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Item Lecture 1, part 1: the railway station: a tower of babel(2009-09-28) Kohler, NiklausDr. Kohler looks at the railway station's importance in 19th century Europe in terms of its impact on social interaction, people's concepts of time, and economic and technological change. Over the years, the railway station's role has diminished to the point that it has been called an "endangered species".Item Lecture 1, part 2: foundations of sustainable design: railway stations between place and node(2009-09-28) Kohler, NiklausDr. Kohler presents a discussion of the concepts of space, place, and nodes, and how these concepts play into our notions of urban environment and transportation design.Item Lecture 1, part 3: railway stations: the power of place(2009-09-28) Kohler, NiklausDr. Kohler presents images of railway stations around the world to provide context for considering railway station design.Item Lecture 1: introduction(2009-09-28) Kohler, NiklausIn his Introduction, Dr. Kohler presents a brief overview of his research and ideas, gives an outline of the seminar and its objectives, and discusses the fundamental concepts that inform the seminar's approach to sustainable architectural design: space, place, nodes, time, and flows.Item Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Claude Albritton on 1969-05-14(1969-05-14) Albritton, Claude C., Jr.Item Portraits-in-Place from the Sotavento: A Photo-Dialogue between Abraham Bosque and J.A. Strub(eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics, 2022) Strub, J.A.; Ávila Quintero, AbrahamResulting from a series of conversations between its co-contributors, this photo-dialogue considers themes of nature-culture entanglements through the photographic work of Abraham Bosque, a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist who has lived in the Sotavento region of Mexico since 2017. Bosque’s work deals with the challenges implicit in portraying a tropical landscape whose vitality is the impetus for its extractivistic plunder. Through their conversations, Strub and Bosque consider eleven portraits-in-place that highlight, explore, and challenge ways of thinking about the relationships between humankind and nature, parochiality and globalization, tradition and modernity, beauty and violence, and the documentarian and their subject, all considered within the context of the Sotavento’s storied tropicality.Item Revisiting “Black Downtown”: Spatial and Storytelling Practices in Austin, Texas(2020-05) Mata, Ryan Andrew; Campbell, CraigHarrison David Eppright, a multi-generational black artist, creates and participates in an everyday performance of culture and visibility through his capacity as a tour guide for the city and an ambassador for Austin’s visitor services. Harrison has a unique subjective experience affected by intersecting identities and oppressions, including those along the lines of race and sexuality. I examine how he assigns meaning to places that are fading, getting bulldozed, or enduring. This thesis explores how Harrison utilizes storytelling and walking tours in the shifting landscape of East Austin in order to find pride in “home” while making visible the cultural makeup being threatened by current circumstances such as gentrification and displacement. These neighborhoods in Austin, which were once designed as a “negro district”, now face the problem of losing their identity to a host of new development that has led to the pricing-out and displacement of mostly black and brown working-class residents and businesses.Item Space Node Place(2009-10) Galloway, RossWhat makes a place a place? This paper examines space and nodes as concepts and discusses how they play into the way the human mind constructs a sense of place. It also discusses the importance of these concepts in the design of urban spaces and transportation hubs. Based on a lecture by Niklaus Kohler.