This thesis addresses the City of Detroit`s transformation from a thriving center of trade and commerce to its present abandoned state. Due to the decentralization of industry and massive suburbanization since the 1950s, Detroit presently resembles a ‘middle landscape,’ somewhere between urban and rural. This thesis proposes an urban design strategy for Detroit that mediates between nature and culture, through the vehicle of a design for a new technical college campus. First, investigation into the ‘zone of in?uence’ explores the city`s present conditions including its infrastructure, buildings, and its current relationship with the natural environment. Secondly, the ‘zone of control’ proposes a new urban typology that is appropriate to the proposed college institution. Lastly, this thesis considers the ‘zone of effect,’ which displays the in?uence the proposed campus could have in promoting land development in the city`s residential areas, Eastern Market District, and Rivertown Warehouse District along the Detroit River waterfront.

Ce mémoire propose d'examiner la représentation des rapports homme-animal dans les Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde de l'écrivain québécois Pierre Morency. S'inscrivant dans le cadre général de l'écocritique, la lecture mise de l'avant est éclairée par de nouvelles connaissances issues des sciences du vivant, et recourt à des outils théoriques et méthodologiques empruntés aux théories constructivistes de l'identité et de l'altérité, à la socio-sémiotique, à la narratologie et aux théories de l'énonciation. L'analyse se déploie en trois temps principaux. Le premier chapitre consiste en une analyse de l'énonciation et des procédés discursifs qui concourt à dégager les effets de ces derniers sur la représentation des rapports humain-animal. Le second chapitre trace le portrait sémantique de la figure de l'animal telle qu'elle apparaît dans la trilogie de Pierre Morency.Ce portrait est complété par un examen de certains éléments de rhétorique et d'onomastique, ainsi que d'une analyse des dimensions spatiales associées à l'altérité animale dans le texte. Enfin, le troisième chapitre explore dans le détail la représentation des rapports humain-animal en articulant les éléments d'analyse dégagés dans les deux premiers volets de la lecture, et en abordant les questions de l'affect , de la conscience et de la réflexivité qui circulent dans le discours sur les animaux des Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde .

Issues of culture and worldview and their impact on students' learning of science have become increasingly important to science teachers. This study details work that I carried out in the period 1995-1999 which examined the effect of culture on students' conceptualisations of nature. It is framed as the creation of my own 'living educational theory' as I, a teacher-researcher, dealt with what I perceived were the cultural inequities experienced by students in my classroom. I carried out my first study with a group of seven rural high school students in the Far North of Queensland in Australia, where I was teaching in 1995. Later, in two visits to China, I was able to carry out the same sort of research with a group of seven Chinese college students in Jinan, Shandong Province, PRC, largely using the Chinese language. I used a naturalistic inquiry approach and a semi-structured interview technique to determine students' conceptualisations of nature. I have chosen to embed the results of these two studies within narratives that describe my experiences in the two cultures as I carried out my research. For each culture, I have also developed an epic description of the role of science from the literature and history of that culture. From my three sources of data, interview, narrative and historical description, I have made knowledge claims about the students' beliefs about the natural world.My research findings are ironic to me since they are diametrically opposite to what I had expected. Initially I had believed that Mainland Chinese students would possess a world view full of alternative perspectives to that of Western school science. My research indicates however that students in rural Mainland China hold a traditional and integrated modem Western scientific world view. Although some researchers in other South-East Asian communities propose alternative frameworks for ++ / the teaching of science, frameworks that are actually 'pre-modern' these do not appear to be appropriate for Mainland Chinese students. I had expected that the Australian students would bring a modern Western scientific world view to the science classroom. However, the group of rural Western students that I interviewed displayed a world view that is not recognisable as that of modern Western science. Postmodernism and other cultural and social effects appear to have influenced them to such an extent that some have clearly not 'crossed the border' to a modern Western scientific world view. This thesis reflects my desire to overcome the perceived problem of inequity in my own teaching. The knowledge claims made here give some indication as to how I may improve my own practice. A return to the classroom will allow me to continue the cycle of action and reflection by which I can validate, develop and refine my living educational theory.

Esta tese tem como intuito realizar uma abordagem teórico-conceitual da paisagem, a partir de uma proposta de ampliação epistemológica deste conceito. Para tanto, pretende-se alargar a concepção moderna da paisagem pautada na dicotomia entre cultura e natureza, por meio da abordagem trajetiva deste conceito, que engendra o conceito de paisagem trajetiva. Esta perspectiva não se pauta mais nos paradigmas de cisão entre sujeito e objeto, natureza e cultura, mas sim, na imbricação e interrelação representadas pelo termo cultura-natureza. Este debate é fundamentado por uma articulação interdisciplinar entre geografia, teoria do conhecimento, filosofia da paisagem, antropologia e, especialmente, por um debate teórico contemporâneo que permeia estes campos e procura dissolver os dualismos da modernidade. / This thesis intends to conduct a theoretical and conceptual approach to landscape, proposing an epistemological extension of this concept. Therefore, by approaching the concept of the trajectivity of landscape, it proposes to expand the modern conception of landscape based on the dichotomy culture and nature. This perspective does not rely anymore on the paradigms of the disconnection between subject and object, nature and culture, but in the interrelation represented by the term culture-nature. This debate is based on an interdisciplinary narrative involving geography, theory of knowledge, landscape philosophy, anthropology, and especially, a contemporary theoretical debate that permeates these fields, in an effort to dissolve the dualisms of modernity.

What lies beneath Our cultured constructions? The wild lies beneath. The mud and the mad, the bunyip Other, lies beneath. It echoes through our layered metaphors We hear its memories Through animal mythology in wilder places Through emotive imagination of landscape memoir Through mythic archaeologies of object art. Not the Nation, but the land has active influence. In festivals of bioregion, communities re-member its voice. Our creativity goes to what lies beneath. This thesis explores the ways we develop deeper and wilder connections to specific regional and local landscapes using art, festival, mythology and memoir. It argues that we inhabit and understand the specific nature of our locale when we plan space for the non-human and creatively celebrate culture-nature coalitions. A wilder and more active sense of place relies upon community cultural conversations with the mythic, represented in the Australian exemplar of the bunyip. The bunyip acts as a metaphor for the subaltern or hidden culture of a place. The bunyip is land incarnate. No matter how pristine the wilderness or how concrete the urban, every region has its localised bunyip-equivalent that defines, and is shaped by, its community and their environmental relationships. Human/non-human cohabitations might be actively expressed through art and cultural experience to form a wilder, more emotive landscape memoir. This thesis discusses a diverse range of landstories, mythologies, environmental art, and bioregional festivities from around Australasia with a special focus on the Sunshine Coast or Gubbi-Gubbi region. It suggests a subaltern indigenous influence in how we imagine, plan and celebrate place. The cultural discourses of metaphor, memoir, mythology and memory shape land into landscapes. When the metaphor is wild, the memoir celebratory, the mythology animal, the memory creative and complex, our ways of being are ecocentric and grounded. The distinctions between nature and culture become less defined; we become native to country. Our multi-cultured histories are written upon the earth; our community identities shape and are shaped by the land. Together, monsters and festivals remind us of the active land.

Mémoire (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1995. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Esta tese tem como intuito realizar uma abordagem teórico-conceitual da paisagem, a partir de uma proposta de ampliação epistemológica deste conceito. Para tanto, pretende-se alargar a concepção moderna da paisagem pautada na dicotomia entre cultura e natureza, por meio da abordagem trajetiva deste conceito, que engendra o conceito de paisagem trajetiva. Esta perspectiva não se pauta mais nos paradigmas de cisão entre sujeito e objeto, natureza e cultura, mas sim, na imbricação e interrelação representadas pelo termo cultura-natureza. Este debate é fundamentado por uma articulação interdisciplinar entre geografia, teoria do conhecimento, filosofia da paisagem, antropologia e, especialmente, por um debate teórico contemporâneo que permeia estes campos e procura dissolver os dualismos da modernidade. / This thesis intends to conduct a theoretical and conceptual approach to landscape, proposing an epistemological extension of this concept. Therefore, by approaching the concept of the trajectivity of landscape, it proposes to expand the modern conception of landscape based on the dichotomy culture and nature. This perspective does not rely anymore on the paradigms of the disconnection between subject and object, nature and culture, but in the interrelation represented by the term culture-nature. This debate is based on an interdisciplinary narrative involving geography, theory of knowledge, landscape philosophy, anthropology, and especially, a contemporary theoretical debate that permeates these fields, in an effort to dissolve the dualisms of modernity.

Cities are defined as the ecological phenomenon of the 21st century since urban form is becoming dominant geographical context for human settlement on Earth. Due to that one of the major tasks of contemporary urban planning policy is adaptation of urban areas to the changing realms. In connection to the adaptation strategies, concept of resilience is gaining much more attention in the current planning discourse as an approach which perceives problem of climate change as the opportunity for better development. New aspect that concept of resilience brings to the planning is a view that social and ecological dimensions are interlinked. According to that, main aim of the thesis is to find an answer for the research question “What is the connection between culture and nature and its role in sustainable adaptation of urban areas to the climate change?” and through the research and analysis develop a theoretical foundation for the strategy of adaptation to the climate change which offers an opportunity for more effective urban growth based on three main pillars of sustainability: Environmental responsibility, Economic viability and Social justice as well as currently distinguished new dimension i.e. Cultural vitality.

It‘s all relative. What might seem slow to someone who deals with water every day, is rapid when measured against thousands of years of ice ages and hundreds of years of mining. First nature and then humans and technology have dramatically changed our landscape up until the year 1990 and beyond.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo Sergio de Sena.pdf: 742431 bytes, checksum: 1b3644c0266ddab959005a9b341d85cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-03 / The paper articulates three thematic axes: Society-Culture-Nature relationship, the Anthropological Non-Place and the (Full Protection) Conservation Units and Units of Conservation (=National Parks). The western capitalist society establishes the separation Society-Culture-Nature and creates tools for social-cultural domination of nature. The issue of this work is to check to what extent the units of the type National Parks Conservation reflect the role of instrument of that society to maintain the separation of Society and Culture of Nature. Our hypothesis is that the National Parks are one of those instruments and reflect an institutional model for Conservation of Nature that methodologically excludes the daily life of society inside. In order to ensure the success of the Conservation of Nature without the human presence in its limits, the design of the management of the Conservation Units involves the construction of Anthropological Non-Places, which makes impossible the expression of the identity of social actors, their relations and the possible construction of their stories. The Model of the Brazilian National Park, which is derived from the American model of the nineteenth century, has its actions supported through governmental (Forest Code, National Environmental Policy, National System of Conservation Units) and park management (the Management Plan and the Participatory Management Council Minutes)documents. Those documents have been compiled from the systematic analysis of communications through the linguistic-type Support code written for small groups and mass communication. The results showed that the attempts to build space for the dialogue of society through participatory management of the park have not been effective to ensure neither effective participation of local people or to break the separation between Society-Culture-Nature / O trabalho articula três eixos temáticos, as Relações Sociedade-Cultura-Natureza, os Não-Lugares Antropológicos e as Unidades de Conservação de Proteção Integral (=Parques Nacionais). A sociedade capitalista ocidental institui a separação entre Sociedade-Cultura-Natureza e cria instrumentos de dominação sócio-cultural da Natureza. A problemática do trabalho é verificar o quanto as Unidades de Conservação de Proteção Integral, em particular os modelos de Parques Nacionais, refletem o papel de instrumento dessa sociedade para manter a separação da Sociedade e Cultura da Natureza. Nossa hipótese é a de que os Parques Nacionais são um desses instrumentos e refletem um Modelo Institucional de Conservação da Natureza que metodologicamente exclui a vida cotidiana da sociedade em seu interior. Para garantir o sucesso da Conservação da Natureza sem a presença humana em seus limites, a concepção do manejo das Unidades de Conservação de Proteção Integral passa pela construção de Não-Lugares Antropológicos, o que impossibilita a expressão da identidade dos atores sociais, suas relações e as possíveis construções de suas histórias. O Modelo de Parque Nacional brasileiro que deriva do Modelo Americano do século XIX tem suas ações respaldadas pelos documentos governamentais (Código Florestal, Política Nacional do Meio Ambiente, Sistema Nacional de Unidades de Conservação) e de gestão do Parque (Plano de Manejo e Atas do Conselho Consultivo). Esses documentos foram sistematizados a partir da análise de comunicações por meio do Código-Suporte do tipo linguístico escrito para grupo restrito e comunicação de massa. Os resultados mostraram que as tentativas de construção de espaços para a interlocução da sociedade por meio da gestão participativa do Parque (Conselho Consultivo) não se mostraram suficientes nem para garantir uma participação efetiva das populações locais e nem para romper a separação entre Sociedade-Cultura-Natureza