Ho Tsun Man Clement. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 0. --- Contents / Chapter 1. --- THESIS ABSTRACT --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- RESEARCH PHASE --- p.2 / Chapter 2.1 --- Background --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- The Contemporary Public Realm --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Issues --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Issue 1 - The Public Realm Accommodates Only Movement / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Issue 2 - Lack of Public Activities --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Issue 3 - Segregation of Activities / Chapter 2.3 --- Argument --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Precedent Cases --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4 --- Theoretical Principles --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Principle 1 - A 3D Nolli Plan / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Principle 2 ´ёØ Reviving Public Life --- p.24 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Principle 3 - Street-irvthe-air --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Overall Design Strategy “ City Within Housing / Chapter 2.5 --- Research on Housing Typology --- p.26 / Chapter 2.6 --- Research on the Public Realm --- p.36 / Chapter 2.6.1 --- "Fa Yuen Street Complex, Monakok" / Chapter 2.6.2 --- "Kowloon Park, Tsimshatsui" --- p.37 / Chapter 2.6.3 --- "Central Park, New York" --- p.38 / Chapter 2.6.4 --- Different Elements of the Public Realm --- p.40 / Chapter 2.7 --- Site Selection --- p.43 / Chapter 2.8 --- Vision for Design Intervention --- p.46 / Chapter 2.9 --- Footnotes --- p.47 / Chapter 3. --- DESIGN PHASE --- p.48 / Chapter 3.1 --- Proposed Site Condition --- p.49 / Chapter 3.2 --- Main Design Concept --- p.50 / Chapter 3.3 --- Preliminary Design --- p.51 / Chapter 3.4 --- Final Design Strategy --- p.57 / Chapter 3.5 --- Final Building Design Drawings --- p.58 / Chapter 3.6 --- Final Unit Design Drawings --- p.78 / Chapter 3.7 --- Final Model Photos --- p.82 / Chapter 4. --- BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.86

Yuen Ching Yin. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter 1 --- Abstract / Chapter 2 --- Research on Phenomena within and outside Architecture / Chapter 2.1 --- Voidness / Chapter 2.2 --- Indeterminacy / Chapter 2.3 --- Japanese Haiku / Chapter 2.4 --- "Spatial Continuum - Dongtongchi, Ancestral Hall in Jiangxi" / Chapter 2.5 --- Event Space - Dongtongchi and Dafen Museum / Chapter 2.6 --- Merging with Everyday Life - Kanazawa Museum / Chapter 2.7 --- Temporal Margin / Chapter 2.8 --- Hinge / Chapter 2.9 --- Edge Condition / Chapter 2.10 --- Hinge as a strategy of Reprogramming / Chapter 2.11 --- Dissolving Edges / Chapter 3 --- Research Summary / Chapter 4 --- Design Strategy / Chapter 5 --- Contextual Experiment - Southorn Playground in Wan Chai as a Testing Ground / Chapter 5.1 --- Site Survey / Chapter 5.2 --- Design Constraints / Chapter 5.3 --- Design Scheme / Chapter 5.4 --- Design Documentation

La Escuela Pública de Producción Agrícola en Pachacamac ofrece la carrera de producción Agrícola. En ese sentido, el Proyecto busca impulsar las actividades comerciales de productos agrícolas ya existentes del distrito de Pachacamac a través del diseño de espacios académicos de acuerdo a los nuevos estándares pedagógicos incluyendo espacios de enseñanza agrícola, que potencien el aprendizaje y la investigación. Así mismo, la propuesta busca favorecer a la comunidad con espacios sociales que difundan la cultura Agrícola de Lima para una mejor alimentación de la ciudad. La investigación sustenta las relaciones del edificio educativo y el paisaje natural. Las relaciones entre la naturaleza y la escuela se presentan aprovechando los recursos culturales, morfológicos y climáticos del entorno en la propuesta a través de la forma del edificio, el emplazamiento, de la fusión espacial y visual de lo social y de lo privado, de la materialidad y de tecnologías sustentables. beneficiando así al paisaje con la arquitectura, que es finalmente la herramienta de trabajo de los estudiantes. (net Works) / The public agricultural production school in Pachacamac offers the agricultural production career, in this respect, the project seeks to empower the existing commercial activities of agricultural products of the Pachacamac district through the design of academic spaces according to the new pedagogical standards including learning spaces for agriculture that enhance learning and research activities. In other way, the proposal also seeks to favor the community development with social spaces that disseminate the Agricultural Culture of Lima for a better feed of citizen The thesis look to maintain the relations of the educational building, the peri-urban landscape and the natural elements, taking advantage of the cultural, morphological and climatic resources of the environment in the proposal of spaces; this is prove through the shape of the building, orientation, the visual relations, materiality and sustainable technologies, benefiting the relationship between the students and nature that is finally the principal work tool. / Tesis

This thesis interrogates my and others?? creative praxis using the tools of the Internet, webcam, blogging and digital video, to elucidate possibilities for communication. I examine whether these tools are productive for my creativity and others?? in increasing communicative spaces and building social networks amongst the complexities of globalised culture. Many cultural commentators consider the Internet as a new kind of public sphere, developing community, strengthening the lifeworld and providing ethical discourse. The Internet, however, is a context not without problems. Still, less that one quarter of the world??s population has access, and computer illiteracy and governance (to name only a few) contribute to its limitations ?? this dichotomy is central to my investigation. I demonstrate that information communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet are radically altering our everyday lives and mediation is increasingly pervasive. I argue, therefore, that our globalised context demands alternative communicative spaces to mainstream media that allow diversity, plurality, intersubjectivity and new forms of interrogation. I ask whether the Internet can assist in the development of social networks and newest social movements (NSMs) by increasing civic bonds and communities. I posit communicative action, reflexivity and praxis as productive tools for a critical practice. I suggest that these theories are influential in researching the Internet??s potential in generating social awareness. I argue that the Internet can be used to construct social spaces and, in conjunction with creativity, can increase its productive capacity in developing diverse and ethical communicative contexts.

If X is a simply connected CW complex, then it has a unique (up to isomorphism) minimal Sullivan model. There is an important rational homotopy invariant, called the rational Lusternik–Schnirelmann of X, denoted cat0(X), which has an algebraic formulation in terms of the minimal Sullivan model of X. We study another such numerical invariant called the rational retraction index of X, denoted r0(X), which is defined in terms of the minimal Sullivan model of X and satisfies 0 ≤ r0(X) ≤ cat0(X). It was introduced by Cuvilliez et al. as a tool to estimate the rational Lusternik–Schnirelmann category of the total space of a fibration. In this thesis we compute the rational retraction index on a range of rationally elliptic spaces, including for example spheres, complex projective space, the biquotient Sp(1) \ Sp(3) / Sp(1) × Sp(1), the homogeneous space Sp(3)/U(3) and products of these. In particular, we focus on formal spaces and formulate a conjecture to answer a question posed in the original article of Cuvilliez et al., “If X is formal, what invariant of the algebra H∗(X;Q) is r0(X)?”

Diffeological and differential spaces are generalisations of smooth structures on manifolds. We show that the “intersection” of these two categories is isomorphic to Frölicher spaces, another generalisation of smooth structures. We then give examples of such spaces, as well as examples of diffeological and differential spaces that do not fall into this category. We apply the theory of diffeological spaces to differential forms on a geometric quotient of a compact Lie group. We show that the subcomplex of basic forms is isomorphic to the complex of diffeological forms on the geometric quotient. We apply this to symplectic quotients coming from a regular value of the momentum map, and show that diffeological forms on this quotient are isomorphic as a complex to Sjamaar differential forms. We also compare diffeological forms to those on orbifolds, and show that they are isomorphic complexes as well. We apply the theory of differential spaces to subcartesian spaces equipped with families of vector fields. We use this theory to show that smooth stratified spaces form a full subcategory of subcartesian spaces equipped with families of vector fields. We give families of vector fields that induce the orbit-type stratifications induced by a Lie group action, as well as the orbit-type stratifications induced by a Hamiltonian group action.

From the standpoint of basic human rights, government and society should share the responsibility of providing various welfare services to the disabled and ensure their opportunities for education, jobs and even basic survival. However, in the time of financial hardship for the government, to rebuild or purchase new buildings to facilitate the welfare institutions for the disabled will surely have impacts on other existing welfare spending. On the other hand, there are many public properties and buildings not utilized, wasting the government resources. How the government agencies can effectively push the reuse of the public deserted spaces for the welfare institutions, the current issues and the strategies for the future are the topics which are worth exploring and may well be the references for the government agencies. This study is based on the research methods such as data collection, case study and in-depth interviews and finds that the welfare institutions to be housed in the public deserted spaces should be community-based. To sustain itself financially and to avoid the management liability and pressure, the scale should not be too small. The role of the welfare institutions for the disabled is to assist the government, support the families, subside, create, profit and provide social education. The government should be responsible for the policies or the affairs beneficial to the people with much less resources, and create incentives for the private sectors to participate in the welfare business. Reuse the public deserted spaces can efficiently utilize and manage the public properties. However, the issues encountered during the remodeling process such as the structures of the site, wheelchair accessibility, building permits for the building expansion and permits for changes of building purposes are beyond these welfare institutions. To resolve these issues requires the coordination of the involving government agencies and the welfare institutions to be housed at the public deserted spaces. If the institutions to be housed at the public deserted spaces are service-oriented, they should be able to use the spaces without paying rents. If the institutions are for profits, the government agency managing the properties should collect rents to enforce a fair, efficient utilization and long-termed planning. Also, the institutions should think about the sufficiency of their staff trainings and marketing strategies for the whole year to maintain smooth and stable business running. This study proposed the following four proposals: 1.Establish a complete and open information network and set up a reasonable rental procedure so that the private sectors can locate the deserted spaces and reuse the spaces for the welfare of the disabled by renting. 2.Help the private sectors to push for the social services for the disabled. 3.While not compromising the public welfare and safety, modify the codes and laws involved to streamline the space reuse process. 4.Regarding the business model of the welfare institutions to be housed at the public deserted spaces, assess and evaluate not only the rental periods and the sizes but also the budget expenses and business strategies, hoping the institutions can be run stably and smoothly and maximize the benefits of space reuse.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. Daniel M. Oberlin, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics. Title and description from dissertation home page (June 18, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes special study report entitled: A comparative study on the spatial structure of shopping place. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special study report entitled: Towards the exploration of spatial MAXIMUM from the minimum. Includes bibliographical references.