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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Neighborhood Design"”.
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Neighborhood design for Cambridge
… problem of modest high-density low-rise housing design for a site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It considers first the general changes in housing demand and the housing industry which have made it necessary to re-evaluate the traditional solution of the detached single-family home in the suburbs. …
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Integrative Neighborhood Design: Enhancing Community Support for Aging Adults
This thesis explores how suburban neighborhoods can be retrofitted to better support aging in place through community-oriented design. As the aging population grows, many older adults express a desire to remain in their homes and communities; however, most suburban environments are not equipped to …
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Neighborhood design and public life : lessons from Beijing's hutong and superblocks
Beijing's Hutong, centuries-old neighborhoods composed of narrow streets and courtyard housing, are famous for harboring a tight-knit social fabric and a vibrant public realm. Over the past thirty years, large-scale redevelopment of hutong neighborhoods has occurred, and new neighborhoods in …
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Modeling metropolis : clean energy guidelines for neighborhood design in rapidly urbanizing China
… urban development is the rapid creation of whole neighborhoods instead of the conventional piecemeal approach of creating individual buildings that gradually aggregate over time into neighborhoods. China's approach is complex and fast moving, and has resulted in the highly repetitive form of …
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Towards interactive sustainable neighborhood design : combining a tangible user interface with real time building simulations
… presents new challenges for urban planners and designers. While the field of urban design tools is expanding, urban development scenarios require the input of multiple stakeholders, each with different outlooks, expertise, requirements, and preconceptions, and good urban design requires …
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The impact of urban form on older adults : focusing on neighborhood design and baby boomers' local behavior
… travel and social behavior resulting from neighborhood design. The body of the research consists of three interrelated essays: The first essay explores age-restricted neighborhoods that target persons 55 and over, providing agetargeted physical design and social services. This study aims to …
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Neighborhood design and the energy efficiency of urban lifestyle in China : treating residence and mobility as lifestyle bundle
… side. In this context, examining the role of neighborhoods is important since neighborhoods are the building blocks of China's urban growth and the neighborhoods we build now will have a long-lasting effect on households' lifestyles of energy consumption. This research uses Jinan as a context …
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Neighborhood Attributes Desired by Doylestown Homeowners
… be an issue of dissension between developers and designer. Of particular contention is the issue of neighborhood design. A sector of the design profession has developed a paradigm primarily based on neighborhood design/development of the early twentieth century. This paradigm is known as New …
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Towards Net Positive and Nearly Zero Carbon Residential Neighborhoods
… aims to enhance the high-performance solar neighborhood’s design process to achieve overall net-zero energy status, reduce the energy, and carbon footprint. The solar neighborhoods are designed by maximizing energy production from BIPV systems and minimizing building energy consumption. The …
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Simulation of household in-home and transportation energy use : an integrated behavioral model for estimating energy consumption at the neighborhood scale
… over time. Using household survey data and neighborhood form characteristics from Jinan, a mid-sized Chinese city, I explore the relationship between neighborhood design and household-level behaviors and their impact on final energy consumption. My ultimate goal is to provide the modeling …
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Negotiating the neighborhood : modeling the relationship between built environment and transit choice
… like densification, mixed land use, optimal neighborhood design and proximity to transit can reduce auto-based trips and also decrease the average number of trips per person. From the point of view of city planning, such transit oriented development can guide development, help to contain …
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Breaking the Loop: Climate-Driven Urbanism for America's Climate Migration Hubs
… flows to metropolitan development scenarios and neighborhood design interventions, this thesis offers planners, designers, and communities a framework for evaluating alternative futures that transform population growth from a spatial challenge and emissions liability into a catalyst for …
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The suburbanization of the inner city : urban housing and the pastoral ideal
… of vernacular suburban architectural and neighborhood design on new inner-city housing developments in Detroit, Michigan, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The central research hypothesis of the dissertation is that the widespread pastoral ideal of American culture is acting in concert with …
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Modeling urban energy supply schemes
… demand analysis tool to help urban planners and designers evaluate and compare schemes to satisfy the electric, heating, and cooling demands of urban areas. Current simulation tools tend to focus on either the demand- or supply-side aspect of the energy challenges cities face. Additionally, these …
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Where virtual meets reality : empowering the public with tangible and digital vision building tools
Neighborhood community organizations that strive to incorporate the public's ideas into designs and plans have needed more appropriate tools for vision sharing. This thesis described one possible approach for improving the public's ability to design, share, and evaluate alternatives. In the past, …
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Sense of Place and New Urbanism: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Place and Form
… that refers to an increasingly popular set of design tenets that draw upon traditional urban forms in the creation or redevelopment of residential communities. Although design professionals are increasingly adopting these design tenets in the creation of new communities, there is no research …
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The New Town of Williamsburg: A Study of the New Urbanism
… communities. The focus is on the Traditional Neighborhood Design concept (TND), one of the five types of New Urbanism developed in the late 1980's by architects Andre Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. The goal of this thesis is to develop the best community design concept, with a basis in the …
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Building Sustainable and Inclusive Cities: Analyzing the Impact of Planning Paradigms in the US
… the consequences of developing suburban neighborhoods using the garden city model, a historical paradigm emphasizing urban form as a key driver of neighborhood well-functioning. I develop and validate a methodology to measure the key attributes of the garden city model at scale and over …
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Participatory planning shapes a neighborhood : upgrading of Sokoura in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire
… settlement upgrading project in the Sokoura neighborhood of Aboisso in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa. This thesis examines the neighborhood design results of the Sokoura project in the context of the social, cultural and political factors and local planning processes in Cote d'Ivoire and …
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Neighborhood perspectives on suburbia : an exploration on form, identity and meaning in the contemporary suburban landscape
Urban designers, planners and social commentators have argued that the contemporary suburban landscape of isolated subdivisions, office parks, and malls is devoid of identity and meaning. Critics protest the environmental impact of suburban development patterns and the increasing fragmentation of …
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