The beginning of the twentieth century saw a boom economy for the coal and coke industry. Located in the Crowsnest Pass of Alberta, the coal mining town of Lille existed for about a decade in the early twentieth century, from approximately 1901-1912. Towns such as this are ephemeral in nature, and as such, offer interesting opportunities to investigate a very definite period in time. Lille can provide a unique snapshot of life in the Canadian Rockies at the beginning of the last century. <p>Two archaeological investigations were carried out upon this time slice in 1979 and early 1981. Further analysis of artifactual material was undertaken in order to reconstruct life in a company town. The present study combines the two archaeological assemblages for study. It focuses upon material remains found at the town site, as well as spatial relationships between different residences and parts of the business district. Lille is discussed using a framework of corporate paternalism as it was a company town and it is hypothesized that there are stratified residential areas based upon occupational status. The degree to which inhabitants followed this ascribed status is investigated through their material remains. Additional factors affecting the town and its residents, such as company policy, union strikes and the coal market will be discussed. This examination of Lille provides an opportunity to explore daily life in remote mining communities in the early 20th century.

The beginning of the twentieth century saw a boom economy for the coal and coke industry. Located in the Crowsnest Pass of Alberta, the coal mining town of Lille existed for about a decade in the early twentieth century, from approximately 1901-1912. Towns such as this are ephemeral in nature, and as such, offer interesting opportunities to investigate a very definite period in time. Lille can provide a unique snapshot of life in the Canadian Rockies at the beginning of the last century. <p>Two archaeological investigations were carried out upon this time slice in 1979 and early 1981. Further analysis of artifactual material was undertaken in order to reconstruct life in a company town. The present study combines the two archaeological assemblages for study. It focuses upon material remains found at the town site, as well as spatial relationships between different residences and parts of the business district. Lille is discussed using a framework of corporate paternalism as it was a company town and it is hypothesized that there are stratified residential areas based upon occupational status. The degree to which inhabitants followed this ascribed status is investigated through their material remains. Additional factors affecting the town and its residents, such as company policy, union strikes and the coal market will be discussed. This examination of Lille provides an opportunity to explore daily life in remote mining communities in the early 20th century.

This paper will build upon the idea that informal settlements communities develop characteristic spatial morphologies as a response to outside forces. By understanding those forces and the resulting use of space, in particular public spaces, we can develop more appropriate urban design and planning interventions based in local realities. I begin by presenting the urban theories of Christopher Alexander and Bill Hillier, which provide analytical tools for understanding public space morphologies and the uses of public space. I then introduce Asef Bayat’s concept of quiet encroachment to more fully theorize the characteristics of public space as a response to the outside forces, in particular as an informal means of claiming space and rights to the city. Finally, I draw on this analytical and theoretical framework to analyze public space in the informal settlement of Jallah Town, in Monrovia, Liberia. I conclude by outlining how these analytical and theoretical tools can be used to further urban theory and international development and planning practice in informal settlements. / text

Doctor of Philosophy / This thesis presents a systematic investigation of the backstage spaces of theatres in the city of Sydney, Australia, combining the documentation of eight specific theatre buildings with ethnographic accounts of performers’ activities within them. As the title of the thesis suggests, my focus throughout is to better understand the ‘place’ of performers, the ways in which performers inhabit certain physical, social, and imaginative realms. Through this thesis I assess the impact of backstage spaces on performers’ work processes, their performances, and their own understandings of what it is to be a performer. To undertake this assessment I conduct a tripartite survey of the backstage spaces afforded performers, taking into consideration ‘perceived’ space (space as it is empirically measured), ‘conceived’ space (space as it is represented), and ‘lived’ space (space as it is experienced). Approaching this survey via Edward Casey’s understanding of ‘place,’ my analysis is informed by a range of theories, notably, spatial syntax analysis, discourse analysis, and phenomenology. Through this thesis I develop two overarching and interconnected arguments. The first is that theatrical performance is profoundly affected by the features of backstage support spaces and by performers’ backstage practices. Building on this, the second is that a study of backstage spaces offers a particularly apposite approach to further understanding the ‘place’ of theatrical performers. I contend that the backstage spaces performers inhabit can be characterised by their very poverty and that these poor conditions testify to a widespread ignorance and ambivalence on the part of society at large towards performers’ needs. Furthermore, noting the way in which performers valorise their own abilities to compromise and adapt, I argue that backstage areas largely inform performers’ dominant discourses of professionalism and worth. Ultimately, I identify the ‘place’ of the performer as one of flux that necessitates the constant negotiation of significant tensions. [Please note: The photographic documentation and building plans referred to in the text of this thesis are not available online. Please contact the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney or the Sydney eScholarship Repository.]

Doctor of Philosophy / This thesis presents a systematic investigation of the backstage spaces of theatres in the city of Sydney, Australia, combining the documentation of eight specific theatre buildings with ethnographic accounts of performers’ activities within them. As the title of the thesis suggests, my focus throughout is to better understand the ‘place’ of performers, the ways in which performers inhabit certain physical, social, and imaginative realms. Through this thesis I assess the impact of backstage spaces on performers’ work processes, their performances, and their own understandings of what it is to be a performer. To undertake this assessment I conduct a tripartite survey of the backstage spaces afforded performers, taking into consideration ‘perceived’ space (space as it is empirically measured), ‘conceived’ space (space as it is represented), and ‘lived’ space (space as it is experienced). Approaching this survey via Edward Casey’s understanding of ‘place,’ my analysis is informed by a range of theories, notably, spatial syntax analysis, discourse analysis, and phenomenology. Through this thesis I develop two overarching and interconnected arguments. The first is that theatrical performance is profoundly affected by the features of backstage support spaces and by performers’ backstage practices. Building on this, the second is that a study of backstage spaces offers a particularly apposite approach to further understanding the ‘place’ of theatrical performers. I contend that the backstage spaces performers inhabit can be characterised by their very poverty and that these poor conditions testify to a widespread ignorance and ambivalence on the part of society at large towards performers’ needs. Furthermore, noting the way in which performers valorise their own abilities to compromise and adapt, I argue that backstage areas largely inform performers’ dominant discourses of professionalism and worth. Ultimately, I identify the ‘place’ of the performer as one of flux that necessitates the constant negotiation of significant tensions. [Please note: The photographic documentation and building plans referred to in the text of this thesis are not available online. Please contact the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney or the Sydney eScholarship Repository.]

O movimento de pedestres está associado ao espaço em que ele acontece, de maneira local, onde cada calçada oferece vantagens físicas e de maneira global ao determinar rotas através dos caminhos da cidade. Entender como os pedestres escolhem as calçadas por onde se locomovem é essencial para determinar as características do ambiente necessárias aos espaços. Uma maneira de entender essas relações é através da criação de modelos urbanos, um modo de associar diretamente os atributos aos fenômenos. Buscou-se analisar metodologias utilizadas em modelos de pedestres, bem como novas tecnologias incorporadas a eles, para avaliar a movimentação peatonal urbana em áreas centrais de tecido tradicional. Dentre as metodologias observadas, aquelas que mais se adequaram para entender os fatores contidos no espaço urbano foram a sintaxe espacial e as medidas de desempenho dos passeios. A sintaxe se destaca por relacionar o efeito da malha urbana como indutora do movimento de pedestres, e as medidas de desempenho por criarem maneiras de avaliar a qualidade do passeio. Esta pesquisa procura compatibilizar esses dois métodos de abordar o movimento para descrever e compreender as relações entre o espaço e o fluxo de pedestres na área central da cidade de Santa Maria-RS. As variáveis do espaço urbano foram processadas com as redes neurais artificiais, uma tecnologia inovadora com muito potencial na área de modelagem urbana, por sua aptidão de aprendizado a partir de exemplos - fenômenos que não possuem regras explícitas - e processamento em paralelo dos dados - todas as variáveis se influenciam ao mesmo tempo para resultar no fenômeno estudado. Os resultados obtidos mostraram-se pertinentes às bases teóricas e contribuem para a explicação do movimento natural em cidades. / The pedestrians’ movement is associated to the space where it happens, on a local way, where each sidewalk offers physical advantages and in a global way when determining routes through the city roads. To understand how the pedestrians choose the sidewalks where they will move around is essential to determine the ambient characteristics that are necessary on the spaces. A way of understanding these relations is by creating urban models, a way of associating directly the attributes to the phenomena. It was tried to analyze methodologies used in pedestrians' models, as well as new technologies incorporated to them, to evaluate the urban pedestrian movement at central areas of the traditional cities. Among the observed methodologies, those which were more appropriated to understand the factors contained in the urban space were the spatial syntax and the measures of sidewalks performance. The syntax stands out by relating the effect of the urban grid as the factor that induces the pedestrians’ movement and the performance measures because they create forms of evaluating the sidewalk’s quality. This research attempts to make compatible those two methods of approaching the movement to describe and to understand the relations between the space and the pedestrians' flow in the central area of Santa Maria-RS The urban space variables were processed with the artificial neural networks, an innovative technology with a lot of potential in the urban modeling area, on account of its learning aptitude starting from examples - phenomena that don't have explicit rules - and the parallel processing of the data - all the variables influence each other at the same time to result in the studied phenomenon. The obtained results were shown pertinent to the theoretical bases and they contribute to the explanation of the natural movement in cities. The results were shown pertinent to the theoretical bases and they contribute to explaining the natural movement in the cities.

O movimento de pedestres está associado ao espaço em que ele acontece, de maneira local, onde cada calçada oferece vantagens físicas e de maneira global ao determinar rotas através dos caminhos da cidade. Entender como os pedestres escolhem as calçadas por onde se locomovem é essencial para determinar as características do ambiente necessárias aos espaços. Uma maneira de entender essas relações é através da criação de modelos urbanos, um modo de associar diretamente os atributos aos fenômenos. Buscou-se analisar metodologias utilizadas em modelos de pedestres, bem como novas tecnologias incorporadas a eles, para avaliar a movimentação peatonal urbana em áreas centrais de tecido tradicional. Dentre as metodologias observadas, aquelas que mais se adequaram para entender os fatores contidos no espaço urbano foram a sintaxe espacial e as medidas de desempenho dos passeios. A sintaxe se destaca por relacionar o efeito da malha urbana como indutora do movimento de pedestres, e as medidas de desempenho por criarem maneiras de avaliar a qualidade do passeio. Esta pesquisa procura compatibilizar esses dois métodos de abordar o movimento para descrever e compreender as relações entre o espaço e o fluxo de pedestres na área central da cidade de Santa Maria-RS. As variáveis do espaço urbano foram processadas com as redes neurais artificiais, uma tecnologia inovadora com muito potencial na área de modelagem urbana, por sua aptidão de aprendizado a partir de exemplos - fenômenos que não possuem regras explícitas - e processamento em paralelo dos dados - todas as variáveis se influenciam ao mesmo tempo para resultar no fenômeno estudado. Os resultados obtidos mostraram-se pertinentes às bases teóricas e contribuem para a explicação do movimento natural em cidades. / The pedestrians’ movement is associated to the space where it happens, on a local way, where each sidewalk offers physical advantages and in a global way when determining routes through the city roads. To understand how the pedestrians choose the sidewalks where they will move around is essential to determine the ambient characteristics that are necessary on the spaces. A way of understanding these relations is by creating urban models, a way of associating directly the attributes to the phenomena. It was tried to analyze methodologies used in pedestrians' models, as well as new technologies incorporated to them, to evaluate the urban pedestrian movement at central areas of the traditional cities. Among the observed methodologies, those which were more appropriated to understand the factors contained in the urban space were the spatial syntax and the measures of sidewalks performance. The syntax stands out by relating the effect of the urban grid as the factor that induces the pedestrians’ movement and the performance measures because they create forms of evaluating the sidewalk’s quality. This research attempts to make compatible those two methods of approaching the movement to describe and to understand the relations between the space and the pedestrians' flow in the central area of Santa Maria-RS The urban space variables were processed with the artificial neural networks, an innovative technology with a lot of potential in the urban modeling area, on account of its learning aptitude starting from examples - phenomena that don't have explicit rules - and the parallel processing of the data - all the variables influence each other at the same time to result in the studied phenomenon. The obtained results were shown pertinent to the theoretical bases and they contribute to the explanation of the natural movement in cities. The results were shown pertinent to the theoretical bases and they contribute to explaining the natural movement in the cities.

O movimento de pedestres está associado ao espaço em que ele acontece, de maneira local, onde cada calçada oferece vantagens físicas e de maneira global ao determinar rotas através dos caminhos da cidade. Entender como os pedestres escolhem as calçadas por onde se locomovem é essencial para determinar as características do ambiente necessárias aos espaços. Uma maneira de entender essas relações é através da criação de modelos urbanos, um modo de associar diretamente os atributos aos fenômenos. Buscou-se analisar metodologias utilizadas em modelos de pedestres, bem como novas tecnologias incorporadas a eles, para avaliar a movimentação peatonal urbana em áreas centrais de tecido tradicional. Dentre as metodologias observadas, aquelas que mais se adequaram para entender os fatores contidos no espaço urbano foram a sintaxe espacial e as medidas de desempenho dos passeios. A sintaxe se destaca por relacionar o efeito da malha urbana como indutora do movimento de pedestres, e as medidas de desempenho por criarem maneiras de avaliar a qualidade do passeio. Esta pesquisa procura compatibilizar esses dois métodos de abordar o movimento para descrever e compreender as relações entre o espaço e o fluxo de pedestres na área central da cidade de Santa Maria-RS. As variáveis do espaço urbano foram processadas com as redes neurais artificiais, uma tecnologia inovadora com muito potencial na área de modelagem urbana, por sua aptidão de aprendizado a partir de exemplos - fenômenos que não possuem regras explícitas - e processamento em paralelo dos dados - todas as variáveis se influenciam ao mesmo tempo para resultar no fenômeno estudado. Os resultados obtidos mostraram-se pertinentes às bases teóricas e contribuem para a explicação do movimento natural em cidades. / The pedestrians’ movement is associated to the space where it happens, on a local way, where each sidewalk offers physical advantages and in a global way when determining routes through the city roads. To understand how the pedestrians choose the sidewalks where they will move around is essential to determine the ambient characteristics that are necessary on the spaces. A way of understanding these relations is by creating urban models, a way of associating directly the attributes to the phenomena. It was tried to analyze methodologies used in pedestrians' models, as well as new technologies incorporated to them, to evaluate the urban pedestrian movement at central areas of the traditional cities. Among the observed methodologies, those which were more appropriated to understand the factors contained in the urban space were the spatial syntax and the measures of sidewalks performance. The syntax stands out by relating the effect of the urban grid as the factor that induces the pedestrians’ movement and the performance measures because they create forms of evaluating the sidewalk’s quality. This research attempts to make compatible those two methods of approaching the movement to describe and to understand the relations between the space and the pedestrians' flow in the central area of Santa Maria-RS The urban space variables were processed with the artificial neural networks, an innovative technology with a lot of potential in the urban modeling area, on account of its learning aptitude starting from examples - phenomena that don't have explicit rules - and the parallel processing of the data - all the variables influence each other at the same time to result in the studied phenomenon. The obtained results were shown pertinent to the theoretical bases and they contribute to the explanation of the natural movement in cities. The results were shown pertinent to the theoretical bases and they contribute to explaining the natural movement in the cities.