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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Park Design"”.
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Intersections of community, traditional knowledge, and place: a park design for the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians
… is to examine ways in which the landscape can be designed to convey La Jolla cultural practices and provide a means for transmitting traditional knowledge. I have engaged with La Jolla tribal members, the La Jolla Environmental Protection Office, the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation …
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Examining the Relationship Between Park Design and Children's Park Use and Play Behaviours in London, Ontario using Behaviour Mapping
Parks can offer an optimal play environment for supporting childhood development by encouraging the engagement of adventurous and diverse play. This study examines how park design influences children’s park use and play behaviours with the aim of identifying what features can be improved to better …
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Ordering the land : urban metaphors for a park in Cairo
This study proposes a method for the design of a contemporary urban park on the eastern edge of the Old City in Cairo. Precedents in park design are briefly explored with a focus on the relation of the park to the city. The urban fabric of the Old City is analyzed in detail to extract metaphors, …
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Analysis and evaluation of passive solar application for mobile home manufactured housing
… solar efficiency and reduce energy waste. Design factors which effect the adaptation of solar energy to a typical MH unit include: solar access, types of of solar utilization, energy storage, lot orientation, general climatic relationships and MH park design. The paper will conclude with a …
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Design investigation of the Lake Calumet Complex: improving water quality to regenerate local industrial, community, and ecosystem resources
This design thesis is an inquiry of the highly industrialized urban landscape of the Lake Calumet Complex on the South Side of the City of Chicago. It examines geologic and anthropogenic strata within this region as waste used for staging various social, industrial, and ecological systems. Today, …
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The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space
… American society. One of those aspects was urban parks. In the latter half of the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted led a nationwide implementation of "Victorian" parks. These parks featured broad expanses of turf, waterways, and trees. Olmsted and the other Victorian park leaders designed …
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Choreographing a Greenway: Exploring Experiential Diversity Through Choreographic Dance Principles
Successful parks provide a rich assortment of experiences that stimulate the body, senses, and emotions. Another way to describe this quality is the term experiential diversity. While experiential diversity is rarely addressed explicitly in typical greenway designs, its implementation is vitally …
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Temperature and dynamic form in contemporary hardscape environments
… express seasonality in hardscape environmental design. Four contemporary designed landscapes (Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Theater Square, and Seattle Freeway Park) were selected for investigation on the basis of their predominant use of hardscape …
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Designing for ecology : the ecological park
This thesis aims to define a) what an ecological park is, and b) whether it is a new model in park design. Reference to the literature on landscape ecology is used to analyze the natural ecological merit of these parks, while reference to the literature on communicative elements of the landscape is …
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Developing Inclusive Community Gathering Places Through Socially Driven Design Strategies
… this thesis identifies ways in which urban park spaces can promote social interaction between different cultural groups and how these methods can then be used to develop a community gathering place that is welcoming to all. This thesis has developed a unique Social Space Organizational Model …
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How to Incorporate Accessibility into Theme Parks
… on the topic of inclusive opportunities in theme parks for people with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to explore design and operating dissonance that exists between entertainment industry businesses, specifically theme parks, and those guests that are disabled and discuss how that …
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Participatory parks planning : exploring democratic design as a tool to mediate cultural conflict over neighborhood green space
America's park history has largely been a story of the commodification and representation of nature, from the idyllic naturescapes of the mid-nineteenth century to the reform parks and playgrounds of the City Beautiful era. Not until this century, however, has it become clear that this …
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Urban ideograms
… commentaries, various architectural examples of park design, psychoanalytical texts that aim towards an understanding of traumatic experience, and a physical site that is the Boston Artery Strip. A central notion of this thesis is that of Ideogram, as understood in the work of Henri Michaux. The …
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Using Open Space Design and Water Harvesting as a Strategy to Bring Hydrological and Social Benefits to Dense Cities
… of impervious surfaces like rooftops, roads and parking lots in dense cities would block the natural hydrological infiltration process and increasing flooding threats. The goal of this study is finding solutions for meeting the nonpotable water use demand by applying water harvesting while also …
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Urban Landscape Design for Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity of Young Seniors: A Study of Shopping-Mall-Plazas in Central Beijing
… and plazas, in front of shopping malls are not designed as activity spaces; they are edges and residual spaces left over after planning. Although shopping mall plazas are ‘designed’ interstitial spaces with regard to their physical characteristics (for example between road and building), from …
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Localising the global goal of inclusive public parks in New Zealand : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Planning at Lincoln University
Public parks provide a free opportunity for people to recreate and socialise in a green open space, which is especially beneficial in light of changing housing patterns often lessening the amount of green space privately available to people. However, with people’s needs and preferences differing, …