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Carvalho, Mario Estevao. "An intellectual history of modern city planning theory." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18082.
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Dalton, Richard Jeffrey. "The problem of history : architecture, planning and the city." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24007.
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Freestone, Robert. "The Australian garden city: a planning history 1910-1930." Australia : Macquarie University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/71351.
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"September, 1984".<br>Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Centre for Environmental and Urban Studies, 1985.<br>Includes bibliography : leaves 405-418, and index.<br>Introduction -- The peaceful path to real reform -- The garden city movement -- An international phenomenon -- Australia: setting the scene -- Importing the garden city -- Overview of theory and practice -- An environmental ideal -- Garden city principles -- Garden towns -- Garden villages -- Garden suburbs -- The metropolitan scale -- Conclusion.<br>The garden city tradition in estate and metropolitan design derived its name from the garden cities advocated by Ebenezer Howard in To-Morrow (1898). A major force in the history of British planning, its influence was felt around the world. This thesis is the first overview of Australian theory and practice, focusing on the period between 1910 and 1930. Five basic tasks are attempted: an outline of the original garden city idea; an examination of the general ideology and organization of the garden city movement; clarification of the international context; specification of the general character and distinctiveness of garden city advocacy in Australia; and a systematic record of actual projects. -- The discussion indicates that the nature of the Australian response reflected the interaction of imported ideas with local circumstances. As in other countries, Howard's 'peaceful path' to 'a better a brighter civilization' was not fully followed. Instead, the garden city assumed three main guises. First, it functioned as an inspirational environmental ideal. Second, it brought together concrete principles for improved lay out that were advocated for and implemented in three different settings: special purpose 'garden towns'; 'tied' housing estates for industrial employees; and residential suburbs and subdivisions. These 'garden suburbs' dominated the local scene but, as with the other developments, translation of the ideal into reality was imperfect, being deleteriously affected by financial, political, and administrative factors in particular. Third, and at a larger scale, the garden city helped to introduce certain tentative ideas regarding the desirable size, shape and structure of the metropolis. -- The approach adopted is basically empirical, with the most important source material being the contemporary Australian planning literature. The structure is best described as 'stratified chronology'. The analytical framework combines three main approaches to planning historiography: the societal (setting planning events and developments in their broadest economic, political, cultural, and institutional context), the biographical (emphasizing the important role of individuals in the importation, diffusion and implementation of garden city thought), and the morphological (a spatial emphasis involving an inventory of landscape impacts). The major theme permeating the thesis is that of the 'diluted legacy': the drift in the garden city tradition away from Howard's holistic, radical manifesto through liberal environmental reforms to actual schemes which compromised or even totally contradicted the original idea in physical, economic and social terms. The extension and conceptualization of this idea provides one of several important areas for future research highlighted by the thesis.<br>Mode of access: World Wide Web.<br>xi, 424 leaves ill
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Glasco, Sharon. "A city in disarray: Public health, city planning, and the politics of power in late colonial Mexico City." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280118.
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This dissertation examines the spatial and public health dimensions of class relationships, social control, and state power in Mexico City during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses specifically on the process of urban planning and public works that the Bourbon state undertook during the late colonial period, and considers the variety of reasons and justifications given for the projects themselves. City leaders pointed to the environmental and health benefits that would go along with improved sanitation, new drainage systems and paving of city streets, the expansion of the public water supply, the renovation of city markets, and new bathhouse regulations. Elites, however, viewed these improvements as a way to gain leverage over the plebeian classes. Elites viewed the urban poor as the root of many of the environmental problems the viceregal capital faced, and considered common practices among the popular classes, such as the indiscriminate dumping of garbage and waste, defecating and urinating in public, loitering, washing clothes and other personal items in public fountains, and public nudity as a threat to civic order and safety. Elites feared that this type of activity would also transgress into other types of disorder, namely criminal activity. These behaviors also represented to elites the uncivilized nature of the urban masses, challenging the cultural norms upon which elites based their social superiority. This "polluting" behavior also reflected badly on the state, illustrating their lack of political control over city residents, and undermining its legitimacy. In the end, the programs instituted did little to alleviate many of the environmental problems of Mexico City: the scope of programs was limited, focusing on the city center at the expense of the surrounding poorer barrios where improvements were most needed; enforcement of legislation passed to change many plebeian habits was lackluster at best; and funding for the projects was clearly insufficient.
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Outtes, Joel. "Disciplining society through the city? : the birth of urbanismo (city planning) in Brazil (1916-1941)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670212.
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Gallacci, Caroline. "Planning the city of destiny : an urban history of Tacoma to 1930 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10463.
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Jenner, Michael Anthony. "The Origin of Portland, Oregon's Waterfront Park: A Paradigm Shift in City Planning (1967-1978)." PDXScholar, 2004. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4050.
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The present thesis chronicles the decision to replace Portland, Oregon's Harbor Drive, a downtown highway located between Front A venue and the Willamette River, with Tom McCall Waterfront Park, a thirty-seven acre linear greenway, in the late 1960s and 1970s. These events provide an example of the battle against the ascendancy of the automobile and the ability of concerned citizen groups to affect city planning decisions.
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Svirplys, Saulius. ""Creeping diversity": Housing design in Bramalea, Canada's first suburban satellite city." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27488.
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Much has been written on postwar suburbs in North America, and their impact on society. What are missing are histories of the housing that exists within these suburbs, and how both the idea behind suburbs, and the realities of the time, had an impact on the design of such housing. For this work, Bramalea, Ontario, was chosen as a case study location to begin exploring suburban housing design. Begun in 1958, Bramalea was unique in that it was designed as Canada's first suburban satellite city, which meant it was planned as a self-sufficient community. Houses in Bramalea were a product of both their location, but also of outside influences. Economic conditions, technological advances, and design trends, all influenced the history and evolution of suburban housing. Popular culture and the changing ideas about the nature of suburbs also played an important role in the houses that were built in Bramalea.
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Waldrep, Michael. "Informal housing in New York City : a spatial history of squats, lofts, and illegal conversions." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90112.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2014.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-142).<br>This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the notion of informal urbanization- normally applied to discussions of cities in the developing world-is equally effective in describing a range of housing practices in New York City, one of the wealthiest, most prototypically urban cities in the globe. The model of a binary, or gradient, between the "formal" and "informal" cities has been remarkably productive in many contexts, but has seen little use in the study of U.S. Cities. The thesis provides a definition of informal housing, based upon that of the international development community, and applies this definition to three instances in New York City it proposes fit. By unifying diverse practices and histories, I argue that informal housing in the city has been a persistent element that can be found across classes, architectural typologies, geographies, and historical moments. The methods of the thesis include consulting from primary sources (news reports and planning studies), secondary academic planning texts, conducting interviews with participants and planners, and producing my own relevant photographs and maps. These materials are synthesized into four chapters. The first provides background on the notion of informality, and offers a modified definition of the phenomenon that unifies the New York examples with their international counterparts. Chapter two charts the birth of informality with the codification, in the late years of the 19th century, of moral and physical standards in the immigrant-populated tenements of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It then charts the reoccupation of those same tenement spaces, without capital or legal tenure, by the often politically motivated squatters in the Upper West and Lower East Sides in the latter half of the 20th century. Chapter three provides a history, from 1960 to the present, of the informal transformation of commercial loft spaces to residences in SoHo and Brooklyn and describes the effects of these conversions on the neighborhoods in which they occurred. Chapter four demonstrates how the low density built form of Queens was developed in reaction to the tenement era, and how it is currently being informally reconstructed into a dense, urban space for marginal immigrants, despite some typical (and atypical) challenges to that informal use. The thesis concludes by arguing that in each case-despite differences in built form, geography, users' incomes and the historical context-informality, as understood in the developing world, is present in New York. Further, it argues that the official reactions to these liminal cases of housing- variously, repression, neglect, and accommodation-provides a history of the planning regime's shift from prescription to acceptance of unofficial action. It calls for a greater unity of discussion and collaboration between those planners, architects, and urban thinkers working on cities in the U.S. and those whose expertise centers on cities in the global south. Finally, the thesis closes by summarizing some potential lessons from the experience of informal housing in New York City over its long and varied history, and offers guidance, informed by these lessons, on how the city might address its present informal housing boom.<br>by Michael Waldrep.<br>M.C.P.
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Liverant, Bettina. "Patterns on the land, themes of order and wildness in planning, Calgary, 1869 to 1966." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0001/MQ34897.pdf.
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Ross, Rebecca. "All Above: Visual Culture and the Professionalization of City Planning, 1867-1931." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10331.
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This dissertation is developed around questions of how cultural fascinations with seeing the city from above are intertwined with the birth and development of the city planning profession. To explore this question, I examine three contexts linked to already-familiar episodes from the history of city planning: Paris in the aftermath of Haussmann-ization, the visual approach of proto-planner Daniel H. Burnham, and the New York region in advance of the rise of master-planner Robert Moses. These settings serve as a basis for a reoriented approach to understanding how and why a new category of experts tasked with intervening in urban conditions emerged. Among other views, Paris is seen from the height of a tethered hot air balloon; San Francisco and Chicago from Twin Peaks and the roof of the Railway Exchange Building, respectively; and New York from the lens of a Fairchild aerial camera, as well as from the 86th story of the Empire State Building. The sublime experience facilitated by such vistas undergirds the discussion. It is employed to recast existing historical accounts of the birth of the city-planning profession at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries to more deeply reflect its interaction with the proliferation and subsequent breakdown of a visual culture of "the city" from above shared amongst experts and citizens alike.
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Mackintosh, Phillip Gordon. "Imagination and the modern city, reform and the urban geography of Toronto, 1890-1929." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ59532.pdf.
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Wilson, Aubrae N. "The Great Rivalry: The Planning Legacies of London and Paris in the Modern Era." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157578/.
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This thesis seeks to examine the respective histories of London and Paris, two of the most influential and iconic cities in the world, in order to better understand how each respectively developed and their impact upon modern urban planning. Comparisons are made between, not only the history, but also the noble classes and gentry, religions, and cultural values which influenced the development of each capital city. Additionally, this thesis also seeks to explore how the development of Paris can still greatly assist modern developers in the twenty-first century.
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Troup, Tammy L. "Building East Akron: the Local Vision of F.A. Seiberling and the City of Akron." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1210785106.
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Shirley, Charles Eddie. "The cemetery and the analogous." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22961.
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Gagnon, Gabriel. "Ottawa, une capitale en quête de monumentalité." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0006/MQ45220.pdf.
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Alekseyeva, Anna. "Planning the Soviet everyday : reimagining the city, home and material culture of developed socialism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:241245c9-e5c1-4f11-8e2c-051b9a601088.
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This thesis explores professional visions for the planning of everyday life during the period of developed socialism. Considering a wide range of disciplinary literature, including architecture, urban planning, design and sociology, this thesis analyses how professionals imagined residential and domestic life in an urbanised and technologically advanced socialist society. Continuing the narrative of Khrushchev’s modernising programme to reform everyday life (<i>byt</i>) into the post-Khrushchev period, the thesis follows professionals of the last two Soviet decades who criticised the rationalising and collectivising planning paradigm inaugurated during the preceding decades. Professionals argued that this paradigm had produced a dehumanised and alienating everyday environment in the city and the home. After setting out the theoretical framework and the historical context of developed socialism, the first empirical section addresses urban residential life. It focuses on the microdistrict planning unit to illustrate how professionals, disillusioned with functionalist planning, searched for ways to humanise the city and adapt it to the behaviours and needs of urban residents. Part two investigates shifting professional views on the home and the everyday processes associated with it, such as cooking and cleaning. No longer seen as a utilitarian space in which everyday processes transpire, the home came to be understood as a personal and emotionally resonant place. Part three focuses on material culture, investigating evolving views on consumption and aesthetics. It illustrates how professionals endeavoured to rehabilitate the object world and align it with populist preferences while nonetheless maintaining a commitment to technological and forward-looking principles. In contributing to the scholarly understanding of developed socialism, this thesis contends that the 1970s-1980s saw experts embrace individual agency and popular sentiments. This turn did not, however, signify a turn towards individualism or de-politicised malaise: professionals maintained their utopian aspirations to engineer and control everyday life.
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Parikh, Anokhi. "The private city : planning, property, and protest in the making of Lavasa New Town, India." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3203/.
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This dissertation is an ethnographic study of Lavasa, a new town planned, built and managed by a private company in India. It examines the ideologies, institutional arrangements, and political processes at work in the making of this town. It takes seriously the attempt to create a ‘market utopia’ (an inclusive, environmentally sustainable, properly planned, and profitable town), treating it as an empirical phenomenon with social consequences, and asks: why, how, and with what effects did Lavasa come to be? In tracing its conception, production, and contestation, the dissertation analyses the processes and consequences of transforming a rural landscape into an urban place. I make two main arguments. First, the construction of Lavasa is fundamentally speculative and is centred on the ability to transform cheap rural land into urban real estate. I show that the land market that enables the city is actively manufactured by the state, through powerful local political actors, and networks of brokers and agrarian intermediaries. The construction of this land market produces a speculative environment: one in which trading in land simultaneously becomes an opportunity to make money, a cause of dispossession, and a way to lay claim to the city. Second, such speculation generates both resistance against and support for the project. It also, paradoxically, emboldens the ideological project of city-making. Collective action is rendered difficult as it is mediated by the same conditions and state that created the land market. Therefore the contestation takes another form that moves beyond the domain of land, is couched in environmental concerns, and leverages a different level of the state to ultimately stall the project. I demonstrate how the symbolic power of this ‘market utopia’ conceals the conditions of its possibility, that is, the ways in which it was made through the state, through speculation, and the discursive and material operations of the land market. I show how this land market is historically and socio-politically constructed, and how its construction shapes and informs the politics of planning, privatisation, and resistance.
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Goldstein, Brian David. "A City within a City: Community Development and the Struggle over Harlem, 1961-2001." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10985.
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This dissertation examines the idea of community development in the last four decades of the twentieth century through the example of the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and, in doing so, explains the broader transformation of the American city in these decades. Frustration with top-down urban redevelopment and the rise of Black Power brought new demands to Harlem, as citizens insisted on the need for “community control” over their built environment. In attempting to bring this goal to life, Harlemites created new community-based organizations that promised to realize a radically inclusive, cooperative ideal of a neighborhood built by and for the benefit of its predominantly low-income, African-American residents. For several reasons, including continued reliance on the public sector, dominant leaders, changing sociological understandings of poverty, and the intransigence of activists, however, such organizations came to advance a narrower approach in Harlem in succeeding years. By the 1980s, they pursued a moderate vision of Harlem’s future, prioritizing commercial projects instead of development that served residents’ many needs, emphasizing economic integration, and eschewing goals of broad structural change. In examining community design centers, community development corporations, self-help housing, and other neighborhood-based strategies, I conclude that local actors achieved their longstanding aspiration that they could become central to the process of development in Harlem and similar places, but built a dramatically different reality than the idealistic hope that had fueled demands for community control in the late 1960s. This ironic outcome reveals the unexpected, radical roots of urban landscapes that by the end of the century were characterized by increasing privatization, economic gentrification, and commercial redevelopment. Likewise, it demonstrates that such dramatic changes in American cities were not simply imposed on unwitting neighborhoods by outsiders or the result of abstract forces, but were in part produced by residents themselves. Understanding the mutable nature of community development helps to explain both the complicated course of urban development in the aftermath of modernist planning and the lasting, often contradictory consequences of the radical demands that emerged from the 1960s, two areas that historians have only begun to examine in detail.
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傅瑞暾 and Shui-tun Fu. "The formation and development of precincts and alleys in Linan during the Southern Song Period." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B26826161.
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Homann, Desiree. "A critical analysis of the process of transformation of the city planning function in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24797.
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The study is a participant observer study of the transformation of the city planning function of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM) from 5 December 2000 to 30 June 2002. The study is rendered in the form of a narrative told in the first person. The focus of the story is on how power and the aspiration to power influenced the actions of the people in the employ of the municipality and the relations between them during the study period. In this regard the story draws heavily on the work of Bent Flyvbjerg (1998, 2001). A number of recurring themes or golden threads are identified and highlighted through the narrative. These threads are analysed in more detail in the final chapter of the study. They are: -- The influence of power and the prevalence of different types of power; -- The role played by communication during the transformation; -- The lack of regard for people that characterised the process; and -- The inherent resistance to change displayed by the organization. The study unlocks opportunities for further study. It could form the basis of a comparative study with other cases of organizational change, particularly those related to restructuring in the other South African metropolitan municipalities. Furthermore, the struggle for recognition of the City Planning function within the new Tshwane organizational structure could be further investigated against the backdrop of the broader search for a new role and identity for the planning profession.<br>Dissertation (M (Town and Regional Planning))--University of Pretoria, 2007.<br>Town and Regional Planning<br>unrestricted
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Kabuka, Mukhtar 1954. "The origin and development of domestic architecture and urban planning in the pre-Islamic Near East." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558096.
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Liang, Changqing, and 梁長青. "Morphological transformation of urban districts: a case study of Da-baodao in Qingdao." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38696241.
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Simpson, Donald E. "Civic Center and Cultural Center| The Grouping of Public Buildings in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit and the Emergence of the City Monumental in the Modern Metropolis." Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3573264.
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<p> The grouping of public buildings into civic centers and cultural centers became an obsession of American city planners at the turn of the twentieth century. Following European and ancient models, and inspired by the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and the McMillan Commission plan for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1901, architects sought to create impressive horizontal ensembles of monumental buildings in urban open spaces such as downtown plazas and quasi-suburban parks in direct opposition to the vertical thrust of commercial skyscrapers. Hitherto viewed largely through the narrow stylistic prism of the City Beautiful vs. the city practical movements, the monumental center (as Jane Jacobs termed it) continued to persist beyond the passing of neoclassicism and the rise of high modernism, thriving as an indispensable motif of futurist aspiration in the era of comprehensive and regional planning, as municipalities sought to counteract the decentralizing pull of the automobile, freeway, air travel and suburban sprawl in postwar America. The administrative civic center and arts and educational cultural center (bolstered by that icon of late urban modernity, the medical center) in turn spawned a new hybrid, the center for the performing arts, exemplified by Lincoln Center and the National Cultural Center (the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), as cities sought to integrate convention, sports, and live performance venues into inner-city urban renewal projects. Through the key case studies of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit, one-time juggernauts of heavy industry and twenty-first century regions of rust-belt collapse, this study examines the emergence of the ideology of grouping public buildings in urban planning as well as the nineteenth century philology of the keywords civic center and cultural center, terms once actively employed in discourses as diverse as Swiss geography, American anthropology, Social Christianity, the schoolhouse social center movement, and cultural Zionism. It also positions these developments in relation to modern anxieties about the center and its loss, charted by such thinkers as Hans Sedlmayr, Jacques Derrida, and Henri Lefevbre, and considers the contested utopian aspirations of the monumental center as New Jerusalem, Celestial City, and Shining City on a Hill. </p>
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Gallimore, Rapsody Dawn. "Relationship between growth patterns and planning practices : a case study of the city of Roanoke /." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10062009-020204/.
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Williams, Laura. "Rus in urbe : greening the English town, 1660-1760." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683367.
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Gage, Stephen. "Gray City of the Midway : the University of Chicago and the search for American urban culture, 1890-1932." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267826.
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This research examines the American industrial city in the early twentieth century and the role of cultural institutions in the shift to an urban-oriented society. In-depth analysis of the University of Chicago’s architecture and planning traces how urban form emerged gradually as an assimilation of different traditions. It challenges a planning literature reliant on narrowly-prescribed categories and qualifies recent cultural histories that give a more nuanced portrayal of Progressive Era urban culture but which fail to consider the built environment directly. The research’s critical questions reconsider the role of nature within the city, the definition of the urban public, and the intertwining of commerce and civic culture. Its methodology uses original analytic drawings which trace how the University expanded over time, united with consideration of previously-unexplored written and visual archives. This combination of analytic mapping and archival investigation on one institution reveals new insights into how the industrial city was shaped as a whole. The findings identify paradoxes in the University’s planning, which promoted the dynamism of the modern city while evoking the image of bucolic Oxbridge. These contradictory impulses were enhanced by the University’s location on the Midway Plaisance, a public boulevard typifying the urban/rural hybridity of Chicago’s park system. The result was an urbanised nature, or the charged proximity of urban density and pastoral green space. Disputing the perceived eclipse of the nineteenth-century Parks movement, the term ‘urbanised nature’ suggests how earlier concern for naturalistic landscape was fused with the ideals of twentieth-century Progressivism. The research also contests previous emphasis on the exclusionary cultural practices of this period, as the heterogeneous development of the University’s Collegiate Gothic campus reveals a struggle to balance commercial interests, pastoral imagery, and monumental urban display. More broadly, this research sheds new light on the contradictions that shaped the American city in the early twentieth century—an urban culture driven by the contentious relationship between industrial capitalism and civic institutions, a public realm animated by mass appeal and elite tradition, and a spatial order drawn from urban and rural models.
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Division, Johnson City GIS. "Johnson City Zoning Map - 2003." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/60.
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Zoning map for Johnson City, Tennessee created November 6, 2013 by Johnson City GIS. The guide to zoning districts can be found in a box on the lower left corner. The color coded key and additional information is included along the bottom. Arterial and collector streets are also denoted using empty versus solid circles.
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Tatton, Bronson Ron. "Design Guidelines for the Historic Downtown of the City of St. George, Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/53.
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This document proposes historic preservation guidelines for the downtown area of the City of St. George, Utah. It grew from a summer internship with the city where I took inventory of the streetscape in the Historic Downtown and prepared recommendations in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation that was given to the city council. This paper summarizes the summer internship and introduces a more appropriate approach based on reflection of the internship. The new approach involves a thorough inventory of the historic character, in-depth research of the historic elements that contribute to the historic character, development of design guidelines and standards, reviews, and codification of the design guidelines and standards. The historic elements that contribute most to the city’s historic character are identified as 1) block and lot layout and building setbacks, 2) architecture, 3) irrigation ditches, 4) tree lined streets, and 5) other streetscape elements and site features. Through comprehensive research of old photography, literature, and existing conditions these historic elements are further defined. The historic elements are currently being specified in design guidelines and standards and reviewed by the city in preparation for possible codification. (173 pages)
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Sanchez, Julio Cesar. "Citizen participation and public recreation planning : case study and definition of criteria for citizen participation, Santa Cruz, Bolivia." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/935909.
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The city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, has grown the last 40 years according to an urban plan. However, this urban planning process does not permit the citizen participation in public recreation planning.The Popular Participation Law approved in April, 1994, open new possibilities for citizen participation in public recreation planning in Santa Cruz. However, there are limitation in the implementation of the law.In order to correct those limitation the present study proposes basic criteria for popular participation in management of public recreational facilities. These criteria refer to delimitation of the neighborhoods in the city, the democratization of the Juntas Vecinales, and the definition of the organic structure of the Juntas Vecinales in a way that can permit popular participation.<br>Department of Urban Planning
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Filipcevic, Vojislava. "Bright lights, blighted city : urban renewal at the crossroads of the world." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23720.
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The strict divisions of city spaces created by physical urban planning disintegrated under transformations of capitalism and its accompanying crises of overaccumulation, social urban planning was elaborated to more effectively control the capitalist city and to reintegrate the increasingly blighted areas of the once popular amusements into the economy.<br>This disciplined reintegration, unsuccessfully attempted in New York City's Times Square since the late 1920s. is finally being realized by the redevelopment forces that began shaping the city's spatial practices in the wake of the fiscal crisis of 1975. The development projects undertaken in midtown Manhattan following the recovery from the fiscal crisis are transforming the renowned Times Square theater district into a strikingly different urban environment. The new politics of redevelopment under the regime of flexible accumulation are almost exclusively oriented towards economic development that is equated with speculative property investments, rebuilding Times Square to promote the global city's finance monopoly. Denying the existence of the public realm and celebrating free market laissez-faire policy, the 42nd Street Development Project, under the guise of removing blight, is eliminating the undesirable and underprivileged from the new image of the Bright Lights District. Times Square as a center of the local popular culture of Broadway theaters, cinemas, restaurants, billboard spectaculars, and public celebrations, has been lost as a public space. In the redevelopment projects now imaging the Crossroads of the World, the lost city of the past is recreated through the commodification of its collective memory, fashioning a Disneyfied spectacle for the global urban center. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Hodges, Margaret Emily. "Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and H.P. Daniel van Ginkel : urban planning." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84513.
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Blanche Lemco van Ginkel (1923), a pioneering Canadian woman architect and urban planner, contributed to the most important planning projects in Montreal during the 1960s. She worked in collaboration with H. P. Daniel van Ginkel, and together their planning proposals determined the direction of the future growth of Montreal. At a time of rapid clearance and construction in the city core, and when the Old City was at risk of total demolition, the van Ginkels were committed to the development of a humane architectural environment. The van Ginkels understood Modernism as a movement concerned with ethical, social and technical improvements within society, not merely as a style for building and major redevelopment.<br>In this thesis, I argue that Lemco van Ginkel developed a unique Modern urban aesthetic that is reflected in her planning work in Montreal. She viewed the urban environment as a total fabric in which the disruption of one thread affected the whole. Any changes made must be done with due respect for the totality ensuring an end product that is a whole cloth, not a patchwork. The development of her urban aesthetic can be properly understood only against the following backdrop: her experience in Europe, working in the Atelier of Le Corbusier, and attending CIAM in association with Team Ten; and, in the United States while teaching in the 1950s at the University of Pennsylvania where she initiated an American chapter of CIAM (Group for Architectural Investigation). Moreover, her design theory must be viewed in light of her collaboration with her husband, H. P. Daniel van Ginkel (1920), a member of the Dutch CIAM and a founding member of Team Ten during the 1950s. Lemco van Ginkel's conception of a Modern urban aesthetic allowed her to assume an essential role in the fundamental design of Montreal.
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Roberts, David A. "The Changes in American Society from the 17th to 20th Century Reflected in the Language of City Planning Documents." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1410888727.
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Pezzoni, J. Daniel. "Town form." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45902.
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American town form consists of primary form - the layout of
streets, lots and other features determined for a town at its
inception - and secondary form - the fabric of building and usage
that a town acquires over time. This thesis explores the primary and
secondary form of ante-bellum Western Virginia Towns, and offers
several interpretations of the cultural meaning recorded in town
form.<br>Master of Architecture
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Thompson, Steven A. "Red River Flooding in the City of Fargo: What has been Learned through Repeated Events." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25308.
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Hollands, Glenn Delroy. "The politics of planning in Eastern Cape local government: a case study of Ngqushwa and Buffalo City, 1998-2004." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008199.
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This thesis examines the political implications of the integrated development planning process embarked upon by South African municipalities in the period 1998-2004. Through the use of case study methodology that focuses on the Eastern Cape municipalities of Buffalo City and Ngqushwa, the conventions of municipal planning are examined. This inquiry into municipal planning draws upon official government documents and reports and publications from the nongovernment sector. The thesis is particularly focused on the claims made in policy documents and related secondary sources and compares these to more critical reports and publication as well as the author's personal experience of the integrated development planning process. Of key interest is the possibility that planning serves political interests and the material needs of an emerging municipal elite and that this is seldom acknowledged in official planning documentation or government sanctioned publications on the topic. The primary findings of the thesis are as follows: • That the 'reason' of expert policy formulations that accompanied integrated development planning has weakened political economy as a prism of understanding and separated itself from the institutional reality of municipal government • That the dominant critique of planning and other post-apartheid municipal policy is concerned with the triumph of neoliberalism but this critique, while valid, does not fully explain successive policy failures especially in the setting of Eastern Cape local government • That function of policy and its relationship to both the state and civil society is usually understood only in the most obvious sense and not as an instrument for wielding political power • That planning still derives much of its influence from its claim to technical rationality and that this underpinned the 'authority' of the integrated development planning project in South Africa and reinforced its power to make communities governable.
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Lloyd, Justine, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Cultural Histories and Futures. "I'd rather not be in Marrickville : aerial modernities and the domestication of the sublime." THESIS_CAESS_CHF_Lloyd _J.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/450.
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Since the first flights in Sydney in 1910, the problem of exactly where to locate Sydney's airport has preoccupied and troubled planners, politicians and residents of the city. This thesis examines Sydney airport as a space, site and symbol under contestation by major social forces - Zukin - throughout the twentieth century. In doing so, it seeks to question the claims of both planners and anti-airport protestors to resolve and manage large-scale urban developments. Via a series of case studies of representations of the airport, the thesis develops an argument for understanding the airport as a heterotopia: neither sublime nor abject, but through such an extremist spatial imaginary pointing to the production of modernist space as a highly contested process. Because it localises and materialises discourses on the nature and goals of progress,internationalisation and globalisation, it is argued that the built form of the airport is, and will continue to be, a key site of such aerial modernity. The final chapter closely reads a series of airport tales- (a film, a play and a park) in order to consider the ways in which they rework the modernist sublime in domestic space.It is concluded that these stories offer a method of representing locality that goes beyond the existing understandings of locality as an essence of place. The appeal of the narratives lies in the shift that they develop, through excessive and negotiated representations of both the domestic and the sublime, from the local as essence, to locality as practice.<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Bilgi, Elif Mihcioglu. "The Physical Evolution Of The Historic City Of Ankara Between 1839 And 1944: A Morphological Analysis." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12612024/index.pdf.
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The historic core of Ankara, has been subject to a rapid change and deterioration increasingly after 1950s, losing most of its original qualities. This thesis analyzes the spatial evolution of the historic city from 1839 to 1940s with the objective to restitute the preexisting urban fabric and the transformation that took place before 1950s. The Early Republican period was critical in the transformation of the historic core as well as in the development of Ankara that was to be shaped as the &lsquo<br>model city&rsquo<br>for other Turkish cities. The Old City, which constituted the center of the new capital is studied with a morphological approach in order to restitute the original form and structure of the physical environment and to clarify the changes in the subsequent periods in relation with the socio-economic and institutional structure. Mainly depending on the cartographic materials belonging to the research periods, the study focuses on the physical evolution of the historic city through comparison on the basis of three principal items: urban fabric, urban circulation network and land use pattern. Situating the historic core within the whole Ankara, the research puts special emphasis on the impact of fires and the effects of the planning activity in the related period. The morphological analysis illustrated that the historic core of Ankara was subject to a substantial transformation during the Early Republican period as a result of the interventions brought by the reconstruction plans and piecemeal decisions.
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Posey, Sean T. "Roots of Urban Decay: Race, Urban Renewal, and Suburbanization in Youngstown, Ohio, 1950-1977." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1349713636.
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Reilly, Scott. "Providing Addison, Illinois with community character through downtown development." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1133740.
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Over the past few decades, the physical forms of the Village of Addison and its neighboring communities have blended together into a series of commercial corridors serving an automobile population. The result is a loss of individual character for Addison and its neighbors. The most visible way for a municipality to obtain character is through establishing or rehabilitating its downtown. This project attempts to create a unique physical identity for the Village of Addison allowing it to stand out from typical suburban development. Since a downtown does not exist in the Village of Addison, this creative project attempts to provide one.<br>Department of Architecture
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Olson, Molle. "Beroende av spår : En studie av spårbundenheten inom projektet som blev Citybanan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354170.
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Ever since the introduction of the railway through Stockholm there have been issues regardingcapacity. Citybanan is a recently built railway tunnel for commuter trains that takes somepressure off the heavily frequented stretch of tracks in the center of Stockholm. The projecttook almost 30 years to complete and led to time delays as well as large cost increases. Usinga theoretic background of path dependence and megaproject theories the planning is beingexamined. The conclusions of this study are that the investigations are influenced by pathdependence, mainly because the Swedish government early on decided upon reserving moneyto a specific project which did not turn out to be the technically best project. This pathdependence is related to the megaproject theory that projects that lock onto a specific idea oftenget delayed. The overrun might have been prevented by comparing Citybanan to other finishedrailway projects during early stages of the investigation.
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Zituta, Heyman Mandlakayise. "The spatial planning of racial residential segregation in King William's Town : 1826-1991." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005531.
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This study investigates the spatial planning of racial residential segregation in King William's Town, induding its former homeland township of Zwelitsha, from 1826 to 1991. The first settlement in the 'white' King William's Town, Brownlee Mission Station, was established in 1826.The town of King William's Town was developed from this settlement. The racial laws which were applied to segregate blacks nationally and locally came to an end in 1991. Primary sources of information were used to determine whether King William's Town was planned along racial lines and to determine the major role players who formulated and implemented the policy. Key sources were archival material, newspapers, maps, interviews, Deeds Office files and the work of other scholars. The establishment of the towm from its genesis as a mission station and a military base is traced and the effects of this legacy on racial separation is detailed. It was found that racial planning of residential areas in King William's Town had been practised in this small town for a long time (prior to the Group Areas Act). The implementation of this policy was marked by forced removal of blacks from areas which were regarded as being for whites. These predominently African concentrations on the east bank of the Buffalo River were relocated to the west bank which was regarded as a black area.An anomalous incident was discovered in this study namely that these racial removals took place before the central state introduced national policy which compelled all local states to plan their residential areas along ethnic considerations. In parallel with the practice of segregation in King William's Town, the township of Zwelitsha was developed adjacent to the town by the government. As this thesis reveals, the development of Zwelitsha was intimately related to that of King William's Town. The major role players in planning residential areas on racial basis were identified as the municipal Council of King William's Town. They were involved in planning racially segregated areas before and after the Group Areas Act. They (the Council) succeeded in closing all freehold locations in the town (1940) and forced the residents to become their tenants who rented dwellings in the west bank municipal location. There were attempts to incorporate this municipal location into the neighbouring homeland township of Zwelitsha. This move was eventually accomplished when all townships in the vicinity of King William's Town were amalgamated to form King William's Town Transitional Local Council in terms of the Local Government Transition Act of 1994 (Government Gazette No. 15468 of 2nd February 1994).
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Evetts, Robin Dennis Alexander. "Architectural expansion and redevelopment in St. Andrews, 1810-c1894." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/528.
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This thesis documents the five principal areas of architectural development in St Andrews from 1810 to c1894. The Overview examines the factors for change and pattern of expansion, and identifies education, recreation and retirement as the three main pillars of the expanding economy. Part One comprises a detailed examination of the circumstances surrounding the rebuilding of the United College, and extension to the University Library from 1810 to 1854. Part Two examines in equal detail the establishment and erection of the Madras College during the 1830s. Parts Three and Four are concerned with the development of two completely new areas of middle class housing; the 'new town' to the west, and 'Queen's Park' to the south. The stylistic shift from classicism to romanticism implicit in these schemes is highlighted by the new baronial Town Hall. The development of the Scores on the town's northern boundary constitutes Part Five. This is divided on a thematic and chronological basis into four sections, identifying issues relevant to changes of style and building type. The final section re-examines the reasons for the town's expansion and redevelopment, and concludes with observations on the relationship between (a), local and non-local architectural practices; (b), developments within the building community; and (c), the sometimes contradictory attitudes inherent in the creation of nineteenth century St Andrews, particularly in relation to surviving mediaeval remains.
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Sewell, William Shaw. "Japanese imperialism and civic construction in Manchuria, Changchun, 1905--1945." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48709.pdf.
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Division, Johnson City GIS. "An Historic Tour of Johnson City, Tennessee - 2006." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/55.
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Created 3/28/2006 by Johnson City GIS, this map provides a tour of historic places in Johnson City, Tennessee. Historic sites are listed on the right edge and are denoted by numbers which correspond to places on the map.Road names are listed on the map itself.
Scale - 1" = 0.257260 miles<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1054/thumbnail.jpg
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Potyondy, Patrick Ryan. "Reimagining Urban Education: Civil Rights, the Columbus School District, and the Limits of Reform." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338335183.
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Chaves, Alessandra Aparecida Pereira. "Avaliação dos recursos de educação ambiental nos espaços e escolas municipais de Curitiba." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2011. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/314.
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Esta dissertação propôs investigar e elaborar instrumentos e estratégias para tornar as ações de Educação Ambiental (EA) mais efetivas nas escolas de 6º ao 9º anos da Rede Municipal de Ensino (RME), a partir das atividades oferecidas nos espaços municipais de EA da cidade de Curitiba. Entende-se a EA como parte integrante do processo educativo, a qual permite que alunos e professores partilhem saberes, conhecimentos, valores, os quais podem transformar-se em atitudes, habilidades e comportamentos necessários para a tomada de decisão responsável nas interações com o meio ambiente. Primeiramente, para o desenvolvimento do estudo proposto, foram selecionadas informações, nos documentos oficiais, sobre a estrutura e o funcionamento das secretarias municipais do Meio Ambiente e da Educação. De posse destes dados e com o apoio da revisão bibliográfica, foi possível traçar um panorama dos objetivos, das características, das regularidades, das localizações e das atividades educativas, interativas e culturais de EA. Em seguida, foram agendadas visitas técnicas com os responsáveis dos quatros espaços existentes no município: Museu Botânico (Jardim Botânico); Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia (Bairro do Capão da Imbuia); Zoológico (Parque Iguaçu); e Centro de Educação Ambiental da Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente (CEA da SMMA). Além disso, estabeleceu-se contato com os funcionários que dirigem as atividades de EA nas secretarias municipais. Finalmente, foram aplicados questionários com os professores e pedagogos das onze escolas do 6º ao 9º anos da RME. Este instrumento de pesquisa foi elaborado para obter informações sobre as ações de EA neste segmento, a regularidade, a intensidade, as relações com as disciplinas, a freqüência em cursos, os espaços municipais de EA e as práticas ambientais nas escolas. Os resultados da pesquisa apontaram que, apesar da oferta de atividades, conforme registros oficiais, nenhuma escola do 6º ao 9º anos esteve nos espaços municipais de EA nos anos de 2010 e 2011. Porém, alguns professores deste segmento da RME, respondentes do questionário, afirmaram terem visitado os espaços municipais de EA sem relatar práticas referentes às atividades que ali acontecem. Concluiu-se que são poucos os instrumentos de diálogo entre secretarias, escolas e responsáveis pela EA. Quanto à formação dos professores nas áreas de educação e ambiente, há muitos cursos ofertados pela SME para as questões didático-pedagógicas que envolvem conteúdos de Língua Portuguesa e Matemática e poucos para os temas transversais, principalmente no que diz respeito ao meio ambiente. Diante disto, idealizou-se uma ficha de apoio que pudesse auxiliar os professores e estimular os alunos a conhecer as potencialidades educativas e interativas dos espaços municipais de EA. A ficha foi aplicada com professores da RME que afirmaram que a mesma coopera para elaboração de atividades e melhor compreensão dos espaços municipais de EA.<br>This dissertation proposed to investigate and develop tools and strategies to make the actions of environmental education (EE) more effective in schools that works with children in the 6th to 9th grades (11-14 years old) of the Municipal Education Net (RME). The activities offered in the EE municipal spaces of Curitiba were the research goal. EE is understood as part of the educational process, which allows students and teachers to share knowledge, skills, values that can turn on into attitudes, skills and behaviors necessary for responsible decision-making interactions with the environment. The first step was to develop a proposed study to selected information in the official documents to trace a panorama of the structure and operation of municipal departments of Environment and Education. Second, with these data and supported by the literature review, it was possible to draw a picture of the goals, features, regularities, and locations of educational, cultural and interactive EE. Then, technical visits were scheduled with officials staff from the four spaces in the city: the Botanical Museum (Memorial); Natural History Museum of Capão da Imbuia (situated at Capão da Imbuia county area) Zoo (Iguaçu Park), and Environmental Education Center Municipal Secretary of Environment (CEA of SMMA). In addition, we established contact with employees who direct the activities of EA in the municipal bureau. Finally, enquiry was done with teachers from the eleven schools of 6th to 9th grades of RME. This survey instrument was designed to obtain information about EE's actions in those degrees, the frequency, intensity, relations with subjects, attendance at courses, municipal EE spaces and environmental practices in schools. The results indicated that, despite the offer of these type of activities, the official records registered no visits of the schools from 6th to 9th grades in the municipal areas of EE in the years 2010 and 2011. However, some teachers of the RME, the survey respondents, said that they had visited the municipal areas of EE even though without reporting practices related to the activities that take place there. The conclusion was that the instruments are still insufficient to establish a dialogue between schools and municipal EE spaces. In the side of SME, it was observed that there are few teachers‟s training courses in the areas of education and environment. Most of the short courses offered by the SME treats about the didactic and pedagogical issues (literacy, math education), and few of them works with the cross-cutting themes (ethics, environment and sexuality). In the side of the municipal EE spaces, it lacks contacts. Given this, it was idealized a form to support teachers and students to learn more about the public spaces of environmental educational and to stimulate interaction and dialog between these two important municipal institutions. The form was filled out with the RME teachers who said the same cooperation for development activities and better understanding of municipal spaces EA.
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Bruckman, Deborah L. "Developmental growth, change, and architectural character of an Ohio River town from 1816 to 1966 : New Albany, Indiana, a case study." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041898.
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This study has presented a comprehensive study on the growth, change, and architectural character of an Ohio River town between 1816 and 1996 using New Albany, Indiana as a case study. The evidence suggest that the majority of New Albany's physical growth occurred between 1838 and 1859, and also between 1953 and 1977. The economy of New Albany transformed several times through the course of its existence. New Albany was first supported by the ship building industry. Many boat manufacturers established ship yards along the banks of the Ohio River in New Albany. The ship building industry in New Albany became non-existent in the early 1970s. The glassmaking industry that replaced the ship building industry was also located along the banks , of the Ohio River.The early twentieth century and the closure of the glass-making industry began a transformation of the location of industries in New Albany. When hardwood companies established plants in New Albany, several were attracted to the undeveloped, flat land in the northeastern fringe of the city. This process of development in the north and northeastern section of the city still continues today.The architectural character that was established in New Albany in the late 1800s remained until the early 1960s and urban renewal. Many historic structures in New Albany were demolished in the 1960s and early 1970s. Much of New Albany's architectural character today was constructed during that period. However, New Albany still retains several historic buildings, and increased preservation efforts has lead to the rehabilitation of many of them.<br>Department of Architecture
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Simon, James-Eric H. "Urban Hydraulic Rhizome: Water, Space, and the City in 20th Century North Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984269/.
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During the modern era, the urbanization of water has been facilitated by various privileged discourses, which valorize major engineering interventions for the sake of continued urban growth. This research examines discourse surrounding the 2-th Century proposal and construction of a reservoir near the then-tiny farming community of Grapevine, Texas, for the benefit of urban interests. I argue that urban interests produced Grapevine space as nothing more than a container for city water, by rendering meaningless any conception of space that was not directly articulated with urban economic networks. Modern discourse collapsed Denton Creek space from a watershed and landscape into a dimensionless node in the urban space of flows. In return, rural inhabitants were encouraged to progress and to modernize their own spaces: to become urban. Whereas urban discourse entails an implicit spatial imaginary of networks, I deploy the conceptual framework of settler colonialism to show that a core-periphery relationship remains relevant, and is not reducible to a network spatial ontology.
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Chen, Jennie 1976. "Urban architextures : a search for an authentic Shanghai." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79832.
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As cities have evolved over history as a function of human behaviour, they represent the rich social laboratories of a particular civilization. Because of its ancient roots and its particular historical evolution, the urban tradition in China is appreciatively unique, but yet as China is rapidly thrust into modernity and post-modernity of global interdependence most evident in its urban centres, one can discern clearly the serious cultural disparities that threaten the social fabric of the Chinese people. It is through the massive development of its major metropolises that China is embarking on a disturbing trend of false development, a top-down process which imposes disparate images and illusory expectations on a politically-fatigued society. As the centrepiece of China's entrance onto the international stage, the city of Shanghai represents both the vision of Chinas future, but perhaps also its social demise.