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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.
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Mendive, 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.
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Kozlowski, Jeremy A. "Suburban intervention." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2010. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Steffel, 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.
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The ubiquitous settlement pattern of the American suburb is in fact a carefully constructed reality. Because the vision of the home in the suburbs is very deeply rooted, any development which is considered threatening to this image is met with a defensive reaction. Too often, however, when these NIMBY ("Not In My Back Yard") sentiments are permitted to dictate what is acceptable in a community, housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households is purposely excluded.This 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.
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Brown, Justin T. "Redefining the Suburban Mall." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120436737918.
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Dimitriou, 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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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55).
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.
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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.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.Advisor: Jay Chatterjee. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 27, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: pedestrian; suburban; pedestrian oriented; urbanism. Includes bibliographical references.
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Durden, Alyssa Shank. "Suburban Revisions." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7118.
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The word revise means to reconsider or modify as with text. If we think of the suburban landscape as a text, the culture of each era left documentation of their values, policies and way of life in the form of transportation networks and other infrastructure, such as Main Streets, squares and public buildings. While evidence of most of the everyday life of individuals of every era gets erased by the following era, infrastructure investments of each era are adaptively reused and remain to tell the story. This thesis documents the adaptive reuse of these suburban frameworks and develops a proposition for the appropriate next layer to accommodate a new culture of inhabitants.
Focusing on second generation suburbs, using Gwinnett County as a case study, this analysis identifies three problems of the current suburban situation: the problem of abandoned strips, a demographic shift, and the need for place. As new strip highways develop, old strips decline leaving abandoned shopping centers and declining property values. New development continues to move north and out of the county, and middle class residents, for which existing auto-oriented suburbs were created, move as well. A new, poorer, and more ethnically diverse population inherits the auto-oriented landscape left behind. This phenomenon is particularly concentrated along the southern portion of the Buford Highway corridor. Those with more money move closer to new development, while those with less money have less choice and are found near declining strips with fewer services, poorer quality housing and lower quality of life. Finally, county officials have expressed a desire for defining "the epicenter of Gwinnett."
I believe that there is no one "center" of Gwinnett, but a series of places defined by memory, design or events. I propose to improve the situation of these three problems with a light rail line that connects existing places and creates new walkable, livable places to improve quality of life. This connective piece will serve as a social condenser in lieu of a center, provide links between polar populations, and reactivate declining strips while creating a sustainable infrastructural spine for future growth in the region.
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Gillies, 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.
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Jones, Christopher Shields. "SubUrban Highrise." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34148.
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Urban homes are vertical. Suburban homes are horizontal. They are two distinct typologies. Both urban and suburban homes relate to their location, vertical like the city, and horizontal like the
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These homes are very recognizable in the American landscape. Suburban homes are 1-2 stories with a garage, a yard, and tree-lined streets. Urban homes are many apartments stacked on top of each other within a single building, each with a small balcony and a parking garage underneath.
What about the in between? What happens in the spaces that are not quite urban, and yet not quite suburban? So many people live in these spaces today. They want the excitement and jobs the city offers, but they also want the comfort and space of the suburbs, especially for their families.
This building is a response to those spaces, a building that is urban, but is also suburban.Master of Architecture
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NOVOSEL, BENJAMIN RYAN. "SUBURBAN LIFESTYLES." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053379308.
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Vandehey, Scott Lawrence. "Suburban citizenship." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3355727.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 23, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-362).
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Benton, Justin Richard. "Suburban Heights." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/202.
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Pretorius, 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.
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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.
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This project involved development of a series of new building and urban designs available for innovators operating in new suburban greenfield situations in Queensland, Australia. The project drew on significant primary research with suburban home-based creative industries workers, vernacular architecture, and town planning in the Toowoomba region, and comprised construction of a prototype 'homeworkhouse' in Clifton, Queensland. The work also included production of a book featuring building concept plans and urban designs for a creative suburb made up entirely of homeworkhouses especially designed for creative work, as well as a short video explaining the prototype building.
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Rolley, Stephanie. "Suburban urban patterns : the future form of suburban growth corridors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77324.
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Detwiler, Robert. "Redefining suburban peripheries." This title: PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Pope, Gerald. "Reading suburban narratives." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555144.
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This thesis discusses London suburban-set fiction as enacting a key semiotic problem of modernity: how the individual must interpret, make sense of, and inhabit a particular locality. By semiotic here I mean the individual's drive to capture external reality, to read and constitute a sense of what is meaningful and objectively real in the suburban habitat. The suburb is presented in much suburban fiction as a key exemplar of modem built space insofar as it continually thwarts the individual's attempts to see and read it, to make it home. Suburban fiction presents a site that continually thwarts its perception, understanding and constitution and one that is thus experienced, in different ways, as strange, odd or unsettling. The thesis discusses London's suburban fiction from the 1860s to the present day and each chapter focusses on different aspects of this struggle to see the truth of, and find meaning in, the suburbs. Suburban fiction presents a chronicle of compromised seeing. It repeatedly emphasises doubt and confusion, spectacle and performance, varieties of deception and falseness, modes of fantasy, vision and dream, the ghostly, insubstantial and unreal. It foregrounds the anxious urge for rational investigation and the complex relation of surface signs to the reality of depths. Related to this, suburban fiction also presents an environment that is materially compromised. There is a doubt anxiety expressed in suburban fiction over the substantive nature of external reality and we note constant references to a materiality gone awry, to the things of the domestic real that threaten to overwhelm and suffocate the individual, or else to withdraw, or to actively attack and terrorise the suburban inhabitant. The suburban body itself, in so much suburban-set fiction, becomes the site of this struggle, portrayed as thing- like, as ineffectual and powerless, as sickly or diseased, as comic and absurd. In most suburban fiction the suburb is never homely and inhabitants struggle to make such spaces legible and meaningful. The present work traces how such fiction has evolved over the last century and a half.
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Harman, David Mark. "Suburban house studies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66750.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130).
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.
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DiMarco, Daniel Joseph. "Alternative suburban settlements." Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02132009-172258/.
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Paynter, 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.
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This research explores why and how suburban local authorities are attempting to invigorate their cultural provision for economic, environmental and social ends by investigating how culture is used in suburban places as part of regeneration. In response to the perceived neglect and degradation of England’s suburbs and the ongoing significance of cultural regeneration strategies, this thesis examines the contemporary conceptualisation of suburban development at the national scale and considers three case study areas - Bury, Croydon and Sandwell - in terms of their cultural development and regeneration at the local authority scale. I argue that the national scale policy-contributing discussion employs many urban regeneration discourses when considering the future development of suburbs, while also reinforcing rather than unsettling many suburban stereotypes. From my analysis of suburban local authority cultural policies, development practices and resulting cultural venues and spaces, I conclude that the mobilisation of culture for suburban regeneration has similar characteristics, aims and assumptions to strategies in urban areas. Each of the case study areas demonstrates different plans and expectations for cultural development, with a range of resulting practices, challenges and outcomes. This thesis concludes that place-specific cultural development and regeneration approaches that avoid replicating urban regeneration rhetoric and practice should be a focus for future suburban development.
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Morgan, 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.
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Weber, Michael Stewart. "Mending : opportunities for Springville, Utah to counteract suburban sprawl." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4108.
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Ohashi, 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/.
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Over recent decades, Tokyo’s suburban territory has experienced new path-dependent, multifaceted restructuring in the context of stagnation and/or decline, which has been materialised by interactions among urban policies, economic restructuring and socio-demographic transformation. In this process, Tokyo’s suburban territory has been increasingly isolated in political and administrative, economic and socio-demographic terms, incorporating the multi-dimensional divergence of outer suburban municipalities. Consequently, municipal governments and other local actors have been left to tackle suburban shrinkage alone under the retreat of upper-level governmental entities and global economic actors. Exploring underlying mechanisms, this research reveals that the multi-dimensional suburban isolation has been created by the metropolitan-wide dynamics of inter-governmental, inter-sectoral and inter-actor dynamics. It also reveals that the multi-dimensional outer suburban divergence has been created by local-wide differentiations of these metropolitan-wide dynamics, resulting in the difficulty of inter-municipal collaboration especially for industrial and commercial promotion. Consequently, Tokyo’s suburban territory has been degenerating from ‘post-suburban’ spaces to balkanised spaces with less diverse activities. Especially, its economy has been increasingly localised with weakened linkages to external territories including global economic circuits. Now, integrated suburban economic development is crucial for the future suburban sustainability and regeneration of Tokyo Metropolis. In this vein, this research proposes a new approach of integrated urban-suburban economic development that ensures multi-dimensional urban-suburban linkages to create new platforms for collaborations among different actors for suburban economic development. This approach can be established by creating new modes of inter-governmental, inter-sectoral and inter-actor dynamics. Through this approach, Tokyo’s suburban territory would be re-positioned within vertically and horizontally integrated economic spaces under inter-governmental and intra-governmental integrations. Then, on the basis of Tokyo’s empirical evidences, this research concludes the importance of evolutionary perspective-based investigations into active and latent dynamics within various suburban transformations worldwide, as well as proposes policy and planning implications for other large metropolises.
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Daborn, 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.
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Notions of modernity as progress have traditionally excluded the significance of woman's societal participation. This thesis investigates the exclusion of woman from the rhetoric of modernity and modem living through her culturally defined role as the primary shopper. Entrenched ambiguities have helped sustain societal contradictions that have marred both the cultural identity of woman as primary shopper and the suburban shopping centre. This dissertation, therefore, analyses the mid-twentieth century suburban shopping centre in relation 10 retail practice and woman's cultural identity in relation to broader community change. Evolving from within the specific dynamics of modern living, the values of progress are coupled with tradition thereby creating a unique space that represents both change and stability. This dissertation grounds the progressive value of modernity within the cyclical traditions of everyday practice to construct an understanding of woman's cultural identity in relation to the demands of modem living. A critique of broader societal issues and retail development culminate in a focused analysis of the Roselands shopping centre in Sydney, Australia 1965. Acknowledging the importance of use in the construction of meaning recognises the woman as primary shopper as integral to the rhetoric of retail practice and societal progress. A gap emerges within woman's cultural identity because although she is culturally aligned with the traditions of domesticity her role as primary shopper also positions her as central to modem living. It is within this ideological gap that a movement of meaning occurs and situates the shopping centre as a site of cultural mediation. This dissertation concludes that issues of accessibility and everyday use positions the shopping space as an important site of social mediation that negotiates cultural change on a level of everyday practice and, importantly, acknowledges woman's presence and participation within modernity.
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Lodal, 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.
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Cox, Emily Elizabeth. "Subversia the suburban subversive /." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1202500475/.
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Patterson, Charles Forrest III. "A new suburban morphology." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23100.
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GREEN, ADAM J. "URBAN EDGE: SUBURBAN DREAMS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1084900580.
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Green, Adam J. "Urban edge suburban dreams /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1084900580.
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Bindner, 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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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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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.
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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.
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Randall, Todd Andrew. "Decision support for suburban retrofitting /." *McMaster only, 2001.
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Robson, 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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The site, located in Alexandria, Virginia, is three acres and bounded by a road to the north, existing single family homes to the east and west, and a wooded area to the south. The slope falls away from the road and there is a swale running down the center of the site. The site strategy has three elements. The first is a private drive running along the western site boundary which will allow access to all six dwellings. Large site walls, dividing the site for each dwelling, comprise the second element. The third element is building walls set perpendicular to the site walls which begin to establish each dwelling.
Following the site strategy, the dwellings are composed of three basic areas. The public side includes a carport which is set close to the drive, and alongside of it the beginning of the major axis leading through each dwelling. The dwelling itself exists in the space created by the walls established upon the site. The living rooms are composed of indoor and outdoor space separated by large glass walls set into and between building walls. On the private side outside rooms are established, between and beyond the frames created by the building walls, which terrace down the slope.
The materials, concrete masonry units and poured in place concrete are utilized as different building elements so the walls reveal their purpose through their form.Master of Architecture
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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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This thesis is concerned with images and objects of architecture.
Today, the advent of "modernism" and the progress of science give rise to nihilism and extreme functionalism. As the result of such trends, architects have tried to find the ways with which they can continue to work without the type of "Aim" which traditional architects sought. Some forms of hightech architecture and deconstructionist architecture were the result of an attempt to overcome "the death of architecture".
However, although they thought images and values were already dead, we still cannot deny there are, in our living environment, countless images and values which strongly influence our life styles. For example, today's strongest culture, commercialism, is using images and icons as if laughing at those who declared "the death of images and values". Even some contemporary philosophers, like Jean Baudrillard, argue everything is the result of images: "Simualtion".
Thus, it seems irresponsible, as architects creating our living environments, just to deny images and values.
Also, as architects, we cannot abandon the study about objects by accepting Baudrillard's position.
Thus, I will investigate, in this thesis, how objects are related to images and how values are created from such relations. I expect that this investigation will show that what has changed is just the ways of making images and values and the ways that images and values influence our lifes. It will, finally, show images and values will never disappear as long as human culture exists.
Suburban America provides good material to study such a thesis because, although it has a comparatively simple organization, it exhibits complex contemporary phenomena.Master of Architecture
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references.Due 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.
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Sucahyono, Hadi. "Neighborhood impacts on suburban housing values." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150383842.
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Bendana, Fabio J. "Theorizing suburban public space in Kendall." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1504.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether public space in the suburbs has the same settings as that of a central city or if it has its own characteristics.
In order to approach this problem the area of Kendall was thoroughly studied by examining aerial maps, historic images and writings of local historians such as Donna Knowles Born. Heavy emphasis was placed on the transformation of the original one-mile grid characteristic of the city of Miami. As the area of Kendall was being developed, the grid was transformed into an irregular and organic method of laying out a street system that directly affected pedestrian life. It became evident, therefore, that Kendall is primarily geared toward automobile movement, thus affecting the setting of public space. This also restricted social events forcing them to concentrate in specific places like the malls.
These findings demonstrated that malls are centers of social interaction concentrating many social activities in one place. In other words, a mall serves as a common meeting place in the otherwise vast spread of the suburbs.
This thesis also explains how public spaces in a suburban context can affect the community by working as filtering agents between the immediate context of a particular site and the overall city. The project, a "Wellness Center and Park" for the Kendall area, was an exploration of these filtering agents and the transitions they engendered. The research upon which this project was based recognized the important role of the site's history as well as extrapolating as to its future potential.
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Mesher, Daniel R. "Youth ministry to suburban street gangs." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1093.
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Flynn, 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.
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This is an inquiry into the evolution of the North American suburb by way of review of notable historical precedents of various types of suburban developments.A 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.
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Havens, Gregory T. "Pedestrian pockets--a new suburban paradigm?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66745.
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Abolina, Viktorija. "Corporate icons in the suburban landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79148.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.This 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.
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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.
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Super, 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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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-127).
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.
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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.
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Bailey, 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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Architecture is simultaneously a creative and a destructive endeavour. As mankind has become more aware of the natural cycles of creation and destruction, we have begun to perceive that building resources are not available without consequence. Urban development is also a complex construct which follows these cycles of creation and destruction. Unfortunately, the primary processes of urban development are far too often misunderstood. Fragmented and neglected areas have become commonplace throughout many cities as they undergo the continuous change which has become a seemingly inevitable part of modern society. As architects, we should focus our abilities on the more efficient and thoughtful use of land and existing infrastructures as a way of refining the cyclical patterns of contemporary urban development.
This thesis examines the possibility of repairing isolated and disjointed suburban development in and around American cities. We will explore how the continuous refinement of existing development might occur in just one example of a socially and functionally fragmented area of a city. A prototypical suburban housing block is proposed as the basic unit of repair for this particular suburban landscape. A building consisting of thirty-six housing units was designed to be constructed in an existing suburban business district, with the intent of creating the most positive impact on existing development with the least expenditure of energy and space. The architecture of the building itself arises from the following critical investigation into the fundamental elements of housing.Master of Architecture
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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.
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The main objective of this study was to examine the abundance and diversity of ants in suburban sites following vegetation removal or modification for development. This research examines the capacity of suburban sites to support ant diversity, which is dependent on the site characteristics and their surrounding environment. The study focused on 29 suburban garden and 3 suburban reserve sites on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. This region, through continuing land development, undergoes ongoing habitat disturbance and modification. Ground-dwelling ants were collected by pitfall trapping in study sites over three summers between 1997 and 1999. In total, 28,512 ants from 60 species in 31 genera were collected. Garden sites that maintain vegetation structural diversity were found to be most similar to reserve sites in terms of ant community composition. These sites were highest in ant richness and diversity and contained particularly high proportions of specialized ant species. Sites in close proximity to remnants of native vegetation contained higher species diversity and a greater proportion of specialized ant species. The introduced tramp ant, Pheidole megacephala was found in 28 of the 32 sites and was found to significantly reduce ant species richness and diversity and displace the dominant ant Iridomyrmex sp. 1 in suburban environments. This ant poses a serious threat to the recovery of a diverse ant fauna to suburban environments. Ant community composition was shown to vary significantly among suburban sites. The ant functional groups commonly found in disturbed sites were abundant in open sites with little canopy cover in this study. Sites that provided vegetation structural diversity and areas of closed canopy supported similar functional groups to natural vegetation remnants. These results indicate that ant communities in suburban environments respond to disturbance in a similar manner to ant communities in tropical forests and rainforests. The dominance by functional groups and presence of specialized species may therefore be used as an indicator of disturbance and the restoration of suitable habitat in suburban sites. The presence of specialized species of ants in suburban garden sites and their clear preference for particular site characteristics indicate that these species utilize resources available in the suburban matrix. These results indicate that residential suburban sites are of value in the enhancement of ant diversity in fragmented landscapes and that they may provide supportive habitat to, and act as corridors between, vegetation fragments. In order to preserve biodiversity within suburban environments, landowners should be advised to retain as much existing vegetation within a site as possible. Clearing should be limited to that necessary to allow construction of dwellings and for safety. In addition, landowners should be encouraged to establish or maintain structurally diverse vegetation layers within sites in order to provide diverse microenvironments for fauna habitat.
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Clough, 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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The main objective of this study was to examine the abundance and diversity of ants in suburban sites following vegetation removal or modification for development. This research examines the capacity of suburban sites to support ant diversity, which is dependent on the site characteristics and their surrounding environment. The study focused on 29 suburban garden and 3 suburban reserve sites on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. This region, through continuing land development, undergoes ongoing habitat disturbance and modification. Ground-dwelling ants were collected by pitfall trapping in study sites over three summers between 1997 and 1999. In total, 28,512 ants from 60 species in 31 genera were collected. Garden sites that maintain vegetation structural diversity were found to be most similar to reserve sites in terms of ant community composition. These sites were highest in ant richness and diversity and contained particularly high proportions of specialized ant species. Sites in close proximity to remnants of native vegetation contained higher species diversity and a greater proportion of specialized ant species. The introduced tramp ant, Pheidole megacephala was found in 28 of the 32 sites and was found to significantly reduce ant species richness and diversity and displace the dominant ant Iridomyrmex sp. 1 in suburban environments. This ant poses a serious threat to the recovery of a diverse ant fauna to suburban environments. Ant community composition was shown to vary significantly among suburban sites. The ant functional groups commonly found in disturbed sites were abundant in open sites with little canopy cover in this study. Sites that provided vegetation structural diversity and areas of closed canopy supported similar functional groups to natural vegetation remnants. These results indicate that ant communities in suburban environments respond to disturbance in a similar manner to ant communities in tropical forests and rainforests. The dominance by functional groups and presence of specialized species may therefore be used as an indicator of disturbance and the restoration of suitable habitat in suburban sites. The presence of specialized species of ants in suburban garden sites and their clear preference for particular site characteristics indicate that these species utilize resources available in the suburban matrix. These results indicate that residential suburban sites are of value in the enhancement of ant diversity in fragmented landscapes and that they may provide supportive habitat to, and act as corridors between, vegetation fragments. In order to preserve biodiversity within suburban environments, landowners should be advised to retain as much existing vegetation within a site as possible. Clearing should be limited to that necessary to allow construction of dwellings and for safety. In addition, landowners should be encouraged to establish or maintain structurally diverse vegetation layers within sites in order to provide diverse microenvironments for fauna habitat.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
School of Environmental and Applied Science
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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.
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This study examines 2000 and 2010 Census data to determine the resettlement patterns of urban and suburban residents in 23 American metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). Previous research discusses the development of an affluent suburbia, leaving postindustrial cities in decline. However, recent literature suggests the reurbanization of postindustrial cities by the creative class, a Return to the City movement fueled by middle class entrepreneurs, artists, and technocrats. Alongside reurbanization are increases in poverty, and racial and ethnic enclaves in suburbia. The literature shows these trends as two separate, independent processes. This study investigates the relationship between these processes within MSAs. Consistent with existing literature, this study finds that from 2000 to 2010, there are increases in poverty and racial and ethnic diversity in the suburbs, and increases in middle and upper class white populations within central cities. This study reveals quantitative data concerning the future of American urban and suburban demography.
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Fung, 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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