This thesis is focused on the analysis of propagation of selected cities. Its aim is to theoretically and practically describe and then on specific examples evaluate attitude of cities and municipalities to promote their localities and activities, both towards to its visitors, and especially to its inhabitants. The theoretical part is focused on explaining the basic concepts and contexts related to promotion and marketing techniques of cities and municipalities and also marketing mix, which is part of the promotion. Assessment of promotion methods applied in assessed locations and also evaluation of its effectiveness is performed in practical part of thesis. Overall, the author of the work concluded, that the approach of selected cities to promote them, reaches an acceptable level. Nevertheless, the author found some procedural reserves and tried to suggest some of the recommendations, which can be an inspiration not only for analyzed cities itself, but also for other cities and towns.

Block 71, the location of this design thesis, is within the Comox Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Situated on Vancouver Island and four kilometers North of the City of Courtenay. The site is 925 acres of cut-block, used for lumber, and owned by Raven Forest Products. Raven Forest Products clear-cut the site as recently as the late 1970's. Second growth has been allowed to persist on the site. In 1994, a development permit for a proposed village was submitted to the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona and is still pending. This proposed village was named 'View Ridge' and was intended to create higher densities and preserve more open space than convention subdivisions. The relevant proposed design for this property, View Ridge Revisited, endeavours to meet and surpass the intentions of the its predecessor. The View Ridge Revisited proposal allows for a minimum of eight hundred dwelling units and a maximum of one thousand and one hundred. Sustainability is the ultimate goal for View Ridge Revisited. The three parts of this goal are economic sustainability, social sustainability and ecological sustainability. As a template for the structure of the village, Transit-Oriented Developments and the principles of New Urbanism were employed. Economically, the proposed design should support a community of approximately two thousand two hundred persons. Seven hundred of these should be employed within the community itself. Appropriate retail, office and service-office space has been provided for this purpose. This assumes at least one job per household. At least seventy-five percent of all the housing units in the village are within one thousand-three hundred feet walking distance from the downtown commercial core, or a five minute walk. These two thousand and two hundred people will live in medium density (12 du/acre) and low-density (8 du/acre) areas. The latter housing type includes ancillary suites above lane-access-only garages. The higher density housing types should be at least three stories, with possible basement suites. All housing should meet some type of precedent typology. The most likely typology sources come from older parts of Courtenay and Comox. Adequate recreation space is provided for the residents. Approximately twenty acres are located adjacent to the Recreation Centre and the Schools. The schools should be adequate for the given population of the community. Additional green space is included throughout the site, in the form of neighbourhood parks. Ten percent of each block is designated to park space. These parks will also function as storm water channels and filtration areas. From an ecological perspective, the design proposal attempts to integrate the functioning, natural environment with the cultural processes of its human co-inhabitants. In general, the village is centred upon a sixty to eighty meter riparian corridor, a wetland area and a community forest. All of these features should maintain their ecological functions, as well as provide vital components to both the image of the community and its healthy existence. The riparian corridor is a diverted stream from Seal Bay Park. It should be engineered to follow its pre-logging path down into the Little River watershed Storm water is drained from the village into this stream, after being naturally treated within the previously mentioned wetland area. All water from the site is treated in this manner. Sewage is treated at a three acre solar aquatic treatment facility next to the commercial core. The community forest will allow a habitat connection to the riparian corridor as well as provide an educational component to the inhabitants. It is hoped that sustainable logging practices will become a part of this forest's character. The overall goal of sustainable community design is met at View Ridge Revisited by satisfying the economic, social and ecological requirements. The transit-oriented design of this village provides the template upon which this becomes possible. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

Propõe uma reflexão sobre a Aldeia de Carapicuíba como elemento essencial na formação do território no Brasil. Esse espaço surgido como aldeamento pela ação dos jesuítas, indica que se tem, desde então, uma relação básica com visão comunitária fundamentada em famílias, seus filhos e suas crianças. Isso se mantém no decorrer do tempo através de sucessivas transformações, inclusive, havendo uma insistência em permanecer no espaço mesmo quando se propôs sua destruição. Contemporaneamente, retomando essa tradição, instalou-se ali a OCA Associação da Aldeia de Carapicuíba cujas atividades são voltadas para as crianças com ênfase especial no brincar enquanto exercício fundamental da formação do ser humano. O presente trabalho busca compreender a perenidade dessa vocação do espaço da aldeia revivida por meio das atividades lúdicas. / Proposes a reflection about village of Carapicuíba (named Aldeia de Carapicuíba) as an essential element in formation of Brazilian territory. That place, aroused as a resort by the action of Jesuits, points that, there is a basic relation with communitarian vision based in families their sons and kids since then. This fact keeps happening through years by successive transformations, its occupation included, even when its destruction was proposed. Contemporaneously, reacting this tradition was installed there, the OCA Associação da Aldeia de Carapicuíba which activities are for children with a special emphasize in playing situations as a primordial exercise in human being formation. This paper objectives comprehend perennial vocation of space from the village revived through playful activities.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(地域研究) / 甲第22092号 / 地博第254号 / 新制||地||96(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科東南アジア地域研究専攻 / (主査)教授 速水 洋子, 准教授 伊藤 正子, 教授 片岡 樹 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Area Studies / Kyoto University / DGAM

Archaeobotanical evidences for the presence of wild plants at Fremont archaeological sites are numerous. However, little can be positively argued for why those plants are present, if they were used by site inhabitants, and how they were used. Additionally, there are likely several wild plants that were used but that do not appear in the archaeobotanical record as pollen or macrobotanicals, the two most commonly identified plant remains. I argue that it is possible to provide better interpretations for how and why the Fremont used plants by researching how their historic counterparts, the Goshute, Shoshone, Ute, and Southern Paiute, used the same plants that are identified at prehistoric sites. I further argue that a phytolith typology for Fremont archaeology can provide more insight into prehistoric plant use. I demonstrate its utility through a phytolith analysis of ground stone tools from Wolf Village, a Fremont site in Utah County.

The rise in poaching of wildlife such as the rhino and elephant in the Greater Limpopo Transboundary Park (GLTP) has led state actors to implement strict security measures to eradicate the ‘problem of poachers.' A solution to that problem has been to adopt violent measures that coerce local communities around protected areas to conform to the regulations drafted by park authorities in the name of conservation. This research investigates the different forms of violence that are produced on communities around the Gonarezhou National Park which forms part of the GLTP. The research explored how conservation practices carried out by the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust impacts the lives of people around Ndali Village. The study uses the concept of green violence to highlight the violent nature of the conservation practices of protected areas. Secondly, the study uses political ecology approach to examine the relationship between villagers and the GNP in relation to the new arrangement of the management of the park and its impact on access to natural resource use. The results of the study were based on in-depth interviews carried out with a select group of participants and insights gained through informal conversations with villagers and participant observation. The findings of the study reveal that there is a sense of loss from most of the respondents particularly when it comes to the issue of accessing grazing resources and the redrawing of park boundaries that takes away parts of their communal land. The study also illustrates that in relation to accessing natural resources from the park, the villagers' use of wildlife for subsistence is not permitted and leads to prosecution when caught by park authorities. This has had a negative impact on the people of Ndali because subsistence hunting has been an important part of their lives. The restriction from hunting has seen members of the Ndali Village rely on agriculture and livestock rearing which is not improving their wellbeing because of the constant droughts in the area. The study presents evidence that while green violence may not result in direct physical violence, it takes different forms and poses risks for the people in Ndali Village who are dependent on GNP for subsistence and exposes them to indirect violence. This study contributes to debates on the impact of green violence on communities by presenting stories of how the violence manifests together with colonial dispossession.

The thesis is focus on the public investment in village development. The theoretical part explains the concept of public investment, describes the sources of financing these investment and describes the methods which can be use for public investment evaluated. Then it discribe status and functioning of the municipality in the legal system, processes of budgeting and facility management. The practical part is already focused on the village Chyšky, which decided to invest to improve development. In the thesis are described two specific investment projects, determined their cash flows and evaluated using the eCBA program. The output of the thesis is to determine the project, which will be more advantageous for the municipality.

This thesis research analyzes how Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) can be used to understand extant Northeastern Plains Village (NEPV) settlement strategies in aggregate for the purposes of subjoining a subsequent verification metric to the current archaeological classification system used to describe NEPV associated sites. To accomplish this task, I extracted Traditional Ecological Knowledge from ethnographic sources for comparison to geospatial, geostatistical, and statistical analyses. My results show that the hierarchical clustering exhibited among NEPV sites is congruent with first person narratives of habitation and resource collection activities occurring in the pre-Reservation period (before AD 1880) within the research area. This study emphasizes the importance of the incorporation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge into material typological classification schemes for archaeological sites which are convoluted by a high rates of cultural transmission.

Annotation 1. Introduction to the environment of rural cemeteries. 2. The Watching most visited graves. 3. The establishing most visited gravis. 4. Getting to know the fate of the dead. 5. The working with photos borrowed from survivors. 6. The controversy over the intimacy and generalization of the cemetery as a place of final rest and prepare for oblivion.

Die Studie analysiert soziale Infrastruktur- und Dienstleistungsangebote in sächsischen Dörfern. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei der Blick der Bevölkerung: Wie bewerten Dorfbewohner ihre Lebenssituation? Wie nehmen sie Post- und Bankdienstleistungen oder die medizinische Versorgung wahr? Wie wird die Nahversorgung bewertet? Und welche Entfernungen müssen zu einzelnen Versorgungsangeboten zurückgelegt werden? Zur Beantwortung dieser und anderer Fragen wurde eine Bevölkerungsbefragung ausgewertet, an der 2.719 Bewohner aus 22 sächsischen Dörfern teilnahmen. Die Mehrheit der Befragten bewertet die dörflichen Lebensverhältnisse positiv und zieht das Landleben dem Leben in der Großstadt vor. Jedoch erschweren weite Wege zu wichtigen Infrastruktureinrichtungen das alltägliche Leben. Jeder Zweite empfindet dies als störend am Dorfleben. Insbesondere die Versorgung mit Waren und Dienstleistungen wird von den Befragten bemängelt. Zufrieden sind die meisten dagegen mit dem Kindergartenangebot. Aus den Ergebnissen werden Anhaltspunkte für eine bedarfsgerechte Daseinsvorsorge gewonnen. Es wird gezeigt, worauf bei der Anpassung von Mindeststandards zu achten ist und welche Potenziale das bürgerschaftliche Engagement bietet. Die Ergebnisse sollen zur bedarfsgerechten Gestaltung der Daseinsvorsorge in Sachsens Dörfern beitragen.