Este trabalho é um estudo de caso, inserido na problemática do planejamento urbano, quando se pretende pontuar circunstâncias e conseqüências das ações de intervenção do poder público municipal sobre a área desse sítio histórico urbano. Destacamos que, na última década, especialmente entre os anos de 2000 e 2010, esse sítio histórico urbano, passou por transformações devido a intervenções realizadas pelo poder público municipal. Nesse recorte buscamos perceber as formas; a aparência original dos prédios; a descaracterização das edificações e a substituição dos mesmos; o traçado das ruas; a conservação da área verde e do patrimônio ambiental, como também, a ocupação e o uso do solo com as novas atividades comerciais e de lazer, tendo como exemplo, o complexo Orla Taumanan. Nessas contradições entre as políticas de reurbanização e as propostas de revitalização, questionamos de que forma o poder público e a sociedade civil estão reagindo? Partimos do entendimento de que tanto a sociedade quanto o poder público, não perceberam a importância do patrimônio cultural e natural do lugar. Acreditamos que o processo de revitalização pode incorporar e valora o espaço urbano e o patrimônio arquitetônico com todo o valor simbólico herdado da formação inicial do núcleo embrionário existente. Sendo assim, a carência de investigação e a urgência de um entendimento acerca desse assunto, que trata da proteção do sítio urbano histórico de Boa Vista, fornecerá subsídios para futuras políticas públicas, que são essenciais para proteger a área enfocada, trazendo benefícios para a sociedade. / This thesis proposes theme is a case study, which concerns to urban planning, relating to circumstance and consequence actions for intervention in the municipality on the grounds of urban historical place. We highlight that, in the last decade, particularly from 2000 to 2010, this urban historical place, changed dramatically because of interventions carried through the municipality. As for this, we search for shapes; the original look of the buildings and their deconstruction and replacement; the routes of the streets; the conservation of the green area and the environmental patrimony, as well as, the occupation and the use of the ground as new commercial and leisure activities, for instance, the Orla Taumanan. In these contradictions between reurbanization politics and the revitalization proposals, we ask: how the public power and the civil society are reacting? We agree that not only the society but also the public power do not realize the importance of cultural and natural patrimony of the place. We believe that the revitalization process may unite and value all urban area and the architectural patrimony with their symbolic value inherited from the initial formation of an existing embryonic nucleus. As for this, the lack of researches and an urgent agreement relating to this field, that deals with the protection of the historical urban place in Boa Vista, will supply subsidies future public politics, which are essential for protection of the focused area, bringing benefits for the whole society.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 200-204. / by Robert Mohl. / Ph.D.

Este trabalho é um estudo de caso, inserido na problemática do planejamento urbano, quando se pretende pontuar circunstâncias e conseqüências das ações de intervenção do poder público municipal sobre a área desse sítio histórico urbano. Destacamos que, na última década, especialmente entre os anos de 2000 e 2010, esse sítio histórico urbano, passou por transformações devido a intervenções realizadas pelo poder público municipal. Nesse recorte buscamos perceber as formas; a aparência original dos prédios; a descaracterização das edificações e a substituição dos mesmos; o traçado das ruas; a conservação da área verde e do patrimônio ambiental, como também, a ocupação e o uso do solo com as novas atividades comerciais e de lazer, tendo como exemplo, o complexo Orla Taumanan. Nessas contradições entre as políticas de reurbanização e as propostas de revitalização, questionamos de que forma o poder público e a sociedade civil estão reagindo? Partimos do entendimento de que tanto a sociedade quanto o poder público, não perceberam a importância do patrimônio cultural e natural do lugar. Acreditamos que o processo de revitalização pode incorporar e valora o espaço urbano e o patrimônio arquitetônico com todo o valor simbólico herdado da formação inicial do núcleo embrionário existente. Sendo assim, a carência de investigação e a urgência de um entendimento acerca desse assunto, que trata da proteção do sítio urbano histórico de Boa Vista, fornecerá subsídios para futuras políticas públicas, que são essenciais para proteger a área enfocada, trazendo benefícios para a sociedade. / This thesis proposes theme is a case study, which concerns to urban planning, relating to circumstance and consequence actions for intervention in the municipality on the grounds of urban historical place. We highlight that, in the last decade, particularly from 2000 to 2010, this urban historical place, changed dramatically because of interventions carried through the municipality. As for this, we search for shapes; the original look of the buildings and their deconstruction and replacement; the routes of the streets; the conservation of the green area and the environmental patrimony, as well as, the occupation and the use of the ground as new commercial and leisure activities, for instance, the Orla Taumanan. In these contradictions between reurbanization politics and the revitalization proposals, we ask: how the public power and the civil society are reacting? We agree that not only the society but also the public power do not realize the importance of cultural and natural patrimony of the place. We believe that the revitalization process may unite and value all urban area and the architectural patrimony with their symbolic value inherited from the initial formation of an existing embryonic nucleus. As for this, the lack of researches and an urgent agreement relating to this field, that deals with the protection of the historical urban place in Boa Vista, will supply subsidies future public politics, which are essential for protection of the focused area, bringing benefits for the whole society.

When new development threatens a valued landscape it is not just the physical landscape that is being affected, but the collective memories, meanings and identities that the landscape holds. Planning theory and practice currently offer relatively little guidance as to how to address meaning and value, particularly at a landscape scale. Recent literature from a variety of disciplines has stressed the need to develop holistic models of understanding landscape. Particular emphasis has been laid on the absence of integration of disciplinary approaches, and the need to involve communities in defining what is important and distinctive about their own landscapes. The thesis sets out to develop a conceptual framework to assist in understanding multiple cultural values in landscapes. Although the primary focus of the research is to address the perceived shortcomings in planning theory and practice, its potential relevance to inter-disciplinary work also forms a major component of the research approach. Values in landscapes include those expressed by associated communities and those identified through a variety of disciplinary approaches. Using case studies, the research explores the nature and range of landscape values as expressed by those with special associations with particular landscapes. It also examines the nature of the meanings and values ascribed by disciplines with an interest in landscape, and how various disciplines model landscape so as to convey these values. Analysis of these findings generates a landscape framework consisting of two related models. The Cultural Values Model offers a conceptual structure with which to consider the surface and embedded values of landscapes in terms of forms, practices and relationships. The Dimensional Landscape Model provides a structured way of linking expressed values to the landscape, using dimensional concepts of nodes, networks, spaces, webs and layers. The landscape framework is found to be useful not only for generating a comprehensive picture of key landscape values, but also in offering an integrated approach that has utility both for planners and for other landscape-related disciplines.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Zürich, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Since casino liberalization, Macau has been undergoing metaphoric changes that are fundamental, rapid, and far-reaching. This poses a challenge to Macau people to cope with life changing circumstances to the extent of rediscovering their hometown which have changed profoundly as evident by the city‘s ever-changing skyline. Having said so, this study aims to explore the effects of large-scale casino development on Macau residents‘ sense of place, and how their changing sense of place determines their support for casino development. To achieve this study purpose, three interrelated research objectives are laid down for the study. They are (1) to assess the impact of casino liberalization on Macau society, (2) to describe Macau residents’ sense of place amid the casino boom, and (3) to delineate the structural relationship between casino impact, sense of place, place satisfaction, and support for casino development. By using a purely quantitative approach based on a comprehensive resident survey, the study identified both positive and negative casino impact factors as affecting Macau people economically, socially, and environmentally. More importantly, these casino impact factors were also found to exhibit significant predictive power in explaining respondents‘ sense of place intensity, therefore empirically validating a posited relationship between the impact of casino development and inhabitants’ sense of place. The study also found that respondents’ sense of place carried obvious connotations of modernity and exquisiteness because respondents were using everyday vocabularies such as ‘rich’, ‘lively’, ‘developed’, and ‘unique’ to express their perceptions of the new Macau. This brief glossary of words, which characterizes successful urban development, was also found to associate strongly with their sense of place assessments. Finally, the study validated an integrated conceptual model within which the sense of place construct assumes a decisive role in affecting place satisfaction and support for casino development. The contribution of this study lies in the fact it has brought to our attention residents’ sense of place as an important determinant for the success of any large-scale tourism project such as casino development. This study has also provided a new breath to the traditional casino impact studies by taking a new look at an old problem through a cross-disciplinary perspective. / published_or_final_version / Geography / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

This thesis explores the use of collective memory in the practice of landscape architecture, specifically the use of 'memory mapping' as an imaging technique. The specific site chosen is Shaniwarwada, a fortified royal complex dating from the eighteenth century, in the city of Pune, India. In order to gain an insider's perspective of the site, written questionnaires were distributed and interviews were given. The findings of these inquiries coupled with an understanding of contemporary theories concerning memory mapping guided the development of programs and physical interventions. It is hoped that these undertakings will enhance the role of Shaniwarwada as an historical site and a community place in the future.

This thesis develops a creative Project, the "Urban Observatory", situated on a traffic island in the center of Chicago on Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue along the Chicago River. The aim of the building is to inspire and motivate people to experience the city from a different standpoint and to raise the inhabitant of the city to a different level of perception.The purpose of this study was to explore everyday circumstances and observations of an individual place, the American City and the search for its true genius loci. The main intention is to explore and visualize issues about culturally based differences in behavior and perception of people living in place of 'super scale' and 'high technology' on one side and abandonment and destruction on the other side. The study of the American City and its inhabitants results in an experimental design for an Urban Observatory, an architectural formulation standing in opposition to an architecture of change and fragmentation, an architecture of lost and senseless space. Furthermore the study researches the urban American fabric in practice as well as in theory. The intensive study of the writings of Malcolm Quantrill, Richard Sennett, Toni Hiss and others were the base for developing ideas about how people perceive and react consciously and unconsciously to a specific environment.This helped to identify the frame of the architectural exploration, in order to focus on ideas about: what is architecture of observation in the urban context, and what is the idea of perception in its spatial form?A journal of the design process (sketches, writings), models of varying scale and detail, drawings, photographs, etc. are the working tools to shape the idea of a building and fusing all aspects in a final project. / Department of Architecture

Masters (M.Sc.)--University of Sydney, 2006. / Title from title screen (viewed 27 February 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the School of Geosciences. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.