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This diploma thesis deals with returning of modified troughs of small watercourses to the natural state - revitalisation. The general idea of the river beds and water environment revitalisation will be explained in the theoretical part. It will also deal with its history, development and practical application. The practical part will contain an own project creation. It is a project of the adjusted small watercourses bed revitalisation in the level of study. A section of a fine river was used for this thesis. It is called Žďárský Stream and it belongs to the cadastral area Žďár near the Kaplice. Individual parts of the river and its basin will be mapped in this work. It will also consider the hydrological and geographical conditions and it will propose a technical solving for a local revitalisation of the adjusted river bed. It will ínclude natural factors support, the ecological-morphological improvement, the migrational permeability and other links to the river environment.

Cette thèse traite des transmissions de la langue bretonne en Bretagne (France) éclairées par celles de la langue française en Saskatchewan (Canada), dans les filiations. Dans les deux situations, leurs locuteurs évoluent dans un contexte minoritaire, et la transmission intergénérationnelle n'est plus toujours une évidence. Dans une démarche ethnologique, l'objectif est de comprendre comment les individus s'inscrivent dans une continuité (réelle ou fictive) à partir d'une rupture. Grâce aux discours des informateurs, les représentations des trajectoires intergénérationnelles des deux langues considérées sont précisées et détaillées. Ainsi, plusieurs manières d'envisager les transmissions linguistiques, et par conséquent les origines sont relevées et décryptées. La première s'inscrit dans une logique d'héritage. La langue est perçue comme un objet hérité des générations précédentes, sa pratique s'inscrivant dans la continuité. La deuxième est celle de la patrimonialisation, observable en Bretagne. Les individus revendiquent le breton comme un patrimoine, une « richesse » à préserver. Le lien avec les générations précédentes, devenues des témoins, s'expriment, mais cette fois-ci à partir d'une rupture. Enfin, les langues sont envisagées, notamment pour les institutions qui en ont la gestion, comme des symboles, s'inscrivant dans une troisième logique de transmission, celle de la revitalisation. Le rapport aux origines est modifié et exprimé différemment en Bretagne et en Saskatchewan. / This thesis concerns the transmissions of the Breton language in Brittany (France) and the French language in Saskatchewan (Canada), in the descent. In both cases, the speakers of these two languages live in a minority context, and the intergenerational transmission is not any more obvious. In an anthropological approach, the objective is to understand how the individuals are consistent with the continuity, real or fictitious, from a break. To understand the various logics of present linguistic transmissions, the family trajectories of the Breton and the French are described and analysed, from discourses.So, there are many ways to envisage the linguistic transmissions, and by the same their origins in descent are revealed. The first one is in line with inheritance. The language is perceived as an inherited object of the previous generations, its practice joining the continuity. Another one is to do patrimony, remarkable in Brittany. In this case, the individuals claim the Breton as a patrimony, a thing to be protected, carrier of the cultural diversity. They express a link with the previous generations, but from a break. Finally, the languages can be also envisaged, in particular for the institutions which administer it, as symbols : it's the third logic of transmission, the revitalization. The relationship in the origins is modified and expressed itself differently in Brittany and in Saskatchewan.

Cette thèse traite des transmissions de la langue bretonne en Bretagne (France) éclairées par celles de la langue française en Saskatchewan (Canada), dans les filiations. Dans les deux situations, leurs locuteurs évoluent dans un contexte minoritaire, et la transmission intergénérationnelle n'est plus toujours une évidence. Dans une démarche ethnologique, l'objectif est de comprendre comment les individus s'inscrivent dans une continuité (réelle ou fictive) à partir d'une rupture. Grâce aux discours des informateurs, les représentations des trajectoires intergénérationnelles des deux langues considérées sont précisées et détaillées. Ainsi, plusieurs manières d'envisager les transmissions linguistiques, et par conséquent les origines sont relevées et décryptées. La première s'inscrit dans une logique d'héritage. La langue est perçue comme un objet hérité des générations précédentes, sa pratique s'inscrivant dans la continuité. La deuxième est celle de la patrimonialisation, observable en Bretagne. Les individus revendiquent le breton comme un patrimoine, une " richesse " à préserver. Le lien avec les générations précédentes, devenues des témoins, s'expriment, mais cette fois-ci à partir d'une rupture. Enfin, les langues sont envisagées, notamment pour les institutions qui en ont la gestion, comme des symboles, s'inscrivant dans une troisième logique de transmission, celle de la revitalisation. Le rapport aux origines est modifié et exprimé différemment en Bretagne et en Saskatchewan.

Au moment de sa création, en 1959, la Commission de la capitale nationale (CCN) a pour but d’intégrer les villes de Hull et d’Ottawa, cette union devant symboliser, plus largement, celle des deux peuples fondateurs du Canada. Or, ce projet a provoqué d’importants débats politiques à Hull au fil des années. En se voyant ainsi intégrée à la région de la capitale nationale (RCN), Hull perdait une partie de son autonomie. Cette thèse propose une étude de la CCN pendant la rénovation urbaine de l’Île de Hull des années 1960 et 1970 afin d’y cerner le rôle joué par le débat sur la question nationale. Il s’agit d’un élément moteur de l’action de la CCN. En fait, la question nationale se trouve à plusieurs niveaux de la problématique. Ce sujet peu exploré donne à cette recherche son originalité. En examinant les relations entre les acteurs de la revitalisation du centre-ville, soit la CCN, le conseil municipal de Hull, les regroupements citoyens et le gouvernement du Québec, la thèse opte pour une perspective à la fois politique, institutionnelle et sociale. Un jeu de pouvoir entre les paliers gouvernementaux prend place alors que Hull et Ottawa se disputent les investissements fédéraux. Les citoyens de l’Île de Hull s’engagent dans les assemblées citoyennes et y développent une conscience régionale qui tardait à s’affirmer.

This thesis adopts a Cultural Industries framework to examine how Queensland's arts council network has, through the provision of arts products and services, contributed to the vitality, health and sustainability of Queensland's regional communities. It charts the history of the network, its configuration and impact since 1961, with particular focus on the years 2001 - 2004, envisages future trends, and provides an analysis of key issues which may be used to guide future policies and programs. Analysis is guided by a Cultural Industries understanding of the arts embedded in everyday life, and views the arts as a range of activities which, by virtue of their aesthetic and symbolic dimensions, enhance human existence through their impact on both the quality and style of human life. Benefits include enhanced leisure and entertainment options, and educational, social, health, personal growth, and economic outcomes, and other indirect benefits which enrich environment and lifestyle. Queensland Arts Council (QAC) and its network of branches has been a dominant factor in the evolution of Queensland's cultural environment since the middle of the 20th century. Across the state, branches became the public face of the arts, drove cultural agendas, initiated and managed activities, advised governments, wrote cultural policies, lobbied, raised funds and laboured to realise cultural facilities and infrastructure. In the early years of the 21st century, QAC operates within a complex, competitive and rapidly changing environment in which orthodox views of development, oriented in terms of a left / right, or bottom up / top down dichotomy, are breaking down, and new convergent models emerge. These new models recognise synergies between artistic, social, economic and political agendas, and unite and energise them in the realm of civil society. QAC is responding by refocusing policies and programs to embrace these new models and by developing new modes of community engagement and arts facilitation. In 1999, a major restructure of the arts council network saw suffragan branches become autonomous Local Arts Councils (LACs), analogous to local Cultural Industry support organisations. The resulting network of affiliated LACs provides a potentially highly effective mechanism for the delivery of arts related products and services, the decentralisation of cultural production, and the nurturing across the state of Creative Community Cultures which equip communities, more than any other single asset, to survive and prosper through an era of unsettling and relentless change. Historical, demographic, behavioural (participation), and attitudinal data are combined to provide a picture of arts councils in seven case study sites, and across the network. Typical arts council members are characterised as omnivorous cultural consumers and members of a knowledge class, and the leadership of dedicated community minded people is identified as the single most critical factor determining the extent of an LAC's activities and its impact on community. Analysis of key issues leads to formulation of eight observations, discussed with reference to QAC and LACs, which might guide navigation in the regional arts field. These observations are then reformulated as Eight Principles Of Effective Regional Arts Facilitation, which provide a framework against which we might evaluate arts policy and practice.

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This diploma thesis is about the revitalisation of a degraded, abandoned buildings which are called brownfields. The main objective is a comparison between different approaches to the solution of these areas in the Czech Republic and France. There are two case studies. One of them is a regeneration of a former textile factory in the Nord Pas de Calais region and the second one is a current textile factory in Strakonice. The thesis also contains propositions about new usage. France has more developed ideas because it has more experiences in brownfield transformations, since the seventieth years of the twentieth century. Effective instruments are public organization of land (EPF). The collaboration of the public and private sector is also useful, the completion of the legislative tools of strategic planning and indirect tax tools. The most used instrument for the regeneration of brownfields in France is ZAC. The function of this instrument is based on the preparation of the land for a new development. The Czech Republic is being concerned about this topic since the year 1989 and more intensively in 2000. A lot of brownfields are sorted out, but many of them are still there. The biggest barrier of the revitalisation of brownfields are unresolved property rights. There is a financial aid from the fonds of the Europe Union. The Czech Republic also needs a big support from the public sector.

Individuals and organisations follow a general developmental cycle, that begins with birth, and progresses through growth, maturity, decline and death. While individuals necessarily die after a period of years, organisations may continue through many generations, though they too may die. Once an organisation reaches maturity, it tends toward decline, for sin has corrupted not only men, but all creation (Rms. 8:21-22). Though all things tend toward decay and death, they can be revitalised, for such is the power of God's grace. Like all organisations, the church can become ineffective. Many prefer abandoning the old organisation and starting a new work. Revitalisation may be the better solution, though it is certainly the greater challenge. This project considers the organisational life cycle biblically, historically and contemporarily. It considers how the church grows, and what keeps it from growing. It also considers the merits of creating `new wineskins,' versus revitalising old ones. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)