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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Site Design"”.
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Site design for urban water management in Mexico City
… evident. In an age of shrinking public budgets, site design can offer a competitive decentralized alternative to the massive engineering projects that would otherwise be needed to meet such demand. This work deals with a set of tools that architects and planners can use to contribute to improving …
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Perceptions of web site design characteristics: A Malaysian/Australian comparison
… representing Western culture, for four Web design characteristics (atmospherics, news stories, signs, products and services), as part of the Integrated Internet Marketing model. Under controlled laboratory conditions, two groupings of thirty subjects evaluated eight Web sites in the retail …
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Microcomputer-assisted site design in landscape architecture: evaluation of selected commercial software
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1985 H33
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Microcomputer-assisted site design in landscape architecture: evaluation of selected commercial software
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1985 H33
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Urban Open Space Design for the Chinese Floating Population Community: Planning and Site Design Guidelines
… reviews were used to develop open space design guidelines specific to government sponsored floating population settlement areas. Planning and site design level design guidelines address social and health benefits for the floating population residents. Types of open space and their spatial …
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Web site design, e-collaboration and e-business for a low-volume and high-mix business
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2001.
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Designing density : building form and site design for contextually appropriate multi-family housing in Boston's inner-ring suburbs
… in order to understand how dense housing can be designed in ways that are contextually appropriate for these existing urban settings. The particular design elements include: building form and massing, architectural details, open space and landscaping, and parking/transportation/access. The main …
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A Site Planning and Design Process for Antiterrorism Practices
… will target and attack public and private sites has mandated increased security presence. The initial response was to surround sensitive facilities with barriers and guards. Thus, the images of these sites intended to be publicly open and welcoming are being transformed to seemingly modern …
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An investigation of success metrics for the design of e-commerce Web sites.
The majority of Web site design literature mainly concentrates on the technical and functional aspects of Web site design. There is a definite lack of literature, in the IS field, that concentrates on the visual and aesthetic aspects of Web design. Preliminary research into the relationship between …
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An eCommerce platform for customized page design and content delivery
As eCommerce becomes more prevalent, good site design that can cater to users with different backgrounds and experience becomes increasingly important. While many web based applications provide customized content, these systems do not adapt and provide a customized user experience as one navigates …
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Contextualising the Muizenberg Civic Centre: an investigation into urban and environmental integration
… practice of adaptive reuse to articulate a design that allows the Muizenberg Civic Centre to seamlessly integrate into both its surrounding urban and natural context. This is achieved by first understanding its physical, social and architectural context before analysing the opportunities and …
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Lost Lake Park: Perceiving Site History through a Recreation Landscape on Lake Union
This thesis project is an adaptation of a site on one of Seattle's former working waterfronts, Lake Union. Located on the lake's eastern shore, the site was recently vacated, providing an opportunity to create a path and destination that enhances the connection of the site to the water and its …
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Open space preservation in rural residential development
… of criteria that are fundamental to open space design. Concerns for developers, planners, and homeowners in response to the open space preservation movement are identified and addressed. In addition, the three major alternative development approaches, in which the preservation of open space is a …
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Split-flow Stormwater Management Strategy Design Feasibility and Cost Comparison
… stormwater management strategy and compares its site design feasibility and construction cost to existing stormwater management methods. The purpose of the split-flow strategy is to manage stormwater by preserving predevelopment flows in terms of rate, quality, frequency, duration and volume. …
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Understanding the Role of Planning in a Case Study of the Amish Community in Webster County, Missouri
… such as zoning, subdivision regulations, and site design review are some of the main tools available to implement comprehensive planning. This thesis provides recommendations for addressing the issues that arise when the Amish live among non-Amish.
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People-Centered Planning: A Case Study in Virtual Participatory Design with Chicago Residents
… members themselves through participatory design. Amid the stay-at-home orders of the COVID-19 pandemic, I explore how digital tools expand the role of citizen-designers in planning’s engagement processes. Partnering with a community development center in West Humboldt Park, Chicago, we …
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A development strategy for connecting first-world consumers to third-world producers : integrating value chain transparency into E-commerce design
… value chain transparency into Ecommerce site design and makes preliminary findings of the positive influence this strategy has on consumer buying behavior. The design and implementation of integrating value chain information within an E-commerce site is demonstrated through the …
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Design projections for a commuter ferry terminal and commercial pier in Portland, Maine's historic urban waterfront
The work is based on a design project: to connect the grid urban form, and its associated buildings, and their uses, to the larger Maine (natural) landscape, and its forms. These two contextual categories will strongly influence the evolution of the pier site design and ferry terminal design. This …
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The Landscape of Impact: Creating a New Design Framework for Targeted Project Outcomes Through a Practice Based Approach to Research
… this research was to explore the potential for design to achieve wide-ranging, positive impacts in targeted and measurable ways. An increasing number of studies indicates that the built environment plays a substantial role in public health and well-being, yet even fundamental human needs such as …
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