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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Urban parks"”.
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Ecological minimalism: an approach for designing urban parks
… ports are operating extensively, and a series of parks and plazas along the riverfront provide recreational opportunities. However, the riverfront is wrought with desolation. Previous efforts to redesign Detroit’s riverfront have not been adequately forward-thinking enough to provide the …
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Transit pathways to urban parks : interventions for balancing development, preservation and accessibility
Getting people to parks and other green spaces is important. But most cities overlook parks as destinations in the name of density and commercial development. This thesis describes the symbiotic relationship between public transportation, open space and dense development, which together are the …
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Metal bioaccessibility of soils in urban parks in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick
… concentrations and bioaccessibility of metals in urban playground soils in the province of New Brunswick. Ten parks each were selected for sampling in Fredericton and Saint John, and a duplicate sample was taken from one park in each city. Metal bioaccessibility was determined by an in vitro …
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The Black Freedom Movement and community planning in urban parks in Cleveland, Ohio, 1945-1977
… Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Public parks were important urban spaces—serving as central gathering spots for surrounding neighborhoods and unifying symbols of community identity. When access to these spaces was denied or limited along lines of race, gender, sexuality, or class, parks …
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Multi-stage and multi-objective allocation procedures of urban parks using location decision support system (UPLDSS)
… areas such as playgrounds or neighborhood parks influences people's daily lives implicitly or explicitly. In spite of such contributions, however, the literature directly related to the provision of parks is quite rare. Moreover, planning around size standards for park resources, as is …
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Parkification of Disturbed Landscapes: Uncovering the Process of Transforming Post-Industrial Sites into Urban Parks at Ruseifa, Jordan
… sites simultaneously within Ruseifa city into urban public parks, namely the Pepsi Pond site, the Phosphate Ore Hills site, and the Phosphate Old Mines and Administration Building site. These transformative processes, known as "Parkification," not only represent a significant shift in how …
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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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Seremban Urban Park, Malaysia: a Preference Study
… explored how people's needs are fulfilled by urban parks, Malaysia has received very little attention from researchers. One reason for this is the fact that Malaysia has only a short public park tradition. Although folk art and stories have chronicled a long history of gardens and other parks, …
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Bioaccessibility of metals in city park soils - city of Edmonton
Urban parks are widely used by Canadians for various leisure and sporting activities with children being the most exposed to any contaminants that may occur in the soils at playgrounds. Thus, a good understanding of soil ingestion and bioaccessibility has implications for the environmental …
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Park Availability and Expenditure Effects on Crime, Poverty, Wealth and Obesity Indicators
Urban parks play an important role in cities. Lack of understanding about their effects on urban dwellers and their capacity to play a role in promoting social well-being could diminish their benefits. With population growth in cities, park managers may need to increase the quantity and quality or …
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Life after mega-events : strategically reusing legacy parks
… of acres of land, including large masses of urban space in which core activities are clustered. An analysis of urban mega-events over the past century and a half indicates that numerous host locations have converted core event grounds into large urban parks. This thesis investigates the …
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Participatory parks planning : exploring democratic design as a tool to mediate cultural conflict over neighborhood green space
… 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 interpretation of nature is often an Anglo-centric vision, influenced by Western notions of landscape and the frontier. Rarely do …
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The urban garden : Port Alliance, Texas
This thesis focuses on of three urban parks; Central Park i n New York , the Fens to Franklin Park in Boston, and Rock Creek Park in washington, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and the growth of the cities around them. Imbedded in the histories of the parks and their cities are strategies for the …
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Rus in urbe: greening the English town, 1660-1760
… ideas behind the weaving of greenery into the urban fabric, expressed in the form of parks, gardens and walks. It underlines just how important urban attitudes are and the urban environment has been in shaping our experience and perceptions of the natural world. In turn, the thesis traces the …
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Biodiversity, people, and logistics: the balancing act of urban park management
In a time when global populations are moving to urban centres, the need for adequate green spaces in towns and cities for the health of both people and nature is paramount. The management of such spaces in Ireland is idiosyncratic and requires investigation. Multiple studies have tried to quantify …
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Urban park soils metals distribution in the Victoria area, British Columbia
Surface soils in 20 urban parks in the Greater Victoria area were sampled and screened using a portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer. Bioaccessibility results indicated that human health risks were acceptable at all sites. Bioaccessibility was compared to soil properties using regression. …
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The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space
… of 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 …
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ASSESSMENT OF ACCESSIBILITY, USE BEHAVIOR, AND EQUITY OF PARKS IN A COMPACT CITY: A CASE STUDY IN SINGAPORE
As important indicators of a well-functioning urban park system, accessibility assesses the extent of park supply within reach by residents, while equity addresses whether there is disparity between park supply and residents’ demand for park services. Most studies have focused on the distributional …
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Parque Cuiá: o ponto de vista de um geógrafo para a construção de um plano de manejo.
With a disorderly urban growing, the impacts on nature and ecosystem degradation encreases, reducing opportunity for interaction between man and nature. The national policy of creating protected areas and specifically the construction of urban parks is extremely important for the conservation and …
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Designing for ecology : the ecological park
… to analyze the natural ecological merit of these parks, while reference to the literature on communicative elements of the landscape is used to analyze the pedagogic, or socio-cultural merit of these parks. Two case studies of recently built ecological parks - Xochimilco in Mexico City and Crissy …
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