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Public sentiment towards heritage sites in Hong Kong has changed dramatically over the past decade. A city built entirely on its rapid urban development and redevelopment, Hong Kong has transitioned into a place where people start to concern about what is left in our heritage before it is too late. The change of public sentiment leads us to have a different set of expectation on heritage sites in Hong Kong, which is the topic of this paper. In response to the escalating public concerns regarding the administration’s take towards heritage conservation, Hong Kong government’s new Heritage Conservation Policy in 2007 launched the ‘Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme’, overseen by the new Commissioner for Heritage’s Office. The Scheme (the ‘R-Scheme’) is an initiative to engage non-profit organisations (NPOs) to conduct adaptive reuse at government-owned historic buildings. The Batch I of the R-Scheme included the proposed revitalisation of the Old Tai O Police Station. Built in 1902, the Old Tai O Police Station is a Grade II historic building located on Lantau Island. The Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation Limited (HCF) has been selected to restore and operate the site as Tai O Heritage Hotel, a boutique hotel in a non-profit social enterprise model. The R-Scheme is a pioneer initiative that builds up a framework for public-private partnership in heritage conservation. And as most pioneer programmes go, while the R-Scheme opens up new opportunities and broadens the field of heritage conservation, it also brings new challenges that one might not have foreseen beforehand. This paper uses Tai O Heritage Hotel as a case study to look into these new challenges, and how these challenges are arisen because of the change of public sentiment and expectation towards historic buildings in recent years. Part of this paper is written in first person narrative, as the author has been working on this revitalisation project and has personally encountered these challenges, including heritage interpretation and public engagement. The challenges and solutions covered in this paper focus on the “software” of the project, as she is involved mostly in the non-technical aspects of the project, and also this portion of the project contributes heavily on satisfying public expectation as well. / published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

This dissertation focuses on the personal layers of meaning attached to a heritage site, using the case study of Hong Kong’s old Central Police Station (CPS). It is a way to enhance the understanding of the site in a way that goes beyond the scope of ‘official’ records and histories, such as those found in conservation reports, government documents, etc. These documents focus heavily on the significant historical stories attached to the site and the site’s formal architectural qualities as a way to understanding the heritage values of the place. However, this ignores the fact that a site such as the CPS was not built as an historical artefact or as a grand architectural monument. Rather, the CPS had a functional purpose: as a site of work. This dissertation therefore uncovers the meanings attached to the CPS as a site of work, through an understanding of the socio-historical experiences of the site. This is based on both theoretical and practical research. The theoretical research outlines an overarching theory of ‘heritage place’ – as a result of human interaction with space – as based on the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Lefebvre, the geographical writings of Carl O. Sauer and Allan Pred, and the cultural heritage theory of Laurajane Smith. This theory is rooted in the phenomenological method, which is founded upon an understanding and description of human experience. The practical component of this dissertation draws upon 10 interviews I conducted with former staff of the CPS, which led me to understand the memories and experiences attached to the site. I then present a synthesis of the theoretical and the practical arms of the research as a way to understand the heritage meanings of the CPS as a living, functional site (not as historical artefact). Ultimately, the research presented in this dissertation is an attempt to guide conservation thinking in Hong Kong away from static and esoteric understanding of heritage significance as rooted in esoteric and largely impersonal qualities of history and aesthetics, and towards an understanding of heritage significance as rooted in humans’ interactions with their environment. / published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

It is good news to see that Hong Kong has adopted the adaptive reuse approach in conserving historical buildings through projects under the Revitalisation Scheme. The bad news is that due to the absence of well-founded locally relevant principles and guidelines, almost all of these projects have brought about fierce quarrels among different groups of professionals. In particular the quarrel between conservation professionals, who try to adopt international best practices in conservation, and government officials, who are responsible for regulating and enforcing fire safety codes consistently in all buildings, regardless they are new or historical. In the past, some conservation architects have queried about the possibility of applying for exemption from the fire codes in conserving historical buildings through adaptive reuse. Today, conservation professionals and government officials have accepted that there is little room for compromise regarding the application of the fire codes in the adaptive reuse of historical buildings, as the codes are about ensuring the safety of occupants as well as protecting the heritage property from fire. Conservation professionals are now looking into ways of applying the fire codes in adaptive reuse projects. Now that the Revitalisation Scheme has been in operation for six year with a number of projects successfully completed, it presents the author the opportunity to examine the fire-code application of these completed projects to develop references based on precedent case-studies. Such references would be useful to professionals in adaptive reuse projects (as conservation consultants, project managers, architects and engineers) in facilitating the planning and design of the adaptive reuse in terms of meeting the fire codes. This research is to study the application for relaxation of, and exemption from, the prescribed fire safety codes by adopting fire engineering approach in adaptive re-use of Old Tai O Police Station into Tai O Heritage Hotel. Tai O Heritage Hotel is the first and so far the only hotel premises of the Government. Besides, it’s the first historic buildings in Batch I of the Revitalisation Scheme with capital cost funded by the Government. It is a great challenge to equip a 110 years old historic building with modern fire safety provisions and installations. By demonstrating the ways of appropriate means in application of fire engineering approach in fire safety in historic building, procedure and assistance which can be given by Government Departments in facilitating the revitalisation works, it can provide platform for future discussions, or a model for future adaptive re-use projects under the Revitalisation Scheme. / published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

Civic institutions such as the Police, the Judiciary and Governmental organizations rely heavily on a positive public perception in order to create a successful symbiotic working relationship. Although the public perception of these various institutions is often based on their actual performance and objectives within the public realm, the cognitive image which the public has of an institution is based on a variety of factors. The architecture which houses these institutions provides one of the primary valuable platforms to engage with the public and to express the vision and ideals of these institutions. It is thus important to understand the potential of architecture to shape a public perception or cognitive image. This paper seeks to understand how this can be achieved through the physical and emotional influences of the built form as well as to understand the role of society in shaping these perceptions. In South Africa, where a new democratic society has emerged, the re-imagination of civic institutions and their architecture to form a new cognitive image finds relevance. / Thesis (M.Arch.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

Lui Ho Yin. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2001-2002, design report." / Content --- p.1 / Acknowledgement --- p.3 / Project Synopsis --- p.4 / Chapter i/ --- Introduction --- p.6 / Preface --- p.7 / Conservation of Cultural Heritage --- p.8 / Reason for conservation --- p.9 / Conservation and Urban Renewal --- p.11 / Conservation Modes Comparison --- p.13 / Chapter ii/ --- Initiation of Project --- p.15 / Magistrates' Court in Hong Kong --- p.16 / Type of Courts --- p.17 / Social Concern toward Legal System in Hong Kong --- p.20 / Comparison between Hong Kong and China Legal System --- p.22 / Chapter iii/ --- Exploring on Site / Urban --- p.26 / Methodology --- p.27 / District I: Sheung Wan / Central / District II: Tsim Sha Tsui / District III: Causeway Bay / My Choice / Site Location --- p.32 / Examine the characteristic of Site --- p.33 / Historical Background --- p.35 / Architectural Merits --- p.39 / Adjacent Special Areas --- p.40 / Chapter iv/ --- Site Analysis --- p.42 / Context Analysis --- p.43 / Characteristics of Central Police Station Buildings --- p.48 / Court of Final Appeal (Former French Mission Building) --- p.62 / Chapter vi/ --- Design Guideline --- p.64 / Building Users --- p.65 / Planning the layout of the magistrates' court --- p.67 / Schedule of Accommodation --- p.70 / Design Concept --- p.72 / Model Photo --- p.76 / Chapter vii/ --- Special Study --- p.79 / Block A --- p.80 / Block B and the other --- p.84

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Programa Institucional de CapacitaÃao Docente e TÃcnica / Este trabalho identifica, descreve e analisa narrativas de mulheres em situaÃÃo de violÃncia que denunciam seus agressores à PolÃcia, no espaÃo das Delegacias da Mulher. Adotando as teorizaÃÃes sobre o poder e a violÃncia formuladas por Hannah Arendt e Michel Foucault procuro discutir relaÃÃes de gÃnero marcadas pela violÃncia, escapando Ãs polarizaÃÃes entre homem-dominador x mulher dominada. Defendo que as mulheres nÃo sà reagem à violÃncia de mÃltiplas formas, mas produzem, atravÃs de suas resistÃncias â passivas e ativas â lugares de contra-dominaÃÃo, que algumas vezes podem assumir a forma de um âpoder situacionalâ. Essas resistÃncias se manifestam atravÃs de tÃticas cotidianas protagonizadas no espaÃo da vida privada e de estratÃgias de publicizaÃÃo no espaÃo pÃblico, quando se dirigem Ãs Delegacias da Mulher. Os conceitos de aÃÃes tÃticas e estratÃgias sÃo tomados, respectivamente de Michel De Certeau e Pierre Bourdieu. O trabalho tem como campo de anÃlise as Delegacias Especiais de ProteÃÃo à Mulher do Estado de Sergipe (DEPM). A anÃlise aborda o funcionamento das Delegacias da Mulher em duas cidades sergipanas: Aracaju e Itabaiana, relacionando suas prÃticas organizacionais ao campo da PolÃcia Civil. Procuro descrever e analisar rotinas, prÃticas institucionais, traÃos da cultura organizacional, valores, crenÃas e lÃgicas que circulam no campo de interseÃÃo entre a PolÃcia Civil, as Delegacias da Mulher e as expectativas das mulheres dirigidas a esta unidade policial. Procuro identificar suas demandas a partir de duas especificidades: casos que as mulheres pretendem a criminalizaÃÃo legal do agressor e casos em que buscam as Delegacias da Mulher visando a conciliaÃÃo, a mediaÃÃo de conflitos, garantias de direitos e proteÃÃo. A metodologia combina as abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa, tendo como fontes: 836 Boletins de OcorrÃncia registrados na dÃcada de 90, vinte e uma entrevistas com mulheres denunciantes, doze entrevistas com agentes policiais e delegadas e com seis representantes de movimentos sociais. Considero tambÃm duas experiÃncias de pesquisa-intervenÃÃo, realizadas por nstituiÃÃes nÃo policiais junto Ãs DEPMs, voltadas à formaÃÃo policial, com as quais tive contato, numa situaÃÃo de observaÃÃo participante: a primeira desenvolvida pela ComissÃo de Direitos Humanos da Universidade Federal de Sergipe e a segunda pelo MUSA (Mulher e SaÃde/ Instituto de SaÃde Coletiva da Universidade Federal da Bahia). A anÃlise das prÃticas da DEPM de Aracaju à delimitada por uma variÃvel temporal: antes e depois da criaÃÃo de Centro de Atendimento a Grupos VulnerÃveis, criado em 2004. Meu interesse recai sobre a constituiÃÃo do NÃcleo de MediaÃÃo de Conflitos, que funciona nesse complexo policial e atende à DEPM de Aracaju. Defendo que a adoÃÃo formal do instrumento de mediaÃÃo num espaÃo policial implica uma revisÃo da funÃÃo social das Delegacias da Mulher. Isso supÃe superar a concepÃÃo da atividade policial como prioritariamente investigativa e repressiva, e considerar que as aÃÃes de mediaÃÃo, assistÃncia e aconselhamento desenvolvidas pelas Delegacias da Mulher ao longo do PaÃs se constituem afirmativamente como aÃÃes prÃprias do fazer policial. / This work identifies, describes and analyzes talks of women under situation of violence who denounce their aggressors to the police, at the Womenâs Police Stations. Adopting conceptions about the power and the violence formulated by Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault I try to talk about the gender relations marked by the violence and escaping to the polarizations between dominator-man x dominated-woman. I defend that the women not only react to the violence by many different forms, but produce, through their resistance - passive and active - places of anti-domination, that sometimes can assume what I call "situational power". These resistance behaviors are revealed through quotidian tactics at the private life space and through strategies of publicizing at the public space, when they go to the Womenâs Police Stations. The concepts of tactical actions and strategies are taken, respectively from Michel De Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu. The work used as research field the Sergipe State Police Stations for Woman Protection (DEPM). I try to describe and analyze routines, ritualized institutional practices, organizational culture traces, that circule on the field of intersection among the Civil Police, The Womenâs Police Stations and the expectations of the women who look for these offices. I try to identify their demands starting from two specialties: the cases where women look for the legal criminalization of their aggressor and the cases when they go to theses stations looking for conciliation, mediation of the conflicts,guarantee of rights and protection. The methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques, and have as sources of information: 836 Occurrence Bulletins registered in the 1990s, twenty-one interviews with women denouncers, twelve interviews with police agents and commission agents and with six social movementsâ representatives. I also use as sources two experiences of researchintervention, carried out by not policies institutions together with the Sergipe State Police Stations for Woman Protection, dedicated to police education, with whom I experienced two situations of participant observations: the first one developed by the Human Rights Commission of the Sergipe Federal University and second by the MUSA (Woman and Health - Group of Studies on Gender Research of the Bahia Federal University). The analysis is delimited by a temporal variable: before and after the creation of an Attendance Center for Vulnerable Groups, created in 2004, to which the Police Station of the Woman of Aracaju passed if to integrate. My interest falls again into particular on the constitution of the Nucleus of Mediation of Conflicts, that functions at the Womenâs Police Stations. I defend that the formal adoption of the instrument of mediation in a police space implies in a revision of the social function of the Womenâs Police Stations. This assumes to change the conception of the police activity as mainly investigative and repressive, and to consider that the actions of mediation, assistance and counseling developed by the Womenâs Police Stations are affirmatively constituted as proper actions of the Police.

Orientador: Maria Filomena Gregori / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T16:04:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nadai_Larissa_M.pdf: 2236038 bytes, checksum: 0e9f1016294470f9fa42bb6f86578995 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar os documentos oficiais produzidos pela Delegacia de Defesa da Mulher (DDM) de Campinas, em casos de estupro e atentado violento ao pudor ocorridos nos anos de 2004 e 2005. Por meio de uma etnografia desses documentos, busquei entender as formas narrativas e burocráticas pelas quais esses atos são transformados em crimes e busquei também a compreensão de como a sexualidade passa a ser campo de intervenção da polícia civil especializada de Campinas. Objetivando delinear as formas pelas quais os inquéritos policiais são produzidos, essa pesquisa tem como cerne os procedimentos de escrita utilizados por essas profissionais, sejam esses ofícios, requisições, relatórios, laudos, termos de declaração e Boletins de Ocorrências. Essas formas de narrar evidenciam não só as convenções narrativas que servem de anteparo para a escrita, mas também os mecanismos pelos quais o trabalho policial é executado. Assim, seja por meio de uma escrita técnica próxima aos expedientes detetivescos, seja por meio de uma forma de escrever sensível e empática ao sofrimento das crianças ou ainda por aquela forma que coloca em suspensão o que é dito em casos de crimes envoltos em conflitos infrafamiliares, é a arte de escrever o ofício policial que ganhará destaque nessa dissertação. Entretanto, também insígnias, carimbos e assinaturas que percorrem os inquéritos policiais são fundamentais nesta pesquisa, pois colocam em evidência as tramas institucionais nas quais a polícia especializada de Campinas está imersa. Sem dúvida, é mediante papéis e por intermédio deles que a polícia se comunica com instituições tais como Fórum Criminal, Instituto Médico Legal e Instituto de Criminalística da cidade. Mas, é também por meio desses mesmos papéis que a DDM comunica estupros e atentados violento ao pudor ao Judiciário. Nas páginas desta dissertação enredaremos nas histórias de mulheres como Marcelas, Joanas, Madalenas e Martas, bem como com os abusos de menores como Anas, Carolinas, Julianas e Lucas. É por meio delas que homens como João, Ricardo, Valmir, Antônio, José, Gilberto e Aldair entram nos meandros burocráticos da polícia civil como autores, averiguados ou indiciados / Abstract: This dissertation aims to investigate the official documents produced by the Women's Police Stations (DDM) in Campinas in cases of rape and indecent assault occurred in 2004 and 2005. Through an ethnography of those documents I sought to understand the narrative and bureaucratic form by the way these acts are transformed into crimes and also to understand how sexuality becomes a specialized Civilian Police interventional field in Campinas. Aiming to outline the ways in which police investigations are produced, the heart of this research is in the written procedures used by professionals. These are letters, requests, reports, findings, terms of statements and Occurrences Reports. These forms of narrative show up the narrative conventions that serve as foundation for the writing and also the mechanisms by which police work is performed. Therefore, either through a technical writing next to detective tasks either by a sensitive and empathetic way of writing about children's suffering or by the one who puts in suspension what is said in cases of crimes wrapped in infrafamiliares conflicts, the art of writing the police's office that will gain prominence in this dissertation. However, there are badges, stamps and signatures that cross the police investigations and are also essential in this research because they put in evidence the plots in which the institutional specialized police Campinas is immersed. Undoubtedly it's by papers and through them that the police communicate with institutions such as Criminal Forum of Campinas, Institute of Forensic Medicine and Institute of Criminology of the city.But it is also through these same roles that the DDM communicates rapes and violent assaults to the judiciary. In the pages of this dissertation we are enmeshed in the stories of women like Marcelas, Joanas, Madalenas e Martas, as well as the abuse's stories of minors as Anas, Carolinas, Julianas and Lucas. It is through them that men like João, Ricardo, Valmir, Antonio, José, Gilberto and Aldair enter into the bureaucratic intricacies of the Civilian Police as investigated or indicted authors / Mestrado / Antropologia Social / Mestre em Antropologia Social

Orientador: Gilda Figueiredo Portugal Gouvêa / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T06:04:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_VanessaOrbanAragao_M.pdf: 3226609 bytes, checksum: 2f0601c6af79d7e3e9c3a60040f4738f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem como tema as diferenças no atendimento dedicado ao público nos distritos policiais e nos Conselhos Comunitários de Segurança (CONSEGs) de São Paulo. Os conceitos de capital social, capital cultural, habitus e campo jurídico de Pierre Bourdieu, nosso autor referencial, foram nossa base teórica. Os métodos utilizados para a pesquisa de campo consistiram em observações nos distritos policiais e CONSEGs da região do Jaçanã e de Pinheiros, entrevistas com delegados, policiais, moradores e público frequentador dos espaços. Constatamos um vínculo entre os distritos policiais e os CONSEGs através de um "fluxo" do capital social, que permite o trânsito de benefícios entre grupos sociais restritos. Dessa forma, o "fluxo" viabiliza que as decisões nos conselhos gestores interfiram nas atividades desenvolvidas nos distritos policiais, e, do mesmo modo, que os representantes dos distritos influam na dinâmica decisória dos CONSEGs / Abstract: The current research has as its subject the differences in the attendance rendered to the public by the police precincts and by the Community Security Councils (CONSEG) from São Paulo. The concepts of social capital, cultural capital, habitus and the juridical field of Pierre Bourdieu, our reference author, composed our theoretical basis. The used methods for the field researches consisted on observations on the police precincts and CONSEGs of the region of Jaçanã and Pinheiros, interviews with Marshalls, policemen, local dwellers and the public that frequents such spaces. We have found a link among the police precincts and the CONSEGs through a "flow" of the social capital, which allows for the transit of benefits among restricted social fields. Thus, the "flow" enables that the decisions on the managing councils might interfere on the developed activities in the police precincts and, likewise, that the precincts' representatives bear an influence on the decision dynamics of the CONSEGs / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestre em Sociologia