In 1967 and 1968, members of the Youth International Party, also known as Yippies, created several mass street demonstrations to protest President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s handling of the United States’ military involvement in the war in Vietnam. The Yippies were a loose network of hippies, anti-war activists, and left-wing radicals committed to cultural and political change. This dissertation investigates how the Yippies used avant-garde theories of theatre and performance in their year of demonstrating against the Johnson administration. The Yippies receive little attention in most histories of American performance, and theatre remains on the margins of political and social histories of the 1960s; therefore this dissertation places performance and political archives side by side to create a new historical narrative of the Yippies and performance. The Yippies created their own networked participatory street performance form by drawing on the political philosophy of the New Left student movement, the organizational strategies of the anti-war movement, and the countercultural values of the hippies. They modified this performance form, which they termed “revolutionary actiontheater,” with performance theories drawn from New York’s avant-garde art world, the concept of guerrilla theatre outlined by R. G. Davis of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the notion of Theater of Cruelty created by Antonin Artaud. Using performance theory and cultural history as primary methodologies, this project traces the Yippies’ adoption of revolutionary action-theater with three examples: the 1967 “March on the Pentagon” where future Yippie leaders performed an exorcism ritual at the Pentagon; the 1968 “Grand Central Station Yip-In” event that advertised for the Yippie movement; and the 1968 “Festival of Life” at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago where the Yippies nominated a pig as presidential candidate. The final chapter on the recent phenomenon of flash mobs argues that the Yippies’ legacy lives on in this participatory street performance form, and suggests that revolutionary action-theater can still serve as a model for political action. / text

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

This research is aimed at investigating public participation in street naming in the KwaMashu Township of the eThekwini municipality in South Africa. Public participation in policy decision-making in post-apartheid South Africa has been characterised by conflict and contestation. Authentic public participation in local governance has been the subject of considerable research and the concept is often regarded as an ideal because of the numerous challenges associated with the practical implementation of authentic public participation in post-apartheid South Africa. Decision making in local governance is meant to be grounded on public participation. However, the realisation of authentic public participation in decision-making in local governance remains a challenge for local government in South Africa. In this study, I examine the process of public participation in street naming in the KwaMashu Township. I employed public participation as my theoretical framework. I adopted a qualitative research methodology which comprises of semi-structured interviews and documents analysis. Four key questions are explored in the study are as follows: firstly, what is the contextualization and understanding of public participation in the eThekwini municipality? Secondly, what is the extent of public participation in street naming, in the KwaMashu Township of the eThekwini municipality? Thirdly, how does public participation in street naming in the KwaMashu Township, influence decision making within the eThekwini municipality? Fourthly, how does political party affiliation impact on public participation in KwaMashu Township? Results of the research study indicate that community members in the KwaMashu Township do not share common perceptions of the extent of their participation in the street naming process. The study further reveals that community participation in issues of local governance in KwaMashu, are influenced by political affiliation of community members. These findings indicate that public participation should be detached from party politics for the development of communities in South Africa. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.

There has been a lot of research highlighting the plight of street children throughout the world in the past few years. A review of the literature on street children reveals that the problem is worse in developing countries. The number of street children can be expected to increase in South Africa as a result of rapid urbanisation and development. This will certainly pose a problem for the government and other organisations concerned with the welfare of street children. In order to combat the proliferation of the number of children in the streets, concerned parties need to know more about street children before intervention and effective policies can be designed. This study was initiated to serve that purpose: to provide information on how street children perceive themselves. The information gathered and results of the study can be used by service providers to design effective intervention programmes. Twenty street children from the Pietermaritzburg central business district and the comparison group of twenty children from a "place of safety" in Pietermaritzburg were interviewed and assessed. Children from the "place of safety" were chosen as a comparison group because their familial histories have many factors which are common to street children as well. Assessment ofthe two groups of children entailed measuring the children's self-concepts by using the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. Human Figure Drawings were used to identify signs and levels of emotional distress using the Koppitz Emotional Indicators procedure. Furthermore, an unstructured interview was conducted with each child. The data was analysed quantitatively using statistical sub-programs of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The following statistical tests were computed: means to measure central tendency, independent t-tests to determine the statistical significance of the difference between the two groups' self-concept scores and emotional indicators. Quatro Pro and Harvard Graphics software packages were used to analyse the data qualitatively and present it graphically . Statistical analyses of the results reveal no significant differences between the self-concept of street children and that of the comparison group of placed children. Both groups' scores on the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale are within the average range. This means that street and placed children's perceptions of themselves, as measured by the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, are similar to those of other children in the general population. Signs and levels of emotional distress as measured by Koppitz' list of Emotional Indicators are within the non-pathological range for both groups. This indicates that street and placed children's levels of emotional distress are similar to those found in other children in the normal population. It is therefore concluded that despite being exposed to hazardous situations and having lived in deprived and abusive situations, street children do not display significant levels of measured emotional distress. Street children are found not to be as disturbed as previously assumed by journalists and fiction writers who tend to romanticise or politicise their plight. Placed children, who also share some of the predicaments that street children have endured in terms of turbulent childhoods, do not seem to show deficits in their self-concepts and emotional functioning either. Recommendations on how to plan intervention programmes for street children are also offered. Moreover, the standardisation of the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale on local populations is recommended. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.)-University of Natal, Pietermartizburg, 1996

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

The North Meridian Street Historic District, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an area which still reflects the tastes and lifestyles of earlier decades in a contemporary urban setting. Listed in 1986 on the National Register of Historic Places, the district has been regulated by the Meridian Street Preservation Commission since 1971. The Commission, created through state legislation, was conducting design review in the district through nationally established guidelines, the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. In order to more effectively protect and preserve the district, the Commission wished to establish a set of design guidelines specifically tailored to the North Meridian Street Historic District and its particular built and natural- characteristics. This project involved developing a set of design guidelines that would fulfill the needs and desires of the North Meridian Street Historic District, its preservation commission, and its property owners. Each district has its distinct resources and needs. A district's unique built and natural features are guidelines in themselves, but unless the principles and relationships that they represent are translated into words and pictures, many people will not recognize them as such. After researching and analyzing the architectural and environmental qualities of the district a draft set of design guidelines was developed and presented to the Meridian Street Preservation Commission for review. In response to comments and expressed concerns made at a series of public hearings held from March 1992 to August 1993, several rounds of revisions followed the initial presentation of the guidelines. The August 1993 version of the guidelines was adopted by the Commission in September 1993 and is currently in effect. / Department of Architecture

The informal sector thrives in a context of high unemployment, underemployment, poverty, gender inequality and precarious work. It plays a significant role in such circumstances, especially in income generation and in contributing to the livelihood of those engaged in it. The study investigated the contribution of street vending to the livelihood of street vendors in Nkonkobe Municipality. The aim of the study was to investigate whether street vending has the potential to sustain the lives of those engaged in it. In order to reach its objectives, the study employed a qualitative research approach whereby a non-probability sampling design in the form of a purposive sampling method was adopted and considered appropriate for this study. In terms of data collection, the study made use of structured questionnaires as a data collection method whereby questionnaires were administered and distributed to 40 street venders. The Upper Bound Poverty Line (UBPL) was used as a measurement to assess whether the participants’ incomes were above the poverty datum line in order to determine the sector’s contribution to the traders’ livelihood. From this study, it was found that street vending has both positive and negative impacts with regard to the success and profit-earning potential of these traders. Thus, the study concluded that street vending is a vital community development tool and a major source of livelihood as it plays a very important socio-economic role in Nkonkobe and in South Africa in general. The sector provides a livelihood for a huge population mainly comprised of the poor and other impoverished groups of society.

[pt] Apresentamos esta dissertação como fruto de indagações e reflexões obtidas junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação Strictu Sensu em Serviço Social da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, tendo como tema principal deste estudo a população em situação de rua e sua inserção na sociedade. O objetivo principal foi de compreender o processo histórico de formulação da Política Nacional para População em Situação de Rua, a partir da contribuição do Fórum Permanente sobre População Adulta em Situação de Rua do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Partimos do entendimento, conforme (Silva, 2009), de que esta população é particularizada por um fenômeno social e econômico, causado e intensificado, basicamente, pela contradição do capital e trabalho na sociedade contemporânea. Este, configurando-se uma expressão latente da questão social, sendo, portanto, alvo de políticas sociais, necessita de ação estatal pública na criação de políticas adequadas ao seu enfrentamento. Como principais pressupostos assumidos durante a pesquisa, visualizamos a organização e participação desta população, como movimento social, na requisição e elaboração de uma política pública, cuja criação foi favorável no governo Lula, com o apoio intrínseco do Ministério de Desenvolvimento Social, junto às organizações envolvidas, destacando as experiências de São Paulo e Belo Horizonte. A pesquisa exploratória, de cunho qualitativo, contou com revisão bibliográfica e pesquisa de campo a partir do uso de entrevistas semiestruturadas. Os resultados foram gerados através da técnica de análise de conteúdo (BARDIN, 2009), no intuito de captar as explicitações dos participantes para gerar inferências. Como principais resultados obtidos com este estudo, compreendemos que o processo histórico de construção da Política Nacional para População em Situação de Rua teve como êxito o protagonismo da População em situação de Rua, nos debates de formulação, conjuntamente com as demais entidades envolvidas. A conjuntura nacional, durante o governo Lula, possibilitou a instituição do Decreto 7.053/2009, trazendo uma nova leitura acerca desta temática, forçando a primazia dos direitos humanos e criando instrumentos importantes para a garantida de direitos, a partir de um viés voltado para a intersetorialidade das políticas públicas. / [en] We present this dissertation as the result of inquiries and reflections obtained from the Strictu Sensu Post-Graduation Program in Social Service of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. The main theme of this study is the population in a street situation and its insertion in society. The main objective was to understand the historical process of formulating the National Policy for Population in Street Situation, based on the contribution of the Permanent Forum on Adult Population in Street Situation in the State of Rio de Janeiro. We start from the understanding, according to Silva (2009), that this population is particularized by a social and economic phenomenon, caused and intensified, basically, by the contradiction of capital and labor in contemporary society. This, being a latent expression of the social question, being, therefore, the target of social policies, needs public state action in the creation of policies adapted to its confrontation. As the main assumptions made during the research, we visualized the organization and participation of this population, as a social movement, in the requisition and elaboration of a public policy, whose creation was favorable in the Lula government, with the intrinsic support of the Ministry of Social Development, with the organizations involved, highlighting the experiences of São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. The exploratory research, of qualitative character, counted on bibliographical review and field research from the use of semi-structured interviews. The results were generated through the technique of content analysis (BARDIN, 2009), in order to capture the participants explanations to generate inferences. As the main results obtained with this study, we understand that the historical process of construction of the National Policy for Population in Street Situation had as a success the protagonism of the Population in Street situation, in the formulation debates, together with the other involved entities. The national conjuncture, during the Lula administration, allowed the institution of Decree 7.053/2009, bringing a new reading on this subject, forcing the primacy of human rights and creating important instruments for the guarantee of rights, from a bias towards the Intersectoriality of public policies.