Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 314-339). / Microfiche. / xi, 339 leaves, bound maps 29 cm

Thesis (M)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2007. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Johnson, Ralph. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [83]-[84]).

This study is the result of my curiosity about what makes urban places special and memorable. I believe that if the various physical components distinguishing urban places are identified and analyzed, we can develop principles and policies to preserve and enhance them. I chose Maillardville as the study area because of my familiarity with area, its historical and cultural significance, and because Maillardville is currently undergoing a physical transformation. Although place images may be an intangible urban quality, they are not difficult to study. Careful observation and resident interviews are efficient and economical tools to discover the various components of the urban image. From there it is possible to develop a visual plan for the preservation and enhancement of a particular place's image. In the course of this investigation I discovered that a direct relationship exists between Maillardville's physical components and the public image and that this public image focuses almost exclusively on the early settlement located in the Laval Square area. Recent changes outside this area are not significant to the residents' perception of the public image. Yet changes, such as the new commercial and multi-family redevelopments, when undertaken in a fashion which reflects Maillardville's cultural and historical context, are recognized by residents as supportive elements and with time will likely become significant to the public image. From this it appears that residents prefer to live in a unique environment that reflects a sense of continuity with the past. It is my hope that this study will contribute to the continuation of Maillardville as a unique place by identifying the image elements and illustrating their importance to the existing place image. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.T.R.P.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2001.

Man´s relationship with nature every day becomes more complex, with relations what are intensifying and diversifying. These relationships weave reality and, within them, the subjects will be positioned, interacting between themselves. Through perception and others contacts with the environment which we live taking part of and it composing it whiles he will become part of us. The perception is an experience endowed with meaning, having been described in the actual act of sense and meaning. In the context of man-nature relationship that perception turns to the understanding of man as nature and man attending this nature, building relationships in favor of integration or even destruction, and thus may become subject receives its own actions. These relationships, however, are not considered as sums of subjects, prints, objects or actions, because it does not give as something simple. Thus, in order to identify this diversity in its deeper aspects emerged as the relational field goal, investigate the environmental perception of the man-nature relationship by young / field and therefore know the meanings attributed to the significant and underlay of his speech. And for that, took 96 young in the Paranatama field Pernambuco State. Which were subjected to the technique of free association of words, adapted the technique of Abric (1994). Using the theme inductor, the term Human-Nature, five words were remembered, justifying them, followed by the most important evocation and later, justifying it as well. These consisted based on content analysis, the five significant: (I) Environment / Nature / Environment - represented by evocations: water, forest, planet, landscape, environment, nature, ecological context and dependence. (II) Environmental Problems - appointed by evocations: deforestation, pollution and destruction. The signifier (III) Productive Activities - were represented by evocations: farm, farming, land, planting, food, force, work, power, joy, living. (IV) Environmental Protection - was represented by evocations: reforestation, preservation and people. And finally, (V) Environmental Ethics - represented by evocations: respect, love, life, determination, positive, happiness and consciousness. The significant meanings and shows us that pervades a preoccupation with finitude of nature and, therefore, man´s relationship to nature needs to be rethought, redefining the meaning of the word life taking into consideration the nature of the discourse of caring for which ensures survival. This discourse, rooted in the perception of these young man-nature relationship that also signals the need for a systematic work in terms of an epistemological approach to environmental education by giving it meaning, applicability in the formal and informal education. / A relação do homem com a natureza a cada dia se torna mais complexa, com relações que estão se intensificando e se diversificando. Estas relações vão tecendo a realidade e, dentro delas, os sujeitos vão se posicionando, se interagindo. Através da percepção e de outros contatos com o meio ao qual vivemos vamos tomando parte dele, compondo-o ao mesmo tempo em que ele vai tornando-se parte de nós. A percepção é uma experiência dotada de significação, tendo-se o real descrito no ato do sentido e da significação. No contexto da relação homem-natureza essa percepção se volta para a compreensão do homem como natureza e o homem participando dessa natureza, construindo relações de integração favorável ou mesmo de destruição, e assim, podendo tornar-se sujeito aufere de suas próprias ações. Essas relações, porém, não são consideradas como somas de sujeitos, de impressões, de objetos ou de ações, pois não se dão como algo simples. Assim, com o intuito de se identificar essa diversidade, em seus aspectos mais profundos no campo relacional surgiu como objetivo, investigar a percepção ambiental da relação homem-natureza pelos jovens do/no campo e, consequentemente, conhecer os significantes e sentidos atribuídos à subjacência do seu discurso. E para isso, participaram 96 jovens do/no campo do município de Paranatama-Pernambuco. Os quais foram submetidos à técnica de associação livre de palavras, adaptado da técnica de Abric (1994). Usando-se como tema indutor, o termo Homem-Natureza, cinco palavras eram lembradas, justificando-as, seguido da evocação mais importante e posteriormente, justificando-a também. Dessas constituiu-se, com base na análise de conteúdo, os cinco significantes: (I) Meio Ambiente/Natureza/Ambiente representados pelas evocações: água, floresta, planeta, paisagem, ambiente, natureza, meio ambiente e dependência. (II) Problemas Ambientais apontada pelas evocações: desmatamento, destruição e poluição. Do significante (III) Atividades Produtivas foram representadas pelas evocações: roça, agricultura, terra, plantação, alimentos, força, trabalho, competência, alegria, meio de vida. (IV) Proteção Ambiental foi representada pelas evocações: reflorestamento, preservação e povo. E por fim, (V) Ética Ambiental representada pelas evocações: respeito, amor, vida, determinação, positivo, felicidade e consciência. Os significantes e sentidos nos mostra que perpassa uma preocupação com a finitude da natureza e que, portanto, a relação do homem para com a natureza precisa ser repensada, ressignificando o sentido da palavra vida levando-se em consideração o discurso do cuidar da natureza para que se garanta a sobrevivência. Discurso este, arraigado na percepção desses jovens da relação homem-natureza que, também, sinaliza para a necessidade de um trabalho sistematizado em termos de uma abordagem epistemológica da educação ambiental conferindo-lhe sentido, aplicabilidade nos espaços formais e informais de educação.

This study looks at how place and local identity of Portland are described within music lyrics from Portland, Oregon popular indie-rock artists. Employing a constant comparative analysis on a set of 1,201 songs from 21 different popular Portland indie-rock artists, the themes of landscapes and climate were found to represent place, and themes of lifestyles and attitudes represented local identity. Reviewing the uncovered themes showed a strong connection between representations of place and local identity within lyrics and common stereotypes or understandings of the city of Portland and its indie-rock music scene. The results of this study illustrate how place and local identity are communicated through popular but locally-tied music lyrics and how these lyrics may describe cities.

Arabic literature in Israel has evaded critical attention, or has been treated as an uncomplicated part of Palestinian national culture, on a quest for unification and an identity that was devastated in 1948. This dissertation complicates that narrative through close readings of short stories by five Arab citizens of Israel—Imil Habibi, Muhammad ‘Ali Taha, Muhammad Naffa‘, Hanna Ibrahim, and Zaki Darwish—between 1967 and 1983. Focusing on the relationship between geography and fiction, I suggest that literary constructions of “place” and “space” by these authors reveal a range of cultural negotiations that break down entrenched dyads: Palestinian yet Israeli; Palestinian on the one hand, Israeli on the other; spared exile, but suffering occupation. Instead, these writers evoke the hybrid and ambivalent experiences produced in the paradoxical spaces of Israeli-Palestinian life. I develop an analytical framework that incorporates geographic and literary theory. I use the work of humanists such as Gaston Bachelard, Yi-Fu Tuan, and Edward Casey to suggest that literature mediates geography in a way that communicates belonging, alienation, or personal and collective meaning. The framework is bolstered with the work of postcolonial theorists such as Homi Bhabha, along with historical and political sources, to capture the contextual resonance of the texts. After laying out these theoretical guidelines, I offer a historical account of Arabic literature in Israel and embark on four analytical chapters. Chapter Two explores Imil Habibi’s portrayals of anxiety around post-1967 Palestinian reunions. Chapter Three focuses on the themes of Muhammad ‘Ali Taha’s Palestinian collective identity in Israel. Chapter Four takes up the theme of “the land” in the works of Muhammad Naffa‘ and Hanna Ibrahim, in the context of 1970s land expropriations. Chapter Five explores a long story by Zaki Darwish and its depiction of the body’s phenomenological relation to the homeland. Rather than portraying counter-narratives that suggest a binary of “Israeli” and “Palestinian” always at odds, these authors portray the spaces and characters in between. They disclose the anxieties of finding a sense of place in the context of a dispersed Palestinian nation, geopolitical uncertainty, social marginalization within the state, and the subtle geographies of a historic homeland that both is—and is not—one’s own.

Wong Wang Ting Peter. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1996-97, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-82). / Chapter 1 --- PROJECT BRIEF --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background / Chapter 1.2 --- Physical Conditions / Chapter 1.3 --- Site of Citynodes / Chapter 1.4 --- Client Profile / Chapter 1.5 --- Southern District: Problems & Opportunities / Chapter 2 --- PROGRAM --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Mission / Chapter 2.2 --- Issues & Goals / Chapter 2.3 --- Schedule of Accommodation: The Aqua Life Centre in Southern District / APPENDIX --- p.23 / Chapter A. --- Architectural Identity / Chapter B. --- Age of Aquarium by Edward Gunts / Chapter C. --- Factors Affecting the Psychological & Physiological Effect in Underground Space / Chapter D. --- Aquarium: Mechnical Requirement / Chapter E. --- District Analysis / Chapter F. --- Case Study / Chapter G. --- Kyoto: The Best City / Chapter H. --- Good & Bad in Hong Kong / Chapter I. --- "Atoll Reef, Ocean Park, Hong Kong" / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.81

While it is now well established that many Europeans were delighted with the landscapes they encountered in colonial Australia, the pioneer narrative that portrays colonists as threatened and alienated by a harsh environment and constantly engaged in battles with the land is still powerful in both scholarly and popular writing. This thesis challenges this dominant narrative and demonstrates that in a remarkably short period of time some colonists developed strong connections with, and even affection for, their 'new' place in Western Australia. Using archival materials for twenty-one colonists who settled in five regions across southern Western Australia from the 1830s to the early 1900s, here this complex process of belonging is unravelled and several key questions are posed: what lenses did the colonists utilise to view the land? How did they use and manage the land? How were issues of class, domesticity and gender roles negotiated in their 'new' environment? What connections did they make with the land? And ultimately, to what extent did they feel a sense of belonging in the Colony? I argue that although utilitarian approaches to the land are evident, this was not the only way colonists viewed the land; for example, they often used the picturesque to express delight and charm. Gender roles and ideas of class were modified as men, as well as women, worked in the home and planted flower gardens, and both men and women carried out tasks that in their households in England and Ireland, would have been done by servants. Thus, the demarcation of activities that were traditionally for men, women and servants became less distinct and amplified their connection to place. Boundaries between the colonists' domestic space and the wider environments also became more permeable as women ventured beyond their houses and gardens to explore and journey through the landscapes. The selected colonists had romantic ideas of nature and wilderness, that in the British middle and upper-middle class were associated with being removed from the land, but in colonial Western Australia many of them were intimately engaged with it. Through their interactions with the land and connections they made with their social networks, most of these colonists developed an attachment for their 'new' place and called it home; they belonged there.

The purpose of this study was to explore individual variables affecting preferences for natural or managed landscapes. Environmental attitudes and value systems of student participants (N = 147) were assessed using the revised New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale and the Scenarios for the Measurement of Collectivism and Individualism (SMCI) scale, respectively. In addition, feminist orientation was assessed using the Attitudes toward Woman scale (AWS). The hypothesis that proenvironmental attitudes would be positively correlated with a preference for natural landscapes was supported. However, hypotheses that alignment with collectivist values would correlate positively with a preference for natural landscapes and that a feminist orientation would be positively correlated with a preference for natural landscapes were not supported. Demographic variables are discussed with respect to landscape preference. Caveats of the individualism-collectivism variable are also discussed.