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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"urban design and planning"”.
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Here there be dragons : broadcasting identity and security in the Parisian region
Here There Be Dragons (HTBD) is a podcast and new media thesis project on the ways in which fear, anxiety, and insecurity change resident perceptions of public space in cities and their use of these spaces. This season of HTBD centers the experiences of thirty-two natives, transplants, and …
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Transforming big data into knowledge : experimental techniques in dynamic visualization
… for visualizing data should be considered by urban planners and designers as an opportunity to create new modes of disseminating and communicating information. This thesis provides an overview of new visualization tools: how they are being developed and combined, their applications, and their …
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Transit-oriented development and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail : shaping urban design patterns in northern New Jersey
… the influence of a new transit system on mature urban environments. The confluence of evolving socio-economic trends, cultural travel behaviors, and existing urban contexts, is changing how cities develop. The added value of convenient transit access provides unique urban design opportunities. …
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Design for achieving strategic business objectives
… functioning as a site of personal productivity and social interaction. As such, the contemporary work environment demands a multiple functioning architectural space, for which our current understandings of process, program and even building type are insufficient. As organizations become …
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From masterplanning to adaptive planning : understanding the contemporary tools and processes for civic urban order
… is an examination of the scope of contemporary urban design and planning tools and processes which can act as alternative qualitative methodologies for the renewal of urban conditions at multiple scales through adaptive methods embracing change, stresses and shocks affecting societies and the …
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Street media : ambient messages in an urban space
… our everyday lives in cities. Manifested in bits and fragments on the surfaces of the streetscape, these media often escape our notice - tuned out as visual clutter or dismissed as unimportant. Yet, attentive viewing and analysis reveal much about the local culture of communication and expression. …
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Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans
University of Washington Abstract Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans Lisa Carolyn Davidson Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Research Professor Emeritus Fredrick Wagner Department of Urban Design and Planning This thesis examines …
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Sustainable Urbanism : an examination of environmentally responsible neighborhood developments in Europe and lessons for sustainable urban planning
… of the environmental sustainability discourse in urban design and planning. The vision of sustainable urbanism includes calls for limitations to urban growth, protection of sensitive areas, compact design, clean forms of transportation, low impact building construction, use of renewable resources, …
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Cultural construction of Jakarta : design, planning, and development in Jabotabek, 1980-1997
Jakarta's physical restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s was largely the result of choices made by a small circle of business and political elite surrounding President Suharto (1966-1998) in emulation of North American urban form. The insights of urban regime theory are useful in moderating any …
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PLACEIFY: A data-driven framework for evaluation-by-analogy in early-stage urban analysis and design
Within the field of urban design and planning, the explicit parameterization of many complex aspects of urban environments is a challenge. Specifically, the representation of ‘intangible’ experiential and affective qualities is often difficult, which makes the quantitative evaluation of such …
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Web 2.0 for urban designers & planners
The author contends that a class of new and emerging participatory Web-based tools, referred to at present as "Web 2.0," can and should be used by urban designers and planners to achieve better results in public participation exercises. A brief overview of the World Wide Web is given-how and why it …
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Urban weather generator user interface development : towards a usable tool for integrating urban heat island effect within urban design process
Urban Weather Generator (UWG) is the urban design simulation tool that provides climate-specific advice for cityscape geometry and land use to assist the development of energy-efficient cities that are also thermally comfortable. The software enables urban designers to parametrically test built …
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Deconstructing the Mississippi River : restoring a continental system through the integration of flexible infrastructure
The most prevalent social and economic issues plaguing cities are symptomatic of much bigger underlying environmental problems. Cities are governed by legislation set within artificial political boundaries, however ecology systems surpass and are not restricted by these boundaries. The decisions …
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House on the river
… an architectural concept within the framework of urban design and architectural design guidelines. House On The River is one of eight residences to be constructed in a row on a site in a proposed development adjacent to the existing Harbor Town neighborhood located on Mud Island in downtown …
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The last Levantine City : Beirut, 1830-1930
My thesis examines the urban transformation of Beirut between 1830 and 1930. Evolving from a local market city importing European goods and exporting local produce into a transit city for the re-export of European commodities, Beirut developed from a quadrilateral of thick crusader walls enclosing …
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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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Investigating the association between the built environment and active travel of young adults using location based technology
… by promoting active travel as ways to commute and recreate. A growing body of evidence indicates that certain environmental characteristics promote active lifestyles in general or promote specific kinds of physical activity such as walking or biking. However, studies have also reported …
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Drawing Participation: Histories of Geospatial Computing, Professional Silos, and Computational Potentials for Collaboration in Planning and Design
… help us synthesize, record, represent, and imagine the world. But, how can our tools for describing, representing, and designing space help us plan for an uncertain and equitable urban and ecological future? And how can we empower, include, support, and reconcile the visions of a diverse …
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Transfer of development rights as a tool for landmark conservation program at Calcutta developed through an evaluation of American programs
… States, might prove useful in Calcutta for urban conservation. ln many cases, municipal governments in India have been unable to preserve structures of historic value because they lacked the funds to compensate the Iosses imposed by designation. The owners of the Iandmark structures suffer …
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