arts.

The failed New Orleans Cultural Center Complex was cultural genocide to an area of the neighborhood known as Treme, where a tribute to the jazz great and native son, Louis Armstrong, was planned as an afterthought. The questions remain, was the planning and building of Louis Armstrong Park responsible for the genocide of the Treme neighborhood, is the park an appropriate use of land, and what are the prospects for the park's future? This thesis examines the cultural gumbo of New Orleans history, explores the early days of Louis Armstrong and the development of jazz, sets the record straight by vindicating the Louis Armstrong Park as the culprit for demolition in Treme, and takes a look at "the Back ‘o Town" as a tribute to him.

La propuesta principal de este proyecto de tesis, es crear un equipamiento arquitectónico y urbano que, mediante la implementación de actividades culturales, recreativas y deportivas fomente en los niños y adolescentes valores educativos, culturales y deportivos, además de mostrarles mediante esta nueva propuesta arquitectónica y con novedosas técnicas de aprendizaje que culturizarse es importante para su desarrollo, además de que se implementaran educación para el trabajo. Dichos elementos mencionados anteriormente, son parte de los criterios principales para la creación de este nuevo polo recreativo y de esparcimiento que tiene como principal énfasis la creación de nuevos espacios públicos y la adaptación de estos con los ya existentes. Además, este nuevo modelo de Centro Cultural podría adaptarse en otros distritos de Lima, ya que existe carencia de equipamientos que fomenten en niños y jóvenes actividades recreativa, culturales, deportivas. / The main proposal of this thesis project is to create an equipment architectural and urban, through the implementation of cultural activities, recreational and sports fosters in children and adolescents, educational values, cultural and sporting, in addition to show you through this new architectural proposal and with new techniques of learning how important culture is to the development of our professional lives . In addition, the project will foster the education for the job. These elements mentioned above, are part of the major criteria for the creation of this new center for recreation and entertainment that have as main focus the creation of new public spaces and the adaptation of those already existing. In addition, this new model of a Cultural Centre could be adapted in other districts of Lima, as there is lack of facilities that encourage children and youth activities recreation, cultural, sports. / Tesis

The Municipal cultural center plays the major role for culture promotion in every city/county in Taiwan. It has great influence on performing arts industry in the past 20 years. Facing the environment change, a municipal cultural center should know how to adjust its functions to meet the needs of the theater in the future. The researcher studied the cultural centers in the seven cities/counties of southern Taiwan before of the merger of 2011, analyzed the development of performing arts, arts activities, audience participation, and the utilization of these cultural centers. The staffs of seven cultural centers, fourteen performing arts groups, and four experts¡¦ opinions are asked in order to know the strength and weakness of cultural center. To accomplish these purposes, the researcher applied the case study method of qualitative research in this study. The study also adopted questionnaire survey and interview to collect data. On the part of the cultural centers, it showed that: 1. Cultural centers usually meet the demands of performing arts groups and provide venue. 2. Cultural centers make their own application schedules, twice a year. 3. Most of the cultural centers have middle-sized theaters. 4. The renting cost of the venue depends on each center. 5. The performances of the cultural centers usually come from domestic groups. The programs directly sponsored by the cultural centers are rare. On the part of performing arts groups, most of them are satisfied with the assistance of the cultural centers. However, they still raise some issues which cultural centers should improve, such as the application schedule, the usage time of the venue, the venues staffs¡¦ collaboration, the provision and improvement of the theaters¡¦ equipments, promotion method and higher subsidy. The study concluded that the cultural centers should adjust their policies, redefine their positions, raise the budget, cultivate the professional talent of the workers, develop self-characteristic, cooperate with other centers, improve the quality of programs, give clear channel of the information, enhance the relationships with the communities and develop the audience.

The government of Taiwan tries to promote privatization of some public sectors. Through the cooperation between public and private sector, win-win-win outcome¡Xa triangular formula for winning¡Xwill be created. Nowadays, many social educational institutes are trapped in some difficulties in budget and human resources. That is why the public sector should reflect on what they have done in order to achieve the sustained management. This case study is based on qualitative analysis. Literatures are reviewed, mainly focused on the theoretical basis of privatization of some public sectors. In addition, the data is collected about how the social institutes comply with the policy of government reform, especially using the mechanisms of elimination of routine government work, deregulation, corporatization, outsourcing, and localization. Under this circumstances, the purpose of the study was to investigate the feasibility of privatizing Kaohsiung Chungcheng Cultural Center. Through the analyses of internal and external environmental factors, the findings are as follows. Kaohsiung Chungcheng Cultural Center has the problem of redefining the business scope. However, there is no need for organization reform through administrative incorporation for total privatization, in order to turn into an international urban resort. This study presents itself as reference in policy making.

This thesis uses Native American Student Affairs (NASA) at the University of Arizona (UA) as a case study to see where NASA matches and diverges from the current literature on Native American Cultural Centers (NACC). Twenty-eight current Native American undergraduates and graduates were surveyed about their views on NASA, and their responses were then analyzed for common themes. The findings showed that NASA was similar to the current research when it came to themes of community, promoting culture, feeling less isolated, networking, and having an independent space. It diverged on one demographic aspect, namely a significant portion of student respondents came from reservations, which is not reflective of the Native community in the United States as a whole. Additionally, it mentioned the importance of event hosting, which is not mentioned in the current literature at all. The majority of students identified NASA as creating a space for them to feel supported, provide resources, network, and host events that promote awareness of Native American issues. The thesis ends with recommendations for NASA based on the responses, and advocates for further research to delve deeper into the nuances of NACC's and their responsibility to continuously adapt to the needs of their students.