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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Urban Landscapes"”.
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Infinite urban landscapes : a journey through Cambridge, Massachusetts
This study explores how the forms of urban landscapes influence and reflect physical and metaphorical journeys through a city. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the artist and researcher investigates the diverse landscapes of her native Cambridge, Massachusetts: from her own backyard to the …
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Hydro-Urbanism : Reimagining Urban Landscapes to Accommodate and Utilize Stormwater
Urban flooding presents a significant challenge to cities worldwide, resulting in loss of life and economic damage. Factors such as urbanization, climate change, and extreme weather events compound the vulnerability of urban areas to flooding, with rapid urbanization emerging as a primary driver of …
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Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction
… settings. In “Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction,” I explore the significance of Lovecraft’s topographical realism and trace its evolution through Lovecraft’s career. I argue that Lovecraft’s early fiction, the tales, that is, that he wrote from 1917 …
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Transformations of Spanish urban landscapes in the American Southwest, 1821-1900
Through an examination of changes in urban structure and building form, I will consider the continuity of historical Spanish urban form in the American Southwest. The study encompasses three phases of increasing Anglo American influence between 1821 and 1900. An analysis of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, …
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Quantifying the Potential for Non-Point Source Pollution in Model Urban Landscapes
… covers of different vegetation representative of urban areas (e.g., bare soil versus turfgrass lawns versus urban forest) influence the potential for non-point source pollution. Ambient rainfall volumes were manipulated to provide 50%, 100%, and 150% of natural precipitation to plots with …
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Discovery in flux: informing design for experience of exploratory walking in changing urban landscapes
… (United Nations 2014). Increasingly complex urban environments have been posing challenges to wayfinding — a process of negotiating and moving around unknown quarters (Lynch 1960). Wayshowing — an information design discipline (Per Mollerup 2005) — provides systematic approaches eg …
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Decarbonization strategies for North American urban landscapes: Evaluating pavements and vegetation across design typologies
Urban landscapes are increasingly recognized as critical to climate mitigation, yet remain underrepresented in carbon accounting frameworks relative to buildings and infrastructure. This thesis advances landscape carbon assessment by introducing a typology-based Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …
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Redefining Urban Landscapes: A Methodological Approach to Transforming Underused Parking Spaces with Dynamic Urban Functions
… an approach to identifying underutilized urban spaces, focusing on parking areas, and explores potential reutilization strategies in Greater Boston. Under the milieu of the information age, global urbanization, and technological development, the prosperity of urban data serves as the new …
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Representing national identity within urban landscapes: Chinese settler rule, shifting Taiwanese identity, and post-settler Taipei City
… represented in the form of the nation’s changing urban landscape. This thesis investigates that topic in the case of Taiwan, a de facto independent country with almost one hundred years’ experience of ‘colonial’ and then ‘settler’ rule. Both colonial rule and settler rule constitute an outside …
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Cultivating imperial identity: the garden city and urban landscapes in London, Calcutta and Delhi, c. 1860-1931
… in the link between horticultural space and urbanity itself in both metropole and colony. By considering the garden as imperial place-maker, I analyze how the garden was transmitted across multiple geographies and scales, foregrounding it as a modern site not just of aesthetic appeal but of …
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Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town
… Cape maintained a dynamic balance between the landscapes of society, wilderness, rural and urban. This balance was disrupted through Modernism and Apartheid planning which lead to segregated, fragmented and low-density urban landscapes. Through outdated planning policies, engineering standards …
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Process oriented infrastructure for climate-driven forest migration through cities
… a process-oriented approach to map and design urban landscapes to facilitate forest migration under climate change. The focus lies on the connectivity of urban landscapes for effective seed dispersal. Since the migration of trees is a continuing process that does not rely on their future …
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Changing urban eras in Canada: from the modern to the postmodern city
… the fields of planning, architecture and urban design) over the last two decades (1970-1990), and that new types of urban landscapes are being created, often very different than those built during the immediate post-war era (1950-1970). This shift is often described in academic literature …
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Street Art: Its Display in Public Space and Issues within a Municipality
Hip Hop graffiti has been marking our urban landscapes for decades. However street art, a much less researched topic, has claimed notoriety in recent years. Much of the existing research groups hip-hop graffiti, gang graffiti and street art together and calls for a uniform response from …
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The emergence of landscape urbanism in London: a critical landscape analysis of urban nature under the Anthropocene
… rhetoric and the contested histories of material urban landscapes. A specific set of ecological ideas underpin the field of ‘landscape urbanism’: an approach to urban design associated with a group of designers emerging from the University of Philadelphia in the 1990’s, and more recently the …
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A case for spatial planning to manage the growing threat of wildfire in New Zealand peri-urban landscapes : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University
… Fires were an expression of increasing peri-urban wildfire threat in New Zealand. Internationally, traditional response management of wildfire threat has been complemented by place-based and pre-emptive social and spatial strategies. The formal recovery plans for the Port Hills Fires …
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Responding to climate change in the design of the urban river landscape
… change has impacted negatively on both rural and urban landscapes. River corridors uniquely cross through many environments and ideally should exhibit same character wherever it crosses irrespective of adjoining land uses. However. where it crosses urban landscapes, places of intense and varied …
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COMPOST QUALITY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REMEDIATING URBAN SOILS
Poor soil health is a critical problem in many urban landscapes. Degraded soil restricts plant growth and microorganism activity, limiting the ability of urban landscapes to perform much needed ecosystem services. Amending soil with compost can increase infiltration, microbial biomass, cation …
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A Knowledge-based approach of satellite image classification for urban wetland detection
… been a technical challenge to accurately detect urban wetlands with remotely sensed data by means of pixel-based image classification. This is mainly caused by inadequate spatial resolutions of satellite imagery, spectral similarities between urban wetlands and adjacent land covers, and the …
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