Dissertations / Theses: 'Architecture and urban planning'

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Scriba, Christian. "Neurosis - Continuum [ Architecture As Urban Therapy ]." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23033.

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This dissertation is rooted within the personal struggle to understand the absurdity of spaces which exist within Woodstock, Cape Town. The project draws a psychological connection between the site and its absurdities, implying that spatial absurdity is the effect of problems of the personified "sitemind". By visualizing what are called "neurosis spaces" the expressions of site-mind anxieties, and arranging them into a speculative site, the project creates a space of analogy. A space for which architecture becomes a therapy. Architecture in application thereby embodies therapy, forming an intervention which itself enacts the speculative analogy. The proposal is therefore seated firmly between the real and the imagined. A victim Offender Rehabilitation center mediates the analogy physically creating an architecture that plays on spatial experience and programming to create a place of therapy, a machine of sublimation.

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Figueredo, Michael. "Reactive architecture : Urban Recreational center." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3595.

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This thesis explores how architecture can be designed to react to changing conditions. In the design I address how the occupants of a building may change the exterior façade based on a change of events or on group size. This creates an architectural language on the façade for pedestrians and motorists to read those activities that are occurring. The design project is a hybrid recreational center and plaza that is designed for the use of small groups and can be adapted for larger groups. By manipulating the ground plane I create spaces where the spectator becomes the display and the display becomes the spectator. The public spaces at the center are a casual stage for movement, while private spaces at the edge offer places for spectators to overlook events. The movements at the center and edge are displayed on the façade creating a system of information.

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Segerholm, Alma. "How history can beremembered & reusedin urban planning." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298818.

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This project is a research of finding out a method; how to get to know a site and what to be remembered and acknowledged.Stockholm is becoming denser, like many other cities. The lack of housing is urgent. But at what price do we build new urban development projects and what can be lost when we do so? I have applied this method on Liljeholmen old train station in Stockholm. Today the site is called Marievik. Sites that are about to be transformed, have more or fewer preserved buildings and monuments from ancient times.This is a way to connect to history in this specific site. In other sites the solution may be different, depending on the findings. The result of my research of finding out a method are this three statements: 1. Keep the monuments, to remember the railways history.2. Re-establish the bridge, to connect the two different levels.3. Honouring the old station, with a new bus station. I think Stockholm city’s way of remembering and re-using a site’s history is insufficient. My project is therefore a method, on how to understand a historical background. It’s a possibility to take a proper farewell and give valuable insights, on what to be kept or translated into the new.

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Yip, Po-chi Pamela. "Urban development and modern architecture in Beijing." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41548784.

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García, Ocampo Rivera Antonieta María de la Paz. "Towards an understanding of Aztec architecture and urban planning." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57194.

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There exists a vast literature examining every aspect of Aztec culture. Despite this, few studies focus specifically on Aztec architecture and its implications for understanding broader aspects of Aztec cosmology. This dissertation contributes to our knowledge of Aztec society through an exploration of architectural and urban design principles that guided the building of their cities and ceremonial precincts. By examining ethnohistoric and archaeological sources, and drawing on evidence from several disciplines—art, astronomy, geography, geometry, mathematics and religion—I compile a body of information relevant to the study of Aztec architecture and urban planning. Cosmovision studies offer an understanding of ritual space and time; pictorial manuscripts contribute mathematical insights; analyses of monumental sculpture provide geometric knowledge; and high mountain archaeological research highlight the sacred landscape. The resulting information was then used in a set of archaeoastronomical analyses of seven pre-Aztec and Aztec architectural complexes. This approach builds on previous studies that have revealed the importance of astronomical considerations in Mesoamerican settlements. In order to analyse Aztec ceremonial architecture and urban planning from an archaeoastronomical perspective, I developed a methodology that allowed accurate analyses of the astronomical and topographic orientations of settlements and ceremonial architecture. This methodology integrates a wide range of digital applications including Google Earth, Google Maps, solar charting, topographic analysis, open-content collaborative, geo-location-oriented photo sharing applications as well as a custom-built geometric application. The results allow for a new understanding of: (1) the design principles of the Huey Teocalli, the unique Aztec double-temple architectural type found in almost all of their ceremonial centres, (2) the layout and design principles utilized in the construction of Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco and, (3) the Aztec remodelling of Tenayuca, Santa Cecilia Acatitlan and Teopanzolco. These analyses are also extended to the antecedent cultures of the region, revealing new aspects of the urban design principles of Teotihuacan and Tula including an additional interpretation of the Tlaloc mural in Teotihuacan. The implications of this research extend beyond Aztec scholarship, providing a replicable methodology that can be applied to the archaeoastronomical analysis of ancient settlements and ceremonial structures anywhere in the world.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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Martin, Colin. "Towards a Hydroponic Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554119967725464.

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Rhodes, Thomas Jonathan. "Codifying an urban quarter." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23449.

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QUAN, JING. "SAN FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN--A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING." The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555369.

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葉葆芝 and Po-chi Pamela Yip. "Urban development and modern architecture in Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41548784.

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Long, M. "The post-war planning office : Coventry's Department of Architecture and Planning 1957-1966." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372528.

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Hällgren, Nina. "Designing with Urban Sound : Exploring methods for qualitative sound analysis of the built environment." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240078.

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The licentiate thesis Designing with Urban Sound explores the constitution and qualitative characteristics of urban sonic space from a design-oriented and practice-based perspective. The act of lifting forth and illuminating the interaction between architecture, the creation of sound and a sonic experience aims to examine and develop useful tools and methods for the representation, communication and analysis of the exterior sonic environment in complex architectural spaces. The objective is to generate theoretical and practical knowledge within the field of urban sound planning and design by showing examples of different and complementary ways of communicating and analyzing sound than those which are commonly recognized.
Licentiatavhandlingen Designa med stadens ljud undersöker det urbana ljudrummets konstitution och kvalitativa egenskaper utifrån ett designorienterat och praktiknära perspektiv. Avsikten med arbetet är att utveckla verktyg och metoder för representation, kommunikation och analys av stadens exteriöra ljudmiljö genom att synliggöra interaktionen mellan arkitektur, ljudbildning och upplevelse. Genom att visa exempel på andra sätt att kommunicera och analysera ljud i staden än dagens vedertagna metoder, är syftet är att bidra till kunskapsutvecklingen inom fältet för urban ljudplanering- och design.

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Nilina, Nadya. "Bolshevik era, the extreme case of urban planning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37268.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2006.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-101).
The key premise of the Russian revolutionary movement was the overthrow of the old government and establishment of the new political order under the one party leadership of the Bolsheviks. The political platform of the new government extended well beyond the promise of simple reforms. Its foundation was a vision of an entirely new society governed by a set of new economic mechanisms and social relations. The foundation of the new system rested on the complete socialization of all economic resources and means of production and the creation of the centralized planning system independent of the volatile dynamics of the free market. In this thesis I argue that in their role as the new government of Russia, Bolsheviks simultaneously acted as town planners and as social planners, envisioning the new society and its institutions in every detail and creating a new urban form-the socialist city, and the new citizen-the socialist man. To create this city the Bolsheviks designed a unique tool-they merged their legal right to make policy with their ability to use rhetoric in the form of widespread persuasion, propaganda, indoctrination and force. I define the socialist city as an urban settlement in which the primary from of human existence is the collective life.
(cont.) This city is designed in such a way as to make every space accessible to government control, by making it transparent to the collective which has assumed the censoring and policing functions of the government The space of the city is permeated by a network of institutions and agents making it an environment in which a person is constantly exposed to the mechanisms of control. During the first decade after the revolution the Bolsheviks created the forms of housing and the auxiliary institutions, such as the social club, the communal canteen etc, that became the building blocks of the socialist city. In this thesis I examine the social institutions created by the Bolsheviks between 1917 and 1932 with the goal of understanding of how their design defined the future development of the socialist city.
by Nadya Nilina.
M.C.P.
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Nowak, Laura S. "Urban structure and built form." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21609.

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Hammond, Cynthia Lynn. "Urban collage : the surgical operations of Le Corbusier's plan voisin and Ben Nicholson's urban poises." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24142.

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Mills, Robert Kemp. "The city and its waterfront an urban edge." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23146.

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Comaga, Kerim. "MSc Architecture." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298483.

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This project has revolved around how to expand Stockholm in socially sustainable way. As is the case with many other cities in the world, inspired by modernist ideals, expansion during the 1900: s have shaped Stockholm into an archipelago of islands with mostly homogenous housing types that exist within an urban structure of centre and periphery. The Stockholm City Council is trying counter this situation by expanding the city centre into eight new regional cores by densifying a few chosen areas. This is done by conforming to old traditions of placing existing housing types and public spaces in a similar way as before. How do you go one step further in decentralizing Stockholm and breaking away from these traditions? The idea for this project is then to create an alternative typology that will be spread out homogeneously throughout the regional cores and that will grow organically as new needs emerge over time. The typology itself is simply a building scaffolding, a 6x6x7 steel grid, that will act as a tool for urban planning and host creation and expansion of new housing and public situations that together aim to constitute new parts of an alternative type of growing city centre.

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Su, Tao. "A multi-display collaborative urban planning system with a federated architecture." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37747.

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Neighborhood planning and design is a complex and iterative process that usually involves different stakeholders and groups with diverse interests and goals. These include developers interested in the economic opportunity of development, politicians and administrators interested in public policy values, and neighbors interested in compatibility. These stakeholders work collaboratively to negotiate a mutually acceptable proposal that fulfills many qualitative and quantitative requirements and expectations. Until now, few Planning Support Systems (PSS) were capable of supporting the complexity and interactivity of this collaborative decision making process smoothly through the whole decision making process from the initial planning phase to final completion. In our research, a multi-display, collaborative urban planning system was implemented. The system uses a multi-touch tabletop computer as a central interactive display for designing a neighborhood. Multiple additional projectors can be connected to the tabletop display to present other information, such as 3D rendering of the neighborhood or some quantitative statistics summarizing the plan. Various ways to connect multiple displays together were investigated. The final system uses a distributed, federated architecture to connect the displays through a network. Informal user feedback was gathered from different types of users. In the thesis we discuss various design issues regarding multi-display systems and tabletop urban planning systems and how they were resolved. There are a number of extensions to our new system. One is the ability to support other types of displays and input techniques, such as handheld devices or remote tabletop displays. These and other future research directions are briefly described.

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Nilsson, Jessica. "Adapting Society for the Ageing Population Through Architecture and Urban Planning." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-138806.

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People are getting older in the world and the aging population is increasing each year which lead to a higher demand of the society to care for the elderly population. In the year of 2050 there will be over 2 billion elderly people in the world and most of them will live in the developing countries. 1 The improved healthcare has led to peoples’ wealth and longer live in the world. Though one can see ageing as a successful achievement, there is things that need to be improved in the society. The ageing population is getting larger and the age discrimination and loneliness among elderly is one of the largest concerns to deal with within this context. This thesis will try to get an understanding of the role of the elderly in society and improve the conditions for an ageing population. Therefore, one will investigate in this master thesis; "How to adapt society for an ageing population?"

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Bergelin, Anne Cora. "Spatial Semantics: Finding Landscape in New York City’s Comprehensive Waterfront Plans." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366591806.

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Bulamile, Ludigija Boniface. "Homeowner's Architectural Responses to Crime in Dar Es Salaan : Its impacts and implications to urban architecture, urban design and urban management." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Samhällsplanering och miljö, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-11388.

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HTML clipboardThis study is about Homeowner’s architectural responses to crime in Dar es Salaam Tanzania: its impacts and implications to urban architecture, urban design and urban management. The study explores and examines the processes through which homeowners respond to crimes of burglary, home robbery and fear of it using architectural or physical elements. The processes are explored and examined using case study methodology in three cases in Dar es Salaam. The cases are residential areas of Mikocheni B, Ilala Kasulu and Chang’ombe Housing. The findings from the three cases are compared and the common findings are illuminated and discussed using criminology, economic and social theories and concepts. The results of the study show that, homeowners physically and architecturally modify their home environments for many reasons. Homeowners do so by building or erecting wall fences around their houses and install or barricade doors and windows using metal bars. From the study, the notable main reasons are security and protection from burglary, thefts, home robbery and visual and physical privacy. Others include property marking, disputes and misunderstandings between neighbours and property encroachment by neighbours. In the study, it has been established that, the actions by the homeowners in responding to crime of burglary, thievery and home robberies have impacts and implications on the built environment. The impacts are: affects the visual experience of the built form by limiting view to houses; keeps neighbours apart thus limiting social interaction among residents; segregating public spaces and thus making them empty without people; encroaching on the streets; reducing surveilability of streets and neighbouring dwellings; create the impression of ‘private appearance’ therefore stigmataizing the residential neighbourhoods, all of which increase the vulnerability of areas as well as enhancing the ‘subjective’ feeling of fear in the areas. Furthermore, the responses pose risks to residents when fire evacuation from homes is required, including the effects that affect the environmental comfort conditions of homes and the overall built environment. Despite of the impacts to the built environment as summarised in the foregoing, the study has shown that, homeowners still erect wall fences and barricade their homes due to fear arising from previous crimes. On the basis of the impacts, a new approach to planning of residential housing areas is recommended in which the question of security against crime is included as design factor particularly in urban design. Either an approach to architectural design of houses and the layout of houses that considers crime as an important factor in addition to ‘target hardening’ approach is recommended to increase visibility and surveilability of built environments. The study concludes by highlighting five implications to urban architecture, urban design and urban management at planning and architectural design, considerations which may be of impacts towards improving built environment and management of the urban residential arena. The study ends by outlining and recommending areas of further research.
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Wadensten, Fredrik. "Architecture of Power." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298827.

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The 34 silos at Jarlaberg today contain crude oil but after the lease of land expires at 2036 are refurbished and remade to hold 2 500 000 m3 of water from Stockholm archipelago. Sharing the industrial plot of the reworked silos are 13 buildings with 2000 households between them. At the shores of the rocky hills is a new landmark with two swirling metal structures reflecting daylight and the shining light from the structure bellow. The building contains two hydro turbines, with the glass roofs and metal vortexes above, a landmark to be seen from both the built plateaus above and the opposite side shores as a celebration of the renewable energy progress of 2030-2050. The project started as a look at industrial architecture and its relation to city spaces. Specifically the implementation of a stored capacity hydropower solution if placed close to major city centers which demanding more, renewable energy. At first the ambition was to integrate a series of turbines to the new Slussen water outlet from Mälaren to Saltsjön but after further readings the theme of letting the industries society’s development is dependent upon be a part in planning the cities expansion. To join a industrial function to a housing plan would make a large impact on the urban space in-between the two. To both make a bond but also show the story of the production of energy the project provides. The sides of the silos have been fitted with a series of stepped gradients for seating and to access the top of the water reservoirs. The bottom of the gradients connect to the urban spaces such as parks and squares. Providing both a sun step for seating and meeting spaces close to areas of activity.

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Hearn, Brian J. "Integrating infrastructure and architecture." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2004. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Bradley, Dale. "Planning for wildlife: an urban planning and design exploration to support Mexican free-tailed bats." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19046.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Brent Chamberlain
Anthropocentric disturbances are often the main driver behind the population decline of wildlife species. Bat species are of particular concern recently with large declines in populations worldwide. The conservation of bat species relies on knowledge about the relationship between species-specific needs and the effect urban environments have on individual species. Mexican Free-Tailed Bats (MFTBs) are listed on the IUCN Red List and play an important role in many ecosystems within the United States. Austin, Texas is home to the largest urban bat colony in the world, including MFTBs. Austin can continue to benefit from millions of dollars from ecotourism bat viewing sites and the natural control of insect populations provided by this species if urbanization does not cause a reduction in their population. The focus of this research is to develop a quantitative habitat suitability model for the MFTBs in urban areas to increase the understanding of possible MFTB habitat in the Austin Metropolitan area. A geographical information system was used to map the suitability of habitats for MFTBs in urban areas based off a typology for the needs of the species, which was created through a literature review of expert knowledge. This study will help to quantify the relationship between urban environments and the MFTBs, showing that urban areas in the Austin Metropolitan area are suitable for the species. A predictive model, like the one described here, can act as a crucial assessment and planning tool for bat conservation by helping to eliminate challenges of tracking populations or identifying bats during nocturnal activities. This model informs the proposal of planning and design policy changes in Austin, Texas to better support MFTB’s habitat needs. Adjustments to current site plans in Austin are explored understand the effect the proposed MFTB planning policies could have on current development while exploring the application of the MFTB typology at a site scale. Application of the understanding created through habitat-suitability modelling helps to visualize how current projects in Austin, Texas can better support MFTBs to create an understanding of how these policies may affect the development of urban environments.

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Goldman, Ezra (Ezra Joshua). "Architecture for Cyborgs : laptops and spatial use at MIT." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40099.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-50).
Individuals have a particular set of tasks they need to accomplish or what might be called a "life pattern." These tasks must be accomplished within a particular set of places or "life spaces." What is the role of the laptop in defining these life spaces and patterns and how does it either enable or constrain an individual from acting out their life pattern within a particular life space? This study uses a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods for understanding the adaptation of student behavior to new technologies on MIT campus with a focus on the Sloan School of Management. Laptops will only enable spatial flexibility if the nature of one's work ("life pattern") affords it (Norman, 1999), "mobility" or "flexibility" is perceived to be advantageous, and there are suitable behavior settings (Barker, 1989; Schoggen, 1989) within their "life space." Most students are not creating "a new office" (Duffy, 1997) or choosing "special places" (Mitchell, 2003) to work. They mostly choose to use a very limited range of locations, often similar to office-type spaces. Only an exceptional minority of most techno-enabled are becoming free roaming "neonomads" (Abbas, 2005).
(cont.) Rather than being more "mobile," most people are now more "connected" wherever they go (Castells, 2006). Instead, they might rather be labeled technologically enhanced cyborgs (Mitchell, 2003, Picon, 2000). Our relationship to the physical surrounding environment changes depending on the degree to which we require our technological enhancements and how much our cyborg selves are supported by that environment.
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Meinke, Katja 1972. "Landscape planning: A comparative study of landscape planning in the United States and Germany." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278599.

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This thesis compares the landscape planning goals and procedures of Pima County and Landkreis Hannover as they enter regional planworks. The literature provides three significant approaches to landscape planning, from which are extracted significant valuation criteria including biophysical and sociocultural landscape characteristics as well as data handling and implementation considerations. Landkreis Hannover employs a landscape and a comprehensive planwork, the latter coordinating the missions of all spatial disciplines and the first representing a conservation component. Pima County develops a comprehensive plan based on pro-growth policy which attempts primary issue integration. Both counties demonstrate strengths and weaknesses uncovered by assessment of the valuation criteria. Learning from each other, Hannover can improve in data handling whereas Pima County can improve in organizational cooperation and promotion of the concept of sustainable development.

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Ogletree, Roy Duncan. "Rules to a structured urban environment." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22369.

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Balderas-Guzmán, Celina. "Strategies for systemic urban constructed wetlands." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80907.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-128).
As a result of ubiquitous impermeable surfaces, conventional water management and stormwater infrastructure, and the resultant degradation of natural hydrologic networks, most American urban areas have suffered severely compromised hydrological function and health, particularly related to stormwater and its storage, treatment, and flow. Negative externalities exist at multiple scales: increased disaster vulnerability, climate change, poor water quality, habitat loss, etc. Because upgrading conventional single-purpose infrastructure has become an increasingly cost-prohibitive option, urban areas are finding that reincorporating natural systems can be more effective. In the last 20 years, constructed wetlands have arisen as a promising multi-purpose solution to stormwater problems. Constructed wetlands are artificial systems designed to mimic natural wetlands by using the same physical, biological, and chemical processes to treat water. They are relatively large, but their size gives them high ecological potential and numerous other benefits, such as flooding protection and recreational spaces, while having low life-cycle costs. Since the effectiveness of constructed wetlands comes from mimicking natural wetlands, then the analogy to nature should be extended as far as possible. In nature, wetlands are a system connected to a regional hydrologic network. Therefore, constructed wetlands distributed systemically throughout a watershed have potential to deliver more networked benefits than the current practice of dispersed and disconnected wetlands for individual sites. Yet little research exists examining the implications of urban constructed wetlands in design and planning terms, at multiple scales. In fact, few urban constructed wetland projects for stormwater exist in the first place. This thesis proposes a framework for understanding the potential of systemic constructed wetlands as landscape infrastructure in urban areas. Based on an understanding of science, engineering, and urbanism, this thesis identifies the urban zones of greatest potential for stormwater constructed wetlands and suggests the benefits that could arise out of an urban constructed wetland system, beyond simply water treatment.
by Celina Balderas-Guzmán.
S.M.
M.C.P.

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Sagan, Hans Nicholas. "Specters of '68| Protest, Policing, and Urban Space." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3733389.

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Political protest is an increasingly frequent occurrence in urban public space. During times of protest, the use of urban space transforms according to special regulatory circumstances and dictates. The reorganization of economic relationships under neoliberalism carries with it changes in the regulation of urban space. Environmental design is part of the toolkit of protest control.

Existing literature on the interrelation of protest, policing, and urban space can be broken down into four general categories: radical politics, criminological, technocratic, and technicalprofessional. Each of these bodies of literature problematizes core ideas of crowds, space, and protest differently. This leads to entirely different philosophical and methodological approaches to protests from different parties and agencies.

This paper approaches protest, policing, and urban space using a critical-theoretical methodology coupled with person-environment relations methods. This paper examines political protest at American Presidential National Conventions. Using genealogical-historical analysis and discourse analysis, this paper examines two historical protest event-sites to develop baselines for comparison: Chicago 1968 and Dallas 1984. Two contemporary protest event-sites are examined using direct observation and discourse analysis: Denver 2008 and St. Paul 2008.

Results show that modes of protest policing are products of dominant socioeconomic models of society, influenced by local policing culture and historical context. Each of the protest event-sites studied represents a crisis in policing and the beginning of a transformation in modes of protest policing. Central to protest policing is the concept of territorial control; means to achieve this control vary by mode of protest policing, which varies according to dominant socioeconomic model. Protesters used a variety of spatial strategies at varying degrees of organization. Both protesters and police developed innovations in spatial practice in order to make their activities more effective.

This has significant consequences for professionalized urban design. Both protester and policing spatial innovation involves the tactical reorganization and occupation of urban space. As urban space plays a constituent role in protest and policing, environmental designers must be aware of the political consequences of their designs.

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Louw, Johan. "Context based detection of urban land use zones." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11320.

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Young, Michael E. "City and the Festival: Architecture, Play, Urban Experience." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990813665.

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Zhang, Ke Coco. "Settlement for local people residential area planning and design /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4266438X.

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Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes special report study entitled: Analysis of vernacular landscape of ancient villages in anhui province. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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Yung, Hoi-sze Iris. "Revitalization of Tsim Sha Tsui East : creation of the new city center /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34612348.

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Neira, Maria Elena. "An open architecture for data environments based on context interchange." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69352.

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Salman, Nadia R. "RETHINKING THE URBAN IDENTITY OF BAGHDAD IN THE 21ST CENTURY." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1409234638.

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Sheehan, Travis (Travis P. ). "The urban design of distributed energy resources." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70380.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.
MIT Institute Archives copy: missing pages 99-100.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-115).
Distributed energy resources (DERs) are a considerable research focus for cities to reach emissions reduction goals and meet growing energy demand. DERs, consisting of local power plants and distribution infrastructure, range from urban to neighborhood scale. In optimizing neighborhood scale DERs, one of the many design decisions is a desirable mix of building types to balance energy demand through daily and annual cycles. However, real estate development drives use-mix primarily through market demand forecasts and financial value creation. The research presented here answers two questions: (1) What are the impacts of altering use-mix to conform to a desired energy profile? and (2) Can site design overcome regulatory and perceptual barriers when integrating DERs at the neighborhood scale? These questions are explored through a review of existing incentives and barriers to district energy systems - including policy, real estate, technical, and design issues. Next I identify within a test site, at the neighborhood scale, the energy and design characteristics pertinent to the research presented here. Ultimately, I propose an analysis framework to examine the energy-form-finance issues encountered when planning a neighborhood scale energy district. Using the resulting framework, I perform a sensitivity analysis that measures the financial impact of altering use-mix to balance energy loads.
Finally, I propose an appropriate site design informed by the review and analysis. Recent policies like the Murton Rule in London, which offer incentives for small power plants, have increased the popularity of the neighborhood scale district energy systems. Though the literature covers financial, regulatory, and engineering aspects of these systems, few studies explore the impact of DERs on urban form at the neighborhood scale. This thesis demonstrates that issues of meeting real estate demands and power demands can be resolved elegantly if one approaches the problem holistically.
by Travis Sheehan.
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Duncan, Kyla. "Perspectives on Urban Land Restitution: what constitutes good enough?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13072.

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The amendment of the Restitution of Land Rights Act (no. 2 of 1996) has reopened the period for lodging a land claim in South Africa until 2019. The previous period for lodging a claim closed in 1998 but claims lodged over 20 years have still not been attended to. There exists a concern that with the re-opening of land restitution within both rural and urban spaces, that previous claims will not be seen to, while new claims will take years to resolve. This is unacceptable. How can the process of land restitution be better managed, conducted and performed so as to fulfil the requirements and goals of land restitution –reconciliation and social justice. The focus of this research turns to the urban space in the Western Cape through a purposefully selected case study of a successful land claim. South African cities and human settlements are growing, with South Africa being the most urbanised country in Africa. The competition for urban space will increase in time. With the demand for land being the contextual reality, urban land restitution needs to position itself in relation to South Africa’s dispossessing past. Through a qualitative research approach, a single case study of urban land restitution was used through which to answer the research questions: what constitutes good enough in relation to land restitution in a competitive urban environment? Findings revealed that urban land restitution is complex, with multiple layers, multiple actors and multiple challenges. It exists in a fine balance of factors influenced by competing agendas. Good enough in this space covers communication, recognition of individuals, respect and action. It entails a three dimensional process and accounts for change in people, place and space over time. Recommendations relating to these findings are themselves pitched at multiple levels from the national to the city space and at more general concerns. Recommendations attempt to promote good enough in a complex urban land restitution environment for the future.

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Anderson, Eric. "Urban Oasis : a neo-industrial landscape in Turkey." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23993.

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Triplett, Dana Elizabeth. "Town Planning and Architecture on Eighteenth Century St Eustatius." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625949.

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Adnani, Mecky (Adnani-Rofougaran) 1960, and Peter D. 1959 Crabtree. "A new financial architecture for developing mixed-income housing in Massachusetts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8836.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.
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The need for affordable housing is as critical now as it has ever been. Mixed-income housing has been adopted by federal policymakers and many state housing agencies as a means to address this pressing issue. Two mixed-income programs with contrasting results are examined and the strengths and weaknesses of each discussed. Based upon the lessons learned, the authors use a variety of financing mechanisms to create a new financial architecture for the development of mixed-income housing in Massachusetts. The thesis begins with a general overview of the history of U.S. housing policy and the current need for affordable housing. It follows with a detailed description of the various mechanisms used to finance and promote the supply of low-income housing. Two mixed-income housing programs, the SHARP Program and the 80/20 Program, are examined. Using a variety of financing mechanisms, a new financial architecture is advanced based upon a new public/private partnership. Current construction and operating costs from the greater Boston area are used to simulate the development and operation costs of an 80/20 project. Growth rates extracted from a portfolio of 23 mixed-income properties financed by the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) under the SHARP Program are superimposed on a baseline scenario to subject it to the same financial stresses that the SHARP properties experienced during the recession of the early 1990s. The risks and potential returns to the public/private partnership are analyzed and recommendations made so the returns to each party are commensurate with the risks that party bears when investing in mixed-income projects. The Model is run through a variety of sensitivity analyses to measure the impact of changes in key variables on the resulting returns of principle partners. The conclusion drawn is that the long-term viability of mixed-income projects can be tenuous, but with the proper alignment of interests and through the use of carefully interwoven finance mechanisms and public policies, mixed-income projects can help address the affordable housing crisis while successfully meeting the goals of each party to the partnership.
by Mecky Adnani and Peter D. Crabtree.
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Li, Ying. "The assessment, planning and design of small public spaces in urban areas." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2016. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/18091/.

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Jane Jacobs wrote (1989, p. 92), of four similar squares near City Hall in Philadelphia, that only Rittenhouse Square was ‘beloved and successful’. Her explanation was its diversity of pedestrian generators. Other theorists, including Hillier (1999) and Gehl (2010), have given equally confident explanations of why some spaces are more popular than others. Small urban public open spaces (POS) are a problem in China as well as in the west. But POS in China tend to have different origins and to be used in different ways. This was an aspect of the research. In China there were few POS before the 20th century and a great many have been made since 1978. My research set out to develop and test a systematic assessment method which could be used (1) to test theories about POS use and use intensity (2) to assess the character and quality of individual POS in urban areas. In addition to published data, the assessment method uses criteria drawn from theorists and includes assessments of use intensity made by the researcher. The assessment method was tested on 100 small urban POS in London and Tianjin. It was found that the best theories for predicting use intensity were those which grew from empirical research, rather than from armchair theorizing. Further investigation revealed that although no one criterion has universal validity, but that particular criteria can be used to explain the popularity of particular POS. The assessment method could therefore be used to help with the problems that: (1) in China, most POS are surprisingly unpopular (2) in Europe, some POS are less popular than expected. Use intensity is the main criterion used to indicate popularity but it is recognized that other indicators (e.g. questionnaires) could be used.

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Martin, Kimberly A. "A Fine Mess: Negotiating Urban Discrepancies." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242787108.

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Tan, Mime, and 陳美美. "Assimilation of urban street into urban green space system." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4500979X.

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Steenkamp, Ilana. "The Safer [D]urban Core: An exploration of urban safety and the use of situational crime prevention in the inner-city of Durban, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13070.

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This thesis explores the notions of safety and the usage of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design methods for creating safer spaces within cities. The project examines the inner city of Durban specifically, grappling with the issues of crime and grime and the perceptions of the city as a space of vulnerability. The project examines the historical and current context of Durban with regards to perceptions held about the inner city. The Project then delves into the links between crime and the city and examines the extremities of crime within South Africa and Durban. It then turns to a study of crime and place theories which attempt to explain the connections between the offender, the targets and the location in which crimes take place. Particular attention is paid to possible implications for urban form. The thesis also investigates various ways in which Durban’s landowners, developers and residents have attempted to create islands of safety throughout the city, after which international and local examples of urban crime prevention are discussed. From these theories and case studies, a few principles are highlighted as guidelines for producing safer spaces. An exploration of design strategies follows. The city is analysed according to a set of elements of the city or a layering of the city on the scale of the Central Business District. This is then taken into a proposal for development. A precinct scale analysis investigates the finer details of Pickering precinct, an area notorious for criminal activity. Such detailed explorations of the built fabric are not possible at the scale of the city, but have an impact on smaller urban acupuncture proposals on a street segment scale. A number of routes that run through the precinct are then explored in terms of potential adjustments to the built fabric, in order to support pedestrian activity and safety along the routes. This project illustrates an alternative approach to creating safe spaces within the urban environment of Durban. Through providing a safe urban core, the city can allow for positive interactions to take place within common spaces and hence fulfil the role that cities have to play in fostering growth in society.

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Ismail, Ayman (Ayman Adel) 1973. "A distributed system architecture for spatial data management to support engineering modeling." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67524.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.
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This research seeks ways to manage the process of analysis and synthesis of geographic data to support collaboration among researchers, planners, and engineers working on a spatial problem. This question is addressed on two levels. The first level examines the abstraction and representation of the analysis process, using the Unified Modeling Language. The second level examines the distributed environment that enables such collaboration, and proposes a three-tier distributed system architecture. The interdisciplinary Urban Respiration project provides a context and examples illustrating the need for such design. A prototype application is developed to test and understand the applicability of the proposed designs.
by Ayman Ismail.
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Moran, James Joseph Jr. "The public realm : urban design within Suburbia." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23140.

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Yunus, Amer Hamzah Mohd. "Urban conservation in Malaysia : processes and management." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4917.

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Akrofi, Emmanuel Offei. "Assessing customary land administration systems for peri-urban land in Ghana." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4989.

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Customary tenure is the predominant land tenure system in Ghana. It has been practiced for many years. Customary land tenure is built on the foundations of an African concept of land, distinguished by centrality of community, spirituality, and mutual dependence of the individual and the community. Colonization, increased population, rapid urbanisation has placed enormous pressure on customary tenure, especially in peri-urban areas. This study investigates customary administration in peri-urban Ghana. Using critical realism and multimethodology, peri-urban customary tenure in Accra and Kumasi, the fastest growing cities in Ghana, are assessed. A model for assessing functionality for peri-urban customary systems has been developed. The results indicate that functional customary systems adhere to the principles of good governance in customary land administration, although a lot needs to be done to improve accountability, transparency and land rights of women. It was also observed that whether the system has patrilineal or matrilineal inheritance does not have any significant influence on functionality. Further research is recommended to investigate best practices from other tenure systems to improve peri-urban customary tenure without compromising good aspects of customary systems.

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Ke, Jianmin. "The urban morphology of Suzhou, China : an analysis of traditional dwelling environment in development." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311891.

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Crisman, Jonathan. "Approximate translation : media, narrative, and experience in urban design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79149.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-155).
Approximate translation is developed as a design process through which the place-embedded history of an urban environment can be understood, allowing for better design and intervention in that urban environment. Generally, approximate translation champions media, narrative, and experience as design elements that have traditionally been excluded from disciplinary discourse and are necessary for any design in contemporary practice. The processes of displacement, replacement, and surrealization are proposed as three such translations and are demonstrated in the transformation of the Boston neighborhood of Allston into Allstonland (a theme park in Hong Kong), New Allston (a revised Allston with six interventions organized around Platonic Forms), and a live model of New Allston. The live model is developed as a new form of architectural and urban design representation that can incorporate the temporal, mediatic, and experiential elements which are ill-conveyed through conventional means. Ultimately, approximate translation is intended to transform urban environments into their ideal forms, to inject new meaning into empty urban signifiers, to alter local subjectivities, and to generate a new sense of civitas. Theories of media, theming and scripted space, Pop and Surrealist art, Marxism and neoliberal capital, postmodernism, aesthetics, semiotics, modernist architecture, epistemology, and hermeneutics are drawn upon in order to construct a framework for this that is both robust enough for use in practice and pedagogy, as well as mutable enough for further refinement and expansion.
by Jonathan Crisman.
M.Arch.
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Zhu, Youxuan. "Urban housing renovation in China : toward a new approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78946.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).
by Youxuan Zhu.
M.S.
M.C.P.

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