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Mori, Alison E. 1970. "Vacant and underutilized land in Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/26726.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-63).
by Alison E. Mori.
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Culbertson, Kurt Douglas. "Framework for vacant land policy in shrinking cities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31195.
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This thesis provides a theoretical framework for evaluating the causes of vacant land in shrinking cities. The focus of this thesis was New Orleans and St. Louis; these two cities were selected as the case studies because they are roughly of similar age, possess a common cultural and economic heritage, and have a geographic footprint which encompasses different environmental conditions. This thesis evaluated factors that contribute to patterns of land vacancy within these two cities. Factors included in this evaluation include employment and other economic and cultural opportunities, environmental and ecological conditions, social dynamics and conditions, governmental management decisions, and 'quality of life' stressors, such as proximity to major infrastructure and industrial development. The theoretical framework described in this thesis is intended to apply to other shrinking cities beyond the case studies. A geographic information system database using historical maps and population census data were created for each city and utilized to examine temporal patterns in the relationship between land vacancy and a variety of environmental, economic, and social factors. Maps from the time of the founding of each city were geo-referenced to create a depiction of the ecological conditions prior to European settlement at the sites of New Orleans in 1718 and St. Louis in 1764, respectively. Time-series data gathered from the United States population censuses were utilized to document spatial change of the two cities as they evolved. Homo sapiens like other species compete for habitat. Access to high quality habitat within the urban ecosystem is determined by contestation between individuals and social groups, through market mechanisms and through management decisions, both utilitarian and ideological. Corruption and violence may also be factors. Individual agency is a factor in this contestation but social and cultural structures can also work to limit individual choices, particularly for minorities and low income residents, and relegate many residents to suboptimum or marginal habitat. A data analysis of both New Orleans and St. Louis showed that the quantity and location of vacant land is primarily influenced by proximity to opportunities and by proximity to major risks which impact the quality of Homo sapiens habitat. The first of these is proximity to opportunities such as employment, education, and cultural resources. The second is the presence of natural hazards, such as flooding and geological hazards, as revealed by the analysis of the historical ecology of the city. The third is the impact of local government management decisions and social planning which has spatial implications, including racially-based zoning, racial covenants, redlining, and isolation from public services and facilities such as the segregation of public schools. These decisions are often the reflection of ideology and power relationships. A fourth driver of land vacancy is proximity to risks, notably industrial lands, but also the intrusion of major infrastructure projects such as the development of the railyards and rail corridor of St. Louis, the construction of the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, and the construction of Interstate highways through both cities. In some circumstances, such drivers that include the unintended consequences of utilitarian decisions. The fifth driver include socio-economic factors and the neighborhood effects of crime, and poor education. These five drivers act in different proportions in each city to influence land values which, in turn, drive levels of vacancy. This comparative investigation revealed that the impact of geophysical factors on land vacancy varies greatly between New Orleans and St. Louis. While much of New Orleans lies below sea level and is often subject to flooding and hurricanes, little of the vacant lands of St. Louis are impacted by geophysical factors. In contrast, management decisions and social planning have contributed significantly to the concentration of poverty and, in turn, land vacancy in both cities. While some of these management decisions are utilitarian in nature and intended to provide the greatest benefits for the most number of people, others are ideologically driven or reflect power relationships and in the case of both New Orleans and St. Louis, racism. Proximity to risks, such as active railroad tracks, major highways, and industrial development, also has a strong relationship to land vacancy in both cities. Land vacancy also has a strong spatial relationship with areas of low income, poor education, and crime and neighborhood effects. While an understanding of environmental history can provide a useful guide to vacant land policy, efforts to address the challenge of vacant lands must consider not only the symptoms but the underlying causes of vacancy, particularly economic and social factors. This thesis is addressed to planners, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, and elected and appointed government officials who work to address the challenges of shrinking cities. Though this thesis examined the causes of vacant land in two shrinking cities, future research should examine the application of the theoretical framework presented here to cities experiencing growth as well.
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Al-Jureidini, Sami. "Occupying the void." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Conley, Theresa L. "Banking on vacant land an assessment of the Cincinnati Land Reutilization Program /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1211924355.
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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.Advisors: David Varady Ph.D. (Committee Chair), Menelaos Triantafillou Ph.D. (Committee Member) Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Sept. 7, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: land banking; land reutilization; vacant; abandoned; redevelopment Includes bibliographical references.
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CONLEY, THERESA L. "Banking on Vacant Land: An Assessment of the Cincinnati Land Reutilization Program." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211924355.
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Kim, Gunwoo. "Reimaging vacant urban land as green infrastructure: Assessing vacant urban land ecosystem services and planning strategies for the City of Roanoke, Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73237.
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A typology of urban vacant land was developed using Roanoke, Virginia, as the study area. Because of its industrial past, topography and climate, Roanoke provides a range of vacant land types typical of those in many areas of the Mid-Atlantic, Eastern and Midwestern United States. A comprehensive literature review, field measurements and observations analysis and aerial photo interpretation and ground-truthing methods were utilized to identify and catalog vacant parcels of land and the results were mapped using i-Tree Canopy to identify the following types of urban vacant land: post-industrial (3.34 km2), derelict (4.01 km2), unattended with vegetation (17.3 km2), natural (2.78 km2), and transportation-related (5.01 km2). Unattended with vegetation sites are important resources as the health biodiversity found in natural sites benefits urban populations and they represent the highest plantable space. The redesign of post-industrial sites builds a city's image and transportation-related sites can contribute a green infrastructure network of open spaces. This typological study has significant implications for policy development, and for planners and designers seeking the best use for vacant urban land.
The analysis of Roanoke's urban forest revealed around 210,000 trees on vacant land, a tree cover of 30.6%. These trees store about 107,000 tons of carbon (worth $7.65 million) and remove about 2,300 tons of carbon ($164,000), and about 91 tons of air pollution ($916,000) every year, which is high relative to other land uses. Trees on vacant land are estimated to reduce annual residential energy costs by $211,000 for the city's 97,000 residents and their structural value is estimated at $169 million. The methodology applied to assess ecosystem services in this study can also be used to assess ecosystem services of vacant land in other urban contexts and improve urban forest policies, planning, and the management of vacant land. The study findings support the inclusion of trees on vacant land providing a new vision of vacant urban land as a valuable ecological resource by demonstrating how green infrastructure can be used to enhance ecosystem health and promote a better quality of life for city residents.Ph. D.
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Woodward, Simon Charles. "The phenomenon of vacant land in Stoke-on-Trent." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238378.
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Gehring, Jake. "Modus operandi within landscapes wasted through attrition." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Bolofer, Carl. "Urban voids re-inventing marginalized space /." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Prusa, Jillian L. "Refurbishing the Rust Belt: Vacant Land Reuse in Baltimore, Maryland and Cleveland, Ohio." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1416312594.
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Viana, Pedro Folque de Mendoça Teixeira. "The cost of a lost development opportunity in a centrally located vacant land." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14032.
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Mestrado em FinançasNeste trabalho faz-se uma avaliação de uma oportunidade perdida de desenvolver terreno. Foi negado a uma empresa a possibilidade de esta desenvolver um projecto que consistia no desenvolvimento de imobiliário e na sua posterior venda. A avaliação é feita tendo por base a Teoria das Opções Reais e decidimos focar-nos no valor da opção de compra subjacente neste projecto. Usamos duas fórmulas fechadas para estimar o valor desta opção: o modelo Black-Scholes-Merton e a opção de troca de Margrabe. De seguida simulamos algumas das variáveis destas fórmulas fechadas através de uma análise de cenários e de uma simulação Monte Carlo, isto permitiu-nos construir intervalos de confiança dentro dos quais estará o valor justo da opção. Concluímos que ao ter em conta o valor desta opção, o valor do projecto aumenta significativamente, mesmo nas nossas estimativas mais conservadoras.
The present paper attempts to value the cost of a lost development opportunity in a vacant land. A company was denied the possibility of developing a project, which consisted in real estate development to be sold in the future. The evaluation follows Real Options Theory and we focus on the value of the call option embedded in this project. We use two close form formulas to estimate the option's value: the standard Black-Scholes-Merton Model and Margrabe's Exchange Option. We then simulate some of the variables contained in these formulas using a scenario analysis and a Monte Carlo Simulation, which allowed us to build confidence intervals in which the fair values of the options lie. We find that by taking into account the call option, the value of this project increases significantly, even in our most conservative estimations.
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Nolan, Karen. "Wasted space : lost opportunities in managing small derelict sites in Liverpool." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/wasted-space-lost-opportunities-in-managing-small-derelict-sites-in-liverpool(d6d4bd07-2659-4fb8-8ce6-dd346ab4a7e2).html.
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Economic and demographic decline are significant factors in the generation of brownfield land. Small brownfield sites can create negative images of neighbourhoods, attracting anti-social behaviour and having detrimental effects on communities. This deters investment, creating a downward spiral of neglect and market failure. Despite the policy emphasis placed on reuse and removing the blight associated with brownfield sites, there is a paucity of studies relating to the issue of, a) small sites and b) specifically derelict sites. This leads to a lack of reliable data and problems for the evidence base which informs the development of policy. This study explores the effects of unenumerated small scale land dereliction on cities and communities in social and economic terms. The study takes a mixed methods approach including a three-tier case study focusing on the development of the derelict land issue in Liverpool. Liverpool is considered to be the most deprived local authority in England and has experienced long term demographic decline and depression and as such has a high proportion of derelict and vacant land. Despite being the focus of a plethora of regeneration initiatives, Liverpool still has a large number of derelict sites, the majority of which are smaller than 0.25 hectares.
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Tuck, Jeremy Dean. "Facilitating the Cape's metropolitan spatial development framework by using Gis to investigate vacant land." University of Western Cape, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7458.
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Magister Artium - MAThe trend in metropolitan planning is to provide overarching objectives for development, leaving detailed interpretation at the local level. The unspecific nature of these guidelines, however, coupled by the parochial interests of constituent local municipalities, can result in development that is unfavourable in terms of the metropolitan vision. The aim of this research was to consider a more detailed basis according to which the metropolitan plan for the Cape Metropolitan Area, the Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework (MSDF), could possibly be promoted. The approach was to focus on vacant land since this will be the target of future development.
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Runde, Scott. "Closing the gap: finding productive uses for vacant land in north St. Louis, Missouri." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8707.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Lee R. Skabelund
Inner city areas of many major American cities have fallen victim to “urban decay.” In many instances the result is abandonment. Nevertheless, the inner city can be redeveloped by landscape architects and others to provide a place to live, work, learn, and play while displaying sensitivity to the environment. Such developments can be wisely designed by following planning/design guidelines that follow sustainable design principles. The neighborhoods of the 5th Ward in St. Louis, Missouri are the victims of an aging industrial city. Many neighborhoods are troubled with socio-economic problems such as unemployment, low housing values, lack of educational services, scarcity of fresh, reasonably priced food, and elevated crime rates. The socio-economic problems listed above have been major factors in extensive depopulation and disinvestment since the mid 20th-century. “Today, as never before, conditions are ripe for parks to reenter the urban planning agenda. This opportunity exists because so much inner-city land that was once actively used now lies fallow and can be reused for intelligently planned parks, because so much suburban land has been developed without adequate public open space that there is now a huge suburban constituency to support park development, and because so much undeveloped land is now subject to recently enacted legislation intended to protect the environment.” (Garvin 1996, 30) The overall goal for this project is to create a productive uses for the 5th Ward’s vacant land in order to encourage economic and social growth. This can be achieved through investments in urban agriculture and accessible community space. This project serves as a potential solution for renewal of lost urban community infrastructure that includes parks and agricultural cropland. Implementing recreation and urban agriculture on vacant land could help spawn a rebirth and sustain a vibrant and economically-viable community fabric.
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Cook, Andrew (Andrew John). "The gift of good, vacant land : urban agriculture and redevelopment in the city of Baltimore." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90197.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-56).
Urban agriculture in US cities has historically been treated as an interim land use, deemed only appropriate when real estate markets do not support the development of vacant land. However, urban agriculture in the 21st century has emerged in an era when cities have begun to embrace sustainability as a guiding principle, creating a window of opportunity for urban agriculture to become a more permanent aspect of city life. Additionally, this era of urban agriculture has also seen the emergence of commercial urban farms that seek to engage local economies in a way not seen in prior iterations of the practice. This has allowed urban agriculture an entry into the realm of economic development, perhaps the most significant driver of city growth. Because of these two factors, cities have begun incorporating urban agriculture into their land use planning efforts. However, many still treat it as a temporary land use. This is the case in Baltimore City, where two programs have sought to encourage urban agriculture as a temporary use on city-owned land: Adopt-A-Lot and the Homegrown Baltimore Land Lease Initiative. These programs have supported a blossoming of new farms and gardens, which has in turn led to the articulation of three types of urban farm: commercial farms, community farms, and demonstration farms. All types contribute to sustainable development in different ways, but by limiting the land tenure offered through these programs to short term leases and license agreements, the city is hobbling their ability to be truly sustainable, economically, environmentally, or socially. The city is doing this out of a bias towards traditional development over sustainable development. In this essay, I argue that treating urban agriculture as a permanent land use is the only way to make it an effective tool for sustainable development. In order to do this, the city of Baltimore needs to zone for urban agriculture, increase opportunities for farms in city parks, and establish processes for transferring ownership of vacant land from the city to urban farms.
by Andrew Cook.
M.C.P.
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Prajzner, Scott P. "Effects of land use change on bee (Anthophila) community structure and function." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1480666062652755.
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McHugh, Colleen M. (Colleen Margaret). "The post-disaster shrinking city : vacant land types, patterns, and strategies in post-Katrina New Orleans." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81743.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-187).
There were approximately 17,000 vacant lots in New Orleans in 2012, amounting to over 11 percent of total parcels in the city. Many of these lots have become vacant since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, but many were already empty. The population in parts of the older core of the city significantly declined from World War II until 2000. The migration of people into the recently drained low-lying subdivisions both within and outside of the city limits led to disinvestment and high vacancy rates in central neighborhoods of the city. This thesis seeks to define the current physical landscape of vacancy in New Orleans, within the context of these two historic narratives, Katrina and suburbanization before the storm, in order to appropriately target policy strategies for the reuse of vacant lots. This thesis uses images collected by the author of vacant lots throughout the city to define spatial types and conditions common to vacant land in New Orleans. A rigorous, data-driven mapping exercise explores patterns of vacancy in relation to physical and socioeconomic measures. This analysis supports the definition of three neighborhood types in which vacant land should be treated differently. These three types are based on pre-Katrina vacancy and post-Katrina flood depths, and consist of: 1) areas with significant pre-Katrina vacant land and little flooding, 2) areas with little pre-Katrina vacant land and high flood levels, and 3) areas with both significant pre-Katrina vacant land and high flood levels. The findings of this research indicate the need to revisit the physical footprint of New Orleans, with an emphasis on how the city should target its limited resources in the future to maximize both social justice and environmental justice imperatives, as well as mitigate the negative impacts of future disasters.
by Colleen M. McHugh.
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Majewski, Frank J. "Hard + soft architecture." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Tyrpak, Alex Marcus. "How ant communities are shaped by vacant land management strategies, landscape context, and a legacy of industrialization." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594477507523544.
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Heckert, Megan. "The Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice Impacts of Greening Vacant Lots: An Integrated Spatial Assessment of Urban Revitalization and Sustainability Outcomes." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/176217.
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Urban StudiesPh.D.
Many cities in the US and around the world are facing a dual challenge of promoting both urban revitalization and urban sustainability. Increasingly, cities are exploring greening initiatives - through which vegetation is planted and maintained - targeting vacant land as a potential means of addressing both of these challenges. This research is a sustainability-based assessment of the impacts of a Philadelphia, PA-based program that uses greening as an interim management strategy for vacant land. I use quantitative spatial analysis techniques to measure economic, environmental, and social justice impacts of the Philadelphia Land Care (PLC) program, which `treats' vacant land by removing debris, bringing in topsoil, planting grass and trees, putting up a split-rail fence and providing regular maintenance during the growing season. The analysis is shaped by the concept of sustainability which posits that to be sustainable, development must incorporate and balance economic development, environmental preservation and social justice. This research seeks to answer a series of questions about the economic, environmental, and social justice impacts of the PLC program, ultimately assessing not only the extent to which it exhibits impacts along these three dimensions of sustainability but also whether or not the impacts vary for different locations, and also questions the extent to which there may be tradeoffs between the different potential impacts of the program. This dissertation addresses several gaps in the urban greenspace literature including an assessment of the effect of location on the impacts of greenspaces and an assessment of the extent to which temporary greenspaces have the same impacts of more permanent greenspaces. It also addresses questions in urban revitalization and sustainability about the potential role of greening programs in meeting these challenges. Ultimately, the PLC program is shown to increase surrounding property values, improve environmental conditions, and increase equity in access to greenspace in Philadelphia. These benefits are not uniform, however, and differ for neighborhoods across the city. The research indicates the potential for greening programs such as PLC to help cities address pressing economic, environmental, and social concerns, but highlights the need to understand the tensions and tradeoffs between different forms of program impacts.
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Tu, Teddy C. "A stage for the city and it's [sic] people." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Parker, Megan. "From vacant space to active place: leveraging state-owned land for affordable housing - a case study of Youngsfield." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28137.
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Access to affordable housing in well-located areas across Cape Town is a pressing issue faced by low-income households. Attempts have been made at addressing the issue through affordable and free housing subsidies being implemented, but these have not improved access to opportunities for low-income households. These land distribution patterns are a result of recycled apartheid policies perpetuated by an unequal urban land market that does not allow low-income groups to participate. This research focuses on the spatial fragmentation of apartheid planning and its effect on low-income households in accessing subsidised housing in well-located areas. Through the collation of a spatial development framework, this study addresses the accessibility to affordable housing for low-income households by utilising state-owned land at Youngsfield Military Base and Royal Cape Golf Course in Wetton and Ottery, suburbs bordering the southern suburbs and Cape Flats district. The research process began with a spatial analysis which outlined the metropolitan, sub-metropolitan and site context for potential affordable housing development on well-located state-owned land. This supplied a detailed context for the needs of the site, the environmental context and confirmed the good location of the study area in relation to opportunity areas. Spatial design principles were then chosen to inform the creation of a quality urban environment with high-density mixed-use affordable housing and other economic and amenity opportunities. Relevant housing policies were analysed and ample existing policies were found which address affordable housing implementation in South Africa. Unfortunately, other affordable housing options such as social housing and subsidised loan housing are happening at a slower pace than Breaking New Ground (BNG) subsidised housing. Precedents of affordable and social housing were identified, many of which have been successfully implemented, but some still lack the incorporation of essential spatial concepts that create quality urban environments in residential developments. The concept proposal plan illustrated the use of literature and key spatial concepts informing the development of the site. Essential aspects of development were calculated to facilitate thorough planning for public facilities, public transport and affordable housing implementation. The research included an implementation section which identified the relevant stakeholders who would be engaged with during the planning process and affordable housing implementation. Using the package of plans process, the site was divided into precincts to easily streamline the development of the entire site. Appropriate social housing institutes and affordable housing companies were considered as possible institutions to manage and partially fund developments. Feasibility of cross-subsidisation was considered as a major option during implementation of the long-term phasing of the development. The research and implementation illustrates that by using existing policies and appropriate stakeholders and institutions efficiently, the creation of quality urban environments for affordable housing is possible. With the proper city officials in place and the political will for the development, housing developments on this scale can provide large numbers of affordable housing opportunities in better located areas.
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MINOCK, MEGAN S. "URBAN VOIDS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PHENOMENON IN POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1172802536.
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Freeman, Klaire E. "The Effects of Urban Land Use on Wasps (Hymenoptera: Apocrita)." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1363613906.
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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.Master of Science
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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Ludwig, Thomas John. "In Transition: Creating Early Successional Avian Habitat in Transitional Urban Spaces." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397740935.
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Mallinckrodt, Stephanie. "Changing the nature of the city: integrating phytoremediation for the future of Kansas City." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13670.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
There are six square miles of vacant land spread throughout Downtown Kansas City unkempt and untouched for the fear of what may exist in the soil, air, and water and the consequences that come with it (COR Team 2010, EPA 1997). Not developing the vacant/underutilized land causes more harm than good for the city, the locals, and the environment. It costs the city loss of tax revenue (Holt 2002). It hurts locals’ property values and possibly health. It inhibits the environment’s functions with potential toxins. By activating vacant/underutilized land through phytoremediation and redevelopment, it can meet the needs of the projected population growth in the next 30 years, accommodate the Rock Island Corridor, and dissolve any threats of contamination. With the threat of possible contamination on the vacant/underutilized land, surrounding properties, and industrial properties within the culturally rich Jazz and Crossroads districts downtown, phytoremediation is used as a continuation of the Rock Island Corridor’s linear park system and transit in the city context while allowing for redevelopment. The strategy examines regional to site specific strategies where phytoremediation is used to connect people to the environment, contain contaminant-producing places, and counteract contamination from new development. The development serves as a model for Kansas City to use the Rock Island Corridor to control site-specific problems as a catalyst for redevelopment of districts to solve large-scale issues through the use of phytoremediation. Phytoremediation allows for light contaminant production industries to remain functional and rely on phytoremediation to clean some of the waste to prevent excessive clean up in the future. With the help of the phytoremediation and development, it allows for us to understand how phytoremediation works while preventing sites from becoming vacant/underutilized urban areas for the betterment of the community as a proactive strategy to prevent brownfields. Phytoremediation supports sustainable preventative/remediation strategies while catering to community needs such as redevelopment along Rock Island Corridor and Common Line, multi-modal transit, Metrogreen, character of place, and city life. It blends site suitability with community needs, while creating a cleaner more efficient environment that is aesthetically appealing.
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Venturelli, Ricardo Manffrenatti. "Terra e poder: as disputas entre agronegócio e a resistência camponesa no sudoeste paulista: uma abordagem sobre o uso de terras públicas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-26112013-125318/.
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A luta pela terra é um processo inegável na historia do Brasil. Desde o saque gerado pelos portugueses às terras indígenas, e em sua trajetória também, a um sem número de camponeses, sempre foi marcada pela extrema violência e pelas forças díspares empregadas. Procurando entender os determinantes de um episódio ocorrido em 2009, conhecido como Caso Cutrale, quando integrantes do MST ocuparam uma unidade desta empresa, localizada entre os municípios de Iaras e Borebi, demonstrando o litigio sobre as terras legitimadas pelos movimentos sociais como passiveis de reforma agrária, uma vez que há evidências que se tratam de terras públicas, ficou clara a necessidade de investigar os condicionantes de tal manifestação, que repercutiu perante a sociedade através de um posicionamento parcial da mídia nacional, e com atuação questionável do judiciário. A terra é sinônimo de poder às elites brasileiras, e assim, é importante desdobra-se sobre o papel da terra na configuração das relações de poder e lutas de classes, principalmente após a sua transformação em mercadoria após 1850. Para tal, investigar os processos de ocupação da localidade, desde os levantamentos sobre a existência de terras devolutas, bem como a aquisição de terras através de dividas pelo Governo Federal no inicio do século XX, que lhe dá o caráter de terra publica é a chave inicial de reflexão. E como uma praxe nefasta presenciada em todo Brasil, essas terras não ficaram alheias às ações de grilagens. Logo, entender os processos que transformaram essas terras em palco de lutas e disputas, bem como a esperança de muitas famílias em ter seu pedaço de chão para plantar é que determinam as diretrizes dessa pesquisa, procurando entender as discrepâncias encontradas entre os que lutam pela terra armados pela força de vontade contra aqueles que se armam de ações judiciais, da mídia e do capital. Assim, chegaremos às conclusões sobre os desdobramentos dessas disputas, em que a luta camponesa é obrigada a se deparar, em um típico processo de tentativas de destruição do campesinato.The struggle for land is an undeniable process in the history of Brazil. Since the loot generated by the Portuguese indigenous lands, and also in its trajectory, the countless peasants, has been marked by extreme violence and the disparate forces employed. Trying to understand the determinants of an episode occurred in 2009, known as \"Cutrale Case\" when members of the MST occupied a unit of this company, located between the towns of Iaras and Boreham, demonstrating the dispute over land legitimized by social movements as liable to agrarian reform, since there is evidence that these are public lands, there was a clear need to investigate the determinants of such expressions, that resonated in society by positioning part of the national media, and questionable actions of the judiciary. The land is synonymous with power to the Brazilian elites, and so it is important unfolds on the role of land in the configuration of power relations and class struggles, especially after its transformation into goods after 1850. To reach this aim, to investigate the processes of occupation of the town, from the surveys of the existence of vacant land as well as land acquisition through debt by the Federal Government in the early twentieth century, which gives the character of public land is the key initial reflection. And as a nefarious practice witnessed throughout Brazil, these lands were not the actions of others grilagens. Therefore, to understand the processes that transformed this land into a stage for fights and disputes, as well as the hope of many families to have their piece of land to plant that determine the guidelines of this research, trying to understand the discrepancies found between those who struggle for land by armed force of will against those who arm themselves from lawsuits, media and capital. Thus, we will conclude what are the consequences of these disputes, in which the peasant struggle is bound to come across in a typical process attempts to destroy the peasantry.
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Kim, Jae Eun. "Turning vacant lots into public open spaces in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1286423.
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This project provides a method to improve the urban environment of Indianapolis by developing vacant lots currently used for parking lots. Redesigning vacant lots as public open spaces can enrich the downtown environment both culturally and economically.This project is comprised of four sections. The first section is the introduction of the project. The second section addresses the problems caused by vacant lots in cities and the influence of public open spaces on public life and the city environment. The third section consists of developing a plan for public open spaces by redesigning selected vacant lots in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The third section will present a model of development of public open spaces for the city and will legitimize the necessity for revitalization. The last section will conclude the project.The goal of the project is to present critical aspects regarding existing vacant lots in downtown areas and to develop new types of public open space that can benefit the citizens and environment of Indianapolis, Indiana. The design new types of public open space that can benefit the citizens and environment of Indianapolis, Indiana. The design strategy will integrate reevaluation of vacant lots, creation of new types of public open space, and improvement of the city environment.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Johnson, Anna L. "The ecology of urban vacant lands| Human-mediated local versus regional control on plant community assembly." Thesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3707286.
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While urban ecosystems can host surprisingly high levels of biodiversity, there are still many shifts in the characteristics of the biotic communities found in cities. My dissertation explores patterns of plant community assembly in urban residential vacant lots. Firstly, I reviewed the literature to describe how various components of urban ecosystems impact vegetation diversity and composition and presented a novel conceptual model of spatiotemporal variation in plant community composition. Secondly, I described how spatially heterogeneous legacies of human land use within vacant lots structured plant community diversity and composition, relative to spatial and environmental variation. Plant community compositional variation was primarily explained by differences in human land use legacies, compared to local environmental variation (abiotic soil characteristics) and environmental context (lot area, proximity to other vacant lots and tree canopy). Thirdly, I examined how successional processes interacted with spatial variation in land use by constructing a chronosequence of vacant lot properties. I found no evidence of changes in plant community diversity over time but demonstrated significant shifts in functional composition in building footprint sections over time, primarily related to seed dispersal. Finally, I conducted a greenhouse experiment to uncover the interaction between local biotic and abiotic pressures on community structure. I replicated each seed mix across three soil environments (urban soils, soil from an unmanaged suburban lawn/field area, and greenhouse potting mix) and crossed soil and seeded species assemblages with a treatment to remove individuals emerging from the soil seed bank. I found that soil environment had the strongest impact on seeded species establishment. Weeding reduced overall community diversity in vacant lot soils but increased seeded species diversity.Overall, my dissertation results described patterns of community assembly of spontaneous plant communities in vacant lots at a spatial scale appropriate for guiding urban ecological management decisions.
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Demailly, Kaduna-Ève. "Jardiner les vacants : fabrique, gouvernance et dynamiques sociales des vacants urbains jardinés du nord-est de l'Île-de-France." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010599/document.
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Au début des années 2000, on assiste en France au développement de vacants jardinés : des espaces interstitiels, dont les anciennes utilisations du sol sont caduques, temporairement conquis et végétalisés par les habitants. L’institutionnalisation de ces initiatives par les municipalités donne naissance au jardin partagé, dont le vacant jardiné constitue un type spécifique installé sur un terrain vacant et temporaire. Cette thèse vise à appréhender le vacant jardiné comme un outil d’analyse privilégié du « faire » et du « vivre » la ville contemporaine grâce à une étude, combinant méthodologies qualitatives et quantitatives, fondée sur 48 sites du nord-est de l’Île-de-France. Nous montrons ainsi que l’encadrement de jardins associatifs par les municipalités est un fait inédit. Toutefois, bien que ces territoires soient coproduits et que les usagers participent pleinement à la gestion du vacant jardiné, ils ont un rôle limité dans la prise de décision. Si le développement des vacants jardinés institutionnalisés témoigne d’un engagement politique, il s’inscrit aussi dans des stratégies de rentabilisation accrue des espaces urbains qui présentent des bénéfices certains pour les municipalités en termes d’embellissement, de sécurisation et d’image politique. Enfin, les impacts sociaux et environnementaux sont à relativiser. D’une part, la création de liens sociaux est circonscrite à l’espace du jardin, en raison de son statut hybride relevant du « club ». D’autre part, les vacants jardinés sont davantage envisagés comme des outils d’amélioration du cadre de vie et de sensibilisation à l’environnement que comme des territoires écologiques et biodiversité effectifsSince the early 2000’s, gardened vacant lands – i.e. interstitial lots characterized by obsolete land-use, temporarily taken over and vegetalised by inhabitants – have emerged in France. The regulation by municipalities of such initiatives yields an institutional construct designated as jardin partagé. Gardened vacant land constitutes a specific type of jardin partagé because they are developed on a temporary and vacant lot. The thesis addresses gardened vacant land as territorial marker of social and political processes of “producing” and “living” the contemporary city. The thesis combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies based on 48 case-studies, located in the north-eastern Île-de-France. As argued, the institutionalization of associative gardened areas is an unprecedented fact. Yet, while theses spaces are co-produced and then users are fully involved in the management of vacant gardened, they have a limited role in the decision making process. If the diffusion of institutionalized gardened vacant lands certainly reflects a political commitment, it also emphasizes the increasing profits produced by such negotiated land-use, that are instrumental for municipalities, in order to promote increased safety, enhanced political outreach, and beautification. Finally, social and environmental impacts vary depending on several conditions. On the one hand, the emergence of social bonding is limited to the space of the garden, due to its hybrid status of “club”. On the other hand, gardened vacant lands are rather understood as a toolbox, in order to enhance the quality of life, the environmental education, as well as territories dedicated to ecology and biodiversity
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Sanches, Patrícia Mara. "De áreas degradadas a espaços vegetados: potencialidades de áreas vazias, abandonadas e subutilizadas como parte da infra-estrutura verde urbana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16135/tde-05122011-100405/.
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O presente trabalho propõe uma nova estratégia de planejamento da paisagem urbana para aquisição de novas áreas verdes, através da recuperação e restauração de áreas degradadas (locais vazios, abandonados e subutilizados). A urgência de intervenção e revitalização destas áreas tem sido foco de preocupação nos grandes centros urbanos, tanto em países desenvolvidos, como nos emergentes, uma vez que são espaços disfuncionais no tecido urbano. O estado de abandono e desinteresse leva a depreciação do entorno e facilita o uso à criminalidade e atividades ilícitas. A transformação das áreas degradadas em espaços vegetados visa transformar o problema em oportunidade, partindo do princípio de que as áreas verdes devam cumprir funções infraestruturais, ou seja, ser componente de uma paisagem de alta performance, contribuindo para a criação ou ampliação da infraestrutura verde urbana. O estudo de caso para aplicação desta nova estratégia foi parte da cidade de São Bernardo do Campo, na região metropolitana de São Paulo, Brasil, cujas diminutas áreas verdes urbanas acessíveis à comunidade são cada vez mais escassas, ao mesmo tempo em que há diversas áreas vazias e abandonadas, muitas em processo de regeneração natural, que são alvos do mercado imobiliário para residências, serviços e comércio. A partir desta temática, uma série de questões foi lançada: Quais áreas degradadas têm potencial para serem convertidas em áreas verdes? Quais são os critérios para avaliação deste potencial? Qual é o caráter vocacional destas futuras áreas verdes: ambiental ou social? Essas perguntas nortearam o desenvolvimento da pesquisa em busca de uma metodologia de planejamento paisagístico para aquisição de novas áreas verdes aplicada na cidade de São Bernardo do Campo. Assim, foi desenvolvida uma ferramenta de avaliação, que se utilizou de um sistema de informação geográfico, e está pautada nos princípios de infraestrutura verde, de forma a responder às questões ecológicas, de drenagem das águas, de mobilidade, e as questões sociais de atendimento à comunidade local. Os resultados mostraram que 40% das áreas amostrais avaliadas apresentaram potencial alto de conversão em áreas verdes, outros 40%, potencial médio e 20% restante, potencial baixo, apontando um cenário favorável para a maioria das áreas degradadas. Quanto ao seu uso vocacional, 50% apresentam potencial de uso predominantemente social, 20% ambiental e 30% social e ambiental. A classificação por vocação de uso das áreas verdes (social ou ambiental) é um dado importante, uma vez que aponta áreas com potencial inferior e que não devem ser descartadas, pois tem um valor social importante. Os resultados têm por finalidade auxiliar nas tomadas de decisão preliminar do planejamento urbano ambiental, oferecendo subsídios aos profissionais da área na proposição criteriosa de novas áreas verdes urbanas.This research proposes an urban landscape planning strategy for the acquisition of new green areas, through the reclamation of vacant, derelict and underused lands. Authorities in large urban centers, both in developed and emerging countries, have been concerned in these sites, once they are dysfunctional areas in the urban fabric. The carelessness and indifference has led to depreciation of the surrounding and facilitates the increase of crime. Greening derelict, vacant and underused lands can transform a problem into an opportunity, assuming that green spaces must fulfill infrastructural functions, as part of a landscape of high performance, seeking the creation or expansion of an urban green infrastructure. The case study to apply this strategic planning approach was Sao Bernardo do Campo city, in Sao Paulo Metropolitan area, Brazil, whose the tiny accessible green areas to the community are increasingly scarce, while there are many vacant, derelict and underused lands, under natural regeneration process, that are acquired for real estate market instead of creation of new greenspaces. From this point view, a series of questions were made: Which vacant, derelict and underused lands have the potential to be reclaimed into green areas? What are the criteria to evaluate this potential? Which the main role and potential use of the green area: social or environmental use? These questions guided the research in the development of a landscape planning methodology to acquire new green areas in São Bernardo do Campo. An assessment tool, using GIS and based on green infrastructure concept was developed, so that derelict and vacant lands could meet ecological, stormwater management, mobility and social issues. The results showed that 40% of the sample sites presented high potential to reclaim into green areas, 40%, medium potential and 20%, have low potential, revealing a favorable scenario for most vacant and derelict lands. Regarding the role and use of the green area, 50% have a predominantly social potential use, 20% environmental potential use, and 30% presents both potentials. This classification (social and/or environmental) is an important point, since it identifies those areas that, despite have lower potential, should not be discarded because it has an important social value. The results should assist a preliminary environmental and urban planning decision making, offering support to professionals to insightful creation of new urban green areas.
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Dufour, Jane R. "Land Use Policy in Local Historic Districts and Incentives for Compliance in the Vieux Carré." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1143.
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The Vieux Carré in New Orleans is the second oldest locally designated historic district and serves as a prominent example of local historic preservation efforts; however, the Vieux Carré has a high vacancy rate. This thesis examines the effects of land use policy, including the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance and the design review process in the Vieux Carré, on attempts to return vacant buildings to commerce. The author examines three cases of redevelopment attempts of vacant properties in the Vieux Carré. In two of the three cases, constrictions from the Zoning Ordinance not the design review process held up the redevelopment process. The other case identified owner negligence as the cause for failure in the redevelopment attempt.
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Grande, Júnior Cláudio. "Usucapião quarentenária sobre terras do estado: fundamentos jurídicos, atualidade e repercussão na questão agrária brasileira." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2012. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5640.
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This dissertation analyzes the old quarantiner prescription on state lands, if indeed that legal institution was valid in Brazil, how and when it ceased to be accepted by the legal system, because even today it is eventually sought the recognition of such prescription, consummated before the outset of the legality of the Civil Code of 1916, and how all that affects the agrarian issue. This dissertation aims to scrutinize the original legal foundations of that old original prescription of forty years, on state assets, especially on vacant lands, without losing sight of some of its possible consequences for the agrarian issue. The hypothetical-deductive method is used for research and understanding of legal rules, alongside the historical investigation of events, processes, institutions and judgeship of the past, followed by the dialectical method to overcome points of divergence found in the bibliography search. Thus it is demonstrated how, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a legal discourse on prescriptibility of certain state assets was built, including the vacant lands. It can also explains how the legal discourse was dismantled to build the current one, which preconizes the imprescriptibility of all public property, including of the vacant lands. The results make evident how exactly the understanding set out in Summula 340 of STF was built, and its limitations, which says little about the prescription of state assets before the Civil Code of 1916. Another result is the demonstration of the impossibility of state property being usucapted in Brazil before the Land Law of 1850, which made clear that only after that the conditions for both were signed, albeit with additional difficulties for vacant lands.
Esta dissertação analisa a antiga usucapião quarentenária sobre terras do Estado, se realmente houve tal possibilidade jurídica no Brasil, como e quando deixou de ser aceita pelo sistema jurídico, porque eventualmente, ainda hoje, se busca o reconhecimento desse tipo de usucapião, consumada antes do início da vigência do Código Civil de 1916, e como tudo isso repercute para a questão agrária brasileira. A dissertação tem por objetivo perquirir os fundamentos jurídicos originais dessa antiga usucapião, de quarenta anos, sobre bens do Estado, especialmente sobre terras devolutas, sem perder de vista algumas de suas possíveis implicações para a questão agrária. O método hipotético-dedutivo é utilizado para pesquisa e compreensão das normas jurídicas, ao lado da investigação histórica de acontecimentos, processos, instituições e julgados do passado, acompanhada do método dialético, para a superação dos pontos de divergência encontrados no material bibliográfico pesquisado. Consegue-se, assim, demonstrar como, no final do século XIX e início do século XX, se construiu um discurso jurídico sobre a prescritibilidade de certos bens do Estado, inclusive as terras devolutas. Consegue-se explicar também como esse discurso jurídico foi desmontado para se construir o atual, que preconiza a imprescritibilidade de todos os bens públicos, inclusive das terras devolutas. Os resultados evidenciam como exatamente se erigiu o entendimento exposto na Súmula 340 do STF e as limitações desta, que pouco diz sobre a usucapião de bens do Estado antes do Código Civil de 1916. Outro resultado é a demonstração da impossibilidade de se usucapir imóveis do Estado, no Brasil, antes da Lei de Terras de 1850, esclarecendo-se que somente depois dela se firmaram os pressupostos necessários para tanto, ainda que com dificuldades adicionais para as terras devolutas.
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Conesa, Marc. "D'herbe, de terre et de sang : la Cerdagne du XIVe au XIXe siècle." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30039.
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Cette recherche doctorale porte sur la relation des sociétés aux territoires qu’elles construisent dans une perspective diachronique. Je fais l’hypothèse que le rapport à l’espace participe de la classification des individus en plusieurs groupes, selon la résidence, le statut familial ou la richesse en terre. Cette série ne saurait être considérée comme ni exhaustive ni ahistorique. Dans cette perspective, la Cerdagne (Pyrénées de l’Est) est apparue comme un terrain idoine compte tenu des lignes de fracture, sociale et spatiale, qui révèlent et recomposent les différents rapports à l’espace entre le XVIe et le XIXe siècle. Trois questionnements envisagés à trois échelles différentes se sont posés. À petite échelle, l’apparition d’une frontière politique au milieu du XVIIe siècle (traité des Pyrénées, 1659) modifie-t-elle les rapports à l’espace en créant un nouvel horizon étatique ? Et quelle place tient la ville de Puigcerdà dans la structuration de ces sociétés de montagne ? A l’échelle des communautés d’habitants, quels types de rapport à l’espace se noue autour de l’accès aux biens collectifs tant au niveau intercommunautaire qu’intracommunautaire ? Enfin, à grande échelle, quels rapports se créent et se recréent entre les familles, les individus et la terre dite « privée », alors que du point de vue historiographique, la Cerdagne se situe dans une aire pyrénéenne marquée par la primogéniture et l’exclusion des puînés de l’héritage foncierThis doctoral research dwells on the relationship between societies and the territories they shape within a diachronic perspective. The hypothesis at the core of this work is that the relation to space partakes of the classification of the individuals into several groups, according to localities, family status or land wealth. This list is neither to be considered exhaustive nor ahistorical. From this perspective, Cerdanya (in the Eastern Pyrenees) qualified as a terrain, given the social and spatial divides which bring to the fore and reconstruct the manifold relations to space between the 16th and 19th centuries. Three questions arise at three different scales. On a small scale, does the coming upon the political scene of a frontier in the middle of the 17th c. (with the Treaty of the Pyrenees, 1659) modify the relations to space by creating a new state, a new actor ? Then, what about the role held by the city of Puigcerdà in the shaping of these moutain societies ? On the community scale, what kinds of relations to space form when it comes to common lands as much on the intercommunal as the intracommunal level ? Lastly, on the large scale, what are the links weaving between families, individuals and the land called “private”, when, from a historiographical point of view, Cerdanya is located in a Pyrenean aera where primogeniture and the exclusion of the youngest is deeply rooted
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Yuan-HongSu and 蘇原弘. "On Vacant Land Management Policy In Tainan City." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34053378378860465541.
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Bogaski, Kathleen. "Vacant lot landscape design project We Care About Van Dyke and Seven Mile/Nortown Community Development Corporation : Landscape Architecture, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan : NRE 691: Planting Design and Vegetation Management Class, Winter Term, 1997 /." 1997. http://books.google.com/books?id=GnZRAAAAMAAJ.
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Gatner, Monique R. "Re-thinking Urban Vacancies: Strategic Re-use of Vacant Land to Establish More Sustainable Land Patterns." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3688.
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Eighty percent of the Canadian population lives in urban centres, where typical land use patterns negatively impact urban ecosystems and decrease quality of life. Current municipal Community Improvement Plans target urban vacancies for intensification efforts, which can increase fragmentation and degradation of the urban ecosystem. This project examines the urban environment: its vacancies, ecological patterns and human impacts. A strategy was derived from ecological principles aiming to design more sustainable urban landscape patterns. Applied to the Two Rivers neighbourhood in Guelph, Ontario, the strategy identified 19.5 hectares of land capable of contributing to more sustainable ecological patterns of which 12.41 hectares were brownfields. Results revealed 4.3% more high-quality land cover, in 53% more patches, 45 m closer together, but with increasing edge contrast. An area-wide strategic integration of vacant lands may provide previously unconsidered opportunities to improve urban ecological patterns and create a more sustainable urban environment.
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Tseng, Ching Min, and 曾菁敏. "Spatial Externalities Impact of development of vacant land on Residential Land Prices-Evidence from Tainan City." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56611473592387612170.
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博士國立政治大學
地政研究所
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This study mainly assumes that development of vacant land give rise to spatial externalities from the reuse of vacant land and the institution of land readjustment. Finally, this effect will be reflected in the residential land prices. To test this hypothesis, this study applies spatial econometric and geographic information systems based on hedonic pricing model. This study mainly includes that (1) The Impact of Reusing Vacant Land on Residential Land Prices, ( 2) The Impact of Reusing Vacant Land and Neighboring Land Development on Newly-Built Residential Land Prices, ( 3) The Impact of Spatial Externalities, Transaction Costs and Land Readjustment on Newly-Built Residential Land Prices, and evidence from Tainan City in Taiwan. First of all, about’ The Impact of Reusing Vacant Land on Residential Land Prices’, This study is based on Geoghegan’s theoretical model (2002) and focuses on open space effect of reusing vacant land on residential land prices. The data are selected from residential land prices in 2004, 2005. Empirically, I find that the reuse of publicly-owned vacant land used for green and park has positive spatial spillover effects. This means that spillover benefit of open space is more than spillover cost of vacant land management. The reuse of privately-owned vacant land used for sport has negative spatial spillover effects in 2004. The marginal price of publicly-owned vacant land is over than privately-owned vacant land. It is concluded that, the government should continue promoting the reuse of publicly-owned vacant land and used for open space of the neighborhood. Secondly, about’ The Impact of Reusing Vacant Land and Neighboring Land Development on Newly-Built Residential Land Prices’, This study focuses on open space effect of reusing vacant land and spatial spillover effect of neighboring land development on newly-built residential land prices. The data are selected from newly-built residence in 2004. Empirically, I find that the reuse of publicly-owned vacant land has positive spatial spillover effects on newly-built residential land prices. This means that spillover benefit of open space is more than spillover cost of vacant land management. Land development used for residence has positive spatial spillover effects and used for factory has negative spatial spillover effects in a neighborhood. This means that more the reuse of publicly-owned vacant land will increase newly-built residential land prices, while more land development used for factory will decrease newly-built residential land prices in a neighborhood. Finally, about’ The Impact of Spatial Externalities, Transaction Costs and Land Readjustment on Newly-Built Residential Land Prices’, This Study mainly assumes that land readjustment can reduce transaction costs in terms of the spatial externalities from developers’ behavior and the institution of land readjustment. This effect will be reflected in the newly-built residential land prices. To test this hypothesis, I apply spatial econometric analysis and geographic information systems based on the Box-Cox hedonic pricing model. The data are selected from newly-built residence from between 1991, 1996 and 2001. Empirically, I find that the spatial error Box-Cox model is appropriate for engaging in spatial externalities analysis. This is because the results show that land readjustment gives rise to positive spatial externalities on newly-built residential land prices and the marginal price of residential land in areas where land readjustment takes place is also positive. The effects of developers’ interactions give rise to positive spatial externalities but these change to negative spatial externalities in relation to newly-built residential land prices in the long term. It is concluded that, land readjustment as implemented by the government really does contribute to reducing uncertainty in the land development process, and also reduces transaction costs between construction practitioners and landlords.
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Tsai, Wan-Rong, and 蔡宛蓉. "The Analysis of Characteristic and Management System of Vacant Land in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42142203737717259827.
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碩士國立屏東商業技術學院
不動產經營系
94
In order to move up the quality of citizen life, there was drew up 「Kaohsiung vacant land and housing autonomy regulation」in 2005 by Kaohsiung city governmen. On the other hand, government department, through the regulation, also have the right to supervise the private and public sectors to make well use of urban land resources.It shows that, based on land policy of urban development space, different management systems among different administration districts. This research method is the artificial neural network (ANN). We survey the vacant land in Kaohsiung city. Using the ANN model classify the characteristic of the vacant land. We choose variables including: land area ,price of land ,land zoning ,land current situation. Finally, we hope to offer some index to evaluate the development of Kaohsiung city and manage the vacant land effectively. This article applies the vacant land survey data from Kaohsiung city government. Besides, the article also integrates the regulation and expert interview with my plan to compress the suitable management system and compare it with mainland China. According to the results of the empirical studies, it could provide Kaohsiung city government with the best system of urban vacant land management and the policy of urban land using which avoids the wrong allocation of land resources.
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Loreth, Larry F. "Vacant industrial land analysis in the City of Winnipeg : fiscal implications and policy alternatives." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3537.
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The determinants of industrial location decisions within a metropolitan area may have important policy implications for government at both the municipal and provincial levels. Therefore, an understanding of what underlies location decisions is essential for policy makers. In order to accomplish this goal, both demand and supply factors must be considered. Analysis of land price determinants combined with the annual absorption and existing supply of vacant industrial land will enable civic policy makers to determine how Winnipeg can effectively meet industry's present and future demands. An adequate supply of vacant 1and which exists in appropriate locations is essential to promote industrial growth within any metropolitan centre. However, industry will not be enticed to develop in locations that are unable to provide the essential ingredients for sustained industrial growth. A thorough understanding of what these ingredients are, enables government to determine why industry chooses one specific site relative to another. Effective development policy goes well beyond land development, which is premised upon the supply side of the market and merely identifies the need to ensure a significant range of locational choice and potential for different intensities and standards of development as a means of encouraging industrial growth. Maintaining a significant inventory of industrial land in all sectors of the city is but part of the answer to resolving Winnipeg's plan for future industrial growth. Market segmentation is a key element in determining how government should promote an efficient use of public resources in the field of industrial development. If the existing supply does not match demand requirements regarding locational factors then aside from increasing the supply of available industrial land in appropriate locations, two avenues of fiscal management may be pursued in an attempt to re-distribute the demand for industrial land to areas which may presently contain an excess supply of appropriate sites. Land cost reductions and property tax incentives have both been effectively used in the past by governments in order to attract industry to specific locations within municipal boundaries. can such incentives be effectively used to re-distribute the demand for industrial land in Winnipeg? The model developed within this study analyzes price determinants of industrial land and clearly identifies the influence of property taxes and zoning on the demand for such land in this city.
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QI-TONG, HUANG, and 黃啟桐. "The Study of Maintenance for Vacant Military Barracks Land –Taking Northern Areas as Examples." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rxr4ad.
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碩士中華科技大學
土木防災工程研究所在職專班
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Due to “Downsizing Case” and “Organic Law of the Ministry of National Defense”, the R.O.C. Army has been changing to Armaments Bureau, Ministry of National Defense of R.O.C. from originally managing individual Military Headquarter Divisions in order to better integrate military affairs since Jan. 01, 2006. The Ministry of National Defense overall checks military force arrangement to gradually incorporate the small barracks to the big ones under the policy of elite soldiers and also changes to the Voluntary Military Service System from original Military Conscription System in order to comply with the transformation of Military Service. It turns the urban high value land to Old Military Barracks Land Reconstruction Fund in order to improve the living standards and circumstances of soldiers and then causes a large amount of vacant military barracks land. Before the State-owned Property Law has been put into effect, the military side will still be in charge of the maintenance of land. It is essential to create the WIN-WIN situation by various mechanism and effective management under limited human resources. This thesis will analyze various ways of managing vacant military barracks land, compare the managing ways between civil division and other official divisions, and then find out the best solution by case study in order to lessen the burden of managers, decrease budget expense of official divisions, reduce the illegal occupation and burial and cultivation of military barracks land, and finally accelerate the effectiveness of handover and arrangement. According to above discussion and research, if we would like to improve the management of vacant barracks land, first of all, we should patrol more frequently, then check surrounding facilities, clean the environment regularly, carry out supportive agreement, dismantle or seal the building as soon as possible, and finally establish the patrolling pattern based on various vacant barracks land. Hopefully, this thesis can improve the vacant barracks land management more efficiently at present and for the future as well.
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Lee, Shiann-Kuen, and 李憲昆. "The discussion of the phenomenon of vacant land in residential districts in light of urban land use planning in Taiwan." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33534701025491157848.
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碩士國立成功大學
都市計劃學系碩博士班
95
We can discover very often vacant lands in residential districts in Taiwan. The existence of vacant land causes the land market unsound and become a corner full of dirt. Besides, it also represents that urban development is unbalanced if vacant lands cover huge areas and distribute disproportionately. The planning areas of residential districts have increased average 1,845 hectares every six years in Taiwan since 1980. Considering the residential district of the capacity rate 120 percent, the resident area per person, 30 square meters, it can accommodate 738,000 people, which is almost equal to the population in urban planning districts in Tainan City in 2005. In this article, we can see that the area has increased above average 150 hectares every six years since 1980 in Tainan County. Considering conservatively, the lowest level of the capacity rate in residential districts in Tainan County 150 percent, and the resident area per person 30 square meters, the areas of residential districts increasing every six years mentioned above can accommodate 78,500 people. However, the increase of actual population every six years in urban planning districts in Tainan County usually is lower than this number. If it were not so many people to use the increased area of the residential district, it was reasonable that vacant land was produced. In investigating real vacant land, most vacant land in Danei urban planning districts locates in the skirt of planning districts; vacant land is not much and small in the old town. Basically, the vacant land in the specific district around the Yongkang interchange of highway is more often seen in planning area. The amount tends to be less, and the area tends to be smaller near Yongkang city hall or Tainan city. There are still behavior of public construction and new buildings in sale, which we can tell that the construction and the trade of houses are dynamic. The city is developing. Why is there vacant land? In this article, the author explored the reason why vacant lands came out in light of urban land use planning and the game theory of land use planning by Kaiser, E. J., Godschalk, D. R. and Chapin, F. S. In game theory, there are planning rules and planning participants. Therefore, here, we examined the reasons from the perspectives of urban land use planning rule and land use planning participants in Taiwan. In planning rules, we discovered that urban land use planning has been considered separately when planning urban population and land since the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, and has been tended to plan overmuch. Taiwan’s urban had not implemented overall control for the floor area ratio until the end of 1990A.D. However, the phenomenon of vacant land was hard to be eradicated before planning. In planning participants, local faction would manipulate urban planning commission in order to make markets, government and even planners close to local faction, and left a batch of lands unused waiting for the timing to develop them to earn extravagant profits. Except the two reasons mentioned above, there are still other reasons. For example, the development of linking road and urban out of the influence under the industrial and economic policies would also lead to urban vacant land in residential districts. How to deal with these problems when facing the vacant land? In this article,” the project of improving urban planning” “the development of urban planning investigation organization”, and “vacant lands autonomous management” were proposed to expect that they can help decrease the phenomenon of vacant lands in urban residential districts.
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Chen, Hua-Ming, and 陳化明. "The Research of the Effects on Recollecting Vacant Land Tax on Stock Price of Building Trade." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55458575070392596396.
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碩士淡江大學
全球華商經營管理數位學習碩士在職專班
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The empirical results show that most of the daily average abnormal returns from 15 days before the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax to 15 days after the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax, and the average cumulated abnormal returns which are calculated from15 days before the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax are significantly negative. The average abnormal return at the day of recollecting the vacant land tax announcement made is -0.8909%. The average cumulated abnormal return from 15 days before the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax to 15 days after the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax is -8.5045%. The wealth of stockholders of 28 public listed development companies is affected by announcement of the vacant land tax recollection policy. The average abnormal return of 28 public listed development companies at the day of recollecting the vacant land tax announcement made is -0.8404%. The average cumulated abnormal return of 28 public listed development companies from 15 days before the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax to 15 days after the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax is -5.3721%. The average abnormal return of 10 public listed construction companies at the day of recollecting the vacant land tax announcement made is -1.0325%. The average cumulated abnormal return of 10 public listed construction companies from 15 days before the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax to 15 days after the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax is -17.2669%. In addition, there is no significantly different between the average abnormal return of 10 public listed construction companies and the average abnormal return of 28 public listed development companies at the day of recollecting the vacant land tax announcement made. But the average cumulated abnormal return of 10 public listed construction companies from 15 days before the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax to 15 days after the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax is significantly less than the average cumulated abnormal return of 28 public listed development companies from 15 days before the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax to 15 days after the announcement of recollecting the vacant land tax.
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Todd, Leila Fazel. "Phytoremediation: An Interim Landscape Architecture Strategy For Canadian Municipalities." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/6572.
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Many Canadian cities are faced with the challenge of contaminated lands that remain vacant due to high remediation costs. Redevelopment of these lots to green space enhances the character of our cities and improves human and environmental health. Phytoremediation, the process of treating contaminated soil and water with plants, was explored as a plausible design application towards the re-use of contaminated vacant lands. Based on an integrative literature review synthesis and a phytoremediation example, design guidelines were formulated and then applied to three Canadian municipal sites. An expert panel, including phytoremediation specialists and municipal staff involved with open space planning and development, provided an evaluation of the guidelines. The results demonstrated that the design guidelines are an appropriate foundation for the application of phytoremediation as an interim strategy for transforming contaminated lands into usable green space within Canadian municipalities.LACF (Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation), Latornell Graduate Travel Scholarship
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Feng, Yu Fen, and 馮玉芬. "Cost Benefit Analysis of Unused Public Building Renewal and Development of Vacant Public Land: The Case of Puli Township." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2hdf3z.
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碩士逢甲大學
財稅學系
104
Local governments has long suffered insufficient local funds. At the same time, there exists more and more idle public-owned assets. This thesis explores three projects executed by Puli township office , try to find out the possible ways to renew or develop low utilized public assets. We also apply the cost-benefit analysis to these cases. The first is to renew and outsource the low utilized buildings including Ren-Ai parking building and neighbor Puli West Bus Station Mall. The second is to help leasing out two vacant public lands owned by central government and creating superficies for investors. The last is a new-build columbarium building. We find that the net present value (NPV) of parking building and bus station mall is negative even the discount rate was lowered to 1.5%. Development of two vacant lands create positive NPV and both central and local governments get extra revenue. Puli Township office invested 172 million NT dollars to build Tzu-Hsiao-Tang columbarium building. We find that the NPV is very high even at a high discount rate of 3%. That makes the columbarium building a very appealing investment and that explains why many township offices in Taiwan rush to build their own columbarium buildings. However, its possible that we under-estimated the long run cost since the re-interment is unavoidable but the cost is hard to estimate. Key words: idle public buildings, columbarium building.
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CHANG, SUE-YEN, and 張書晏. "Study of The Industrial District Idle Land With The Quintuple Maintenance Fees for Public Facilities in General and Vacant Lot Tax." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b84349.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
科技法律研究所
105
In order to exempt the government to compile and check the industrial district land use benefit not clear, reduces the manufacturer to raise obtains the cost by the barrier height land the congenial behavior, in recent years the ministry of economic affairs industry bureau also positively checked the work suspension to surpass for 1 year or goes out of business the idle industrial district land and the workshop, provided the duty levy institution to cancel the factory registration condition, changed according to uses the tax rate class to draft the land tax on assessed value generally; files an accusation the tube land use using the financial labor, enhances measures and so on terms of credit, integrates “the industry to use the policy innovation plan”.Because in area land majority of all for private, therefore at present enhanced the idle land to have the cost（maintenance fees for public facilities in general） still to limit in other power and responsibility institution's coordination （vacant lot tax）, the ministry of economic affairs industry bureau further carried on the big scale with difficulty initiative processing;however, the industrial district main laws“Statute for Industrial Innovation” to lack at present with activates the correlation stipulation（vacant lot tax）. This research namely aims at compiles and checks the industrial district execution to use the activation and the actual price intermediary gathers the use the actual demand situation, refers to mainland China idle to recognize the system, according to the land development using materials and so on situation, idle reason as well as correlation explanation collects the entire flow to recognize, and coordinates the network information public idle news for promotion land effective using.
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Yang, Kuo-Chi, and 楊國基. "Financial Effect Research on the Reward Policy of Urban Vacant Lot─Taking Taiwan Sugar Corporation’s Land in Kaohsiung City for Example." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54830467196243382911.
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碩士長榮大學
土地管理與開發研究所(在職專班)
95
Driven by the traditional concept of “ The land you own lies your money”, land is viewed as a symbol of richness. We are mistaken that owning a huge expanse of land means owning a huge amount of money. We neglect that land’s value actually lies in its effective use. Taking Taiwan Sugar Corporation(TSC)(one of the state-own businesses) as an example, in recent ten years, TSC in Kaohsiung City has received approximately a hundred hectares of land after urban land readjustment and zone expropriation, and the lands are mostly left undeveloped. Every year TSC must pay not only a high amount of property tax but aperiodically has to pay land management fees. Undoubtedly, vacant lots located in the urban area will bring a big financial burden on the land owner and will also form a waste of land resources. The research aims at the problem of over supply of the urban vacant lot due to the overly-development in the urban area or the policy goes unworkable. Based on the government’s reward policy for vacant lot use, by exerting the tax avoidance strategy of saving the property tax, by means of four financial analysis methods, such as Discounted Payback Method, Benefit-Cost Ratio, Net Present Value, and Internal Rate of Return to use as the basis of the effect analysis of the vacant lot. In addition, through the establishment of the evaluation model of the vacant lot effective use, we find the best base that should be used and developed in the first order. At last, we analyze respectively the financial effects of two real cases with government rewards, one is rewarded by investing and setting up a temporary parking lot and the other is by complying with the greening project. The research tells us that the idle urban vacant lot in the pre-development stage has the need of being put for transitional use, especially the ones located in the high-priced zone. To choose and effectively use the vacant land located in the high-priced zone and to comply with the government’s reward policy to attain the goal of property tax avoidance should be a good strategy for Taiwan Sugar Corporation to deal with the problem of idle urban vacant lot.
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Lee, Man-keung. "Topics in applied microeconomics : estimating the value of commercial land and testing the efficiency of the U.S. Motor Carrier industry." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/34160.
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This thesis consists of two essays on applied microeconomics issues. The first
essay presents a hedonic price econometric model of vacant commercial land. The second
essay presents cost frontier analysis on the industry and firm's performance of the U.S.
Motor Carrier industry.
Our hedonic price econometric model includes two new developments in estimating
land values in a multicentric urban area First, two composite indexes of market
accessibility and highway accessibility are developed to account for the impacts of different
characteristics of different regional nodes on land value at a particular site. Second, we use
nonlinear least squares to estimate the decay parameters of the accessibility indexes within
the model. We found that market accessibility is the dominant land value determinant. The
estimated market accessibility decay parameter is different in value from the ones that are
commonly assumed in hedonic models. The effect of access to highway interchanges is
insignificant. Corner lots are of higher value. Finally, under Seattle's zoning policy,
zoning classification of neighborhood commercial and community commercial land does
not have significant effect on land value.
The second essay uses the stochastic cost frontiers to analyze the performance of
the U.S. motor carrier industry in the pre- and post-MCA periods. The average industry
inefficiencies were between 14 and 27 percent during studied period. Our results indicate
that the deregulation has no impact on industry efficiency. After a short adjustment period,
the average industry inefficiency in the post-MCA years falls back to its pre-MCA level of
around 14 to 16 percent. We analyzed the firm-specific inefficiencies by tobit regression.
Our result shows that union firms are 1.5 and 4 percent less efficient than non-union firms
in the pre- and post-MCA years, respectively. Firms located in the southern region are
relatively efficient and the ones in the northern regions are relatively inefficient. Our result
supports Stigler's Survivor Principle that survivor firms are relatively efficient.Graduation date: 1998
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CHEN, LI-WEI, and 陳立偉. "Factors influencing the vacant industrial land in urban planning district in Taiwan- A case study of Taichung Harbor Related Industrial Park phase 2 and 3." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6w2kte.
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碩士逢甲大學
土地管理學系
106
Compared with the projected industrial areas with well-developed mechanisms, the use efficiency of industrial land in urban planning district had always been questioned, and the issue on vacant land had become increasingly serious. At the beginning of 2015, “Industrial Land Policy Reform Program” approved by Executive Yuan also revealed that it is necessary to understand the cause of the vacant industrial land in urban planning district. In addition, why did it cause the contradiction between a lot of the vacant industrial land planted by urban plan and industrial demand? Based on this, it was necessary to comprehensively explore the critical factors influencing the vacant industrial land in urban planning district. The 3 dimensions and its 12 criteria were constructed as evaluation framework for exploring critical factors influencing the vacant industrial land in urban planning district, based on the literature review and experts and scholars involved in the industry, government and academia sector. The empirical results from the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) also indicated that the “user demand (D2)” is the most important dimension compared to other dimensions. In term of criteria, the most important are the “location conditions (C6)”, “the development uncertainty for public facilities (C5)”, “willingness of landowners (C8)”, “land price (C7)” and “development mechanism (C7)”, respectively. Then, a case study of Taichung Harbor Related Industrial Park phase 2 and 3 were also examined. Finally, this study proposed the strategies and suggestions for improving the vacant industrial land in urban planning district