The corner store represents a significant part of New Orleans' history and neighborhoods. From essential grocery providers to bars and restaurants full of local character, these buildings have held a number of roles in the community. These roles have changed in response to development patterns, market pressures, and land-use regulation. A number of these traditional businesses still exist today as neighborhood cultural institutions throughout the city. Many more, however, have faced conversions to residential buildings, abandonment, or demolition. This case study addresses the significance of the corner store, identifies a number of factors leading to its decline, and suggests that a newly revised Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance in the city of New Orleans should reserve a place for these neighborhood businesses.

Thesis advisor: David Quigley / This thesis will explore the factors that contributed to the enshrinement of the immigrant, in relation to places relevant to the Old World immigrant narrative. The chapters concentrate on the area around New York Harbor, often referred to as "the gateway," where turn-of-the-century immigrants sailed and settled and to where public memory made its return in the late sixties, seventies, and eighties. Public attentiveness to ethnic identity affected the character of historic preservation, prompting the creation of new symbols of American history. Many Americans' own Roots narratives brought them here, to the very place the immigrants began their American stories. Chapter One puts the spotlight on New Jersey, exploring how Jersey City claimed its part in the immigrant narrative, and how the state government organized its multi-ethnic character. Chapter Two opens to the national level, illustrating how the enshrinement of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty Centennial embodied the nationalism that came with the rise of conservatism. Chapter Three surveys immigrant memory in the Lower East Side, the quintessential neighborhood of nations, exploring what the Lower East Side Tenement Museum has done to pay homage to the "urban pioneers" of American history, using the past to affect contemporary immigration issues. The public memory that took shape at these historic sites resulted from not solely a revived interest in Old World ethnicity, but through a combination of factors. This thesis will also show how the ethnic revival helped draw attention to aspects of American life such as urban living, and provoked public discourse and scholarly research to attend to the people that history previously overlooked. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History. / Discipline: History Honors Program.

Thesis advisor: Marilynn Johnson / This study examines widespread efforts to manage the environmental impact of suburbanization in metropolitan America since 1970. Using the Washington, DC area as a site for analysis, I demonstrate how residents, public officials, and organized interests balanced suburban development and environmental protection. Featuring cases from the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, this project considers environmental conflicts resulting from housing, commercial, and highway projects as well as efforts to preserve rural land and farming from suburban encroachment. As metropolitan Washington decentralized, the environmental impact of suburbanization worsened, producing different approaches to managing development and protecting the environment. These responses reflected new social and spatial inequalities, as well as differences in political leadership and civic activism. While communities in Maryland benefited from more progressive public concern, local leadership and strong support from the state for growth management, their counterparts in Virginia struggled to overcome strong and pervasive protections for property rights. This project rewrites our understanding of suburbanization and environmental protection in two ways. First, it urges scholars to rethink a traditional emphasis on federal policies; even in the suburbs of the nation's capital, the active participation of the public at large, as well as officials at the local and state levels, was critical to the success or failure of environmental protection. The present study thus demonstrates how and why different approaches to growth management emerged across metropolitan areas. Second, this study differs from the existing social science literature by moving away from policy analysis to focus on the broader context of decision-making in planning suburban development. Drawing on correspondence, publicity materials, and public testimony from residents, environmental groups, local officials, business organizations, and federal agencies, this study offers a more complete picture of growth management, providing a historically informed and policy relevant argument about environmental protection in metropolitan America. Ultimately, it reveals that even with an unprecedented degree of expansion of state regulation and civic engagement, the legal and cultural regimes surrounding the use of property often continued to privilege private gain over environmental protection as localities competed for economic investment. In a few cases, however, we can see how residents and public officials pursued more holistic forms of growth management in metropolitan America, laying the groundwork for a model of more meaningful public participation to enhance environmental protection in the future. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.

Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional) to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017 / Throughout history, people have remembered their past through the dissemination of knowledge from one generation to the next. This transfer of ideas, history, culture and identity allows for the continuation of narrative to transcend the bounds of time and contribute to a rich memory landscape, that cultivates a unified perception of community memory. This is in turn, directly translated into the physical landscape. Architecture becomes the physical attribute of shared identity, and creates spaces where new memories can be made and the past, remembered. This idea of remembering and creating contextual memory is thus relevant to all people and communities, as it is a core principle in creating consensual outlooks. This premise permeates into the exploration that memory, as a passive device of remembering and an active node of creation and education, is a unifying agent within a community and is directly related to the surrounding architectural space. Cultivating the question of whether there is a correlation between memory and the architectural spaces in which it is created, and to what extent they influence each other? The investigation examines the various facets of memory and recall processes that affect the architectural landscape and in turn shape human perceptions surrounding it. This interplay between memory, architectural memory and human memory is a layered discourse that ultimately resulted in the finding that architecture and memory are linked in the way people remember and use space. The historically rich memory landscape of Fordsburg became the apt site choice which allowed these ideas to grow into an architectural response. This culminated into the idea of combining preschool and exhibition typologies, with specific allowances for photographic and community spaces. These programmes were unified through their relation to memory and the spaces in which they occur. The aim was to unify these programmes and create a space which encouraged learning and community integration, whilst commemorating the history and memory of the past in a dynamic and linked manner. The building aims at creating a positive architectural addition to Fordsburg by addressing the need for education within the community, whilst architecturally responding to facets of the past through the adaptation of the Lilian Road Art Studios, creating a palimpsest of built fabric that speaks to the continuation of memory making in architectural environments. This investigation and resulting building have demonstrated that architecture and memory are linked, and although this may not be the only way to link the two in a manner that speaks to the past, present and future is a response that amply describes the parameters in which they can occur. / GR2017

Il s'agit de l'étude de la dégradation croissante du delta du Saloum au Sénégal à travers la compréhension des impacts des facteurs physiques et anthropiques sur les patrimoines locaux, notamment la nature (faune, flore, sols, etc.). Ainsi, c’est un vrai cercle vicieux qui se manifeste par les influences réciproques négatives entre l'homme et les paysages environnementaux, surtout à l'aire des changements climatiques et de l'accroissement de la pauvreté, qui pèse sur cette aire humide particulière où populations et écologie ont toujours formé un paysage culturel, d’ailleurs classé aujourd'hui patrimoine mondial par l’UNESCO. Mais hélas, de plus en plus menacé, il urge de transformer cette tendance dévastatrice de l’interface homme-nature en un cercle vertueux pour un développement local plus durable. C’est dire, en substance, que les enjeux d'une gouvernance de l’estuaire du Saloum dans la perspective d'une préservation durable des patrimoines sont énormes. / This is the study of the increasing degradation of the Saloum delta in Senegal through the understanding of the impacts of physical and human factors on local heritage, including nature (fauna, flora, soils, etc.). Thus, it is a real vicious circle manifested by the negative reciprocal influences between man and environmental landscapes, especially in the area of climate change and increasing poverty, which weighs on this particular wetland. where populations and ecology have always formed a cultural landscape, which is now classified world heritage by UNESCO. But alas, increasingly threatened, it is urgent to turn this devastating trend of the human-nature interface into a virtuous circle for more sustainable local development. This is to say, in essence, that the stakes of a governance of the Saloum estuary in the perspective of a durable preservation of the patrimonies are enormous.

O patrimônio industrial ferroviário de São Paulo, que está entre os mais ricos e significativos do Brasil, hoje está, em grande parte, legado ao abandono. Apesar da sua importância econômica, social e cultural para a formação do Estado, não tem recebido reconhecimento e apoio oficial suficientes para sua preservação, apenas começando a merecer estudos mais aprofundados. No entanto, as edificações que fazem parte do sistema ferroviário introduziram inovações na construção, materiais e técnicas, nos programas e nas tipologias arquitetônicas. O desenvolvimento e a riqueza paulista, a partir do século XIX, são tributários das ferrovias em todos os aspectos, inclusive o tecnológico e o cultural, o que justifica todos os estudos e pesquisas aprofundados que possam colaborar com a sua preservação. Este trabalho pretende contribuir para a preservação do patrimônio ferroviário paulista através da pesquisa documental, inventário, levantamento, registro e análise dos edifícios destinados às estações de passageiros, identificando sua tipologia, a luz de suas características formais e funcionais - implantação, programa, composição formal, organização espacial, materiais e técnicas construtivas, bem como discutiu-se o estado atual destas edificações e o processo de incompreensão, esquecimento e marginalização pelo qual têm passado. A pesquisa foi direcionada a parte do Tronco Oeste da Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro, que conta com a infraestrutura dos antigos ramais de Agudos, Bauru e Jaú. Adotou-se como estudo de casos os Municípios de Brotas, Torrinha, Dois Córregos, Jaú e Pederneiras, levantando os remanescentes que compõe seu complexo ferroviário, mas debruçando-se principalmente sobre suas estações, edificadas nas primeiras décadas do século XX, de modo a investigar suas características e composição. / The industrial railway heritage of São Paulo, that is one of the richest and most significant in Brazil, currently is, in large part, legacy to the abandon. Despite its economic, social and cultural importance for the formation of the State, has not received sufficient recognition and official support for its preservation, just starting to merit further studies. However, the buildings that are part of the rail system introduced innovations in the construction, materials and techniques, in programs and architectural typologies. The paulista development and wealth, from the nineteenth century, are tributaries of the railroads in all aspects, including the technological and cultural, which justifies all depth studies and research that can assist in their preservation. This study aims to contribute to the preservation of São Paulo railroad heritage through documentary research, inventory, survey, recording and analysis of buildings intended for passenger stations, identifying their type, based in their formal and functional characteristics - deployment, program, formal composition, spatial organization, materials and construction techniques, and also discussed the current state of these buildings and the misunderstanding, forgetfulness and marginalization process which they have passed. The research was directed at part of the Trunk Western of the Companhia Paulista Railways, which relies on the infrastructure of the old extensions of Agudos, Bauru and Jau. It was adopted as studies case the Municipalities of Brotas, Torrinha, Dois Córregos, Jau and Pederneiras, raising the remnants that make up its railroad complex, but leaning mostly on their stations, built in the first decades of the twentieth century, investigating their characteristics and composition.

Esta investigação tem como objetivo central discutir aspectos da historiografia da música popular brasileira na segunda metade do século XX, por meio da trajetória de instituições públicas e privadas voltadas à preservação da memória e ao estímulo e defesa da música popular. O engajamento na luta contra sua descaracterização ganhou força à medida que crescia a penetração da cultura estrangeira através dos meios de comunicação. O processo de institucionalização da história da música teve início com a fundação do Museu da Imagem e do Som do Rio de Janeiro (MIS-RJ), em 1965, a partir da aquisição de um vasto arquivo organizado pelo radialista Almirante nas décadas anteriores. A partir do MIS-RJ, um grupo de especialistas no tema passou a se reunir sob a guarda de um órgão público para propor medidas de proteção e zelo com relação a memória musical. Em 1975, a Fundação Nacional de Artes (Funarte) iniciou seus trabalhos com objetivo de preservar e estimular o elemento nacional na cultura brasileira. Em seus quadros, foi criada a Divisão de Música Popular, responsável pela execução de programas de estímulo à memória da música, como o Projeto Pixinguinha e o Projeto Lúcio Rangel de Monografias. A Funarte também apoiou a criação da Associação dos Pesquisadores da MPB (APMPB), que teve papel relevante, durante a década de 70, ao reunir diversos estudiosos da música popular para refletir seus problemas e enviar proposições ao governo federal. Essa ampliação também foi realizada pela coleção História da Música Popular Brasileira, da Editora Abril, que se tornou importante referência no processo de consolidação da memória da música popular. Ao lançar fascículos que acompanhavam discos, críticas e biografias de nomes da música brasileira, a coletânea não só estimulou a música, mas também alimentou as bases de acervos dedicados ao tema. Ao refletir sobre a trajetória destas instituições, essa investigação busca compreender em sua dimensão histórica a construção de uma narrativa historiográfica que, alicerçada em instituições do Estado ou privadas, passou a ser lida como a história oficial da música popular brasileira. / The main objective of this research is the discussion of the historiography issues of Brazilia n popular music in the late 20th century, by means of the trajectory of public and private institutions focused on the memory preservation and on the stimulus and defense of popular music. The engagement in the struggle against its decharacterization gained strength as the foreign culture penetration grew through the media. The music history institutionalizing process began with the creation of the Museum of Image and Sound of Rio de Janeiro (MIS-RJ) in 1965, by the acquisition of a vast organized archive by the broadcaster Almirante in the previous decades. Since MIS-RJ, a group of experts in the theme started to meet under the protection of a public department which proposed protection actions and zeal in relation to the musica l memory. In 1975, the National Foundation of Arts (Funarte) began its works aiming to preserve and to stimulate the national element in the Brazilian culture. The Popular Music Division was created in the Funarte structure, responsible for the execution of music memory stimula t ion programs, as the Projeto Pixinguinha and the Projeto Lúcio Rangel de Monografias. Funarte also supported the creation of the MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) Researchers Association which had an important role at the 1970s, gathering several popular music experts to reflect their own problems and send proposals to the federal government. This expansion was also made by the collection História da Música Popular Brasileira, edited by Abril, which became reference in the popular music memory consolidation. Launching issues including discs, criticisms and biography of Brazilian music musicians, the collection not only stimulated the music, but also fed the basis of collections dedicated to the theme. Reflecting over this trajectory, this investigation aims to understand the construction of an historiographic narrative concerning its historical dimension that based in the private or state institutions started to be read as the official history of Brazilian popular music.

Este trabalho analisa a questão do uso na preservação do patrimônio industrial ativo com base nas teorias do campo da preservação a partir do tombamento pelo CONPRESP de três bens na cidade de São Paulo: Vidraria Santa Marina (atual Saint - Gobain) em 2009; Companhia Goodyear do Brasil (antiga Fábrica Maria Zélia) em 1992; e a Companhia Melhoramentos de São Paulo em 2009. A pesquisa se debruçou sobre a complexidade da relação entre o caráter dinâmico da atividade industrial que exige constantes adaptações tecnológicas e o respeito às teorias e cartas patrimoniais. A pesquisa buscou levantar, por um lado, o significado da idéia de patrimônio para os proprietários e, de outro, o conhecimento do processo produtivo por parte dos órgãos de preservação, identificando aí uma das razões de conflito. / This study examines the issue of use in the preservation of active industrial heritage based on the theories of the field of preservation considering three example listed by CONPRESP in the city of São Paulo: Vidraria Santa Marina (now Saint - Gobain) in 2009; Companhia Goodyear do Brasil (the ancient Fábrica Maria Zélia) in 1992; and Companhia Melhoramentos de São Paulo in 2009. The research has focused on the complexity of the relationship between the dynamic nature of industrial activity which requires often technological adaptations and theories and international documents about preservation heritage. The research seeks for, in one hand, the meaning of the idea of heritage for the owners, and in the other, the knowledge about the industrial process production by preservation public agencies, identifying here reasons for conflict.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as tipologias arquitetônicas nas estações da Sorocabana. Foram estudados vinte e cinco exemplares escolhidos de forma a dar representatividade a pesquisa. Os edifícios selecionados pertencem a diferentes regiões e épocas em que a estrada de ferro atuou, de forma a fornecer os mecanismos de substituições de estações e semelhanças ocorridas segundo a tipologia adotada. A analise do corpo de edifícios possibilitou a organização em séries e a sua catalogação em fichas. / This study aims to understand the architectural typologies in the Sorocabana Railway Stations. The research made a selection of twenty five buildings to give representation to work. The select buildings belongs to differents regions and periods where the railroad served, in order to provide the mechanisms of stations replacement and similarities occured according to architectural typologies adopted. The analysis of the set of buildings allowed the organization in series and its cataloging records.

Segundo o Censo do ano 2.000, em torno de 31% dos municípios do Estado de São Paulo possuem populações entre 10.000 e 50.000 habitantes, tornando-se assim a larga maioria dos municípios de pequeno e médio porte em relação aos 15,5% de municípios com mais de 50.000 habitantes; ao mesmo tempo, esta maioria é também a menos conhecida em termos de sua criação, evolução enquanto sistema urbano, tornando impraticável um planejamento que vise a sua proteção enquanto patrimônio urbano e arquitetônico e a sua expansão futura de modo ordenado. A região em estudo é constituída por uma rede de pequenas cidades, que surgem como decorrência de diferentes fatores: a) fixação dos \'torna viagem\', provenientes em sua maioria de Minas Gerais; b) a expansão da lavoura cafeeira; c) a chegada da ferrovia; d) ações governamentais, tais como a implantação de núcleos coloniais; e) desmembramento de grandes fazendas. Apesar das origens diversas, essas cidades fazem parte de um grupo resultante de um ideário urbanístico análogo, e reagiram em maior ou menor grau a eventos como a substituição da cultura cafeeira e a desativação e erradicação da ferrovia em detrimento da opção nacional pelo transporte rodoviário, com o início do processo de redistribuição dos fluxos de transporte das antigas linhas de ferro para as rodovias, reconfigurando as relações de identidade e interdependência dessas localidades. Entre as cidades pertencentes à zona de estudos que conseguiram um maior desenvolvimento econômico, seus núcleos centrais vem passando por um processo de decadência e deterioração, graças às contradições em seus processos de desenvolvimento, resultando em distorções e na perda da qualidade de seus espaços e conseqüentemente na qualidade de vida. Nas cidades menores, as áreas centrais foram \'preservadas pela pobreza\', sendo que na maioria delas, as instituições mais importantes ainda estão ali localizadas, o que não impede que seu patrimônio arquitetônico seja descaracterizado e substituído por falta de legislação específica para suas necessidades e características. Além da perda do patrimônio arquitetônico, também vem se perdendo os valores e costumes da região, resultando em atitudes equivocadas em relação à realidade física local. Entende-se como necessário um resgate desses valores patrimoniais, principalmente uma maior divulgação da história local aos seus habitantes, a fim de contribuir para a sua ressignificação. Por acreditarmos que a produção espacial urbana do passado tem vínculos estreitos com o presente, configurando-se como um referencial histórico, e a sua degradação e desvalorização implicam na perda da identidade cultural e da qualidade de vida de toda a região em estudo, o presente trabalho pretende contribuir para a preservação do patrimônio ambiental urbano das cidades de Dourado e Nova Europa, mas de forma flexível e que possa servir de referência para as demais cidades da região. / According to the 2000 Census, about 31% of the cities in the state of São Paulo have populations between 10,000 and 50,00 inhabitants, thus pointing that small and medium cities outnumber the 15.5% of cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants. Yet at the same time, this majority is the least understood in terms of its creation and development as an urban system, which render unfeasible any kind of planning that aims at protecting them as urban and architectural heritage and their future expansion in an organized manner. The area studied is comprised by a number of small towns which have appeared as result of a variety of factors: a) the settlement of the torna viagem, mostly coming from the state of Minas Gerais; b) the expansion of the coffee culture; c) the advent of railways; d) government actions, such as the implementation of colonial centers; e) the division of large farms. Despite their different origins, these towns belong to a group that results from an analog urban ideology, and reacted with more or less intensity to happenings such as the replacement of coffee culture and the extinction of railways due to a national option for highways. That was the beginning of a process of redistribution in transport flows from railways to highways, which redesigned the relations of identity and interdependence of such locations. Among the cities in the studied area that managed to achieve greater economic development, their cores have been experiencing a process of decadence and decay due to the contradictions found in their development history, thus resulting in distortions and a quality loss in physical space and life quality. In small towns, central areas were \"protected from poverty\" and most of them are still the home for the most important institutions, which nonetheless does not prevent the architectural heritage from being decharacterized and replaced, due to a lack of specific legislation to meet its needs and characteristics. This loss encompasses not only the architectural heritage but also local customs and values, whose outcome is reflected in erroneous attitudes toward the local physical reality. The revival of these heritage values is deemed as necessary, especially for the promotion of the local history to citizens in order to help them re-understand it. Because we believe that the past urban space production is strictly bonded to the present as a historical reference and its degradation and impairment represent a loss of cultural identity and quality of life all over the area studied, this paper intends to contribute to the protection of the urban environment heritage of the cities of Dourado and Nova Europa, yet in a flexible manner which can also serve as further reference for other cities in the region.