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Lui, Tat-man Frankie. "A new consumer place the transformed H.K. streetscape /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31984071.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998.<br>Includes special report study entitled : Hong Kong mass culture : objects, places and event. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
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Lui, Tat-man Frankie, and 呂達文. "A new consumer place: the transformed H.K. streetscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984071.
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Liu, Yue (Rebecca). "Investigating influence of streetscape elements on individual preference." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19702.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Brent Chamberlain<br>Streets and sidewalks are important public places for a wide variety of activities, such as social interaction and physical activities. Public spaces can provide numerous benefits, such as physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and aesthetic wellbeing; in order to maximize these benefits effective planning and design is critical. However, there is a need to increase empirical data which can support good planning for these public spaces. The purpose of this research study is to better understand how different elements of streetscape design influence a person’s preferences for the design of the space. A streetscape consists of a variety of different infrastructure and natural forms, which are combined together to create a space centered on the movement of people. A survey was conducted with the aims to better understand how key design elements may influence users’ preferences with regard to safety and attractiveness. The project study site is Moro Street in Aggieville Business District in Manhattan, KS. The study and survey were developed using the psychophysical approach, which employed a quantitative methods to analyze the perceptions of Aggieville patrons. The research methods consists of four main parts: variable selection, streetscape design, public survey, and data analysis. An ANOVA was conducted that revealed statistically significant effects related to the preference for streetscape design in terms of safety and attractiveness, as well as a combined average evaluation. Evidence shows that the on street parking (Parking) and green infrastructure (Green Infrastructure) are statistically significant (p < .05), whereas seating and biking had no statistically significant effect on the evaluation of attractiveness. Also, the on street parking (Parking), green infrastructure (Green Infrastructure) and bike lane (biking)are statistically significant (p < .05), whereas seating had no statistically significant effect on the evaluation of safety. Overall, on street parking (Parking) and green infrastructure (Green Infrastructure) are statistically significant (p < .05), whereas seating and biking had no statistically significant effect on the evaluation of both safety and attractiveness. These results support previous work from environmental psychologists, and provide additional empirical evidence to support effective street design.
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Ide, Ichiro, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Daisuke Deguchi, Tomokazu Takahashi, and Hiroshi Murase. "Ego-localization using streetscape image sequences from in-vehicle cameras." IEEE, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/13965.
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Rosato, Dagmar. "Aqua.Street.Scapes: Interpreting Natural Hydrologic Processes while Enhancing the Urban Streetscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78268.
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This project proposes a new urban aquifer strategy that utilizes stormwater to create a cascading plaza and an improved 'great street' in Washington DC.
A system of urban aquifers is developed beneath the surface of the street, perched atop the compacted, impermeable soils below. This set of aquifers prevents stormwater from entering the existing combined sewer and allows trees to draw water from this new groundwater source and develop expansive root systems.
On the surface, stormwater flows through interconnected planters where it irrigates and is filtered by vegetation before infiltrating to recharge the aquifer. At Cascade Plaza, sloping topography intersects the aquifer, and the new groundwater seeps out of the plaza steps, turning them into a miniature cascade, by gravity and water pressure alone. It collects in a web of runnels, pools at the lowest point, and overflows in high water, mysteriously disappearing below ground again to fill an underground reservoir.
In this unique ecological system, water flows both above and below ground to mitigate excess stormwater and make the street and plaza more beautiful.<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Harvey, Chester Wollaeger. "Measuring Streetscape Design for Livability Using Spatial Data and Methods." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2014. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/268.
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City streets are the most widely distributed and heavily trafficked urban public spaces. As cities strive to improve livability in the built environment, it is important for planners and designers to have a concise understanding of what contributes to quality streetscapes. The proportions and scale of buildings and trees, which define the three-dimensional extents of streetscapes, provide enduring, foundational skeletons. This thesis investigates how characteristics of such streetscape skeletons can be quantified and tested for appeal among human users.
The first of two journal-style papers identifies a concise set of skeleton variables that urban design theorists have described as influential to streetscape appeal. It offers an automated GIS-based method for identifying and cataloging these skeleton variables, which are practical to measure using widely available spatial data. Such an approach allows measurement of tens of thousands of street segments precisely and efficiently, a dramatically larger sample than can be feasibly collected using the existing auditing techniques of planners and researchers. Further, this paper examines clustering patterns among skeleton variables for street segments throughout Boston, New York, and Baltimore, identifying four streetscape skeleton types that describe a ranking of enclosure from surrounding buildings--upright, compact, porous, and open. The types are identifiable in all three cities, demonstrating regional consistency in streetscape design. Moreover, the types are poorly associated with roadway functional classifications--arterial, collector, and local--indicating that streetscapes are a distinct component of street design and must receive separate planning and design attention.
The second paper assesses relationships between skeleton variables and crowdsourced judgments of streetscape visual appeal throughout New York City. Regression modeling indicates that streetscapes with greater tree canopy coverage, lined by a greater number of buildings, and with more upright cross-sections, are more visually appealing. Building and tree canopy geometry accounts for more than 40% of variability in perceived safety, which is used as an indicator of appeal. While unmeasured design details undoubtedly influence overall streetscape appeal, basic skeletal geometry may contribute important baseline conditions for appealing streetscapes that are enduring and can meet a broad variety of needs.
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Gallagher, Elizabeth. "Beyond 'Green' streets - Mitigating climate change through residential streetscape design." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15338.
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This research Beyond ‘Green’ Streets identifies significant gaps in theory and practice and proposes, develops and applies new techniques to mitigate climate change through residential street design. References to ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ streetscape designs are increasingly evident in the policy and planning literature. However objectives are vaguely defined, integrated quantitative emissions data on street design is relatively unavailable and integrated modelling in street environments is largely absent. Most of the CO2 research literature on street environments has been undertaken within specialised disciplines such as engineering, arboriculture and climatology. Few studies have drawn together the natural and constructed features for streets or tested design modifications that could mitigate CO2. The absence of data on street design and CO2 performance makes it difficult to define appropriate targets and evaluate policy ambitions that seek to face the problem of climate change. The research draws together different street components and layouts to evaluate the CO2 emissions profile and abatement potential for residential streets in Sydney, Australia. The method developed an integrated CO2 emissions model based on its current physical layout and operational use. The street’s constructed elements including kerbs, carriageways, lanes, parking bays were combined with the street’s natural elements, specifically street trees. Sequestration and shading performance for a range of street tree species was estimated using a combination of new and existing modelling techniques including terrestrial laser scanning and climate housing simulation software. Simulations of street retrofit scenarios and new street designs were developed and evaluated. Streets, as relatively stable components of urban form, and as essential functional entities spanning large areas offer substantial mitigation potential. The results showed that dramatic increases in CO2 abatement could be achieved through minor street design modifications. Street retrofits that relied solely on modifications to street trees could achieve almost 7 times more CO2 abatement than a standard street design and 10 times more CO2 abatement when modest design changes were adopted into new street layouts. Opportunities for implementation in policy have been developed in recognition of the complicated management and ownership context of streets. Fundamental obstacles to implementation are also identified. Consistent comparable data that can leverage the optimum climate mitigation and adaptation benefits from these urban forms represents a new opportunity for research and practice. This study lays the basis for design professionals and authorities to test and calculate optimum street configurations and allows governments to make informed decisions, set targets and measure outcomes for these essential public assets.
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吳永倫 and Wing-lun Alan Ng. "Redevelopment of Yue Man Square: an alternative streetscape to urban renewal." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985403.
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Ryan, Annie (Annie Fisher). "De-gentrifying the streetscape : reclaiming tactical urbanism for San Francisco's Tenderloin." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111480.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-175).<br>San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is often described in classic "skid row" terms as a neighborhood characterized by crime, prostitution, drugs, homelessness, seedy hotels, and rampant blight. It is described as 'hopeless' and 'lost', and a place to be avoided at all costs. In reality, the Tenderloin is a more complex neighborhood than a simple skid row definition allows, with a rich fabric of social dynamics, built form, local heroes,and powerful villains. While the historic culture bearers of other San Francisco neighborhoods have been gradually pushed out by younger, richer, tech-affiliated residents with little understanding of the historical context they have settled in, the Tenderloin has managed to retain its intrinsic grit, codify its historic artifacts, and ward off attempts to soften or commodify its rough edges through gentrification. Given the rapid rate at which income inequality and low-income displacement is transforming the social conditions and power dynamics within neighborhoods throughout San Francisco, this thesis uses the Tenderloin as a living laboratory for answering the flowing questions: To what extent has the Tenderloin resisted the forces of gentrification that have meanwhile infiltrated bordering neighborhoods such as Union Square and Mid-Market? What are the physical and social design qualities of the Tenderloin neighborhood that have allowed it to resist whole-sale changes to its function as a provider of affordable housing and shelter for San Francisco's most marginalized and vulnerable populations? To what extent does the urban form of the Tenderloin allow for continued resistance of gentrification, and what role(s) does it allow for planners and designers to assist in curating this continued resistance? This thesis begins with a field study of the neighborhood's public realm, undertaken in January and March of 2017. The resulting observations and conversations with public realm users served as the primary data source for the research, along with secondary data sources on the Tenderloin's development history from its reconstruction after the 1906 earthquake to the present. From these findings, this thesis concludes with a series of public realm design recommendations for preserving the Tenderloin as a sustainer of low-income people and as a shelter for those beyond the scope of the tech industry's viewfinder.<br>by Annie Ryan.<br>M.C.P.
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Ng, Wing-lun Alan. "Redevelopment of Yue Man Square : an alternative streetscape to urban renewal /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25949287.
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Duarte, Peter. "Using computerized imaging to evaluate the visual preference effects of downtown streetscape elements." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ51060.pdf.
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Ding, Xiaofei, and 丁笑非. "Reviving the sense of place--Changli Road streetscape design: exploration of temporal-spatiallandscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47542184.
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According to incomplete statistics, human desertification has
become a huge risk of social problems and also a new focus of
today’s social life. The government and residential gave efforts to
find a way to solve that to avoid exacerbating the problem.
According to the fact, back to earth, back to humanity, these always
meet the demands of people. On this land, we have lost lot
memories, and a lot about to be lost. Facing that, we could just
chase it, make up, observe, and discover, till we pick up some pieces
from the broken memories. Combine them on a piece of weathered
gouache on paper, and then use the green to add vital principle,
orange to outline the curves of memories, use balanced color to
form the public space to make up the dimly face, create a new
“Long Tang”.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Architecture<br>Master<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Kaemmerling, Astrid. "Walking the Gentrifying Streetscape: Artistic Practice in San Francisco's Mission District (2006-2016)." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1466446720.
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Harring-Harris, Kaarissa. "Preventing bird declines in urban landscapes: Influence of behavioural traits and streetscape plantings." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2022. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2538.
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Urbanisation is thought to be the leading cause of habitat loss and ecosystem fragmentation world-wide. Australian urban bird communities are constantly under threat from landscape modification and the associated disturbances. The Perth metropolitan region, Western Australia provides a unique case study to observe the impact of a developing city that is also located in a biodiversity hotspot. The long-term reporting rate of 66 small passerine birds was analysed on a time and spatial scale, utilising 20 years of citizen science from Birdata collected by birdwatchers. The study compared the overall change in reporting rate to changes in the urban environment, focusing on human population density and the canopy cover of native trees. Life history traits were also used to determine if certain groups/guilds of birds responded differently to changes in the urban landscape.
This study revealed that a concerning number of urban sensitive native species are in decline and are being replaced by native and exotic ‘urban-exploiters’. Species that were found to be most at risk in this study were foraging specialists, particularly insectivores, small understorey-dependent birds, and species reliant on large bushland remnants. The study also found generalist species and large nectarivorous birds are increasingly dominating the urban community. Australian urban gardens and streets are lined with nectar-rich, seed-producing vegetation both native and exotic; therefore, favouring species that have the ability to exploit novel foraging resources. Significant loss of habitat in lower strata levels, as a result of land clearing, has reduced the connectivity between large bushland remnants. This has led to urban bird communities becoming overrun by species that frequently utilise the upper canopy and/or thrive in open green areas.
Many endemic and native species are locally threatened, and by identifying ‘at risk’ species we can better understand the association between environmental and ecological factors and the impact they have on an individual’s urban tolerance.
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Whitford, Katherine A. "Urban streetscape: activating the public realm and increasing safety through multifunctional user-oriented spaces." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15678.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Jessica Canfield<br>Colorado Springs' downtown streets are primarily automobile-oriented, which has lead to a deficiency of multi-modal transportation networks and user-oriented environments. The streets lack engaging public space, pedestrian and bicyclist amenities, native landscaping, and stormwater management systems. The auto-centric design presents significant physical and perceived safety issues concerning pedestrians and bicyclists in the right-of-way. The aim of this study is to redesign the downtown core of Colorado Springs to foster multifunctional user-oriented spaces which enhance overall environmental, social, and economic benefits. In order to complete this study, background literature research and a series of case studies were conducted. The ultimate goal of this masters project is to create a retrofit streetscape design for Colorado Springs that can be used as a model for other planners and designers. The results of this project will be significant to designers because it will provide them with information regarding the best practices for designing urban streetscapes that activate the public realm and promotes safety.
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Errico, Caroline S. "Dense-City:Intensification of Manhattan's 14th Street." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1583854658893149.
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Mortezaei, Seyed-Reza. "Culture rich design : a 'cultural-semiotic' framework in product design applied to urban streetscape elements." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486665.
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The aim of this study was to extend the application of culture into product design with particular attention to urban stre.etscape elements (known as street furniture). Poor understanding of culture and the lack of opportunity to use culture ina practical manner within the student group were explored as the problem areas. The initial motivation for the study stemmed from a desire to encourage the integration of the non-technological aspects of the design products, in which culture was categorised. This was believed to mainly achieve by developing a Cultural-Semiotic framework, which enables and encourages design students (novice designers) to approach culture in their projects. Therefore, a hypothesis was formulated to examine the extent of the .framework: A culturally orientated framework can be developed to determine important/significant variables to produce predictable culturally relevant changes in product design in general and urban streetscape elements in partl.cuIar. '' Culture could have strong interactions with product design in several ways, due to the symbolic qualities that a design product provides. Therefore, this enables products to be studied culturally, e.g. within a designer's mind (subjective aspects of culture) or outside his/her mind (objective aspects). To develop the framework, three fieldworks as a triangulation methodology were initially undertaken. Through Fieldwork 1 the author acquired a general idea about the current cultural understanding of novice designers. Fieldwork 2, examined the cultural extent of the design courses, and the understanding of culture amongst a wider and versatile audience. Meanwhile, Fieldwork 3 looked at how novice designers could convert cultural knowledge into practice. This established the problem areas and indicated the area of focus, which was representation. Representation is the process that gives product-signs their particular meaning. Then, a number of associated models were studied and the relevant ones were used as the basis. By implementing Schwartz Value Inventory, Four semantic functions of signs and the Saussrean model of sign, the Cultural-Semiotic framework was developed. The framework could perform on the degree of cultural meaning one might want to put into a design product. The framework was examined and evaluated through a workshop and a sample project session, involVing a selected group of novice designers. The Circuit of Culture model was used as an evaluation model alongside the SOLO Taxonomy, a model that describes the levels of increasing compleXity in a student's understanding of subjects. The emphasis was on the representational qualities of products. The result confirmed the role of the framework in enhancing the cultural understanding of novice designers. It specified: • The degree of cultural insight of a selected group; • The level of objectiVity in a totally subjective issue; • A deeper understanding of culture compared to the preliminary participants; • A certain degree of confirmation of the proposed hypothesis.
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Burant, Diane. "Building signs : a history that defines their historical significance in the commercial streetscape, 1900-1940." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/865932.
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The purpose of this thesis is to define the historical commercial center. To write this history, it was necessary to identify the developmental factors affecting the form and/or placement of the building sign. Historic photographs of the Indianapolis commercial center and other primary sources were used to document the popular sign forms of that era.Sign history is not a subject that is well represented in preservation or urban planning literature. Thus, the preservation and/or adaptive use of historic commercial districts often lacks strong references to the district's building sign heritage. This history is a guide for those professionals whose job it is to develop design guidelines and sign ordinances for early 20th-century historic commercial districts.<br>Department of Architecture
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Hernández, Marroquín María Reneé. "Calle viva, Zona viva." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297398.
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Located in Central America, Guatemala is the most populated country of the area with around 15 million inhabitants. The capital, Guatemala City has 923,000 inhabitants and is currently home for 55% of the country’s urban population. Guatemala City, with its 42% of territorial extension consisting of green, is considered a green capital. The city has a very characteristic geographical composition called ravines which creates the ecological and green belt of the city. Currently, there are efforts being made to create more projects relating to the green and public spaces of the city, but we still have a long way to go. As many other cities in Latin America, Guatemala is facing a constant challenge regarding public spaces. The use of public space has been decreasing for years due to factors such as feeling of safety, difficulty in accessibility, poor distribution of public spaces in the urban grid, and poor condition of the infrastructure. These challenges have shaped new social patterns. Nowadays, shopping malls have become the new public space. These spaces provide more than just shopping, they provide experiences. On the other hand, they also limit and control who can access them and when, under which conditions, and following a set of rules. These challenges have made me question; Where do we meet equality? How can we provide proper urban public spaces that meet their function? How will shopping malls transform over time and how can we adapt these new social dynamics created by the shopping malls to the public space? Throughout this project I attempt to challenge these questions with the idea of bringing people back to the streets so that they can engage with the city and the streets on an everyday basis. To achieve it I have proposed the following manifesto with 3 main statements: “- Equality manifested through the city’s urban structures which start on the streets. Everyone can access them; in them we are all equal. - Streets are places to be, to share, to experience. Spaces to live outdoors, to enable interaction. - Shopping Malls are spaces of constant transformation that will progressively change its functions. “ The aim of the project is to explore in a challenging way how the relationship between shopping malls, green and public space can be addressed and interact in a process of transformation in Guatemala City.
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DeOrsey, Danielle S. "Six Wichita biking experiences: studying lived bicycling experiences to inform urban streetscape improvements for downtown Wichita." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19772.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page<br>Human happiness is often overlooked in urban revitalization. Many studies have proven the benefits of regular exercise for overall health and happiness. Active transportation adopted as a major form of transportation has the potential to provide similar benefits.
Wichita, Kansas, like many other mid-sized, American cities, prioritizes the car over the pedestrian. Currently, the plans for Douglas Avenue, the major thoroughfare, includes only minimal bicycle infrastructure, shared lane symbols (City of Wichita 2013). Lack of focus on the pedestrian and bicyclist only reinforces the auto-dominated downtown. Douglas Avenue is a missed opportunity and needs a re-envisioned strategy based upon current needs.
I hypothesized that better understanding the lived biking experience of Downtown Wichita would help me to develop design recommendations that address current streetscape issues as they occur in daily life. This exploratory study documents the experiences of a small group of people who bicycle in or through downtown Wichita on a regular basis.
First, participants recorded their experience visually and verbally by using GoPro cameras during a typical bike ride. Next, each participant reviewed their video with me, clarifying their comments and the overall experience. Dominant themes included: urban environment, bicycling infrastructure, road/traffic, safety and motorist behavior. The analysis of the bike rides and follow-up reflections were mapped over each participant’s route to reveal positive, negative, and neutral experiences categorized by theme. Final design strategies for selected areas (determined through analysis of experiences) were then produced based upon feedback and streetscape best practices.
Bicyclists of Wichita are faced with many stressful situations during their daily routes. I have realized that downtown Wichita has more than a design problem to fix—an entire bicycle culture must be developed. I learned that while each participant was unique, they wanted the same things: safety, a pleasurable ride, and to be respected by motorists.
Not all bicyclists’ needs can be answered through design; however, this proposal can help to create a safer and more pleasurable bicycling experience in downtown. An improved bicycle network provides humans with increased health, freedom to move, encourages and strengthens social connections, and provides a resilient form of transportation.
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Ambekar, Latika Gangadhar. "Revisiting History - Heritage walk Proposal in Old City Pune, India." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79500.
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Over the centuries, cities have gained limelight and have significantly grown powerful with an increased level of importance. The rapid growth and urbanization posing a fatally critical threat to the future as the population is growing with each day. The development from the rural to urban life and the journey to an urban civilization has left the city in tatters. It has had adverse impacts on both social and environmental frontiers. Such rapid growth has led to the uncontrolled growth of population in countries that are in the process of development, and this growth is interpreted by means of concrete structuring with no apparent thought given to fundamentals such as feasibility, aesthetics, health, safety, road network or transportation. This leaves a very small window for even accommodating places for recreation in unplanned cities. Such spaces use shared spaces for recreation. Spaces like markets or public squares or streets.
The cultural heritage of India lies solely in its old cities, towns and ancient settlements. Due to globalization and groundbreaking pace of urbanization in the recent times, the historic fabric has been radically altered. As cities have evolved through aspirations and ideas only, with no functional thought whatsoever, it is vital for a developing country like India to recognize that without regard for its heritage it cannot build a future, or that a development without its heritage would be only unsustainable.<br>Master of Science
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Hussein, Dheyaa Ali Hussein. "A user preference modelling method for the assessment of visual complexity in building façade." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18981.
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This work aims to provide a method to assess the perceptual impact of visual complexity of building facades. The research identifies three variables that incorporate the effect of visual complexity. These variables are the number of design elements and the variation in their position and colour. It introduces the concepts of vertices and corners as atomic indicators on which the physical measurement of the three variables is built. The study designs an experiment, which involves measuring visual complexity and its variables in images of building facades using image-processing techniques, collecting participant's' characteristics and reactions towards the images through an online questionnaire and statistically analysing the relationships between these measures and the reactions and characteristics of participants. The research offers a quantitative lens on the effect of visual complexity as a comprehensive phenomenon on preferences. The study demonstrates that the three variables can be systematically measured, and shows that participants have common visual reactions toward the aspects of visual complexity in images of building facades. This uniformity is confirmed by a regression model, which provides an adequate fit of the three variables as independent variables and preference as a dependent variable. It offers an objective method to assess visual complexity in images of building facades according to common optimal values of the three variables as guidelines to evaluate the design of building facades. These optimal values correspond to the average of the highest rates of the preferences of residents. Planning authorities and design firms can use this method as an objective way to evaluate design alternatives based on the preferences of residents.
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Maxwell, John Alexander. "Designing for 'life between buildings' : modeling the relationship between streetscape qualities and pedestrian activity in Glasgow, Scotland." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2016. http://digitool.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27548.
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Rising levels of physical inactivity, among other pressing urban issues, have prompted urban designers to better understand the complex relationship between the built environment and human behavior. One of the most widely-cited measures of the built environment, as it relates to human behavior, is walkability – the measure of how conducive a place is to walking and other pedestrian activity. To date, walkability has largely been characterized by macroscale measures, such as street connectivity and neighborhood density. More recently, several walking audit instruments have also been developed to measure microscale features of pedestrian environments, like the number of street trees or pieces of street furniture. Yet, both of these measures fail to capture potentially important perceptual qualities of streetscapes that urban designers have long claimed as significant factors for more active streets. However, there is a surprising lack of empirical evidence in support of these claims based on validated, objective measures of streetscape qualities. The purpose of this study was to address this gap in research by modeling the relationship between objective measures of streetscape qualities and pedestrian activity in Glasgow, Scotland. Overall, five measures of streetscape qualities – including imageability, enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity – were collected from over 690 street segments across the city, along with several macroscale measures of walkability and pedestrian counts. The results of this study indicated that the five objective measures of streetscape qualities added significantly (p ≤ 0.05) to the explanatory power of walkability models when controlling for standard macroscale measures of walkability. Measures of imageability and transparency, in particular, had significant (p ≤ 0.05) relationships to pedestrian activity (p = 0.02 and p = 4.60E-14 respectively). These results suggest that streetscape qualities should be considered as important variables in future, city-wide studies linking measures of the built environment to pedestrian activity.
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Sickmann, Jared. "Portable landscapes: flexibility and customization associated with temporary landscapes." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32675.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Howard D. Hahn<br>Cities and towns across the world are in a dynamic state of change, and therefore, becoming responsive to new and innovative approaches to creating and restoring public spaces. These new approaches address the need for flexible, multifunctional spaces in order to adapt to and accommodate the changing demands and unexpected circumstances that occur within the city (Wall 1999, Temel 2006, Gehl 2011). Temporary landscapes, or site specific, time-limited designs of open space, have become an emerging approach to improving public spaces. These small scale projects provide unique experiences and offer a laboratory for experimentation where new, innovative ideas can be tested (Lydon 2012, Sargin and Savas 2012, Temel 2006).
The idea of flexibility and the need for multifunctional spaces are explored through the following report by investigating how an innovative approach involving temporary landscapes can enhance streetscape quality and offer a variety of public activities. First, I developed a deeper understanding of temporary landscapes in order to identify the transition in approach to urban design from focusing on permanence to temporary, and express the importance of temporality in urban design. A design matrix exploring programmatic options and customizable design features was established through an extensive literature review and case study analysis.
Through the application process, I explored the regulatory process involved in implementing a temporary landscape intended for the Aggieville Business District in Manhattan, Kansas. This procedure involved a review of the city's ordinances and liability concerns, designing a portable landscape, and constructing a prototype to be deployed off-street until approval is gained. The results from this project provide field evidence to support recommendations for future design iterations for portable landscapes that increase pedestrian comfort and support an expanded range of activities for public spaces. Prototypes of different design iterations and replications can also serve as future projects for the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design at Kansas State University. Ultimately, this project will begin a critical discussion of the future role of temporary landscapes in cities that are in a dynamic state of change.
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Larsson, Anna, and Sofia Enqvist. "Women's Voices." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-262894.
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In the rural village Umoja one can witness a reaction to the unequal society; the women opposed the deep-rooted cultural habits and created their own dream space, a place designed through the eyes of a woman. A village ruled by women, built up by their needs. The Umoja women’s way of life is very controversial and a huge contrast to the rest of the country. Looking at Nairobi, and the informal settlements the situation is completely different, but the dream about an equal space is the same. In this thesis we are looking at how architecture can work with the social issues about equality, focusing on the public room in one of the larger informal settlements – Korogocho. Due to the density the only space that is public is the street. The streets become the only space for interaction, as well as the place for political, economic and social activities. Through observing, analysing and interacting it is clear that the streets are mostly claimed by men. In combination with high levels of unemployment, crimes, drugs and alcohol creates a very insecure public sphere, especially for women and children. These vulnerable group needs new context that is not limited to the private home. Through a series of spatial interventions, we are interested in how architecture can question this norm, by understanding the street as a public area and analysing how it is used and can be used in the future.
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Lin, Hsiao-Wei. "Sensing the rhythms of a dynamic city : an interpretation on the form and content of the streetscape of Taipei." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24841.
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This thesis seeks to analyse the notions of historical and physical authenticity as applied to the contemporary cityscape. I propose that criteria of authenticity can be established through study of social interaction within the cityscape. Authenticity reveals itself as the spatial reflection of the lived experience of the city's inhabitants. Following the liberalization of politics and the media in 1987, Taiwan has become a maze of competing and conflicting ideologies and visual images. The cityscape of Taipei reflects this political and social change, making it difficult to distinguish between the authentic substructure and simulacrum. In such a complex environment, people cling to the concept of authenticity in order to retain their sense of identity. Taipei has therefore been chosen to examine how such historical, economic, social, political, and cultural factors impact on the transformation of urban environment. Shopping streets provide the best illustration of the conflict and negotiation between global and local culture in contemporary cities. They stimulate and witness a dialogue between historicism and capitalism. Asian cities, such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei, express the adoption of Western market economies and the trend toward political liberalisation and democratisation in their modern architecture and lifestyle. Their cityscapes have undergone drastic urbanisation and become non-places, as a characterless and universal commercial culture has dominated the production of urban space. Their streetscapes, however, apparently so "inauthentic", are actually the genuine result of contemporary economic, social and cultural forces. The framework of my analysis is grounded on ideas and definitions of social space derived from the work of Henri Lefebvre and Edward W. Soja. Four particular areas are explored to establish a definition of authenticity: the history of development, the memory of place, visual simulation, and mobility within space. This framework is then applied to two representative streets, the historical Ti-Hua Street and the modern Chung-Hsiao East Road in order to investigate how the social, political, and economic changes that have resulted from the process of Westernisation are reflected in the spatial structure of these commercial streets. Through the application of this framework, the condition of authenticity is questioned and identified in the city.
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Keith, Ryan H. "How Form and Function Create Community in the Middle Landscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32794.
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The middle landscape, more commonly referred to as Suburbia, has become spatially discontinuous, lacking the cohesive union, open spaces and city centers that once defined community. Presently, the middle landscapeâ s community spaces do not offer the opportunity for familiar and chance encounters or ritual activity. Large-scale housing development in Northern Virginia and in the mid-Atlantic region is continually segregating and ultimately destroying community and all links to the areaâ s history.
Located in Southern Fairfax County, the newly abandoned Lorton Central and Maximum Security Prison Facility provides an opportunity to serve as a catalyst for community in this area. This thesis investigates the historic precedence for creating successful community centers. The authorâ s personal investigation is focused upon using form and function to accomplish this vision. By adaptively reusing the existing architecture alongside new construction, the intent is to create a dense urban town center at the abandoned historic site.<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Sanders, Paul S. "Consonance in urban form: The architectural dimension of urban morphology." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91312/1/Paul_Sanders_Thesis.pdf.
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Consonance in urban form is contingent on the continuity of the fine grain architectural features that are imbued in the commodity of the evolved historic urban fabric. A city's past can be viewed therefore as a repository of urban form characteristics from which concise architectural responses can result in a congruent urban landscape. This thesis proposes new methods to evaluate the interplay of architectural elements that can be traced throughout the lifespan of the particular evolving urban areas under scrutiny, and postulates a theory of how the mapping of historical urban form can correlate with deriving parameters for new buildings.
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Augustsson, Tina, and Emma Söderberg. "Sandgärdsgatan, Växjö : - En attraktivare gågata." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Technology and Design, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-891.
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<p>Runt om Växjö återfinns många köpcentra som ständigt utökar vilket kan bli ett hot mot centrum. Växjö city domineras ur shoppinghänseende, av en enda gata, Storgatan. För att få ett mer konkurrenskraftigt centrum och dessutom ett mer spännande gatunät skulle en breddning av centrum därför vara positivt. Närmast tillhands för en vidgning är den parallella gågatan Sandgärdsgatan, vilken i dagsläget känns mer som en bakgata. Vårt projekt gick således ut på att ta fram förslag på hur man skulle kunna göra Sandgärdsgatan till en mer attraktiv gågata. Undersökningar har gjorts i form av litteraturstudier, intervju- och enkätundersökningar samt besök i olika stadsmiljöer. Förslagen vi tagit fram innefattar allt ifrån ombyggnationer och allmänna upprustningar till torghandel och affischering. De största åtgärdsförslagen har vi förutom i text valt att visualisera med olika ritningar medan mindre förslag endast nämns i text.</p><br><p>In the outskirts of Växjö many shoppingmalls are vastly expanding which in time could pose a threat to the city centre. Växjö city is, in shoppingaspects dominated by one main street, Storgatan. To achieve a more competitive central part of the city and complex street network, a widening of the center would be preferred. Closest at hand for a widening of the city centre is the paralell pedestrian street Sandgärdsgatan, which today is thought of as a backstreet. Our project is to propose examples on how to turn Sandgärdsgatan into a more attractive pedestrian street. Research have been carried out in the form of literaturestudies, interviews and polls aswell as fieldtrips to various urban environments. The proposals we have created include everything from remodelling and general restorations to street markets and placarding. The main proposals aside from being presented in text are also visualised in drawings whilst smaller changes are only mentioned in text.</p>
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McAllister, Karen Elizabeth. "Cultivating Curriculum: How Investing in School Grounds, the Streetscape and Vacant Land as Urban Ecosystems can Address Food Security, the Community and Institutions of Public Education." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94023.
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The 2014 Agricultural Act (Economic Research Division) (aka: The Farm Bill) was an important limelight shone on the issue of access to healthy foods, food education and the correlation between an increasingly unhealthy population and proximity to fresh, healthy food. Further legislation such as the Urban Agricultural Production Act of 2017 has been introduced to leverage the Farm Bill's financial incentives to promote urban agricultural programs and transform vacant land into agricultural use. Specifically, this has become increasingly common in many lower income and disadvantaged communities affected by a lack of access to fresh food stores. Additionally, in response many public schools have pro-actively sought funds to transform their schoolyards into gardens and teaching classrooms (Gamson) in order to provide food literacy and education however, this practice remains the exception. Many children still face a lack of healthy food options or the availability of any fresh food outside of their school environment. What if the standard education facility could be used as a tool to confront not only the architecture of the learning space, but a school-as-ecosystem, representing a neighborhood catalyst to teach through action – addressing comprehensive global issues brought on by food desert environments and a child's perspective about their own health?
This thesis explores the possibility of casting the urban ecological net wide- envisioning a timescale for transforming public spaces and school grounds using green infrastructure practices, biological remediation, planning for changes in transportation technology and the expectations of a public education and child's perception about their environment.
Emphasizing a broad focus on all of the potential sites for food production in the city (including the school, schoolyard and what they represent to the community), surfaces a multi-functioning methodology encompassing community identity, amenity, ecology, infrastructure and beauty envisions what could become of urban areas in the future. The primary goal is to educate future generations in the value of the food network and to give them the kind of direct hands-on experience that educators emphasize while concurrently nourishing urban communities through development of a project carried out in common, one that has health benefits for the population, that engenders a sense of long-term pride, and that empowers people to make change in their environment, even in modest or temporary ways.
The idea that school design can encourage and facilitate, hinder and inhibit behaviors at school, and the architectural symbolism of schools can have a profoundly wider impact on children and their behaviors in and outside of school (Tucker). There is a significant psychological difference in learning about the environment, for the environment and in the environment (Malone).
Creating public space focused on individual learning and the physical and mental health of the individual aims to balance the scales of social economic injustices. It is going to take every effort from the hyper-localized to city-wide and even regional scales to make significant urban changes to create a taxonomy of spaces to support the growth of our cities while simultaneously educating young minds on the value of understanding our ecological relationship to the city and surrounding environment.<br>Master of Science<br>The 2014 Agricultural Act (Economic Research Division) (aka: The Farm Bill) was an important limelight shone on the issue of access to healthy foods, food education and the correlation between an increasingly unhealthy population and proximity to fresh, healthy food. Further legislation such as the Urban Agricultural Production Act of 2017 has been introduced to leverage the Farm Bill’s financial incentives to promote urban agricultural programs and transform vacant land into agricultural use. Specifically, this has become increasingly common in many lower income and disadvantaged communities affected by a lack of access to fresh food stores. Additionally, in response many public schools have pro-actively sought funds to transform their schoolyards into gardens and teaching classrooms (Gamson) in order to provide food literacy and education however, this practice remains the exception. Many children still face a lack of healthy food options or the availability of any fresh food outside of their school environment. What if the standard education facility could be used as a tool to confront not only the architecture of the learning space, but a school-as-ecosystem, representing a neighborhood catalyst to teach through action – addressing comprehensive global issues brought on by food desert environments and a child’s perspective about their own health? This thesis explores the possibility of casting the urban ecological net wide- envisioning a timescale for transforming public spaces and school grounds using green infrastructure practices, biological remediation, planning for changes in transportation technology and the expectations of a public education and child’s perception about their environment. Emphasizing a broad focus on all of the potential sites for food production in the city (including the school, schoolyard and what they represent to the community), surfaces a multi-functioning methodology encompassing community identity, amenity, ecology, infrastructure and beauty envisions what could become of urban areas in the future. The primary goal is to educate future generations in the value of the food network and to give them the kind of direct hands-on experience that educators emphasize while concurrently nourishing urban communities through development of a project carried out in common, one that has health benefits for the population, that engenders a sense of long-term pride, and that empowers people to make change in their environment, even in modest or temporary ways. The idea that school design can encourage and facilitate, hinder and inhibit behaviors at school, and the architectural symbolism of schools can have a profoundly wider impact on children and their behaviors in and outside of school (Tucker). There is a significant psychological difference in learning about the environment, for the environment and in the environment (Malone). Creating public space focused on individual learning and the physical and mental health of the individual aims to balance the scales of social economic injustices. It is going to take every effort from the hyper-localized to city-wide and even regional scales to make significant urban changes to create a taxonomy of spaces to support the growth of our cities while simultaneously educating young minds on the value of understanding our ecological relationship to the city and surrounding environment.
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Charalampidis, Orestis Kosmas. "Patterns in the city : A tool for pattern correlation." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279944.
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Beboeliga städer är i frontlinjen i arkitekters och stadsdesigners arbete och beboeliga gator är en stor och viktig del av var stadslivet sker. Studerandet av befintliga gator och livet på dem, en del av urban morfologins forskningsområde, skulle kunna få fram aspekter som kommer att utveckla designprocessen. Den här avhandlingen föreslår en metod som syftar till att bidra till en bättre förståelse av hur vi upplever gatumiljöer. Det är ett försök att analysera och kvantifiera rytmer som uppstår genom vår dagliga livsupplevelse längs gatorna. Mönstren i elementen i vår byggda miljö bidrar till skapandet av sådana urbana rytmer. Metoden består av en kartläggningsprocess för datainsamling och en matematisk modell som analyserar data och ger kvantitativa resultat vilka används som jämförande index för korrelation av mönster längs fasaderna på utvalda gator. Metoden testas på ett urval av tre gator i Stockholms stad. Resultaten av testet anses vara tillfredsställande för att tekniken kan anses vara funktionell. Testet begränsar sig dock till fysiska, synliga element. Därför skulle metodens bidrag vara mer värdefullt i ett bredare sammanhang samt i kombination med metoder och data av en mer inkluderande studie - vilket kommer att ge en större helhetsanalys. Huvudhinder för metodens implementering är dels bristen på information om samband mellan befintliga mönster och urbana spatiala kvaliteter och även de ineffektiva tillvägagångssätten att kartlägga mönster i stor skala. Tekniska framsteg och ytterligare forskning kan emellertid skapa en god grund för vidare utveckling.<br>Livable cities are in the frontline of the work of architects and urban designers and livable streets occupy a large and important part of where city life happens. The study of existing streets and the life on them, a part of urban morphology's field of research, could bring light to aspects that will evolve the design process. This thesis suggests a method that aims to contribute to a better understanding of how we experience street environments. It is an effort to analyze and quantify the rhythms that occur through our every day life experience along the streetscapes. The patterns of our built environment's elements contribute to the creation of such urban rhythms. The method is comprised by a mapping process for data collection and a mathematical model which analyzes the data and provides with quantitative results that are used as comparative indexes for the correlation of patterns along the facades of selected paths. The method is tested on a sample of three paths in the city of Stockholm. The results of the test are considered satisfying for the technique to be considered functional. The test, though, limits itself to physical, perceptible objects. Therefore, the method's contribution would be more valuable inside a broader context and in combination with methods and data of a more inclusive study, which will provide a more holistic analysis. Main obstacles for the method's implementation are the lack of information about connection of existing patterns to urban space qualities and the inefficient ways of mapping patterns in a large scale. However, technological advancements and further research might create a fertile ground for development.
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Tong, Kin Patrick. "Revitalization of Tung Choi Street : Women Street in Mongkok [Futurity of Streetscape System] = Wangjiao nü ren jie (Tongcai jie) chong jian ji hua : wei lai jie dao mo shi /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25953138.
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Wildhaber, Eric. "Green trail systems and tourism: improving the quality of life in Kansas City through the addition of green systems, connected districts and tourism opportunities." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13746.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture, Regional and Community Planning<br>Jason Brody<br>The Mid America Regional Council, (MARC) is the official metropolitan planning organization for the Greater Kansas City region. MARC received a 4.25 million dollar grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2010 to advance the region’s vision of sustainability through vibrant, green, and connected centers and corridors. From which the CSP (Creating Sustainable Places) initiative was established.
Responding to this initiative, eight grant funded Kansas State University students worked in a Rock Island Corridor group. This group showed and described ways of achieving MARC’s and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s goals through the development of Master’s Reports. Reports include design ideas and proposals which MARC and city planning departments might not have developed otherwise. Student collaboration between public and city planning departments informed the development of student ideas.
Green trail systems and tourism specifically addresses how the quality of life in the Kansas City Metro Area could be enhanced with the implementation of a cultural trail network. This network would provide access to the Rock Island Corridor, create greenspaces, and establish mixed-use housing districts for potential home and business owners.
The Greater Kansas City region population is increasing. Trails, parks, and mixed-use buildings for residents in KC could improve the quality of life for future residents. Adding greenspaces, pedestrian mobility, and entertainment districts in which to find region specific activities could help attract people to redeveloping areas. Green trail systems and tourism’s project area is located between the Sprint Center and the Truman Sports Complex.
To resolve problems and dilemmas within this region of Kansas City, a routing plan of a cultural trail network is outlined. This cultural trail features new trail heads, cultural centers, and proposed zoning overlays for park developments and mixed-use housing districts. The trail network created connects the Sprint Center and Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City, Missouri as a tourism link. Tourism destinations and historic sites add to the economic success of KC. Sites are connected to in the routing plan for the cultural trail. This proposal shows one approach for creating sustainable centers in KC.
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Bluum, William. "Strøget vs. Drottninggatan : Through the Lens of Sociability, Public Spaces and Human Interactions." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-180889.
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What attributes can make a street become more sociable and create a vibrant streetscape where people feel comfortable spending time? The purpose of this study is to find these attributes and apply this knowledge in a case study on Drottninggatan and Strøget to identify their strengths and weaknesses as well as providing recommendations on how the streets can become more sociable public spaces. To achieve this a diverse selection of methods will be used. A literature review with emphasis on theories by Mehta (2013), Jacobs (1995) and Whyte (1980) will form the foundation for the study. Furthermore a combination of conventional methods such as observations and counting/tracking and more experience-based methods as City Walks and storytelling will form the core of the case study. During the case study a number of important urban elements arose with the key features being the use of open spaces, urban furniture and their positioning, the use of green structure and the presence of events on the street. The architectural ensemble is to be considered important for the framing of the public realm to a certain degree since it has a strong effect on how a space is perceived and the fact that if inappropriately used it can give rise to negative experiences of the street. Strøget and Drottninggatan show examples of both good and bad practice and both have aspects to improve to support a more sociable public space, even though Strøget have to be considered as being a few steps ahead.<br>Vilka attribut kan få en gata att bli mer socialt tilltalande och skapa ett levande gaturum där människor trivs att vara? Syftet med denna studie är att finna dessa attribut och tillämpa detta i en fallstudie om Drottninggatan och Strøget för att identifiera deras styrkor och svagheter samt ge rekommendationer på hur dessa gator kan bli mer välkomnande och socialt tilltalande. Olika typer av metoder kommer att genomföras under denna studie. En litteraturstudie med tyngdpunkt på teorier av Mehta (2013), Jacobs (1995) och Whyte (1980) kommer att utgöra grunden för denna studie. Utöver detta kommer också en kombination av konventionella metoder som observationer och räkning/spårning och mer upplevelsebaserade metoder som City Walks och historieberättande att vara kärnan fallstudien. Under fallstudien uppkom ett antal viktiga attribut, men de viktigaste var användandet av öppna ytor, gatumöbler och hur dessa är placerade, användandet av grönstruktur och närvaron av olika event i gaturummet. Arkitekturens utformning är en till en viss grad en viktig aspekt när det gäller inramningen av det offentliga rummet eftersom den har en stark påverkan på hur gaturummet upplevs och det faktum att olämpligt användande kan resultera i negativ påverkan. Strøget och Drottninggatan visar båda prov på både bra och dåliga exempel, och båda har aspekter som behöver förbättras för att kunna främja ett mer socialt tilltalande gaturum, även om Strøget måste ses som att ha kommit längre i processen.
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Torabi, Elnaz. "Improving Urban Facades As An Intervention Into The Built Environment The Case Of Facade Improvement Application Along The Protocol Highway Of Ankara, A Route From Aydinlikevler District To Esenboga Airport." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610958/index.pdf.
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When human constructs the physical surrounding, a psychological environment of meanings is being created, accompanying the world of shapes and masses. Interventions into built environment affect the meanings extracted from the composition of the physical setting and the response of people to design strategies reveals the importance of them.
The entrance spine of a city is important in creating an image of the city in the minds of the observers, and the protocol highway of Ankara introduces the city to other countries&<br>#8217<br>leaders and visitors. So any intervention into this highway will affect the symbolic image formed. As such, attaching claddings onto visible faç<br>ades of buildings in terms of beautification changes the appearance of the streetscape, and Municipality&<br>#8217<br>s approach to faç<br>ade improvement does not heed the prestige of this corridor<br>being an application rather than a well-advised project.
This thesis aims to study the quality of the streetscape under the principles of design in terms of objective and subjective dimensions with respect to the physical characteristics of the setting and people&<br>#8217<br>s interpretations from it, and the objective of
this study is to question the success of this intervention with regard to solutions to improve the quality of the streetscape.
To this end evaluative analyses are studied in the second chapter and the third chapter introduces a matrix of design principles. According to these evaluations, most design concerns are being underestimated, resulting in the monotony of the streetscape but the streetscape appears to be visually more ordered compared to the past.
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Ebrahim, Zakiyah. "The Streetscapes Project : reflective paper." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24892.
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The Streetscapes Project is a photographic and journalistic documentation of ten street-based people's stories from Cape Town, South Africa. The subjects of the project are employed by Khulisa Social Solutions, a non-profit organisation (NPO) that adopts a systemic approach to breaking the cycle of crime and poverty. Streetscapes falls under two of the NPO's eleven programmes, i.e. the offender rehabilitation & reintegration programme and the diversion programme, and includes five social enterprises with the urban garden project in Roeland Street, Cape Town, being one of it. Through narratives and research this project shows how street-based people are highly motivated to work and rebuild their lives, and that having a job means more than simply earning an income to them – it provides them with self-worth, dignity and a source of hope. Beyond the documentation of their personal stories the project also explores the larger structural and systemic barriers surrounding the broader issue of homelessness in the city, including access to shelter services, among others. Ultimately, this project aims to debunk stereotypes about street-based people and enlighten the public about the challenges they face when living on the streets.
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Månsson, Martin. "Patterns and predictability of visual attention in different street types : An eye tracking study exploring the predictability of the distribution of human visual attention based on the spatial arrangements of buildings in a two-dimensional plan." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för fysisk planering, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14564.
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Streets are the most resilient elements in a city. While buildings are replaced and property borders redrawn, the streets remain. The primary means of planning new streets and the built environment surrounding it is by the creation of a two-dimensional plan - in a Swedish context called a detailed development plan. The two-dimensional plan is sometimes criticized for its inability to take the three-dimensional world into account and thus its inability to predict the actual outcome of the plan. To address this critique and provide additional understanding for this planning device, this paper empirically explores if the distribution of visual attention can be predicted from a two-dimensional plan. Visual attention is explored due to sight being the most prominent means used by humans to gather information in the urban environment. Fifteen subjects performed a simple, computerized eye-tracking experiment, whereby their visual attention was measured as they looked at 40 images on a monitor. The 40 images depicts four different street types: blocked, open, curved and angled, each of which was represented with a simple figure image, as per interpretation from a two-dimensional plan, as well as a photograph of the same environment, representing the actual outcome of the plan. The results show that the simple figure images have effective predictive capabilities, as the distribution of visual attention exhibited a similar pattern in both the figure image and the photograph. The results also show that different patterns of visual attention are evoked by each of the four different street types. In sum, the results indicate that two-dimensional plans are able to predict the future three-dimensional outcome of a given plan in terms of visual attention. These indications are valuable for planners, architects, engineers and decision-makers when planning for new urban environments. The results are also valuable for understanding human perception of streets in a wider context.
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鄺美娟 and Mei-kuen Elas Kwong. "Postmodern streetscapes: a case study of HongKong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980181.
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Goodwin, Kathleen M. "Streetscapes of Manly on Moreton Bay : 1890s-1950s /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18291.pdf.
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Kwong, Mei-kuen Elas. "Postmodern streetscapes : a case study of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25799757.
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Jones, Timothy Germain 1973. "Jazz, improvisation, and streetscapes : guidelines for in-fill development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67547.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 92).<br>How can we design in-fill buildings that are frankly new and dynamic, yet respectful and engaging of the context of the streetscape? Improvisational jazz is a form of music whose practitioners seek to integrate the familiar and the novel into a unified composition. Certain practices guide performers in achieving these dynamic syntheses of new and old. These practices may provide fresh insights into achieving such a synthesis in the streetscape. This thesis examines the elements, composition, and practices of improvisational jazz for potential application to the compositions of streetscapes, specifically the design of in-fill buildings. It analyzes analogous elements, composition, and practices in the design of the building facades, tests these ideas in an analysis of two case studies, and makes recommendations for urban design.<br>by Timothy Germain Jones.<br>S.M.
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Guo, Chen. "The role of outdoor advertising on streetscapes in the metropolitan commercial areas of Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39634541.
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Narukage, Miki. "The scenic beauty of streetscapes : an assessment of commuting corridors in Vancouver." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58708.
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While it has been well studied that nature in urban parks provides aesthetic values in the urban landscape, limited studies on the aesthetics of streetscapes have been done. The current study aims to seek out the biophysical components that can significantly enhance the beauty of the scenery of urban streets. The target landscape is the busiest commuting corridors located in the residential area of Vancouver and Burnaby, BC. Sixty images showing the driving perspective, retrieved from Google Street View, were used as the sample stimuli. The study comprised two steps of analysis. First, the number of pixels occupied by the tested 24 environment variables that were suggested by previous literature review to have influence on scenic judgments for each image were counted using Photoshop. Second, 47 university students and staff working in the University of British Columbia took part in a perceptual survey where they judged the perceived scenic beauty of sample images on a 10-point scale. Then, the correlation between the pixel counts of the tested variables and the Scenic Beauty Estimates points calculated from the raw ratings was examined. As the result of stepwise regression analysis, 5 variables were observed to be the most prominent predictors of scenic beauty of the streetscape. The visual area of trees, green grass, hedges, and the symmetrical arrangement of trees aligned with the sides of streets, could increase the estimates of beauty, while the presence of power lines could decrease it. The finding that images with more vegetation are appreciated by the participants as more beautiful agrees with the preceding literature. The study methodology allowed us to know the magnitude of the influence of each variable on scenic judgments, and it enabled us to propose the optimal choices of vegetation types and spatial allocation of trees for better design of urban streets. These findings contribute to our understanding of urban streetscape patterns, which may be eventually used to improve the psychological and physical health of urban dwellers.<br>Forestry, Faculty of<br>Graduate
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Reese, Jill Marie. "Spectacle and politics on the streetscapes of Madurai, January 2013 - July 2014." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10026195/.
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Xue, Bing, and 薛冰. "Symbiotic street: stray cattle andcittizens [i. e. citizens] on streets of Ahmedabad." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B5070803X.
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Guo, Chen, and 郭琛. "The role of outdoor advertising on streetscapes in the metropolitan commercial areas of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39634541.
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Roy, Sudipto. "Factors Influencing Australian Local Governments’ Street-Tree Species Selection." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366839.
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Rapid urbanisation is resulting in environmental degradation, including soil erosion, species extinction, and air pollution. Street‐trees as part of a city’s green infrastructure have the potential to ameliorate some of these problems in urban environments. They can provide an array of services such as providing shade and habitat. Unfortunately, they can render disservices too, such as by damaging road surfaces, footpaths and underground infrastructure. The extent and type of street‐tree services and disservices vary among species. Hence, choosing the wrong tree for the wrong place can have significant social, economic, and environmental consequences.
In 1997, Miller established a model that included parameters such as site factors, social factors, and economic factors to facilitate the process of selecting appropriate urban street‐tree species. However, globally and in Australia, there is limited research into how tree managers choose street‐trees. Surprisingly, the process of street‐tree selection, including how tree managers perceive tree costs and benefits is poorly understood. How tree managers weigh the different aspects of street‐trees when making planting decisions and developing tree lists for urban areas requires closer scholarly attention.
This thesis examines the decision‐making principles of local government tree managers across Australia’s city councils. Consideration is given as to whether street‐tree selection criteria differ according to geographical location and climate. A mixed methods approach is used, including interviews, a questionnaire survey, and species analysis to understand the factors determining street‐tree species selection in Australian city councils.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Griffith School of Environment<br>Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology<br>Full Text
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Fitch, David L. "Streets of modernism : an analysis of change and stability in the streetscapes of central Edinburgh, 1978-94." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22218.
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While the street can be construed as a "primary symbol" of modern life (Berman, 1982), recent analyses of changing patterns of consumption have often focused on some permutation of the mall (Shields, 1989; Johnson, 1991; Gottdiener, 1995), Disneyland (Zukin, 1991; Warren, 1994) or the festival marketplace (Goss, 1996; Hannigan, 1998), rather than on the understudied urban street (Gregson, 1995; Jackson and Thrift, 1995). The thesis examines the street as the site of the experiences of modern urbanism. Occupant and use data for some 1600 sites in two areas of central Edinburgh from 34 ground surveys performed between 1978 and 1994 were collected. A GIS/database was then used to construct a "spatial narrative" (Meethan, 1996) to study in detail the composition of the urban street and generate a 'history' (Morris, 1988) of the street's persistence and change. Analysis of this data calls into question the universality and applicability of many narratives of urban change. The street is revealed to represent the simultaneous manifestation of constant change intermixed with overwhelming levels of historical persistence, typified by Berman's (1982) identification of the dualism of change and stability as the central dialectic of the modern experience. Considerable evidence of high and increasing levels of homogeneity in the street is identified, but only in very limited geographic areas, questioning the local specificity of wider globalisation narratives (Zukin, 1990; Massey, 1994). The increasing importance of leisure as a component of the street is clear although several markedly different types of change can be identified within the data.
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Boyko, Christopher T. "The influence of architectural detailing, massing, and design interest on the evaluation of heritage and historic urban streetscapes." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53092.pdf.
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Portella, Adriana Araujo. "Evaluating commercial signs in historic streetscapes : the effects of the control of advertising and signage on user's sense of environmental quality." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444289.
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