Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Seminary, Portland, OR, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-193).

The politics of the Mezzogiorno represent an interesting point in the politics of modernization. Existing as essentially an enclave of 'backwardness' within a western industrialized country, the people of the Mezzogiorno continue to carry out political functions within a network of arrangements which are generally viewed as 'apolitical' in nature by many observers. Edward Banfield's assertion (in his book, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society) that the society is 'amoral familist' in nature is dealt with in this study, and an attempt is made to formulate a 'moral code' of the Mezzogiorno, portraying political morality as seen through the eyes of the people in that culture. The nature of this 'moral code' is based upon the experience of 'statelessness' in the Mezzogiorno, and the outcome is that the tenets of the moral code are debilitating to change in the sense of moving toward a western democratic form of government. The rules of political morality in the Mezzogiorno dictate that the individual view the government with distrust and attempt to fend for himself. In contrast to Banfield who claims that "political incapacity" is due to "amoral familism", I argue that it is due to the code of political morality at work in the Mezzogiorno. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

Inner-city neighborhoods are being recognized for their potential to contribute visually, economically, and culturally to the urban core. Efforts to revitalize these neighborhoods will need to address the economic, cultural, and social structure of the neighborhood. Resident groups, in particular long-time and newer residents, will likely be affected by the cultural changes that inevitably accompany revitalization. This project explores the processes of community life and place attachment, and their role in fostering healthy communities. Residents, depending on their length of time in the neighborhood, will be at different stages of these processes. Design and planning may support community life and place attachment by understanding this continuum and providing for the processes that engender them. This project began with a review of literature on the subject of inner-city neighborhoods, gentrification, community life, and place attachment. From this literature design and planning criteria were extracted. These criteria were then applied to the Belmont-Fallon neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia, and were evaluated based on the conditions of the neighborhood and levels of attachment of long-time and newer residents. Design implications were developed that may support the process of place attachment within this community. These implications were then illustrated and tested through design. / Master of Landscape Architecture

在過去的十年中，香港出現了大量呼籲保存「本地社區」的社會網絡和文化的社會運動。這些社會運動交織著對政府推行的市區重建項目和政府文物保育政策的批評。這些批評指出政府的政策過度重視經濟發展，進一步加深社會矛盾和弱勢群體的邊緣化。 / 本論文中的社區博物館正是在香港資本主義的城市發展模式下催生而成。為了反對有關城市發展的官方話語和將自己的利益最大化，社區博物館中的各利益持份者，根據他們對當地的歷史和文化的解釋，各自建構他們關於「社區和地方文化」的話語。這些多元的「社區」話語在這個社區博物館的構成，揭示了來自不同社會背景的團體之間的角力。本論文指出該社區博物館的建立和運作，促使分屬各社會階層的團體進行政治協商。他們各自的主張在社區博物館中交流，結果提出了有別於官方著眼經濟的「發展」模式，改以「社區」作本土文化的另一「發展」模式。這過程展示了不同社會階層間的權力流動，以及他們為加強自身的社會的政治影響力和爭奪經濟資源而展開的競爭。 / In the past decade, numerous social movements have emerged in Hong Kong calling for the preservation of social networks and "cultures" of the "local community". These social movements have been interwoven with local critiques of the urban renewal projects and heritage conservation policies implemented by the government. The critiques point out that the government policies overweigh economic development and further increase social disparity and marginalization of disadvantaged groups. The community museum in this study was established in a capitalistic model of urban development in Hong Kong. Various stakeholders construct their own discourses of "community and local culture" in the community museum in order to oppose official discourses about urban development and maximize their own interests. Thus the making of the "community and local culture" in this community museum reveals a negotiation among the parties of different social background. / This research argues that the establishment and operation of the community museum enable groups from different social segments to negotiate and construct their own discourses based on their interpretations of local history and culture. This research also showcases both the power dynamics of different social classes and their competition for their own socio-political influences and economic resources through proposing an alternative model of urban development. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Tsang, Ching Yi. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-209). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.v / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Tables --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Literature Review --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Community Museum: Origin and Concepts --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Museums in Hong Kong --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- The Uses of Community Museums and their Communities --- p.12 / Chapter 1.4 --- Urban Renewal and Class --- p.21 / Chapter 1.5 --- Why Bother the Community Museum? --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Research Objectives, Methodology, and Thesis Structure --- p.34 / Chapter 2.1 --- Research Objectives --- p.34 / Chapter 2.2 --- Methodology --- p.36 / Chapter 2.3 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.42 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Background of the Research --- p.45 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Contexts of the Emergence of the Community Museum --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Wan Chai Building Complex in Wan Chai under Urban Renewal --- p.57 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Development of the Community Museum --- p.69 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- The Professionalization of the Community Museum --- p.87 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Cause of Professionalization under Funding Pressure --- p.87 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Professionals in the Professionalization Process --- p.96 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Show and the Exhibition under Professionalization --- p.105 / Chapter 4.4 --- Discussion --- p.115 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- The Discourses of "Community" and "Development" in the Community Museum --- p.121 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Dichotomized Discourses --- p.121 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Construction of the Discourses --- p.142 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusion --- p.167 / Chapter 6.1 --- “Empowerment in the Community Museum --- p.167 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Structural Constraints and Agency of the "Local Community" --- p.173 / Chapter 6.3 --- The Deepened Political Contents of the Community Museum under Professionalization --- p.181 / Chapter 6.4 --- The Community and the Politics in Hong Kong --- p.188 / Bibliography --- p.196

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Cinematography in the Czech lands went through a dynamic development during first decades of the 20th century. Original nomadic theatres and vaudevilles were replaced by permanent cinemas. The first one of this kind in the Czech lands was opened in 1907 in Brno. Movies became soon one of the most common way of spending free time as it was obtainable to all sorts of public. The biggest amount of movie theatres were obviously located in bigger aglomerations, the highest level of cinemas in Czech lands were concentrated in Prague. Here, in the center of the Czech capital, had also started a new trend of building a big screening halls, for a first time originaly projected only for a cinema purpose. These venues, builded in the 20's of 20th century as a part of commercial and financial palaces, were unique for reason to be premiere cinemas. Owners of majority of these special cinemas got together into a special ellite club called The association of the premiere cinemas. In the first part of this Thesis is will be described a social-culture context of the defined time period, with focus on a life of society in big aglomerations, together with coherencies of the community life and cinematography in the Czech lands. The second part describes work of the Association of the premiere cinematographs - the...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:21:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Luiz Roge Ferreira Grieco 1-34.pdf: 9378074 bytes, checksum: a540c8c997b1230281091e2b2641a24c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-16 / This work proposes study of a new housing typology that in recent years has been recurring in major urban centres both in tissue dispersed as the already consolidated. The typology of Vila, which besides presenting a density greater than the legally permitted in the area in which fall outside these enclaves is grounded by a set of meanings that understand behavioral and marketing spheres. This way the work turns to this phenomenon contemporary assuming understanding historiographical about the beginnings of the design of the ideal of community life, with the utopian Socialists, romantic, the experiences of communities in Europe, North America, trying to understand how this thought was settling in time and space, including as well some cases occurring in Brazil as well as the deployment of the first towns workers at the beginning of the 20th century in the city of Campinas, scenario selected case studies. Continuing the contextualization of the object of study in a second time, propose to the understanding of the process of urbanization and urban fabric configuration of Brazilian contemporary urban centres considering issues such as: the origins of dwellings workers in Brazil, the relationship between Brazil and the rural Urban Brazil, Brazil's role in international economic dynamics and their reflections in spatial conformation of our cities, the establishment of a spatiality where we no longer know what is urban and rural. Also becomes important to the understanding of social dynamics in major urban centres or security issues considering the feeling of lack thereof, of freedom, mobility and forms of consumption, seeking to understand the roots of behavior of contemporary society. Appropriating these references but also issues of market capitalization and constructive legislation relevant to the theme, of systematic marketing that involves sales of ventures was established to study some type VILLAGE condominiums deployed in a particular area of the city of Campinas: the axis of the highway Dom Pedro I from the ring road Mayor clover Magalh?es Teixeira until access to Highway Anhanguera. / Este trabalho prop?e o estudo de uma nova tipologia habitacional que nos ?ltimos anos vem sendo recorrente nos grandes centros urbanos tanto no tecido disperso como no j? consolidado. A tipologia de vila, que alem de apresentar um adensamento maior do que o permitido legalmente na ?rea na qual se inserem estes enclaves ? embasado por um conjunto de significados que compreendem esferas comportamentais e mercadol?gicas. Deste modo o trabalho volta-se para este fen?meno contempor?neo partindo do entendimento historiogr?fico sobre os prim?rdios da concep??o do ideal de vida em comunidade, com os ut?picos socialistas, rom?nticos, as experi?ncias de comunidades na Europa, America do Norte, procurando compreender como este pensamento foi se estabelecendo no tempo e no espa?o, incluindo assim alguns casos ocorridos no Brasil como tamb?m a implanta??o das primeiras vilas oper?rias no come?o do s?culo XX na cidade de Campinas, cen?rio dos estudos de caso selecionados. Dando continuidade a contextualiza??o do objeto de estudo, num segundo momento, propor-se o entendimento do processo de urbaniza??o e configura??o do tecido urbano contempor?neo dos centros urbanos brasileiros considerando quest?es como: as origens das habita??es oper?rias no Brasil, a rela??o entre o Brasil Urbano e o Brasil rural, o papel do Brasil na din?mica econ?mica internacional e seus respectivos reflexos na conforma??o espacial de nossas cidades, o estabelecimento de uma espacialidade onde j? n?o se sabe o que ? urbano e o que ? rural. Tamb?m se torna importante a compreens?o da din?mica social nos grandes centros urbanos considerando quest?es de seguran?a ou a sensa??o de falta dela, de liberdade, mobilidade e formas de consumo, ou seja, procurar entender as ra?zes do comportamento da sociedade contempor?nea. Se apropriando destas referencias como tamb?m de quest?es do mercado de incorpora??o e construtivo, da legisla??o pertinente ao tema, da sistem?tica do marketing que envolve a vendas dos empreendimentos foi estabelecido o estudo de alguns condom?nios do tipo VILA implantados em uma determinada ?rea da cidade de Campinas: o eixo da Rodovia Dom Pedro I compreendido entre o trevo do anel vi?rio Prefeito Magalh?es Teixeira at? acesso ? Rodovia Anhanguera.

by Cathy Yuen. / Bibliography: leaves i-v / Thesis (M.S.W.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1984

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:47:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vilma Machado de Sousa.pdf: 2030184 bytes, checksum: 567b1b9b589cb394a52a95e689e43a75 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-19 / The far-reaching limits of Gerontology field of knowledge confirm the importance of this research, which aims to study the ageing process as related to the concept of ageing well and seeking a good quality of life during old age, considering the community life led by elders on a daily basis. Ten elderly individuals, regulars at Solidarity and Culture Center, residents in Jardim da Conquista neighborhood, Eastern São Paulo City, were selected. A group of 62 to 81 year old male and female individuals answered a survey, which included personal data and semistructured questions about their sociocultural profile and their experience in the Solidarity and Culture Center. The chosen methodology, qualitative approach, focused on investigating the elderly living conditions and how they practice their citizenship skills, exercising their rights in centers for community life. Gerontology and associated fields of knowledge provided theoretical references to support this research. Its findings acknowledged the significant role played by community life in improving the elderly living condition and in changing the way they see their own ageing process. It s worth mentioning that when facing the challenge of living possible and actual ageing experiences on a daily basis, the elderly end up bringing a new meaning to the ageing process / Considerando a amplitude do campo de conhecimentos da Gerontologia entendemos a contribuição desta pesquisa que tem como objeto de estudo a questão do envelhecimento relacionado à ideia de envelhecer bem e viver a fase da velhice com qualidade por meio de convivências comunitárias que integram o cotidiano de pessoas idosas. Os sujeitos deste estudo são os idosos, participantes do Espaço de Cultura e Solidariedade e moradores do bairro do Jardim da Conquista, situado na Zona Leste da cidade de São Paulo. O grupo que participou desta pesquisa foi composto por 10 (dez) idosos, do sexo masculino e feminino, na faixa etária entre 62 e 81 anos. Todos participaram das entrevistas respondendo um questionário, que continham dados de identificação pessoal e perguntas semiestruturadas relativas ao perfil sociocultural e sobre sua participação no Espaço de Cultura e Solidariedade. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados nesta pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa contemplam como focos desta investigação a condição de vida dos idosos quanto ao exercício da sua cidadania e garantia de direitos, com base nos referenciais teóricos da Gerontologia. Os processos de análise dos dados em destaque foram representados por gráficos, a fim de visualizar os resultados da pesquisa que, considerando os aspectos subjetivos, socioculturais e econômicos relacionados ao processo de envelhecimento e os impactos dele decorrente. Os resultados do presente estudo indicam a mudança e a importância da participação do idoso na comunidade