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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Suburban Development"”.
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Suburbia 2124: Re-examining Suburban Development through a Contemporary Lens
Suburbia 2124 explores how suburban development will shift in a future without dependence on private automobiles. This thesis takes Hybla Valley, a site characterized by autocentric strip malls and a mobile home community, and transforms it into a pedestrian focused, densely populated, mixed-use …
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Septic regulations and suburban development patterns : an analysis based on soil data in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
… systems are fundamental elements of modern urban development. Decentralized, privately operated, on-site wastewater disposal systems have also played an important role in suburban and exurban development over the past fifty years. This research is an attempt to assess the current influence of …
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Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development
… in extent, the impacts of urbanization and suburbanization on soils are of particular concern. Despite a wide range of natural climatic and geologic conditions, several factors have driven similar patterns of land transformation and management across the United States. In particular, federal …
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Town of Airfield : creating a prototype for suburban development at the Naval Air Station site in South Weymouth
… in the United States suggests that the current suburban development model is no longer a viable option for efficiently managing growth, Because sub~lrban settle~ents , traditionally produce low-densities despIte substantial regiOnal population growth, their requirements for developable land are …
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How urban form effects sense of community: a comparative case study of a traditional neighborhood and conventional suburban development in Northern Virginia
… DC. Brambleton, a traditional neighborhood development, and Stratford, a nearby conventional suburban development, were chosen as case study communities due to their physical representation of distinct urban forms and socio-demographic characteristics. Neighborhood residents were surveyed …
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The fiscal impact of new town and suburban development: an assessment of the effects of Reston and West Springfield on Fairfax County, Virginia
… and for the Department of Housing and Urban Development are presented. Methodology for estimation of revenues and expenditures for Reston and West Springfield, criteria by which West Springfield was selected, and general descriptions of the two communities and services provided by the County …
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Neighborhood Attributes Desired by Doylestown Homeowners
Debate over land development continues to 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 …
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Holly Park: a case study in planning, architecture, and urban design: an urban alternative to suburban residential development
… to illustrate a comprehensive approach to land development. The project presented here integrates planning, architecture, and urban design, and provides a variety of housing types atypical in suburban development. It also illustrates several housing types on a specific site, utilizing the …
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Adding value : an architect's retaliation against the mortgage industry and a computational investigation into do-it-yourself design-build
… of such customization at the level of the suburban development.
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Patchwork places : regional and historical variations in suburban poverty in the United States
… populations. However, varied histories of suburban development, class and racial/ethnic divisions within and among suburbs, and widening suburban inequality all suggest that understanding suburban poverty requires moving beyond a simplified view of low-income suburbs as a uniform set. …
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Variations on Suburbia: Integrating People-Oriented Design
Suburban development in Canada has grown increasingly dense in recent decades. Despite this, however, most new subdivisions continue to follow the picturesque planning principles of their lower-density predecessors. Garages dominate looping streets of compact semis and rowhouses, producing enclaves …
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Shared landscapes : building connections in the suburbs
… to investigate this urbanistic transformation of suburban development is at the basic 'building block' of community: the micro-neighborhood of dwellings within close proximity. The thesis attempts to answer these questions: at this finer scale, how can one develop a community-oriented civic …
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Suggested policies in regard to Suburban expansion into the Urban fringe (the Constantia Village), book 1
… and analysing the problems which arise from suburban expansion into the urban fringe; and on suggesting certain policy measures which could serve as a basis for directing development in such a way as to avoid these problems. The urban fringe is recognized as the contact zone between the city …
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Open space preservation in rural residential development
Under conventional residential development practices, minimum lot sizes are established by zoning ordinances. Under these requirements, a piece of property is subdivided into as many lots as allowed. This results in suburban development where all land is committed to individually owned parcels. The …
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A framework for community design : Worcester's Main South neighborhood
… However, the current model of residential suburban development in the United States grows less affordable for many Americans, segregates private life to a realm exclusive of community and wastefully consumes material resources . While unchecked development diminishes the rural landscape, …
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Redefining Suburbia
Suburban housing is a building type and form of development that has been neglected by many architects. Architects are responsible for designing only two percent of suburban residences. This means that the profession has largely ceded the best opportunity to be relevant and useful to ordinary …
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Go Farm, Goleta: Urban Agriculture Protection for Eastern Goleta Valley
… of agricultural operations surrounded by suburban development in Santa Barbara County’s Eastern Goleta Valley: buffers between agriculture and other land uses, and agritourism. In the case of buffers, academic literature is examined to determine how effective buffers are at various tasks …
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Live the Local: Exploring the Relationship between Local News Media and Cities Undergoing Downtown Revitalization
<p>The rise in suburban development has caused many downtowns across the United States to lose residents, businesses, attractions and community engagement. City officials and planners work to create policies, designs and urban development that help to revitalize downtowns. However, how do we bring …
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Domesticating sprawl : Dearborn Michigan and the Green Moat
… of the suburb. As both the originating source of suburban development and a current scene of booming sprawl, the metropolitan region of Detroit sees the confluence of the new and the old forms of decentralized urbanism and is accordingly an excellent proving ground for new insights and proposals.
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