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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Suburban Landscape"”.
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Corporate icons in the suburban landscape
… this thesis will explore. But in their day, the suburban corporate centers represented the epitome of advanced thinking about corporate organization, productivity, innovation, marketing, and architecture. This thesis will focus on how these large centers came into being, how they functioned and …
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Designing a Walkable Suburban Landscape: New Urbanism and Light Rail as Methodologies
The suburban landscape is a landscape of opportunity. Historically, the suburban landscape has been a desirable place for living. Because it demands the use of automobiles, it is also a landscape undesirable for pedestrians. Optimistically, through principles of New Urbanism, walkability, and mass …
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Into a suburban landscape: a proposal of housing for the future of the American suburb
… possibility of repairing isolated and disjointed suburban development in and around American cities. We will explore how the continuous refinement of existing development might occur in just one example of a socially and functionally fragmented area of a city. A prototypical suburban housing block …
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Neighborhood perspectives on suburbia : an exploration on form, identity and meaning in the contemporary suburban landscape
… 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 communities; yet Americans continue …
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The Shape of Consent: A Commentary on Emergent Forms within Suburbia
… between the neoliberal subject and the suburban subject relative to the built environment. It argues that today's "architecture" is an integration of digital and analog worlds. The thesis articulates that American society's subjectivity is imposed by a consumer condition that is tied to …
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Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa
… the age of industrialization, stretching the suburban landscape beyond our wildest imagination, to a state of ubiquity. In the case of Iowa, this suburbanization comes at the sacrifice of the most valuable virgin agricultural land. In the midst of this vast expansion of suburban sprawl, we …
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Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa
… our attention to the negative elements of the suburban landscape, a space more often associated with the comfortable life – one filled with luscious garden lawns, large crystal blue swimming pools, double garages and domestic workers' quarters. That this domestic space has ‘protected' itself …
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High speed suburbanism: Developing transit infrastructures in a disconnected metropolis
… to reimagine our sprawling, disconnected, suburban landscapes. Since the patterns of development that automobile infrastructures have produced over the last century radically differ from the urbanisms that traditional rail systems once served, the integration of new transit systems into …
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Play-ground
… latent potential. Taking from the rubber-stamped landscape strategies of municipal playgrounds found in urban America and the rubber-stamping strategies of big-box retail which are disseminated throughout the American suburban landscape, this thesis attempts to recover the surface parking lot by …
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Tending to scalar ambiguity
As landscape architecture increasingly engages with digital technology in all aspects of design, there is a risk of overlooking the speed, distance, simplifications and finality of technological solutionism. Such tendencies of solutionism do not lend themselves to alternative and varied …
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Reprogramming the Suburbs
… Additionally, many of the low density urban and suburban residential neighborhoods which were developed en masse over the last century–so-called 'cookie-cutter' neighborhoods–fail to readily accommodate the diverse and ever-changing needs and circumstances of the people who currently inhabit …
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Toward an Age-Ready Suburbia
As America’s population ages, suburban neighborhoods face urgent challenges. Originally designed for young, car-dependent families, the suburban landscape today often presents barriers to aging in place, including poor walkability, inaccessible housing, and limited access to essential services and …
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Assessing the viability of lifestyle retail development as a traditional town center
… on the development of built space in the suburban landscape. In the latter half of the 20"' Century, the view of suburbia as the antithesis of urbanity, centerless sprawl devoid of the city's redeeming civic and community features, gained currency. Built to resemble early 20th Century main …
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Affirmatively furthering fair housing : overcoming barriers to implementation of the Westchester County, NY false claims case settlement
… federal housing policy context that shaped its suburban landscape. I then provide a detailed case study of the Westchester County False Claims lawsuit, settlement agreement, and implementation plan. Finally, I analyze barriers that the Westchester County Executive's Office will face in trying to …
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Zoning and the single-family landscape: large new houses and neighbourhood change in Vancouver
… single- family zoning (1930) was to create a suburban landscape. To appeal to European immigrants of the 1950sand Asian immigrants of the 1970s, Vancouver's east-side builders developed a distinctive large house easily converted to include one or more illegal suites. By encouraging this …
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The Big Box Bill of Rights
… one that paralleled a larger makeover of the suburban landscape in North America. This thesis asserts that the environment associated with one of these developments-the Walmart Home Office and Supercenter is under-performing the citizens of Bentonville in eight critical ways. The project seeks …
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Analysis of Drivers of Spring Alligator Hunting in Texas and Policy Implications
… carnivores that can thrive in a semi-urban and suburban landscape, contemporary management of alligators no longer fits the bill.
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The use and perception of urban green spaces through the twentieth century: a case study of the Rondebosch Common
… ideal. The post-apartheid Cape Town urban and suburban landscape is still fraught with racial and socio-economic divisions. The purpose of my research was to determine how socio-economic, political and ideological context of the Rondebosch Common, in terms of both its physical location and the …
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Nesting ecology and conservation of shrubland birds in a fragmented urbanized landscape in northeastern Illinois
… microhabitat conditions at the nest, and landscape factors. Although many studies consider avian species-specific differences, most group types of depredation/failure rather than linking specific predators to nesting success/failure and then comparing levels of success/failure to other …