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蔡錦龍 and Kam-lung Franky Choi. "Re-generation of the city hub in Central: intermingle of old and new urban developments for year 2030." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894963.
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Hultgren, Julia. "Översvämningar i Umeå och hur kommunen hanterar dagvatten i planeringen." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185354.
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ABSTRACT: Umeå has had its troubles with flooding over the years. This study aims to describe and analyze flooding and stormwater management in the municipality of Umeå in Sweden. How the municipality is handling the responsibility to minimize the risk of flooding in problem areas and how they are planning to prevent flooding with stormwater management methods in both old and new districts of the city. With information gathered from the municipality itself and from other reports and websites of worth, I have compared the results I’ve gotten partly from my own field visits in the areas that are being planned for changes and partly from other reports. With that said, this study is a descriptive study with a focus on comparisons.
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Tam, Kwok-leung. "Planning for o\escence in old industrial areas : can industrial/office building reverse the trend /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19131616.
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Lui, Tat-man Frankie. "A new consumer place the transformed H.K. streetscape /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31984071.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes special report study entitled : Hong Kong mass culture : objects, places and event. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
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Schupbach, Jason. "Artists downtown : capitalizing on arts districts in New England." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/31109.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168).
From the construction of the Bilbao Guggenheim to the support of grassroots artist housing campaigns, urban planners increasingly look to artists and cultural activity as forces of urban regeneration. In New England, the most visible of these redevelopment efforts are so-called "arts districts." Arts districts seek to promote the revitalization of downtowns or blighted neighborhoods by capitalizing on the development of arts activity and the recruitment of artists. This thesis investigates four such districts (Providence RI, Pawtucket RI, Worcester MA, and New Bedford MA) in order to answer whether or not arts districts are a feasible strategy to achieve economic and community revitalization, and identify the ways in which artists can be proactively involved in the urban regeneration process. Can arts districts be engineered to be successful? The thesis begins by critiquing the theory behind culture as a force of urban regeneration; it then examines how artists live their lives in the city. Also, it analyzes the history of cultural districts to frame the current efforts in New England. For each of these cases a set of defining characteristics is analyzed. The analysis of these case studies led to several important conclusions. City officials utilize many different models for arts districts, and because of this all arts districts are not the same. Clear, professional management of a district is imperative to accomplishing local goals. Three different types of artists emerged: "visionary," "participant" and "private" artists, each with a different relationship to planning efforts and each with a contribution to make. The cases revealed a need to find a balance between cultural consumption and cultural production in a district. Finally, in addition to any economic success that a district might enjoy on its own terms, an additional benefit is often the creation of a cultural coalition better able to engage with a city around development efforts. Arts districts can be engineered; but success is relative - it depends to a large extent on local conditions. For cities considering creating a district, this thesis presents 11 propositions to keep in mind. Finally, the question of whether or not capitalizing on arts districts is a good idea is broached. For certain locales, they are, but they should be considered as only one movement in the complex symphony of urban revitalization.
by Jason S. Schupbach.
M.C.P.
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Lee, Helen, and 李麗芳. "New towns in old places: rethinking the new town development strategy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31260299.
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Sylvester, Kathleen R. (Kathleen Rynn). "New priorities for old roads : re-thinking roadway preservation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50120.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009."June 2009."
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Most of the roads built over the last century in the US were built assuming that efficient mobility for drivers was most important without considering impacts to the natural or built environment. Urban neighborhoods were severed, ecologically sensitive areas were disrupted, and pedestrian, bicycle and transit accommodation was ignored. Public offense at this approach to road-building led to new policies and practices for more open, locally-based decision-making. Road construction is now subject to a higher level of scrutiny, yet investment is preserving existing roads is assumed with little public discussion even though preservation represents the majority of transportation expenditures. As public priorities shift toward favoring sustainable development and transforming out of auto-dependency, road preservation can be either a barrier or an opportunity. This study examines whether and how road preservation investments support these new priorities. I use the Maryland State Highway Administration (MSHA) as a case study. As a national leader in context-sensitive solutions and in commitment to sustainable development, MSHA is expected to exhibit innovative use of system preservation expenditures to support local plans for more balanced, less auto-intensive transportation systems. I find that rather than integrate context -sensitivity and sustainability into all transportation programs, Asset Management-based preservation programs focus almost exclusively on cost-efficiency while alternate programs are created to address broader concerns.
(cont.) Policies for context-sensitive solutions, flexible transportation investment, and sustainable development have little bearing on Asset Management -based preservation investments. MSHA's Neighborhood Conservation program offers a good model for locally-based, flexible preservation investment, though the fund has been susceptible to budget cuts. Asset Management systems are an important tool for managing risk and cost associated with an aging transportation system. However, as reliance on Asset Management-based investment grows, the narrow scope of these projects will undermine commitment to responsive, sustainable transportation investment. The decision-making process for these investments should be supplemented through small-area preservation planning, incentive funds for preservation project enhancements, and performance measures that focus investment on broad transportation goals in order to achieve reduced auto-dependency and transportation investment that supports public priorities.
by Kathleen R. Sylvester.
M.C.P.
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Yeung, Chun-ho Leslie, and 楊俊豪. "A new urban typology for the old Tsim Sha Tsui." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31986213.
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Lui, Tat-man Frankie, and 呂達文. "A new consumer place: the transformed H.K. streetscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984071.
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McCarley, William J. "Assessing neighborhoods, districts, and corridors : a method for applying selected new urbanist principles to infill situations." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221282.
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This research proposes to determine the ten major social and psychological needs of a neighborhood scale community, and develop an assessment model that will provide designers and developers with insight into which New Urbanist principles should be applied, and to what extent application should occur, to better address the community's social and psychological needs.Failure of designers to consider adequately the psychological and social needs of groups of individuals has brought about consequences detrimental to the long-term livelihood of communities. The inability of a community to meet the needs of its inhabitants creates a state of discontent and "disconnect" among residents, thereby encouraging residents to leave their current community and relocate (sprawl) elsewhere in order to try and attain satisfaction. Attempts at addressing the discontent often focus on improving "quality of life" through the inclusion of open space, pedestrian-oriented streets, and other amenities. Often times, these physical design solutions gloss over, or ignore entirely, the community's psychological and social needs.Social and psychological factors are integral to a community's well being. According to the concepts of holism and wellness, "health" is gauged by how well individuals measure up in all dimensions of needs: physical, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual, and spiritual. (Robbins, Powers, and Burgess 1991) From the reverse perspective, individuals who have deficiencies in one or more dimensions can be considered "unhealthy." The wellness concept carries over from the individual to our built environments: communities that fail to inclusively meet the needs of their residents can be considered "unhealthy," or incomplete, from a wellness perspective.To remedy the incompleteness, designers and developers must focus on quality infill development that addresses deficiencies in a community, thereby bringing the community closer to a wellness balance. Effective evaluation and appropriate application of proposed infill developments are critical to the suitability of the solutions. In short, only by carefully considering the problems in our communities will designers and developers generate appropriate solutions that set our existing communities along the path to health, and solve the linked problems of disconnect, placelessness, and sprawl.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Tan, Bryant. "New housing in old Chinatown : barriers and incentives to affordable housing development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44346.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-112).
In the 1970s and 80s, the rapid development of San Francisco's Financial District encroached upon Chinatown's intimately-scaled neighborhood. Developers took whole city blocks that housed low-income immigrants to build the glass and steel office towers that define the city's current skyline. In response, the Chinatown community organized to downzone the neighborhood, which effectively froze the neighborhood from any further development. Today, the continual influx of immigrants who are dependent on Chinatown's services demand greater affordable housing in the neighborhood. As affordable housing becomes scarcer citywide and as Chinatown's building stock ages, neighborhood leaders want to know how to meet the high need for well-maintained affordable housing within the neighborhood. This thesis will examine the barriers that prevent affordable housing development in San Francisco's Chinatown. While affordable housing is a citywide issue not limited to Chinatown, the city's efforts have been targeted at redevelopment of outlying and industrial parts of the city rather than within existing neighborhoods. Special neighborhood zoning, cultural values of residents and property owners, intra-community politics, and its particular history make the development a highly contested issue. I will argue that the neighborhood's zoning (including bulk limits and inclusionary requirements) has been too restrictive to develop viable affordable housing in Chinatown and will propose rezoning as one mechanism for affordable housing development.
(cont) I will further illustrate the impacts of zoning changes in height and density on the neighborhood's urban form. The thesis will also provide insight into incentives and partnerships with public and financial institutions that can motivate long-time property owners to rehabilitate or redevelop their properties. My conclusions and proposals will be informed by key informant interviews with current property owners, residents, community organizers, and city officials in Chinatown and San Francisco. My hope is that by examining Chinatown as a case study and developing regulatory and economic strategies to encourage affordable housing development, it will also serve as a resource for other low-income built-out urban neighborhoods.
by Bryant Tan.
M.C.P.
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Tsoi, Pik-chi. "Preparing ESL teachers for change assimilating new beliefs into the old /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31963535.
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Ng, Pik-kei Ilona, and 吳碧琪. "Old heritage & new desires in Lee Tung Street." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985981.
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Aras, Miroglu Ebru. "The Transformation Of Urban Space At The Conjunction Of The Old And New Districts: The City Of Aleppo." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605840/index.pdf.
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The urban space is subjected to countless transformations depending on multiple reasons such as urban planning decisions, the administrative system and regulations. In this context, the aim of this thesis is to reveal the spatial transformation of an urban area at the conjunction of the old and new districts of a historical city. A morphological analysis method depending on quantitative and qualitative chaarcteristics will be utilized to understand its changing spatiality.
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Miroğlu, Ebru Aras Supervisor :. Sargın Güven Arif. "The transformation of urban space at the conjunction of the old and new districts : the city of Aleppo." Ankara : METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605840/index.pdf.
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Martin, Sophie C. (Sophie Christina). "Old standbys, new standards : evaluating LEED-ND through existing models of green urbanism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44332.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152).
The U.S. Green Building Council, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources Defense Council are currently developing a rating system aimed at evaluating the environmental sustainability of new neighborhood developments. The system, known as LEEDND (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Developments), will be the first comprehensive set of planning and design standards that has the potential for widespread adoption by the development industry. In the absence of a set of standards like these, planners and developers have traditionally looked to older communities that exhibit well-regarded environmental design as models. Because LEED-ND has the potential to supplant these example as a model for guiding future environmental planning and design endeavors, the extent to which LEED-ND captures the values manifested in earlier models should be evaluated. This thesis applies the LEED-ND standards retroactively to three existing communities that the planning and development professions have held up as good examples of environmentally sensitive design. Rather than using the new rating system to evaluate the developments, the developments themselves are used to evaluate LEED-ND and the degree to which it reflects the goals of traditional ecological planning. While the case studies each score high enough to be considered "LEED Certified" (on a modified version of the LEED-ND standards), they all follow a pattern of poor performance on several credits related to smart growth and New Urbanist design ideals. These points indicate areas in which the environmental values of the planning profession have changed over time, and how these values may manifest themselves in the physical design of the built environment.
(cont.) The final analysis addresses the challenges of developing systems for evaluating and ranking development projects and how LEED-ND could be adapted to encourage environmentally sustainable design across the spectrum of urban to rural neighborhood development.
by Sophie C. Martin.
M.C.P.
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Ramanujam, Nandini. "Price mechanism in Russia : its role in the old planning and new markets." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320928.
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Choi, Kam-lung Franky. "Re-generation of the city hub in Central : intermingle of old and new urban developments for year 2030 /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25247669.
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Ferraz, de Abreu Pedro Manuel Barbosa. "New information technologies in public participation : a challenge to old decision-making institutional frameworks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8521.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.Page 520 blank.
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Given the progress in information technology (IT) in the past 30 years, I hypothesized that new conditions exist for considerable improvements in public participation in decision-making. In order to test my hypothesis, I developed a prototype of an Intelligent Multimedia System to support public and technical consultation and, together with Internet-based collaborative tools, introduced it in the environmental impact assessment review process, for the solid urban waste incinerator of S. Joao da Talha, Portugal. Supported by the evidence gathered from this experiment and by my analysis of the qualitative jump these IT developments represent, I argue that it is possible to use this new IT to capture and represent meaningful planning knowledge and with it enable multiple improvements in the public consultation, both qualitatively and quantitatively. On the other hand, observing the institutional responses and constraints during the process, my findings strongly suggest that the current institutional and regulatory context, inherited from old frameworks, is an impediment to fully set in place the improvements enabled by these IT developments.
(cont.) In other words, the decision-making institutional framework has not evolved at a pace fast enough to provide adequate responses to the challenges brought by the new IT. My findings also illustrate how different actors in a decision-making process are constrained by these old frameworks to follow different planning paradigms, further emphasizing the need to adjust to the new technology reality. In this thesis, I present my hypothesis and research questions; the methodology I followed; the scientific traditions and bodies of literature that support this research; the case study and thesis experiment used to collect direct evidence; the analytical reasoning concerning the IT qualitative jump; the suggested research agenda for this domain; and the conclusions derived from this research, suggesting possible avenues to institutionalize some of the demonstrated IT-based improvements in public participation.
by Pedro Manuel Barbosa Ferraz de Abreu.
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Guha, Debmalya. "Old new city : a study of spatial interactions in traditional neighborhoods of Kolkata to identify a new paradigm for urban design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55139.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis through study and analyses endeavored to demonstrate how various interactions in the urban fabric of old neighborhoods of Kolkata made them more humane, inclusive and ecologically less harmful. It highlighted how these interactions of urban elements and activities of old neighborhoods have the potential to benefit new urban developments. And it calls for modem designers to study and realize the great potential of this new design paradigm which is based on increasing interactions in the urban fabric. Three different neighborhoods from Kolkata were selected, which provided a comprehensive sample of traditional urban fabric of the city. It was found that in many cases the observed conditions were in contradiction to the principles of the modem urban design. And in some cases certain aspects were observed that are completely ignored or overlooked by modem designers. After subsequent analyses it was inferred that there is one fundamental difference between old and new cites. The modem approach is to segregate different elements and activities, while in old cities these interacted with each other and created the livable conditions. The study focused on various interactions of the urban elements in the neighborhoods and grouped them into four categories: 1. Nature and urban elements 2. Built and unbuilt spaces 3. Transportation modes 4. Residential and commercial activities It was observed that these interactions encouraged and facilitated the following positive qualities in the neighborhoods.
(cont.) 1. promote accessibility for all 2. encourage pedestrian movement 3. reduce private motor vehicles 4. reduce fuel consumption 5. reduce pollution 6. increase social interaction 7. create more pleasing environment 8. create employments 9. sustain local economy 10. maintain ecological balance 11. create equity and inclusiveness The thesis concludes by demonstrating the potentials of the interactive urban fabric of the old neighborhoods. And calls for a process of applying creative design solutions that embody these positive aspects in developing new cities.
by Debmalya Guha.
M.C.P.
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Zhang, Heng. "Breaking the boundary towards a spatial integration of new urban expansion and old city in Dapeng, Shenzhen /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41668935.
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Laraya, Lynnda Marie B. (Lynnda Marie Baua). "The Philippine Subic special economic and free port zone : a new approach to an old strategy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12412.
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Tam, Kwok-leung, and 譚國樑. "Planning for o\escence in old industrial areas: can industrial/office building reverse the trend." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259546.
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余智浩 and Chi-ho Yu. "Landmark to Tai Wai (Shatin) Community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984320.
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Staff, Zachary Andrew. "Small city revitalization an analysis of strategies utilized in Upstate New York /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Ho, Pui-kei. "New light, old lane: conservation plan for Pátio da Claridade Macao." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31473775.
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Canepa, Claudia. "New information technologies in the old political economy : an exploration of community-based GIS for improving basic services for the poor in New Delhi, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33012.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-223).
Rapid urbanization, limited neighborhood-level data, and the multiplicity of overlapping agencies in mega-cities in the developing world are creating a significant gap between citizens, particularly the poor, and government. Rising poverty rates have led NGOs and government actors to explore the role of community-based geographic information systems (GIS) in improving service provision to the poor. These participatory GIS applications focus on collecting neighborhood-level information directly from residents and providing this information to government for more need-based planning and policy-making. This thesis examines the development of three such applications in New Delhi, India, that illustrate the potential of participatory GIS production and implementation processes in strengthening communities and creating organizational change within government. However, these three projects also suggest that a stronger understanding of the political economy of information gathering and policy- making is needed if the use of resident perceptions and other types of local knowledge is to be institutionalized in government resource allocation and policy-making processes. Findings suggest, first, that, contrary to the popular belief that government lacks sufficient knowledge about the needs of the poor and that the role of participatory GIS is simply to inform "government," frontline workers have much information on the poor, and it is the higher-level officials who lack the knowledge. This knowledge differential highlights the need to deconstruct the state and consider the political economy issues that prevent information sharing between different levels of government.
(Cont.) Second, due to differences in ideology between NGOs and government, these two actors collect data on the poor for very different reasons. These differences may act as major impediments to GIS co-production unless special processes are set up and intermediaries are brought in to help generate common motivations between the two groups. Third, the NGOs' participatory approach to gathering local knowledge, which is deeply rooted in the flexible nature of NGOs, contrasts sharply with the standardized data collection methods that government officials and policy-makers value. This contrast, coupled with the fact that policy-making processes are often structured in ways that prevent easy incorporation of local knowledge, presents a challenge for NGOs and governments who seek to work together to create more need-based planning and policy-making.
by Claudia Canepa.
M.C.P.
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Zhang, Heng, and 張恒. "Breaking the boundary: towards a spatial integration of new urban expansion and old city in Dapeng, Shenzhen." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41668935.
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Lau, Wing-chi Gigi, and 劉詠芝. "A cultural corridor between old and new neighbourhoods: from Elements Mall to Bowring Street, Jordan, HongKong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47312348.
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Kulatilake, Kandanamulla Kankanamge Ranjith Prasanna. "Decentralisation in Hong Kong : housing, employment and land use implications /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25798856.
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Finkelstein, Rachel Caren. "Seeing the city for the forest : the transformation and preservation of New York City's old growth urban forest." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128623.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2015
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New York City's "emerald empire" is much more than its street trees. The city contains over 10,000 acres of forests within the five boroughs, including several examples of old growth forests. These natural areas are at risk--from their vulnerability to climate impacts, to development pressures, to a lack of support for and information about managing urban forests. Urban forests will only become more crucial to quality of life in cities into the future, as their ecological, health, and psychological benefits become increasingly critical to mitigating the impacts of climate change on cities and their residents. In New York City, half of residents full experience of "nature" happens within the five boroughs.
Without access to urban forests and other natural areas, millions of New Yorkers would not have any opportunity to access the well-documented physical and mental health benefits of contact with nature, nor have the experience of learning about and appreciating the important ecosystems that exist in and support the life of the city. Old growth forests are particularly significant and exceedingly rare, especially in dense urban environments. Old growth forests have been documented to support more biodiversity, can store more carbon, and have more positive impacts on improving water and air quality than younger natural areas. There are multiple old growth forests within the five boroughs of New York City, which have somehow managed to persist over hundreds of years, if not more in the case of some areas.
Learning from these rare and increasingly important spaces--how and why they survived, what unique benefits they provide and challenges they face, and what roles they have played in surrounding communities historically and into the future--will be important to ensuring both their long-term sustainability and can provide lessons for managing other urban forests. This thesis explores the historical, contemporary, and future importance of healthy, old growth forest ecosystems in cities and how they can provide more benefits than individual trees, and a greater variety of them.
by Rachel Finkelstein.
M.C.P.
M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Tsoi, Pik-chi, and 蔡碧芝. "Preparing ESL teachers for change: assimilating new beliefs into the old." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31963535.
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Wise, Ryan Galvin. "Public Goods for a Few: The Role of Crime Prevention and Security Districts in New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1627.
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This study adds to the limited literature on residentially-focused special taxing districts by addressing three questions on crime prevention and security districts in New Orleans. 1) Do the districts share common characteristics? 2) Do they act as a tool to retain residents? 3) Do they represent what A.O. Hirschman would characterize as “exit,” “voice” or neither, and, as such, how do they effect the city’s potential for service improvement?
The findings show that the districts tend to be wealthier and whiter, and to have higher homeownership rates and home values than the city at large. However, exceptionalities in three of the newer districts suggest greater diversification. This could represent a shift in the perceived role of neighborhood organizations in meeting residents’ service needs.
This study also finds that districts act as mechanisms to retain and, in some cases, placate residents who might otherwise be influential constituencies demanding improved municipal services.
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Bishop, Brian E. "A new "industrial park" for Muncie : transforming a derelict industrial site into a community resource." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1230606.
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This study has examined opportunities for reclaiming industrial brownfield sites for the communities that surround them, recreating derelict sites as community-oriented spaces that increase understanding of and restore pride in industrial and cultural heritage.The study consisted of two primary components. The first phase consists primarily of an exploration of the linkages between landscape/urban design and industrial heritage. This phase also examines and evaluates various design projects that have attempted to celebrate industrial heritage through the adaptive re-use of former industrial sites. The second phase of the study consists of the development of a master plan for the transformation of a derelict industrial site to a community space that interprets and celebrates industrial heritage. This phase includes researching the industrial heritage of Muncie, selecting an appropriate project site within the city, and developing a master plan for the reclamation of an industrial site by the community.A layered design strategy was developed for the selected site, with the end result being a master plan for a new public park. The three elements of the design strategy included industrial heritage, adaptive reuse, and improvements in the surrounding community.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Suhie, Michele M. "Time to retire old ways of thinking a validation of the transtheoretical model in a new application to psycho-social retirement planning /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1147267423.
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Devalcourt, Joel A. "Streets of Justice? Civil Rights Commemorative Boulevards and the Struggle for Revitalization in African American Communities: A Case Study of Central City, New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1303.
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Civil rights commemorative boulevards are an increasingly important method of framing African American community revitalization and persistent historical inequities. Often underlying planning efforts to revitalize segregated African American neighborhoods, these boulevards are one important change mechanism for realizing equitable development and challenging structural racism. This thesis demonstrates the central importance of these commemorative boulevards in framing redevelopment and maintaining community resolve during the long struggle for revitalization
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Born, George Walter. "Home rule: the creation of local historic districts in the New Boston, 1953 to 1983." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/17704.
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As large-scale, modernist urban renewal projects advanced following World War II, residents of Boston’s historic neighborhoods pushed back, asserting the value of the existing built environment and enlisting new strategies, like local historic districts, to mediate change. Over time, these defenders of traditional urbanism changed from relatively conventional 1950s home- and business-owners to more countercultural, back-to-the-city technocrats, the advance guard of a new middle class. Employing previously unexplored government archives and public documents, extensive contemporaneous newspaper reports, and interviews with current and former neighborhood activists, “Home Rule” analyzes historic districting as a social movement, tracing how adherents of this cause mobilized resources to effect the policy changes they sought. While the growth of the historic preservation movement in the interwar South has been well documented, the adoption of preservation planning techniques in the post-war North is less well studied.
The first chapter investigates the effort to create the first historic district in the urban North on Beacon Hill, a campaign that took place against the backdrop of a destructive urban-renewal project in the nearby West End. A neighborhood association spearheaded the effort, carefully building support, consistent with the consensus culture of the 1950s. The chapter also examines the expansion of the district and challenges to its authority. The highly contested movement to designate the Back Bay occupies the second chapter, pitting a powerful mayor and his deep-pocketed allies determined to insert high-rise towers in a historically low-rise area against a large and well-heeled neighborhood association. The third chapter examines the drive to create a statutory Landmarks Commission to regulate historic resources citywide. The chapter also explores two attempts to designate historic districts after the creation of the new agency, one effort on Ashmont Hill that failed and another in West Back Bay that succeeded. The movement to designate three contiguous historic districts – the St. Botolph Street area, Bay Village, and the South End – constitutes the fourth and last chapter. These efforts exemplify the rediscovery of urban life by an educated, progressive middle class who negotiated with various ethnic and racial minorities, transformed the city, and reinvented urban renewal.2018-08-11T00:00:00Z
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Burns, Ashley Brown. "New Communities in Old Spaces: Evidence from HOPE VI." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/7098.
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The goal of this study is to understand how residents may benefit from living in a mixed income, HOPE VI development in the South. This analysis focuses on a former housing project and its immediate neighborhood in the aftermath of HOPE VI revitalization. I conducted a case study by utilizing original data collected from in-depth, semi-structured interviews and unstructured interviews, along with administrative records, evaluation data, media accounts, observation, and casual encounters. A unique contribution of this study of a HOPE VI development is that it also addresses the surrounding neighborhood. Furthermore, this case study offers a unique lens for examining contemporary black gentrification in a publicly constructed space.
A major finding of this study is that complex intra-racial social dynamics among African American community members may stem from HOPE VI intervention. Specifically, there may be limited positive interaction among residents in the development, and between them and residents of the proximate exterior neighborhood. Further, the nature of constrained interaction manufactures divisive processes for claiming space and community identity that may potentially have negative consequences for renters.
These consequences stem from a reproduction of space and community, which shapes social control, policing, and exclusion contests, among other tensions. Overall, this study brings to bear some unimagined consequences of HOPE VI that potentially neutralize anticipated benefits of mixed income living for the poor, based on real and perceived alterations of class, mobility, and shared identity in and around the development site.
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HUANG, KUAN-CHI, and 黃冠淇. "Developing Urban Color Spectrums for Kaohsiung City - A Case Study on the Zuoying Old Town, Fengshan New Town, and Hamasen Districts." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/279rkd.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
視覺設計學系
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Since the establishment of the administrative office of the county in the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty, Fengshan New Town and Zuoying Old Town have been two communities with an abundant history of more than 200 years. During the Japanese rule, Hamasen was the center of economic development of the Kaohsiung Harbor. It was a community with a port culture spanning a century. These three communities have their respective deep historical heritage, immense footprints of the life of commoners, and rich cultural traces that were products of their interaction with nature. All these possess an important historical value and occupy an important place in the history of the development of Kaohsiung. Urban Color is a product of the interaction between nature and culture and the fact of the existence of historical culture, carrying in it the characteristics peculiar to a region. This study adopts a scientific method to quantify the data of Urban Color, summarize the findings, and categorize them according to attributes and analogous colors to construct a region-exclusive color atlas. In addition, the similarities and differences of Urban Color in these three communities will be compared based on the analysis results. Research results reveal that the color of natural landscapes in all three communities is mainly in high-saturation hues of green-yellow; as for that of cultural landscapes, the Urban Color in Zuoying Old Town is mainly in high-saturation colors, with red as the most widespread hue. As in Fengshan New Town and Hamasen, their Urban Color is mainly in low-value colors, with yellow-red being the most widespread hue. A comprehensive analysis suggests that the landscape color scheme in historical residences and townhouses among settlements show consistency and popularity, respectively. However, the hues of architectures constructed after the establishment of the Republic of China tend to be multiple. Military dependents’ villages and other relevant historical architectures have an ideology-like uniform color, showing the dominance of a color in landscape. The use of color for Taiwan’s temples has already had a certain standard, so even though building materials are multifarious in modern society, the color used for temples in Taiwan still adheres to traditional norms, possessing cultural commonalities. However, churches enjoy a relatively higher autonomy in the use of color. Past literature confirmed that urban landscapes can reflect the history of urban development, as well as the ideas, fads, and needs of an epoch. Traditional architectures and those with a special purpose can reflect the cultural commonalities and the nature of the characteristics of an epoch through colors. This study recommends that an Urban Color atlas be constructed to locate the overall orientation of the color of a city, set the basic colors peculiar to its Urban Color, and develop Urban Color planning and management in the macroscopic, mesoscopic, and microscopic dimensions with a view to constructing a harmonious and organized environment of Urban Color.
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Xiong, Puyu. "New Opportunities from Old Foundations: 798 Art Zone a Case of Industrial Heritage Tourism." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4724.
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Industrial remains can be found in many regions that experienced industrialization. However, they are, in general, at risk of loss through destruction and abandonment. Promoting tourism can be a helpful tool for regional restructuring and economic development. The creative economy is also emerging as a powerful tool for reinvigorating economic growth, employment and social cohesion of those areas, which may affect the development of touristic activities and industries. However, little research has been done to link creative economy theory and industrial heritage tourism. This paper elaborates on and clarifies the link between industrial heritage tourism and creative economy, and illustrates the impact of creativity and the driving role of the creative class in industrial heritage tourism through a case study. The study site, 798 art zone, is a newly emerged tourism destination in China which developed based on an abandoned soviet-style factory. Through analyzing the initiation status of tourism development in the factory, the interests of visitors, the influences of tourism, and the role of artists, the research reveals the dramatic change under the impact of tourism and more recently added development boom that has taken place at the 798 art zone. The findings identify the characteristics of 798 art zone in different periods and the contributions of the artist community to the art zone. Unlike most industrial heritage tourism sites, the development of 798 art zone was bottom up owing to the creativity of artists. With their creative eyes, artists identified the special features of the abandoned factory (high ceilings, historic design, open spaces, and abundant natural light), and used their creativity to add artistic feelings to this area. When the factory was facing the fate of being razed, they pulled together. With their efforts, the factory was preserved and 798 art zone was acknowledged by the government. The results are in accord with the creative economy theory that creativity is the driving force of economic development and improve the understanding of how creativity and tourism interact. The development pattern of 798 art zone might not apply precisely to any other places in the world, but it provides an effective alternative model for revitalization of old industrial sites as well as other tourism sites. Some management related suggestions and concerns about 798 art zone and tourists profile are proposed. Both practical implications and academic insights are presented based on the major findings of this study.
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Mashiyi, L. N. "Can old history textbooks be used to promote the new democratic ideals in the curriculum 2005?" Thesis, 2014.
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Can old history text books (written in the Apartheid Era) be used to promote the new
democratic ideals in Curriculum 2005? This investigation addresses this question
through an analysis of selected chapters of two history text books presently used in
Katlehong schools. The analysis deploys an instrument developed at the University of
Belgrade by members of the Democracy Education Project, in conjunction with the
project team from the University of the Witwatersrand. Through the instrument, the
democratic content of the textbooks was analysed and assessed. The analysis focus
on declarative, elaborated and implied democratic content.
The conceptual framework for the investigation draws from recent philosophical and
sociological work on democracy. Amy Gutmann’s principles of non-repression and nondiscrimination,
for example, provide the main argument for the necessity of equal and
critical education in South Africa. The analysis and discussion show both text as
deeply floored regarding the availability and nature of the democratic concepts.
However, if used by critical teachers both texts are suitable for promoting democracy
in South Africa.
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Du, Yi-Jane, and 杜宜蓁. "Old thinking, New conflict: The confrontation between land-use regulation and planning project－Taichung City ALA Pub Accidence as a case." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7h38ar.
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碩士國立中興大學
景觀與遊憩碩士學位學程
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The advantage of current land-use planning on urban planning is clear partition and the use of zone control and provides positive tabulation and negative tabulation with conditions permit items. However, the detailed items that are followed in urban planning in Taichung City are usually lack of elasticity. And, the detailed but no flexible items which were used in Taichung city in history on both positive and negative tabulation are disadvantages on land-use planning on urban planning. As there has been no standard urban planning system adapted to local conditions, this issue was raised as focus and discussions of many parties after the event of Taichung City ALA Pub Accidence. Therefore, this research in tend to study on the available methods of land-use scheme on urban planning in Taiwan based on view point of land-use district regulation and theories of land-use scheme. In addition, the core issue of this paper summarizes the actual gap and rigid situation in reality due to the time transfer of land-use regulation and scheme from event of Taichung City ALA Pub Accidence. Both secondary data analysis and semi-structured interview are used as research methods in research. This paper analyzed the role which stakeholders played in the whole event and dispute raised about rigid urban planning system through deep interview. In the case study section, this paper divided controversies about land-use regulation on urban planning which are raised from ALA PUB into three parts. First, rigid systems due to special development system and norm of urban planning system could not adapt to the change on economy and in society. Second, the current urban planning and practices produce dispute between land-control agency in the city Hall and the local business owners. Final, the controversy of ways of registering commercial company in law level and problems of attribution on business item of company ownership. In this research, the reason of land-use regulation conflict is that change of industrial land is under land-use regulation on facial part, seemly unreasonable existence. It should return to the origin ideas of urban planning itself. Rigid regulations have to change and adjust with elasticity for adapting the social change. Therefore, this research provides two suggestions. First, for the planning part, government should abandon the regulation view in the past and match flexibly spirit of Planning Permission and current land-use regulation based on view points of planning again and reduce conflicts caused by difference cognition on law part. Second, responsibilities part and actual executive power have to be clearly divided in enforcement mechanisms. In this way, the authorities of urban planning can return land-use regulation back to the original spirit of urban planning and scheme through clear and transparent statue and law. Enforcement mechanisms should be a clear division of responsibilities surface and the actual executive power, to urban planning authorities through clear regulations and laws regulate, control of land use planning urban planning to return to the spirit of the most primitive.
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Timm, Jeffrey. "A study of the decentralised business nodes of the post-apartheid city of Durban : toward a new business district as part of the greater Durban business system." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7787.
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This dissertation revolves around the topic of office decentralisation. The literature review chapter
first discusses a systems approach to planning, and how it is the relationships between the objects
within a system that makes the system as a whole useful. This chapter also discusses theories relating
to city planning with reference to Kevin Lynch in terms of city elements as well as city planning
typologies. Edmund Bacon’s theory of how movement systems of cities become powerful forces in
terms of how the city is used and viewed is also discussed.
Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City concept is discussed due to its intentional decentralisation but also
for the manner in which nodes are linked. New Urbanism is touched on because many sprawling cities
are turning this type of development in attempt to reduce the outward push of low density
developments. Seeing that Apartheid city planning was informed by Modernist city planning, both of
these concepts are looked at critically in relation to one another. This is to form the background on
what impact office decentralisation has had on South African cities, and whether the locations of such
decentralised office nodes have been in the correct locations in order to provide access to jobs to those
who were marginalised during the years of Apartheid.
With this background, office decentralisation is discussed in general, touching on office building
typologies, the effect transportation technologies had on city planning, what causes office
decentralisation, and the issue of office decentralisation in South African cities. Examples of how
office decentralisation has been used as urban renewal projects have been discussed because it is of
the opinion of the author that this needs to occur more often, especially in South Africa.
Precedent studies of three cities which have undergone office decentralisation have been discussed in
the next chapter. One is a South African city; one is another African city; and one an international
city. This chapter discusses briefly their past, and the issues decentralisation is causing for the cities,
as well as their solutions to the issues.
Durban is used as a case study in the next chapter where decentralised office nodes have been
identified and analysed. The challenges this decentralisation brings to the city are then discussed and
possible solutions drawn from the abovementioned precedent studies have been suggested.
These solutions were tested in a questionnaire which was sent to a selected group of working people.
The results of which are discussed and analysed in chapters 5.Thesis (M.Arch.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
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Singh, Inderjeet 1978. "Risk-averse periodic preventive maintenance optimization." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4203.
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We consider a class of periodic preventive maintenance (PM) optimization problems, for a single piece of equipment that deteriorates with time or use, and can be repaired upon failure, through corrective maintenance (CM). We develop analytical and simulation-based optimization models that seek an optimal periodic PM policy, which minimizes the sum of the expected total cost of PMs and the risk-averse cost of CMs, over a finite planning horizon. In the simulation-based models, we assume that both types of maintenance actions are imperfect, whereas our analytical models consider imperfect PMs with minimal CMs. The effectiveness of maintenance actions is modeled using age reduction factors. For a repairable unit of equipment, its virtual age, and not its calendar age, determines the associated failure rate. Therefore, two sets of parameters, one describing the effectiveness of maintenance actions, and the other that defines the underlying failure rate of a piece of equipment, are critical to our models. Under a given maintenance policy, the two sets of parameters and a virtual-age-based age-reduction model, completely define the failure process of a piece of equipment. In practice, the true failure rate, and exact quality of the maintenance actions, cannot be determined, and are often estimated from the equipment failure history.
We use a Bayesian approach to parameter estimation, under which a random-walk-based Gibbs sampler provides posterior estimates for the parameters of interest. Our posterior estimates for a few datasets from the literature, are consistent with published results. Furthermore, our computational results successfully demonstrate that our Gibbs sampler is arguably the obvious choice over a general rejection sampling-based parameter estimation method, for this class of problems. We present a general simulation-based periodic PM optimization model, which uses the posterior estimates to simulate the number of operational equipment failures, under a given periodic PM policy. Optimal periodic PM policies, under the classical maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian estimates are obtained for a few datasets. Limitations of the ML approach are revealed for a dataset from the literature, in which the use of ML estimates of the parameters, in the maintenance optimization model, fails to capture a trivial optimal PM policy.
Finally, we introduce a single-stage and a two-stage formulation of the risk-averse periodic PM optimization model, with imperfect PMs and minimal CMs. Such models apply to a class of complex equipment with many parts, operational failures of which are addressed by replacing or repairing a few parts, thereby not affecting the failure rate of the equipment under consideration. For general values of PM age reduction factors, we provide sufficient conditions to establish the convexity of the first and second moments of the number of failures, and the risk-averse expected total maintenance cost, over a finite planning horizon. For increasing Weibull rates and a general class of increasing and convex failure rates, we show that these convexity results are independent of the PM age reduction factors. In general, the optimal periodic PM policy under the single-stage model is no better than the optimal two-stage policy. But if PMs are assumed perfect, then we establish that the single-stage and the two-stage optimization models are equivalent.text