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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"neighborhood scale"”.
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Spatial-temporal neighborhood-scale urban water demand estimation
… to estimate water demand at high spatial (e.g., neighborhood-scale) and temporal (e.g., one-hour) resolutions for any municipal water distribution system in the U.S. using publically available data. The demand estimation method was implemented as an ArcGIS ArcMap extension. The proposed demand …
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Citizen implementation of sustainability measures at the neighborhood scale
… impact on the sustainability of cities at the neighborhood scale. This is the scale that people relate to spatially, economically, and socially. It is also a scale that tends to be left out in sustainability planning as governments focus on the level of cities or regions, and individuals focus …
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Multivariate optimization of neighborhood scale problems for economic, environmental, and social sustainability
… architectural problem. The method is tested on a neighborhood-scale mega-development. This scale of built environment intervention falls between the building scale work of architects and the city scale of urban designers and geographers. The selected design intervention is in Chicago, Illinois …
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Decarbonization at the Neighborhood Scale: Challenges, Learnings and Opportunities in an Emerging Model
… improvements and new electric appliances. Neighborhood-scale building decarbonization has been proposed as an alternative in which new developments would be built allelectric or existing buildings would be electrified at the block or neighborhood scale. In the latter use case, …
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Community-based social marketing at the neighborhood scale : sustainable behavior or neighborhood sustainability?
… In this thesis, I explore the use of CBSM at the neighborhood scale: first, to encourage the uptake of rain barrels and rain gardens; and second, to advance long-term sustainability as defined in the sustainable communities literature. My research focuses on the potential opportunities and …
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Predicting velocities and turbulent exchange in isolated street canyons and at a neighborhood scale
… the impact of early design phase iterations of neighborhood layout on the microclimate. Specifically, this model should be able to predict the expected urban heat island intensity and the locations in neighborhood layouts that are prone to pollutant retention. Current models are inadequate for …
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Linking land use and transportation : measuring the impact of neighborhood-scale spatial patterns on travel behavior
… their linkage. This study examines in detail the neighborhood characteristics that affect travel behavior. Neighborhood characteristics include land use, network and accessibility related characteristics which are quantified through the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Ultimately, …
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Simulation of household in-home and transportation energy use : an integrated behavioral model for estimating energy consumption at the neighborhood scale
… over time. Using household survey data and neighborhood form characteristics from Jinan, a mid-sized Chinese city, I explore the relationship between neighborhood design and household-level behaviors and their impact on final energy consumption. My ultimate goal is to provide the modeling …
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The urban design of distributed energy resources
… distribution infrastructure, range from urban to neighborhood scale. In optimizing neighborhood scale DERs, one of the many design decisions is a desirable mix of building types to balance energy demand through daily and annual cycles. However, real estate development drives use-mix primarily …
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Modeling metropolis : clean energy guidelines for neighborhood design in rapidly urbanizing China
… urban development is the rapid creation of whole neighborhoods instead of the conventional piecemeal approach of creating individual buildings that gradually aggregate over time into neighborhoods. China's approach is complex and fast moving, and has resulted in the highly repetitive form of …
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Design(ing) strategies for a sustainable and resilient coastal beachfront community
… 2010), of applied examples, and of recognizable scale to which stakeholders can relate (Cowley, Gough 2009). The primary objective of this thesis is to offer guidance to the stakeholders in coastal beachfront communities about how to address environmental and socio-economic factors synthetically. …
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The form of clean energy neighborhoods : how it is guided and how it could be
… about "clean energy" are either at the building scale or the regional scale and little touches the real estate development scale, or in other words the neighborhood scale. The research project "Making the 'Clean Energy City' in China" - funded by Energy Foundation, China - is the first attempt to …
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ALL AT ONCE : integrating sustainability into arts-focused neighborhood development in a hot real Estate market
… these same cities are also attempting to promote neighborhood-scale arts-oriented development for that same purpose. In this research, I explore whether and how cities with both rapidly intensifying real estate markets and a growing creative economy promote neighborhood-scale arts-oriented …
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Quantifying exchange processes in the urban canopy layers of dense neighborhoods
… design. Dense, repetitive, orthogonally-gridded neighborhood layouts are common in urban areas and are selected as the subject of analysis. Using dimensional reasoning, the relevant geometric parameters, including the dimensions of the city block as well as the spacing between blocks, are …
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Can sustainability be local? : an examination of neighborhood sustainability assessment in Denver, Colorado
… sustainability are increasingly turning to the neighborhood scale (Luederitz, Lang, and von Wehrden 2013). This attention to the neighborhood has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) standards, which evaluate neighborhoods against …
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Making Place for Arts & Culture: how arts & culture play into interdisciplinary strategies for community development without displacement
… in the context of community development at a neighborhood scale. Specifically, it asks: how might arts and culture interventions be used as part of interdisciplinary strategies to bolster marginalized communities dealing with systemic disinvestment without exacerbating development induced …
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Application of a Mobile Flux Lab for the Atmospheric Measurement of Emissions (FLAME)
… concentrations in multiple locations at the neighborhood scale can provide much greater spatial resolution for population exposure assessments. The lab's mobility allows it to target specific sources, and plumes from these can be analyzed to determine emission factors. Through eddy …
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Connected distribution : planning Boston for the future worker
… of co-working as an urban device. On a regional scale this proposal looks at under-utilized areas within Boston that could be developed with distributed work in mind. On a neighborhood scale, the project speculates on how productive overlaps between a neighborhood co-working space and public …
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Infrastructure as a vehicle for community building : an urban design strategy for Iztapalapa, Mexico City
… water infrastructures implemented at the neighborhood scale, that engage directly with dominant institutional arrangements - namely, the complicated relationship between local government and social organizations representing the needs of informal settlements. The proposal articulates x) a …
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