Thesis (M.Arch.(Prof.))--University of Pretora, 2005. / Includes summary. Includes bibliograpy. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.Arch.)(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Includes summary. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Ma recherche se situe à la croisée d'un ensemble de questions complexes que sont la genèse et les pratiques de la mémoire collective, les lieux en tant que chargés de significations sociales et les espaces en tant que cadres sociaux de la mémoire (M Halbwachs). Il s'agit des motivations individuelles partagées, à travers lesquelles la mémoire collective se maintient et trouve des traductions diverses, épousant chaque fois des situations nouvelles, là où les membres du collectif se trouvent réunis. Une dynamique dans laquelle l'espace, la religion et même la langue ne seront que des outils, mobilisés pour construire et puis maintenir cette mémoire. Ce faisant, je me rattache à une littérature en expansion qui cherche à montrer l'extrême importance, pour la compréhension de cette mémoire collective, de facteurs comme le lieu, le lien social et l'expérience narrative (Blokland, 2001 ). C'est avec des immigrés originaires de la même ville algérienne, située à 400 km au sud d'Alger, qui se sont regroupés en partie dans la banlieue sud de Lyon et d'autres dans la ville d'Alger que j'entreprendrai mon analyse. Depuis le début du XX ème siècle, plusieurs générations d' immigrés se sont succédé à Lyon comme à Alger, marquant le paysage urbain, social et même politique des lieux de leurs implantations. Sans apparente organisation, ni protocole laissé par des ancêtres dictant leurs conduites, les uns comme les autres ont montré une ubiquité socio-spatiale qui raisonne fortement avec la ville d'origine. Tout au long de la recherche, j'étais confronté à une trame de pratiques de mémoire qui consistait à faire la navette entre le présent et le passé, l' individuel et le collectif. / My research is at the cross of a set of complex issues that are the genesis and the practices of the collective memory, the places charged of social signification, and the spaces being social frames of the memory (M Halbwachs). It is a question of shared individual motivations, through which the collective memory is maintained and finds different translations,married up every time to a new situation, where the members of the collective are gathered. A dynamic where the space,the religion and even the language will be only tools, mobilized to build and keep the memory alive. Thus, I use an expanding literature seeking to show the extreme importance of understanding this collective memory, of factors such as the location, the social link and the narrative experience (Blokland, 2001; Mistral, 2003).The researchis based upon immigrants from the same algerian hometown, located about 400 km from the capital Algiers (south of Algiers), who gathered mainly in the suburbs south of Lyon and others in Algiers. Since the beginning of the20th century, several generations of immigrants have corne successively to Lyon and Algiers, leaving its mark on the urban, social and even political landscape of their location. Without any apparent organization, or any protocol bequeathed by their ancestors, all of them have shown a socio-spatial ubiquity that goes strongly with the original hometown. Through the research, I have been confronted to a number of memory practices that consisted in commuting between the present and the past, the individual and the collective.

“Places are not local things. They are moments in large-scale things, the large-scale things we call cities. Places do not make cities. It is cities that make places. The distinction is vital. We cannot make places without understanding the cities.” (Hillier 1996:151) This dissertation investigates the theoretical and practical importance of creating social spaces in the city. In distinguishes between public spaces (spaces that are merely accessible to society) and social spaces (spaces that encourage encounters between strangers), social space is identified as an integrating space that accommodates, adapts and relates to surrounding spaces. This contrasts public space whose only criteria is often that it is an open space. A theoretical argument explores the concept of ‘publicness’ in space and identifies practical design principles that reflect this concept. The physical locality of the project is then analysed where problems within the fabric of the city are identified. A series of local urban interventions, constituting a regional intervention for the Johannesburg CBD, are presented as a solution to these problems and a single intervention is then focused on. The design process documents the transmitting of knowledge into object form; design decisions are made intentionally and the final product is evaluated according to a set of interrogated design criteria. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / unrestricted

This project examines the role of daylight and illumination in the design of urban public space. It explores the 'civic urban public space' in its form as well as its social, health, economic and economic value. It also explores past and present studies in light psychology. Lastly this project examines the history of light - from sun celebration and ritual to the rise of public illumination. The site design proposes one way in which light can enhance the identity, use and health of a plaza in the City of Langley. It emphasizes that plaza design must combine an innovative use of daylight and shadow, as well as illumination. The proposed design uses cycles of the sun and shadow, multifunctional use of illumination, and a variety of light levels and elements. The design aspires to reduce light pollution, demonstrate sustainable technologies and enhance 'sense of community'. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

This thesis is a study of public spaces with a focus on personal safety and human behavior in public spaces. It establishes literature in the realm of public spaces, safety standards, and behavioral research and aims to identify common ground or conflicts between people behavior in public spaces and safety standards of public spaces. Research is supported through detailed on-site analysis and various techniques of behavioral research of two plazas in a campus setting. The first part of the research focuses on literature to understand origin of public space, importance of safety, and evolution of safety standards in the context of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). The later part of this thesis is based on preliminary site investigations, which help in identifying two public plazas on the Virginia Tech campus to provide a platform to conduct research and help identify common grounds or conflicts between safety standards and human behavior. The research also aims to help revise techniques of safety evaluation of public spaces, based on human needs and behavior. The research is primarily qualitative in nature supported with a concise quantitative data analysis to ascertain participant demographics and social needs. / Master of Landscape Architecture

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 / ABSTRACT The aim of this dissertation is to explore alternative ways of looking at architecture through the use of theory, the type of theory, alternative building programme development, representing architecture and how architecture is implemented. By doing so, an intervention is designed to expose various social truths, stimulating self reflection and adding value to the Alexandra-Sandton corridor context. This research project utilises the spirit of carnivals as subversive and radical events to change a community’s behaviour. This dissertation explores Bakhtin’s theory of the “carnivalesque”. This theory was used as the theoretical framework based on four characteristics. Throughout the research process these are used to analyse site context and create an intervention. The four carnivalesque characteristics are: - Usurping of hierarchies; - Pushing taboos; - Unusual connections; - Eccentric behaviour. The social inequalities along the Alexandra-Sandton corridor are broken down into every day activities and juxtaposed to amplify and expose hidden rules that we have come to accept in Johannesburg. The intervention acts as a commentary on the future connection of the two contrasting communities for spectacle and self reflection, transcending the everyday experience into a surreal playground through virtual reality and other means. Architecturally, Social Fiction has three main design strands 1. Theoretical exploration; 2. Architecture as emotional stimulus; 3. Virtual reality as fictional representation. Social Fiction is a project that bridges architecture, politics, socioeconomics and philosophy, using the medium of virtual reality and comic book fantasy as an open and accessible way, challenging the traditional plan, section elevation as a means of communication. / GR2017

李祖喬. / "2009年1月". / "2009 nian 1 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-93). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Li Zuqiao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 序 --- p.3 / Chapter 第二章 --- 消失的空間，及維園的公共空間政治 --- p.7 / Chapter 第三章 --- 一個現代公園的誕生一一作爲紀念性空間的維園 --- p.28 / Chapter 第四章 --- 等同邏輯、差異邏輯與殖民領導權 --- p.45 / Chapter 第五章 --- 總結 --- p.83 / 參考書目 --- p.87

This dissertation examines the production and experience of class and racial distinctions in contemporary Mexico City by focusing on encounter and proximity between different social groups in the country's most emblematic urban center. It draws on eighteenth months of ethnographic fieldwork with artists and young professionals living in the city's historic center as part of a public-private redevelopment plan locally known as the "rescue." Led by multimillionaire Carlos Slim, this endeavor has been framed as an initiative of civil society to recover the symbolic heart of the nation from crime and illegality while transforming it into a secure and livable space for all Mexicans. The rescue mobilizes a neoliberal idiom of the modern (associated in Mexico and across the world with democracy and responsible citizenship, a retreating state and a free market economy) and epitomizes the illegibility of public and private distinctions. I focus on moments of encounter between the historic center's new affluent residents, on the one hand, and the inhabitants of its dilapidated tenements and the vendors of its informal street markets, on the other. Such encounters slide into suspicion, uncertainty, instability and misrecognition. In focusing on encounter I trace new residents' desire for commonality, for an "all of us" in the historic center (a recognition as urban dwellers or as fellow citizens), and their anxieties about the very possibility of this commonality. Such situated fears, I argue, articulate with longstanding elite apprehensions in Mexico about the popular masses, historically construed as the embodiment of the national subject and at the same time as the manifestation of atavistic residues. In the discourses and practices of different agents of rescue (new residents, the police, private investors and state officials) these masses figure at once as subjects to be redeemed and as plainly irredeemable others, unfit for the requirements of modern democratic citizenship. The dissertation thus traces relations between new residents' quotidian fears of crime and violence in the socially mixed spaces of the historic center on the one hand, and contemporary debates and anxieties over liberal democracy, citizenship and social belonging, on the other.

Hung, Jimmy. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2002-2003, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 87). / Chapter 1. --- INITIATIVE & INSPIRATION OF THE THESIS / Chapter 1.1 --- Preface --- p.001 - 002 / Chapter 1.2 --- Issues Raised from General Observation --- p.003 - 007 / Chapter 1.3 --- North Point as Preliminary Case Study --- p.008 - 011 / Chapter 2. --- """BRAINSTORMING"" SESSION FOR FIGURING OUT SPECIFIC ISSUE TO BE STUDIED" / Chapter 2.1 --- Preliminaiy Framework of the Issue Study --- p.012 - 015 / Chapter 2.2 --- Possible Case Studies among Different Urban Fabrics Having Different Conditions for Public Open Spaces --- p.016 - 018 / Chapter 2.3 --- "Ref. Materials - Pu Mioa Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities, 191-211" --- p.019 / Chapter 2.4 --- Ref. Materials - Roger Trancilc Finding Lost Space --- p.020 - 021 / Chapter 2.5 --- Ref. Materials - Miscellaneous --- p.022 / Chapter 3. --- ISSUE SPECIFIED: INSERTION OF VOIDS / CRAFTED OUT SPACES IN HONG KONG URBAN CONTEXT / Chapter 3.1 --- Social Significance and Unique Qualities of Pu blic Open Space in View of Urban Life --- p.023 - 026 / Chapter 3.2 --- """Urban Voids"" as ""Pausing Nodes"" towards ""Media Layer of Strangers""" --- p.027 - 028 / Chapter 3.3 --- Specific Case Study --- p.029 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Hennessy Road Playground --- p.030 - 032 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Nullah Road Garden ( Prince Edward Road ) --- p.033 - 035 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Palley Park ( New York City) --- p.036 - 037 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Victoria Park (Causeway Bay) --- p.038 - 043 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Tai Pei Sq. & Yl Pei Sq. (Tsuen Wan ) --- p.044 - 047 / Chapter 3.3.6 --- Lek Yuen Playground (Shatin ) --- p.048 - 053 / Chapter 4. --- SITE ANALYSIS - NORTH POINT AS DISTRICT FOR REAL CASE STUDY / Chapter 4.1 --- Out Line Zoning Plan --- p.054 - 055 / Chapter 4.2 --- Pattern of Urban Fabric --- p.056 - 057 / Chapter 4.3 --- """District Core"" of North Point - Studied Area" --- p.058 - 059 / Chapter 5. --- STRATEGIES FOR THE SELECTION OF SITE WITHIN THE STUDIED AREA / Chapter 5.1 --- Urban Structure of Central North Point --- p.060 / Chapter 5.2 --- Strategies Towards Existing Urban Structure - --- p.061 / Chapter 5.3 --- Qualities of Voids to be Imposed --- p.062 / Chapter 5.4 --- Building Sites Likely to be Chosen for Insertion of Voids --- p.063 / Chapter 6. --- PROJECT DESIGN OF THE 3 SPECIFIC VOIDS / Chapter 6.1 --- Design Methodologies --- p.064 - 068 / Chapter 6.2 --- Void No.1 Design Details --- p.069 - 074 / Chapter 6.3 --- Void No.2 Design Details --- p.075 - 080 / Chapter 6.4 --- Void No.3 Design Details --- p.081 - 086 / Chapter 7. --- REFERENCE MATERIALS --- p.087 / Chapter 8. --- COMPLIMENT --- p.088