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Woods, Luke. "Suburban revision rethinking suburbia through modification /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2009. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
Full textMendive, Juan Sebastian. "Challenges and Opportunities of an Inner-Ring Suburb: A Case Study of Whitehall, Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1546570184546722.
Full textKozlowski, Jeremy A. "Suburban intervention." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2010. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
Full textSteffel, Jennifer Elaine. "Storming the suburban fortress : understanding the NIMBY phenomenon." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23704.
Full textThis thesis explores the processes by which discriminatory NIMBY sentiments are realized as legal development regulations in contemporary suburbs. The historic evolution of the suburbs and the psychological foundations behind their typical characteristics are presented as the sources of a suburban value structure which esteems NIMBY. Suburban governments are mandated to represent their constituents' values, but exclusionary development controls are a complex product of constituent demands, fiscal constraints, and constitutional limits.
This analysis reveals that legislative responsibility often bows to political weakness. NIMBY groups use political pressure to manipulate municipal governments into using their vast discretionary powers over development as a weapon for exclusion. In response to either political or fiscal motivations, legislators pressure planners to validate discriminatory legislative agendas with their plans, thus undermining their abilities to guide growth effectively. Although the process of development regulation is well-grounded in historic and legal precedents, when legislation is used for discriminatory ends, citizens' civil and property rights are jeopardized. This thesis explains how regulations such as zoning ordinances can be used for exclusion when municipal government disregards its mandate to be the guardian of the general welfare.
Increased awareness of both the motivations and the manifestations of the NIMBY phenomenon may enable individuals as well as lawmakers to create a more equitable suburbia.
Brown, Justin T. "Redefining the Suburban Mall." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120436737918.
Full textDimitriou, George John 1973. "Suburban revisions : redesigning suburban strip malls." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65724.
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The quality of place in the American suburbs often inhibits peoples ability to have a sense of ownership and connection to the places they live. This is partly because the physical design of many suburban environments have repellent and disengaging characteristics. These characteristics have evolved alongside a basic structural transformation of American cities in the last century. In the end, the physical environment of the suburbs makes people feel like outsiders in their own homes because places can push people away through their confused organization and ugliness. In order to unlock the potential for suburban strip centers to be places that help us orient ourselves and connect to our world, I have developed a set of prototypes for the infill of existing strip malls in suburban strip commercial centers. These prototypes act as a systematic tool for the possible widespread densification and diversification of uses within these centers. The coherence and engaging vitality that will result from the application of this tool will improve the quality of place and enhance our sense belonging to our communities.
by George John Dimitriou.
S.M.
Thacker, Jay. "Stepping in Suburbia: Designing Pedestrian Spaces in Suburban Settings." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1222999192.
Full textAdvisor: Jay Chatterjee. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 27, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: pedestrian; suburban; pedestrian oriented; urbanism. Includes bibliographical references.
Durden, Alyssa Shank. "Suburban Revisions." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7118.
Full textGillies, D. Cameron. "Suburban vernacular." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63518.pdf.
Full textJones, Christopher Shields. "SubUrban Highrise." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34148.
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NOVOSEL, BENJAMIN RYAN. "SUBURBAN LIFESTYLES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053379308.
Full textVandehey, Scott Lawrence. "Suburban citizenship." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3355727.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file (viewed June 23, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-362).
Benton, Justin Richard. "Suburban Heights." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/202.
Full textPretorius, Lloyd. "Suburban metabolism a project for a suburb of the future." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5588.
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One of my initial research questions was to answer how informal settlements can pioneer the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in Cape Town. The objectives included understanding energy usage in informal settlements, invetigating current energy technologies and innovating an architectural typology which can support multiple renewable fuel sources and create positive, urban space in these communities.
Holz, Malcolm J. "The creative suburb: Building and urban designs for suburban innovators." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/93062/9/Malcolm_Holz_Exegesis.pdf.
Full textRolley, Stephanie. "Suburban urban patterns : the future form of suburban growth corridors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77324.
Full textDetwiler, Robert. "Redefining suburban peripheries." This title: PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
Full textPope, Gerald. "Reading suburban narratives." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555144.
Full textHarman, David Mark. "Suburban house studies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66750.
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This thesis looks at contemporary American detached single-family suburban dwellings. It does so from a historical/typological viewpoint (descriptive) and from a design viewpoint as well (prescriptive). Diagnostic analysis of over 50 spec/tract house plans provided evidence that many of the plans, while functionally efficient, were lacking in territorial definition, flexibility of use, and intimacy of environment. The research of the thesis attempts to locate these shortcomings and, in an investigation of the house through its constituent parts, redesign the detached single-family suburban 'ranch' house.
by David Mark Harman.
M.Arch.
DiMarco, Daniel Joseph. "Alternative suburban settlements." Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02132009-172258/.
Full textPaynter, Felicity. "Suburbs, culture and regeneration : cultural strategies in three English suburban boroughs." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/513.
Full textMorgan, Amy. "Re-thinking American Suburbs: Addressing Suburban Sprawl through Transit-oriented Development." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554373519100385.
Full textWeber, Michael Stewart. "Mending : opportunities for Springville, Utah to counteract suburban sprawl." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4108.
Full textOhashi, H. "Suburban fortunes : urban policies, planning and suburban transformation in Tokyo metropolis." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10049534/.
Full textDaborn, Shirley Built Environment Faculty of Built Environment UNSW. "A city within the suburbs - gender, modernity and the suburban shopping centre." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Built Environment, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44977.
Full textLodal, Genevieve M. "Greening the suburbs exploring the connections between suburban development and natural processes /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 118 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1597633601&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textCox, Emily Elizabeth. "Subversia the suburban subversive /." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1202500475/.
Full textPatterson, Charles Forrest III. "A new suburban morphology." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23100.
Full textGREEN, ADAM J. "URBAN EDGE: SUBURBAN DREAMS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1084900580.
Full textGreen, Adam J. "Urban edge suburban dreams /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1084900580.
Full textBindner, Matthew J. (Matthew James). "Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65542.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-61).
America's Midwest experienced its most rapid growth after 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 arrive at the critical moment to end this recklessness. Simultaneously, the Internet's pervasiveness perpetuates the gross expansion of the metropolis, appending the city with enormous big boxes to house the world's digital information. Central Iowa is now home to enormous buildings by Google and Microsoft, consuming an exponentially growing amount of Iowa's renewable energy as it exhausts the waste heat into Iowa's rural flatlands. This thesis offers a design proposal for an aggregated suburbia,augmenting the suburban landscape by capitalizing on the trend of enormous data center expansion and, simultaneously,subverting the trend of suburban sprawl. The synthesis of data centers and a new dense suburban center allows the reuse of otherwise wasted energy while calling awareness to the Internet's monumental physical footprint and output of waste heat. The mile-long data center is used as a "microclimate platform" for cultural activities and space for the public collective, providing suburbs with a public identity and heralding a new age of industrialization.
by Matthew J. Bindner.
S.M.
Hudson, Edward Christopher. "From nowhere to everywhere : suburban discourse and the suburb in North American literature /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textRandall, Todd Andrew. "Decision support for suburban retrofitting /." *McMaster only, 2001.
Find full textRobson, Michael Robert. "Suburban housing: living between walls." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53425.
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Park, Sung-Yong. "The Architecture of Suburban America." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34188.
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Vervoort, Ant. "What next? : densifying suburban Brooklyn." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13282.
Full textDue to the historical development of South African cities during the early 1900s, a great deal of the South African city now comprises of suburban environments. For all its negative portrayal in architectural discourse, there are also significant positive attributes to suburbia. Currently, the South African suburban condition is densifying. This process of densification means that the suburban form as we have known it is currently changing quite rapidly. We now sit in a position where we can either allow these suburban environments to evolve without architectural consideration which may exacerbate the negative aspects of suburbia, whilst undermining its positives. Alternatively, we can unpack the characteristics of suburbia with the intent of offering architectural solutions which may facilitate responsible densification whilst preserving the positives and addressing the negatives. Because such significant portions of our cities are sub urban in character - and are experiencing pressures to densify, this project asks whether it is possible to visualise a positive, healthy and responsible future suburban form. In the words of Robert Crumb, we ask ‘What’s Next?” This project proposes a simple and relatively quickly implementable architectural solution to the densification of the suburban township of Brooklyn in Pretoria over the next two to three decades. The project attempts to use the opportunity (presented by the city’s need to densify) to reconfigure the future suburban form for the better. Brooklyn is used as a casestudy through which the positive and negative characteristics of suburban environments are unpacked - and possible solutions for its future densification are proposed. Naturally, suburban environments differ from township to township. As such, this project does not look for an all-encompassing solution to the future of suburbia. Rather, it attempts to produce a critical, detailed, site-specific solution to a single suburban township. This approach acknowledges the importance of the architect in the creation of successful cities, but will hopefully stimulate the creative pursuit of solutions for - and a broader debate over the future of such enormous tracts of our South African cities - suburbia.
Sucahyono, Hadi. "Neighborhood impacts on suburban housing values." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150383842.
Full textBendana, Fabio J. "Theorizing suburban public space in Kendall." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1504.
Full textMesher, Daniel R. "Youth ministry to suburban street gangs." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1093.
Full textFlynn, Michael Sean. "Suburban typologies : historical examples and alternatives." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100749.
Full textA precept of this thesis is that the current, dominant form of urbanization is of a suburban nature, characterized by vast areas of low-density, single-use, disjointed compartments of daily life; that suburbanization has become the physical de-construction of community; and that suburbanization at its most extreme is ultimately deleterious to a healthy society and environmentally unsustainable. The suburban environment is far from the desired ideal and in fact is an aberration.
Given our seemingly innate desire for the ideal of a "home within a garden," and through the inquiry into the successes and failures of past planned suburbs, it is hoped that a better understanding and a melding of the ideal and an equitable reality can be obtained, promoting a healthy, vibrant sense of community that is environmentally sustainable.
The examples of planned suburban precedents that are examined include industrial towns, railroad and streetcar suburbs, as well as pre- and post-war automobile suburbs. Also there is some examination of utopian and alternative planning theories as well as contemporary examples of successful planned communities. All of which provide a greater understanding of the principles that must be applied to address the issues of our future urbanization process, which will likely be of a suburban nature.
It is hoped that through this inquiry into successful suburban precedents, that a clearer understanding can be achieved of how to more closely attain the individual ideal of a home within a garden, while balancing the collective needs of a community and sustainability, within an inherently chaotic, free-market process.
Havens, Gregory T. "Pedestrian pockets--a new suburban paradigm?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66745.
Full textAbolina, Viktorija. "Corporate icons in the suburban landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79148.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-89).
The image of the modern workplace in the American suburb has long been a contentious topic of discussion among academics, planning and development professionals, and the public. Today, the critics of office parks in the low-density neighborhoods are applauding the idea of reverse migration back to the city. It is no doubt a trend for large competitive corporations and one that this thesis will explore. But in their day, the suburban corporate centers represented the epitome of advanced thinking about corporate organization, productivity, innovation, marketing, and architecture. This thesis will focus on how these large centers came into being, how they functioned and their continuing legacy. The principal cases and relevant examples discussed were designed by renowned 20th century architects and are of an iconic architectural value. The classic examples examined include: General Motors Technical Center, Deere and Company, PepsiCo, and Union Carbide. The hypothesis is that the day of suburban corporate centers is not over, that despite the changes in corporate culture and work-life, the lure of the isolated center in the landscape is so powerful that it will continue to be valuable to companies - but in new ways: as amenity locations for workers, and with new kinds of uses and activities incorporated into the centers.
by Viktorija Abolina.
M.C.P.
BAUGHMAN, BARRETT ALLAN. "SUBURBAN FOUNDATIONS: CREATING MEANINGFUL AND EXPERIENTIAL RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1082758301.
Full textSuper, Margaret P. (Margaret Pillsbury) 1973. "Neighborhood perspectives on suburbia : an exploration on form, identity and meaning in the contemporary suburban landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70317.
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Urban designers, planners and social 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 to locate in the suburbs in increasing numbers. Designers have responded to the problems of suburban sprawl with plans for new self-contained towns, while few proposals have been made for retrofitting existing suburbs. This thesis explores the relationship between spatial structure, perception, and behavior in the contemporary suburban landscape from a neighborhood perspective. Twenty-four interviews were conducted with residents of Lexington and Burlington, two suburban towns in eastern Massachusetts. These towns have similar histories and demographic characteristics but distinctly different patterns of development. Lexington has retained a semi-rural, residential character, while Burlington has developed more of its land and encouraged commercial and industrial uses. In each of the two towns, two contrasting neighborhoods were selected for study. Each of these four neighborhoods represents a different type of development, based on its street system, density, lot sizes, access to open space, and proximity to shops and services. In each of the four neighborhoods, six interviews were conducted using questionnaires, maps and photographs. The interview data from these four neighborhoods, combined with an analysis of existing spatial patterns, suggest that five inter-related themes are important in suburban town and neighborhood design. These themes are i) integrated road networks, ii) visible and accessible open spaces, iii) social town centers, iv) walkable neighborhoods, and v) active front yards. Based on these themes, a set of related principles is proposed for interventions to improve the existing suburban environment.
by Margaret P. Super.
M.C.P.
Gormley, Alex T. "The Seven of U.S.: Simulation and the American Suburb." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1495801012565906.
Full textBailey, David. "Into a suburban landscape: a proposal of housing for the future of the American suburb." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53439.
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Clough, Elizabeth Anne, and n/a. "Factors Influencing Ant Assemblages and Ant Community Composition in a Sub-Tropical Suburban Environment." Griffith University. School of Environmental and Applied Science, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040719.141317.
Full textClough, Elizabeth Anne. "Factors Influencing Ant Assemblages and Ant Community Composition in a Sub-Tropical Suburban Environment." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366528.
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Notter, Isabelle. "Urban Utopias and Suburban Slums: A Demographic Analysis of Suburban Poverty and Reurbanization in American Metropolitan Statistical Areas." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1981.
Full textFung, Fuk-ping. "An evaluation of the services of housing management in garden house estates in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42574547.
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