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Showing 1 to 20 of 535 for “"urban design"”.
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Orizaba Urban Design Plan
The site area for the Orizaba Design District is located in central Long Beach, California. Historically the physical development of the area has been heavily influenced by the existence of the Pacific Electric Railroad, which has a right-of-way running diagonally through the site. With the …
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Citywide urban design policies
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Bikebump : collective urban design
Present urban planning issues require to involve the public in the urban design process, and this slow and complicated process remains the primary domain of expert planners and consultants. Although there have been many attempts to leverage new mobile tools to engage the community. These tools …
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Recursive relational urban design
This thesis proposes a methodology for the act of urban design that is recursive and centered around explicit relational operations, enabled by taking advantage of computation and parametric techniques. It contains iterative experiments aimed to explore and discover the feasibility and potential of …
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Lightweight structures in urban design
… of the world in which one creates. The designers of lightweight architecture believe in a world not of specialization and analysis, but of creation and adaption, an ecological view of the world. Because the process of creation is more important that the resultant form, the syntactics of …
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A rationale for urban design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1967. M.Arch.
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Sustainable urban design in China
… climatically and environmentally responsive design, recyclable materials, and so on. Though sustainable architecture must certainly be about many, if not all of these things, my thesis proposes a much more familiar architectural response. Namely, I argue that the design of spaces that …
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The values of urban design - spatial models
Urban network morphometrics (UNeMos) is a research technique and a design decision aid in urban design. UNeMOS are network science-based configurational metrics of urban morphology that can inform urban designing decision-making, helping designers to discriminate between different 2D and 3D design …
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The role of smell in urban design
The dominance of sight in built environmental design and management is well documented with smell overlooked by built environment professionals, considered of primarily negative influence upon experience and perception. However odour has special characteristics, retained in memory longer than …
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The urban design of distributed energy resources
… and 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 …
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Redefining urban design through public-private partnerships
… with a search for an expanded framework of urban design and an observation on the way projects were implemented and how downtowns revitalize themselves. The search showed that the expanded framework of urban design should be thought of as both a product and a process. As a product, urban …
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Visual interactive urban design in commemorative public spaces
… application of the "digital landscape" in the design of memorial spaces. The framework of the thesis includes three aspects. First, it explores the definition of traditional public memorials, and their implementation techniques, systems, and materials; A second investigation seeks to understand …
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The resilience of urban design to pluvial flood
Resilient urban design has become an essential concern for cities needing to withstand the increasing number of natural and human-induced disasters. Yet cities and their infrastructures are becoming more vulnerable and threatened as flood protection measurements are still following the same line of …
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Reimagining Gaborone main mall: precinct urban design framework
… seen as heritage ground. Studies have shown that urban design interventions that preserve the local character of urban space are essential for successful urban regeneration. Through precedent studies, interviews, observations, and analysis of site data, this project developed an urban design …
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Designing with data : collective intelligence in urban design
… methods have given rise to a new form of urbanism: networked urbanism. Our current output of data is roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes a day. Ninety percent of the world's data has been created in the last two years alone. As cities compete for "smart city" status, myriad sensors are installed …
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Imagine Pershing Square : experiments in cinematic urban design
Each person experiences urban space through the shifting narratives of his or her own cultural, economic and environmental perceptions. Yet within dominant urban design paradigms, many of these perceptions never make it into the public meeting, nor onto the abstract maps and renderings that …
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Future Earth Catalog : urban design in climate change
What is the agency of urban planning and design in climate change? This project explores new ways of engaging with the environmental narrative of our time. I present Future Earth Catalog as six representations of the same body of research, spanning a spectrum from academic thesis to media object, …
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Excavating L.A. : urban design futures of new transit
… challenge LAs low density, horizontal, suburban form to fold inward and build upon itself in new ways and the city has embraced transit oriented development (TOD) as a strategy for accommodating this new growth at higher densities. This moment provides a unique opportunity for architects, …
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Toward a Convergent Evidence-Based Urban Design Approach
Urban designers do not typically include research or evidence in practice, though the need for an evidence-based approach is becoming increasingly apparent. The way our built environment is constructed affects our health, well-being, and sense of place, as prior research has uncovered. …
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An urban design and development plan for Mission Hill.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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