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)

L’objectif recherché par cette étude est de définir l'état des lieux de l'aménagement (normativisation) de la langue amazighe et de son enseignement au Maroc, de manière à montrer si les méthodes adoptées et les réalisations concrétisées contribuent à la revitalisation de cette langue, très longtemps minorée et cantonnée dans l’oralité, mais qui connaît depuis peu un "important" regain d'intérêt tant de la société que de l'Etat. Ce qui lui confère un nouveau statut, renforcé par la toute récente officialisation que lui a accordée la nouvelle constitution du pays (juillet 2011).Notre problématique a été formulée ainsi : "Normativisation et enseignement de la langue amazighe au Maroc : état des lieux, méthodes et réalisations". Le corpus que nous avons soumis à l'analyse est constitué de documents divers conçus jusqu’à présent par différentes instances éducatives en faveur de l’enseignement/apprentissage de l'amazighe récemment intégré au système éducatif marocain. Nous avons analysé des références institutionnelles, des outils pédagogiques et didactiques (orientations pédagogiques officielles, curricula, ouvrages de références en linguistique et en didactique, manuels scolaires, modules de formation, rapports d'inspection, fiches pédagogiques, …).Nous avons, par ailleurs, mené une enquête de terrain visant à (i) consulter les principaux acteurs éducatifs, (ii) effectuer des observations de classes amazighes dans les différents niveaux où la langue est enseignée pour étudier l’impact des méthodes adoptées.En somme, l'étude a révélé des acquis non négligeables, mais encore perfectibles, pour ce qui concerne l'aménagement et l'enseignement de la langue amazighe au Maroc. Toutefois, son implantation dans les différents domaines de la vie publique demeure problématique pour des raisons notamment sociopolitiques. / The present study aims at defining the inventory of the amazighe language planning (standardization) and its teaching in Morocco, with a view to showing if the adopted methods and the attained achievements contribute to the revitalization of this language which has long been undervalued and confined to orality, but which has recently enjoyed “significant" renewed interest both from the society and the State. This newly conferred status has been reinforced by its very recent officialization granted by the new constitution of the country (July 2011).The research issue has been framed as follows: " Standardization and teaching of the Amazighe language in Morocco: methods, inventory and achievements".The corpus we have submitted for analysis consists of various documents designed so far by various educational authorities in favour of teaching/training of the amazighe language which has recently been integrated into the Moroccan education system. We analyzed institutional references, educational and didactic tools (official teaching guidelines, teaching methodologies, curricula, reference books in linguistics, school handbooks, training modules, surveys, pedagogical material, teaching cards …).In addition, we carried out a field survey aiming at consulting the main educational actors, and conducting classroom observations at the various levels where amazighe is taught to study the impact of the adopted methods.All in all, the study has revealed significant, yet still perfectible achievements, concerning the standardization and the teaching of amazighe in Morocco. However, its establishment in the various fields of the public life still remains problematic notably for socio-political reasons.

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.

Water is an integral part of our life and waterways and areas were and still are an essential part of the public space of our cities and municipalities. We can find public space in every seat and we meet with the water on many of them. The water in public spaces appears in a different form. Whether these are minor elements, such as fountains, drinking water features, or larger water flows and water area. The water in the public space has its indispensable role. It is well known that its presence has a great impact on the well-being of man. Despite the fact that water is really important in the Interior of human settlements, over the years, water has disappeared on many places from public spaces, due to the technical development and development of settlements. The development of human settlements and public spaces takes place constantly from the time they were established. In recent years, the viewpoint of their importance is significantly changing and lot of the seats are aware of their value. The public space is like a living room of the city, thus a representative place. That´s why, the reconstructions of public space are quite often in recent years with use of water elements. The phenomenon of water surfaces is a factor which affecting the sustainable development and quality of life. Public space is not only an important functional element in the big cities. It has a great importance for smaller municipalities too. And just on them the thesis is focused. Their public space is often neglected. As well as water features in the surrounding area, which are uncared-for or extinct. Water in the form of water courses or water bodies have a great potential, in which a lot of possibilities is hidden, with which you can work in the urbanized areas. The goal of this thesis is to find a new role for the watercourses and water areas to be integrated into public space and public space, thanks to this, become a representative and functional part of the village once again.

Ayant entrepris durant l’année 2019 un terrain ethnographique dans les monts d’Auvergne (et régions périphériques du Massif Central), plusieurs thématiques actuelles des Langues en Danger - thème de plus en plus central dans les études contemporaines d’anthropologie linguistique - seront ici soulevées et discutées. La langue auvergnate est un dialecte nord-occitan situé dans une aire marginale et périphérique de l’aire culturelle occitane, tout autant que de l’espace centralisé français, ce qui fait d’elle à bien des égards, le « patois du patois ». Elle est classée par l’UNESCO parmi les langues les plus menacées d’Europe. Basant ce travail de mémoire sur les questions d’usages linguistiques, je discute des registres, des représentations et des formations socio-culturelles rendus possibles par une action à la fois politique et poétique. Se trouvent au rendez-vous les intellectuels et académiciens de la normativité, les bourgeois-bohèmes du romantisme des derniers locuteurs et, toujours, les « grands absents du discours sur la langue » que sont les locuteurs naturels. Cette série de trois terrains situés à des saisons culturelles différentes, valorise l’approche des fêtes de village, des veillées nocturnes, des assemblées politiques et associatives occitanistes, des cafés urbains anarchistes ou ouvriers dans lesquels la langue se parle à l’heure de l’apéritif ; tout cela dans cet objectif de connoter des usages disruptifs et d’évoquer ces intérêts en revitalisation linguistique pour les potentiels romantique et politique. Si l’on concentre notre étude sur un panoccitanisme représenté notamment par la performativité des usages linguistiques militants et artistiques, il s’agirait d’évoquer dans le langage occitaniste, ces manifestations de création et d’hybridation qui forment d’une langue revitalisée, une langue nouvelle, se défiant du fort monolinguisme français. Cette étude a été complémentée par une approche comparative avec les dialectes occitans du Piémont (Italie), cela permettant de mettre en lumière les influences d’une politique linguistique sur les usages et représentations d’une langue et d’une culture. / Beginning in 2019 an ethnographic field in Auvergne (and peripheral regions of the Massif Central in Southern France), several current themes of Endangered Languages - theme increasingly central in contemporary studies of linguistic anthropology - will be presented and discussed. The Auvergnat language is a North-Occitan dialect located in a marginal area of the Occitan cultural area, as well as the centralized French space, which makes it in many ways the "patois of patois”. It is classified by UNESCO among the most endangered languages in Europe. Basing my research work on the question of linguistic usage, I discuss the registers, representations and socio-cultural formations made possible by activity that is both political and poetical. Intellectuals and academicians of normativity, folklorists of the romanticism of last speakers and, above all, natural speakers, the "great absentees of the discourse on language", meet in these linguistic and cultural settings. The fieldwork reported here focused on village festivals, Occitanist political and associative meetings, and urban anarchist or worker cafes in which the Auvergnat language is spoken. This to evoke the contribution of disruptive practices and concerns for linguistic revitalization to the romantic and political potential of Auvergnat Occitan. This study concentrates on the Panoccitanism represented by the performativity of militant and artistic linguistic usages: these manifestations of creation and hybridization which form a revitalized language, a new language, defying the strong monolinguism dominating France. This study has been supplemented by a comparison with the Occitan dialects of Piedmont (Italy), thus making it possible to highlight the influences of a linguistic policy on the use and representation of a language and a culture.

This diploma thesis has two parts. The first section contains basic kinds of fish passing. The second part deals with the design of fish passing on the river Dřevnice in the village Louky. In the program HEC-RAS was simulated situation where the fish ladder is in operation.

Urban and architecture study of the location on the border of the historical centre of the town of Znojmo focuses on spatial cultivation of Square of Freedom and revitalisation of fragments of the town fortification system.

Bc. Pavla Matějová, Architecture and Urbanism, Department of Design V., Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology 2009, 19 pages Diploma Thesis, Tutor doc. Ing. arch. Karel Havliš, Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology The diploma thesis deals with an urban and architectural design of a stretch of post-industrial area along the Svitava raceway in Brno, specifically the locality in the area next to the municipal heating plant on Radlas and the former plant Mosilana in Křenová Street. The thesis main objective is to find the potential and capacity of the Svitava raceway concerning redevelopment and creation of new public areas, especially in the form of embankments designated for pedestrians. The design also focuses on redevelopment and finding new suitable functional utilization, in particular of the industrial buildings and premises of the former plant Mosilana. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis describes the urban development of the city, its history and the development of Brno region as well as rivers in its district. It examines and analyses the prerequisites of the area affecting the design. Complete description and specifications of the projected design are to be found here. The drawing part deals with the graphic analysis of the area as well as the concretization of prerequisites influencing the design and solves the complete urban design together with the designated local views of the area.

The diploma thesis deals with an urban and architectural design of a stretch of area along the Svitava raceway and the Ponávka river in Brno, specifically of the locality in the area where the Svitava raceway has already merged with the Ponávka river. The area is situated south of the city centre, in the cadastral maps of Komárov and partly Trnitá. The main objective of the thesis is to find the potential and capacity of the Svitava raceway concerning redevelopment and creation of new municipal areas, especially in the form of embankments designated for pedestrians and cyclists. The design also focuses on the redevelopment and on finding a new suitable functional utilization of the area. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis describes the urban development of the city, its history and the development of Brno region as well as of the rivers in its district. It examines and analyses the prerequisites of the area affecting the design. Complete description and specifications of the proposed design are to be found here. The drawing part deals with the graphic analysis of the area as well as the concretization of the prerequisites influencing the design and it solves the complete urban design accompanied with the detailed local views of the area.

Urbanistic and architectural study of future development of castle area in Znojmo. Main focus will be on creation of sustainable and vital part of the city with connections to landscape, townscape, castle, old brewery and romanesque rotunda of st. Catherine. Adaptation of historic buildings of castle and brewery for cultural and social center of town. Reconstruction and conversion will be based on theoretical work from previous semester. Urbanistic goal is creation and redefinition of public spaces of castle garden, rotunda hill and Hradni street and its integration with historic town center of Znojmo and valley of river Dyje.