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Prairie To Prairie: Ungrowth In American Cities, Catalina Freixas, Pablo I. Moyano Fernandez

Suburban Sustainability

The city of St. Louis has suffered tremendous population loss since the 1950s, and is currently a major shrinking city in America. This sustained population loss and its accompanying economic decline has led to many negative effects, including crime, food deserts and property abandonment. Eco-urbanism, which advocates a shift from conventional planning goals of economic and population growth to environmental sustainability and increased quality of life, holds promise for the city of St. Louis, where opportunities for implementing eco-urbanism strategies are more plentiful due to the abundance of vacant land.

This paper examines the current role eco-urbanism plays in St ...

Off-Ramp: An Architecture Of Deceleration, Samuel Craig Adkisson

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Negotiating Neoliberalism: Community-Based Organizations And The Production Of Urban Place, Caroline S. Devany

Honors Projects

Focusing on two community-based organizations’ roles in producing urban place, this thesis contributes to the “New Urban Politics” literature that explores the neoliberal governance of space. Synthesizing participant observation, informant interviews and ideas introduced in Henri Lefebvre’s Production of Space my thesis explores the possibility of aesthetic practices rooted in everyday life to create alternate subjectivities of people and place. While both organizations engage urban governance in ways that do not directly contest neoliberalization, they each affirm participants as agents in the production of urban place in ways that can destabilize the marketization of everyday life.

From Ashes To Architecture: Memorialization At Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Sara Elyse Kaplan

Graduate Research Symposium (GCUA)

Buchenwald concentration camp, located in Weimar, Germany, was a place of suffering, cruelty and death during World War II and during the first five years of the cold war. As many were tortured and perished there, it has since become a place of remembrance. Being one of the few concentration camps to not be destroyed by the Nazis before they could be liberated, since its final closure in 1950 numerous memorials have been erected to commemorate the events that took place and the people who fell victim to those events. Following several theorists four of the memorials at Buchenwald are ...

Walking Box Ranch Custodianship Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending January 10, 2013, Margaret N. Rees

Walking Box Ranch

• UNLV provides stewardship of Walking Box Ranch (WBR) by providing a caretaker who oversees the property, facilitating use of the property by researchers and educators, developing a use and research policy for the property, and coordinating these activities with BLM and in accordance with TNC restrictions.
• UNLV currently addresses security issues for the property through the presence of the caretaker and two Metro Officers who reside on the property in two recreational vehicles.
• UNLV continues to work with BLM, supplying content for interpretation at the future Walking Box Ranch museum.
• BLM and UNLV visited the ranch on December 5th to ...

Walking Box Ranch Custodianship Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending July 10, 2012, Margaret N. Rees

Walking Box Ranch

• UNLV provides stewardship of Walking Box Ranch (WBR) by providing a caretaker who oversees the property, facilitating use of the property by researchers and educators, developing a use and research policy for the property, and coordinating these activities with BLM and in accordance with TNC restrictions.
• UNLV currently addresses security issues for the property through the presence of the caretaker and two Metro Officers who reside on the property in two recreational vehicles.
• UNLV continues to work with BLM and Condit, supplying content for interpretation at the future Walking Box Ranch museum.
• BLM visited the ranch on July 5 to ...

Crafting Contingency, Rachel Mccann

Future Directions in Feminist Phenomenology

No abstract provided.

Ellis, Birdie Read, 1879-1958 (Sc 970), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 970. Original collection of invoices, estimates and contractors’ statements related to the construction of Birdie Read Ellis’ house at 1349 State Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Powder Mountain Bike Resort Master Plan, J. Dayton Crites

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports

In the last decade ski resorts worldwide have developed mountain bike specific recreational facilities in an effort to increase summer revenues. Their success has been mixed, with some becoming quite profitable, but others closing summer operations after only a few low revenue

years. With minimal information regarding bike park design currently available, the planning and design of these facilities remains largely a grassroots effort. This thesis project develops a methodology that approaches the creation of mountain bike resorts on ski mountain terrain based on landscape architectural best practices, sustainable trail

construction techniques, and site-specific requirements. For this project, the terrain ...

Evidence Of Agrarian Urbanism: Land Use Preferences Of Residents Living On Small Acreage Farms Or Large Lots With Animal Rights In Cache Valley, Utah, Laurie B. Hurst

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Until the last half century, land development patterns in the Intermountain West were designed after the Mormon settlement pattern. With its gridiron streets and in-town farmsteads, this pattern gave families the opportunity to grow crops and raise a few animals on their one acre or less in town with the added advantage of having a social life. Over the last century, small farms have dwindled and large farms have increased in size. However, in the Intermountain West the farmstead tradition continues with families who grow gardens and raise animals on their large city lots, who value self-sufficiency, and who thrive ...

Coalescing Memory, Michael Christopher Housley

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

The Threshold Of Insanity, Elizabeth Michelle Cagle

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

High Thought – Low Tech, Samuel Luiken Bouck, Forrest Jackson Reynolds

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Concept Fire Truck, Breanna Biegler

2013 Student Research Day Projects

A prototype Concept Fire Truck was designed using Autodesk Inventor 3D Design Software. Various pictures of old-time and toy fire trucks were utilized for this project.

George Barbier And The Art Deco Era: A Love Story, Elly Vander Kolk

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Forming A Bond: The Reconnection Between Man And Place, Tiffany N Gentry

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Students Helping Students, Pj Bonney, Tyler Cahoon, Tyson Dippold, Paul Hart, Jj Potvin, Jim Strande, Billy Walker, Keith West

2013 Student Research Day Projects

Petroleum Engineering student, Calvin Goza, was injured last May and now requires the use of a wheelchair. In order to return to Montana Tech this Spring semester, his Butte, Montana home required modifications to become wheelchair accessible.

Restoring The Richard's Cabin - Nevada City Living History Museum, Paul Hart

2013 Student Research Day Projects

Highlands College Historic Preservation student, Paul Hart, enjoyed an internship in which he researched and accurately reconstructed parts of the Richard's Cabin at the Nevada City Living History Museum.

Construction Kickoff: Solar Decathlon 2013 - Team Las Vegas, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Solar Decathlon Reports

UNLV President Smatresk and Team Las Vegas invite you to attend the official construction kickoff and ribbon cutting for DESERTSOL, UNLV's submission for the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 Competition.

Ua1b1/7 Wku Ceremonies, Dedications, Groundbreakings, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Finding Aids

Records regarding special ceremonies, dedications, groundbreakings not already housed in a particular office.