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Ho, Chiu-fan, and 何超凡. "Planning of market complexes in urban areas." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31257781.
Full textHo, Chiu-fan. "Planning of market complexes in urban areas /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13117555.
Full textNicoson, Jeff. "Urban pedestrian corridors : derivation of effective design criteria for successful urban pedestrian life." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259751.
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Holzer, Katie Ann. "Amphibian-Human Coexistence in Urban Areas." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3646306.
Full textPristine landscapes are decreasing throughout the world, and many of Earth's species can no longer survive exclusively in the remaining small and isolated reserves. At the same time, urban landscapes are increasing, and can serve as potential habitat for many wildlife species. Amphibians are facing striking global declines and are particularly impacted by urban development as they often reside in areas attractive for human settlements such as flat, productive lowland areas with abundant fresh water. My dissertation aims to increase understanding of amphibian use of these landscapes and how management and planning can adapt to benefit their persistence. I conducted observational studies of amphibians and associated habitat features in two very difference landscapes and constructed experimental ponds to examine relationships between a native frog, a common pollutant, and common urban wetland plants. One observational study was in Portland, Oregon where formerly abundant wetlands have been destroyed and altered while many have also been restored or created. The other was throughout the relatively understudied urban and agricultural centers of Vietnam where biodiversity and human population growth are high. In both Portland and Vietnam I found that most regionally occurring native amphibians were breeding within city landscapes and in human-constructed water bodies. A common pollutant, nitrate, was strongly negatively associated with amphibians in Portland. In a mesocosm experiment I found that correlated contaminants are likely driving the pattern. In both Portland and Vietnam, presence of aquatic vegetation and amount of surrounding upland habitat were highly influential for native amphibians. Aquatic vegetation can take many forms, and in urban areas is often dominated by introduced species. I conducted experimental ponds studies to examine the relationship between a native frog and common native and introduced aquatic plant species. I found that the frog preferred and performed better in introduced reed canary grass than any other plants offered. This demonstrates that introduced plants are not universally detrimental to native wildlife species, and that management of these plants should consider the potential negative effects of control actions, especially in urban areas where restoration to a former pristine state is unlikely. Urban areas do not have to be devoid of diverse native amphibian communities, and instead should be viewed as potential habitat for conservation and environmental education. Amphibian use of human-constructed ponds, potted ornamental plants, and introduced reed canary grass demonstrates the adaptability of many species and the need for an integrated view of conservation that includes non-pristine areas. Using the information from this dissertation, city planners and managers can maintain and improve human-dominated landscapes to benefit native amphibians and promote their continued coexistence with humans in these areas.
Tan, Mime, and 陳美美. "Assimilation of urban street into urban green space system." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4500979X.
Full textDonadon, Edilene Teresinha. ""Terrain Vagues" : um estudo das areas urbanas obsoletas, baldias ou derrelitas em Campinas." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/258203.
Full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo
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Resumo: Terrain Vagues são os lugares esquecidos na cidade, mas, de forma contraditória, repletos de memória do passado incidindo sobre o presente. Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar se o conceito estabelecido por Ignasi de Solà-Morales, denominado como Terrain Vague, aplica-se às áreas abandonadas e obsoletas na cidade de Campinas-SP. A pesquisa localiza essas áreas ao longo dos rios, das estradas de ferro desativadas, das áreas industriais obsoletas, que descrevam uma situação de abandono, de forte memória de lugar e de possibilidades múltiplas e originais. No estudo de campo, foram identificadas e analisadas as áreas quanto ao seu tipo e à sua formação: linhas férreas e pátios de ferrovias abandonados ou subutilizados; mudança ou deslocamento de áreas e lotes industriais - friche industrielle; margens de córregos com ocupações incompletas ou que se caracterizam como franjas de outras ocupações. Desse modo, o trabalho intenta revelar, através de um conjunto de documentos e sua análise, a potencialidade e a singularidade dos terrain vagues e a sua importância para a cidade, em termos quantitativos e qualitativos. Pretendese, assim, evidenciar a necessidade de uma abordagem mais completa dessas áreas antes de sua total ocupação, ocupação esta que vem ocorrendo de maneira desordenada nas últimas décadas.
Abstract: Terrain Vagues are the forgotten places in the city, but in conflict, full of memories of the past on the present. This work verifies whether the established concept by Ignasi de Solà-Morales, called as "Terrain vague", who analyses the European contemporary cities, can be applied to the abandoned and derelicts areas in Campinas to describe a situation of abandonment, of a strong memory of place, and multiple and even original possibilities. The areas were identified and analyzed according to its type and origin: Railways and its courtyards abandoned or underused; change or displacement of the industrial areas or lands - "Friche Industrielle", uncompleted projects - stream bank with uncompleted settlements or areas which are characterized as "fringe" of other occupations. Eventually, aims to reveal, through a set of documents and its analysis, the potentiality and the uniqueness of the Terrain Vagues in Campinas. That means bringing to light what they represent to the city - quantitatively and qualitatively. Furthermore it intent to emphasize the need for a more complete approach of these areas before its occupation, that has been happening in a disordered way in recent decades.
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Younes, Bassem Mohammed. "The effectiveness of new road schemes in urban areas." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46623.
Full textCheuk, Hau-kwan Elsa. "Recreation planning in urban fringe park within metropolitan area /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13117488.
Full textOde, Åsa. "Visual aspects in urban woodland management and planning /." Alnarp : Dept. of Landscape Planning, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2003. http://epsilon.slu.se/a380.pdf.
Full textPhillips, Peter M. "Land use planning in urban areas : towards an ecosystems approach." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2014. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23533.
Full textBarbosa, Ricardo Victor Rodrigues. "Áreas verdes e qualidade térmica em ambientes urbanos: estudos em microclimas de Macéio (AL)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2005. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18139/tde-03062006-142516/.
Full textThe city growth is characterized by the change of the natural covering of the ground for the built environment. It causes deep ambient transformations that modifies existing ecosystems and also the standards of perception of the inhabitant. Notable transformation occurs in the climatic aspect due to alteration of the initial properties of the climate as well. This factor when ignored for the process of urban planning it compromises the environmental urban quality. From that situation, the present inquiry has analyzed the influence of the green areas in the thermal urban environment behavior which elected Maceió city as ecosystem of the study. According to that, nine located urban units were studied experimentally throughout an axis, through the register of air temperature and air humidity in each environment. The analysis was carried through winter season, in microclimatic scale, where three typical experimental days had been studied, identified through by the dynamic approach of the climate. Of this form, it was evidenced that the present vegetation in the green areas creates environments with temperature of air favorable to the health, habitability and use of changeable the urban spaces [ambient quality aspects]. It was identified for the results registered in the experimental inquiry.
Cheung, Ping-kuen Peter. "Analysis of development potential of underground development in urban areas." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2579906x.
Full textSellers-Garcia, Oliver. "Regulating new construction in historic areas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37862.
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This study is an examination of how the restrictiveness of different design regulations impacts the process of new construction in historic areas. The North End, South End, and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston were identified as historic areas that possessed increasingly restrictive design regulations, and within each neighborhood, two recent new buildings were selected as case studies. Each pair of cases represented a project that had undergone either an easy or difficult approval process under the district's design regulations. Using relevant statutes, interviews with regulators, reviewers, and architects, and the official documentation produced during the approval process, histories for each of the new buildings were compiled and compared. The results of this comparison suggest that, counter to the hypothesis, there is not a direct relationship between the restrictiveness of the regulation and certain variables such as historicism, inflexibility, and contextualism. In many ways, the new construction processes that occur in the North End and Back Bay, the least and most restrictive regulatory environments, respectively, resemble each other much more than they resemble the process that takes place in the South End, which is moderately restrictive.
(cont.) Various factors lead to the prevalence of historicist design in the South End, while there is an unexpectedly high probability that new designs in the North End and Back Bay will depart from traditional historic architectural norms. These unexpected results are attributed to the discretion and authority exercised by the individuals administering design review.
by Oliver Sellers-Garcia.
M.C.P.
Cheung, Ping-kuen Peter, and 張秉權. "Analysis of development potential of underground development in urban areas." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980144.
Full textRussel, Immit Mojiol Andy. "Ecological landuse planning and sustainable management of urban and sub-urban green areas in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia /." Göttingen : Cuvillier, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015497066&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textGan, Guo, and 甘果. "Urban vintage: revitalization of cultural andhistorical area in urban center." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47542603.
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Fiore, Gaston A. "A robust motion planning approach for autonomous driving in urban areas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45291.
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This thesis presents an improved sampling-based motion planning algorithm, Robust RRT, that is designed specifically for large robotic vehicles and uncertain, dynamic environments. Five main extensions have been made to the original RRT algorithm to improve performance in this type of applications. The closed-loop system is used for state propagation, enabling easy handling of complex, nonlinear, and unstable dynamics. The environment structure is exploited during the sampling process, increasing the probability that a given sample will be reachable. Efficient heuristics are employed in the expansion of the tree and a risk penalty is incorporated to capture uncertainty in the environment and keep the vehicle a safe distance away from hazards. The safety of the vehicle is guaranteed with the assumption of no unexpected changes in the environment, which is achieved by requiring that every trajectory sent for execution ends in a state with the vehicle stopped. Finally, risk evaluation follows a lazy evaluation strategy, allowing the algorithm to spend most of the computation time in the expansion step. The effectiveness of the Robust RRT algorithm for planning in an urban environment is demonstrated through numerous simulated scenarios and real data corresponding to its implementation in MIT's robotic vehicle that competed in the DARPA Urban Challenge.
by Gaston A. Fiore.
S.M.
Sorensen, Andre Bryan. "Land readjustment, urban planning and urban sprawl in the Tokyo metropolitan area." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286593.
Full text王應秋 and Ying-chau Wong. "Residential area planning for the elderly in the old, urban areas of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31256843.
Full textWong, Ying-chau. "Residential area planning for the elderly in the old, urban areas of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25940235.
Full textChen, Lih Horng. "Land use control in residential areas in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292486.
Full textHo, Bo-wan. "Environmental protection and management through urban planning in old urban areas of Hong Kong : a case study of Central and Western /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14014890.
Full textCorwin, Charles S. "Impacts of professional sports stadium development projects on urban areas." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8523.
Full textDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jae Hong Kim
Professional sports stadium development projects are major civic endeavors, and city officials and sports franchises often promise stadiums will generate significant gains in the regional economy. This study examines the effectiveness of stadium development in inducing economic development and urban revitalization by conducting a secondary data analysis, and case study of PNC Park and Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Consistent with prior empirical studies, the secondary data analysis shows that stadium projects do not always produce significant regional economic benefits. A close investigation of the two stadium projects in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, however, finds substantially positive effects on investment and physical development at the district level. The present research suggests that stadium developments can be a more powerful urban redevelopment catalyst when consideration is given to four essential factors – location, design, institutional structure, and history and timing.
Najaf, Pooya. "A macro-level analysis of traffic and pedestrian safety in urban areas." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10245444.
Full textThe main objective of this research is to examine the effect of city-level urban characteristic, such as urban form and trip generation factors, on traffic safety in general and pedestrian safety in particular. For this purpose, the information for 100 major Urban Areas (UAs) in the United States in 2010 is studied. Factor analysis is applied to construct latent variables from multiple observed variables to measure and describe urban form, macro-level trip generation, citywide transportation network features and traffic safety. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is then used to investigate how city-level urban form and trip generation affect traffic safety directly and indirectly (through mediators of transportation network features).
Based on the statistical analysis, it is found that encouraging the use of non-driving transportation modes and controlling traffic congestion, as significant mediators, are effective policies to increase overall traffic safety and pedestrian safety, respectively. In this regard, urban areas with a more even spatial distribution of job-housing balance (more polycentricity), more uniform spatial distribution of different social classes, higher urban density (less sprawl), and more connectivity in their transportation network (more accessibility) have the safest urban form designs.
Moreover, mixed land-use designs with provided local access to services and amenities, food and beverage centers, and religious organizations, followed by strict pedestrian safety standards for neighborhoods are the safest type of land use designs in urban areas. In addition, regulating the off-peak hours allowed time for heavy vehicles and changing the work schedule of workers who do not reside in the urban area can also help city planners to increase traffic safety.
Yildirim, Sibel. "Critical Evaluation Of Adjacent Areas Concept From Urban Growth Perspective In Turkish Urban Planning: The Case Of Ankara." Thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12609533/index.pdf.
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tre and changing meaning of adjacent areas concept in Turkish urban planning experience in a historical context. Ankara planning experiences are examined as a case study to what extent adjacent area is a functional and effective tool to control sprawl.
Martínez, Campos Ricardo. "Housing abandonment in Mexican metropolitan areas : analyzing planning strategies to reduce housing abandonment in the Metro Area of Guadalajara." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111410.
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This thesis examines the potential impact and limitations that current metropolitan efforts on urban planning in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara could have in reducing the high rates of housing abandonment the city currently faces. Previous efforts to reduce housing abandonment in the city have not delivered the expected results, and the metropolitan government of Guadalajara has laid out a new Metropolitan Urban Development Plan (POTmet) that seeks to rethink housing allocation and reduce home abandonment. In this document I analyze POTmet's housing allocation and abandonment strategies through interviews with key stakeholders involved in the elaboration process of the plan. I create a narrative around these interviews to understand how stakeholders' interests translate into the final strategy outlined in the POTmet. Later, I contrast these findings with previous efforts to reduce housing abandonment in Guadalajara and with the factors that are currently understood as determinants of the abandonment problem. I discuss what the success and limitations of the POTmet could be in reducing housing abandonment and conclude that, while the POTmet successfully brings together key stakeholders that could work together to reduce home abandonment, previous interests that have driven the abandonment problem in the city are still present in the new proposal. The POTmet also fails to target important contributing factors of abandonment, diminishing its potential for success. I discuss these findings and propose new lines of research and action that the City of Guadalajara can take to achieve its objectives to reduce housing abandonment.
by Ricardo Martínez Campos.
M.C.P.
Cheuk, Hau-kwan Elsa, and 卓巧坤. "Recreation planning in urban fringe park within metropolitan area." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3125777X.
Full text葉威琪 and Wai-ki Yip. "Perception in walking network: a new approachto urban street redevelopment." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47544661.
Full textDiko, Stephen K. "Barriers to Urban Greenspace Planning in the Kumasi Metropolis: Implications and Hints for Climate Change Interventions in Ghana’s Urban Areas." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563527687449757.
Full textLi, Ying. "The assessment, planning and design of small public spaces in urban areas." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2016. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/18091/.
Full textRenaud, Thomas. "Management Planning for Combined Sewer Systems in Urban Areas under Climate Change." Digital WPI, 2012. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/575.
Full textDorrance, Richard Adams 1951. "National recreation areas: Landscape planning for outdoor recreation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291979.
Full textJia, Zheng M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Cyclone shelters and cyclone resilient design in coastal areas of Bangladesh." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77834.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-210).
Bangladesh is one of those countries that are most vulnerable to tropical cyclones. In recent decades, cyclone mitigations by the Government of Bangladesh and international organizations have greatly increased the coastal communities' resistance to cyclones. This thesis focuses on cyclone shelter programs, one of the most important cyclone mitigating measures. Although cyclone shelters have proven to be effective, they are currently not adequate, which requires more research and development for a more resilient future. This thesis has five chapters: an introduction that defines the problem, a broad review of settlement history and hazards in coastal Bangladesh, a planning chapter that zooms in on the issues at five spatial scales, followed by a design chapter that zooms out from proposals for improving shelter site planning to a more comprehensive analysis of the spatial network of shelters, and larger-scale coastal environmental planning and policy. The conclusion highlights the main contributions of this research: 1) developing a multi-scale integrative approach; 2) expanding the range of choice for structural cyclone mitigations; and 3) addressing environmental and cultural diversity and specificity in physical planning and design. This research can contribute to the improvement of cyclone shelters in Bangladesh and so as to make a successful program even more successful. Keywords: Bangladesh, cyclone shelters, flood hazards, mitigation, disaster resilient design
by Zheng Jia.
M.C.P.
Kumar, Chitra M. 1977. "GIS methods for screening potential environmental justice areas in New England." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68384.
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Over the past decade scholars, scientists, and community advocates have argued that minority and low-income communities have been exposed to disproportionate amounts of hazardous pollution as a result of systematic biases in policy making and discriminatory market forces. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an important tool used to assist regulatory agencies in identifying these potentially vulnerable or "potential environmental justice" areas so that programmatic decision-making can incorporate EJ concerns. Yet, few studies have documented or evaluated methodologies for EJ-GIS analyses utilized by public agencies. This paper explores various methodologies that approximate where communities at risk of disproportionate burden may be with respect to the unique character and composition of New England. Specific variables explored are race/ethnicity, poverty, and population density. For each variable a scale and threshold/reference value is determined; also, the possibility of establishing a ranking system was contemplated. The importance of investigating spatial clustering and integrating variables into combined criteria was also discussed. This research began with the problem being framed. Then, a survey of the literature and public institutions was done to identify relevant practices and state-of-the-art technology in environmental justice analysis. Next, a process was designed to develop and select an appropriate methodology. This process included meeting systematically with members of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency New England GIS team and Mapping Workgroup of the Environmental Justice Council to discuss and compare various methods of analysis. Based on research results, recommendations were made to the EPA New England regional office on how to improve their demographic mapping system. These recommendations are hoped to be adopted by EPA New England and introduced in a desktop GIS tool by the end of 2002.
by Chitra M. Kumar.
M.C.P.
Feldman, Eric E. (Eric Evans) 1973. "From linear spaces to linear places : recycling rail corridors in urban areas." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65992.
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To date, the reuse of abandoned railroad rights-of-way has occurred primarily in suburban and rural areas. However, a new generation of urban rail corridor conversions appears to be underway. More urban in more places than prior rail-to-trail projects, the next generation of rail corridor conversions reflects a broader and more complex notion of rail-to-trail projects. These urban projects are more likely to begin with goals and assumptions that look beyond the traditional emphasis on recreation and commuting. They also tend to be more sensitive to changing contexts along a single right-of-way, can serve as focal points or catalysts for other development efforts and involve a wide range of actors and funding sources. The unique opportunities and challenges of disused urban rail corridors suggest the need for new ways of designing and interpreting urban linear space, as well as the need for an expanded technical and financial resource base to support these efforts. This thesis pursues multiple objectives. Chapter 2 reflects on the basic characteristics of urban rail corridors, the linear attributes that make them desirable for reuse and the potential challenges of working in a linear landscape. The second part of this chapter describes the history and evolution of rail corridor conversions as a planning and urban design concept and surveys relevant literature on the subject. Chapter 3 considers existing urban rail-to-trail precedents and describes the most recent generation of urban rail-to-trail projects, drawing on the experience of five ongoing rail-to-trail conversion projects in Boston, Gainesville, Minneapolis, New York City and the District of Columbia. It identifies six typologies for thinking about urban rail-to-trail projects and highlights specific issues encountered in the planning and design of such projects. Chapter 4 contains a more detailed case study of efforts to convert the New Haven, Connecticut segment of the Farmington Canal rail corridor into a greenway. Chapter 5 concludes with a set of guiding principles and action items for future work in this area, as well as proposed directions for further research.
by Eric E. Feldman.
M.C.P.
Wong, Kam-fung Cindy. "Urban recreation planning in Hong Kong : a case study of Sai Ying Pun and Sheung Wan /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13814084.
Full textMinaki, Mônica. "As praças públicas de Araçatuba/SP : análise de um indicador da qualidade ambiental urbana /." Presidente Prudente : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/96767.
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Banca: Yuri Tavares Rocha
Resumo: A remoção da cobertura vegetal é um efeito negativo, promovido pela ocupação de um ambiente natural. Em geral, no processo de edificação e ocupação das cidades, sobressaem-se os referenciais arquitetônicos, que se materializam em empreendimentos, resultando no máximo aproveitamento do solo urbano. Nesse sentido, as áreas verdes assumem papel fundamental na reestruturação e reorganização das cidades, já que desempenham importante função na regeneração do meio ambiente frente à urbanização e às perspectivas ambientais. Portanto, propõe-se, neste estudo, a análise da distribuição espacial das praças públicas de Araçatuba e a avaliação dos aspectos referentes ao conteúdo paisagístico e de infra-estrutura, a fim de compreender o papel que desempenham na qualidade ambiental urbana. A cidade, considerada de porte médio (com 169.254 habitantes, segundo o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística IBGE 2000), possui 145 praças públicas. Foi necessária a organização e realização de trabalho de campo, que teve como objetivo levantar subsídios para a caracterização de cada praça pública identificada. A partir das informações obtidas em campo, foram elaborados dois tipos de cadastros. O primeiro Cadastro Quantitativo teve como principal objetivo identificar e determinar o número de praças públicas.
Abstract: The removal of the vegetation cover is a negative effect promoted by the occupation of a natural environment. In general, in the process of urban occupation and building, the architectonic referential excels, provoking the maximum utilization of the urban land. In this way, the green areas take on a fundamental role in the reconstruction and reorganization of the cities, as they assume an important function in the regeneration of the environment towards the urbanization and ambient perspectives. So, this work proposes an analysis of the spatial distribution of the public squares of Araçatuba and the evaluation of the aspects related to the landscape contents and infra-structure, in order to understand the role of the public squares in the quality of the urban ambient. The city, considered a medium-sized one (with 169,254 inhabitants, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics IBGE 2000), has 145 public squares. It was necessary the organization and realization of a field work, whose aim was to arise subsidies for the characterization of all squares.
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Carroll, John. "Coastal superquarries in Scotland : critical issues of development in remote coastal areas." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370036.
Full textGjelsten, Craig A. "Homeland security planning for urban area schools." Thesis, Registration and login required, 2008. https://www.hsdl.org/homesec/docs/theses/08Mar_Gjelsten.pdf&code=0b11819a26de4946f5547907991d6aad.
Full textSchrank, David Lynn. "Identification of the relationship between economic and land use characteristics and urban mobility at the macroscopic level in Texas urban areas." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1245.
Full textOrta, Ortiz Maria Susana. "Scaling Nature-based Solutions in Urban Areas: Assessment Methods and Insights for Planning and Design." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/355525.
Full textBenedikt, Eva Kjarvalsdottir. "Income generation activities for women in developing areas : a micro-planning model." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71393.
Full textHo, Bo-wan, and 何寶雲. "Environmental protection and management through urban planning in old urban areas of Hong Kong: a case study ofCentral and Western." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43893557.
Full textLeitão, Sylvia Ramos. "Inclusão do excluído? Política de mobilidade e dinâmica do mercado de terras na expansão da Curitiba metrópole." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16139/tde-12112010-104233/.
Full textIn Curitiba, the segmented metropolis was formed by the shade of successive ideologies of urban planning the Planned Curitiba of the collective transport and the Re-stayed Curitiba by the quality of life, under the bigger value of the belonging to the Ecological Capital of the country. The recent alterations in the Curitiba Metropoliss intra-urban structure derived from the expansion of the capital and the extension of the ways of collective consumption to the conurbationed periphery, deeply impacted the values of the use of its urban land, thus producing new localizations typologies in the territory. The thesis here demonstrated is that the logic of the urban expansion in Curitiba metropolis was changed along the two last decades. The first movement of expansion came hitched up to the real state valuation from the downtown in direction to the periphery, banishing the population of lower income more and more far away, a periphery process imposed by the downtown-peripheral classist logical, responsible for the segmentation of the metropolis. The second movement comes from the mobility politics of inclusive character, with the extension of the integrated net of transport to the segmented periphery - the RIT metropolitan. The biggest impact resulting from this was the social mobility of lower income classes by the income increment proposed by the pendulum movements of the metropolitan citizen to the employment in the downtown of the metropolis. The third movement of expansion happened by a inclusion of the excluded one logical, logical peculiar to the Curitiba Metropolis from which results the access to the metropolis by the previously excluded metropolitan citizen. From the urban accessibility comes the possibility of permanence of the metropolitan citizen in the new produced localization, that is nothing more than the popular quarter now connected to all the points of the Curitiba Metropolis. By the empirical research was evidenced that the biggest number of localizations produced in the last fifteen years in the east cone of the Curitiba Metropolis, mentioned to the inclusion of the excluded one logical which came to reveal a phenomenon - the homogenization trend of the land prices by the urban accessibility homogenization. Lastly, the inclusion of the excluded one logical comes to legitimize, therefore, the ideologies of the quality of life and the belonging to Planned Curitiba.
Zanetti, Valdir Zonta. "Planos e projetos ausentes: desafios e perspectivas da requalificação das áreas centrais de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16131/tde-30012007-143941/.
Full textThis work investigates the role of the plans and urban projects elaborated for the structuring of the (re)qualification process of the Central Region of the metropolitan-city of São Paulo in the period between 1970-2000, and examines which would be its presente and future challenges. Based on the evaluation of the institutional scenario of the urban planning in the city of São Paulo, and on experiences carried through in some large cities of the word, like Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Berlin and Barcelona, and aiming at urban updating and rehabilitation, we note, in the case of São Pauo, the existence of institutional and organizational blanks which, to a great extent, explains the absence of implementation of urban projects in the re(qualification) of its central areas. To overcome this absence of an effective practice, three procedures are recommended: a) complementing the urban planning institutional ordering at national, metropolitan and local levels; b) establishment of an organizational, political and administrative system, based on territorial units smaller than districts; c) the setting up of a strategic plan to coordinate the process of rehabilitation and renewal of old urban centers and central districts. In the last part of this work a proposal is presented for the setting up of a strategic plan for the Central Area of São Paulo, consisting of three project essays considered as priorities in the structuring and ordering of the process of urban revitalization at medium and long terms: 1) Santa Ifigênia - Luz; 2) Praça da Bandeira and surroundings; and 3) Parque Dom Pedro II - Brás. These essays aim at exemplifying which and what type of urban projects are lacking in São Paulo.
Hung, Hoang Vinh. "Integration of disaster risk management and urban planning for resilient communities : policy implications for the riverside urban areas of Hanoi." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/137091.
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新制・課程博士
博士(地球環境学)
甲第13254号
地環博第20号
新制||地環||4(附属図書館)
UT51-2007-H527
京都大学大学院地球環境学舎地球環境学専攻
(主査)教授 小林 正美, 助教授 SHAW Rajib Kumar, 教授 嘉門 雅史
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Jordan, Reed (Reed K. ). "The Dutch Urban Areas Act : a black liberation perspective on the policy of exclusion." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118207.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-93).
The Dutch Urban Areas Special Measures Act is a national policy in the Netherlands intended to improve the quality of life in distressed neighborhoods. The Act allows a municipality to designate neighborhoods where the municipality can alter the demographic composition through a housing permit system that regulates access to homes. Cities are allowed to deny permits for residence and therefore exclude in-moving people who do not have an income from work or who have certain police records. What began as a policy experiment in the City of Rotterdam animated by a far-right anti-immigrant movement, the Act is now an institutionalized policy accessible to any city in the Netherlands. In this thesis I present two key missing perspectives on the Dutch Urban Areas Act: how other Dutch cities are using the Act after its origins in Rotterdam and how to understand the Act through analytical frameworks around race. With these perspectives on the Dutch Urban Area Act I present two distinct arguments. The first is that the Dutch Urban Areas Act's diffusion to cities outside of Rotterdam is in conflict with its own statuary basis. Through a complete reassessment of the Acts social and political origins in Rotterdam, my second core argument is that the Dutch Urban Areas Act was conceived to be a spatial policy of racial exclusion. The foundations of the Urban Areas Act, as developed in Rotterdam in the early 2000s, are the same ideas of controlling the movement of a racialized group of people as expressed by state sanctioned segregation policies found historically in the United States and South Africa.
by Reed Jordan.
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Marshall, Timothy Charles. "Local planning in inner city residential areas : studies of Leeds and Manchester 1966-1986." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1990. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/a1f4f945-18ae-419f-86c9-b3bd423f7058/1.
Full textMuvhali, Peter Sonndi. "Using sensor web technologies to help predict and monitor floods in urban areas." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5590.
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Since flooding is worldwide one of the most common natural disasters, a number of flood prediction and monitoring approaches have been used. A lot of research has been conducted on the prediction and monitoring of floods by using hydrological models. The problem is that current hydrological models do not offer Disaster Management officials or township residents with timely data and information. In South Africa, possible flood warnings are usually communicated by Disaster Management officials using traditional approaches such as loudspeakers, radio and Television (TV). Making calls to warn residents about the possible occurrence of floods by using such means are, however, neither sufficient nor effective. As the result of improved communication, sensor, software and computing capabilities, the use of sensor networks and sensor web for predicting and monitoring environment have been considered in recent years. In order for sensor data such as sensor measurements, sensor descriptions and alerts to be integrated, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) introduced the Sensor Web enablement (SWE) standards and suggested different specifications with respect to the geospatial sensor web. The first implementation of the sensor web framework is available. In this research, the results of using the sensor web technologies for predicting and monitoring floods in the urban areas are presented. The aim of this research project is to illustrate how the sensor web technology can help in the prediction and monitoring of floods in the urban areas, particularly in the Alexandra Township (Greater Johannesburg) which has experienced floods each and every year. The focus of this research is on the incorporation of the sensor data into the sensor web technology. The data used as input to sensor web and the hydrological model was historical rainfall data from the South African Weather Service (SAWS). Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) free data from the internet was also used in this research.
Sahin, Savas Zafer. "Politics Of Urban Planning In Ankara Between 1985 And 2005." Phd thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608337/index.pdf.
Full textayyolu 907 Parcel, then subjected to social network analysis. The results of the research has shown that, when the structure of the local political structure changes altogether as a result of for example local elections, the structure of existing informal political networks and the way they exploit urban land rent changes. In these periods the number of urban development plans and urban development plan modifications increase, while the size of the area covered by these plans tends to decrease and mostly confined to prospective areas in central business district and residential areas. Yet, by the time passes, new and diverse political relations are established congruent with the existing political mobilization mechanisms. This time, although the number of plans decreases, the size of the area covered by plans increase and mostly, vacant land in the fringe of the urban macro form become the target of these networks. Although these networks involve a hierarchy in it, extensive brokerage and patron client relations sustain them.