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Philippine Cultural Identity and Traditional Settlements in Development Coming to Terms with Cultural Diversity in a Nation State
No full textDevelopment since the 1940s has had major impacts on traditional settlements. The thrust of global development has been detrimental to many traditional settlements, because it has lacked sensitivity to the diversity oflocal cultures that on the one hand are closely associated to geographical landscapes, and on the other hand rely on traditions formed over time to operate and manage place. The aim of this research, therefore, is to develop a methodology for creating national development strategies which focus on traditional settlements and cultural landscapes in order to accommodate diverse cultural identities. The research uses culture and identity as primary analytical concepts. Oral and visual research methods are used to analyse two traditional settlements, to uncover the identities that permeate their cultures and therefore have particular implications for how they conceive development. Because development in this research is understood as a global process affecting all humanity, these identities are considered not only locally, but also across regional, national and global levels. National and global conceptions of development are critically analysed through a third case study, which examines the dominance of mainstream cultures in shaping national identity and development principles, and explores how this shaping bears on other cultural groups. The results of these case studies are used to construct a methodology for understanding development in a cultural context, and for using this understanding to create strategies through which the people of traditional settlements can become active partners in setting a development agenda which remains sensitive to diverse local cultures whilst also addressing current development concerns.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Locally Responsive Public Open Space Design: Special Reference to Beijing, China
Get PDFForeign design ideas and the impact of globalization have long played a strong role in
creating and reshaping local urban forms in the past few decades in China. This is especially
evident in public open spaces in many Chinese cities due to rapid economic development.
Recent urban projects in Beijing specifically have shown limited responsiveness to local
context and needs of users. This is due to a political focus on financial returns, and has
resulted in the proliferation of homogeneous ‘anywhere places’. Therefore, the aim of this
research is to develop a conceptual framework and methodology for defining principles for
locally responsive public open spaces in Beijing.
The conceptual framework developed for this study is based on a review of key literature
from both global and local sources, to define locally responsive public open spaces in the
context of Beijing. Furthermore, the methodology establishes the relationship between
traditional philosophies and contemporary thinking, and integrates urban morphology and
other methods into the process. Eleven areas were visited and three neighbourhoods were
chosen to study local perceptions of public open spaces across historical, early modern and
contemporary scenarios. 90 residents and key decision makers were involved for identifying
the needs and interests of various urban actors that make them possible to explore relevant
topics through case study and different stages of developments in the city. By employing an
Inquiry by Design approach, the proposals were developed and tested with key decision
makers in order to formulate final recommendations. The research findings define the intrinsic meanings of public open space in the specific case
of Beijing. They provide a set of recommendations to achieve local responsive public open
spaces at different morphological layers and types of open spaces. Finally, they establish
new conceptualisations of local responsiveness and methodologies based on the unique
Chinese context. Therefore, the main contributions to the knowledge are the conceptual
framework for exploration of locally responsive public open space design, and a methodology for investigating the qualities and levels of local responsiveness in these
spaces. Both of which are potentially transferable to other Chinese cities that seek guidance
on addressing issues in similar urban forms
Defining and Sustaining the Place-identity of a Traditional yet Rapidly Developing City: The Case of Denpasar - Bali, Indonesia
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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