Scholars who have been studying young people's environments suggest that cultivating people's attachment to places is essential for healthy development of children. However, there is a lack of empirically based information regarding young children's (ages 9-11) attachment to pub…
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Housing environments are the places where its residents spend most of their time in. In Turkey, housing types that have been built in the past have over time. Especially during the past decade, due to the concentration of people in the city centers and the nations goals on housi…
This dissertation explores the ways in which a place-based perspective that emphasizes the interconnectedness of physical environments and social worlds contributes to an understanding of some of the complex ways that refugees integrate into and resist their new environments pos…
This thesis examines the shifting relationship between the state and its subjects with regard to responsibility for and entitlement to care. Using Malaysia as a case study the research engages with international medical travel (IMT) as an outcome of the neoliberal retrenchment o…
This practice-as-research project investigates pluralistic approaches to the construction of place through art-making. I propose ‘place-making’ as a theory of practice which aims to encourage artists and practitioner-researchers to challenge dominant socio-spatial configurations…
Grappling with the success of their business ventures and coping with the rise in number of new products FifeX was working on, operating out of their shared office in the St Andrews Technology Centre, the co-founders were feeling more ‘cramped’ than ever before. The decision was…
This research investigates the experience of Afghan refugees in Iran from 1980 to 2001. It considers how their displacement influenced their strategies of adaptation and survival, and altered their concepts of home and space, identity and sense of belonging, as well as their exp…
This research examines the relationship between urban public spaces and social movements by analyzing how places play a role in protests. Case studies used are the Hotel Indonesia roundabout and the vicinity of the Medan Merdeka Park in Jakarta, Indonesia, which are currently si…
As a travel destination, Bali, Indonesia, is often associated with images of romance, exoticness, and paradise. This thesis investigates the role Instagram (IG) travel influencers play in the (re)construction of Bali, Indonesia. The practices of IG travel influencers are rooted …
An exurb is a district beyond the suburbs and well beyond the city center that can be characterized as a transitional zone from the urban fringe to the rural pastoral, fitting somewhere in between. The American exurbs originally emerged as growth centers that were the outcome of…