In 1990 many in Colquitt, Georgia considered themselves to be a dying town due to the loss of jobs and outmigration that occurred when labor intensive farming transitioned to the machine. In response citizens brought in a theater director from Chicago who helped them launch a performance series of inclusive stories that were acted by local volunteers. The resulting series called Swamp Gravy has run from 1992 to present (2012), and has led to purported claims of community revitalization. The purpose of this study was to discover what this ongoing narrative community engagement meant to the people of Colquitt in regards to: community experiences that produced new relationships (including those between Blacks and Whites); personal empowerment; the coproduction of an emerging and diverse community identity; and institutional and economic development. Methods for this case study included narrative interviews of participants, attendees and local citizens, as well as observation of the town and the performances, and document analysis. Many participant volunteers and attendees became Swamp Gravy enthusiasts, and describe their experiences as coming out into a meaningful experience of community, which included forming relationships with diverse others (including those of a different race). The enthusiasts speak of growing into larger community responsibilities with others for the common good, and feel that ongoing and inclusive storytelling is very important to coproducing a diverse heritage that informs the future of their city. Other attendees (predominantly the business community) describe the benefits of Swamp Gravy as instrumental to having given the town recognition (identity) as an entertaining tourist attraction that exposed individual talent, boosted individual confidence, and enhanced social connectivity. Others in Colquitt were indifferent or resistive to the coming out that the performances invite. Most everyone recognizes that Swamp Gravy has attracted outside tourists which has boosted economic development, occasioned the renovation of downtown Colquitt square and the formation of institutions to continue to attract and accommodate visitors from afar. This case is theorized in terms of the emerging communicative turn in planning that juxtaposes the planner as mediator or facilitator, and stakeholders as co-producers. The findings in this case study support that the Swamp Gravy form of narrative process has some potential for guiding stakeholders to a just diversity in cities, neighborhoods and towns, and as such should be studied further. Urban planning in situations of urban renewal may be one place where utilizing this form of meaningful engagement could lead to discovery of new identities, which may both inform and motivate a just plan to be coproduced.

This thesis examine the cultural interaction between Anishinabe people, who lived in what is now southern Ontario, and the Loyalists, Euroamerican settlers who moved north from the United States during and after the American Revolution. Starting with an analysis of Anishinabe cultural history before the settlement era the thesis argues that Anishinabe spirituality was not traditionalist. Rather it inclined its practitioners to search for new knowledge. Further, Anishinabe ethics in this period were determined corporately based on the immediate needs and expectations of individual communities. As such, Anishinabe ethics were quite separate from Anishinabe spiritual teachings. Between 1760 and 1815, the Anishinabe living north of the Great Lakes participated in pan-Native resistance movements to the south. The spiritual leaders of these movements, sometimes called nativists, taught that tradition was an important religious virtue and that cultural integration was dangerous and often immoral. These nativist teachings entered the northern Anishinabe cultural matrix and lived alongside earlier hierarchies of virtue that identified integration and change as virtues. When Loyalist Methodists presented their teachings to the Anishinabeg in the early nineteenth century their words filtered through both sets of teachings and found purchase in the minds of many influential leaders. Such leaders quickly convinced members of their communities to take up the Methodist practices and move to agricultural villages. For a few brief years in the 1830s these villages achieved financial success and the Anishinabe Methodist leaders achieved real social status in both Anishinabe and Euroamerican colonial society. By examining the first generation of Anishinabe Methodists who practiced between 1823 and 1840, I argue that many Anishinabe people adopted Christianity as new wisdom suitable for refitting their existing cultural traditions to a changed cultural environment. Chiefs such as Peter Jones (Kahkewahquonaby), and their followers, found that Methodist teachings cohered with major tenets of their own traditions, and also promoted bimadziwin, or health and long life, for their communities. Finally, many Anishinabe people believed that the basic moral injunctions of their own tradition compelled them to adopt Methodism because of its potential to promote bimadziwin. / Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2008-07-17 13:59:23.833

This thesis argues that Irish can and should be revitalized. Conducted as an observational study, this thesis focuses on interviews with 72 participants during the summer of 2013. All participants live in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. This thesis investigates what has caused the Irish language to lose power and prestige over the centuries, and which Irish language revitalization efforts have been successful. Findings show that although, all-Irish schools have had a substantial growth rate since 1972, when the schools were founded, the majority of Irish students still get their education through English-medium schools. This study concludes that Irish will survive and grow in the numbers of fluent Irish speakers; however, the government will need to further support the growth of the all-Irish schools. In conclusion, the Irish communities must take control of the promotion of the Irish language, and intergenerational transmission must take place between parents and their children.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:09:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 parte1.pdf: 2549056 bytes, checksum: c3b77e424764f76c9d5d68849afcd563 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / It was aimed in the present work to investigate the implications of the metamorphosis process in the urban centrality of João Pessoa, capital of Paraíba state, under the point of view of central uses and activities, starting in the 1970s up to present days. In the spatial ambit on which the present work focuses is a central area in João Pessoa. However, it is important to emphasize that references to other sectors of the city will be made, which have become in the last decades new places of the centrality process. The temporal picture, for its turn, follows the transformations that occurred from 1970 to present days, because since those times deep transformations were generated by post-modern paradigms. In fact it is a phase of changes in the intraurban structure of our cities, where selective shopping activities and new way of life emerged under the influences of privileged social classes anxiety in the context of consumerist society. The methodology used here included not only the bibliographical survey performed, whose importance is revealed by the theoretical basis constructed in the present work, but also the analysis of the phenomenon of changes in the centrality, where data and indicators were provided by the Laboratório do Ambiente Urbano e Edificado (Laboratory of Urban and Built Structures Environment) of the Federal University of Paraíba. The main town centre of João Pessoa sprawled predominantly towards the littoral zone along the Avenida Epitácio Pessoa and its surroundings, following the moving tendencies of high profit people. The results obtained here showed that the main town centre of João Pessoa has deteriorated physically with respect to many buildings, and the estate housing dynamics have decreased in relation to new town centres in the city of João Pessoa. However, under the point of view of commercial activities and services available, besides other vital activities for the living process in the area, the traditional town centre of João Pessoa continues to generate profits for the local economy, having the greatest number of licensed activities and a quite expressive amount of money in circulation. Thus, the vitality and urban centrality of João Pessoa town centre, reflected by the great diversity of activities of socio-economical interest is presently clearly evident. / O objetivo principal deste trabalho é investigar as implicações do processo de metamorfose na centralidade urbana de João Pessoa, sob a ótica dos usos e atividades centrais, no período que se inicia na década de 1970 e que se estende até os dias atuais. O âmbito espacial sobre o qual recai o foco do presente trabalho é a área central da cidade de João Pessoa. No entanto, é importante destacar que se farão referências a outros setores da cidade, os quais, nas últimas décadas, transformaram-se em novos redutos de centralidade. O recorte temporal, por sua vez, segue as transformações ocorridas de 1970 aos dias atuais, pois, a partir daquela década, ocorreram profundas transformações advindas dos paradigmas pós-modernos. Trata-se de uma fase de mudanças na estrutura intra-urbana de nossas cidades, onde um comércio seletivo e novos modos de vida surgem, influenciados pelos anseios das classes privilegiadas no contexto da sociedade de consumo. A metodologia utilizada compreende não apenas o levantamento bibliográfico, cuja importância se revela na construção da base teórica deste trabalho, mas também a análise do fenômeno das mudanças de centralidade, utilizando-se dados e indicadores fornecidos por instituições e pelo Laboratório do Ambiente Urbano e Edificado, da UFPB. Na cidade de João Pessoa, o centro principal expandiu-se, de forma predominante, na mesma direção da Avenida Epitácio Pessoa, seguindo o deslocamento das camadas de alta renda para a zona litorânea da cidade. Os resultados permitem concluir que o centro principal da cidade de João Pessoa possui uma decadência física em inúmeros imóveis e uma diminuição na dinâmica imobiliária em relação os novos centros da cidade. Contudo, do ponto de vista de atividades comerciais, de prestação de serviço e outras imprescindíveis para o processo de vitalidade da área, o centro tradicional da cidade de João Pessoa continua a produzir economia, sendo dotado do maior número de atividades licenciadas e de uma expressiva circulação monetária. Portanto, sua vitalidade e centralidade urbanas, que se expressam em uma diversidade de atividades de grande interesse sócio-econômico são, até o presente momento, bastante evidentes.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:57:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GlielsonNM.pdf: 3445728 bytes, checksum: c6a1b648ef00a2e39c86e2a90759e563 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-07 / This work aims to analyze and evaluate the Urban furniture designed to public areas according to the Revitalization planning for Rio Grande do Norte coastland, defining visual relations among urban elements in the landscape of revitalized public urban areas with cultural, paisagistic and touristic values and the design process used for developing urban furniture to those areas, observing the incoming consequences use to that process in a specific urban context which alters use, functions, cultural images as well as social values attributed to each particular place. Environmental perceptions, legibility of local cultural references and their representation through the design of urban elements, act in a positive or negative manner over the inhabitants cognition process of some particular revitalized area, determining new use and attributions to those areas. Designs for coastal urban interventions try excessively to standardize technical media, construction materials and planning configurations, creating artificial sceneries that segregates users, imposing new structures and usage, generating, consequently, the so called non-places and burlesque regionalism. The research is divided into 4 chapters: 1) Theoretical support (Industrial design; Urban furniture; Public urban spaces; Urban image and environmental perception; Urban occupation and interventions in coastland areas); 2) Methodological procedures and data collection; 3) Analysis of Rio Grande do Norte coastal areas and their urban interventions; 4) Final considerations and Industrial Design contributions to the subject / Este trabalho analisa e avalia o Desenho de Mobili?rio Urbano para os espa?os p?blicos nos Projetos de Reordenamento da Orlas do Rio Grande do Norte, estabelecendo rela??es entre a paisagem urbana dos espa?os p?blicos revitalizados sejam eles de interesse cultural, paisag?stico e/ou tur?stico, e o processo de interven??o do Desenho na configura??o do mobili?rio urbano implantado naqueles espa?os observando as prov?veis conseq??ncias advindas desse processo em um dado contexto urbano que alteram os usos, fun??es, as imagens culturais e os valores sociais atribu?dos a cada lugar espec?fico. As percep??es ambientais e a legibilidade dos referenciais culturais dos lugares e sua representa??o nos elementos do mobili?rio urbano, influenciam positiva ou negativamente os processos de cogni??o dos habitantes de um determinado espa?o revitalizado, definindo novos usos e atribui??es para esses espa?os. Os projetos de interven??o urban?stica das orlas tendem ? padroniza??o excessiva dos meios t?cnicos, materiais e configura??es, criando espa?os cenarizados que segregam os usu?rios, impondo equipamentos e novos usos que, consequentemente, acabam criando os chamados n?o-lugares e um regionalismo pitoresco. O trabalho est? dividido em 6 cap?tulos que tratam respectivamente de: conceitua??es te?ricas (Desenho Industrial; Mobili?rio Urbano; Espa?os Urbanos P?blicos; Imagem Urbana e Percep??o Ambiental; Ocupa??o e Interven??o Urban?stica nas Orlas mar?timas); dos Procedimentos e T?cnicas para Coleta de Dados; das An?lise das Orlas do Rio Grande do Norte e dos Processos de Interven??o; e das considera??es finais e das contribui??es do Desenho Industrial

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / O desenvolvimento de tÃcnicas exploratÃrias que respeitem as limitaÃÃes edafoclimÃticas, atravÃs de manejos de conservaÃÃo dos recursos naturais solo-Ãgua-planta à hoje objeto de estudo nas diferentes Ãreas do conhecimento. O objetivo desta investigaÃÃo foi definir um modelo de recuperaÃÃo das Ãreas degradadas no semiÃrido brasileiro pelo emprego da serapilheira produzida pelo bioma Caatinga, como tambÃm avaliar as mudanÃas nos atributos biolÃgicos, quÃmicos e fÃsicos ocorridas nos solos das Ãreas de retirada e deposiÃÃo da serapilheira. AlÃm de investigar a dinÃmica do regime pluviomÃtrico na produÃÃo e taxa de decomposiÃÃo da serapilheira do bioma caatinga. Este trabalho foi desenvolvido no municÃpio de General Sampaio, CearÃ, Brasil. Sendo composto por duas Ãreas experimentais, prÃximas e distintas, Ãrea 1 â RPPN Elias Andrade e Ãrea 2 â solo degradado. Os tratamentos foram definidos atravÃs de percentuais de cobertura do solo com a serapilheira, sendo estes: 0, 20, 40, 60, 80 e 100% de cobertura, o que corresponde a 0, 17, 34, 50, 67 e 83 kg, respectivamente, em parcelas de 25 m2. Em cada Ãrea de estudo foram aplicados seis tratamentos com quatro repetiÃÃes, com delineamento inteiramente casualizado com parcelas subdivididas (Ãrea 1) e delineamento em blocos casualizados com parcelas subdivididas (Ãrea 2), nas camadas de solo 0-5, 5-10 e 5-20 cm. Avaliou-se a produÃÃo anual de serapilheira correspondente aos anos de 2009/2010, como tambÃm a dinÃmica de forma espacial e temporal de alguns atributos edÃficos: atributos biolÃgicos (RBS, CBM e qCO2), quÃmicos (Ca, Mg, Na, K, MO e P) e fÃsicos (densidade do solo, umidade, porosidade total, macroporos e microporos), com amostras indeformadas e deformadas (compostas). Observou-se nesta investigaÃÃo que a produtividade mensal de serapilheira em RegiÃes semiÃridas apresenta relaÃÃo inversa com a precipitaÃÃo. Como tambÃm, o tempo de estudo foi considerado pequeno quando se refere ao processo evolutivo dos atributos do solo. O que se pÃde constatar foram tendÃncias de alguns atributos, relacionadas diretamente aos fatores edafoclimÃticos. / The development of exploratory techniques that respect the limitations edaphoclimatic through managements conservation of natural soil-water-plant is now the object of study in different fields of knowledge. The objective of this investigation was to define a model of recovery of degraded areas in the Brazilian semiarid region by the use of litter produced by the Caatinga biome, but also assess changes in attributes biological, chemical and physical soil occurred in the soil occurred in the areas of removal and disposal of litter. Besides investigating the dynamics of rainfall in the production and decomposition rate of litter in the Caatinga biome. This study was conducted in the municipality of General Sampaio, CearÃ, Brazil. Comprised of two experimental areas, near and distinct, area 1-PRNP Elias Andrade and area 2-degraded soil. Treatments were defined by percentage of soil cover with litter, which are: 0, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100% coverage, which corresponds to 0, 17, 34, 50, 67 and 83kg, respectively, in plots of 25 m2. In each study area applied six treatments with four replications, with random block design with split plots (area 1) and random block design with split plots (area 2), the soil layers 0-5, 5-10 and 5-20cm. We evaluated the annual litter production corresponding to the years 2009/2010, as well as the spatial and temporal dynamics of some soil attributes: biological attributes (RBS, CBM and qCO2), chemical (Ca, Mg, Na, K, MO, P) and physical (bulk density, moisture content, porosity, macropores and micropores) in disturbed and undisturbed samples (composite). Observed in this investigation that productivity monthly litter in semiarid regions is inversely correlated with rainfall. As well, the study time was considered short when referring to the evolutionary process of the soil properties. What we could see some treds were attributes related directly to edaphoclimatic factors

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Diploma thesis deals with comparison of flow influenced by proposed measures with current status in Brantice-Kostelec section of the river Opava. The results of two-dimensional numerical model of steady uniform flow were used to assess the flow. The models were created using SMS – FESWMS for both of conditions. Thesis contains description of current status, design status, the theory of numerical modelling, comparison of the flow and evaluation of results.

Thesis deals with issue of „brownfields“ in mining sphere and their regeneration. The work is splitted into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part contains basic economic terms, relative to theme of the thesis and basic information about brownfields and their dividing. The practical part contains valorization of social-economical utilization on the study case of brownfield mining area Most-Ležáky in north side of Czech republic. The aim of this thesis is to assess, if is the revitalization of this specific brownfield, and similar brownfields, social-economically effective. The assessment contains social-economic benefits and costs of specified area revitalization.

The theme of the diploma thesis „Brno brownfields by the Svitava River“ Is design of contemporary city structure in Brno Husovice. The theisis deals with the analysis of the current situation, definition of problems and opportunities in the location and the design, based on these researches. Studied area is located on the riverbank of the Svitava River and is defined by Provazníkova, Dukelská třída and Svitavské nábřeží streets. In these days there are mostly located brownfields of the previous industry parks, storage spaces and development of family houses. The design puts emphasis on the gentle merge with the urban structure of the old Husovice and focuses on using modern architectonic and urban approaches as well, for example on multifunctionality of buildings. The riverbank is revitalised and attractive features are designed here, like the footbridges conneting both river sides and sittable stairs. These designs provide space for leisure time and a water control during the floods as well. The traffic solution is concerned on the design of the new Nová Dukelská street, connecting formerly Zbrojovka industry park and Provazníkova street.