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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"suburban sprawl"”.
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Form in the [middle]-ground : urban/suburban sprawl in Georgia & Tennessee
… increase that has already begun. The urban and suburban land area has been expanding to create a sprawling landscape of housing developments, shopping centers, and industrial parks. Sprawl has created a sense of disorientation as the spatial growth has blurred the boundaries between the rural …
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Suburban Cleansing: An Ecological, Economical and Social Intervention in Tysons Corner Virginia
Suburban sprawl in America is destroying the environment and communities at an overwhelming rate. The rapid growth of unplanned suburban sprawl has led to increased traffic congestion, increased dependence on fossil fuels, worsening air and water pollution, lost open space and wetlands, increased …
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Knowing no boundaries : stemming the tide of urban sprawl in several southern Connecticut towns and the lessons for other strong home rule areas
… controls in each town have contributed to urban sprawl in Southern Connecticut. Additionally, the historical foundations for the absence of strong regional governmental entities in southern Connecticut were studied to provide a baseline for developing potential regional solutions to suburban …
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Describing Diversity of New Urban Developments in Austin, Texas
… of the history, causes and negative effects of suburban sprawl. The idea of new urbanism is then presented as the antithesis of suburban sprawl. Additionally, the literature surrounding issues in diversity relating to new urbanism is explored. Diversity literature is categorized by built …
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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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Planning and design guidelines for accommodating non-motorized transportation in suburban office parks
… there have been many publications that chronicle suburban sprawl and the associated health risks, pedestrian safety concerns, economic impacts, and transportation consequences. Sprawl can be defined as dispersed, automobile-dependent development typically found along roadways outside of urban …
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Inverting Suburbia
Suburban sprawl fuels the need for automobiles and is preventing cities in the United States from providing adequate places for pedestrians. Tysons Corner, Virginia is one of these sprawling cities that is a metropolitan suburb of Washington D.C. The way these cities have sprawled prevents them …
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Preserving a form : a reinterpretation of the New England farm for multi-family living
… presents a statement of dissatisfaction in the suburbanization of exurban areas. It suggests a design which respects the previous use of the land. References are drawn upon to implement the vision of a collective form in the landscape. Both formally and socially, the re-use of the farm buildings …
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A Cost Comparison of a Low Impact Development to traditional Residential Development along the South Carolina Coast
… environmental benefits through reduction in sprawl, management of stormwater runoff, and cluster development. This study compares the infrastructure costs and sale price data of an LID to 3 traditional developments along the coastal zone of South Carolina. Infrastructure costs were compiled …
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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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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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The Impact of Transit Oriented Development on the Travel Behaviors of Workers in Denver, Colorado
… polluting emissions, traffic congestion and suburban sprawl, planners encourage mixed use, densely populated areas that provide individuals with opportunities to live, work, eat and shop without necessarily having to drive private automobiles to accommodate their needs. Despite these …
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Civilizing suburbia
… the natural environment. Consequently terms like suburban sprawl have adequately been coined to describe the spreading wave of decentralized settlement that characterizes our landscape. Even though over 80% of the new homes schools and shopping facilities are now located in the suburbs, many …
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Vita Beata
… spaces. Houses built under today's urban (or suburban) sprawl paradigm often create dysfunction and disharmony in these critical relationships and subtly alienate and harass people in their daily efforts to fulfill their most fundamental human desires. Several precedents from master architects …
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Application of spatial planning strategies to achieve sustainable transport systems in rapidly urbanizing cities : a study of Abuja, Nigeria
… distances between core-city employment areas and suburban residential areas. Implicit in the Modernist Planning approach is “predict and provide” engineering solutions which skew investments in transportation towards the building and expansion of roads for addressing traffic congestion challenges. …
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The road to redevelopment: New Urbanism, nostalgia, and the process of downtown revitalization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
… Urbanism is a design methodology that condemns suburban sprawl while promoting denser, early-twentieth-century-style townscapes and urban centers, focusing on mixed land use, pedestrianism, and aesthetic and architectural continuity. Through participant observation, this ethnographic account of …
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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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Nature and the city : ecohistory and environmental planning in Philadelphia, 1681-2000
… planners have confronted the problems of suburban sprawl and decaying ghettos with visions of alternative urban ecologies that are similar to - and sometimes explicitly reference - the plans of William Penn. Challenges and practices of environmental planning in Philadelphia may thus be …
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Park it over there, buddy : an inquiry into station-area parking and transit-oriented development
… development, which has ultimately led to suburban sprawl and traffic congestion. One of the most significant choices has been and continues to be the choice between automobile infrastructure, such as parking, and human-scale development. Many small choices, made over a long time frame, …
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What is a bungalow?: redefinition and revival of an American house type
… early 20th century Americans could live the suburban ideal while taking advantage of urban amenities and infrastructure. Streetcars provided transit to jobs in the city and as the transit lines were extended, so were electricity and plumbing for bungalow developments. For the first time, the …
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