Architecture possesses the potential to elevate one’s intellectual and visceral perceptions from unconscious passings to informed events. The quest for creating events involves an intermediary which promotes the transition from a casual involvement to an active engagement. This intermediary role is that of the experience. By imposing a presence, or creating a sense of place, architecture awakens the mind and stirs the soul. Doing this, the architecture is raised to a higher order, revealing a significance that is true, as something more, not as something else. The making of events through the experience fulfills the aspirations of architecture to unearth the events that dwell in the interaction between place and occasion. / Master of Architecture

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).

The online news industry faces a challenge: Whether online news media can produce enough quality content that generates revenue and profit at a level comparable to traditional media. To meet the challenge, this dissertation applied two economic models, the industrial organization (IO) and the resource-based view of the firm (RBV), to locate the determinants of market performance for the online news industry. Together, the determinants derived from both models explained 19 to 35 percent of variance in market performance among the 208 news sites in the study. Separately, IO's industry variables were twice as powerful as RBV's firm variables in explaining news sites' revenue growth, profitability, and relative performance. A post hoc analysis using a news site's traffic as another dependent variable showed that the importance of the industry and firm effects differs substantially across market performance and traffic. A detailed examination suggested that industry effects were powerful in explaining the extent of news sites' market performance, whereas firm effects were influential in explaining news sites' traffic. However, the study argued that generating traffic should not be news sites' ultimate goal but their relay station; otherwise the solvency challenge remains.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2005. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-265)

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2001. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-118).

Thesis (M.A. in anthropology)--Washington State University, May 2010. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 8, 2010). "Department of Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-77).

This dissertation takes the opportunity to explore an existing building in need of change owing to changing environments. The proposed project is situated within the city context of Pretoria and aims to address the unavoidable nature of architecture, which involves the degradation of buildings over time. The main focus of this study is the concept of waiting, where the city dweller has to endure spending time in everyday surroundings in a built environment. The study attempts to understand the deeper psychological meaning of waiting better in order to provide places that are sympathetic to the waiting person. The aim of this dissertation is to justify the importance of the waiting place and to investigate waiting places in everyday environments, in order to determine physical factors that influence the experience of people while waiting. These factors inform decisions to provide improved facilities within an informal transport system, while generating new functions in response to the behaviour of people in a transit environment. The principles of waiting are exploited to create an environment where the building acts as generator for new infill parts to serve the user. The project envisages a fresh approach to reunite the waiting place and architecture to create a social gathering space. The project’s main goal is to consider the waiting space as one that serves as a transition place for travellers, providing the commuter with the opportunity to orientate and recover from tiring daily activities. The proposed project addresses the needs of the city dweller by means of a renewed building intervention. The changing context required a site related function that serves the user and acts as a support system in the city, facilitating future growth. / Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Architecture / unrestricted

Resumo: A contextualização da ocupação recente do território do Norte Central Paranaense estabeleceu-se com uma colonização sistematizada, tendo como cenário socioeconômico o momento áureo do "Complexo Cafeeiro". O aporte da modernização agrícola, já a partir de fins da década de 1960, intensificando e afirmando, regionalmente, a estruturação do "complexo agroindustrial, oportunizou, a partir da década seguinte, uma reordenação dos arranjos socioeconômicos e socioespaciais, acelerando a reestruturação da rede urbana, a distribuição espacial da situação rural-urbana da população, o declínio da participação relativa da população regional no total do Estado. Sem dúvidas, estas transformações são, em grande parte, decorrentes da definição de Maringá como pólo agroindustrial, com reordenação do setor terciário pautado na relação "capital-trabalho". Esta nova situação liga-se à inserção da região na nova Divisão Internacional do Trabalho imposta pelo capital hegemônico, dirigido aos países centrais, no contexto do processo de globalização da economia. E é nesse quadro que se delineia a análise espacial da produção e da população da região de Maringá, gerando propostas de gestão desses espaços idealizados no METRONOR, METROPLAN e AMUSEP, influenciados pelos fixos e fluxos que constantemente são apresentados e intensificados na estrutura sistematizada entre grau de envolvimento de vários municípios, é nesse mesmo vislumbramento que as cidades de Maringá, Sarandi, Marialva, Mandaguari, Paiçandu, Mandaguaçu, Ângulo e Iguaraçu, foram institucionalizar a Região Metropolitana de Maringá. As aglomerações humanas dessas cidades estabelecem em decorrência de seu porte, intensidades e variações diferenciadas nas comutações estabelecidas entre elas, viabilizadas por novas... (Resumo completo clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The contextualization of the recent occupation of the territory of the Paranaense Central North happened with a systematized colonization, having as a socioeconomic scenery the: Cafeeiro's complex "golden moment". The contribution of the agricultural modernization, starting in the late 60's, intensifying and affirming, regionally, the structuring of the agriculture-industrial comdex, starting in the following decade, lead to a reorientation of the socioeconomic and partner-space arrangements, accelerating the restructuring of the urban net, the space distribution of the rural-urban situation of the population, the decline of the participation of the regional population in the total of the State. Without any doubts, these transformations are, mostly due to the definition of Maringá as an agriculture-industrial pole, with reorientation of the ruled tertiary section in the relationship "capital-work". This new situation links to the insert of the area in the new International Division of the Work imposed by the hegemonic capital, for the central countries, in the context of the process of globalization of the economy. And it is in that picture that the space analysis of the production and of the population of the area of Maringá is delineated, generating proposes of administration of those idealized spaces in METRONOR, METROPLAN and AMUSEP, influenced by the fixed and flow ones that are constantly presented and intensified in the structure systematized among the degree of involvement of several municipal districts, it is in the same view that the cities of Maringá, Sarandi, Marialva, Mandaguari, Paiçandu, Mandaguaçu, Ângulo and Iguaraçu, came to institutionalize the Metropolitan Area of Maringá. The human gatherings of those cities establish due to its load, intensities and variations differentiated in the established commutations among them... (Complete abstract click electronic address below) / Orientador: Dalton Áureo Moro / Coorientador: César Miranda Mendes / Mestre