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Lee, Sugie. "Metropolitan Growth Patterns' Impact on Intra-Regional Spatial Differentiation and Inner-Ring Suburban Decline: Insights for Smart Growth." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005, 2005. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04182005-002619/unrestricted/lee%5Fsugie%5F200505%5Fphd.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.Steven P. French, Committee Chair ; Cheryl K. Contant, Committee Member ; Randall L. Guensler, Committee Member ; Gregory B. Lewis, Committee Member ; Nancey Green Leigh, Committee Co-Chair. Includes bibliographical references.
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Graham, Malcolm. "The suburbs of Victorian Oxford : growth in a pre-industrial city." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8427.
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This study examines the origins, growth and subsequent character of the Victorian suburbs of Oxford, a small provincial city with no industrial base. Major sources include newspapers, census enumerators' returns, deposited plans, and plan registers, rate books, the records of leasehold estates and deeds of properties acquired by the City Council. Chapters are devoted to:- The Creation of the Suburbs; Development Control; the House-Building Industry; Suburban Houses; House-Ownership; Residents of the Suburbs and Life in the Suburbs. Victorian Oxford grew steadily, attracting local migration because of the varied job opportunities. Suburban development was profoundly influenced by topography and the decisions taken by landowners. Corporate landowners preferred leasehold development to outright sale and their concern for reversionary value encouraged the building of high-cost, low-density housing. On freehold estates, too, standards were raised by the social and financial preferences of developers and builders, the introduction of building byelaws and the rising real incomes of potential investors and tenants. Access to cheap freehold plots prolonged the fragmentation of a building industry which depended heavily upon loans and credit. The suburbs were the product of innumerable local and personal decisions, providing a safe income for many private landlords and larger, more sanitary homes for better-off tenants. The new suburbs required many services and facilities, but the provision of these owed much to their social status. With an increasing number of resident councillors, leasehold, middle-class North Oxford had the political and economic power to maintain and enhance its character. Elsewhere, market forces prevailed over amenity, public utilities were grudgingly provided and the limited nature of municipal intervention was most seriously felt. Conditions were ameliorated, however, by those people and organisations who, for various reasons, provided churches, schools and recreational facilities.
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Edwards, David Michael. "Congregating public facility investment of sustainable community: the school-centered community approach." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37290.
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Land development patterns have long been a reflection of not only consumer preferences but of public policy. To the extent that such policy has supported scattered, low-density and automobile-dependent development patterns, it has been found to be deficient. It is not only the private land developers who have created sprawl. Government agencies at all levels have also contributed to the problem in the ways they invest in public infrastructure devoid of a coordinated strategy. Schools, public recreational facilities, and branch libraries often are isolated from one another.
Two case studies were used to demonstrate the manner in which planned, congregated public facilities came first and succeeded in providing the impetus to sustainable private sector response loosely following a master plan. The first case study examines the urban neighborhood of City Heights in San Diego, California, where a blighted, crime-ridden neighborhood was redeveloped with the construction of several public assets, all within a small, nine-block area. The result was the participation of the private sector in this neighborhood where ten years prior, there was private sector abandonment. The second case study examines the Town Center project located in Suwanee, Georgia. In this example, a city municipality took the helm as master developer, initiated 'place' in the form of an urban-style park, and thereby created the impetus for the subsequent investment by the private sector.
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Davis, Thomas C. "The relationship among organizational culture, pastoral leadership style, and worship attendance growth in United Methodist churches in rapidly growing suburbs of Atlanta." 24-page ProQuest preview, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=1&did=1375508231&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=14&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1220030963&clientId=10355.
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Oliver, Sheila Cameron. "The administration of urban society in Scotland, 1800-50, with reference to the growth of civic government in Glasgow and its suburbs." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.673838.
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Benedict, Zachary R. "Band-aids & bomb shelters : an analytic narrative envisioning the American suburban fabric as a construct for poachable territories that engage the routine of the everyday." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1318942.
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The consumerism of Western culture has allowed the prevailing suburban development pattern of the latter half of the twentieth century to evolve from a pedestrian-friendly canvas for the American Dream into an iconographic realization of commuting motorists decentralized from social interaction. Symbolizing solitude and privatization. this sprawling environment has become an epidemic deteriorating the social network in the United States: a condition that requires a remedy.With the popularization of traditional neighborhood development. a large majority of newly constructed communities find themselves located away from the realities of the modern bait environment. Like a bomb shelter. occupants have been allowed the opportunity to escape to a time before sprawl. consequently ignoring the problem. In order to address this condition. these issues can no longer go unaddressed they must be healed. This study depicts suburbia as an evolving network requiring a reinsertion of a mixed-functionality into its failed developments in order to reengage the occupant and revive suburbia's communal identity: in turn allowing the resolution to evolve from a bomb shelter to a Band-Aid.With research methods including qualitative assessments of numerous case studies. writings and diagrammatic theories regarding the social realm. interviews. and the consideration of numerous texts regarding interdisciplinary concerns as well as popular culture and sociological understandings. the study defines suburbia as a poachable territory — a construct that harvests opportunities for the occupant to reengage their context. By reversing the evolution from pedestrian to motorist. these interventions allow communities to embezzle the environment in an effort to establish a collective identity and reintroduce a social ream. Furthermore. these theories are then inserted in a generalizable residential development in Carmel. Indiana named Village Park Estates. By analyzing the potential found in these developments this epidemic can begin to be diagnosed allowing the author to establish a solution grounded in the routine of the everyday.Department of Architecture
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Sakrison, Rodney G. "Summer water use in compact communities : the effect of small lots and growth management plans on single-family water use in King County, Washington /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10797.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. "OPENING THE SUBURBS AFTER OPEN COMMUNITIES: THE DAYTON PLAN AND THE FAIR-SHARE ERA OF FAIR HOUSING, 1968–1981." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1557933763625301.
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Zhang, Wenwen. "The effect of compact development on travel behavior, energy consumption and GHG emissions in Phoenix metropolitan area." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47703.
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Suburban growth in the U.S. urban regions has been defined by large subdivisions of single-family detached units. This growth is made possible by the mobility supported by automobiles and an extensive highway network. These dispersed and highly automobile-dependent developments have generated a large body of work examining the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of suburban growth on cities. The particular debate that this study addresses is whether suburban residents are more energy intensive in their travel behavior than central city residents. If indeed suburban residents have needs that are not satisfied by the amenities around them, they may be traveling farther to access such services. However, if suburbs are becoming like cities with a wide range of services and amenities, travel might be contained and no different from the travel behavior of residents in central areas.
This paper will compare the effects of long term suburban growth on travel behavior, energy consumption, and GHG emissions through a case study of neighborhoods in central Phoenix and the city of Gilbert, both in the Phoenix metropolitan region. Motorized travel patterns in these study areas will be generated using 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data by developing a four-step transportation demand model in TransCAD. Energy consumption and GHG emissions, including both Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) and Nitrous Oxide (N₂O) for each study area will be estimated based on the corresponding trip distribution results. The final normalized outcomes will not only be compared spatially between Phoenix and Gilbert within the same year, but also temporally between years 2001 and 2009 to determine how the differential land use changes in those places influenced travel.
The results from this study reveal that suburban growth does have an impact on people's travel behaviors. As suburbs grew and diversified, the difference in travel behavior between people living in suburban and urban areas became smaller. In the case of shopping trips the average length of trips for suburban residents in 2009 was slightly shorter than that for central city residents. This convergence was substantially due to the faster growth in trip lengths for central city compared to suburban residents in the 8-year period. However, suburban residents continue to be more energy intensive in their travel behavior, as the effect of reduction in trip length is likely to be offset by the more intensive growth in trip frequency. Additionally, overall energy consumption has grown significantly in both study areas over the period of study.
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Tremoulet, Andrée. "Policy Responses to the Closure of Manufactured Home Parks in Oregon." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/304.
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This is a case study about policy responses to a specific form of gentrification at the urban fringe: the closure of manufactured home parks in Oregon.The study analyzes the following research questions: (a) What factors affected the quantity and distribution of manufactured home parks? (b) Why did parks close? (c) How did the state legislature respond and why? (d) What are the likely impacts of the state response? A wide variety of sources (e.g., key informant interviews, observations of meetings and public hearings, focus groups of park residents, archival materials and secondary data about manufactured home parks) are employed to investigate a phenomenon imbedded in its context.Parks subject to development pressures, as evidenced by their location in an area experiencing population growth and within an Urban Growth Boundary, were significantly more likely to close than other parks. Manufactured home parks were replaced by compact, mixed-use development in urban or urbanizing areas--smart growth. Based on this evidence, this study concludes that gentrification, in the form of park closures, is integral to Oregon's process of metropolitan restructuring.In the wake of mounting publicity about park closures, the 2007 Oregon legislature adopted legislation that supported two ameliorating strategies: (a) reduce the harm caused to displaced manufactured homeowners through financial assistance, and (b) preserve parks where possible through enabling resident purchases from willing sellers. Who pays for the costs of this legislative package and preemption of local ordinances were the most contested issues.This research is one of the first to analyze gentrification in urban fringe areas. To understand the economic dynamics, it applies rent gap theory to the special case of divided asset ownership. It explores the likely efficacy of two types of policy remedies. Finally, by establishing park closures as a form of gentrification related to metropolitan restructuring, this case study raises the question of whether policies could support a kind of metropolitan restructuring that does not take the toll on people and places exacted by gentrification.
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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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Bremer, Jonathan Eddy. "Rusk's elasticity and residential income segregation in contemporary American cities." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217386.
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David Rusk claims in Cities Without Suburbs that elastic American cities are less segregated than other American cities. I demonstrate through statistical analyses that there is a strong correlation between Rusk's elasticity (an index comprised of a central city's annexation history since 1950 and its population density) and his income segregation index. The statistical correlation between these two variables is stronger than between Rusk's segregation index and any other variable I test, including city age, size, regional location, and black population percentage. I then consider several hypotheses that may explain these correlations and propose that the continuous annexation of peripheral, developing land by a central city prevents the incorporation of affluent suburbs. Suburban boundaries, especially those of affluent suburbs, function as population sorting mechanisms, which segregate migrant households by socioeconomic status and life-style. I ascertain that only rapidly growing, unbounded central cities prevent or ameliorate segregation by being elastic.Department of Urban Planning
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Hughes, Pedro Javier Aguerre. "Periferia: um estudo sobre a segregação socioespacial na cidade de São Paulo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2003. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21165.
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This research analyses the development of periferic areas of São Paulo city. During the different stages of this development, we observed a progressive degeneration of the worker's condition in their job so as in their everyday lifea These people were expelled to the suburb areas due to a precarious residencial and urbane situation. Thus, this is a reflection uppon violence and the actual situation in this context, trying to find a new meaning to the City based on this reality
O presente estudo pretende colocar em evidência o processo histórico que leva a um padrão periférico de crescimento urbano na cidade de São Paulo, característico dos processos de urbanização subdesenvolvidos, segregando a população para localizações cada vez mais distantes dos centros do mercado de trabalho, em assentamentos geralmente precários. Assim, desde os anos 40, por diversos mecanismos e razões históricas, diferentes segmentos sociais são envolvidos por essa dinâmica, sendo impelidos em direção a formas cada vez mais precárias de moradia, infraestrutura urbana e de acesso aos serviços e equipamentos públicos, possibilitando muitas vezes a posse da moradia e a fuga do aluguel, mas configurando, de qualquer modo, processos de segregação socioespacial que intensificam a exclusão social e do mercado de trabalho. Nas últimas décadas, as transformações econômicas e do mercado de trabalho acentuam essa tendência, promovendo, especialmente nos anos 90, uma verdadeira diáspora das classes trabalhadoras, que não conseguem mais se manter nas áreas melhor servidas. Assim, se agudiza ainda mais o processo de periferização, com o adensamento progressivo das áreas de ampliação da fronteira urbana metropolitana, Neste contexto, a partir de suas novas características sociais e demográficas, as periferias se apresentam, no presente, como um objeto de estudo relevante, com características urbanísticas e sociais singulares, que redefinem sua importância na problematização do estatuto urbano da cidade de São Paulo e das condições sociais de vida desses segmentos sociais, que são a maioria da população. O presente estudo busca resgatar a especificidade das periferias, incluindo estudos recentes desenvolvidos no âmbito do Projeto Bairro Legal, desenvolvido pela Secretaria de Habitação e Desenvolvimento Urbano do Município de São Paulo, acrescido de reflexões, entrevistas e dados de outras fontes, enfatizando três distritos considerados de alta exclusão social (Jardim Ângela, Brasilândia e Cidade Tiradentes), os quais representam emblemáticas expressões territorializadas e tipologias, no amplo leque da precariedade urbanística e habitacional. Neste campo, propõe-se, por fim, a problematização da questão da violência, pois, a julgar pelas estatísticas e dados sobre os homicídios — sua manifestação mais aguda e visível — nos distritos de maior exclusão social, ele se apresenta como um aspecto privilegiado de análise. Esta questão é entendida como uma referência privilegiada para ampliar a visibilidade sobre os estratos majoritários da infância e juventude, propondo-se a desestigmatização da relação entre pobreza, juventude e violência e qualificandomais o fenômeno, com vistas à problematização da questão da cidadania e das perspectivas de vida nesses estratos sociais
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Mandich, Matthew James. "The growth and extent of Rome : from fringe to suburb." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40026.
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This thesis takes an interdisciplinary, multi-theoretical approach to investigate the physical growth and expansion of ancient Rome in relation to its concomitant economic and demographic development from its inception as a decidedly urban entity in the Archaic period (6th century BC) to the construction of the Aurelian Wall in the later 3rd century AD. In particular, it seeks to achieve more accurate delineations of Rome’s urban and suburban space, diachronically, and to analyze and qualify Rome’s physical and economic expansion through a re-assessment of the available archaeological and textual evidence and the employment of models and theories from disciplines such as Economic Geography, Regional Science, Urban Morphology, and Complexity Science. As such, case studies from Rome’s eastern periphery and so-called ‘suburbium’ were used to more fully explore and evaluate the applicability and usefulness of frameworks designed for the study of contemporary cities in an ancient setting. The results presented show that such approaches do have value for tracking and examining Rome’s urban and suburban growth on local, regional, and macro scales. In addition, their application allows both the underlying stimuli behind the City’s urban and suburban expansion, as well as the impacts of it, to be analyzed and understood in novel and meaningful ways. Furthermore, as an emerging framework known as Settlement Scaling Theory indicates the physical, demographic, and economic growth of settlements correlate in both past and present urban systems, the style and speed of Rome’s urban growth should also be seen to reflect its economic and demographic development, which has significant implications for how we interpret the City’s archaeological remains.
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Siddique, MD Abu Baker. "Rethinking Dead Mall: Reconsidering an American vacant mall site as a seed for re-growth." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104068.
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The rapid urban development has impacted a great loss of natural landscape in the U.S in recent years. In the process of urbanization, the population has moved from the city centers to the edges of the Metropolitan or the newly developed suburbs as much as 62% until 2000. The annual conversion rate of undeveloped land to developed land between 1982 and 1992 was 1.4 million acres per year while it accelerated later in only five years between 1992 and 1997 to 2.2 million acres per year. Among all the development one of the most common was the Enormous shopping mall in suburban districts which are the collections of a vast range of retail corporations in response to the growing consumerism. In support of the gigantic malls, more service infrastructures were built as in the multi-storied parking garages, surface parking, HVAC.
Currently, the total number of malls in the U.S is approximately 116,000. The downside of the development has been observed as rapid as it has grown. As in 2014, nearly 3% of all the malls in the United States were considered to be "dying" (40% or higher vacancy rates) and nearly one-fifth of all malls had vacancy rates considered "troubling" (10% or higher). The sudden deterioration was caused because of several factors such as the socio-economic change of the demography in the urban context, the change in the spending habit of the consumers (i.e. spending for experience rather than goods), Rise of the E-commerce, etc. While the dying circumstance continues, these vast and trapped places have nothing but negative impacts in the urban environment as being wasteful land, blocking the visual connectivity through places, clogging the pedestrian flow, contributing to the heat island effect. Thus the problem is evoking to rethink a sustainable design approach.
This thesis will first generate an adaptive master plan for the future, in a specific site as the result of investigating the socio-economic issues that forced the mall site to be vacant. After projecting the master plan, the architectural project will be proposed which will prioritize the physical and social development of the context. Educating people regarding the redevelopment of the community and the sustainable way of living are the key features of the project. The new project will be considered an iconic community asset that would serve the neighborhoods.Master of Architecture
The rapid urban development has impacted a great loss of natural landscape in the U.S in recent years. In the process of urbanization, the population has moved from the city centers to the edges of the Metropolitan or the newly developed suburbs as much as 62% until 2000. To serve the resettled population new services have been developed at the outskirts of the cities. Among all the development one of the most common was the Enormous shopping mall in suburban districts which are the collections of a vast range of retail corporations in response to the growing consumerism. In support of the gigantic malls, more service infrastructures were built as in the multi-storied parking garages, surface parking, HVAC. Currently, the total number of malls in the U.S is approximately 116,000. The downside of the development has been observed as rapid as it has grown. As in 2014, nearly 3% of all the malls in the United States were considered to be "dying" (40% or higher vacancy rates) and nearly one-fifth of all malls had vacancy rates considered "troubling" (10% or higher). The sudden deterioration was caused because of several factors such as the socio-economic change of the demography in the urban context, the change in the spending habit of the consumers (i.e. spending for experience rather than goods), Rise of the E-commerce, etc. This thesis will explore the strategy for reintegrating the troubling mall sites within the urban fabric. The thesis will first generate an adaptive master plan for the future, in a specific site as the result of investigating the socio-economic issues that forced the mall site to be vacant. After projecting the master plan, the architectural project will be proposed which will prioritize the physical and social development of the context. Educating people regarding the redevelopment of the community and the sustainable way of living are the key features of the project. The new project will be considered an iconic community asset that would serve the neighborhoods.
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McDonald, Terence Andre. "Poole, 1815 - 1881 : suburban growth and social change." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239455.
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Roberts, Jeremy Paul. "Transitioning the local church from a rural to suburban context." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Gough, Meghan Zimmerman. "Country Ain't Country No More: A Typology of the Nation's Fast-Growing Peripheral Counties." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33877.
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This study uses data on the fast-growing peripheral counties located in the 50 largest metropolitan areas to test the null hypothesis that counties located on the metropolitan fringe are demographically homogenous. Using multivariate analysis, the analysis statistically identifies distinct groups of counties in the metropolitan fringe. In contrast to much of the standard literature, the research rejects the null hypothesis and suggests that more than one exurbia exists.
This study also explores the varying pressures and demands faced by the different exurban county types in response to massive and compounding growth stresses, recognizing the complexity of managing growth in the fringe and the implications for planners. It is expected that counties identified as â similarâ will experience common-responses to different programs and policies addressing growth pressures. Similar counties should therefore use these results to facilitate information exchange concerning successful or unsuccessful strategies.Master of Urban and Regional Planning
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Cratty, Ronald A. "Outreach and assimilation in a newly-planted suburban church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Henion, David. "The local mother church gives birth to a daughter church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p030-0163.
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Franklin, Joshua C. "Improving Urban Watershed Health Through Suburban Infill Design and Development." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43713.
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Up to 75 percent of new construction between 2000 and 2030 may â be redirected inward or into more compact, mixed-use suburban developments (Nelson, 2004). If this assertion is even nearly true, and if the goals of the Clean Water Act are to be met in the next generation of American cities, then we must find feasible and effective ways of improving urban watershed health using retrofit and infill development as a primary means. The aim of this study is to evaluate the patterns and approaches of suburban infill developments in order to determine which methods and extents are deemed capable of improving the health, sustainability and natural services of urban streams and watersheds. Water is considered to be foundational to urban and suburban sustainability and is treated as a primary indicator of overall health and sustainability within the context of this study.
This thesis presents three pilot studies that examine urban watershed health using a single case as a vehicle. The studies, in the order they are presented, are: 1) Form- analyzing the relationship between landuse patterns and imperviousness, 2) Planning- relating questions of development scale planning and design to natural and cultural systems at the watershed scale and 3) Valuation- illustrating three possibilities for determining the economic value of improving urban watershed health.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Van, Horn Stephen L. "Defining a role for a small suburban church in a megachurch environment." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Levine, Karen R. (Karen Rosenzweig). "The shaping of the suburban growth center : a view from Speen Street/Route 9." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68234.
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Hignell, A. K. "Suburban development in North Cardiff, 1850-1919 : A case study of the patterns and processes of growth in the Parishes of Llanishen, Lisvane and Whitchurch." Thesis, Bucks New University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380306.
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McCormick, Angela D. (Angela Dorothy). "Selected growth management techniques for use in mitigating traffic congestion in Masssachusetts [sic] suburban corridors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75990.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.Title as it appeared in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate List, June 1987: Selected growth management techniques to mitigate traffic congestion in suburban corridors.
Bibliography: leaves 65-67.
by Angela D. McCormick.
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Kurko, Georgia Anne. "A strategy for developing and implementing an effective Christian education program in a midwestern suburban community." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Avera, Alan J. "A best-practice study of assets contributing to the spiritual growth of youth in five small Protestant suburban churches." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Cunningham, Amy Lynn. "Hoosier commuters : the effects of the streetcar and interurban system on the suburban growth of Indianapolis." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1214380.
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At the turn of the 19th century, cities were vibrant with strong economies, increasing populations, large building movements and most importantly, technological innovations. Availability of frequent and efficient transportation was key to the sustenance and growth of cities. This thesis is an exploration of the impact the street and interurban railway systems made on the city of Indianapolis and its suburbs during their heyday of service between 1864 and 1930.To verify the value of railway locations in relation to the direction of Indianapolis suburb growth, an effort to conduct quantifiable research was applied. First, population growth in Marion County, Indiana and its surrounding eight counties was studied. Evidence of significant growth in areas served by streetcar and interurban systems in comparison to areas that were served only by steam railroad or no service were highlighted. Second, historical land use change research was conducted to determine how land along Indianapolis corridors served by the streetcar railway system was affected by the introduction of such service. Finally, a review of popular response to the systems was undertaken to better understand the effects of the railways on the population.Department of Architecture
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Stewart, Alan M. (Alan Maxwell) 1953. "Settling an 18th-century faubourg : property and family in the Saint-Laurent suburb, 1735-1810." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64109.
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Mitchell-Brown, JoAnna L. "Local and Regional Indicators of Suburban Growth: An Analysis and Evaluation of Economic Activity of Kenwood, Ohio." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1212877817.
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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.Advisor: Michael Romanos PhD (Committee Chair), David Edelman PhD (Committee Member), Gregory D. Bickford (Committee Member), Daniel E. Johnson (Committee Member). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Apr. 15, 2010). Includes abstract. Keywords: metrotowns; edge cities; urban villages; Kenwood; suburban growth centers. Includes bibliographical references.
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Deppa, Emma. "Local Approaches to Regional Problems: Suburban Government Responses to Portland's Regional Housing Crisis." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3045.
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The Portland metropolitan region has seen unprecedented growth in the last three decades, resulting in both economic expansion and considerable gentrification. While lauded for its commitment to sustainability and a "smart development" ethos, many questions remain for the city with respect to the needs of displaced residents and a burgeoning population of young professionals. This study examines how various levels of government implement growth management policies to accommodate these demographic changes, and aims to assess whether and how the consequences of growth, especially gentrification and displacement, are meaningfully addressed. Qualitative interviews were conducted with staff members and elected officials from city, county, and regional government structures across the Portland metropolitan area to investigate the "regional housing crisis." Inductive analysis of these data considers the implications of Portland's layered government structure for making equitable growth-related decisions.
Participants expressed a mismatch in what was expected of them--both from higher levels of government and their constituents--and their perceived capacity to do so. While government officials advocate the need for new development of affordable housing units, they see themselves as limited by a series of technical barriers in the stratified planning process, as well as an unequal distribution of influential power in public involvement processes. Findings are synthesized to offer policy recommendations and consider alternative government responses to public housing issues.
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Tate, Laura Ellen. "Communicative regionalism and metropolitan growth management outcomes : a case study of three employment nodes in Burnaby --an inner suburb of Greater Vancouver." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13559.
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In North America, metropolitan growth management (MGM) has been significantly influenced by communicative regionalism. The latter is rooted in communicative planning theory, stressing dialogue and consensus in problem-solving. To explore the impact of communicative regionalism on actual growth management outcomes, this dissertation investigates a case study on the implementation of communicatively-informed regional plans in metropolitan or Greater Vancouver, Canada, as they have impacted three employment nodes in suburban Burnaby. The dissertation applied a three-part methodology, involving the collection of empirical outcome data, analysis of plan development against communicative planning criteria, and the critical application of an Actor Network Theory (ANT) lens to better examine relationships and interactions of key government agencies during MGM plan development and implementation. The analysis suggested mixed results for goal outcomes. Notably, it found that longstanding goals for attracting office employment to a designated Regional Town Centre were not achieved to the desired degree. In explaining results, the analysis supplied empirical evidence of recent critiques of communicative planning theory. Such results appear to support calls by other theorists for the development of a post-communicative approach to theory and practice. The dissertation recommends five areas of more concerted research in this regard. First, researchers interested in planning processes would be wise to make more in-depth explorations of the link between power and action. Second, the presence and degree of instability in any given network of actors participating in growth management can create constraints or opportunities for this process. The role of instability must be better reflected and appreciated in communicative and/or post-communicative regionalism. Third, there must be greater recognition of differentiated stakeholder consultation needs, and place-specific receptivities to consultation short cuts. Fourth, more detailed work is needed to develop best practices for the information-sharing aspects of growth management. Finally, there is value in examining further the roles and skills of various individuals playing a translation role (i.e., bridging interests between different stakeholders or groups). This translation role occurs in growth strategy development and other planning exercises, as a means of enabling both better information exchange and of facilitating the ongoing stakeholder involvement throughout the plan implementation phase.
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Nabors, Autumn Nicole. "Perceptions of How Teacher Evaluations and Feedback Impact Teacher Professional Growth in a Large Suburban School District in Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73330.
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Teacher evaluation systems were developed and implemented to increase accountability but also to increase teacher effectiveness. A review of the research and findings of previous teacher evaluation studies demonstrated the need to further examine the feedback in evaluation systems and their role in teacher professional growth. The purpose of the study was to identify the perceptions of teachers and administrators regarding the feedback teachers receive from the teacher evaluation process, how they perceive the impact of feedback on teacher growth, and what professional development has been offered because of the feedback.
This descriptive study used qualitative data and quantitative data derived from a modified version of the Teacher Evaluation Profile (TEP) survey. The findings from this study indicated that teachers perceive the quality of feedback they received to be lower than administrators perceived the quality of the feedback they gave, specifically in regards to the frequency of the feedback and quality of the information contained in the feedback. In addition, there was a significant difference in the perceptions of the quality of feedback between elementary teachers and administrators and secondary teachers and administrators. Though teachers and administrators both perceived the working relationships as positive, few teachers reported making adjustments to their teaching practices in response to the feedback received. Teachers did not perceive teacher professional growth from adjustments made in their teaching practice in response to the feedback. Teachers also noted few opportunities for professional development suggested in feedback. As suggested by the findings, professional development needs to be specific in regards to providing effective feedback. Finally, teachers, with the help of administrators, need to focus on creating goals and growth plans with specific professional opportunities to help teachers grow professionally and positively impact student outcomes.Ed. D.
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Broadbridge, Helena Tara. "Negotiating post-apartheid boundaries and identities : an anthropological study of the creation of a Cape Town Suburb." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52353.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the complex and contested processes of drawing boundaries and negotiating identities in the post-Apartheid South African context by analysing how residents in a new residential suburb of Cape Town are working to carve out a new position for themselves in a changing social order. Drawing on data gathered through participant observation, individual and focus group interviews, and household surveys between November 1998 and December 2000, the study examines how residents draw and negotiate boundaries in their search for stability, status, and community in a society characterised by social flux, uncertainty, ambiguity and contradiction. It explores the construction and shifting of identities believed to be embodied in those boundaries, at the levels of the individual, the household and the community. A range of everyday social and spatial practices - including streetscape design, its use and contestation, neighbourliness and sociality, .household livelihoods and strategies, home maintenance and improvements - are shown to reveal residents' own conceptualisations of boundaries, their practical significance and symbolic power, as well as their permeability and transgression. The marking and maintenance of boundaries convey how social relationships, practices and power in the suburb are structured and continually negotiated. By analysing these actions and responses, the study illustrates some of the ways in which recent changes in South African society have unsettled the relationship between class, race and space to construct new boundaries and shape new identities. The fmdings suggest that although social differentiation among the residents is increasingly being restructured around class, race remains a salient variable in residents' constructions of themselves and each other. Ethnic-religious prejudice is also shown to influence local conflict and constructions of community. The study draws out four discourses through which residents contemplate and formulate circumstances and processes in their neighbourhood. The first emphasises racial integration, the second middle class suburban living, the third safety from crime, the fourth distrust and disorder. The discourses are significant, not only in their practical manifestation in everyday interaction but also because they suggest some of the ways in which connections and disconnections with the past, with (he old identities and the old affiliations, are managed in a new, post-Apartheid South Africa.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie verken die komplekse en betwiste prosesse van die trek van grense en die onderhandeling van identiteite in die Suid-Afrikaanse post-Apartheid konteks, deur te analiseer hoe inwoners in 'n nuwe Kaapstadse residensiële voorstad te werk gaan om 'n nuwe posisie in 'n veranderende sosiale orde vir hulself daar te stel. Op grond van data bekom deur deelnemende observasie, onderhoude met indiwidue en fokusgroepe, en opnames in huishoudings tussen November 1998 en Desember 2000, ondersoek die studie hoe inwoners grense trek en onderhandel in hulle soeke na stabiliteit, status, en gemeenskap in 'n samelewing gekenmerk deur sosiale vloeibaarheid, onsekerheid, dubbelsinnigheid en teenstrydigheid. Dit verken die konstruksie en die verskuiwing van identiteite wat gesien word as dat dit binne hierdie grense tuis hoort, op die vlakke van die indiwidu, die huishouding en die gemeenskap. 'n Reeks alledaagse sosiale en ruimtelike praktyke - insluitende omgewingsbeplanning, die benutting en betwisting daarvan, buurskap en gemeenskapsin, huishoudelike bestaansmiddele en strategieë, huisonderhoud en verbeterings - toon inwoners se eie voorstellings van grense, hulle praktiese betekenis en simboliese invloed, sowel as hulle deurdringbaarheid en oorskryding. Die afbakening en handhawing van grense deel mee hoe sosiale verhoudings, praktyke en mag in die voorstad gestruktureer en voortdurend onderhandel word. Deur hierdie optredes en reaksies illustreer die studie sommige van die wyses waarop onlangse veranderings in die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing die verhouding tussen klas, ras en ruimte beïnvloed het om nuwe grense te konstrueer en nuwe identiteite te vorm. Die bevindings suggereer dat, hoewel sosiale differensiasie tussen die inwoners toenemend geherstruktureer word wat klas betref, ras 'n duidelik waarneembare onderliggende veranderlike in inwoners se siening van hulleself en mekaar bly. Etniesgodsdienstige vooroordeel word ook getoon 'n invloed op plaaslike konflikte en die konstruksie van gemeenskappe te wees. Die studie onthul vier diskoerse waardeur inwoners omstandighede en prosesse in hulle omgewing bedink en te kenne gee. Die eerste beklemtoon rasse-integrasie, die tweede voorstedelike middelklas lewenswyse, die derde misdaadsbeveiliging, die vierde wantroue en wanorde. Die diskoerse is betekenisvol, nie slegs in hulle praktiese manifestering in die daaglikse omgang nie, maar ook aangesien hulle sommige van die wyses waarop koppelings en ontkoppelings met die verlede, en sy ou identiteite en ou affiliasies, in 'n nuwe, post-Apartheid, Suid-Afrika hanteer word, suggereer.
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Brady, Grant. "PC-SWMM modeling of policy changes on suburban watersheds in Johnson County, Kansas." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20570.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Stacy Hutchinson
Urban areas have traditionally been managed as separate entities from the natural environment. Recently, urban planners have been interested in reconnecting these areas back to the biosphere to capitalize on ecosystem services restoring damaged hydrologic processes. This study focuses on suburban Johnson County, KS (part of the Greater Kansas City area), which has 62 USEPA 303(d) listed “impaired” or “potentially impaired” waterbodies. Previous studies show that watersheds crisscrossed by multiple politically boundaries see increases in water quantity and decreases in water quality. Using a multi-watershed, multi-city spanning entity like a school district, it is investigated how stormwater best management practices (BMPs) employed over a large entity can help undo the negative effects of watershed political fragmentation. BMP modeling includes simulating grassroots and planning policy change movements across three target watersheds using PC-SWMM watershed model. The grassroots simulation models rain barrels at single family homes and an extended dry detention basin (EDDB) at schools. Planning policy simulation models 10% and 20% reductions in impervious roads and parking lots in accordance to EPA Smart Growth practices. Resulting, it was seen that all three of these BMPs saw the greatest improvements from current conditions at low precipitation events. Ranking from least to most effective across the outlet’s average flow, maximum flow, and total volume and supporting watershed infiltration, surface runoff, and surface storage are as follows: rain barrels + EDDB, 10% reduced, and 20% reduced impervious simulations. All three stormwater BMPs help demonstrate how grassroots movements and planning polices changes can positively impact regional waterbodies in this maturely suburbanized region.
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Workmon, Mitchell R. "Extending the market: increasing sustainability potential through public transit in Lee’s Summit." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13686.
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Blake Belanger
Investigating historical trends of public transportation, two distinct groups of riders are targeted. First, individuals living and working in large metropolitan centers, and second, people who are dependent upon public transit; referring to people who cannot afford personal automobile transportation, possess no driver’s license, or are physically unable to drive (Garrett and Taylor, 1999). Analyzing the national demographics related to age and poverty levels, transit dependents make up only approximately 25% of the United States population. Expanding transit ridership will make our nation’s transportation sector more sustainable. Public transportation systems yield exceptional benefits including economic and community vitality, gasoline consumption reduction, air quality improvement and diverse cultural interactions promoting social cohesion (Metro Transit- St. Louis, 2010). This report focuses on ridership potential in the Rock Island Corridor, an unused rail thoroughfare in Kansas City. Local governing organizations are analyzing the corridor for future commuter rail implementation. In order to attain higher ridership and ensure long-term viability, the commuter rail must attract residents that are not dependent upon public transportation. This project maps transit dependencies along the Rock Island Corridor looking at income levels, home values, and commuting distance. The findings illustrate that Lee’s Summit is not dependent upon public transit and has tremendous potential to impact the ridership and development direction along the corridor. Looking into the future of the corridor the time to plan is now. Lee’s Summit is expected to see a population increase of 40,636 people (a 50% increase) by the year 2040 (Mid-America Regional Council, 2010). The strategies applied to Lee’s Summit are applicable to other similar suburbs of Kansas City, ultimately making Lee’s Summit a catalyst for the region. The organization of the project is focused around three major sections. The first section explores and analyzes current public transit practice in terms of ridership and aesthetics. The second section explains a three-part strategy focused around a park-n-ride and a transit-oriented development, both supported by a municipal feeder bus system. The third section demonstrates design and program ideas for the park-n-ride station that provide the community with visions to promote smart growth and a sustainable future.
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Basaib, Ridhwan. "The growth and characteristics of peri-urban communities : a case study in Jakarta, Indonesia /." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222009-040235/.
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Jacobson, Dana. "An Examination of the relationship between Marzano's Causal Teacher Evaluation Model and student achievement at nine high schools in a large suburban school district in Central Florida." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5804.
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This study focused on the relationship between student achievement and teacher evaluation during the first year of implementation of the Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation model in a large suburban school district in Central Florida. The population included high school level teachers and students. Teacher evaluation and performance data were collected and analyzed for relationships using Spearman Rho and Chi-Square Analysis. Variables reviewed included: (a) Marzano's Causal Teacher Evaluation Model iObservation protocol, (b) categorized teacher years of experience, (c) student growth scores based on a teacher's student success on statewide assessments as calculated using VAM or an administered pre- and posttest, (d) school reported teacher demographics on school improvement plans and (e) historical 9th- and 10th-grade student achievement data on FCAT 2.0 Reading and 9th- grade student achievement data on the Algebra 1 End-of-Course (EOC) Examinations.Ed.D.
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Corsello, Rachel. "Increasing Germination Rates and Population Growth of Native Plant Gardens on College Campuses." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors161787669427921.
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Simpson, Kyle. "Commuting in Portland, Oregon: the advantages of living within a transit oriented development community compared to traditional suburban development by comparing environmental, economic and health factors." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/911.
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Transportation is a function that affects nearly all life decisions, but is often not given much thought by the average individual throughout their daily routines. Most of this complacency streams from the mainstream development patterns in the United States that have changed little from the end of World War II. During the immediate post-war years a perfect mix for suburban living came together: the mass production of automobiles, guaranteed mortgages from the federal government through the G.I. Bill, and in 1956 the passage of the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. These factors, along with the dominate social paradigm that the "American Dream" was to have a personal front and back yard, helped profoundly transform development in the country. Over half a century later, the United States is now experiencing the consequences of this sprawled, auto-dependent development pattern. Energy prices have increased substantially over the past decade, which were only contained momentarily by a worldwide recession that was arguably caused by the same development patterns. Environmental consequences are becoming increasingly evident, ranging from contaminated storm-water runoff, to global climate change. Similarly, mental and physical health has degraded rapidly, with a soaring depression and obesity rates. The United States can, and should do better than this. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) offers a solution to help alleviate many of the complex issues that many communities must address. While there is no perfect template, TOD is an important step forward for the overall quality of life for individuals throughout the nation. This report will look at the steps that have been taken in the Portland Oregon Metropolitan Area to discourage sprawl development, measuring the effects of their actions on environmental, economic and health factors.B.S.
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Jambon, Yannick. "Les faubourgs des villes modernes en France (XVIe-début du XIXe siècle) : étude historique et géographique." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20101.
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Les villes de la période moderne sont généralement définies comme un ensemble d’habitants bénéficiant de privilèges communs et vivant derrière des fortifications. Cette définition simple apparaît cependant restrictive. En effet, le territoire urbain ne se limitait pas à cette période aux limites symboliques matérialisées par les murailles. Tant morphologiquement que fiscalement ou économiquement, les faubourgs étaient les extensions naturelles de la cité en dehors du territoire primitif préalablement défini par le tracé des remparts. Cette thèse propose donc d’étudier précisément ces espaces longtemps oubliés de l’historiographie et par là même redéfinir la notion de ville moderne en FranceModern towns are generally pictured like a group of inhabitants enjoying common privileges and living behind fortifications. This simple definition sounds limited and restrictive. Indeed, at that time the urban territory was not limited to the symbolical limits represented by the fortifications. Morphologically, fiscally as well as economically, the suburbs were the natural extensions of the city beyond the original territory initially defined by the the plans of the walls. This doctoral thesis indeed highlights the study of these spaces which have been ignored in the historiography and thereby redefines the notion of the modern city in France
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"Living on the Edge: Dwelling Options for First Ring Suburban Growth." Tulane University, 2013.
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Following World War II, across the board, veterans and their families took advantage of the provisions of the GI Bill and moved to newly constructed, “modern” suburbs. These developments were often built out overnight and contained a few repeated floor plans throughout entire neighborhoods of mass-produced housing. Suburban populations were demographically singular, home to exclusively the white middle class. As a result of this mass migration away from urban cores, the postwar suburban lifestyle pervaded common consciousness and became synonymous with the “American Dream.” However, over a half-century later, economic, demographic and cultural circumstances today require a critical look at suburbia’s place in the future. Today, suburbia is no longer home to exclusively white middle class nuclear families. Rather, many suburban pioneers remain in their homes and the population is concentrated with single elderly people. In addition, minority and immigrant populations are on the rise. Lastly, poverty rates in suburbs are currently higher than their urban counterparts. However, despite this demographic diversity, housing options remain uniform. Coupled with the economic realities of the mortgage and foreclosure crises, postwar suburban housing types are not only disconnected from demographic trends, but also unaffordable. While suburbs cannot adequately serve current needs, they do account for over half of the nations housing stock. In light of long waiting lists for affordable housing, we are forced to address how what we already have can be modified rather than destroyed. First-ring suburbs along transit lines have been targeted by policy research as promising regions for redevelopment. As a result of their existing infrastructure and close proximity to metropolitan centers, first ring suburbs have the potential to prosper once again. This study explores the implications of policy both in terms of current conditions as well as the potentials of legislation to drive future redevelopment efforts. Park Forest, Illinois is located outside Chicago in Cook County along existing Metra train lines. Often cited as the first “GI suburb,” the town was a model for post-war developers. Today, it suffers from high foreclosure rates and a degree of sprawl. The proposed architectural thesis utilizes a prototypical suburban block to test multiple options for diversifying housing stock. These interventions implicitly critique current practices and intend to spark a new paradigm in future development.acase@tulane.edu
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Hattingh, Colin Andrew. "Redesigning suburbia." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17601.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of
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JOHANNESBURG 1992This dissertation studies the residential environment o f suburbia. As urbanisation continues to increase, renewed questions on the costs ot sprawl, its environmental impact and the livability of suburbia are being asked. The major aim or purpose is therefore to suggest new ideas which w ill be capable of transforming neighbourhoods into places exh biting the many qualities of urbanism that have been eroded away as standardised planning techniques and automobile domination, slowly but surely break down the fabric of urban areas. The research method traces the historical beginning of suburbia up to the present day in order to clearly understand the factors fundamental in determining its structure and form. The results show a need to compact and integrate res'dential areas so that densities may be increased and sprawl curtailed. Livability is, however, an essential prerequisite as without it a return to the slum conditions of the pre-war years is possible, due to the ever increasing population growth and rural depopulation.
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"From “Open Country” to “Open Space”: Park Planning, Rapid Growth and Community Identity in Tempe, Arizona, 1949-1975." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53586.
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abstract: Tempe experienced rapid growth in population and area from 1949 to 1975, stretching its resources thin and changing the character of the city. City boosters encouraged growth through the 1950s to safeguard Tempe’s borders against its larger neighbor, Phoenix. New residents moved to Tempe as it grew, expecting suburban amenities that the former agricultural supply town struggled to pay for and provide. After initially balking at taking responsibility for development of a park system, Tempe established a Parks and Recreation Department in 1958 and used parks as a main component in an evolving strategy for responding to rapid suburban growth. Through the 1960s and 1970s, Tempe pursued an ambitious goal of siting one park in each square mile of the city, planning for neighborhood parks to be paired with elementary schools and placed at the center of each Tempe neighborhood. The highly-publicized plan created a framework, based on the familiarity of public park spaces, that helped both long-time residents and recent transplants understand the new city form and participate in a changing community identity. As growth accelerated and subdivisions surged southward into the productive agricultural area that had driven Tempe’s economy for decades, the School-Park Policy faltered as a planning and community-building tool. Residents and city leaders struggled to reconcile the loss of agricultural land with the carefully maintained cultural narrative that connected Tempe to its frontier past, ultimately broadening the role of parks to address the needs of a changing city.Dissertation/Thesis
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Barbosa, Marta Susana Trigueira. "O ‘cheio’ e o ‘vazio’ na construção da cidade." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/6985.
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Orientação: Vítor Manuel Araújo de OliveiraEsta dissertação centra-se sobre o crescimento das cidades, sobre os seus ‘cheios’ (edifícios) e sobre os ‘seus vazios’ (ruas e parcelas). Em particular, a dissertação parte de uma interrogação/inquietação: a existência de um vazio (parcela) de grandes dimensões numa área consolidada da cidade é um fenómeno aleatório ou tem por trás uma lógica que o relaciona, de modo estrutural, com outros vazios na cidade? Na resposta a esta pergunta aplicou-se um conceito da geografia urbana – o conceito de cintura periférica (fringe belt). A primeira parte da dissertação, após uma breve introdução, constitui uma revisão da literatura, percebendo como é que este tema, bem como o conceito de cintura periférica, que dá a estas parcelas vazias uma lógica de formação e estrutural, tem vindo a ser debatido. O conjunto de estudos sobre cinturas periféricas assentam não só num olhar para o desenvolvimento histórico-geográfico da cidade incluindo também perspetivas económicas, sociais e espaciais. A segunda parte, centrada no caso de estudo, identifica as cinturas periféricas que estruturam a cidade do Porto. Partindo de uma análise das parcelas, complementada pelo estudo das ruas e dos edifícios do Porto, identificam-se na cidade atual, três cinturas periféricas: interior, intermédia e exterior. Incluem-se nestas três cinturas diferentes usos como industrias, institucionais, estações ferroviárias, armazéns, e espaços abertos e vazios. A terceira parte da dissertação centra-se no projeto de intervenção no Parque das Camélias. O tema do ‘cheio’ e do ‘vazio’, e em particular do ‘vazio’ constituído pelo interior do quarteirão e assumido como espaço público, é explorado. Debatem-se, num quadro mais geral da história urbana do quarteirão das Camélias, as permanências e as transformações resultantes do projeto de intervenção. Por fim, apresenta-se um conjunto de conclusões e recomendações futuras.
This dissertation focuses on the growth of cities, on their stock (buildings) and open spaces (streets and plots). In particular, the dissertation draws on a specific question (or concern): is the existence of a large open space (plot) in a consolidated area of the city a random phenomenon or is it supported by a particular logic relating it, in a structural way, with other open spaces in the city? The answer to this question is supported by the application of a concept from urban geography - the fringe belt concept The first part of the dissertation, after a brief introduction, is a literature review, understanding how this theme, as well as the concept of fringe belt, which gives these empty plots a structural and formation logic, has been debated. The set of studies on fringe belts draws not only historico-geographical of the city development, including also economic, social and spatial perspectives. The second part, focused on the case study, identifies the fringe belts that structure the city of Porto. Drawing on an analysis of plots, complemented by the study of the streets and buildings of Porto, it identifies, in the existent city, three fringe belts: inner, intermediate and outer. Different uses, such as industrial, institutional, railway stations, warehouses, and open and empty spaces are included in these three fringe belts. The third part of the dissertation focuses on the project for the Parque das Camélias. The theme of open spaces, and in particular the open space corresponding to the interior of the street block and assumed as public space, is explored. The permanence and transformation resulting of the intervention are discussed against a wider context of the urban history of the Camélias street block. Finally, a set of conclusions and recommendations are presented.
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Djemel, Manel. "Impact de l’évolution des formes de croissance urbaine sur l’identité de la ville et de ses citoyens." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/2829.
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L’évolution de l’urbanisation dans le monde nous a motivés à développer nos recherches quant à cette croissance déchaînée des villes et ces multitudes de formes urbaines qui en résultent. L'objet de ce travail est d'analyser ces formes de croissance spatiales et d’analyse leur impact sur l’identité dans la ville. Il s'agit de montrer dans quelle mesure elles favorisent la prolifération de nouvelles identités dans les régions périphériques de la ville. Notre recherche porte alors sur une étude socio spatiale de la capitale de la Tunisie. Tunis, cette métropole en pleine expansion, occupe un emplacement stratégique dans la Méditerranée et joue un rôle important dans les échanges afro-européens. La pertinence de l’étude de l’évolution du domaine urbain de Tunis résulte du fait que cette ville a connu différents types de croissances. La variété des modes de développement de l’espace urbain fait de Tunis un exemple pertinent qui mérite d’être étudié, d’autant plus que l’espace englobe des banlieues planifiées, spontanées, historiques, et bien d’autres qui résultent du juste fait de l’informalité, allant du patrimoine à la construction d’une identité urbaine plurielle. Notre travail comportera donc une étude spatiale de l’évolution de l’espace urbain de Tunis, basée essentiellement sur des cartes et des photos satellites, doublées d’une analyse sociale, basée sur une enquête in situ, réalisée avec les habitants des banlieues, et ce, dans le but de recenser leurs degrés d’attachement à l’espace ainsi que les rapports qu’ils entament avec le centre-ville. Notre recherche nous a permis de conclure que les habitants des banlieues s’identifient aux nouvelles formes de croissance et développent au fil des années un sentiment d’appartenance et d’attachement identitaire à leurs quartiers. Cela contribue à la prolifération d’identités multiple dans la ville.The evolution of urbanization in the world motivated us to develop our research around this raging growth of cities and their resulting multitudes of urban forms. The object of this work is to analyze these spatial forms of growth and their impact on the city’s identity. The objective is to demonstrate in which measure they favour the proliferation of new identities in the suburb region of the city. Our research then focuses on a socio-spatial study of the capital of Tunisia. Tunis, this enlarging metropolis, occupies a strategically positioned location in the Mediterranean and plays an important role in European-African exchanges. The pertinence of the study of the evolution of the urban domain of Tunis results from the fact that this city experienced different types of growth. The variety of modes of development of the urban area makes Tunis a pertinent example which is worth being studied, especially since the space includes planned, spontaneous, historical suburbs, and many others which result from the informality linked from the heritage up to the construction of a plural urban identity. This work will thus include a spatial study of the evolution of the urban area of Tunis, based principally on maps and satellite pictures, complemented with a social analysis based on an in situ investigation, accomplished with the inhabitants of the suburbs with the intention of making a census of their degree of attachment to the space as well as their relationship with the downtown area. Our research allowed us to conclude that the inhabitants of the suburbs end up identifying themselves with new forms of growth and develop over the years a sense of belonging and attachment to their district. This contributes to the numerous proliferation of identity in the city.
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Morris, Katherine Leigh. "From Gay Street to Turkey Creek: Knoxville’s Urban and Suburban Growth Machines." 2007. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/173.
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Using growth machine theory, this study examines the newly built "lifestyle center" of the suburban Turkey Creek development and the redevelopment of the Gay Street corridor in downtown Knoxville, TN. Growth machine theory is one of sociology's predominant theories used to understand development and growth projects in metropolitan areas, and although not specifically defined in current literature, I suggest there are many differences in suburban and urban growth machines. This study examines the local dependency and organization of pro-growth coalitions; the tactics, ideology, and culture used to promote development projects; and community reactions. Upon completion of this project, I found that urban and suburban growth machines differed in local dependency and level of community opposition, but utilized similar tactics, ideology, and culture. Furthermore, several themes emerged at the conclusion of this project- the attempts to structure social life around retail centers, suburbanization, and the increasing influence of growth language in everyday life- the further impact increasing pro-growth coalition influence.
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Morris, Katherine Leigh. "From Gay Street to Turkey Creek Knoxville's urban and suburban growth machines /." 2007. http://etd.utk.edu/2007/MorrisKatherine.pdf.
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Anderson, Rex E. "A history of Millard Public Schools 1946-1989 forty-four years of suburban growth /." 1997. http://ncsa.org/document_archive/andersonrex.htm.
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Foster, Karla Karine. "Retrofitting suburbia in an urban watershed : sustainable growth in the Beecher Creek subbasin." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10615.
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It is estimated that 3.3 million people will inhabit the Vancouver Region within the next 25 years.
Traditionally, constructing low-density suburbs well into the Fraser Valley was the method to
accommodate this regional growth. However, the detrimental impacts of urban sprawl are now well
documented and are having an impact on how Vancouver envisions the growth boundary. Traffic
congestion, auto dependency, and long commutes from isolated suburbs are the noticeable effects of
sprawl for many people living in the Lower Mainland yet another important impact is the threatened local
and regional ecosystems. Urban sprawl is consuming arable land and endangering the natural
ecosystems.
In response to these social and ecological problems, the Greater Vancouver Regional District has
developed the Livable Region Strategic Plan which intends to manage growth through the promotion of
more compact communities, to increase transportation choice, and to protect the green zone within the
GVRD's twenty municipalities. Instead of building upon unused and undeveloped land outside the
metropolitan areas, the plan looks for opportunities within existing communities. The goal is to alleviate
sprawl on a regional scale and maintain the ecological integrity of the hinterlands. However, how can the
intensification within the growth concentration areas be managed to maintain the integrity of our urban
ecosystems?
The Beecher Creek subbasin is a typical example of a highly urbanized watershed within the Bumaby
growth,concentration area. The upper two-thirds of the watershed is mainly single family residential. This
area has the potential to accommodate the current high demand for ground oriented, low cost housing in
the region. However, measures must be taken to mitigate the impacts that increased density will have on
the watershed and the community.
This thesis examines a sustainable growth strategy for the region using a watershed approach and is
based on sensitive infill practices, Best Management Practices (BMP's) and sustainable design. The
result is the Beecher Creek Urban Watershed Retrofit Plan. The watershed components such as the
block, dwelling unit, yard, lane, street, cul de sac, driveway, sidewalk, open space and stream corridors
are examined and retro-fitted to accommodate density while improving the ecological, social and
experiential functioning of the whole. Retrofitting is the term used to describe "the process where
communities incrementally add or alter the built environment to accommodate the needs that are shaped
by changing social and economic realities" (Lee 1999, 12). Each component speaks to a denser, greener
more livable watershed.
The result is a comprehensive design of a retro-fitted Neighbourhood that has accommodated density
while also improving the ecological, social and experiential function of the site. The design addresses the
relationship of the site to its watershed context and its surrounding community. As a comprehensive
document it also serves as a model for similar urban residential watersheds.