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Siddique, MD Abu Baker. "Rethinking Dead Mall: Reconsidering an American vacant mall site as a seed for re-growth." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104068.
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The rapid urban development has impacted a great loss of natural landscape in the U.S in recent years. In the process of urbanization, the population has moved from the city centers to the edges of the Metropolitan or the newly developed suburbs as much as 62% until 2000. The annual conversion rate of undeveloped land to developed land between 1982 and 1992 was 1.4 million acres per year while it accelerated later in only five years between 1992 and 1997 to 2.2 million acres per year. Among all the development one of the most common was the Enormous shopping mall in suburban districts which are the collections of a vast range of retail corporations in response to the growing consumerism. In support of the gigantic malls, more service infrastructures were built as in the multi-storied parking garages, surface parking, HVAC.
Currently, the total number of malls in the U.S is approximately 116,000. The downside of the development has been observed as rapid as it has grown. As in 2014, nearly 3% of all the malls in the United States were considered to be "dying" (40% or higher vacancy rates) and nearly one-fifth of all malls had vacancy rates considered "troubling" (10% or higher). The sudden deterioration was caused because of several factors such as the socio-economic change of the demography in the urban context, the change in the spending habit of the consumers (i.e. spending for experience rather than goods), Rise of the E-commerce, etc. While the dying circumstance continues, these vast and trapped places have nothing but negative impacts in the urban environment as being wasteful land, blocking the visual connectivity through places, clogging the pedestrian flow, contributing to the heat island effect. Thus the problem is evoking to rethink a sustainable design approach.
This thesis will first generate an adaptive master plan for the future, in a specific site as the result of investigating the socio-economic issues that forced the mall site to be vacant. After projecting the master plan, the architectural project will be proposed which will prioritize the physical and social development of the context. Educating people regarding the redevelopment of the community and the sustainable way of living are the key features of the project. The new project will be considered an iconic community asset that would serve the neighborhoods.Master of Architecture
The rapid urban development has impacted a great loss of natural landscape in the U.S in recent years. In the process of urbanization, the population has moved from the city centers to the edges of the Metropolitan or the newly developed suburbs as much as 62% until 2000. To serve the resettled population new services have been developed at the outskirts of the cities. Among all the development one of the most common was the Enormous shopping mall in suburban districts which are the collections of a vast range of retail corporations in response to the growing consumerism. In support of the gigantic malls, more service infrastructures were built as in the multi-storied parking garages, surface parking, HVAC. Currently, the total number of malls in the U.S is approximately 116,000. The downside of the development has been observed as rapid as it has grown. As in 2014, nearly 3% of all the malls in the United States were considered to be "dying" (40% or higher vacancy rates) and nearly one-fifth of all malls had vacancy rates considered "troubling" (10% or higher). The sudden deterioration was caused because of several factors such as the socio-economic change of the demography in the urban context, the change in the spending habit of the consumers (i.e. spending for experience rather than goods), Rise of the E-commerce, etc. This thesis will explore the strategy for reintegrating the troubling mall sites within the urban fabric. The thesis will first generate an adaptive master plan for the future, in a specific site as the result of investigating the socio-economic issues that forced the mall site to be vacant. After projecting the master plan, the architectural project will be proposed which will prioritize the physical and social development of the context. Educating people regarding the redevelopment of the community and the sustainable way of living are the key features of the project. The new project will be considered an iconic community asset that would serve the neighborhoods.
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Morgan, Amy. "Re-thinking American Suburbs: Addressing Suburban Sprawl through Transit-oriented Development." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554373519100385.
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Weber, Michael Stewart. "Mending : opportunities for Springville, Utah to counteract suburban sprawl." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4108.
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Kraus, Joshua I. "Heralding post-modelism: causes, effects and resolutions of suburban sprawl." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27691.
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LIU, MIN. "THE NEW URBANISM: THE CASE OF KENTLANDS AS A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1029446388.
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Tillmaand, Saretta D. "A New American Dream: Reconciling Anytown, U.S.A. with a New Attitude Toward Resources." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276954704.
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Prevendar, Nathaniel J. (Nathaniel Joseph). "Form in the [middle]-ground : urban/suburban sprawl in Georgia & Tennessee." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65744.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182).
Over the next quarter century the U.S. population will expand by 25 percent, an unprecedented steep and rapid increase that has already begun. The urban and suburban land area has been expanding to create a sprawling landscape of housing developments, shopping centers, and industrial parks. Sprawl has created a sense of disorientation as the spatial growth has blurred the boundaries between the rural landscape and urban/suburban cities and towns, leading to the creation of amorphous regions. This disorientation and the rapid increase in population are generating undesirable environmental consequences. This thesis proposes a new way of approaching the development of cities and towns so as to create clearly defined communities within the amorphous sprawl of development that is consuming the landscape and resources. I proposed the middle-ground, a term I use to suggest a place found between the rural and suburban/urban boundaries as a new landscape for development. Using U.S. Census data, GIS information, site visit and interviews I assess the impact of growth and sprawl in the Interstate 75 corridor region between Atlanta Georgia and Chattanooga Tennessee. I offer a new direction in smart growth in the design of a new town located between the sprawl of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Dalton, Georgia, to house 100,000 residents. In addition, I propose a new train station as a central transportation link between the Chattanooga and Atlanta airports as a means of creating a well-defined, well-populated node that is a counterpoint to those regions with blurred boundaries.
by Nathaniel J. Prevendar.
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Edwards, David Michael. "Congregating public facility investment of sustainable community: the school-centered community approach." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37290.
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Land development patterns have long been a reflection of not only consumer preferences but of public policy. To the extent that such policy has supported scattered, low-density and automobile-dependent development patterns, it has been found to be deficient. It is not only the private land developers who have created sprawl. Government agencies at all levels have also contributed to the problem in the ways they invest in public infrastructure devoid of a coordinated strategy. Schools, public recreational facilities, and branch libraries often are isolated from one another.
Two case studies were used to demonstrate the manner in which planned, congregated public facilities came first and succeeded in providing the impetus to sustainable private sector response loosely following a master plan. The first case study examines the urban neighborhood of City Heights in San Diego, California, where a blighted, crime-ridden neighborhood was redeveloped with the construction of several public assets, all within a small, nine-block area. The result was the participation of the private sector in this neighborhood where ten years prior, there was private sector abandonment. The second case study examines the Town Center project located in Suwanee, Georgia. In this example, a city municipality took the helm as master developer, initiated 'place' in the form of an urban-style park, and thereby created the impetus for the subsequent investment by the private sector.
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Torrens, Paul Morrison Kevin. "Simulating sprawl : a dynamic entity-based approach to modelling North American suburban sprawl using cellular automata and multi-agent systems." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405484.
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Cooper, Ryan M. "RE-PLACING SPRAWL: MAPPING PLACE IN AN AMERICAN SUBURB." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/6.
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In the post-World War II era land development in the United States has largely been focused on the expansion away from urban centers and out into the surrounding suburbs. While the development of suburbs began with utopian ideals of spiritual wholeness, their actual manifestation on the American landscape has been subject to harsh critiques about their long-term economic and environmental feasibility, fostering of social alienation, and general placelessness. In this thesis I address the criticism of suburbs as placeless, asking ―What are the particular practices of place-making in North American suburbs?‖ Examining interviews, cognitive map surveys, participant observation, archival materials, and geoweb activity through lenses of imageability and anticipatory action I seek to better understand how the residents of an Indianapolis suburb narrate, structure, and produce a sense of place in their own community. In doing so I argue that that suburbs force an understanding of place as both experiential and social that is beyond mere aesthetics.
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Palmer, Keenan A. "The Suburban Outpost: Reshaping Dead Space in the American City." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1559057842069101.
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Hinners, Sarah Jack. "Pollinators in an urbanizing landscape: Effects of suburban sprawl on a grassland bee assemblage." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3303885.
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Hudson, Christopher J. "Suburban sprawl, central city decline and the case for metropolitan cooperation in Franklin County, Ohio." Connect to resource, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1244219424.
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Becker, Micaela. "Non-Place (Making): The Big Box De-form-ed." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1623167599704667.
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Kotila, Ryan. "Inner City Suburbia: A hybrid solution to sustainable urban middle-income housing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1274195125.
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Worley, Christina Marie. "The Value of Open Space: A Case Study of the Values of Suburban Residents." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/104623.
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In light of the rapid spread of sprawling development, a better understanding of local efforts promoting open space preservation is needed. This comparative case study focused on creating narratives to provide a deeper understanding of how suburban residents in the Philadelphia region value open space. Logan and Molotch's "Growth machine hypothesis" and Michael Taylor's alternative choice theory provided a framework for the study. Survey respondents who were more liberal and affluent, had higher levels of education, access to and use of open space, were more supportive of open space preservation efforts. Survey and interview respondents and local officials were more likely to value local open spaces for their use, rather than exchange values. Interviews provided narratives of how residents valued open spaces primarily for a variety of use values, secondarily for their exchange values, and as a reaction against growth itself. Local municipalities by engaging in public education to increase resident understanding of the economic value of open space and the value of growing smartly can work to improve local quality of life by simultaneously preserving open spaces and accommodating growth for the community's advantage.
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Klinmalai, Siwaporn. "Effect Evaluation of Gated Housing Projects Accumulated in Suburban Residential Areas of Bangkok Metropolitan Region." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/192184.
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Hart, Wade A. "Compact Urban Dwellings." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337352365.
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Harris, Laura E. "Five Urban Row Houses." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/145.
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"Over 1.5 million single family homes went up in the United States in 2003 alone, and the vast majority of them, sadly, following not a single green design principle." Not only was green design, which is the search for better choices from an environmental perspective, not considered in these homes, neither were the millions of already existing homes within our cities. Modern construction and increasing sprawl are completely out of sync with the ecosystem of the planet and not only is the environment suffering, so is the condition of our cities. The location and inefficiency of these cookie cutter homes greatly contribute to the increasing dependency on automobiles, the clogging of landfills, the destruction of natural wilderness areas and the decrease in human social interaction. Creating a better alternative to the quickly multiplying new homes of suburban America is crucial to improving the future of the environment and the fabric of our cities. By revitalizing the dilapidated, often historic, neighborhoods of our inner cities with green design and building techniques we can improve the fabric of our cities and the daily life of their inhabitants.Located not far from downtown Richmond and littered with bus stops, public schools, parks and markets, the location of the Byrd Park neighborhood works to the advantage of its inhabitants as well as to the advantage of the environment. These convenient factors make Byrd Park appealing, but with further design and development of the existing residential structures the neighborhood will be more attractive and accommodating for a broader range of people. With the help of design, it can be a culturally rich, diverse, safe, comfortable and convenient neighborhood with accommodations for various lifestyles and income levels. Attracting a broader range of people will intern create an area rich in culture, social stimulation and diversity.
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Haglund, Charlotte. "Social interaction and identification among adolescents in multilingual suburban Sweden : a study of institutional order and sociocultural change /." Stockholm : Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-457.
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WALDRON, STEVEN. "NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN: RESPONSE TO MEGALOPOLIS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116010734.
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Espallargas, Castro Jose Luis. "Screening suburbia. Relaciones sociales, comportamientos y construcción de la identidad en las urbanizaciones residenciales. Una etnografía del espacio suburbano en la provincia de Tarragona." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401581.
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Les implicacions del creixement en dispersió urbana o urban sprawl reuneixen elements urbans, arquitectònics, econòmics i mediambientals, però també socials, en aquest sentit l'antropologia ha vingut tractant el tema focalitzant el seu estudi en la marginalitat, mentre la investigació del procés que afecta a les classes pudents i les elits ha quedat en un segon pla. El meu plantejament analitza el tema des de una nova perspectiva i es centra en l'evolució del fenomen en el món occidental amb especial atenció al cas de la comarca del Tarragonès i la seva corona. En aquest sentit he desenvolupat una investigació de caràcter etnogràfic mitjançant eines com les entrevistes i l'observació participant de cinc informants que compleixen amb el perfil de resident suburbà.
Entre altres consideracions, l'anàlisi del marc teòric conclou que aquests espais s'han convertit en gran mesura en "no lugares" on predomina el contacte aïllat i lo privat, a diferència dels centres urbans tradicionals. Pel que fa a l'estudi de cas dels informants de la perifèria de Tarragona, he observat que la construcció de la seva identitat aboca a un tipus de personalitat "bricoleur", en el sentit d'estar composta per retalls d'identitats diferents, i les seves relacions socials s'articulen a través del que anomeno una "sociabilitat a la carta" que escull els seus moments de contacte.Las implicaciones del crecimiento en dispersión urbana o urban sprawl engloban elementos urbano-arquitectónicos, económicos y medioambientales, pero también sociales, en este sentido la Antropología ha acostumbrado a tratar el tema focalizando su estudio en la marginalidad, mientras que la investigación sobre el proceso que afecta a las clases acomodadas y a las élites ha quedado en un segundo plano. Mi planteamiento analiza el tema desde esa nueva perspectiva y se centra en la evolución del fenómeno en el mundo occidental con especial atención al caso de la comarca del Tarragonès (España) y su corona. Para ello se ha desarrollado una investigación de caracter etnográfico mediante herramientas como las entrevistas y la observación participante de cinco informantes que cumplen con el perfil de residente suburbano Entre otras consideraciones, el análisis del marco teórico concluye que estos espacios se han convertido en gran medida en “no lugares” donde predomina el contacto aislado y lo privado, a diferencia de los centros urbanos tradicionales. Sobre el estudio de caso de los informantes de la periferia de Tarragona, he observado que la construcción de su identidad desemboca en un tipo de personalidad "bricoleur", en el sentido de estar compuesta por pedazos de identidades diversas, y sus relaciones sociales se articulan a través de lo que denomino una sociabilidad a la carta que escoge los momentos de contacto.
Urban sprawl implications range from environmental, economic, urban and architectural issues but also some social ones. The social point of view has been studied by Anthropologists as a matter of urban poverty and marginalization, they have been focused lowest class people who used to live at the outskirts of the city, while suburban healthy upper and middle class where forgotten by academician. My work is based on this new outlook on social urban sprawl, focusing on its evolution at western world and particularly studying the city of Tarragona (Spain) and its suburbia. In order to develop this investigation properly, I followed an ethnography system through some tools such as interviews and observation Among other considerations, theoretical framework analysis concludes that healthy suburban areas have mainly became "no places"(nota al pie) where the private thing and isolated social contacts prevail, far from how it happens at traditional city centers. Here I present an ethnography research on the field, based on some interviews with informants, and some documental research which verifies that the problem follows the same pattern both in Spain and the rest of developed word. Generally speaking we observe more densely populated city suburban areas which becomes a source of communiting
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Brostedt, Love. "Restructuring Suburbia : Introducing Social Space in a Spatially Disperse Neighbourhood." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-139207.
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Density is more about an experienced nearness to functions and activities than buildingsbeing physically close to each other. Density is interaction, and the intensity of itdepends on accessibility to the functions and activities of the built environment. The current planning, continuing the thoughts of the modernist, are a threat to publichealth and the environment, as sprawling settlements demand more resources forinfrastructure and time spent commuting between home and work, taking up the timeto spend with family and friends. The suburban planning principles of the Swedish housing estate unit have graduallytransformed the suburban neighbourhoods into dispersed, disconnected islands, wheresocial life is inhibited in the mere configuration of space. Legibility of the urban environment is important regarding orientation and navigation,but also to understand the underlying meanings of spaces and places. The urbanstructure should be easily read to be understandable in the choices of everyday life. How we understand the boundaries and transitions of our surrounding affects howspaces are used. Unclear territorial interfaces, like the open space landscape ofmodernist planning feels too exposed to be appropriated. If activities should take placein the outdoor environment, there must be a certain quality to the spaces that areinviting and promote interaction between people. The suburban housing estate neighbourhoods can be developed to promote thisinteraction, providing spaces where the different layers of social life can take place, fromthe private home – through mediating interfaces of front yards, indoor collective spaceand collective gardens – to the public realm of the streets, pathways and parks. The thesis studies the suburban neighbourhood Årsta in eastern Uppsala, whichshows the signs of a disperse suburban housing estate in its configuration of buildings,withdrawn from the streets, turning inward away from the public spaces. By adding built volume within the existing structure of the open yards, the boundariesbetween the public and the private spaces can be clearly defined and new activatedspaces can be created. Many fronts towards the streets and paths make people meet inevery-day life and new types of spaces can be used to set a framework for interactionbetween residents as well as outsiders. Such spaces can also work as a buffer betweenpublic life and the private dwelling, e.g. a collective garden mediates the space inbetween a pedestrian path and an inner yard.
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Ait, Bouali Zineb. "Impact de la densification pavillonnaire sur les consommations énergétiques de chauffage des ménages : cas de la métropole Aix Marseille Provence." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://theses.univ-amu.fr.lama.univ-amu.fr/191211_AITBOUALI_422d730ln521dy297zd_TH.pdf.
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L’habitat pavillonnaire s’impose depuis les années soixante-dix comme la forme urbaine la plus attrayante pour les français. Aujourd’hui, on compte plus de 80% de la population qui souhaiterait vivre en maison individuelle et en rapport avec la nature. En revanche, ces maisons, telles qu’elles se développent actuellement, font souvent l’objet de débats en raison des modes de vie qu’elles engendrent mais aussi en termes de grignotage d’espace agricole/naturel. La métropole Aix-Marseille Provence n’échappe pas à ce phénomène et enregistre une croissance périurbaine de plus en plus importante. De cette périurbanisation, les consommations d’énergie liées aux bâtiments restent le paramètre le moins investigué puisqu’il est difficile sinon impossible d’estimer les bilans énergétiques bâtiment par bâtiment sur un large territoire. Partant de ce constat, je me suis interrogée sur les leviers permettant de contrôler cette périurbanisation. Cette réflexion est issue du fait qu’à l’heure actuelle, l’état ne cesse de multiplier les progrès en termes de renouvellement urbain notamment avec l’apparition de loi SRU en 2000, puis récemment la loi ALUR en 2014. Ce travail de recherche considère que la densification pourrait être un moyen d’assurer une mixité sociale, générationnelle et fonctionnelle dans des tissus qui sont aujourd’hui dédiés à la seule fonction d’habitation, tout en diminuant leurs besoins énergétiques. Pour vérifier cette hypothèse, un travail expérimental a été élaboré auprès des habitants du lotissement « La Clairnande », où il était question d’évaluer à travers des besoins énergétiques de plusieurs scénarios de densificationThe suburban habitat is needed since the seventies as the urban form most attractive for the French. Today, more than 80% of the population would like to live in detached houses and in relation to nature. On the other hand, these houses, as they are currently developing, are often the subject of debate because of the way of life that they generate but also in terms of nibbling agricultural / natural space. The metropolis Aix-Marseille Provence escapes this phenomenon and recored a growing peri-urban growth. From this periurbanisation, energy consumption related to buildings remains the least investigated parameter since it is difficult if not impossible to estimate building energy balances by building over a large area. Based on this observation, I wondered about the levers to control this peri-urbanization. This reflection comes from the fact that, at present, the state continues to multiply the progress in terms of urban renewal, notably with the appearance of the SRU law in 2000, then recently the ALUR law in 2014. This work of research considers that densification could be a means of ensuring a social, generational and functional mix in fabrics that are today dedicated to the sole function of housing, while decreasing their energy needs. To verify this hypothesis, an experimental work was developed with the inhabitants of the subdivision « La Clairnande », where it was a question of evaluating through energy needs several densification scenarios
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MITCHELL, KENDRA NICOLE. "A REEVALUATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TRANSIT AND COMMUNITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082904073.
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Cirnu, Lilian. "Les formes de territorialisation de l'exode urbain dans l'espace métropolitain bucarestois." Thesis, Bordeaux 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR22043/document.
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L’activité de recherche a eu lieu alternativement dans le cadre de l‟École doctorale le Simion Mehedinți”, Faculté de Géographie, Université de Bucarest et au laboratoire „PAVE- Profession, Architecture, Ville, Environnement”, École Nationale Supérieure d‟Architecture et du Paysage de Bordeaux, France. Durant la réalisation de cette thèse on a suivi également des stages de formation et perfectionnement au laboratoire de recherche „ThèMA”, Université de Franche Comté, France, ESRI Roumanie et dans le cadre de l'Unité Régionale de Formation à l'Information Scientifique et Technique, URFIST de Bordeaux, FranceThe research period took place alternatively to the Doctoral School “Simion Mehedinţi”, Bucharest University, Geography Department and to the PAVE Research Laboratory (ENSAP Bordeaux), member of the Emile Durkheim Research Center (UMR5116). During the realization of this PhD work we have also was also carried out training courses to the research laboratory „ThèMA”, University of Franche-Comté, France, ESRI Romania and to the Regional Training Unit for Scientific and Technical Information, URFIST de Bordeaux, France
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Clay, Lauren Ashley. "In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1508.
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This thesis explores ideas of everydayness, the mundane, and the repetitive emptiness of consumer culture. It looks at the malaise that plagues everyday life and examines several attempts throughout history to break from its grips which revolve around a search for a more ideal state. This research includes utopias of modernism, the transcendental, the communal living of Shakers and Early Christians, ascetic monks and The Desert Fathers. These ideas have shaped my studio practice as I construct installations based on worlds which allude to the eternal, the otherworldly, and the fragility of our physical world when compared to more eternal spiritual archetypes.
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Hrubanová, Denisa. "Principy formování zeleně jako součásti městského interiéru." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233266.
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Urban interior environment mostly serves as a place for various meetings and social events. Thus, these spaces come alive thanks to people, who give them reason and meaning. However, the question is what role urban interior has in the present day, which, at the beginning of the new millennium, is characterized by a high degree of individualism. Within the deurbanization tendencies, buildings and adjoining areas in central parts of cities are often abandoned and the activities move to the periphery. If we want to return the social function to the urban interior, as a place of pleasant encounters and relationships, we need to approach its formation with respect to current trends in the development of human society. From the perspective of sustainable development, it is also necessary not to extend the boundaries of urbanized area to adjacent landscape, while abandoning the central locations in cities, but to maintain their intensive character. From this point of view, it is necessary to realize, that it is the greenery that gives the city an opportunity to perceive public spaces as an integral part of urban life and not just as places that people walk through having no reason to stay longer than necessary. Application of greenery in urban interior provides many positive features to the city. Greenery is an added value that can also operate independently as a functional unit that links the other functions of the urban organism. Both in its solitary form and in line or area applications. Along with water elements, urban furniture, various hard surfaces and landscaping, greenery creates a pleasant and interesting living environment in the city that can be desirable and sought-after again.
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Wilder, Matthew Albert. "Packing boxes : suburban infill of recent sprawl." 2001. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/wilder%5Fmatthew%5Fa%5F200105%5Fmla.
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Bhatia, Kruti Suryakant. "Does sprawl cost more? The influence of urban form on public transportation expenditure /." 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=994253041&sid=29&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (M.U.P.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 16, 2006) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Raja, Samina. Includes bibliographical references.
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Long, Christian Bradley. "The wages of sprawl the experience of the suburban form in American film and fiction /." Diss., 2008. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-11022008-190512/.
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Tedesco, Delacey. "Building the good life: the politics of sprawl in the Okanagan Valley." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2169.
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Attempts to limit suburban sprawl by publicizing its social, economic, environmental, and health problems have not been effective. An important aspect of this ongoing appeal of sprawl is its promise of ideal community. The discourse of ideal community in advertisements for housing developments in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. echoes discursive constructions by Plato and Aristotle, Rousseau and Kant. Sprawl is therefore another attempt to solve a problem in political thought that originates with the polls, namely, how to envision, authorize, construct, and secure the best possible space, form, and practice of human organization. By constructing secure political community as the physical embodiment of metaphysical truth, a necessary but impossible resolution between nature and culture, this discourse constructs the central problem of politics as unsolvable. Thus the intractability of sprawl needs to be understood as a political problematic where the act of imposing a solution regenerates the original problem.
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Djemel, Manel. "Impact de l’évolution des formes de croissance urbaine sur l’identité de la ville et de ses citoyens." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/2829.
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L’évolution de l’urbanisation dans le monde nous a motivés à développer nos recherches quant à cette croissance déchaînée des villes et ces multitudes de formes urbaines qui en résultent. L'objet de ce travail est d'analyser ces formes de croissance spatiales et d’analyse leur impact sur l’identité dans la ville. Il s'agit de montrer dans quelle mesure elles favorisent la prolifération de nouvelles identités dans les régions périphériques de la ville. Notre recherche porte alors sur une étude socio spatiale de la capitale de la Tunisie. Tunis, cette métropole en pleine expansion, occupe un emplacement stratégique dans la Méditerranée et joue un rôle important dans les échanges afro-européens. La pertinence de l’étude de l’évolution du domaine urbain de Tunis résulte du fait que cette ville a connu différents types de croissances. La variété des modes de développement de l’espace urbain fait de Tunis un exemple pertinent qui mérite d’être étudié, d’autant plus que l’espace englobe des banlieues planifiées, spontanées, historiques, et bien d’autres qui résultent du juste fait de l’informalité, allant du patrimoine à la construction d’une identité urbaine plurielle. Notre travail comportera donc une étude spatiale de l’évolution de l’espace urbain de Tunis, basée essentiellement sur des cartes et des photos satellites, doublées d’une analyse sociale, basée sur une enquête in situ, réalisée avec les habitants des banlieues, et ce, dans le but de recenser leurs degrés d’attachement à l’espace ainsi que les rapports qu’ils entament avec le centre-ville. Notre recherche nous a permis de conclure que les habitants des banlieues s’identifient aux nouvelles formes de croissance et développent au fil des années un sentiment d’appartenance et d’attachement identitaire à leurs quartiers. Cela contribue à la prolifération d’identités multiple dans la ville.The evolution of urbanization in the world motivated us to develop our research around this raging growth of cities and their resulting multitudes of urban forms. The object of this work is to analyze these spatial forms of growth and their impact on the city’s identity. The objective is to demonstrate in which measure they favour the proliferation of new identities in the suburb region of the city. Our research then focuses on a socio-spatial study of the capital of Tunisia. Tunis, this enlarging metropolis, occupies a strategically positioned location in the Mediterranean and plays an important role in European-African exchanges. The pertinence of the study of the evolution of the urban domain of Tunis results from the fact that this city experienced different types of growth. The variety of modes of development of the urban area makes Tunis a pertinent example which is worth being studied, especially since the space includes planned, spontaneous, historical suburbs, and many others which result from the informality linked from the heritage up to the construction of a plural urban identity. This work will thus include a spatial study of the evolution of the urban area of Tunis, based principally on maps and satellite pictures, complemented with a social analysis based on an in situ investigation, accomplished with the inhabitants of the suburbs with the intention of making a census of their degree of attachment to the space as well as their relationship with the downtown area. Our research allowed us to conclude that the inhabitants of the suburbs end up identifying themselves with new forms of growth and develop over the years a sense of belonging and attachment to their district. This contributes to the numerous proliferation of identity in the city.
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HÁNA, Jonatan. "Suburbanizace v zázemí Českých Budějovic - severozápadní a severovýchodní sektor." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-52508.
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Diploma work is about suburbanization and suburbs in the near hinterland of the city of České Budějovice. It monitors development of these suburbs in socialist and post-socialist period, whereas suburbs are divided in suburbs of urban and country landscapes, towns and small towns of agglomeration and distant suburbs except agglomeration. More detail attention is presented northwest and northeast sector of the hinterland of the city. We analyse statistics data about numbers of resident population between 1950 - 2009, data about numbers of settled houses from single periods of construction time, which we elicited from cross-country research and we also analyse statistics data about construction time of flats between 1997 - 2009. Another part of diploma work is focused on evaluation architectural, urban and urban planning positives, negatives and problems connected with suburbanization in solid area, which we elicited from cross-country research and questioning mayor of suburban municipalities. Third part of work is about involvement suburban migrants to life in suburbs and suburban municipalities. Data were found out from questioning mayor of suburban municipalities. As components there are thematic maps with illustration of analyzed data according suburbs.