Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes special report study entitled: Victorian Garden : with case studies of roof gardens. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis explores the theoretical, psychological, and phenomenological notions of the singular personal memory and the collective memory through civic architecture. The main design guidelines are inspired by the ancient teachings on the mnemonics of rhetoric and the phenomenology of the imagination. This thesis uses architecture and space as a medium to be an interpretative tool of narrating the sequential event of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Architecture as an art form can deliberately be created to mimic, represent, and express key moments of an event, which when experienced individually through the duality between body, memory, and light, the personal memory becomes the primary mode of story-telling. The civic collective memory is always changing dependent on time and intentional involvement. These processes are recorded through theoretical texts, drawings, and physical models that serve as interpretive tools for the haptic dialectics of memory, imagination, phenomenology, and the play on atmospheric emotions.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, Ill., 1997. / This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #077-0027. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-225).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, Ill., 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-225).

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes special report study entitled : Victorian Garden : with case studies of roof gardens. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Municipalities throughout the country are increasingly seeking out innovative partnerships with the private sector to acquire, operate, and/or maintain public parks. An example of this is found in Lafayette, Louisiana, where Lafayette Consolidated Government recently purchased a 100-acre farm from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and collaborated with community leaders to form a public-private partnership with a new non-profit, Lafayette Central Park, Inc. This entity is currently undertaking the necessary steps to lease, plan, design, fund, build, operate, and maintain a new community park on the property. This report explores the history of public-private partnerships found within park administration, as well as the myriad legal, organizational, and financial structures in place within those partnerships. The research also highlights potential benefits and drawbacks to these partnerships, found within four case studies in the Southeast, as well as through precedents found in previous research. The four case studies are Audubon Park and City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memorial Park and Discovery Green in Houston, Texas. The insights, challenges, and best practices found through the examination in this report are used to create a series of recommendations for the fledgling non-profit organization, Lafayette Central Park, for both short-term and long-term success. / text

「社基保育」（Community-Based Conservation）是強調「由下到上」（bottom-up）的自然資源管理模式。透過在地民眾的參與（participation），不僅減少政府在自然資源管理的支出，形成為社區居民認可的資源管理模式；更重要的，透過居民參與，社基保育連結地方自治（self-governance）與民主（democracy），實踐公共財合產（coproduction）與增效（synergy）的效果。因此社基保育不僅有生態保育的優勢，更有政治與經濟面的討論意義。 以往對社基保育的研究，多以鄉村或原住民地區的資源管理為研究範例，這些地區藉由居民的共議或傳統文化，獲得居民認同，刺激居民主動參與。然而若將研究焦點轉向都市地區，社基保育能否發揮相同功效？透過本研究的兩個案例—台北市富陽自然生態公園與台南市巴克禮紀念公園，社基保育在都市社區中仍有實行的可能。但相較鄉村與原民社區，都市社基保育的參與者更多，彼此溝通協調需要更多成本，形成集體行動也更不容易。本研究兩個案例中的里長，皆發揮動員居民的功能，並代表居民和其他參與者如政府、非營利組織溝通，降低居民參與的成本，營造居民集體行動的雛形。而政府、非營利組織與居民在社基保育過程中的關係，將影響社基保育能否達成在地落實的目標。 / Community-Based Conservation is the model emphasizing “bottom-up” power of managing natural resources. It reduces the government’s cost of resource management, and becomes a widely accepted model by the locals through their participation. Furthermore, it combines Coproduction, Synergy, local Self-Governance, and Democracy Governance through the locals’ direct participation. Therefore, Community-Based Conservation not only has advantage in ecological conservation, but also shows importance in politics and economics. Previously, the researches on Community-Based Conservation often take resource management models in rural and indigenous areas as their cases. These models obtain the residents’ identity and stimulate their active participation by their discussion or the influence of traditional culture. But if we transfer the researches’ focus to urban areas, can Community-Based Conservation play the same role? Through the two cases in this thesis: Fuyang Eco Park in Taipei and Barclay Memorial Park in Tainan, it is possible to implement Community-Based Conservation in urban areas. However, compared with rural and indigenous areas, there are more participators in urban areas. It costs more to make them coordinate and communicate with each other well. Consequently, it is very important to inspire the locals to participate in Community-Based Conservation. In these two cases, both Neighborhood magistrates construct the model by mobilizing the residents, communicating with different participators such as the government, non-profit organizations, and reducing the cost of their participation. The relationship between the government, non-profit organizations and the residents in the process of Community-Based Conservation will affect the fulfillment in urban areas.

本論は、広島の平和記念施設の敷地において、原爆ドーム前身の物産陳列館設立（1915）から慰霊碑後方の「平和の灯」設置（1964）まで、一貫して、平和ではなく繁栄を目指す造営と展示がなされてきたことを明らかにした。また、原爆ドームは、慰霊碑がある南からの眺めでは、原爆犠牲者の象徴のように見做されるのに対し、原爆スラムがあった北からの相貌では、被曝後を生きるものとして捉えられていたことを指摘した。以上のことから、現代における記念碑の意味を問い直した。 / In this dissertation I revealed that there had been consistently construction and exhibitions aimed at prosperity rather than peace, from the establishment of the product display hall (1915), the predecessor of the Atomic Bomb Dome to the setting up of the "Peace Flame" behind the cenotaph (1964) on the site where the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Facility is located. In addition, it was pointed out that the atomic bomb dome was regarded as a symbol of the victims of the atomic bomb in the view from the south where the cenotaph is located, and the appearance from the north where the atomic bomb slum was made to live after exposure. From the above, the meaning of the monument in the present age was questioned again. / 博士(芸術学) / Doctor of Philosophy in Art Theory / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University